Posts by steviebuk 2002 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
An engineer in America was set to prison. Can't remember the details, its online somewhere. Reading it, he sounded like a tit.
Found it
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2208076/admin-who-kept-sf-network-passwords-found-guilty.html
That I assume was used to track or stalk someone. Was on the floor in a Sainsburys car park. Took it home and eventually (took ages as the Android app just refused to read it) got it to scan and it showed part of the number but that's it. No "I'm lost message". I left it for a few days, still no "I'm lost message". Left it for another 2 weeks, still no "I'm lost message". I took the battery out and its still sat in a draw. I was thinking of picking a random car and sticking it to it.
I don't like them but they have their uses. Once guy stuck one in his bag for a flight and saw his luggage stay at the airport. When he mentioned it was missing they said they couldn't find it, he had to keep telling them he could see it back at the airport. Eventually they "magically" found it.
"The Chocolate Factory has consistently opposed opt-in data collection – you still have to rename your Wi-Fi SSID to opt-out of Google mapping your Wi-Fi access point, for example. And it continues to promote a definition of privacy that skews toward data usage rather than data denial."
People should change it to fuck Google at the end. So they have a list of devices all with fuck Google :)
He has no clue what companies are like. Companies don't even want people working from home anymore let alone having to buy VR headsets for all their staff so they can have "VR" meetings. Say that to our grounds team or the painters and decorators, that they have to stick on some VR headsets to join the VR meeting, that will go down well.
"that only the worst of humanity wishes to still part take in"
Granted, its kinda shit but if you follow only normal accounts its fine. What are normal accounts? These are
@whs_carpet All about bad carpets in WHSmith stores, their funny sale pricings, old lost historic stores. Someone on YouTube was trying to work out the location of a site from old footage and I asked on there and someone regonised the location, which was lucky as the buildings had been knocked down.
Then me have
@rmcretro about Gaming and computer history.
Destory the min wage jobs so everyone can continue to struggle even more. As has been said, if you're going to destroy min wage jobs you need to give every person a set benefit each month to compensate for no longer being able to do a job.
We also need to remember these are starting off point jobs. So people who run McDonald's stores are often franchise stores. They work from the bottom up. If you can no longer work from the bottom up you'll struggle to get in the middle because they're be less and less jobs available due to everyone being desperate for those positions.
If you enjoy a company that is partly owned by the CCP. A government who is currently committing genocide with the Chinese Uyghurs, a government that welded people into apartments during Covid so people burnt to death when a fire broke out, a government that bans all Western apps on its firewalled Internet but objects when other countries try to ban its apps, a government that doesn't view Taiwan as an independent country despite the CCP NEVER in its history ever having controlled Taiwan, a country that pumps out more C02 than any other country and lies about its green tech, a country that has now made it illegal to talk about poor people and so on and so on, then go ahead.
But there are others of us in the UK that don't want the Chinese owning our chip factories.
Just given the CCP access to fully to snoop on all your phone calls over their network. Well done India.
"Zoom awarded full Indian telco license
Zoom's Indian outpost was last week granted a full license to operate as a telco provider in the subcontinent.
In India, as elsewhere, the company's voice and video chat services were a lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic. But Zoom's cloudy PABX service was not licensed in India, meaning it could not operate that function or extend its services to calls that touch the public switched telephone network.
ZVC India, Zoom's local subsidiary, last week announced it had won the license required to offer those services, and intends to do so as soon as practicable."
Or you could have an AI that decides to use specification gaming. Works fine in a lab, goes wild when released to the outside world. The specification gaming in question would be "My goal is to build affordable systems to assist blind people. I know, I'll just kill all the blind people then I don't have to finish the goal but will have essentially finished my goal".
They also found an ancient map that shows China, the CCP, owns large areas of the moon and mars.
Nothing that comes from Xinny The Pooh's China can be trusted. Especially when he still feels he owns Taiwan when the CCP have never own Taiwan, just look at the history. Taiwan is an independent country, all the spinless countries should acknowledge that coughFrancecough.
Xi is the new Mao and shouldn't be listened to or trusted. He's ruining China, he's ruining China's great ancient history and he's turning China into a rich North Korea. He's also totally ignored what his dad said about no one should become a dictator.
Bit like the NHS and Fujitsu contract many moons ago. Ignoring Fujitsu are now officially cunts what with the Post Office scandal. But they had a big project near us with the NHS. In ended up tanking with Fujitsu pulling out if I remember right. One of the main reasons was the NHS management were awful. Apparently after everything was "scoped" each week they request more and more and more and more but didn't want to pay. Eventually Fujitsu had had enough and decided to pull out. That's what I was told by someone who was in the meetings anyway, how accurate it was I don't know.
Its private chat it chatgpt should be fucking off by default. You shouldn't have to turn history to stop it grabbing the chats. There maybe a legal reason you have to leave history on so then surely MS have no fucking legal right to suck up chat history.
We said chat history should be on by default for gsuite but was told no. I said it should be on to stop managers using it to bully their staff. Anyway, some months later HR ask for the chat history of two members of staff who were having an affair (what the fuck that has to do with the business was anyone's guess). We had the great pleasure of saying "No. We said chat history should be on by default but were overuled, so its off so there is no history of those two chatting".
And the new company, they'd just suck up "Jesus fucking Christ. I told them to log a fucking ticket. Will they ever learn. Clearly fucking not. Oh and that other one, he's as thick as shit. Claimed I hadn't fixed the issue when I had and the new issue was completely fucking different. The fuck whit.". We love our rant chats.
We have it as I thought it was good but the amount of false fucking positives is fucking annoying. It will only get worse if they stick AI in it.
AI - "How to I make sure I complete the task of protecting this system from Virus threats. Shall I scan for virus' as I should? No, I'll just lock the system down completely then it can never get infected". Ah, specification gaming, its quite funny when you read about it.
And Robert Miles' video on it, is always good
https://youtu.be/nKJlF-olKmg
I want them to stop their anti-trust bollocks with Edge. Making it, on Windows 11, a lot more difficult to change the default browser so non techs won't bother. When you do it asks if you're REALLY sure and that Edge is great. And when you use Edge to look for another browser it shows you at the top that "Use Edge instead".
Fucks.
We were sold the "Chocolate Factory" as being cheaper by a shady consultant company. It was an intentional lie or a massive fuck up because being local gov MS 365 would of been cheaper because.
1. Local gov gets MS 365 cheaper than normal
2. MS said they'd migrate our exchange for free.
The Chocolate Factory has been massively more expensive.
They charged about 30k to migrate exchange.
Documents looks shit in Google Docs and don't convert properly.
Having to share Google Docs with others who don't have Google is a pain in the arse.
Google Workspace is fine for local business', local garages etc. But shit for medium to large companies.
Its why I'd like to get out of IT now. I'm getting to the point I've had enough but can't do anything else so have to stick it out until I die or win the lottery. Some cloud stuff is useful the rest is marketing bollocks. When you constantly are ignored that its marketing bollocks it just makes you fed up of it all.
Soon we'll be fully cloud and I've warned it will be more expensive but what do I know. Mark my words, the cost will increase and it won't be any cheaper than onsite kit with engineers to support that onsite kit.
“Finally, a week or two later, he was hauled in front of some bigwig and told that he would only receive an official reprimand, and that this was his one and only pass.”
You've embarrassed us so we're gonna bollock you due to our screw up.
I had experience of this way back in 2009 in the NHS, the fuckers. I was at a Trust's site with an ex-engineer in another department. He knew all the passwords as nothing had been changed, they were even still using the remote connection software he created for connecting to PCs. Anyway, that Trust didn't like the IT department that had been created to support all local Trusts and were trying to break away and do their own thing. The ex engineer was helping them due to now being employed by the Trust. He asked for help putting some new netbooks on the network that they were trialing as they didn't want to use the HPs that had been forced on them (due to the HP being a bit of a shady deal between HP and the director of IT they didn't like, neither did I, he was a pure cunt). I helped him to make sure all was done securely, as I told him "Well you know the passwords so I'll help to make sure they are done properly". Once done, I informed the stakeholder for the site about the netbooks and being a temp, I was ignored. Not even a "Thanks for letting me know".
Roll on 3 months later we all get an e-mail "Does anyone know why these netbooks are on the network?". Yes, I told you about them 3 months ago. Why they were on the network and why I helped.
All hell broke loose. I was reported to the CEO of the IT Department who said "Get rid of him" (she was also an arse and had been milking her high wage for years). But our head of IT and Networking heard and tried to calm the situation down. She said I'd done what I'd done with all the best intensions AND I'd informed them at the time but had been ignored. It changed from "Get rid of him" to "Can you come and have a chat with me about what happened" from the Head of Service (who was also a nasty fuck). When I told my manager he was pissed and called the Head of Service, informing him "You know you can't just have a random 'meeting' with him, you have to allow someone in the 'meeting' with him, he's allowed representation". So we go into the meeting and I explain again what happened, all that was already in my original e-mail. I said "I told you all ages ago that when an engineer leaves all admin passwords should be changed but they never are. So there was a risk he'd just put them on the network himself". The head of service admitted he was partly at fault as it was supposed to be his project that passwords were changed. They then took away the network share we used for all software and utils. I refused to apologies as I did nothing wrong, my manager said it for me and after the meeting said "I knew you weren't going to speak because you were so annoyed so I did it for you otherwise they'd have just let you go" I didn't last much longer, my contract expired again and they didn't renew it. The arse ex engineer from the Trust never bothered to try and help with the situation either.
It was a clear example of them fucking up (the stakeholder ignoring my e-mail 3 months earlier) and choosing to throw me under the bus instead of admitting their mistakes.
I've long moved on but sadly, the bitterness has bugged me for years. The IT department eventually got disbanded as the new government came in and they all moved on. I, sadly, hold grudges and when heard 5 years ago that the ex Director of IT had cancer but had survived it, I couldn't hold it my distain for him and spurted out "Shame he never died of it". I hate him with a passion. Something is very wrong in a company if staff end up hating a manager that much. You're clearly a poor manager if your staff hate you that much.
Jets. I still don't know why people use them. They seem to crash more than commercial airlines. At least he could afford 1st class every time, I'm wondering if it would also be cheaper.
But the other point is. This is the tit that wants us to all live in the META verse and all have virtual meetings. So why doesn't he do that instead of pissing plane fuel all over the sky with flying.
...someone saying its a copyright issue. Its always the studios and the artists that are in it for the money and not the craft.
Oasis liking it is a surprise.
Download it while you can cause unless Oasis own their own music and not a studio, the studios will have it pulled.
If Adobe are involved I assume it will end up requiring a licence that will be thrown at the camera buyer and if you then don't buy the monthly sub you won't be able to take photos with your camera anymore. Not to mention it will prove fuck all if you use old cameras that don't have the tech. Or all comps will require said cameras as part of their rules, we'll then find they are all sponsored by Adobe.
...the fucking council will no doubt refuse to pay for any damage. I got a flat when I hit a pot hole that they'd piss poorly attempted to fix that the rain hollowed out again. It was dark, a puddle was covering the hole and when I hit it colourful words were said. Then discovered had a fucking flat. They got their legal involved who claimed it wasn't the cause. Arseholes. And now attempting to tie them up with FOI requests.
The 50cents are here again.
You forgot to mention China's MASSIVE coal plants and coal mines causing MASSIVE amounts of pollution yet some people have been fooled into believing China is at the forefront of green energy. Far from it.
We won't fall for or listen to your wumao bullshit.
Got to ChatGPT and ask it:
What song contains the lyrics "And the day gets crazy, and I feel like I can't win."
Tell us what it said.
I've been arguing with it all weekend as I'm trying to work out what a song near the end of Columbo Cries Wolf is. Not the end credits tune, that is noted in the credits. But another song playing in the background. Shazam, despite it being clear, couldn't find it. So I asked ChatGPT.
It not only was confidently wrong, it then admitted it was wrong then was confidently wrong again. The best respond to further questions relating to this subject were, where I just added "from 1990" on the end. It said the song was "Pray" by MC Hammer. It then proceeded to them tell my the lyrics appear in the second verse of the song. It then wrote out that second verse, which not only didn't contain anything from my question but also isn't even a verse from the MC Hammer song.
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