Posts by steviebuk

China's Mars rover finds signs of 'modern' water

Re: I bet

The wumaos are around with their down voting.

I bet

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.

UK emergency services take DIY approach amid 12-year wait for comms upgrade

Re: Too Big?

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.

Musk tried to wriggle out of Autopilot grilling by claiming past boasts may be deepfakes

Re: All you need to know about Musk

I used a VPN to pretend I'm in America which worked. Grab yt-dlp and then you can download it.

The end of Microsoft-brand peripherals is only Surface deep

Odd move. Lucky I have 3 ergonomic keyboards brandnew that were heading for a skip. Just need to fix the spacebar rubbing/sticking known issue.

China again signals desire to shape global IPv6 standards

Re: I'd just like to say don't trust CHINA

Its all the Wumaos that do the down voting.

"I remember yoooooouuu"

UK PM Sunak plans to allocate just £1bn to semiconductor industry

That's accountants for you

They see IT departments as a cost instead of an asset so always underfund or try to cut IT or outsource to a god awful MSP then wonder why support ends up being shit.

Seems he's doing the same here.

Stop OpenAI training its models on your chats by turning off history

What a loud of shit

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.

SentinelOne sticks generative AI into its stuff because 2023 gotta 2023

Re: 2023 tech for 2005 performance

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

That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models

That

"right now it feels as though everyone is too dazzled by the magical shiny-shiny nature of the tech and has lost all sense of proportion."

Re: Eminently qualified

Which was full of holes :)

Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat

Edge

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.

Central UK govt awards £12M+ contract to leave Google Workspace for Microsoft 365

How accurate is this?

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.

Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage

Re: Single points

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.

Thanks for fixing the computer lab. Now tell us why we shouldn’t expel you?

Embarrassed & Netbookgate

“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.

Florida folks dragged out of bed by false emergency texts

Turn it off

Can someone explain where the option is to turn it off on Android. Still on my old Samsung S8 but still can't find the option to disable it.

Meta's Zuckerberg paid $27M in 'other' compensation for 2022

Re: Private

Didn't think of the small plane benefit. Good point. Also, yeah not going through TSA is a massive benefit.

Private

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.

Musicians threaten to make Oasis 'Live Forever' with AI

I knew that was coming...

...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.

Guy rejects top photo prize after revealing snap was actually made using AI

Re: C2PA

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.

Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again

Someone wrote "Glory hole" round the one that gave me a flat. They removed the graffiti but sti didn't fill in the fucking pot hole.

And..

...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.

Capita IT breach gets worse as Black Basta claims it's now selling off stolen data

Re: Crap IT? Ah!

And still they appear to either being unwilling to pay out or the payout is peanuts.

UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle

"So Dave. In the scoring you gave them 1. Is there a reason? Would YOU change your 1 to a 5? Like everyone else? Would you?"

China the largest buyer of chipmaking machines as sales hit an all-time high

Re: “Advanced technologies” aren’t always needed

The wumao's downvoting in force.

Re: “Advanced technologies” aren’t always needed

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.

Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid

Re: This is why we need code review

But code review isn't*agile. Innit.

*Reason agile is bollocks.

San Francisco fog defeats pack of Waymo robo-taxis

Expensive

With all these censors on these cars aren't they going to end up being expensive? And I assume there will be no right to repair so your local mechanic won't be allowed to fix it for you.

What if someone mixed The Sims with ChatGPT bots? It would look like this

Just try it

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.

Alibaba and Huawei set to debut generative AI chatbots

It will be a massive failure as it will be trained on CCP data only considering they censor the Internet there, unless they steal the training data then it will only ever spit out what the CCP want it to. They can then claim, "The AI said it, not us the CCP, so its unbiased and must be true"

Missed your post, glad someone explained it better than I did.

Makes me irritate.

Very funny

They've already released one of their new "AI chat bots" which has been stolen from English code. Its quite funny as someone in China pointed it out that it was doing literal translations of Mandarin which are completely wrong. If it had been coded from the ground up in Mandarin then it would of been fine but it was proof that it was English code, translated to Mandarin.

Smile! UK cops reckon they've ironed out gremlins with real-time facial recog

Back to Covid mask wearing

So back to Covid mask wearing along with sunglasses then.

Psst! Infosec bigwigs: Wanna be head of security at HM Treasury for £50k?

Re: Can't pay more

Your neighbour is old skool and was probably on final salary pension that they scrapped for new people years ago.

UK's Emergency Services Network unlikely to start operating until 2029

Re: Scandalous!

It really pisses me off but I'm interested to know how it happens. How people high up get away with shit like this and some get promoted. Look at Dido Harding. Always see it in Private Eye and I just don't understand how they all get away with it. A director at a place I was at got given money to go away quietly. Mentions in Private Eye of council Chief Exec being suspended then eventually paid off to leave. How?

Samsung reportedly leaked its own secrets through ChatGPT

Re: They copied all the source code, entered it into ChatGPT, and inquired about a solution

"And if everything that gets asked of it also gets re-ingested back into the model"

Surely that's also away to poison it. Just keep asking it questions that make it suck up the question as an answer. Somehow.

China aims to pair J-20 stealth fighter with 'loyal wingman' battle drone

Re: Hmm

But unfortunately isn't anymore as sadly, the CCP have ruined Hong Kong.

Hmm

"According to reports in The South China Morning Post"

Yeah, no point reading CCP propaganda.

Capita: Cyber-attack broke some of our IT systems

Maybe

Craptia need to hire more underpaid contractors to do their IT. Then belittle them when they question their low pay.

Twitter blocks Pakistan government account, boosts state-run media from Russia and China

I wonder

If this could have anything to do with Elon having factories in China. Considering Twitter is banned in China for Chinese people why are the CCP even allowed on it other than to use it to spread their shit.

China somehow got through COVID without MS Teams but – phew! – it's arrived

No morals then

If Microsoft gave two shits about human rights etc, they'd pull out of China. But its clear they never will.

Apple are "pretending" to but I suspect never will considering Cook opened a store there recently.

Then we have Elon with his battery factories over there.

All indirectly supporting a CCP who is building for war.

School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator

But

""I am a very smart lady. Well educated. I fell for a scam," McGee told the board"

You clearly have no common sense.

British Prime Minister Sunak’s plans for UK NFT on ice

And will just make it go underground making the crooks money and putting the underground prices up and the violence will begin.

China crisis is a TikToking time bomb

Re: Dance with the Devil

No China IS bad, its NOT honest about it.

Re: Dance with the Devil

"China is bad but at least it's honest about it."

But its not.

B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe

Re: Meanwhile

Yet you're here posting and reading. I hate Facebook so, I don't use it, but others might enjoy it.

Doesn't surprise me....

....seeing Jake Paul on that list. Him and his brother are the low lifes of the Internet. But then we can blame YouTube as well for never banning both.

Jake Paul's brother Logan went to Aokigahara forest in Japan purely for the views. Wearing a stupid hat & was hoping they'd run into a suicide. And they did and he filmed it and it stayed on YouTube for a while making him and YouTube quite a bit of money in ad revenue. Anyone else would of been banned but as he made them lots of money with his channel, the video just got removed and he was allowed to carry on.

The two brothers are fucking awful.

TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report

Re: Exactly. PRISM anyone?

True but I think the issue is TikTok constantly denying they are a Chinese app. They are owned by ByteDance a Chinese company with CCP members. TikTok is a "private" company, so why did the CCP get really annoyed when it was said it would be banned on government devices. The CCP did their press conference & moaned about this.

1. Why would they be bothered if its a private company

2. Why is it OK for the CCP to ban TikTok from their devices but no-one else is allowed.

3. How many American and UK apps are allowed in China, none.

So its clear TikTok is a spy tool and the CCP are getting annoyed that this is potentially going to go away.

At least you're allowed to critise PRISM, do the same to anything CCP related and you're in China, then you'll never be heard of or seen again.

Australia is actually under the thumb of the CCP so this story will go nowhere.

Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years

Just watched Louis

Rossmann and you'll see how cocked up the EU attempt at Right to Repair is.