Posts by steviebuk

Future of the three NHS bodies managing health tech in doubt after £2.1bn cash injection

Re: Look at the management

I don't think so. In my experience, I bet NHS IT national level is just the same as Trust level.

Look at the management

There were always people in IT at the NHS that saw themselves as gods. I'm glad I had a run at the NHS but had to leave after 3 years not due to choice but my contract ended and they decided not to renew it. Probably because I say it how it is and no management likes to admit their fuck ups.

I went back after 7 years for 2 months. Nothing had fucking changed, this time I made the choice to leave.

Our IT manager on my first tour of duty was good and nice. Its just the people above him were useless cunts. Treat your engineers like shit, you end up with shit engineers that don't give a fuck.

Say to a room full of band 5 engineers that you don't realise are band 5 engineers cause you're out of touch that "I'm gonna replace all band 5 engineers with box monkeys" shows you're a cunt of a director and out of touch.

Ignore the reports of "Isn't that classed as a bribe?" when you get flown to silicon valley by HP and then given their new tablets/laptop as free gifts shows you're a bent director. Especially when HP then magically win the tender for new kit.

You wonder why your 2nd line do the bare minimum when they get told shit such as "I no longer want any of you to pick the quick win tickets. I want you to concentrate on other tickets and the low hanging fruit tickets" at which point I'd had enough and argued they are the same thing, quick win and lower hanging fruit are the same "No they are not" yes they are "no, they are different". That argument between me and a manger lasted over a min with me just ending it. Couldn't carry on arguing with an idiot.

Then, being a contractor, you get moved to the PC roll out team but told you'll now be paid £2 less than the shit wage you were already on is sole destroying. And knowing you have no confidence so are resigned to staying as you need the money doesn't help with your confidence any more (but thats my own fault).

Eventually you get out when they decide to try to stitch you up over some netbooks that appeared on the network that you warned them about 3 months before. When a Trust was going it alone and doing their own thing. Only for 3 months later they actually notice them, ask and I'm the only one that responds so they then tried to discipline me for them not fucking listening to my warning 3 months before (No story short. The Trust hated the main IT department. Wanted to test them out, asked me to help get them on the network. I did to make sure they were done properly and encrypted. Then warned IT. Got ignored till they spotted them then it all kicked off. They knew due to being a temp I had no rights so couldn't take them to a court for unfair dismissal where I'd have won)

Roll on 7 years later when you just need a job so force yourself to go back only to find nothing has changed. The contract engineers get stuck in a shit office that surely breaks health and safety and mental health well-being. Then you have a director or head of service abusing his position again. With his daughter working in the department. Which isn't a problem at all. Yet it turns out she can do whatever the fuck she wants cause "her dad is the boss" (not come from her, comes from other engineers).

So she comes and asks us temps late on Friday about a ticket could we do? (That never existed as she was the only one allowed to do jobs without tickets as her dad let it slide) We ask where the full time, paid more engineers are, this isn't what we were hired to do "Oh they've all gone home" (Its Friday, they've actually all fucked off to the pub). We agree only to find the kit we are to pick up is massive and over at another building down a steep hill with only a trolley for company. We get to the building only to find, despite being IT, they have limited our fucking ID cards to certain areas so we can't get in. We call her up as she said they were expecting us and that "Jim" at the main building was expecting the kit. We inform her we can't get in the building so she comes over. Oh look, not even her ID works. We eventually flag a nurse down walking past who lets us in. We find the room with the kit in with 2 nurses. Its not large at all whats the problem. We load it on the trolley to move and asking where the rest of it is, are then informed by the nurses "Oh the other engineers were here earlier but they only took the lite stuff". So turns out the full time engineers just couldn't be bothered to finish the job so got it palmed off to "the temps".

We push the kit up the steep hill into the next building, get to the x-ray department and "Jim" knows nothing about it. Oh FFS. Eventually we find someone who does, hand it over and leave. It just summed up the NHS IT for me. Showed that nothing had changed. I never went back after that day and found a perm job elsewhere.

But from all the time I worked at the NHS and it doesn't appear to have changed, in IT there is a culture of fear. The temps and lower down engineers get treated like shit. There are to many managers and managers that abuse their position. Attempt to question their choices and you'll be on the shit list with an attempt to push you out.

Why do I always bang on about this now and then. Because its kinda a form of theorpy talking about it.

Magnanimous Apple will allow people to fix their iPhones using parts bought from its Self Service Repair program

Re: Are the tables turning?

I hate Apple but having followed Right To Repair

1. People in the movement aren't bothered about this. They just wanted Apple to do it.

2. Not a problem really. Although I believe the "Break this seal and you void your warranty" aren't actually legally binding.

Alibaba profits plunge as Beijing's bans – and beefy competitors – bite

Winnie the Pooh

Due to the man that made calling him Winnie the Pooh illegal. Why not own it, everyone liked Winnie the Pooh, they don't much like Xi.

The CCP are ruining China, he is becoming the next Mao.

In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done

Problem I had with Eve was being new and being a target for real humans. The best bit of Elite was that it was all alone, no other human to exploit whatever bug they'd found.

Then along came the new Elite Dangerous which I backed and we were told would be offline. Then we were lied too. Not only is it online only (so no option to backup your save games) but its with other humans. Granted you can turn PvP off but still feel robbed that despite being told it would be offline it isn't. So you can't play around with your save to "see what happens" every choice you risk losing everything, which is an arse if you blow up due to docking issues and net connection, at least in Frontier Elite (the one I played) you could reload your save.

It was and very profitable but also dangerous if you were searched by the police. And if you didn't have the human habitat or whatever it was called and jumped to hyperspace the slaves turned into just meat.

Tech bro CEOs claim their crowns because they fix problems. Why shirk the biggest one?

Re: But it's up to us

Framework. They make modular laptops that are massively repairable.

https://frame.work/

Apple is beginning to undo decades of Intel, x86 dominance in PC market

Re: Speedbump

Windows ARM is still a pain in the arse. Try finding a AV for it as we are at work and no one supports ARM yet. One claimed to then in testing discovered they didn't. Then got them to admit they didn't.

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

Re: Its

My posts loose meaning when I either can't proof read or struggle to type pissing properly on a mobile.

Its

1998 all over again. They clearly abused their position back then if you watch Bill Gates deposition. Seems like they didn't give a fuck about losing back then and just waited several years before doing it again.

This time however, I assume I'll be watching Sat Navs deposition instead.

Quick simply, what a cunt move.

Former Broadcom engineer accused of pinching chip tech to share with new Chinese employer

As you say, China won't invade Taiwan as its all bluster at the moment. Winnie the Pooh has to show strength for bullshit sake, with his false claims of having eradicated poverty in China. He is the next Mao Zedong. China needs the world economy as much as the world needs cheap Chinese shit. Just think how much would disappear from Amazon if China was no longer selling anything on it.

But currently China is gonna go tits up again soon because Winnie the Pooh is heading the same way as Mao.

The CCP

At it again. Made the mistake of leaving him in the US. Although they'll not give a shit about him as long as they have the stolen tech. Just look at Huawei's history and even its "Huawei" (Apple) stores in China. I believe it was an Huawei employee that got caught with a camera and footage of lots of kit he wasn't supposed to have photos of a while ago.

Google loses appeal against $2.7bn EU antitrust fine for distorting competition in price comparison websites

More balls

Than the UK court then that just threw out the case with Apple users data with Google. Judge has appeared to have sided with Google. I couldn't possibly comment directly about what happened as I don't know the fact. But I do wonder if some brown envelopes were involved.

UK Treasury and Bank of England starting to sound serious about 'Britcoin'

No

Everyone is talking about being carbon neutral by whatever date. This is never going to happen if you create a crypto coin. The amount of energy it takes to mine (mint) it will kill your carbon neutral goal.

Just no.

Although, as has been said, the consultants won't say this. They'll rinse them for as much money as they can get. I've even seen a consultant do this is at a previous employee. It was sickening that no one could see it. How smarmy he was, telling them what they wanted to hear until eventually they realised he was adding nothing so they moved on to another consultant but obviously couldn't take back the money they'd already paid him. I only saw one that told them the truth, she didn't last though but left because another job was willing to pay her more. Shame, as she was the only decent and honest consultant they had.

Awkward. At Chrome summit, developer asks: Why should anyone trust Google?

Re: Trust Google?

You mean metabook ;o)

I'll get my coat.

Microsoft introduces Azure Container Apps with scale to zero

Re: This is what scares me

Same. I love Mark Russinovich's sysinternals. I learnt a lot from watching his Case of the Unexplained and Aaron Margosis. But now, all Mark talks about is Azure on Twitter (mostly) and terms like Azure Incubations, Container Apps, incubating project, Azure Chaos Studio. WTF!!?!?

And then

"I'm thrilled to announce the preview of Azure Container Apps, an innovative serverless container platform that inlcudes Dapr, a distributed application runtime, and KEDA, a Kubernetes event-driven autoscaler, both of which we created in Azure Incubations"

WHAT!?!

What the fuck is a Kubernetes!!

The thing that annoys me most is they ALWAYS hide the cost from manglement. Unless you a sensible one, they always fall for the bollocks.

This is what scares me

IT is running away from me. I was just getting comfortable and understanding stuff, even some networking but Azure stuff, all the names just appears as confusing as fuck.

Yahoo! shuts! down! last! China! operations! as! doing! business! becomes! 'increasingly challenging'!

Disney

" In the long run, we will find out just how far commercial entities are willing to go in order to maximise shareholder value, but we might not like the answer.”

I like Disney, how it was, the idea but they have no morales. Pandered to the CCP just to get the Chinese market for the new Mulan film, did a press event in the city the genocide is happening in and just generally only cared about how much money they could make. Which spectacularly back fired. They still try to blame it on piracy in China but it had fuck all to do with that. Was to do with a fucked movie, that completely changed the story and got lots of Chinese references wrong as we see from the Chinese reviews.

Huawei reportedly set to salvage honor with sale of server x86 business

Re: Just an opinion

I doubt it. Look at the history of them and they've pretty much copied most of their tech.

What a Mesh: Microsoft puts Office in the Loop, adds mixed reality tech to Teams

Sad times

Ignite isn't what it used to be now that Mark Russinovich as stopped doing his Case of the Unexplained talks. All he talks about now is Azure :o( and then discovering Aaron Margosis left Microsoft last year so he'll no longer be doing talks either :o(

China warns game devs not to mess with history

Oooo was...

....someone mean to Winnie the Pooh? It appears if you even think of disagreeing with the CCP or tell it like it is, you're censored. Take YouTube for example. Make any comments about the CCP and you'll notice your video being demonetised.

It seems like the likes of YouTube, Hollywood and others are fine with the CCPs genocide of the Uyghur people, just as long as they can keep Winnie the Pooh happy, so keeping the Chinese market so they can continue to make lots of money.

Question is, does The Register censor?

Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game

Re: Wishful thinking

I saw it, got annoyed with the massive click bait headline and ignored it and moved on. So I never found out.

Re: Wishful thinking

"c) promoted emotional clickbait over quality content"

Not just Google that do that. Now everyone does as, sadly, its been proven to work.

As I saw a headline in a local rag today

"Man hits woman with his bag and she's horrified when she sees what's inside it".

How many people have clicked that just because "I need to find out what's inside it".

Annoys me.

Honeymoons last a couple of weeks – the same goes for any love for the IT department

We've had

The odd praise from users over the year saying thanks to us they get to work from home flawlessly. What is annoying however are the ones that say "You do nothing all day yet get £30k a year". We make sure IT still works all day and I wish I was on £30k a year but where I'm at they are tight and not paying anywhere near that (I really should leave but I really like our team)

IT god exposed as false idol by quirks of Java – until he laid his hands on the server

Not a fan of this one

unless he wasn't being serious. Why would you not care about people being canned?

""Never once did we spill a tear as another admin person was delivered a pink slip," boasted Bob. "No, these were demonstrations of just how mighty we were. We were the gods of efficiency.""

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

Re: Full presentation

I can't stop. The amout of yes people in it, its fucking awful!!

Re: Full presentation

It keeps going. 14mins in "Can create products with Spark AI" your AI (not AI just an algorithm is already shit), if you look at true AI its fucking hard. Just look at Robert Miles YouTube channel on AI Safety, especially the latest one and how unpredictable AI is. But anyway, you'd have to scrap copyright otherwise no doubt someone will create a virtual toaster for the metaverse that becomes popular until a big company comes along and sues because your toaster looks a lot like theirs.

He's fucking deluded. Its comedy gold.

Re: Full presentation

I carried on watching. The investors will fall for it and he says its a long way off, they'll want to be in on it in case it takes off so their family can enjoy the riches. But watching it he just doesn't seem to get it. All the ISPs will be pissed on data usage, they are already moaning about Netflix. People out in the sticks won't have speeds high enough for this. And little things like "You're friend is at a concert, they can invite you as a hologram" yeah but surely that person needs to then pay for a ticket, surely?

Had that discussion in a jossing way about Latest Richard Herring RHLSTP series. He's not putting it out for free after having done for years, because this run is for charity. £50 for the whole series for virtual tickets (you can go to the theatre instead if you want) so you can stream it from home, which I've done as I can't be arsed to go to London. I've said "What if I have others sitting on the sofa with me watching, should they also not pay for a ticket like they would have to if they went to the physical theatre?"

Re: Full presentation

Appears he doesn't give a shit what people think of him I'm guessing. When one was dressed as the robot and he said "I thought I was supposed to be the robot".

This idea is shit as we are nowhere near having the tech to make it happen. One thing I would like and want however IS a holodeck from Star Trek. Nothing wrong with that idea. Especially if you can use it to take old memories to revisit. I have been looking on and off for years of photos of Sandown on the Isle of Wight, specifically the Browns area where the lake is (was a boating lake) and the old Browns arcade but haven't found any. If the holodeck could recreate that from my memory it would be great :)

Of all the outfits

Mark could of choosen and he just pick the avatar wearing the same clothes he already had on.

The madness of it all

I don't like Elon much but understand the need to have the ability to leave the planet quickly if all goes to shit. However all the others, although he could do the same, should think about the current issues of Earth as well and how all their money, pool, could help out so much.

Not only this but they could also use that good bit of PR for advertising. People may dislike Microsoft and although no longer there, Bill Gates has at least created his foundation to try and eradicate the likes of polio. Why don't Bezo, Branson, Elon and Zuck do something similar with other fields?

We have a massive issue with plastics at the moment, Coke Cola being one. Not paying enough to recycle their bottles, places like Maui not having recycling centres so its too expensive to export the bottles, Coke Cola only donate 40k for their project/charity that tries to recycle. Bezo and the like are missing a trick. Donate machines with all your Amazon labels on them or Facebook labels etc. I really don't understand why they don't do any of this.

Clearly missing a trick and it might be something that people then won't ridicule them for. Cause this metaverse idea is a stupid fucking one.

Re: "If this is the future you want to see..."

I get people suffer from anxiety, I do, but he clearly doesn't understand people at all, maybe he suffers from it. The simple remark of boardgames being virtual, does he not understand people like to collect boardgames, they like physical objects take Warhammer for example.

He's clearly out of touch and every person in that video was a yes person as they clearly just want to keep a job.

Warehouse belonging to Chinese payment terminal manufacturer raided by FBI

Re: "... easy to overlook..."

And if its the NHS with large big roll outs they either employee underpaid beginner engineers who don't care as they aren't being paid enough too, or they'll under pay a good engineer (who is desperate for a job) to install along side the ones that don't care. But despite the good engineer being very knowledgeable, limit his/her access on what they can do. Wasting everyone's time because the perm engineers have god complexes. This then makes the good engineer decide to not give a fuck after a while.

May or may not be speaking from experience.

The Chinese people are fine, its the CCP that aren't. They have gotten worse over the past year. They're own anti-foreigner campaigns you appear to have ignored. Attempt to stay in a lot of hotels in certain parts of China and you'll be denied as they don't allow "Foreigners", nothing against the Chinese people, most of them are nice, its the CCP that are doing it and the populous have to tow the bullshit line.

The CCP come up with stupid rules like tea pot petrol fills for motorbikes. At some point there must of been a story of a bike catching fire at petrol station. So the CCP in its stupid "wisdom" (Its members have probably never had to fill their own petrol) decided to make a spot a few yards away for bikes to fill up. However, you have to take, what is essentially a metal OPEN watering can and fill it with petrol, then carry that open can to your bike and fill it up. Do the CCP not understand how petrol works.

Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E

Had to replace

An expensive touch screen all in one PC at the NHS eye doctor clinic or whatever its called. Why? Cause the consultant had gotten annoyed with the one he had been using and smahed it in frustration. Why they never made him pay for it is anyone's guess.

Teen bought Google ad for his scam website and made 48 Bitcoins duping UK online shoppers

Re: Will he get a job offer?

Worked out fine for Frank Abagnale

Zuck shows Virtual Empathy by visiting storm-wrecked Puerto Rico in VR

Re: Im not Zuckerberg fan, but:

I was going to say the same. I don't mind it being tax deductible, if it helps convince rich people to donate. But what a tight fuck. You've just exploited the disaster to sell your shit then only offered to donate what is essentially to you 50cents.

Dick.

Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action

Re: Welcome

Was a bit but still. Watching ADVChina again, now they've left, always good to see the real China and the real issue of Huawel.

Welcome

to China

Trump also wanted to change section 230 so he could sue anyone that was mean to him. This will be the same. Not only that we have the idiot that is Mark Francois (oh, is that illegal now? I've called an MP an idiot) said that "David's Law" should be introduced, then it we see old footage surface of him being technically "aggressive" himself when he said "We are signing your death warrant" he it is in context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uZFGM2W8ao

Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

Re: Imagine if Microsoft owned Android?

"Youtube seems to be just as much a sewer of clickbait, misinformation and hate as Facebook, Twitter and TikTok "

You're looking at the wrong channels then. Check out Techmoan, Skill Builder, Mikeselectricstuff all good and all respectable and useful.

Re: So What

They get fined, then keep appealing until the government runs out of money to fight at which point they'll settle for a massive amount less than the original fine. Google will go quiet for a year then do it all over again.

Re: I thought they were our friends, who cared about us, the product

I think we also have to remember there are people behind these companies and its those people that are evil and so low that they'd do this, to line their own pockets.

Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch

Re: Mar-a-OhOh

Some lawyers have probably asked for money upfront due to knowing what this person is like.

Analogue tones of a ZX Spectrum Load set to ride again via podcast project

Re: Inner City Unit did this on vinyl years ago

Boring bit of info but I lived in a house 3 doors away from a Hawkwind member. We grew up on that street in the late 70s to early 00s before we moved out of London for good. They were still there when left or at least the mum was. His son Sam would come down their drive and sell his toys at the end of it (this was in the 80s). Went round their house a few times growing up. He played drums. They had a big tree in the middle of the garden with, what I remember to be a sort of treehouse wrapped round the bottom of it.

YouTubers fell for shady 'sponsors' who seized, then sold, accounts

Lots I suspect

"Nor does the ad giant discuss whether or not it made any money when channel owners lost access and the crooks took over."

Lots I suspect. Just like it does with all the scam adverts that appear, before, during or after a video. The ones for fake products or services. I've finally found the option to report these. I know it's on the mobile app and PC, not sure about TV app. Seeing so many of them, surely they have a team that could remove these instead of leaving it up to the viewer to have to constantly pissing report. Its under the "Why am I seeing this advert" option.

Its shocking how many of these exist. Knowing they'll have paid for the time and Google makes money whether its a scam or not. I'm pretty sure Google never returns any of the money it makes from these adverts, so for them its a win win. Having looked into this before they also constantly blame AdSense for the problem, ignoring the fact they fucking own AdSense.

The whole reporting system is a mess. I've mentioned before about the copyright strike I got hit with (now finally removed) by a bocus report. Then I spot the other day, whole channels by the traveller community threatening violence to other travellers and some of their channels just showing the fights they have. Both breaking the T&C of YouTube yet those accounts still exist. I went on a reporting spree but I bet if I check in a months time, those accounts will still exist, along with the videos and the adverts that are on them. Googles AI will seemingly ignore them while they still make lots of money from the adverts until it becomes big news and you get another ad-apocalypse.

It seems to be the only time when Google/YouTube take action is when they themselves are indanger of lossing money when advertisers pull out of the platform.

Recycled Cobalt Strike key pairs show many crooks are using same cloned installation

This is why...

...I was recently told by a software vendor (in their T&C) when testing their new AV to "Not upload their installer to VirusTotal". I thought that was suspicious so asked why not. Turns out, which I never knew and then confirmed when I looked it up (and mentioned in this article). Anyone with a specific subscription and varified by VirusTotal, can download anything that is submitted to VirusTotal. The AV vendor doesn't want the software contained in the installer getting into the hands of competitors (probably still a poor argument as if their competitor wanted to do that. They'd just pretend to be a fake customer).

Microsoft emits more Win 11 fixes for AMD speed issues and death by PowerShell bug

Re: Sorry for the pox, but we promise no new infections!

Its funny as I assume outlook.com is supported by the Office team. Not sure what its like now but all the time Mark Russinovich would do his case of the unexplained talks, he'd poke fun at some point about the Office team. One talk he even found a bug and reported it. Assuming he'd get special treatment now (at that time) being a "Technical Fellow" he found he didn't and his report got stuck to the bottom of the list like other reports for Office fixes.

No swearing or off-brand comments: AWS touts auto-moderation messaging API

We could have a meal and admire the nice view from Devil's Dyke also.

So.....

....is this like Facebook's bullshit "AI" filter (algorithm but managers love the term AI)? When a colleague told us at work "I've been suspended from Facebook for a few days. Because I said I had some lovely faggots the other day". The "AI" thought he was using a homosexual slur as clearly America doesn't eat faggots and clearly because American is the only language Facebook's "AI" understands.

Nobody cares about DAB radio – so let's force it onto smart speakers, suggests UK govt review

We have a decent one in the car but my point is, the spot where DAB dies, FM still works fine.