Posts by steviebuk

Microsoft axes 10,000, already breaking bad news to staff

Sat Nav

"In an interview earlier this month, CEO Satya Nadella said the next two years are going to be tough for the tech industry, and that companies would need to look inside themselves and ask if they are as efficient as they need to be competitive."

Maybe, maybe stop being fucking greedy. Tell your investors "I'm keeping the price of license as they are, they don't need to be increased, we can take the small hit, more people will then buy as we'll be cheaper. Also, we need to do more testing instead of just pushing stuff out and we also need to STOP forcing Windows 11 (that is shit) on people".

But he won't.

China may have to reassess chip strategy in face of US sanctions

And in Xi's China, there was no 5000 years, unless he finds a map that says "China owned this once". He was picked because "He seems alright". Now they've all realised he's another Mao but can't get rid of him.

Re: Capitalisim ≠ competition

Two wumaos in a row.

Re: Typical western arrogance

Hello wumao.

Re: Hermit Kingdom

You're right it will become a hermit, like North Korea but with a bit more money. But they really need the West for their economy. Currently their economy relies massively on their housing market. But their housing market is a massive scam. You have all the ghost cities and buildings that don't last a year. One person will be convinced to buy a flat in a new build. The new build will be half built then the contractor will knock it down and tell you "We're starting again, the new, new build will be even better, but you have to give us a bit more money". Rinse and repeat.

Re: US semiconductor industry???

China for sure has enough know-how to design chips (see Huawei before it was killed by Trump)

No they don't. There are smart people in China, its just a shame Winnie the fucking Pooh is in charge so you're not allowed any of your own thoughts, you must follow and read "Xi Jingping Thought". Trump didn't kill Huawei, as much as I really dislike Trump it was actually the only sensible move that happened. Huawei has been stealing tech for years. Just do a quick search online and you'll find all sorts. And look at how the CCP runs, look at what they did to Jack Ma because he criticised the little man child Xi. Then look at how they reacted when the Meng Wanzhou came home, she got a heros welcome, all because Huawei is clearly state controlled.

UK Online Safety law threatens Big Tech bosses with jail

Still making me mad

The fact David Carrick got away with what he did for years and still got promoted. And now the police watchdog "Won't be doing any internal investigation" in case it reveals the MASSIVE failings of the police. Means this bill is even more of a joke.

Look up the Shana Grice case. She was being stalked by her ex for months and reported to the police several times. They eventually fined her for "Wasting police time" at which point the ex finally murdered her. Goes to show, Sussex police have always been useless cunts, just look up the case of Dominic O'Brien now in prison

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18208133.sussex-police-inspector-spared-jail-attempting-publish-obscene-material/

This online bill is a complete joke.

What a loud of shit

Do the UK think they are the world police like the US?

Try this on Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Amazon, Facebook they'll all tell you to "Go fuck a duck, we're based in the US, you're laws don't apply to us. If you want them to, we'll move all our data centres out of the UK and Ireland. You'll now have to move all your tenants to the US servers if you wish to continue to use them. Then we can suck up all your data with our Patriot Act."

Its as stupid and Starmer wanted to make shotgun ownership more difficult now. Doesn't matter that the guns crooks use are fucking illegally acquired, just make it more difficult for law abiding citizens. Much like my knife I use for work I'd like to always carry. Its useful, is 3" all legal but because it has the safety locking feature, I can't fucking carry it. Doesn't matter that knifes used in crime are fucking kitchen knifes as they are cheap and disposable.

The law has been created by fucking idiots that don't understand how the Internet works. They are the ones screaming on the IT Crowd when Jen showed them the black box Internet. VPNs will avoid most of this shit. It will affect local bloggers and independent journalists. Hosting companies may decide they can't risk hosting UK sites anymore and so on and so on. Tories are fucking tits.

Oh, is that classed as hate speech? The Register best get ready then.

Oh and will Nadine Dorries be pulled up? Most of her Tweets wouldn't pass this shitty bill.

Its all done to silence those against the Tories. Much like the new shitty ID required to vote. I tried signing up to test it. The government do no checks the photo is the person who is signing up. It goes to the location elections department. They can't possibly check the photo is the person they say they are. We also have the fact photos have to specifically be a certain fucking size. Our old friend doesn't even have a smart phone, how's he gonna sign up for that? This also stops homeless people voting, how are they going to get access to a PC to do the upload and take a passport style photo? We also have Muslim voters, who are in their right to wear their religious dress when voting. However, the polling stations (and understand local election departments already have a hard time at election time as it is), they now have to setup a private area so they can ask the Muslim lady to show her face for ID purposes. This could cause a lot more Muslims not to vote. It was ALWAYS, clearly, a Trump style ploy to stop people voting because the Tories know they'll lose the next election.

Re: Boo hoo

But I'm not.

I'll get my coat.

Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud

Re: nice to see

We had someone like that in management who wanted to make it his pet project to go full cloud. Only one consultant has been honest that its more expensive. Now the place is making people redundant to save costs. When they could just save it on his cloud idea bollocks.

Told you....

...that the "infrastructure free" idea was bollocks & would be more expensive.

Always fun when you're right, not fun when not listened to.

Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets

..

"I can't let you land Dave".

Should open source sniff the geopolitical wind and ban itself in China and Russia?

They aren't an optimist, they are a wumao.

Apple accused of censoring apps in Hong Kong and Russia to maintain market access

Apple and Tim Apple

Should be ashamed. The recent protests in China was helped as they were able to use Apple Airdrop between devices which the shitty CCP couldn't monitor. Tim Apple realising he'd loose his China market gets an update sent out, only for China that would cripple the feature on the demand of the CCP.

All the people that were protesting that are now being arrested. All the people that will be disappeared like the Tank Man was, all those deaths are now on Tim Apples hands.

Re: Screw 'em.

"The latest Top Gun movie changed the Taiwan flag on Cruises flight jacket to something less politically sensitive"

But it was switched back. They realised what they were doing, realised the US market were getting pissed off with these direct censors as in they are censored for the US market as well to save the Chinese doing it. Realised viewers were objecting so told China to sod off and changed it back. Hollywood have finally realised their mistake when China asked them to remove the Statue of Liberty from the Spiderman movie. When they managed to make loads of money with without the Chinese market, they started to stop self censoring.

Look up Laowhy86 on YouTube and his "Why Hollywood Now REFUSES to Bow Down to China" video. Its quite good. And on one of their ADVChina videos they talk about their time living in China for 15 years for Winston and 10 years for c-milk regarding the Hollywood movies and how China have been ripping them off for years. China's local films are released and don't do very well, so when you go to the cinema to watch a Hollywood movie, Winston said the ticket that was printed out was for the Chinese movie which the teller crossed out and wrote the Hollywood movie. However, it means the money from the ticket sale went to the local Chinese movie instead so inflate its viewing numbers & profits.

Its not the fault of the Chinese, its the fault of the CCP and the stupid Winnie the Pooh lookalike cock that runs it.

It's time to retire 'edge' from our IT vocabulary

Can't

Due to a shitty browser being called it.

Elon Musk to step down as Twitter CEO: Help us pick his replacement

Re: The obvious choice

Opened the Christmas Crackers early?

Re: He was reportedly already looking for a CEO for the past month

True. Its clear the investors have told him to find someone else to run it or they'll pull their money. And the poll was to make him look good.

It will be a shit job. It will be for show only, Elon will still be running it all from the side, they'll just be a puppet CEO. It will be someone who's willing to take a hit for cash, knowing full well he'll throw them under the bus at some point. He'll hit them with an NDA so they can never mention this after he fires them.

He truely is a cunt.

Broadcom braced for full EU investigation into $61B VMware buyout

Re: Care

They would if the whole of the EU decided that no one is allowed to use VMWare anymore. Whether the EU would be able to legally do that I'm not sure.

Microsoft to buy 4% of London Stock Exchange in 10-year platform deal

Re: You can't get fired for buying...

Because, unfortunately, Excel is quite powerful. Take Google Shits, I mean Sheets for example, its really shit compared to Excel.

Women sue Apple claiming AirTags helped their stalkers

Re: Just curious

Possibly because Tile are smaller. Its only with these comments that I've heard of Tile. Never heard of them before.

Not a Apple fan but even I know what an AirTag is and what it looks like.

Re: THIS is why we need diversity

Do you have any evidence there were no women at the development stage? Apple is only concerned about the share holder nothing more. This has been clear for years with their continued use of China despite the CCPs human rights issues. They are only now beginning to slowly move some manufacturering outside of China but only because they had suppy issues with China's stupid zero COVID and the riot at the foxconn factory.

Found

Found one in the local Sainsbury's carpark. Android struggled to read it but rhen so did my partners iPhone.

Eventually it read and only showed the last digits of owners number. Waited over a week, still not reported as missing. Now been a month and the same message. Its clear it wws stuck on a car to track

Intel offers Irish staff a three-month break from being paid

Yeah right

"part of push to reduce costs"

Don't they mean

"part of a push to make the share holders more profits"

Huawei teases bonkers gadget combo

Re: Why?

Thought about a smartwatch and despite hating Apple my partner was giving me her old watch. Mainly so she would know where I was. That didn't bother me, she worries I'll go missing on my walks with the dog. Anyway. Didn't last long as I don't have an Apple phone so made it pointless. Then I discovered they need, even the new ones, charging every day. No thanks.

Got a Lorus Lumibrite for £30 from Argos instead.

I now watch Wristwatch revival on YouTube. He's really good. Makes it look easy.

Re: Security Alarm

Saw them x-ray one at Southampton when I went on cruise earlier in year. I could of bagged myself a fancy watch as it had been in one of the trays but fell out and was under the x-ray table. Lucky I spotted it so pointed it out to security who picked it up and went to give it me back. Had to tell them it wasn't mine.

Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT

Re: Blame the management

Don't get me wrong, the young students are skilled but they are being exploited. Not only that they are being lied to about an app they are coding in, that can be used elsewhere. Yes it is but hardly anywhere. When we were trying to learn it I knew it was a temp role for me so looked up jobs that required me to know this app. Nothing, not one job anywhere on the market was using it, required me to know it or was using it for coding any apps.

I also remember they convinced one youngling over from another department. Told her how great an opportunity it would be blah blah "Do I get more money?" no. "Oh". She did it for a while and realised her manager was saying "Yes" to every app they were asking for his department to created. It was ridiculous as they didn't have enough staff to do each app properly. She realised this, realised the low code software was shit and not used elsewhere so said she was leaving.

Eventually the manager of that department left also. What a shit show.

Blame the management

Who want to hire young folk who they know they can exploit and pay less. I asked in last place about getting developers in for the new software they had "Its fine, we'll just use interns" all because they know they can pay them peanuts. I don't know of any 50 year old intern.

And then you have:

"'We can only achieve the government's ambition for the UK to be the 'next Silicon Valley' by closing the digital skills gap and making this vital profession attractive to a far broader range of people," said Rashik Parmar MBE, CEO of the BCS."

Ironic that he came from IBM the company that has been repeatedly sued for getting rid of older employees. I'm not claiming he had anything to do with that but that its just ironic.

What I dislike about most articles in IT is there is always a CEO, Director blah blah spouting shit for self serving purposes. I never see comments from the local desktop engineer that happens to have a great idea but can't get to the director level due to not wanting to kiss arse.

Epson zaps lasers into oblivion, in the name of the environment

This is...

...green washing at its highest. Inkjet runs out quickly and as others they make it difficult to use other inks. Not forgetting the inks are expensive.

Elon Musk to abused Twitter users: Your tormentors are coming back

Re: And to think that 30 years ago...

Problem is various factors. I've accidently clicked on the down vote before, then couldn't be bothered to quickly reply that fact. You have others with social issues that do it for no reason than they can. And normally when I post criticising the CCP all the wumaos come along and downvote. They'll never admit they are wumaos, they just do it.

UK bans Chinese CCTV cameras on 'sensitive' government sites

Re: At what cost?

That's a Wumao thing to say.

Re: Good idea anyways

Yep. Problem is the footage quality is good and they are cheap. We are a charity so they, unfortunately, went with Hikvision cameras for a few of the sites. We have been looking and thinking about their server setup. But I've now been putting it off due to the CCP links.

Tech companies in the crosshairs as China proposes antitrust law revisions

Re: Public Comments?

You got the name wrong.

Dear Glorious Leader Winnie the Pooh

Ironic

"Businesses also can't use a person's data to treat them different or impose restrictions."

Something Winnie the Pooh Xi and the fucking CCP do ALL the time.

Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech

And this is why it should be law...

...that all such devices CAN run locally and never require an Internet connection. This then means when Amazon decide "This isn't worth it anymore, Alexa is coming to an end. All your devices will no longer work". When that happens people in the know can continue to run the devices as they see fit. Independent engineers can sell their service to "Setup your home Alexa with no Internet required". During this Amazon can still sell these to people who don't want to setup their own local setup and don't want to pay an engineer.

Everyone wins. I think more people would buy Alexa shit if it didn't require the Internet and could just be run locally. They are all missing a trick.

China declares victory over teenage video game addiction

I declare the end of energy issues..

..in the UK. As we all know this is another Xi lie like he declared victory on poverty.

The Wumaos will be along to

1. Try and prove he's not lying even though he is.

2. To do a lot of whataboutisam.

Next we're watching for all governments to shutdown and put an end to the seriously shady "Chinese police stations" they've hidden in business' around the world. Which is a real thing and shitty way to behave.

Foxconn workers protest over pay and lockdowns at iPhone factory in China

Apple and Tim Apple

Apple and Tim Apple should be ashamed.

They give no shits about China's poor human rights issues.

Intel reveals pay-to-play Xeon features with software-defined silicon

Jesus Christ

As I can't edit my other post now.

Just heard Mercedes now have a yearly sub fee to "unlock" the full power of the car you've already fucking paid for!

This NEEDS to stop. All Governments need to ban this practice.

I was just going to say this is as bad as BMW heated seats subscription.

Shit like this needs to be banned.

SQL Server license prices rise ten percent as version 2022 debuts

It needs to happen & now

For someone who liked Microsoft back in the day (mainly cause of their history in computing) they really, really need to be hit with an anti trust again. They were hit with the one we most probably all know about due to their push of IE on to everyone. Succeeding in killing Netscape because of their shady tactics.

Now they are doing it again. They did it with the push to Windows 10 with the pop-up. They are now doing it with Edge. Search for any other browser in Edge and it tells you Edge is better. Try to change default browser it makes you have to change each extension one at a time and tells you are you sure Edge is better

Now this. There is no reason to put the price up of SQL other than greed. Then to discover they are making it cheaper on Azure. Its clearly an attempt to push everyone to Azure so they can eventually, try and scrap the standalone OS. Its clear they'd like to push to Azure Windows where you'll have to pay a subscription fee every year.

I know they were starting it before but with Sat Nav incharge they've become even more greedy cunts.

Thank god for Linux.

Microsoft's attempts to harden Kerberos authentication broke it on Windows Servers

Re: JFC! do they actually test anything these days

Came to say exactly that "do they actually test anything these days"

Chinese Loongson chips coming in 2023, on par with 2020 x86 kit

Re: Worth watching - as usual

Depends what they can steal

Hate to keep saying it

But with Xi in charge I wouldn't trust any of this. Its well known now to be able to do business in China you have to give the CCP access. Which is what will happen here.

World's richest man posts memes as $44b Twitter acquisition veers off course

I can't really rib him about the thanking on Twitter rather than in person. As also having social skills issues its probably something I'd do. But then when you're worth several billion, you'd think you'd spend time trying to work on them.

His next stunt should be doing "Uncover boss @ Twitter".

"So we work for this dick called Elon, you've probably heard of him. Yeah, he came in after buying the place with a sink, thinking he was fucking funny. He wasn't. Then started firing people left, right and centre yet expects people to work really hard for him. Oh and you have to be in the office tomorrow. We used to work from home but this new dick has decided because he doesn't like working from home, no one else can. Its all well and dandy when you're worth several fucking billion and can afford to pay for someone to drive you in. Or just decide to buy an apartment over the fucking road."

Re: My name is Elon

Cause I'm not from the USA and typed it wrong. And after 10 mins, there's no cocking edit button. Cocking is another nice bit of English.

My name is Elon

"I purchased Twitter because I believe in freedom of speech. Unless its about Twitter then keep your mouth shut"

"Thank you for your flexibility. Please continue to comply with company policy by refraining from discussing company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere."

He's still a dick.

Job 1: Get the boss on the network. Job 2: Figure out why Job 1 broke the network for everyone else

Re: What's the password?

Thorpe Park.

Multi-tasker Musk expects to reduce time at Twitter, seek another leader

And there we have it

"I want you all back in the office. No more working from home. I want you to all agree to this "new twitter" where you will work your arses off like I do, with no breaks so you can continue to make me more money. I'll be doing the same. I'll be working hard. Until I get bored, which is coming soon & I'll just hire someone to be my replacement cunt"

Investor tells Google: Cut costs now and stop paying staff so much

Re: TCI Fund Management

And if they were "activist investors" they'd not be buying Google. If you want to be an "activist investor" buy a charity and help that charity prosper.

Twitter is suffering from mad bro disease. Open thinking can build it back better

Re: Judas

But as Richard Herring or might of been once of his guests pointed out, they should of thanked Judas. Without him Jesus wouldn't of died on the cross and saved us all.

I'm not a believer. People can believe what they want as long as they don't push that belief on me or make stupid laws from it. But the above was an interesting thought :)