Posts by steviebuk

Amazon worker – struck and shot in New Orleans terror attack – initially denied time off

Or

"The bullet remains in her limb while doctors work out the best course of action to remove it while she recovers at home." While doctors work out how many thousands they'll charge her.

Re: HR mixup my ass

Its Amazon. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59641784

Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid

Hopefully

This is the start of the bubble burst.

Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024

Did they include

They're anti-trust practice of every few updates resetting all defaults back to Microsoft so Edge becomes the default browser again? The Outlook addition that makes edge the default browser for opening links.

And so on with their shitty, shady practices. Its as if SatNav has never heard of the decades old Microsoft vs United States Government case.

Musk's lawyer asks SEC to quit pestering the shy and retiring billionaire

Re: Cry baby Musk

Now he's bought access to the Whitehouse, he'll try everything he can to dismantle the SEC.

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy

Re: Two

And we've seen police turn off their cameras before. I also had Copilot in a meeting, make up stuff that it claimed I'd said when I hadn't. That is the most concerning part. That you'll have managers who'll ignore the flaws and go on the evidence from CoPilot despite being warned it makes stuff up.

China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse

Its high time

their "developing" status was removed, that they've been exploiting for benefits for years and years. If they lived in the UK, the CCP would be known as the benefit cheats next door.

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

Might be

DavesElectricStuff from YouTube. Many years ago he said he was involved with a UFO project that flew down the Thames :) was an advert for a company. Can't fully remember the details.

Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention

United States v. Microsoft Corp.

Do they forget their own history? 2001 where they lost and were about to be broken up?

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

True. All people care about now is going viral and hoping they can make money from it. The vast majority of influrences and YouTubers give no shits about what they are peddling, as long as they can make money with it. Its easy money for them than having to work a proper job when bullshit office politics, HR and managers.

Like one such couple here in the UK that I came across on YouTube, doing their "VLOG". I hate those but took a look, they were talking about their love of camping etc. All fine, nothing wrong with that, then it was "And we have this mobile solar panel. We can use it to charge everything and its amazing blah blah blah. Oh, the local camping store sent it to us for free to "review", we've not actually used it yet". But you've said it was amazing yet haven't actually used it, you've not flagged your video as a paid promotion (if you get given stuff for free, even if not being paid by the company, its still classed as paid advertising as they've given you content for you video). Its just awful these days.

Raspberry Pi 500 and monitor arrive in time for Christmas

Re: Keyboard layout

I think it might be but was too late to correct it, oh well.

Re: Keyboard layout

They also like to call the "pound" key (Hash) "Bang"

You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you

Re: "manual labor for sortation"

Garbage in, plastic pelts outs.

Re: Hmmm

There's a guy on YouTube, can't remember the name or have a link, that created a tracking device to sneak into plastic bottles here in the UK. He planted them in some recycling bins round the area to see what the council does with them. Discovering a lot of them where being shipped abroad to be "recycled".

Russia arrests one of its own – a cybercrime suspect on FBI's most wanted list

Re: @Jellied Eel

The amount of people on here that supports a convicted fellon and sex offender really is worrying. These are the same people, that probably would of liked Hitler.

Re: @Jellied Eel

"but wouldnt be prosecuted because of Bidens condition"

No, no, no, no, no. Its simple. Trump stole documents, Trump was asked "It might of been a mistake can you give us the documents back?" He said no, THAT is the difference. Biden took documents either intentionally or not when asked "We need those documents back that you took" he said "Oh yes, sorry" and gave them back. Trump didn't. Trump refused to give them back, THAT is the issue. The secrets he had and was able to potentially sell (he probably did).

Re: "It's a very bad move giving his son blanket immunity"

"Trump pardoned Kushner, Bannon, Flynn, other allies in first term"

Enough said.

Re: @Jellied Eel

The bent supreme court stated the President is now immune so Biden can get off that way.

Its a VERY good move pardoning his son because Trump has always abused his power, he abused the court system to avoid prison and was given special treatment throughout. Anyone else that attacked the judges as he did would of been in prison waiting trial.

Once the big orange idiot gets into office he WOULD have used Hunter Biden to be spiteful and just abused him all through the courts to break him and Joe Biden. I'm glad Joe has finally decided to play as dirty as the Republicans before he leaves. Its a pardon I'm glad he's used. No doubt when the big orange idiot gets in, he'll pardon the "J 6" unless, of course he lied about that also and won't. Much like when he was leaving office, he had enough time then to pardon them all but no, he saw them as his own pawns that he could play on/with and claim "If I get back into office they will be pardoned".

Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels

When will it happen

When will this AI, I mean LLM bubble burst! Can't come too soon so I can say "Told you".

Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements

Greenwashing

We know they do. ChatGPT has caused their carbon emissions to increase by 20% and the TPM requirement will me lots of perfectly fine kit will be sent to the land fill.

Although I'll also be watching Ebay for folks not in the know who are selling off their "old kit" really cheaply.

Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online

Or "I have all this dirt on Google. As soon as I go prison, it WILL be released, maybe we could do a deal".

Re: Nothing clever...

We have 7 MAGA people who still think Trump is innocent and that he loves and respects them. Very funny.

Re: Nothing clever...

He saw the orange one committing crimes and getting away with it so probably thought he'd be able to do the same.

Re: Photos are still on Twitter

I can no longer read twitter without an account it seems, I killed mine when the orange man one and the big man child owner of twitter smirked.

Abstract, theoretical computing qualifications are turning teens off

Re: WYF!

True. Problem was, for me, in the late 80s when started high school we had a room full of BBC computers but it was 2 boys to one BBC. If you were with a dick, you never got a go. Only lasted about 2 years and they all got removed. Then in college in the 90s we got taught old languages like COBOL which are argued all the time I was there was pointless as no longer used. Only use it would of been for was being a consultant making lots where banks needed to move away from COBOL and there were no COBOL programmers left.

Telco engineer who spied on US employer for Beijing gets four years in the clink

Falun Gong spiritual movement

Falun Gong the spiritual movement thats actually a cult.

Another 'major cyber incident' at a UK hospital, outpatients asked to stay away

Re: IT incompetence in NHS

You've clearly never worked in NHS IT

Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs

does it count

If you self host bluesky?

Security? We've heard of it: How Microsoft plans to better defend Windows

Re: "Hotpatch ®"...

Last known good still around. Used it recently when fixing someones PC and it actually worked.

Britain Putin up stronger AI defences to counter growing cyber threats

No one takes blatent and clear propogranda seriously anymore either.

"The peace process" yes, that can happen with Putin fucking off out of a country that's not his.

Re: Access filtering

We do, well our company does but they just come in via other countries.

China has utterly pwned 'thousands and thousands' of devices at US telcos

Its fine, now with Trump in power he'll just give China the keys then blame Biden.

Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy

“I have not changed my view; I will take this with me to my grave,” he asserted

Hopefully you die very soon then as you're another rotten, billionaire cunt.

Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech

Re: Are we

Hello 50cent.

If China is "growing and increasingly properous" then it needs to STOP claiming its a "developing country" that then gains benifits of being declared as such. I don't know any other country that is classed as "developing" that has a fucking space program. It also needs to STOP coal production and STOP over fishing, especially in waters that aren't its own.

Pointless. As Ian Hislop pointed out, every government, ever has raised taxes the first year they get in. The farmer inheritence tax is an attempt to get land back from Baron's etc. Although he is a tit a lot of the time, Jeremy has highlighted issues with farming, although slighly undone all his work by admitting his buying of the farm is a tax dodge. With him being forced to sell fields it would mean people like Kaleb could afford to buy land to farm. We should possibly look to the French model, if you own farming land it must be farmed and not used for the likes of shooting.

Are we

Turning into China?

Apple beats expectations, but drops in China

China has long been an important market for Apple

There's your problem. Being a billion dollar company and having no issues about trading in a country that continues to abuse its "Developing Country" status and has massive human rights issues. "What, people are censored there? Jailed for questioning Winnie the Pooh, I mean Xi? Oh well, as long as they make me more billions I don't actually give a shit" --- Tim Apple.

Techie left 'For support, contact me' sign on a server. Twenty years later, someone did

Re: Passwords

I'd have just hung up and not even bothered the conversation. There's that article from the US years agp where the admin of a council was let go then refused to give over all passwords. Eventually went to jail for it. I know you did a handover so I'd of just hung up on him.

Re: Passwords

Yep. Where I was I did that to a current engineer who was bring rude, this was over 10 years ago now. Only on call for a min, told him if he carries on being rude I hang up, he carried on, I hung up. Had been there long enough I wasn't gonna take shit anymore. After thinking I had to accept the abuse.

Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him

Quality simply

a MASSIVE cunt.

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

Never chuck them. Mention it over at datahoarder on Reddit. Someone would love to archive those.

Thanks

Thanks to Prof. Kurtz for allowing me to walk in to a WHSmith as a kid in the 80s and write

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"

20 GOTO 10

I was too square to type anything rude.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off

True but I'd argue this has happened time and time and time again by big companies that have the infrastructure to cope. They knew this game was going to be big but clearly decided to not put enough cash to have that extra "just in case its massive on launch" instead would rather it fail like all the AAA releases.

If that is the case, they SHOULD have an offline version and everyone just accepts that the offline map is lower quality. Relying purely on online means its simple a new version of DRM and once the game tanks and MS have had enough, the servers get turned off making the game useless.

Its one of the reason I was really annoyed with my Elite Dangerous banking on Kickstarter. David lied claiming it would have an offline version then changed his mind midway through "for the experience". Once they give up that game (and the company hasn't been doing well lately) that whole game will be dead, unlike the original Elite that is still playable to this day.

Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize

And the tax he cut was for his rich friends. The tariffs will effect us in the UK as well apparently. I was planning on waiting before I build a new PC to get cheaper parts but might have to buy soon instead because of the idiot orange man.

Yep. 4 years of him lying, none of his supporters thinking "Hang on, so he claimed the election was stolen in 2020, so what happened in 2024? Did the Dems totally forget how to steal an election in 4 years? But hold on, a few days before the election he said they were already starting to steal the election again, but that never happened, so was it all a lie? Did he say that they were stealing it again near election day so if he lost he could claim it was stolen again? Is everything he says just one big lie???"

This is the problem with Trump voters, they don't think or question, they just shout 'merica!

Re: In this case

Much like the hispanic undocumented worker they recently interviewed on the news, said he voted for Trump as he'll sort out the economy, they pointed out to him they'll also be deporting him, despite him having lived there for 20 years. He clearly didn't realise that. And Trump won't sort out the economy. He inherited Obama's good economy which he then ruined, he'll inherit Biden's and then proceeded to ruin that, like he does all his business'. He's made Tom Homan his border czar who's clearly a racist and you also have the walking dead weirdo Stephen Miller.

In this case

I hope they loose. You get what you voted for. You signed a form because you did no reseach on the smarmy cunt that Elon is and most likely went on to vote for Trump because "Eggs are too expensive". They'll be a darn site more expensive when Trump gets in and puts in his tariffs.

No, the orange one won without this anyway, because 51% of Americans are idiots.

Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals

Dave's Garage

The man that create Task Manager had a nice long chat with Raymond on his YouTube channel. Well worth a watch.

Just wish I'd found programming easier but I really struggled with it in college. We got taught Pascal and I made a lottery app but never bothered to look into how to do graphics so it was all text based. I then upgraded it in 2000 for Visual Basic and for my HND course. Got that running recently in a VM and fixed a 19 year old bug in my installer. Was a simple fix, no idea why I never resolved it back then.

Wrote a sniffer program in Pascal to sniff user names and passwords when people would login to their network account in DOS in college. That was the best I got and most of the code was taken from the Pascal help file and a Pascal book I had. Wish I'd understood assembly and then just code in general, a lot of the time the logic just does my head in.