Posts by steviebuk 2635 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
Because Musk is a fuckwhit. He's a shill for so many, especially the CCP. He needs China for his factories so on a video the other day, praised China for its history. Yet totally ignores the fact the CCP destroy Chinese history by actively smashing it all up. Praised its ancient language and ignored that the CCP wanted to get rid of the Chinese language.
But without it, middle managers won't be able to micro manage and won't be able to pretend they are required.
We were glad we had a manage who was really good, let us work from home as much as we wanted as he knew the work would get done. Also helped he preferred working at home as he got more done.
The worst companies are the ones that require you have a camera set up so they can make sure you're in your chair a certain percentage of the day.
The CCP shills are downvoting.
Also the country that was sending over folks to create "Police stations to help citizens sort out their driving license" and not to threaten Chinese citizens that have managed to escape the shitness of the CCP and disguising these police stations.
physical security business' are pony (excluding close protection as most are ex SAS)
Its probably because I thinking of G4S. They are truely awful.
Slightly related are the folks that go repair the cash machines. Knew a guy that was doing it and got told to drive miles right near end of shift . Then one he had to call back to base that "I'm at that cash machine but I can't repair it the police are here". He got told "We don't care just get in there and repair it". He replied "I can't its just been robbed so its a crime scene". Jobs worth managers, back at based micromanaging because "we have to hit targets" mainly so they get the bonus that they won't share with their team.
"We need an end to end-to-end encryption or we need a back door that will only be used for good". It won't. But also, you force backdoors into apps, do you really think those crooks will use those apps? No, they'll hire someone to write their own end-to-end encryption and put it in their own app.
"We need an end to end-to-end encryption or we need a back door that will only be used for good". It won't. But also, you force backdoors into apps, do you really think those crooks will use those apps? No, they'll hire someone to write their own end-to-end encryption and put it in their own app.
in 2008 to access NHS mail you required a cert on your device and the server would verify this (I can't remember the exact details) anyway. This meant only your setup Blackberry could access NHS mail. However if you had an iTouch and set your NHS mail up on that, Apple would send a token to NHS mail to pretend the device was encrypted and authorised. You could now pick up your NHS mail. This was reported at the time, Microsoft were pissed off with Apple and eventually Apple patched it. All fine though as you could ignore the patch and it still carried on working.
And then you have the other issue, when I left my iTouch was still picking up all my e-mails months after. Why? Because someone hadn't bothered to disable my account.
About 3 years back I e-mails NHS.net as we had a phishing attempt come from one of their mailboxes. It wasn't spoofed, it was a compromised NHS.net mailbox. So much for "NHS.net is super secure".
Had one lady at work write her password on the noticeboard in her office. I smirked a bit as she said "No one can read it, I'm the only one left in the building that can read and write shorthand". And she's right. At the new place I mentioned this story to a new starter to only be asked "What's shorthand?". I felt old.
We had a "consultant" come in at my old place to do whatever it is they wanted him to do (I forget now). He went round the whole IT department asking us what our ideas were etc, so he could get a "better understanding of the project". He then took our ideas, made them his own and presented it to the upper management who thought he was amazing. We were all pissed as our ideas had been ignored every time we mentioned them. When those same ideas came out of the overpaid consultants mouth, they were apparently now gold.
Fucks me right off. Nothing ever changes in IT, its still like this today.
I don't see the point in powerful AI. Powerful enough that you can get it to clean your house, do the hoovering, washing and dinner but nothing more. Keep them basic. Currently watching Humans (which I'm struggling with due to Colin Morgan's piss poor acting). Because they are human form people are refering to them as "slaves" so why don't we then consider washing machines, dish washers, the robots that build cars etc as slaves. If you gave them general inteligency that it would make the point of them pointless. The point being you can use them as a tool, that can work 24/7 (inbetween charging) won't require holidays, won't require leave etc etc. If you give them general inteligency, then we'll be back to square one. A whole bunch of bots that want rights and who won't want to do the above. The whole point of making them is so you can put them in dangerous jobs, making them "powerful" in a general inteligency sense would be pointless.
Why, when I took the dog for a work the other day along the farmers fields, and I get to the big massive mobile mast, can I stand next to the mast and still not get cocking 5G!
Always said smart meters were bollocks. They've been misread over the years and unless you take a record the energy companies keep your money. Not only that but the bullshit "Get a smart meter, then we'll never have to send round a meter reader" turns out to be bollocks. We've had one twice in a year and turns out its a legal requirement to check you're not fiddling the meter.
It will lead to another Horizon scandal. People are using it to summerise reports and emails and not checking the results. We are testing CoPilot that summerises meetings. It claimed I said something during the meeting that was never said.
Years to come, people will use that as evidence. "Well the AI said you said it"
The likes of DWP will abuse it to summerise benefit checks and miss something critical causing a death.
My partner watches Real Housewives and knows it so well said it would be her specialist subject. So as a bit of fun I said I'd ask ChatGPT for some quiz questions and answers. 10 questions, about 4 had same answer and only 2 or 3 were actually right. The others were just wrong and it made shit up.
They don't fucking listen to their engineers!
"The tales outlined in the paper will be familiar to readers of The Register. Something of a worst-case exemplar is Birmingham City Council's implementation of Oracle HR, finance and procurement.
The implementation budget has ballooned from £20 million to £131 million (from $25 million to $165 million), as the council failed to successfully create adaptations to make the software fit its needs. The council now plans to re-implement Oracle out of the box. In the meantime it is paying £5.1 million ($6.44 million) for a third party solution to plug the gap."
Because you chose Oracle. Your engineers probably told you that was a mistake and no doubt, no doubt at all, you fucking ignored them. Oracle charge an arm and a leg and love to randomly audit.
Needs an award for having to deal with a lot of the idiot and clearly blocking people giving evidence. People who, shockingly still work for Post Office despite clearly being shit.
Throughout, having listened to some of the statements, its been not only a culture of "Don't rock the boat", which is why they've gotten away with it for so long, but also appears alot of them jumped aboard, happily, the rocking boat so they could keep a job and send people to prison with no real evidence. To make them feel like a "security expert" or "tv detective" because they know they are shit yet the Post Office was allowing them to get away with it to stop the Post Office loosing face.
What's worse, and surely this now requires a prison sentence, is one of the Post Office lawyers, telling them in an email it would be a good idea to NOT leave a paper trail and speak to their insurers via phone so they'll be no record of the phone call in case "it ever gets out to the public". If not a prison sentence he needs to loose his law licence (assume we have that in the UK?)
Jesus. You'll be one of those MAGA supporters who piss their life savings away on Trumps SPAC. Go ahead and do it, buy up his stock and watch it all disappear when he dumps his large stake in 6 months, tanking the company, tanking the stock and making all his followers a lot, lot poorer.
And regarding the "boarder" they created a bipartisan deal, that was written by Republicans and the strikest ever yet the Orange idiot told his equal idiot followers and congress bods to block it so he could campaign on it, so they did. Again, his followers are such idiots they ignore the fact a deal to "fix the boarder" was about to go ahead, until their Orange friend ruined it. They'll now loose out because he'll be going to prison and the Republicans will be decimated in November.
Trump took lots of money from China during his term. He did a deal to get Ivanka some nice patents from China (I don't know why consider China never honours any patents). He barks on camera about China because he knows its what his idiots followers want and will believe, but in the background he was taking China's money. Winnie the Pooh knows he can control the big orange idiot, which is why he'd want him in power. The other idea is to create chaos unmongsts the populous of the USA, in the hope it causes America to destory itself, so that Winie The Pooh can take the land.
Watching a video on the XZ problem, that was sadly a product of the open source community. Again, I enjoy open source and the movement is great and so is the community. But with this package, apparently the developer was just burnt out. Loads of people were apparently using the package but, as always, it was a thankless task that I believe he never made money from it. You can always have a donate button up, everyone will say how great your app is but never get any money for it. So he got exploited by an arse that took over his package but using guilt trips and exploiting the guys mental health.
But they had those quite cool testing sessions (I don't know the name but can be seen on the training for Windows 95 that is archived on YouTube and archive.org) where users would come into an office, sit at a computer and do what was asked BUT they'd talk as they were doing it. If they were looking for an icon but couldn't find it etc, so they could use that it making an application better.
So they keep saying. Bullshit.
Anyway.
"That state of affairs, the report notes, suggests Microsoft has forgotten the lessons imparted by its founding CEO Bill Gates in his 2002 companywide memo on Trustworthy Computing. In that memo he told developers "When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security. If we discover a risk that a feature could compromise someone's privacy, that problem gets solved first.""
Yep. And now SatNav is involved its all gone out the window. More reason I dislike Office 365 because we deploy it, everyone uses Outlook and you do the odd training guide, then a week or so later they fucking move everything because of "new features" that no one fucking asked for. We want to go back to the good old days of installing an ISO and that's it. It stays the same for years until WE decide we want the "new features". It would be fine with Office 365 if they gave you the option to turn off all the new features when a patch is pushed, but they don't. Such as clicking on links in Outlook to find they now open in Edge with the e-mail to the right? What the fuck? When did that happen. So now I have to change it on every machine I build to not open in Edge until I can find the time to look to see if there is a group policy.
About "other providers are better" who's that then? Google are notorious with their shitty sessions tokens. You'll sign in and then close the browser. Someone has stolen your session host and signs in from across the country 5mins later. Google doesn't ask you to sign in to make sure you are you, considering you've just travelled 100s of miles in 5mins, no it just lets you in with the stolen session.
Then we have GAM (which, granted, may have changed). When I had to manager GSuite as it was then, we had to use GAM for Google drive management as there is no other GUI tool. When you create your GAM token for your admin account you stick all in a folder on your laptop and you're good to go, managing to Google Drive from the commandline. Giving people permissions to other docs when someone is off sick etc. Along comes a rogue engineer who copies your GAM folder and that's it, you're fucked. That user can now use your GAM login to do all the admin with no password prompty or check.
Or just bots but already seeing it on YouTube. You'll have vids posting about how awful trump is, rightly so, then other comments agreeing. Then other comments created in an attempt to get each other arguing from accounts that have a format
Dave-dyd23sh
Jane-dje36hs
Ted-iej37hs
And there will be several accounts in the comments with names like this. All clearly bots. And as always YouTube do fuck all about it. As much as they do with all the scam adverts on the platform.
To loose a job but Creative Assembly have never been able to do AI properly in the Total War series. Their promos before release were always misleading, then play and it was always easy to get the AI to get stuck. In one "siege" they didn't nothing. All just sat outside the walls not moving so my archers could slowly pick off their massive army.
Obviously not, we know a lot of the Chinese people are nice people just stuck with a shit government. The point of cutting the country off, would be to (and yes well aware its not that easy) try to convince its people (not the nationalist, you'll never change them) to rise up against their own government. But again, that's easier said than done.
Is what it should be called. And there we have it. Apple claiming "they care" but claiming they'll move their factories out of China because of the human rights issues. Then shortly after Tim Apple visited to open a new Apple store in China and appears they are still fine with selling their phones in a dictatorship.
Don't do business in a country that is run by a dictator. Of course money talks so they'll continue. Much like the issue of TikTok. If the CCP aren't involved in TikTok then they wouldn't be shouting about it, but they are, so are shouting as much as they can, giving away the fact by the other day stating "They'll protect China's interest" when speaking of "the ban" (its not a ban, unlike the full ban of Tiktok in China).
When they used to do their focus groups, like they did for launching Windows 95 they weren't too bad. But, when you have the CTO of Azure, Mark Russinovich, who created the sysinternals tools (along with Bryce Cogswell), who used to do his Case of the Unexplained talks (he's sadly stopped) he would regularly poke fun at the Office team for how shit Office was, its error dialogue boxes and bug reporting (obviously in a nicer way that I've just written it). He worked INTERNALLY at Microsoft, was a Technical Fellow, used his own tools to diagnose a problem with Office and this was mentioned on one of his talks (I've watched all those Case of the Unexplained, they are amazing for troubleshooting). They still told him to log it as a ticket and they'd fix it at some point.
It appears they haven't changed.
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