* Posts by Potemkine!

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Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server

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Local ERP running on premise: 3 hours of downtime a year.

Large ERP running on someone else's cloud: 45 hours of downtime in 2023.

Forget TikTok – Chinese spies want to steal IP by backdooring digital locks

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"As a China-headquartered company, SECURAM is of course obligated to follow Chinese law, including the requirement to cooperate with secret demands for surveillance assistance,"

This is a true concern. I've got the same with European data in the hands of US companies, because of the Cloud act.

Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems

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To the US voters

Voting Trump = voting Putin.

Don't betray your own country.

French government sites disrupted by très grande DDoS

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Russia is a terrorist state. Let's treat it like a pariah. All links should be severed with Russia, may they be public or private.

So sad Putin's American puppet is so popular. Voting Trump = Voting Putin. How is it possible that the Republican Party became a party of traitors to the US?

European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use

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BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again

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Re: Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

The Limp Bizkit version then!

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China's help

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Russian design vs safety

Chernobyl on the Moon. What could go wrong?

US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism

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"The IP address is often the join key"

That's a good ad for VPN providers.

Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code

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Re: What's that app fixed

You doesn't seem to realize there can be two bad guys in the fight. Was did Hamas is atrocious. What does Netanyahou is atrocious. In both cases, many innocent people killed. Is that so hard to understand?

EU takes a bite out of Apple with $2B in-app purchase fine

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€1.8 billion is a dissuasive fine, at last . Let's hope the other mega corps get the message.

Apple's comments are outrageous. May the fine by raised for contempt.

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Re: Sweep

I doubt the fine won't be suspended until all appeals are exhausted.

EU repair rights bill tells manufacturers to fix up or ship out

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Re: So if everyone can max out sales without the EU...

If there's a shortage of washing machines in the EU, then there will be market for a European company to build fixable washing machines. It's a win-win situation.

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Re: I haven't read

Agreed, this won't be good enough. We also need the diagrams, the part reference list and the repair manuals available.

However, what is important is that there are new rights for consumers, and it's the second iteration of that bill. For each iteration there's a progress. We can hope there will be a third iteration going even further.

Whether to move off Oracle is the $100M+ question for Europe's largest public body

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Specs are soooo 20th Century. Now they are Agile you know. /s

Building specs is the most important part of the project. For this, one needs to listen and understand, and that isn't fashionable.

Leaked email: Unit4 ERP system leaves some school staff with 'nil pay'

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Are software managing payroll something that new that it needs so much debugging and is so much unreliable?

Oh, I get it, there's AI in it, right?

BOFH: Looks like you're writing an email. Fancy telling your colleague to #$%^ off?

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Re: Another one bites the dust

So, goodbye 'Blockchain'?

Good riddance.

HPE joins the 'our executive email was hacked by Russia' club

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Which is horrible in its own way, because it suggests investors assume big tech companies are just going to be attacked and have their secrets spilled and don't think that damages their prospects.

In a way, it's rather a good news, because it will encourage companies to disclose they were attacked rather than hiding the fact. In return, it will encourage other companies to invest to deal with the threat.

United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues

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"We will follow the lead of the FAA" - so no more exemptions or self-certification? Good to know, but will have to see it to believe it.

Fujitsu gets $1B market cap haircut after TV disaster drama airs

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Re: Justice

If it happens, the ones thrown in jail will be the ones at the bottom, not the ones at the top.

Post Office boss unable to say when biz knew Horizon could be remotely altered

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The media has hyped up the pressure on the Post Office and Fujitsu since the broadcast of an ITV television drama about the injustice. Prime minister Rishi Sunak has since promised to introduce legislation to accelerate exoneration of the victims

So politicians react only when the media bring the story to light again - not limited to UK. They don't give a damn about people, about fairness, about justice. The only thing that does matter for these selfish bastards is their public image.

Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion

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How governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu

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Re: Corruption

I started my career as software developer for a company designing multimedia servers, the first generation of totally-software based IPBX, but also ACD, vocal servers, and CASE tools so the customers could build their own addons... we had hundred of customers worldwide, in Europe, the US, in Japan, with thousands of servers. We had regularly new versions released. And for all this, we were 4 developers and 6 people for the support. And this was working fine.

SMB can be much, much more efficient than big companies. The differences are SMB have to pay their fare share of taxes and don't have the good connections in ministries.

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The core of the problem is the belief that the Market is the best solution to every issue.

No, it isn't. Externalizing everything has side issues and hidden costs that bean counters don't grasp

Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges

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The rise of the far-right worldwide is worrying. In some countries like the US (but not only), it became mainstream, and it becomes normal to propagate hatred... For some it's even normal to storm a parliament and try to change a popular vote by force... and the populace of bigots, racists, xenophobic and other scums applauses the one responsible for that, and is really to elect him as "The Guide", even if he's a criminal.

History lessons are forgotten. Not surprising seen how education is despised, underfunded and instrumentalised. Sad days are coming.

Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss

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Re: This quote summarizes it up perfectly:

Airbus

ArianeEspace

ESA

Eureka program

Horizon program

The Euro

to name a few. I agree that too many times bureaucracy drowns interesting projects, but condemning everything is a little bit extremist. There are many progress to be made, and good things can emerge.

Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere

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It's obvious that carbon removal from the atmosphere is the way to go because unless a nuclear war between China and India, CO2 production will rise spectacularly in the coming decades. We can do whatever in Europe, even stop to exist, it won't have an impact on the climate. So carbon storage is not an option if the goal is to reduce CO2 proportion into the atmosphere, it's the only way to go (unless a nuclear war, see above).

There are plenty of options, plenty of possibilities. Don't focus on one but use all of them altogether.

Ransomware payment ban: Wrong idea at the wrong time

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Re: Hospitals

4% is significative when the samples number is large enough. And it may just say that hospitals are just a little bit more cautious when dealing with backups... 2 times out of 3.

New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law

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Re: Think of the Grid!

I agree with this, but the time line may be short, because of the lack of investment to build the H2 infrastructure.

With solar panels and rain, one could possibly makes his own H2 which could be used for cars, trucks, heating, cooking... No need of batteries whose lifetime is unknown, no need to extract lithium, and a total autonomy regarding energy.

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Re: Think of the Grid!

No need to go that far.... just look at all the bobos populating ministries and media, that will be enough.

Atos confirms talks with Airbus over cybersecurity wing sale

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The announcement sent the company's stock price tumbling, and prompted the resignation of then-CEO Rodolphe Belmer

Now, Rodolphe Belmer is the CEO of the media group TF1. CEO: the more you fail, the more you are rewarded.

Xerox prints pink slips for 15% of workforce

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When a company fired 15% of its workforce, wouldn't it be logical that the board compensation is reduced by 15% too to ensure "long-term viability"? Because I've got the feeling it's just the opposite that happens.

Windows 11 unable to escape the shadow of Windows 10

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Re: RE: Start Menu

In other words, you're doing it wrong yet still blaming MS for you not using their latest time saving shortcut usage paradigms.

That's exactly the problem: MS is forcing to users' throat the way it considers better for them, whatever they may think or believe. Not listening to users is MS habit, but it's a bad one. Respecting customers should be business 101.

Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse

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Re: The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse...

Nah. Not valuable in term of profit.

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Re: The Romero classics

Such a classic

British arms dealer BAE behind F-35 electronics first in line for US CHIPS funds

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Talking about the F-35, there was an interesting report from the Norwegian National Audit Office

he F-35 Fighter Jet: The Ministry of Defense Has Done Too Little, Too Late.

The SAAB Gripen was eliminated from the competition vs the F-35 because it was deemed too expensive. Now it appears that the Norwegian Defense ministry slightly underestimated the costs of maintenance of the F-35 fleet: it's now NOK 349 billion instead of NOK 145 billion. Dassault and Eurofighter withdrew from the competition because they doubted the ministry would consider something else than the F-35. It seems now they were right, the competition was biased from the beginning.

Interpol moves against human traffickers who enslave people to scam you online

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I suggest kneecapping for the culprits.

Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court

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Please let him say whatever he wants on Twatter. It's the best and fastest way to get rid of it once for all.

BOFH: Just because we've had record revenues doesn't mean you get a Xmas bonus

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Very nice fantasy, but we all know that IRL the board will fistfuck the underlings elbow-deep.

Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky

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"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them"

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

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Re: Exactly what destroyed the UK car industry

This is not a consequence of Unions, it's the consequence of so-called globalisation and the search for maximum profit for shareholders which led to transfer jobs to countries where the salaries are the lowest.

Look at Volvo, it still makes many cars in Sweden, where Unions are strong.

'Return to Office' declared dead

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COVID had this positive effect to show that WFH was possible, and the prediction of apocalypse from the companies saying it was impossible was false.

When having no choice, many companies agree about accepting WFH rather than losing people's work. They adapted for the benefit of everyone (except landlords)

So let's remember this the next time employers say that something is absolutely impossible.

40 years of Turbo Pascal, the coding dinosaur that revolutionized IDEs

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Turbo Pascal was a very good language to learn programming. The IDE was good, compiling was fast, and the inline debugger of version 6 (my fav at the time) was so useful. At that time, we used it for several university's projects, like a FEM software for 2D beams or a basic CAD software... happy times.

Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS

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Re: Dear editor

Chrome has used HTTPS for its default navigation protocol since 2021, offering better load speeds for websites

https is probably faster if the server supports http/2.

So it isn't Chrome per se which offers better load speeds but the servers supporting http/2.

US nuke reactor lab hit by 'gay furry hackers' demanding cat-human mutants

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Re: I met a catgirl once.

That tells a lot about the psyche of cats owners.

Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble

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Greenpeace is farcical

If Greenpeace was serious about Climate Change, it would promote nuclear energy instead of fighting against it, and it would fight against coal seriously. A coalition with Greens accepted to reopen coal power power just to close nuclear power plants in Germany, with the approbation of Greenpeace.

During the cold war, it was said that " Pacifism is in the West and Euro-missiles are in the East". Now, Greens are in the west, most of CO2 production is in Asia and North America.

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket rated 'ready to rumble' after passing hot fire test

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Who decided to stop Ariane V before Ariane VI was ready? We cannot rely on non-european launchers to send our military satellites in space for instance.

OpenAI meltdown: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions?

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so it would be a nAzI...

Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt

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Cryptocurrencies used for criminal reasons? I'm shocked, really.