Posts by El blissett

Microsoft confirms pursuit of TikTok after Satya Nadella chats to Donald Trump

Re: Tik Update Tok

Tik-In Tock: Satya's Undercooked Purchase

Someone made an AI that predicted gender from email addresses, usernames. It went about as well as expected

Great. Now, can they shut down the ad targeting gender AI as well? I get dresses punted at me several times a month before the content abruptly shifts to more male coded things.

BT and Serco among bidders competing to run Britain's unfortunately named Skynet military satellite system

Tactical Networking? Thought that was when you use black velcro to hold a broken cable in.

Ooo, a mystery bit of script! Seems legit. Let's see what happens when we run it

Sure I have, but never on a networked machine.

Of course, if someone I know emailed me with a touching romantic executable message in the 90s, I guess I'd run that at work just to see what it was as well.

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

Another vote for Edge Lords from me.

Whoooooa, this node is on fire! Forget Ceph, try the forgotten OpenStack storage release 'Crispy'

Re: Back when OpenStack was launched with NASA, you literally ...

My uncle was permanently drunk from his early teens to his sad early end and still managed to fit in an unrealistically successful career in rocket science - software programming for ballistic missiles.

Ooh, my machine is SO much faster than yours... Oh, wait, that might be a bit of a problem...

Tired El Reg Subeditor: Suspect this ought to be in the Who, Me? category and not Data Centre...

Git365. Git for Teams. Quatermass and the Git Pit. GitHub simply won't do now Microsoft has it

Codeplex for Business?

Ubuntu wants to slurp PCs' vital statistics – even location – with new desktop installs

Me at work: Bloody European Union legislation making me change all my perfectly secure processes...

Me reading this: Choo choo mother forkers, all aboard the GDPR express to a brighter, opt-in only future

IBM's next turnaround tool is ... a new open-source font?

Ah, the Nokia approach to disaster management.

OMG, dad, you're so embarrassing! Are you P2P file sharing again?

Well colour me baffled that The Teens are going back to essentially home taping when P2P was/is such an efficient way of getting what you want, especially for rare and out of print records that The Man deems no longer suitable for public consumption.

This is entirely Googletube's fault.