Posts by rskurat

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

law and business degrees - both are fields where you're made fun of for not knowing things, hence questions are discouraged

Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results

Re: In an ideal world ...

you'll need to get a special waiver from Facilities Management to install this non-standard person

NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning

cue see? what's that?

QC is always the 1st thing to be given up

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

news to no one except "journalists"

This was obvious years ago. Ongoing media failure - it's almost as if they have no intention of describing reality in the first place.

Security boss thought MFA would be too much security

Re: Not quite the same but...

defensively "offended" because of being called out. Happens all the time.

Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance

more comical stupidity

sorry, a "distinguished" engineer is not qualified to give an opinion on human nature. If they have real human-factor performance data, I'll listen, but these clowns are not entitled to an opinion.

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

Re: captcha tests?

and the browsers that hang/crash are simply left off the 'supported browsers' list with no attempt made to fix

Toys can tell us a lot about how tech will change our lives

wikipedia no substitute

Wikipedia is no substitute for a real, edited encyclopedia. It's riddled with typographical errors, repetitions, dead links, and grammatical errors that are just sloppy and careless. And a significant percentage of articles don't even follow their own rules regarding primary sources and unattributed assertions. There are some truly amazing, well-written pieces, particularly in the hard sciences and in maths, but history, literature, and politics are an amateurish joke.

Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux

Re: WHY????

FOMO is the best way to push fraud. Silly Valley has raised fraud to an art form.

Re: Novelty?

"don't blame us, blame the cosmic rays" for some obviously avoidable disaster

Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours

nothin bayesian about it

lotta gamblers out there these days; the problem is they don't know it. "Trust, but verify" seems like a good idea but I don't know if IT audits are really a thing anymore.

Re: Lost for words

well, lives or health might kinda-sorta matter, but if you really want action you have to risk money

Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings

TX

the oil business, whose 'culture' (such as it is) developed in texas, is a haven for liars & scammers. No one ever went broke selling buckets at a gold rush

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers

Buzzwords я Us

Vectorize? Glad to hear that Larry failed Physics

Former UK prime minister Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic

Re: Why?

the 'excitement' of getting invited to Davos. People who are easily impressed really get off on the Billionaires' Burning Man.

Re: Clearly being an MP is really only a part time job

Trainspotting?

Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast

Re: Oh really ?

except that they really do compare us to water coolers & printers. "First thing we do, let's kill all the MBAs"

Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'

Re: Killing AOSP

is there a list somewhere of unlocked rootable phones somewhere? That info isnt simple to locate

Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable

Re: Not to mention

more likely a previous Head if Radiology insisted that he be able to view all CTs from his desk and this was a way to do it.

And the then-current sysadmin complied maliciously. Senior MDs are not very bright. Or tactful.

Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

money train by any means necessary

"Switching to PQC is just a distraction from having to fix the actual hard problem" - just like 'AI' LLMs, substitute a useless but do-able project for a useful difficult goal, because that keeps the money rolling in from the substandard minds in VC.

Post Office and Fujitsu execs 'should have known' Horizon IT system was flawed

almost as bad as the US

Hopelessly corrupt third world failed state

Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork

yet another toy

"transporting blood samples or medicines through a hospital, or guiding patients around a hospital. It can also apparently educate patients about hygiene"

so basically useless. Transport to the lab is already covered by very fast pneumatic systems, and the pharmacy carts are already automated. Patients resent being instructed about hygiene, and the ones who need it won't listen. The only use case that makes sense here is guiding patients/visitors, since no one is capable of reading signs.

Frozen foods supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech

How do you know a CEO is lying?

. . . his lips are moving

organized and targeted retail crime is not out of control, and no doubt the 30 percent drop represents a reduction from three events to two events

Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo

remind me not to hang out with these people

"a recent survey of Waymo passengers found 70 percent preferred riding in an autonomous car over having to deal with a human driver"

indicating ~70% of waymo users are completely lacking in social skills. Many of those are completely lacking in humanity of any kind

Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant

language

glib butchery of the english language appears to be an absolute requirement for CEOs. No doubt matching VC ignorance

HP Inc. hastens China exit as tariffs kick a hole in its profits

pardon me?

what, pray tell, is an "AI PC"?

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

"Over the last couple of years, we've actually been removing labor from the stores, I think with the hope that equipment could offset the removal of the labor,"

"And I think what we're finding is that was just – that wasn't an accurate assumption with what played out."

What? What does this even mean? What are "that" and "that"? Sales? Can I get paid to talk gibberish?

Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market

"burdensome" by the regulator

heaven forbid companies being required to adhere to agreements & regulations, that wouldn't do at all. Such a burden!

unenforced regs everywhere you look

Glad to know I can do anything I want with folks' personal data and there will be no consequences

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

has been, long ago

Except for a brief period of neutrality ca. 1955-1985 the US legal system has always been captured by business

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Re: Beyond me

bribery does have a tendency to work

Re: Holidays

Stop being a d*ck? on Twitter???

Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account

melon melon melon

"To be fair to Musk, it is quite convoluted" - not really. Mr SuperGenius just doesn't know anything about computers

Dutch consumer groups sue Google over its entire business model

Re: Illness

It might be more effective to publish Google employees' search histories. Difficult to do at scale, but beautifully poetic justice

JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup

"enhance" our process. Simply for crimes against English they ought to be shot

Twitter launches probe after miscreants claim to have swiped 5.4m users' details

Re: Nothing romantic

the WSJ is a tabloid?

Confirmation dialog Groundhog Day: I click OK and it keeps coming back

impact

The illiterates use "impact" for both words now because they're, well, illiterate

Oracle, SAP suspend business in Russia amid invasion

seriously?

"KleptoCapture"?

How about Operation Boot In Your Nuts?

[Checks meeting agenda...] Where does it say 'Talk cr*p and waste everyone's time'?

wireless earbuds

When those things first came out I kept thinking "what incredibly ugly hearing aids they have"

A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly

Re: Black week season

Black Friday will always be a Steely Dan song to me . . .

Crypto for cryptographers! Infosec types revolt against use of ancient abbreviation by Bitcoin and NFT devotees

Re: But it is crypto

"specific narrow use of cryptography they're almost gaslighting the existence of the entire rest of the important field of cryptography"

not gaslighting; unaware of is more like it. Blockheads love blockchain

Oh! A surprise tour of the data centre! You shouldn't have. No, you really shouldn't have

Re: Regomiser requires an update!

and the truly woke call girls "dude"

not even halfway through . . .

. . . the comments and I've counted at least three David Brents

Fancy the ultimate no-Air-outside-bnb? NASA willing to rent out ISS for two weeks

Re: Catapults & beer...

I'm sure that no matter what sort of waivers they sign, the first time a billionaire is hurt on one of these flights the lawyers will be out in force

Facebook gardening group triumphs over slapdash Zuck censorbots

no sympathy

no doubt the group uses Fecesbook because of it's reach & demographic. But really, this is Fecesbook: incompetence is the norm.

Rude awakening for O2 customers after network runs surprise test of emergency mobile alert system

Artificial Ineptitude

I've got to remember that for future emails & tweets: "asterisk, asterisk, asterisk"

Train operator phlunks phishing test by teasing employees with non-existent COVID bonus

This isn't a crisis of PR, this is a crisis of employee stupidity. I think for the first time in my life I'm on the side of manglement.

Microsoft reveals what a growth mindset does to the letter ‘A’

I can't even

2023 tagline -

Marketing: Because Our Bonuses Depend On It

BOFH: Postman BOFH's Special Delivery Service

Re: Peace and quiet

<don't mention the war!>

'There was no one driving that vehicle': Texas cops suspect Autopilot involved after two men killed in Tesla crash

Re: "more of a super-cruise-control"

You can't argue with the marketing department; they have more pull with the C-suite and are too dumb to understand what you're objecting to.