Posts by TimMaher

Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous

Cary Grant

The reason that I bought some WayFarers was because of “North by North West”.

Great glasses.

Also had a pair of Aviators after watching “Apocalypse Now” (Col. Kilgore). ——->

I recommend reading Dispatches as well as Heart of Darkness.

Meantime… all the built in stuff is just “you are the product” crap.

AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming

Builder.ai?

Just asking.

Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about America's reach

Re: Bridges

What? Just some bloody bridges?

Where are the tulip bulbs I asked for?

UK 'extremely dependent' on US for space security

Blenheim Palace

Their golden dome got nicked.

Techies propose the Agent Name Service: It's like DNS but for AI agents

ANS. It’s always ANS.

That’s what’s coming next.

European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent

Re: Shrivel to nothing.

Well, that’s a benefit.

Foxconn chairman predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor

Lawnmower man

Didn’t he take over the phones anyway?

Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard

Re: Cake

Did it have a Nutella filling?

See above…

Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation

Some years ago…

… I worked alongside one of their mainframe teams at a customer business.

They were as crap as Crapita.

Who I have also had to work alongside.

TTG.——->

British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

Foyles

That was the dream bookshop.

Everything dotted about in no particular order. Students working there who were confused about everything.

Girlfriend of the days father once launched a publication there. Great lunch.

Absolutely fabulous.

Fortnum & Mason

At least they are still OK.

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

Re: Economic policy from the man who declared bankruptcy six times

Thanks for the list @Gary. I shall save it to a secure, air gapped, drive for future study.

Re: 'The world of an Englishman'

That was the empire upon which the sun never set.

I think you meant “word” @Eclectic.

Re: English colony

Just reminded me of Capt. Boycott.

Re: “brain and mouth”

What brain?

Icon is sarcasm.

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

Civil War

Brilliant film. I assume many vultures/commentards will have seen it.

Gets my vote for a suitable outcome in the Orange House.

Best available icon——->

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

Re: A/C

Ah but @Doc, might not be the original A/C.

Might even be a D/C.

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

Re: Defenestration

Did you see Private Eye withdrawing Russian made windows from Gnome Mart?

Apparently they had a dangerous design fault.

Re: Butler

Obviously.

Your butler would send a footman to get it.

Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances

In other news…

Mike Lindell, one of the liars prosecuted for saying the Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems were bent, at the previous election, has started crying in court because ha can’t pay the fine.

Arse wipe.

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

Re: Kitchen Aid

I recommend a Kenwood Chef.

PIRG's 'Electronic Waste Graveyard' lists 100+ gadgets dumped after support vanished

Re: Goblin

Fnaa, fnaa, fnaa!

Re: Yarr

OpenCore being a great example.

Yes, I have been a fanboi for a long time but my patience is running out.

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

Re: city centre

Yeah, but it is North End and London Road.

They’ll be nicked or broken in no time.

Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order

Re: page 94

Beer for that ——->

Troubled French outsourcer Atos finds pot of gold at the end of UK state bank Rainbow

Re: Where is all the money going?

Having worked alongside Atos a couple of times, I’d say it wasn’t going into getting competent staff.

Re: $612 million

Nice one @Pascal and don’t forget pricing it by Douglas Adams value:-

“Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.”

Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal

Re: Executive bonuses

Have a pint before the nap.——->

US stocks slip as Trump pulls trigger on Canada, Mexico, China tariffs

Flagellation

You forgot the icon——->

Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows

Re: Make America Go Away

Oi!

That’s my quote!

See yesterday’s post.

Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

Re: Amazon

Not AWS then?

US Cyber Command reportedly pauses cyberattacks on Russia

Re: Dump America

Make America Go Away. FTFY.

Three charged in Singapore with alleged link to illicit shipments of Nvidia GPUs to China

Re: Is Singapore the 51st US state?

No, no!

It’s Canada. Ask the citrus fruit.

Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time

DNS

It’s always DNS.

Payday from hell as several British banks report major outages

Re: The way of the future?

And you can’t also get some small metal things.

Very robust but not usually as valuable.

Bybit declares war on North Korea's Lazarus crime-ring to regain $1.5B stolen from wallet

Re: thumb drive

Depends. Is it still attached to your hand?

Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

Re: John Peel

I remember where I was when I heard he had died.

Malware variants that target operational tech systems are very rare – but 2 were found last year

The hunting of the snark.

They hacked it here, they hacked it there.

They threatened its life with a Fancy Bear.

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

Re: smoking elephant

That shouldn’t be allowed!

If the elephant wants a smoke it should go out into the street like everybody else.

Re: smuggled in from Europe on the beer labels

Hope it’s Belgian.

Anyway, “get you a case of beer for that one.”.——->

GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin

Wayland and VNC

Utter crap.

Lloyds Bank reviews tech and engineering personnel in reorg

Customer Journey Manager

WTF?

Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze

Re: Take a tip from a…

I’m going for “hairy old hippie”.

Right?

RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101

Re: Stevenage

Yeah… but have you tried the roundabouts?

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

Re: The Matrix

I’m going to make that phone call.

Re: The hunting of the snark.

… they threatened it’s life with a railway share.

UK, US, Oz blast holes in LockBit's bulletproof hosting provider Zservers

Re: “unable to open display”

Probably bloody Wayland.

SoftBank woos OpenAI with $40B, making Microsoft's $13B look quaint

Re: eating rats…

Discworld .

Rat-onna-stick. With a beer——>

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

Re: New social media limits government snooping

Which is why the, now privatised, Royal Mail is being destroyed.

And the price of stamps is going up.

Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts

Groundhog Day

Seemingly that is today.

Something to do with a Gobblers Knob apparently. Eucchhh!

Anyway, the orange thing may be intent on creating an economic Winter.