* Posts by Kev18999

44 publicly visible posts • joined 24 May 2019

Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson

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Many companies this year will be quietly quitting cloud due to the cost and realizing that the cost having your idle resources in the cloud is a big waste of money,

IT recruiter settles claims it snubbed American workers

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I suspect a disgruntle worker there reported this. This is been standard practice by many recruiters in their hiring description they would not post Green card or US citizens required. So it means the job is open to illegals.

VMware, Windows 11 shafted by Windows Server 2022

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Never upgrade to Microsoft's latest stuff until the other fools beta tests them, this includes all of Win22/11 stuff.

Norway finds a way to recover crypto North Korea pinched in Axie heist

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This is why blockchain should be used in all global financial systems so that a coalition of all countries can use it to trace and stop all forms of financial fraud. It's too easy to use bad actors around the globe to launder money but with the blockchain it will ledger all transactions past and future.

Arm still strong despite SoftBank loss as shipments pass a quarter of a trillion

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We the customers don't need to keep paying for marginal upgrades every year.

Qualcomm feels the squeeze because you don't want a new smartphone right now

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If they make phones with DIY upgradeable SOC sockets, I'm sure plenty of DIYers would buy a phone and upgrade the SOC every year. But handset makers wouldn't want to sell a phone that customers upgrade the SOC themselves.

Wind, solar power outstrip fossil fuel generation for EU

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It's easy to just use less fossil fuel when the sun is shining during the day. What's the EU production currently at night and how many battery farms are there to meet the night time use demand.

It turns out that Germany wa scrambling to burn coal when they no longer have cheap gas from Russian.

Renewables are cheaper than coal in all but one US location

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This is just another siphoning of tax money to the elite who push the false narrative about energy and climate change.

Microsoft to offer ChatGPT-as-a-service from Azure real soon now

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Microsoft destroys everything it monetizes in the consumer world. For IT, they could get them to pay but how much longer before Google offers a similar free model.

Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut

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As usual, CEOs waste money on acquisitions to enrich themselves through stock deals and bonuses then cut the workforce afterwards. That's the kind of stuff they do and blame it on slowing economy. They got billions which could've paid for the salaries for decades.

Chinese Tesla owners protest another round of price cuts

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Re: Catch Up Time

Imagine Skynet comes online and takes over Tesla and your car.

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Not sure if anyone has been around long enough to know that high iphone prices in the past was unsustainable. iPhone used to cost a lot more than today when there were shortages and high demand. As it hits a saturation point and with used devices available you could get iPhones at MSRP and used ones below. Now we're getting to that point there are lots of used Teslas and new Teslas are competing with other EVs.

Dell said to be planning purge of Chinese chips from products by 2024

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The whole point is to prevent China from cannibalizing the entire semi chip sector. China doesn't play with the economic rules.

TSMC’s CEO is not pleased with the growing US-China rift

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The true reason for US vs China rift is the US businesses want to block China from chip design and fab business. China will kill Intel and Qualcomm if it happens. TSMC knows how to play China so they know that it's a matter of time when China gains the tech and will soon be a player.

Chipmakers to spend $500b on 84 new fabs by 2024 despite shaky economy

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There is continuous demand based on backlogged demand.

Elon Musk starts poll with one question: Should I step down as head of Twitter?

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Twitter is just one company, millennials and GenZ have not suffered their first professional mass layoff rounds yet. Any company or society where you don't rule with the iron fist will get out of hand and quickly devolve into chaos. This is demonstrated in every democratic societies of past and present. The US is on the verge of devolving into chaos already.

Twitter dismantles its Trust and Safety Council moments before meeting

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Given how much free porn including pedo stuff was available on Twitter, the trust and safety group never did their jobs.

FTC wants to pause Microsoft's Activision Blizzard mega-takeover

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We need game companies to stay being game companies and not these big companies buy up the entire ecosystems. MS knows that their own dev studios suck and can't turn out quality games. They don't know nor cares about how to be like Nintendo. If nintendo was for sale then M$ would definitely pay the ransom. If Sony or MS swallowed up all of the game IPs there won't be any new quality games. There will be more DLCs.

When EA bought out Maxis for Sims. Look what happened, Sims 3 became this massive DLC money grab and Sim 4 is the same.

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

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Windows 11 the woes outweighs the benefits of the OS so far.

US chip war could hurt the West as Beijing moves to ramp up its own industry

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Re: Blame the victim

Ok, as an American. Who is more Imperialistic? China? Who has invaded more countries the last 100,50,20,even 5 years? The problem is whoever controls the media and the dominant superpower gets to write the narrative regardless what is fact.

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US bans China from participating in the International space station and now China is building their own and soon it will build a better space station because the US and it's allies have mismanaged and lagged behind in tech. Everything the US does to slow China does will lead to China building their own and surpassing the US.

Swiss bankers warn: Three quarters of retail Bitcoin investors are in the red

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The question is how many stock investors that put money in 2019 are still in the green, that's the beginning of the bull run. I would wager it's the same. Crypto and stocks are all risky asset classes that fall and rise reflect monetary policies and economic speculations.

Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech

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Asking the right question is harder than using Google then your platform isn't good enough.

Euro clouds lodge another complaint against Microsoft over anti-competitive licenses

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Like all MS products and services, they offer you basically free software then your IT mgr doesn't realize MS makes money on servers and services. You can have all the VDI on Azure for free but the real cost is on moving your data and infrastructure. MS will not give license discounts if you build your VDI on AWS or Google. It is basically luring customers over to their Cloud offerings by overcharging if you don't use their cloud services.

Amazon to spend $4.4b in India as it adds second AWS region

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Layoffs in Amazon US while moving jobs to India.

Musk tells of risk of Twitter bankruptcy as tweeters trash brands

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People said before, he came from software and has no business in hardware. And now you said he has no clue of software?

This shows how little you know about Musk, he co-founded Paypal and that's how he got his chops before selling to Ebay. He knows more about software development than you do.

Unlucky for some: Meta chops 13% of global workforce

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Nothing wrong with investing in metaverse, it could've been a huge tech if the pandemic extended 2 more years. As it benefits WFH situations. Companies need to take on new tech by betting big. A decade ago, everybody here was laughing at home much money Tesla was burning to make an EV.

China is likely stockpiling and deploying vulnerabilities, says Microsoft

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It's fud and diversionary doc to tell the world that China is to be blamed for all hacking and espionage information warfare when in fact. The US NSA is the worst offender. That's why the DOJ, NSA all wanted Eric Snowden and Manning to suffer so the secret that the NSA conducts the most hacking and surveillance around the world is discreet.

AMD says it's looking into gaming performance issues on Ryzen 7000

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Somehow these gaming performance doesn't exist on AMD consoles like PS5 and XboxX.

TSMC downgraded as analysts warn of worst slump in a decade

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It's fake news because chips are needed in almost everything today, it's not slowing. It's a return to normal market conditions. Last few years wasn't normal because of shutdowns caused labor and logistics problems now things opening back up the shortages will soon be lessened. Apple still need to make more than 10m iPhones every year and plenty of servers are still bought for datacenters. The only slowdown is caused by purchases when recession really happens then prices will fall.

Uncle Sam wants allies to join its anti-China chip crusade

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The US companies go to China and use their resources to build the products then blames Chinese for learning the tech and making it better? Isn't that what globalization is about?

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China has not invaded a single country since the 50s, why do we hate a country that is more peaceful than we are? We don't have to buy Chinese goods but we do and blame China for our own choices. We blame rich chinese people for buying up properties but the sellers benefited. Aren't we the champion of the free marketplace?

Did China made bad stuff we don't want? If so, why keep buying from them and not make stuff here? All these complaints are nothing but propaganda. If China is left without partners they will build without their own tech without international cooperation.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin: If Musk's Twitter flops, it's not such a bad thing

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Re: Fine them

What do you think of stock market then? Do you know how much energy is used just to push those numbers? What about all the banks? You know how much resources these banks use just to hold money?

Shareholders slam Zuckerberg's 'terrifying' $100b+ Metaverse experiment

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Just the elites looking to push for layoffs and kill the work from home practice.

UBS throws lot in with Microsoft, migrating 50% of apps to Azure

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I guess the big wigs didn't have a choice, too costly to keep on-prem services and cloud is supposed to be forward thinking. So they're just taking the plunge because it's costly being status quo so why not take the plunge.

Infosec still (mostly) a boys club

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Marketing, nursing, daycare, teaching, etc these are all jobs that are predominantly girls club, what's wrong with it?

Stand back, the FTC is here to police gig work

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I don't think gig work companies like Uber/Lyft is the problem, the main problem lies that these workers aren't taking jobs that offer employee benefits. The reason why so many help wanted ads because these gigworkers do not want to be tied down and be told set hours like employees. So you can't have regulations that make gigworkers into employees yet still offer the choice or freedom of contractor. That's a paradox.

The solution will be don't create these over-reaching regulations, let these gigworkers suffer. If they want a job with benefits, there are plenty of help wanted signs.

Self-driving tech startup values crash 81% in 2 years

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FSD is hard, all those Waymo cars still need a team of IT pros to monitor it and control it and Tesla is far from activating FSD beta for more people.

Intel server chip shortages continue to bite: HPE warns of Xeon processor supply drought for the whole of 2020

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You can blame companies that are set on Intel because of the rebate check and they are willing to wait as long as they know the check will be in the mail.

Amazon to ask court to block DoD's $10bn early Valentine's date with a Microsoft JEDI

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I was told as early as 2014 that AWS was gonna get the contract outright. There were people in bed with Amazon working for the Feds influencing the decision making without much transparency. If you ever worked at the Feds, nothing there ever makes sense. Their decision making process completely goes against most regulations for bribery. I know competing firms told me they were never given a chance to show their goods and services properly before getting shunned by Fed decision makers. While Trump obviously had an agenda but luckily it's on the right track as Azure makes more sense for the Fed.

Looming US immigration crackdown aims to weed out pre-crime of poverty. And that may be bad news for techie families

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Long overdue because our tax base is shrinking. Work participation is dropping and we need to increase productive workforce into the population. We cannot keep bringing freeloaders into the country. You look at all the coastal states, tons of people on welfare. Many illegals working cash jobs like construction and still getting free money from the local government. Tell liberals that if you wanna on-board more poor immigrants be prepared to have their income taxes hiked by another 10-15% and see how that works out.

Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10m in tech giant's own store credits, live life of luxury, Feds allege

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That's the maximum federal fine unless you defrauded the government then there's a different set of fine levied. He will be sued by Microsoft in a civil trial for much greater restitution.

Another disappointing quarter for Pure Storage as expanded sales team fails to close large deals

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Every big CIO at a major corp wants to cap storage costs and move them to the cloud. The big storage costs has always been user content such as home drive, emails, downloads, app data etc. With Office 365 + OneDrive, more company wants to move this bottom-less pit over to the cloud and storage freed. The biggest cost imo is the total cost of storage. Your SAN, NAS, backups, and extra redundant hardware. The cloud will wipe away majority of these running cost.

Headsup for those managing Windows 10 boxen: Microsoft has tweaked patching rules

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It's getting to the point where I've had it. My powerful home gaming PC fails to update multiple times. I downgraded to Windows 8.1 just to get higher hardware support than Windows 7. I finally had stable Windows updates and not get these updates that bricks my system from booting up requiring boot up repair with Win10. At work I get paid to manage system patches but I'm not risking my home PC to MS patch testing.