Posts by IGotOut

US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians

Re: The worst part is

But how do they know if they're in disguise?

DOGE bites taxman

Well Durr...

...if the computers are broken, it's harder to investigate the rich for dodgy tax dealing, often working with arms dealers living on an island with a bunch of trafficked teenagers.

UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

"You get the thing taken down first, THEN track down the poster with the cooperation of the platform/ISP."

And if the person is using a VPN, or is based in another country where it isn't a crime?

It's called reality

Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases

Re: If some genius hadn't decided that all cars had to be connected

. It might be traffic alerts, accident monitoring, tracking a loved one (one hopes with their permission), music streaming....

All of which can be done with my 5 year android phone connected to my 10 year old Hyundai.

"or a work (fleet) vehicle with telematics"

Because that hasn't been around for almost 2 decades now.

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

Re: Why?

"Most emails are only a few lines long anyway"

Once you remove the 10,000 word footers when it's the reply, to a reply, from a forward, copied in via a cc to a reply to....

Notepad++ declares hardened update process 'effectively unexploitable'

So why not send him a few thousand quid so he can pay for thing like certs and robust testing?

Money, mouth and all that.

Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle

Re: *tox

You can have any protocol you want, but if there isn't the software you need using it, it's irrelevant.

CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

Oh dear...

"CIOs are worried their careers are on the line if the tech's effectiveness falls short of expectations."

Oh dear, what a shame. Time to update that vomit inducing LinkedIn profile....maybe switch back to Quantum Thought Leader again?

MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

Re: "...Time and again, leaders have looked the other way....."

Before you slag off the UK arms procurement to much, you may want to go and check out some of the kit supplied by the UK to Ukraine. Some of it didn't exist 2 years ago and now in action.

I recommend Wes O'Donnels account on YouTube.

Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch

Throw in the fact...

CEX offer a longer "warranty" than brand new, why buy new?

The last thing I bought was a 2012 Mac Mini, 5 year warranty. I just added a SSD and changed the spinning rust to a data drive, and it's absolutely fine for my needs.

X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load

Maybe its a test.

...to see how the world would be devastated by Twitter going down. The reason for the silence is Man Child is upset no one cared and he wants to pretend it never happened.

AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds

Came to say the same thing.

Although I read an internal email from our....not sure what they do....some marketing stuff I think...and boy, within 10 seconds I'd gone "This was created by ChatGPT, because no one actually talks or writes like that.

Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely

Threads?

Oh I remember that. It's a post apocalyptic TV movie, about the collapse of society in Britain, while those in charge desperately try to cling onto power.

Sounds pretty apt

(BTW, bloody good film for 1984 if you get chance to see it)

GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

@john

Chill dude. I'm pretty sure it's a joke and if you don't get at least one downvote, it means no one's reading your posts

Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave

Re: Let's count the red flags

Or....

Line didn't go up.

Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter

Closer to 100 to 150?

Not according to Microsoft.

Working at a datacenter

How many people will work at the datacenter?

Microsoft datacenters represent a capital-intensive investment and long-term commitment to the community. Typically, when the first building is operational, we hire about 50 full-time employees and vendors. As we build out the subsequent buildings, additional staff is hired and generally we employ 50 full time and vendors per building.

And MS DC's are way, way bigger than this one.

More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

Bind to a different address?

You think 99.999% of people using this actual know how to do that?

AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble

Nice...

the good news is that a typo a teeny bit to the right and some bot is going to order you a nice new fridge, rather than fetch the code you want.

Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters

Oh dear

$3.6 million pay off for a couple of years work aligned with falling revenue.

Not sure how they will cope, poor lil thing.

I must fail at my job harder.

Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates

Would it be easier...

...to report when MicroSlop has a full days uptime?

Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development

Re: This is actually sensible and useful

That's why they were careful to use ML rather than AI. They don't want to be associated with slop.

UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat

"Personally I would stop paying to house illegal immigrants in hotels,"

Yes because all our problems are because of immigrants, otherwise we'd happily spend 10x the budget on IT fuck ups keeping billionaires in yachts.

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

Re: OR

They probably do have those people, just like games Devs want to make a brilliant gaming experience.

The issue is not the software people, it's the board room no having a fucking clue about anything other than "Line must go up"

AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking

Re: H264 is 22 years old

You may want to check...

Sorry to shit in your sandwich, but which revision are you using?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Versions

Lego shrinks NASA's biggest rocket – accuracy sold separately

Re: Let's not forget..

I'll take your LEGO and Sticklebrick and raise you Barbie Hair clips.....that's after you've spent an hour undoing the 200 cable ties holding that bastard love child of a Nazi fever dream.

Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft

Sigh...

...the cost of training etc etc....

Like the constant renaming and moving of MS components? The constant "upgrades" to Office? The dogshit consistency of On Prem Office Vs Cloud Office?

With the likes of Linux and Libre office, you "train" once and that's good for a decade or so.

Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes

The best bit of this?

That an MS employee posted it on Bluesky rather than it's own dog food LinkedIn. Then again, he doesn't sound like the type to describe themself as a Thought Leader or AI Guru.

DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day

I'll beat that

Cancel at least one meeting a week.

There you go, same time back, zero cost.

Heck, you may be able to lose several thousand pointless management types in the process.

Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows

Oh come on....

...you dont think they will add AI to this?

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP

Re: And yet when I pointed this out in 2005

Oh your THAT ac, thought you were the other one.

'Lethal' and 'magical' Palantir tech is in demand by Pentagon, China, Middle East, CEO says

Fucking genius

"and you see lack of adoption in Canada, Northern Europe, and in Europe in general,”

Wow, I wonder why that is?

Firefox makes AI optional, like it probably should have been all along

Re: Not good enough

"Same with DDG, who I've been trying to replace as my primary search engine, but haven't yet found one that I like"

Startpage.

Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

Remind me...

....which Tech companies using this have record stock prices?

Oh yeah all of the greedy parasitic scumbags.

Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

Rich and white.

Do keep up

X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops

Re: Hang on, what happened to the paperless office (© 1980) ????

Not very bright are you!

Sigh..

"Parquet de Paris also confirmed it will close its social media account on X, and anyone wishing to follow its updates can do so instead via LinkedIn or Instagram."

Sigh......how about something not requiring a data harvesting account with a US megacorp?

Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services

Is MS365...

...the amount of outages it has?

British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases

Re: Airports too?

Go back, read article.

Patch Tuesday meets Groundhog Day as Windows hibernation bug returns

Forcing a power down by holding the button is far from ideal.

Do you shares in MS? Just wondering why you're effectively supporting their fuck up.

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Re: Makes you wonder ...

You can get a double decker bus to do it quite easily.

If you know, you know.

Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules

Hey guys....

Would you like an opportunity to build an Nuclear restore with lower safety standards?

Would you like data centres taking away you water supplies?

Did you miss out on 3 Mile Island?

Well now's your chance to grab some cash and kill your residents long after you've retired to a Führer Bunker, Sorry, I meant a X-Bunker.

Just sign on the dotted line!

Re: nuclear safety directives

"Who's in charge of rewriting these at the DOE?"

Grok

Tesla revenue falls for first time as Musk bets big on robots and autonomy

Re: Oh dear

"Getting 10 million subscriptions to Tesla's Full Self-Driving feature"

Well he's removing the most basic items such as Lane Assist, found in cars a 1/3 the price and putting it in the new subscription model.

I genuinely can't see any reason to buy a Tesla these days, other than maybe the charging network.

Microsoft plans more server farms, despite water worries

Look at the billions of "Investment"

Yes all that money will be spent locally, for the good of the local community!

What's that Skippy? The vast majority of that money will actually go into the pockets of billion Dollar Tech Companies? Tell me that's not true!

Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses

Re: Only in testing huh?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/application-security/application-control/administrator-protection/?tabs=intune

Administrator protection can be enabled through several methods:

Microsoft Intune Settings Catalog (Preview)

CSP

Group policy

Windows Security Settings (Preview)

So it's not for general public use.

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative

Re: 100% sovereign.

So Teams is compatible with Facetime?

Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan

Re: This brings up the awkward question of when the next mission might be launched

"How are the Chinese going to get there if they don't have a mission to copy?"

Remind me who they copied for Chang'e 4 &6?

US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day

Wait until Oracle...

...start charging users $1000 per core on their mobiles.

EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images

Re: I'm curious...

Don't know, go and ask all the other AI companies how they manage it.