Posts by ITMA

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

Re: Bollocks. Utter bollocks

CoPilot according to reports. Which definitely is being rammed into everything and shoved to the front.

Re: Bollocks. Utter bollocks

"No, it's because people use it.

You or I may not, but 'asking ChatGPT' is for many people the new googling."

I suspect they use it, as I've found with colleagues, beause it is there and being pushed to the front. People being people, will often use what tool it closest to hand - or perhaps more accurately (I fear) put closest to hand.

"But if I ask ChatGPT a question I still have to check it's not just making stuff up"

Sadly, I also suspect many don't do such checking - because using the likes and ChatGPT (or the alternatives) involves less effort.

Bollocks. Utter bollocks

"AI is spectacularly successful in terms of user numbers"

Only because it is being rammed down everyone's throat at every opportunity whether they want it or not.

Windows Backup adds second-chance restore at sign-in

Re: Out Of Box Experience?

Not so much "Out Of Box Experience" as "Out of Colostomy Bag Experience"

Re: "second-chance restore at sign-in"

Maybe.... But is extremely good at getting people's backs up by doing incredibly stupid things that people don't want and didn't ask for.

Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors

Re: A chatbot with a container is a happy efficient chatbot

The only "good" chatbot is a dead chatbot.... Which has been erased for all time with NO backup...

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

Re: How about a Waffle!

You are forgetting the flexible magnetic seals.

Plus, personally, I've found SMEG products to be all "front" - i.e. all style/image with poor reliability. More smegma than SMEG.

Re: How about a Waffle!

Man: Fridge, give me a waffle....

Fridge: Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there lived a princess......

Time passes....

3 days 23 hours later....

Fridge: And they all lived happily ever after. The End.

Man: AAAGGGHHH Just open the fucking door and give me some fucking food you stupid fridge! I'm starving!

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go

Re: 'personalised call deflection'

Reminds me of ye olde days of Job Centres and (as it was then) the DHSS.

Job Centres were universally known as "The Joke Shop" because most of the "job cards" on display were, well, jokes.

And the DHSS was the "Fun Factory" for all the fun and games that you experienced when having to visit them to sort out a benefit claim.

Claude devs complain about surprise usage limits, Anthropic blames expiring bonus

"I’m not an expert and I’m just talking out of my arse here"

I see you have a bright future in senior manglement.... :)

You'll go far...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

Re: Treating an AI as having a mind for us to have a "Theory of Mind" about is NOT the way to go.

Sounds just like career politicians.... :)

Move beyond "AI Slopt"

Sorry Satya Nadella,. but you really are full of shit.

You are bricking it because of the obscene amounts of money you've squandered on this garbage and the people you are expecting to pay to use it - customers - are telling you "NO! It is shite and we don't want it".

How Microsoft gave customers what they wanted: An audience with Bill Gates

It can.

However, there is one potential flaw with this approach.

It assumes the CEO gives a flying ***k about customers and what they think.

With Microsoft, I think the answer to that is a massive NO.

Banksy's Limitless limited by Windows Activation

Re: Are you sure?

I do like the link to Pestcontroloffice.com where, at the bottom of the page, is has:

"LEGAL WORDS THAT HAVE TO APPEAR AT THE BOTTOM OF A WEBSITE"

LOL!

Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed

Re: WAN speed anyone?

"Wifi has stopped being a bottleneck to the internet for many people"

But for a great many others, their complaint of "the internet is playing up" is actually crap WiFi.

Doesn't matter how great the theoretical speed WiFi can deliver, situations where you have 30+ other WiFi access points in relatively close proximity (not uncommon in blocks of flats etc) can absolutely cripple it.

WiFi fixes one and only one problem - not being able to use a cable. If you can use a cable, do so.

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

To quote from "Yes Minister"....

"Never believe anything until it's been officially denied"

So it MUST be true!

Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug

Re: This carlessness is normal.

Maybe the OSNA "Oh Shit! Not Again!" channel.

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

"But they do exist, they are very popular"

I accept the first part, but I'd like sources to back up the second part. Just because manufacturers make them doesn't mean people buy them. And if manufactureres stuff those features into all their products, wanted or not, just because those products sell doesn't mean they sell because of those features.

That's like the false argument Microshite make with CoPilot and its othe A.I. shite - ram it into everything then claim people want it because it is on everyone's PCs.

Re: Too many edge cases...

Not to mention rugs, cables, furniture....

Re: I'm not lazy,

Likewise.

Second time I've came across this this week. I wonder if it blocking via geolocation? But can't be arsed to say so.

The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years

Re: 8” floppies

Vector Graphic CP/M machines used 5 1/4" floppies with hard sectors

Re: porn collection

"You think that 5 inches is almost sufficient?"

Maybe... If it is 5 inches.... From the ground....

Re: Re ..lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

Not to mention the issue of "floppy rot".

UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband

Not just flat "owners"

The landlord of the flat I rent - in a purpose built block with 30+ flats - has been asked about this before.

I even received an letter from BT Openreach asking who was the landlord etc so they could enquire about access. So I put the two in contact back in October 2024. Since then I've heard nothing from either and neither are responding to emails on the subject.

Oddly, the building itself is in two halfs - purely socal housing on one side and purely private on other (under a seperate management company). According to the initial follow up emails I had from the BT Openreach guy, the private side already has full fibre.

However, it gets more complex than that as the "responsibilities" for the two halves are not clear cut.

Personally I'd rather have a fibre provider that can give better than BT's very asymetric speeds.

Ofcom comes knocking after BT, Three mobile outages cut 999 access

Re: Bollocks

I'm sure OpenReach et al are quaking in their boots at the prospect of being fined by OFCOM.

More likely, it feels - to quote Dennis Healey - "like being savaged by a dead sheep".

Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program

I claim!

I claim a bug payout from Microsoft for the entire of Windows 11.

It is one massive shit storm of bugs.

Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life

Agreed????

Researchers said: "These patterns paint a picture of rapid and deep social integration. Users have tacitly agreed to weave AI into the fabric of their daily existence, turning to it for code reviews at 10 am and existential clarity at 2 am."

"Tacitly agreed" - is that the new way of saying forcibly rammed down our f***king throats at every opportunity.

Reminds me of those scenes in Zero Dark Thirty of a detainee being force fed.

And as for:

"seeping into everyday life"

That's what terminal cancer does.

Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?

Re: "Liars, cranks, and con artists have always been with us."

We try and keep most of ours in one place - called Westminster.

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

What !?!?!

"I don't think it's a good idea to look at the past as an indicator of what might happen in the future"

Erm.... Is that not what a lot of A.I. is supposed to do?

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Re: Redefinition of airliners

You'd be surprised which airports not in Manchester are owned by MAG (Manchester Airport Group) such as Stansted.

Redefinition of airliners

Flying used to be fun.

Now it has become a depressingly frustrating and often unpleasent experience - yes I'm looking at you Manchester Airport Group and Ryan Air (and the like).

To rationalise that, I started thinking of commercial airliners not as aircraft, but busses with wings.

I think a new definition is in order - flying microwave ovens....

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

Oh no you haven't ;)

Why has nobody (that I've seen) mentiond Cambridge Ring?

Oh, and there is Peter's post right under my post LOL

Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks

Re: Oldest joke in the world ...

Out of the soup, into the KFC :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p54SJB9MVT8

Trump wants to turn it on again with 'Genesis Mission' for AI in science

Re: Trump IQ versus AI IQ?

"Apparently he got very close"

That's what Neville Chamberlain thought with his "and here is the paper which bears his name upon it, as well as mine" when he returned from Munich after seeing Hitler. He thought he'd brought peace.

That worked out well.... NOT.

HPE scores $931M contract to make DoD’s cloud migration a little less public

DoD?

Didn't the orange buffoon and Hesgeth rename it DoW - the Department of War?

Speaks volumes for their future intentions me thinks....

Get ready for 2026, the year of AI-aided ransomware

AI-Aided Ransomware?

Isn't that just rapidly becoming another name for Windows 11?

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Re: Have we been here before?

I think the term for it was vapourware....

Have we been here before?

Who remembers the launch of software called "The Last One".

Trumpeted as "the last software you'll ever need to buy"... Or something like that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

Re: He doesn't get it....

Probably - because CoPilot told him so.... LOL

He doesn't get it....

If Mustafa Suleyman really finds AI cynicism "mind-blowing", the bloke really needs to get out into the real world more.

Talk to real users.

I think he may find their frank views on having AI rammed into everything rather more than mind-blowing. More like utterly dejecting and shocking when he hears many just don't give a flying f*ck about AI and want it gone and dead.

Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance

With Windows 11 it is more like "flagging-ship"

Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia

Re: So the Australian government are promoting e-waste and forcing updates...

How dare they!

Who do they think they are, Microsoft?

Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says

Re: Commander in Chief

How does that phrase go? Oh yes....

It's a strange ship that leaks from the TOP.

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Re: Insulting half of humanity

This one:

https://travsd.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/happy-birthday-janey-godley-and-may-you-rest-in-peace/

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e078c63150b31bd8f4ad0986205ff8d5-lq

:)

What's next?

"I've read that his record-shattering deal had the stockholders up on their feet dancing, chanting his name, and applauding"

We have a term for groups which exhibit such behaviour at meetings - a cult.

And an almost identically spelt word for people who think they are worth that much.... :)

Microsoft teases agents that become ‘independent users within the workforce’

Re: Automate HR....

"their human resources, what an evil way of describing people"

Reminds me of the description used in the Chernobyl drama for the "robots" used to clear away the highly radio-active debris on the roofs of the reactor buildings when it had destroyed the lunar robots and the German robot:

Bio-robots.

aka People. Disposable people.

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

Microsoft's QC

To mangle a quote from the film "The Legend of Hell House" where Florence Tanner is supposed to be possessed by a haunting spirit.

"Who the hell do you think you (Microsoft QC) are, you bastard? You might have been hot stuff when you were fifteen, but now you're shit!

'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

Re: Hahahaha

They keep turning on Spotlight and their "interesting info" shite on the lock screen. Wankers.

UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support

Is that with the man with red flag in front?