Posts by JpChen

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

At least Starbucks coffee is tax free in the UK, at least for the shareholders if not the customers.

There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial

The irony here is that Oracle didn’t see this coming,

We told Post Office about system problems at the highest level, Fujitsu tells Horizon Inquiry

Poor Vennels. “Devastated” she is. She should perhaps look up the meaning of the word:

Verb. Past tense: “having your life completely ruined by a bunch of incompetent arse covering bastards, just so that they can collect their substantial bonuses”

Big brands urged to pause Twitter ads until Elon's learned how this all works

Hopefully Musk will do for Twitter what Murdoch did for MySpace

Amazon to buy Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7b

I’ll stick with my Henry thank you very much.

Cloudflare, Akamai: Why we're not pulling out of Russia

Good money in DDOS protection at the moment. Would be interesting to see a list of customers that are being served

Jeff Bezos adds some more overheads to his $485m yacht by taking down historic bridge

Why would you build a boat that you can’t get out of the boatyard?

£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

I’m in the 6 figure camp - and I’ve bloody we’ll earned it too. Getting LinkedIn messages from uni recruiters for 35k to train the next generation is laughable. No wonder we have such a shortage that, well, helps me get 6 figures.

When product names go bad: Microsoft's Raymond Chen on the cringe behind WinCE

I’m sure the vixen thing was about the commodore VIC-20, not a game.

Whoa, someone actually texted you in 2020? Oh, nvm, it's just Boris Johnson, telling you to stay the f**k at home

Re: Didn't receive anything

On virgin too and my text arrived just now. Wish I'd known, been banging on the pub door all day

Samsung on fridge cert error: Someone tried to view 'unsavoury content' in middle of John Lewis

Re: Actually, its probably for any HTTPS site

Actually, these days it's more common for proxies to sniff the domain of the cert and block accordingly (Google peek and splice). This negates the need to man in the middle with intermediate certs.