Posts by s. pam

Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

Dear Alex, go **ck off

And go play with your DOGEy buddy Musk whilst you suck up King Orange Psychopath in Gilead!

UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything

Poor old Scunthorpe

Imagine the Ain't Intelligent AI jokes that could've come from placing it there! Epic fail by Stammer & Co yet again...

Social Security Administration admits it underreported DOGE dirty dealings

Nothing will come of this as long as King Orange Taco is in charge!

It is clear you can do basically any crime, of any severity and either receive no jail, or your sentence commuted by TACO if you just play up to him!

Hiring at India’s Big Four outsourcers stalls, as AI seemingly makes an impact

Does AI mean "Ain't Indian"?

Had it up to there with the "pig four" Indian outsourcing companies when I still worked, so hope the special plae in hell for them has room for their downfall!

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads

I'll give you 2,457 reasons why Zuk should be banned/pounded

2.457 is the current number of reports of scam/spam/fraudlent accounts &/or posts I've reported on Insta since last summer.

Not even ONE report has led to any poster being blocked/removed/!

I have now taken a different tact by reporting all £/drug/fake passport (& driving licenses) to the NCA on Insta in the hopes perhaps they'll do something, anything!

UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids

Pork, they need PORK

In a Liz Truss style brain failure, StammeringMron our worst-ever PM will instead flip waffles and pork burgers! He's so dimwitted that instead of doing the mindful and taking the hard decision of actually supporting this legislation he'll go with whatever his group think luvvies tell him to do! Which in the end will NOT protect out children, but instead protect the American tech companies as he's Trump's bitch.

NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits

No Problema, Freddy Kruger from accounts

Will just tax us more to dig them out of their IT hel^ahem hole!

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

So when Cloudflare of Snowflake fail

Just whom will stop thousands of planes falling out of the Cloud?

Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide

Time to rollout the excuse generator!

This handy tool should keep BOFHs busy forever: https://github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page

DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in

So easily solved

Just cancel all web appointments and replace with phone-in appointments only!

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

BBC & AI(ain't intelligent) are a perfect reason

For cancelling your TV License and ridding your home of their insanity! They've as much chance of unbaffling folks as hell not being on fire!

Perhaps they can get Nandy to mandate all benefits claimants must attend all the courses for a free license then!??!

Barely Believable Cretins are so desperate to waste our money it is a final attempt to justify their existance and a100% #EpicFail on their part..

Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life

Copilot of dearth

Anytime a MSFT update appears on ANY of our devices I have to turn the damn thing off again! At least with Clippy a once and done got rid of it.

There's some Ain't Intelligence in all of this crap added on that we don't need/want/will never use isn't there?

Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

E2E in England wouldn't be pretty at the weekend

If it is truly e2e it would record what you eat and what you release from your backdoor. Use AI (ain't intelligent) scanning to detect anal(onomies) and alert the human!

Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance

I couldn't give a.....tinker's damn!

Retiring from a 40yr career in tech earlier this year was one thing and then making sure I don't use social media means I'm 99% Cloudflare free!

Here's one way to cut support ticket volume… send them to another company entirely

Worked so well for M&S didn't it?

NOT -- Indian outsourcing firm dressed down and sent out the door as a result of outsourcing the helpLESS desk!

Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030

Perhaps they'll just fix the crappy intercity gaps?

Try driving the A4 between M'head and Reading -- good luck maintaining a call.

Same driving the A30 west of Exeter.

Or the A9 through the Pennines...

Our mobile telephony is so Kevin Bacon here!

Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down

Its Dove and Quail hunting season in Texas, and now Cable hunting season

Nothing says loving on your table like some cooked birds and a borked Internet connection!

UK Lords take aim at Ofcom's 'child-protection' upgrades to Online Safety Act

Nothing legistators enact will work

It's past a fools paradise when these so-called moral protectors delusionally think they can stop kids.

A couple years ago setup a Chromebook for grandson for his secondary school, and Mother Google saw his age and enacted protections. All that did was inflict countless arguments with him on why he couldn't install X, or Y, or Z. Once he turned 13, Mother Google removed all protections and the arguments ceased as he had unfettered access to everything.

Moral?

None of this crap the luddites try to turn into law works.

Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union

Screw the union!

WTAF?? They should be going after the deep pockets of their employer, and demanding payments from them alone! Why should I, a British taxpayer pay for their apparently piss poor IT security debacle when I don't get compo if my personal security is compromised??

So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc.

Now Print This: What a shit decision!

I can pop down to Skurvies in the UK and buy a decent printer/copier/fax for £50-£70 that will last for years. How the bloody hell many do they need to BLOW £900M on the damn things when almost every office in the last 10+ years seems to only have ONE per floor at best?

I guess you gotta keep the lazy shitforbrains train running eh?

France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies that led to crummy privacy

Smashing Shein and Temu...

Should be banned in the UK and EU just like in Gilead by the Orange Taco sycopant did! Their being blocked in Gilead has only increased their spamming & cookies rate here!

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply

Hope they put the screws to VMworst

I've spent some time in a past role in the licensing world and IMHO VMworst hasn't a leg to stand on from a legality perspective! Purchasing a "Perpetual License" is just that -- it is forever though it may have some expensive support tail they own the licenses full stop. Where it could get murky is any Amendments to the license agreement regarding future support but if the articles reference state VMworst has to support for X minimum years + any warranty Tesco have a helluva lot of to stand on here!

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

HaL 9000 told you so...

Look, LLMs are just another form of search engine, with rules based interpreters bolted on so nothing new here.

I'm sorry Dave but with all the environmental damage they're causing one would be correct in the opinion they Ain't Intelligent at all!

Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline

The BamBam Klub must be dancing

In the streets as this will only aid their decades long open warfare on the cursed devices. Don't forget if I recall correctly the inventor of the darn things is Dutch.

No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers

Bypass-paywalls-free is my best friend!

It and adbloc+ sanitise our browsing very successfully. Screw the newpapers and paywall gestapo!!!

Tata Consultancy enforces return-to-office mandate for all US staff, effective immediately

And if you don't return to work

There's a few billion others in India more than ready to take your job!

Post pandemic there is zero reason to have a 5 day in the office mandate, unless you're working a F2F client role as no one really cares where you are.

Except, of course, the facilities manager + finance manager!

Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns

Its not just support, it's M&S Support

Anyone there?

Anyone surprised?

Anyone care?

Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'

Orange Manbaby can do one

the US Trade courts have stricken down all his terrorifs, etc so looking forward to the crazy buffoon blowing his gasket today!

Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates

so glad i fscking retired this year

and no longer have to deal with crap like RTO, etc...

feel for all the marshmallows...not

Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America

Golden Dome, Golden Shower

The only difference is cost.

The latter is the total value of Gilead (was: USA) the president’s puppet master gets

The former is boll lox pure and simple as Reagan tried & failed with Star Wars

..

Ne’er will the Orange Manbaby get this built but his pals will laugh all the way to the bank!

Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization

Musky Doge approval imminent

Just like the inevitable explosion and crashing back to Earth's realities...

Space-X: where no one expects anything other than failure!

Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India

Glad Timbo sucked up to Trumpty

Seeing him sitting behind Trumpty Dumpty was so heartwarming and reassuring that all would be rosy for Cupertino...

Guess the Infinite Loop syndrome has come home and Timbo will have to prostate himself to get any relieve from Trumpty!

Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source

Gilead's DoD wouldn't know Open Source

If it stood over them and gave them a golden shower! Having been head of a company that made OSS products, anytime our sales 'roids got around US DoD it was a complete shitshow trying to deflect all the untruths and misconceptions their so-called experts had. Not that a single one of them had ever contributed to or worked with OSS beggared belief and if one asked them about compiling BIND or Sendmail they stared at you like a deer in the headlights.

No matter how many PIN tests, external vendor penetration tests we wasted hundreds of thousands on, their goons wouldn't accept.

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Department

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Dunces

Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England

another GIGO exercise

if NHS Bucks and NHS Berks are any example, even in this age they don't have electronic record sharing. so if you're lucky as a resident of either county when you have to take a ride in an ambulance to the other counties' hospitals your healthcare data will be INvisible to them.

if not when you're discharged you'll be handed 10-20 printed pages to be taken to your counties' GP who in turn will scan them and att them to your record.

utter

shit

show

of idiocy!

Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower

Don't forget BR 549 for a good deal from JR Samples!

Did she byte his hard disk

while he RAMmed her storage to capacity?

Sorry i'll get me coat!

Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency

Huh, Gilead is hiring?

I thought all they were doing was binning effective workers and keeping the ner'do'wells in their DOGEy games?

BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts

BOFH wins, H/R sent to the rubbish bin!

HR doesn't need any fancy tools -- they already have the human shredder which is the tool they use to scan CVs.

What they need are actual HUMANS, with a brain, compassion and caring for the good of the employee.

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Sigh, loks like I've not sniffed enough glue this week, again :(

Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race

Just join ABA -- Anything But American

Screw Trumpty Dumpty and those who voted for it and JD "Goebbels" Dunce by not purchasing American tat.

Job's a good one!

Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky

Why can’t they just paint the damn

Things flat matte black so I don’t keep seeing them reflecting in my telescope? Or is that solution so incredibly simple there’s some inane reason why not?

After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade

Fujitsu and Crapita must be foaming at the mouth...

Of the opportunity to get £1B of income and the neverending consulting from whatever clusterflock they create not if, but when, they win which they undoubtedly will!

DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI

Orange Manbaby approved???

Surely this’ll be cancelled as not interesting fake science news eh?

RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox

win for uBlock Origin + AdBlock Plus!

I don't do cookies, nor does my wife.

Not sure why people still allow them!

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

Re: Move MITRE & CVE to Europe

No way -- move it to Tuvalu! Given they're a cash economy it would also remove the bitcoin thieves as well as the meddlesome PeeYew and Gilead from tampering.

20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit

At least Dallas is safe!

I'm sure the boffins running DART (Dallas Area Rabid Transport) feel better seeing this news!

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

OneDrive to hell

at my last $dayjob before retiring they used it. regularly we lost access to folders, made backup copies of EVERYTHING and in the end discovered the only reliable network drive for Macs was to copy files into folders of, get ready for this -- Teams!

not well documented but Teams allows shared folders that live forever. who the fuck thought this was a better solution???

On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia

Re: Freebies

bypass-paywalls-free is your friend you didn't know you need!

Leave it to bLIAR the war criminal

Totally scandalous to favour others in other countries instead of his native homeland.

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

alt.clueless.eu.fucks.3D

if the Pee You thinks for a picosecond this will do anything to help, they need to be boltholed and sent to an abbotoir for immediate assistance!

System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy

Re: And a Little Bit Extra

At least, LIEbour will have someone else to blame vs the previous administration! #result