Posts by I should coco

Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency

I read "How to make our rich people richer"

So far off into the misty blue, taking a page out of Musk/Ellis/Dell book.

Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay

Poor workers rights

Swiss tech workers are treated nearly the same as US workers. Fired without cause and little in the way of workers rights.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Expat would like to pay but can't

As a UK expat I would willing pay to have the BBC via iPlayer but this is not possible. I imagine there would be a tonne of revenue available if they opened this up to oversea's viewers.

SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites

Re: musk saves the world

...its spelt "jizz"

Re: It's not about Space, or Sentience...

I agree, its is zero to do with feasibility or practicality or indeed science.

Generate some interest, sell stocks, make him richer.

"Look into the eyes, don't look around there eyes, look into the eyes..."

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

Re: It's All Down To The Romans or What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

Isn't it written that we now have to do the parrot sketch?

Its dead...

UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card

Pretty fucking stupid, just how the ministers like it.

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

The "Enshitification" went wrong

As they tried to immediately extract the most money by enshitifying TikTok they must have broken something. Power outages do not cause erroneous posts or stop counters working. They were busy trawling the DB for "ways to make money"

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE

Re: Dumb move

I am guessing you are American proud to see your C Suite stocks getting higher?

It called "politics" in America

But its just about making rich people richer and cheering them on. There is no longer any "political" party in America that offers anything different from the other one. Just slanging matches, ensuring the rich get richer and making the real population pay for it all using smoke and mirrors.

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

There is an orange paedaphile dictator running the country in case you hadn't noticed? Extraordinary actions needed.

Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets

Cut jobs to maintain that margin

Don't worry, all the big OEMs margin & Wall St. will be safe, they will simply reduce operating costs to buffer the margin impact.

Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows

Re: An alternative method?

What's wrong with steam engines? You'll be saying the ploughshare will be taking go 'onest folks jobs next.

Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out

Its another way to generate income

Lets be honest, the only reason "Politics" in America is to make money for rich people. This biometric information will ultimately end up in the hands of a facewanx type company to utilise to make even more money from.

The two party pollical system is a joke, with the population pushed from pillar to post with no other option. Each party destroying the work done by the previous one, hopefully in less than 4 years.

There are barely any human rights any more, and do you think the next president will be any better than The Orange Paedo? Now the wanabes have seen what they can get away with and make themselves richer?!

I do pity good honest Americans but they are not doing anything to help themselves, they really need to stand up and do something.

Rant over

Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

In Dubai you are never not on a camera

Apart from if its your own house or most hotel rooms.

Leave the house/hotel room and you are on a camera. Every Brit LOVES Dubai no?

So whats the issue?

Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs

I suspect MSD is being forced into buying this to stop the tariffs on all his international operations.

...just as Dell is finalising all its technical support move to India.

Engineer turned a vape into a web server

Vape Cluster?

Sure the overhead of simply providing a cluster would kill it, but there might be enough CPU leftover and with a couple of thousand (1.3m per week) you could get a decent version of Doom for sure?

US tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours Blighty

For their own pocket no matter what

Anyone who agrees to a deal with the Orange Paedo is only doing it to fill their own pockets. There is naught guarantee of any of these deals happening based on O.P. history of doing whatever the fuck he wants so why would anyone who gives a dam about the populations future and wellbeing even get in the same room as the criminal?

What's in it for me and screw everyone else eg. the UK voters - Musk showed its fine to do this, and he did it because Paddington Unbearable showed the world you can do whatever the fuck you want without any repercussions.

Re: Hole

We really really hope he does peg it soon. The world would be a better place.

Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech

Re: The bloke's a twat

Don't forget to add deranged paedo too.

Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war

China are on the Moon

While Trump does everything he can to keep America in check.

Do you think China exclusively used USA designed HW to build their Space Station, the Mars Rovers, their Moon rovers? No FFS.

Good luck Trump, total prick.

Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog

Since the end of Aparthide the South African govenment has successfully been on a mission to keep the population uneducated. Many stories of budget cuts, truckloads of free books destined for schools dumped in landfill, cutting teachers wages etc. etc. and it worked. 75 million people and only about 0.3% have any formal education. Just take a look at the minister for Education and she is a prime example of what the system did.

If it can work for Zuma (shiny dickhead) it can work for the Orange dickhead.

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

Not buying anything from or via the US

Amazon, Netflix, KFC (my biggest personal loss) as well as any US fast food chain, I never bought Apple. But to be honest "Made in America" is not a label I have ever seen. Made in China for sure.

Not staying in American hotel chains, not using Air B&B, Uber, Justeats. Its a bit of a task but I am willing to put the effort in. He is such a (Orange)dickhead.

FYI Booking.com headquartered in the Netherlands, Spotify in Sweden, American content can be downloaded for free via BitTorrent.

EU may target US tech giants in tariff response

Skidmark across the pages of history...

I honestly believe you are correct. I think the Orange one just wants to go down in history as the biggest fuckup ever to run a country.

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

Another big tech upset they have to provide Service

Its all about Wall St. and nothing else these days. How dare consumers expect a Service they paid for. Merely giving HP/HPE all of your hard earned wonga should be privilege enough! Any big EVILL Corp (insert name of company here ____) are acting the same "lets all be like Elon 'cause he's great", now they have trounced their employees for more profits, they are intending to treat customers the same.

Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge

Untrustworthy

Having a supplier treat its staff so blatantly badly in the press and not really manage the PR fallout is a bit of a shocker. I for one will not be considering any Dell HW for our enterprise as I can guarantee that the people at Dell building it/deploying it will not have a vested interest, possibly the opposite.

Speaking to peers in the group and the attitude is one of reciprocation.

US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

"... or how much is being lost due to fraud and corruption." Rewrite that as to say "...to make sure the fraud and corruption is going to him and his loved ones..."

Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?

Re: Prisoner's Dilemma!

Or the funeral of the Orange one?!

The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now

Re: Money dear boy

What is this thing "MacBook" you speak of?

Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google

You and all references to your family will now be summarily removed from all MS platforms and you will be executed!

Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision

Been here before

Struggling to shift tin? What you need is a rebrand.

Talking about HW 40 years ago? Move into the 21 Century and stop living on past glory.

Innovation is not putting a GPU into a Server.

Vodafone and Three permitted to tie the knot – if they promise to behave

In the last three years...

Nothing has improved.

You're buying fat new servers to save energy and make room for AI hardware, claims Dell

Profit from reduced operating costs

If you fire 100k+ people thats quite a chunk of expenses you can switch to operating profit.

Equinix to close its 'Metal' IaaS offering in 2026

I see Broadcom on the Horizon

So Broadcom will buy Equinix and force all residents onto VMware - Win Won

Europe glances Russia's way after Baltic Sea data cables severed

Re: Why would they bother?

I suspect Russia's dirty hand in revenge for some spy-type thing thats happened so a bit of for tat...

The NPU: Neural processing unit or needless pricey upsell?

Re: You forgot the evil empire...

So?

Gang of monkeys escape South Carolina biomedical research facility

Plague Dogs

Or is this too speciest?

Skyscraper-high sewage plume erupts in Moscow

Johnny Fartpants

Too many pickled eggs, Poprocks, borsht.

Quack

Honk

Parp

Google Cloud burst by 12-hour power outage in German region

99.99 errr NEIN!

What happened to Cloud being always there persistent and available? One little power failure in one part of the building and services are unavailable, massive design failure.

Not so much about availability more offering the minimum infrastructure to maximise every penny of profit.

Another great advert for data repatriation into your own DC.

Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion

Wordpress

Have you checked out their website? Does not instill me with confidence as it would not look out of place on a Windows 95 PC.

Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week

How can large companies engender trust when they behave like playground bullies

When its becoming the norm for large orgs like Dell etc. to treat employees like fodder, surely it will backfire at some point. I would not want to purchase anything from companies who treat people with such little regard.

Hiding finacial mistakes behind "strategy" comments, alternating versions of "the future" (which often contradict) and playing follow the leader, to me signifies a lack of foresight, tallent or skill in the Exec teams.

Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday

Re: "if they want to keep their tax breaks"

I'd rather ensure that money goes to local business where I live. A lot of offices are in office parks where EVERYONE has to commute, even the Barista!

No excuse MD, you saw an op to save tax and get rid of staff knowing full well this will hit the bottom line for a period.

UK government hurt by delays in legacy tech upgrades, skills shortages

Re: 'twas ever thus

A life of laid back effort, and to quote Douglas Adams "I like deadlines, I love the sound they make as they go wooshing past". Thats why you work for HMG

British Airways, Boots, BBC payroll data stolen in MOVEit supply-chain attack

Ah! You see, Moveit offer additional layers of security, support, helpdesk and errr... oh. No they don't.

Telco giant Vodafone to cut 11,000 staff as part of its turnaround plan

The writing is on the wall

VF were recently informed by some of their HW suppliers that (as I work for one of them) we do not want to continue to do business with you as it is unsustainable.

They put out RFPs for kit where you end up barely making a $ and then they change their mind half way through the contract to renegotiate prices down.

Working with VF UK is a joke, eveyone has their own agenda and everyone is more important than the other. In VF Italy, Spain, New Zeland VF are a completely different animal and are a joy to work with.

What is happening to VF is all the fault of their management. I see other CSP/T1 suppliers doing well in the current climate, but not ever VF.

Royal Mail, cops probe 'cyber incident' that's knackered international mail

Re: Be thankful ….

"with a much higher success rate." Well comparing anything to the S.A. Postal Service, you are going to get a much higher success rate. The S.A. Post is a complete waste of time, anything I have ever posted there, or indeed posted when I am there has never, ever, arrived; without fail

Ironically the SA postal service should be called "TakeALot" Because that's what they do. They take everything.

Its almost a charity, "Oooh I feel charitable this year so I will send toys to an orphanage" which is basically saying I will give the nice people who work at the post office some old toys.

Even innocent letters get opened just in case there is bank account information, or heaven forbid, actual money in them.

If the SA postal Service got hit by a cyber attack, nobody would notice.

#rantover

Uncle Sam OKs vaccine that protects honeybees against hive-destroying bacterium

Big Farm-a

How much is the life of a bee worth to you? How much are you willing to pay, $1m per bee?

Or is this not big pharma?

BBC is still struggling with the digital switch, says watchdog

13 Quid a month for the BBC, if only everyone could have it

Compared to 90% of Netflix shite for a tenner 13 quid for the BBC is a bargain and I would happily pay that if I could have it. I do not live in the UK.

Apple 'created decoy labor group' to derail unionization

Its personal

Apple has so much net worth that paying fair wages, offering decent health packages, proper time off etc. would not hurt them one bit and they know it. For the big cheeses its personal, how dare you ask to be treated fairly when no other employee in the US gets treated fairly, how dare you expect reasonable treatment. Know your place minions