Friendly reminder that, “But you should have caught my crooked accounting!” is not a valid defense for said crooked accounting.
Posts by Ace2
874 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Mar 2021
70-knot winds so far blamed for yacht disaster that killed Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch
C-suite at Alphabet make B-A-N-K from 2024 equity awards
Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos
Fusion eggheads claim modeling fix for particle escape - at least in stellarators
DOGE worker's old creds found exposed in infostealer malware dumps

Re: Much as I'd love to dunk on a scummy DOGE bro
“If this guy has worked in the security world you would assume security testing is part of what he does.”
So many things wrong in this sentence…
These turds don’t ‘work’ in any normal sense of the word. They just know which narcissist knob to polish on the regular. And you know about ‘assume.’
OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release
Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds
Your graphics card's so fat, it's got its own gravity alert
Homeland Security boss says CISA has gone off the rails, vows to set it right
Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE
Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised
El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production
Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI
Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances
Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs
Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana
Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition


This is a true story…
I once held a Windows phone. It was the night my car broke down on the interstate, before I owned even a basic flip-phone. One of my passengers happened to have a Windows phone and handed it to me so I could call a tow truck. The call wouldn’t go through, though. He took it back and said, “Oh, sometimes I have to reboot it before I can make a call…”
System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy
Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan
Tech support session saved files, but probably ended a marriage
Mobile ad world drama: AppLovin not lovin' short seller assault claiming fraud
Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states
Capital One cracker could be sent back to prison after judges rule she got off too lightly
SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform
VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway
CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay

One thing that Musk has no conception of is the entire universe of things he doesn’t know. In this case, the relevant ignorance would be the history of the civil service: why we have it, why there is a civil service exam and civil service protections, and why it was such a huge improvement over the old spoils (‘patronage’) system.
We have one of the best, least corrupt bureaucracies in the whole world, and Mr Ketamine is trying to burn it down because he doesn’t even care to try to understand it.
We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it
Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom
Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery

We are rapidly approaching the point where the stock-market fluffing tech people (who should know better!) have engaged in is having real negative consequences. AI is a fraud, and you and I know it. When it was just about getting rich by duping investors it was harmless.
Now it’s making our streets unsafe (FSD and robocabs). Sounds like ATC and the VA healthcare system are next. This is madness.