Posts by Redact Ted

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

Those over time hours though...

Ah, the glorious schadenfreude of a p2 at the office that you would have been on call for if not for the fact your holiday started yesterday.

Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project

True commu-uh I mean Agile has never been tried...

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

Required for predictive personal AI assistant?

Not keen on the idea, obvs.

But I can see the only effective way for a predictive personal AI - as in an AI assistant that can truly anticipate what you want/like - is to understand you through revealed preferences.

It can't only rely on what you choose to tell it (either in the form of what you ask as that is too directed, or by nominating topics) 'cos humans spend a lot if time lying to themselves and curating an image of themselves that isn't necessarily going to result in a satisfying assistant. Aside from that even if we were willing to, we wouldn't have the time to give all the information and detail needed for the AI.

It's all the stuff around the outside of what you actively think of that is useful. Using the content of what you are doing every few seconds seems like a way to do this.

Like Google's ai trawling through emails and text messages to form auto responses etc.

(Yes obviously monetization, privacy, game performance, space requirements etc etc I don't like it, just an interesting thought experiment on how to make a useful personal ai).

Return to Office mandates boost company profits? Nope

Re: Just reduced my office time

Pretty much this - it's been long known and well studied how open plan offices are bad for work place efficacy and employee morale, however they are constantly used by companies. Which indicates that efficacy is not a key driver in their use. RTO mandates fall into the same category of manglement decision making.

Need to have office space to house the people; we've already paid to lease the office; people need to come into the office to justify the space.

Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?

Re: This is why I prefer unrestricted offline-capabilities

I, too, am enthused by GoG, and recommend them to anyone who asks.

However, have you made offline copies of all the installers for those 370 games & keep them updated?

Otherwise it's an illusion of control as GoG can just as easily stop providing access or even just go out of business and you'd be in the same boat as all those other DRM'd titles. Imagine the run on bandwidth if they announced they were going out of business...

Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200

Return of theatre for authenticity

The thought occurs that these kinds of studio shenanigans might generate a return to (local, in person) live action theatre as people seek for more authentic experience.

Similar to the increase of bands doing more concert tours due to not getting as much revenue from streaming compared to album sales.

Especially when you tie in things like the push for 'walkable' cities, live local, and reactions to the way gaming and social media has atomised the yoof making more in person activities necessary for society to get young people meeting one another again.

Of course, local/in person doesn't exactly scale well to make money from...

Let's take a look at those US Supreme Court decisions and how they will affect tech

Re: No such scenario occurred - really ?

This is another exercise of power; the power the customer thought they had to force people who hold opposing beliefs to do something they find distasteful.

"Activists" wanting to push/punish the "bigots" and/or gain notoriety by forcing those evil people on the "wrong side of history" to do something they don't want to do, probably aiming for tik tok or reddit fame.

Were it some kind of task requiring rare skills that have a major impact on their life (only neurosurgeon in the state or something) they might have a point, but webdev or bakers aren't precisely difficult to find...

I believe this was also a tactic used by some of the more militant new atheist movement back before it fractured, just top point out its been used by all sides of the culture wars.

The end of Microsoft-brand peripherals is only Surface deep

Re: I never loved them.

Aside from the ergonomics/ carpal tunnel aside, split keyboard was also a great way fo ensure people didn't use my desk when I was away.

Also a great way to find out if you truly are a touch typist - if you just relax, trust your fingers know where the keys are and don't think about it it just works.

Greatly agree with leaving the key layout alone too.

I'm happy paying Twitter eight bucks a month because price isn't the same as value

Re: keep paying the rent

Who pays for anything, especially tech based, in 15 year blocks? Most tech platforms expire after 5...

Not to mention as a journo it's a business expense.

IceWM reaches version 3 after a mere 25 years

Re: Impressive

+1 for Fluxbox, I keep trying others but always end up heading back as my daily driver.

Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop

Re: "the default Windows user all too often must run as the all-powerful PC administrator"

Interesting that a lot of barriers appear to be around the office apps; if the docs are relatively uncomplicated then the web based office versions are fairly robust and well featured now.

Obviously there are the considerations of o365 and M$ reading your docs but hows that much different from a windows environment and a local install anyway?

Having said that I prefer the actual apps and really havn't tried the browser versions for anything complicated from a linux desktop...

(Oblig windies at worl linux at home admission).

Yeah, we'll just take that first network handshake. What could possibly go wrong?

Re: The guiding principle

Ha, just had to work through "working as designed" by our vendor who decided to handle a shared 'null' opt in flag in opposite ways on two of their own products.

Their response? "Yes, it would have been nice if these had been implemented consistently."

Elon Musk's latest launch: An unsolicited Twitter takeover

Open source The Algorithm?

Interesting idea, let the advertisers figure out how to better game it.

Better yet would be the option to return to the simple time based wall.

JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort

Maintain it unit you can't/ don't want to then stop?

I mean, no one is holding a gun to your head. Make a final commit that says "thats it I'm done good luck" and move on with your life.

Let people fork it who have the energy/ resource to continue. If a big company forks it, maybe you can bargain your way into a job with them?

Being bitter about not being able to monetize isn't going to help, you should have thought a bit harder about that when you decided to go open. Lesson learned for next time.

(Terribly easy for ne to say such things when I'm unlikely to ever be in a similar position...).

Google to revive RSS support in Chrome for Android

Google Reader was a cut above

Was quite a blow when the goog pulled the cork on it.

Bit hard to monetise rss feeds though, ad's don't seem to make it through to the reader unless they are embedded. Which is generally why I use rss.

Though i do find it easy to get overwhelmed if I sub to too many or too active a site.

Using feedly now but never really been happy with it.