* Posts by SickNick

9 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Nov 2021

Unit4 software's budget bungle leaves schools counting the cost

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Over the Horizon

At least they're not immediately blaming the schools involved and sending the Heads to prison for false accounting. Progress of sorts.

Irish cops data debacle exposes half a million motorist records

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"It is a huge pain in the ass to enter a password for each document..." - this is not the only alternative!

Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI urge judge to bin Copilot code rip-off case

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I don't see the problem

If I was asked a tech question, looked at multiple open-source GitHub repos, and then gave an answer based on my understanding of the code, this would not be copyright infringement (as long as I didn't simply copy-paste the code). So why is it different with "AI"?

Patients wrongly told they've got cancer in SMS snafu

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More money for the NHS?

More money rarely fixes incompetence

Microsoft boss Nadella's compensation pack swells 10% to $55m

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How much of Microsoft's significantly increased revenue is simply from people forgetting to turn off VMs on Azure? I personally have lost Billions!

No, I will not pay the bill. Why? Because we pay you to fix things, not break them

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It's still happening...office fibre went down, reported to BT. Two Openreach "engineers" arrived, tested the internal fibre and said nothing was wrong, we need to check the fibre outside...but we don't have the training to work outside. So a senior "engineer" appointment was made. I called back days later because I'd heard nothing, and apparently Openreach "engineers" were on strike - silly me for not knowing! Anyway three weeks later a competent technician arrived and fixed the problem with the fibre outside, and also fixed the problem with the fibre inside that had been caused by the two "engineers" when they came to test the fibre in the first place...

I got three months credit on my bill at least.

BT wins networking contract for UK nuclear site Sellafield

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Good job it's a 5 year contract - that seems to be BT's standard response time for any faults.

DBAs massively over-provision Oracle to protect themselves: Microsoft

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Microsoft points out ridiculous licence setups...

How ironic

.NET 6 LTS and VS 2022: Major releases spoilt by continuing concern about Microsoft's commitment to open source

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Forget concerns about open source, my main concern is that it's still massively buggy and they've changed some pretty fundamental aspects of the developer workflow.