Re: common user settings architecture
RFCs are more like the Bible then a standard. Too many competing religious interpretations. Don't get me started on SQL joins.
Posts by TheBruce
77 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Mar 2022
The tiny tech tribe who could change the world tomorrow but won't
You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it
Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls
China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers
Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack
Thursday 5th June 2025 14:09 GMT
Re: Zelenskyy sure seems to hold a lot of cards
British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read - London Daily
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor
70-knot winds so far blamed for yacht disaster that killed Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch
There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial
AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that
Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you
SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship
Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect
DeepSeek or DeepFake? Our vultures circle China's hottest AI
DeepSeek limits new accounts amid cyberattack
What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This...
US Treasury Department outs the blast radius of BeyondTrust's key leak
Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous
Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional
Hide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI
Personalized pop-up was funny for about a second, until it felt like stalking
FTC sues five AI outfits – and one case in particular raises questions
Forget the Kia Boyz: Crooks could hijack your car with just a smartphone
SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience
I don't know what pressing Delete will do, but it seems safe enough!
Thanks, Edward Snowden: You propelled China to quantum networking leadership
Plane tracker app FlightAware admits user data exposed for years
Georgia's voter portal gets a crash course in client versus backend input validation
Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC website that weirdly tried and failed to help register people to vote
How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash
CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made
Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project
Wednesday 17th July 2024 13:01 GMT
Re: The more process you have the less agile you are.
The problem is the people paying thinks it trivial. Its like they take you up in a plane and hand you all the materials they think you need to design and implement a new parachute. You are half into the flight and have a few prototypes and ideas when management comes in and bundles it all up and toss it and the team out of the plane. Yelling you have until you hit the ground to work out the bugs.
CISA director: US is 'not afraid' to shout about Big Tech's security failings
Monday 1st July 2024 12:59 GMT
Atlas Shrugged
I blame Reagan and COTS. I was there when we moved from pretty good engineered products to massed produced just get it to market shitty products. I was on one.NATO project where the COTS keyboards had were rebuilt to meet shielding requirements. Needed three of the fuckers per desktop to have one that was working.
AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload
Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm'
AI red-teaming tools helped X-Force break into a major tech manufacturer 'in 8 hours'
Tesla devotee tests Cybertruck safety with his own finger – and fails
Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes
UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition
Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful
Feds probe alleged classified US govt data theft and leak
Five Eyes tell critical infra orgs: Take these actions now to protect against China's Volt Typhoon
Wednesday 20th March 2024 12:04 GMT
Re: A bit late?
Having worked in IT for a few decades and the last decade in cybersecurity. The main issue is lack of talent and budget. A big issue that I've seen is HR doing the hiring and being utterly incapable of identifying capable qualified staff. Also unqualified management that keeps buying promises and nothing usefull being delivered. My emploer hired a highly recommended person as CIO who forced Gurucul on us. What do you know they were on the Gurucul board of directors. It was a complete waste of money and never worked.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
