* Posts by ecofeco

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We've got plenty of AI now but who asked for it? El Reg's vultures chime in

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It's cloud and buttcoin all over again

Seen this type of hype for decades. Same old same olds

A fancy chatbot that can also do photoshop is NOT AI.

Journalist hurt by exploding USB bomb drive

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Yet another reason

...to never plug in an unknown USB.

20 years on yet many people seem to have not learned this.

IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs

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LOL! Don't get me wrong, I'm ready to retire for the same reasons.

Endless events (minor to major) of companies shooting themselves in the foot, over and over.

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Re: How many are Bullshit Jobs?

Every company has the useless twats in every department.

What's your point besides bashing "diversity."

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Re: This is where you realise that knocking up a webpage in Dreamweaver*

More people should use Dreamweaver. The old Dreamweaver. Pre-Adobe.

Far too many websites are crufty bollocks. Designers need to learn how to optimize websites... again.

The old Dreamweaver also had a very handy feature: it would check your HTML and optimize it for you and also highlight bad script. And it did CSS (may it rest in hell) better than most others.

Combined with Fireworks, it was a very efficient production pipeline.

RIP Macromedia. Screw you straight to hell, Adobe.

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It's not moving too fast, just that the garbage is piling up.

i.e. why does the newest version of X require more mouse clicks/keyboard commands than before, for the same result? And why are they more obscure than ever?

The tech is being piled on for no noticeable improvements. Which is entirely backwards. Less cruft, better results is the goal.

So I don't blame you. It's a free-for-all and not in the good way. More like a barroom brawl.

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Re: Pay

This. I've worked far too many places that set up their employees to fail.

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Re: LinkedIn

I get flooded with recruiter spam. I've had to put my phone in silent mode and do daily email purges. More than I've seen in YEARS. Much more.

The labor shortage is real.

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As I've said

There is a very real labor shortage and the tech zaibatsu are not the entirety of the IT world.

Despite the hype and fantasy, it still takes millions of low profile, thankless jobs to keep the IT wheels turning every single day.

Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment

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Keyboard too far forward

I can see right away the keyboard is too far forward. I like a good wrist, but distance almost matters.

You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security?

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Always something new in Underland

Every day I wake and wonder what new surprises await in Underland.

Usually not good ones.

Off with their heads!

How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers

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Re: Just NO!!

They may do but where can you buy it from the publisher? Nowhere.

This. How are they losing money on something they don't allow you to buy?

Hospital to test AI 'copilot' for doctors that jots notes on patient care

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Reduce the workload?

I've helped deploy Epic. A absolute incredible bit of hospital patient software. So I've seen what it take to treat and also process, patients.

The sheer amount of steps it takes to treat a patient will never be "reduced." And you cannot blame just administration, which plays its part in the workload. The vast majority is tracking the medical treatment itself and drug control.

The ONLY solution is to hire more people and pay them well.

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Re: The real hope

This, and yet some numpty gave you a down vote.

Acer pedals into e-cycle market with AI and big data in its basket

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A computer IN a bike?

WTF? The next thing you know they will put computers in sex toys and toothbrushes!

Oh wait...

*sigh* It's a mad world.

The Shakespearian question of our age: To cloud or not to cloud

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Re: With apologies to William Shakespeare, and BOFHs everywhere

Well played. Have my upvote.

Amazon lays off another 9,000, because why not?

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They can blame anything they want

...but we know it's about keeping the peons from getting uppity and demanding more money.

Microsoft pushes out PowerShell scripts to fix BitLocker bypass

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Re: To think...

Thank you.

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Re: To think...

Once upon a time, Microsoft actually did have a QA department.

When was that? Certainly not since Windows 3.2

Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot

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Re: And yet another example...

Every. Single. Time.

John Deere urged to surrender source code under GPL

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Screwing themselves

JD has directly given sales to its competitors over the years thanks to their own stupid policy of greed.

In my frequent travels throughout the vast rural areas, I see very successful and growing dealerships of all of their competitors. But most especially those making far less computer controlled equipment, such as Mahindra and Kuboto.

You've been pwned, how much will each stolen customer SSN cost you? How about $7.5k?

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As always, the onus is on the victim

Prove your data was used criminally?

It was stolen wasn't it? Prima facie.

Screw this bollocks of the victim having to provide extra proof they were wronged. And $25hr with a three hour cap to provide the proof? Utter, criminal, horseshit. What's the current lawyer rate these days? Yeah, that's the minimum.

The company is going to pay only a fraction of what they should. And they know it.

Now collapsed SVB's parent files for bankruptcy as Biden calls for stiffer penalties

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Re: too lazy to look

Too much moral hazard the world these days.

Fuck'em, indeed.

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Re: De ja Vue

The lesson of history in general is that the lessons are never learned.

UK.gov bans TikTok from its devices as a 'precaution' over spying fears

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Re: Wrong decision

No and it should never be a work app.

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Social media on goverment systems is insane

NO goddamn social media should EVER be on government systems.

Never, ever.

Globalization is over, and it'll cost you, according to TSMC founder

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They mean, pay again

Globalization already cost many countries millions of good paying jobs in return for useless plastic tat that kept increasing in price anyway.

So what are they threatening us with, exactly? More of the same? But we're already getting that.

Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you

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Hellz no

See title.

Talky Toaster on wheels. I'll pass. Forever.

The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them

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Former advisor?

So he doesn't make policy nor is an official spokesman for the government. Got it.

Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery

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That brings back some memories

I had forgotten all about this.

I used to use it to broadcast tech messages to users.

Always seemed more gimmick that useful. I used it at one company and then never used it again. Who knew it still existed?

Singapore software maker says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud

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Apples or oranges

If it's cheaper, and fit for purpose, then it's cheaper.

Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could

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Oh it gets better!

Rumor right now is that Twtter has lost access to its certs.

"...fired everyone with access to the private key to their internal root CA( which generates all certs used between the client browser and SSL Manager) Puppet master's CA cert expired and they can't get a new one because no one has access. ..."

Take it with a grain of salt. No confirmation yet.

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First, it's disappointing to read such rude negativity against an individual.

Sir, this is Arby's.

Perhaps you should read the site motto?

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Black Helicopters

Re: firing more than half your staff is not a good way to get any software successfully out the door

Do they fly over your house at night? -------------------------------->>

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Re: "Genius" ?

Inbreeding of the aristocracy is funny that way.

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And yet management shoots themselves in the foot every day doing exactly this.

Every. Day.

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It's META!

Thanks to generative AI, catching fraud science is going to be this much harder

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HORRAY!!

We're screwed.

It's William Gibson's world and we just live in it.

£2B in UK taxpayer cash later, and still no Emergency Services Network

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Re: the UK Home Office

That's a funny way to spell grifting.

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Must be nice

Must be nice to make millions and deliver nothing.

Welcome to Muskville: Where the workers never leave

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Yes, but front or back?

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Re: One wonders if he has a backup plan.

There's a strange one in the jungle...

Wow, can't believe I remember those lyrics and that I'd forgotten that song.

Silicon Valley Bank seized by officials after imploding: How this happened and why

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Re: I'm affected - no pay today

Damn. That sucks.

I hope you are able to get eventually get paid.

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Re: Live by the ESG, die by the ESG?

Oh please. Any other hobby horses you want to trot out?

Here's how Microsoft hopes to inject ChatGPT into all your apps and bots via Azure

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It will be too late by then.

AmigaOS 3.2.2 released for those feeling nostalgic

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Re: Glad It's Still Going

Amiga was indeed ahead of the times. Lightwave, Video Toaster, the first digital video editor I ever used. It SHOULD have been the dominate desktop, but we got MS and Apple instead. Both very second rate compared to Amiga.

Amiga was doing 25 years ago what we take for granted today.

Sigh. We can never have nice things.

AT&T blames marketing bods for exposing 9M accounts

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I'd blame marketing too!

What doesn't marketing screw up?

But then, att is supposed to have oversight, so, there's that as well.

Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West

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Cry me a river

Rich people fighting each other? Oh noes!

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Re: Donating them to earthquake areas

This.

Ex-Tweep mocked by Musk for asking if he'd actually been fired

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Did Elmo clean his shoes first?

Becasue he sure stepped in SOMETHING.