* Posts by ecofeco

8241 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

One problem with America's chip ambitions: Not quite enough staff

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Re: (2B || !2B) // Good career $PATH? Oh, you want to sleep at night

Have my upvote.

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Re: Crap

There. There is never a staffing problem, only a wage problem.

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Re: The trade body offered three recommendations

Of course not! That's just crazy commie talk!

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Speaking of drivel...

Stolen Microsoft key may have opened up a lot more than US govt email inboxes

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Facepalm

How will Azure come back?

Come back from what? Everyone affected will just carry on as if nothing happened and keep using it and nothing will be learned except to make more busy work for system admins.

Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal

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Re: Good old Brexit

Grift.

It is one big grift.

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

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Sleep well!

Knowing the tech bros are also using social media as part of their AI training, what could wrong?

Sleep well!

Rocket boasted dystopian overlords on steroids are just what we need for the coming disaster times! /s

Computer scientist calls for new layers in the tech stack to make generative AI accurate

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GIGO?

GIGO!

You go, they go, we all go, GIGO!!

Energy efficiency, staffing keep datacenter operators awake at night

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There is no such thing as staffing problems

Only wage problems.

1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel

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Re: Corporate Raiders of Revolutionary Thought Processors are Susceptible to Personalised Grooming

For a second I read that as "otherworldly excrement" and thought, "yeah. exactly. Monkeys throwing poop."

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Re: Job applications

This is already happening. AIs writing resumes/CVs to be submitted to the company's AI are already a thing. Have been for some time now.

Except for the fun part. We never get the fun part.

Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps

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Microsoft

Microsoft gonna Microsoft.

Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money

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But it goes to 11, see?

AD, then Azure, then Azure AD, then InTune, now Entra.

So is Entra, Spinal Tap Latin for eleven?

India Big four outsourcers all have people problems

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Pay cuts and no hires?

What's going on over there? Something serious is happening. But what?

Samsung’s midrange A54 is lovely, but users won't feel seen

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Re: "But at $450, outright, its flaws are easy to overlook"

This. For $450, flaws are unacceptable.

But like you, I'm never paying that much for a damn phone.

LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

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Re: LG CEO clearly on some good shit

Nice reference!

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Re: Rent seeking

Everyone is now rent seeking, leeching their victims, I mean, customers.

Exactly. Real innovation and benefit for the buyer is dead.

Planned obsolescence wasn't enough. Now it's subscription everything AND planned obsolescence.

Thanks, I don't need it that bad.

Let there be light ... based wireless networks: LiFi spec OK'd as Wi-Fi complement

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Sweet!

Another hacking vector!

Lovely! /s

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

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Re: Capitalism: Resistance is futile

Would you like to know more?

Microsoft admits unauthorized access to Exchange Online, blames Chinese gang

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And nothing was learned

Not by Microsoft, not by the U.S. government, not by anyone.

Not even by the Chinese, who already knew MS is a fabulous threat vector.

Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change

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The Microsoft credo

What's the hardest way to do something? Let's do that!

You're too dumb to use click-to-cancel, Big Biz says with straight face

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Without fraud, Amercicans companies would fail

After many decades (MANY decades) of observation, it has become apparent to me that most American businesses would fail if they did not commit some kind of fraud every day.

Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform

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This never gets old

Once again an American corp is finding out it really doesn't own the world.

Microsoft's Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm

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Azuridly.

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So that's what happened!

Wondering was what going on. Between this and their other cock-up last week, it all makes sense now.

Our global network was seeing some... latency issues.To put it mildly.

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

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Re: Racecraft

What utter drivel.

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Utter bollocks.

Under-funding schools in poor neighborhoods was retaliation by racists.

Passing children who should not pass on to the next level is everywhere. Parents of every economic status are directly to blame for loudly complaining their child should pass.

But thanks for letting us know who you are.

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Using merit and kindness for hiring and advancement will go much further

I'll stop you right there. This will never happen, proven over and over again, hence the regulations.

The AI arms race could give us the cool without the cruel

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Sure Jan

And the Internet was supposed to bring us enlightenment and usher in a more benevolent society.

Instead we got anti-social media, hacking, viruses, stochastic terrorism, Surgeon's Law on the global scale and Idiocracy levels of adverts.

Tech douche bros ARE ALWAYS gonna tech douche bro.

Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable

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Ah! The perfect addition...

... to your hand crafted artisanal firewood!

Both to be admired while sipping on your Juicero!

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Re: Plywood

But, but, artisanal!

Microsofties still digesting pay freeze upset by Nadella's 'landmark year' memo

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Re: They're not here to pay people

CEO are often the majority shareholders.

Does it make more sense now?

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Re: They're not here to pay people

Your analogy is more than just a comparison. If you are not wealthy, you really are just livestock.

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Re: It was a very good year

The nicest company Christmas gift I ever got was vacuum cleaner. No joke. (I was working for a home improvement company at the time)

The jokes just write themselves sometimes. (give it a second if you don't get it right away)

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Re: Warning: CEO using the words "Family"

ANY company that uses the word family is a big red flag. They are telling you they expect shit for free.

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Re: Stockholm Syndrome

Nope. No notice.

You didn't screw over anyone in the last place. They screwed you. That's why you left.

Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?

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Re: I am happy to report that I couldn't care less what happens in that space.

Basically, this.

They come and go and contribute nothing to my life in general. If they all disappeared today, I would not miss them and it would not affect my life in any way.

Geocites, MySpace, to name just a small fraction of former wannabes... they are all transient.

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Re: Internet Interoperability Without Central Censorship

Ah yes, brands that are just making a slightly different version of the same crap everyone else is.

I work in global scale mfg. 80% of everything in any market category, from industrial to retail, is the exact same thing just with a different logo and different price.

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Re: Centralized Information

Have my upvote.

The mainframe timeshare shackles are not for me.

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Re: NewSpeak: "Fragmented Internet"

And at least 7 people seem to not understand this.

The PC was meant to free us from the mainframe timeshare network, yet here we are not only begging to be put back in chains, but paying for it!

Australia's 'great example of government using technology' found to be 'crude and cruel'. And literally lethal to citizens

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Screw the poor?

Sounds like business as usual.

Yahoo! comeback! continues! as! fresh! listing! planned!

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If they can keep it simple, it will work

Right now, the most refreshing thing I've seen from any portal is Yahoos News.

No spin. Just news. Top notch brevity and synopsis. Fast loading. (yes, I do use ad blockers, but it's still faster than anyone but El Reg)

Microsoft puts out Outlook fire, says everything's fine with Teams malware flaw

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Ah! So that's what it was! (still is)

My company uses Outlook 365 and the lag and response time this week has been really bad. Still is as of today.

Now I know why. I mean I already guessed it was an MS problem, but now it's confirmed.

UK court sides with Optis Cellular Technology in Apple 4G patent clash

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Live by infringemnt

Die by the infringement.

Former Twitter employees accuse it of holding up 891 arbitrations

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It's how the rich STAY rich.

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

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Bro, BRO! Do you even app?! ALL the cool kids are doing it!!

/s just in case needed because such is the world we now live in.

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Re: So what's it called?

Smart girl.

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Re: Threads crap name

The fungus amongus.

H-1B fraud consultancies grow, with application abuse openly discussed online

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Re: USCIS is not the problem

The laws already exist, what is lacking is funding for enforcement.

That's how Congress plays the game.

TSA wants to expand facial recognition to hundreds of airports within next decade

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I have yet to hear of facial rec. being accurate, let alone anything else, except just another backhander to someone's mates.