* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Local councils struggle with ill-fitting software despite spending billions with suppliers

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Re: Problems and solutions not welcome

A typical "adapt the process to the computer" instead of "adapt the computer to the process".

I see this everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

Outlook.com trips over Google's spam blocking rules

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Re: What the damn hell

...did.

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Mushroom

What the damn hell

Email is supposed to just work, yet the tech douche bros have found a way to break it.

Of course they.

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice

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Re: Wish them the very best

Doesn't work like Outlook? You say that like it's a bad thing.

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Re: Correct. Changing once is cheaper

Facts.

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Version? Hell just a couple of updates will do that!

Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first

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Re: Seeing AI making so many mistakes...

Don't bet on it.

Correcting the wrong mistakes will make you redundant right quick. Someone's pet project might be threatened.

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Re: Retraining?

What is this severance you speak of? Does it reside in the land of the mythical retirements and fully paid benefits and sick days?

Nearly 1M medical records feared stolen from City of Hope cancer centers

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FAIL

I'm not surprised

In general, U.S. corps are cheap, stubborn bastards about all things, to the point of penny wise/pound foolish absurdity.

But hospitals and every level of government are even worse.

This is not hyperbole. But it is just anecdotal direct personal experience. And I have the scars to prove it.

UK government sets sights on £8B tech procurement overhaul

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FAIL

Place your bets now!

So a gov tech project to overhaul gov tech.

Let's look at the past projects!

Ohh, it does not look good.

Opera browser dev branch rolls out support for running LLMs locally

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Yes and it always has been. I'm old enough to remember when making the browser the all-in-one application was hyped as the next cool thing.

And here we are. Right cozy with the hackers.

Microsoft slammed for lax security that led to China's cyber-raid on Exchange Online

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Re: masterclass in lowering expectations

Amazes me how Microsoft have lowered expectations to the extent that most of the industry

This right here. Even worse, pointing it out invites criticism and even job loss.

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Devil

LOL!

What say you, MS fanbois?

French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies

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Pirate

Re: It's Everywhere

In general, every market segment in the world is owned and controlled by just a handful companies within that segment, using dozens and dozen of different brand names to distract from this fact.

What if AI produces code not just quickly but also, dunno, securely, DARPA wonders

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Mushroom

What if?

That's a BIG whatif.

The safe way to bet? It won't.

Why? Same reason as today: too much GIGO.

Ex-White House CIO tells The Reg: TikTok ban may be diplomatic disaster

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Re: Influence rather than data privacy

Is this a serious question?!

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Re: Political suicide.

All 12 of them! OH NOS!!!

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Re: Mind your footing

The Commerce Clause of the Constitution allows Congress to regulate business any way it sees fit. There are no restrictions.

There is no "slippery slope" bollocks here.

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Re: With no express right to privacy in the U. S. Constitution,

Yet ignored daily.

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Facepalm

LOL wut?

It's just a stupid social media platform of no real value.

My god people have no sense of significance and scale these days.

Nearly 3M people hit in Harvard Pilgrim healthcare data theft

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Windows

Jaded

I've gotten to the point where I don't care any more. The companies sure as hell don't.

Dammit I wish I could afford to retire.

University of Washington's Workday woes leave research grants in limbo

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Pirate

I simply cannot fathom how they don't.

And yet, they really don't. But then, I've also worked for companies that DID have a lot of SLAs for their suppliers and vendors contracts and yet failed to enforce them and I was severely reprimanded for suggesting they should.

And that's how I learned the dirty truth about kickbacks and their stunning, yet hidden scale of prevalence.

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How the mighty have fallen

A literal entire university worth of resources and they decide to use an outside company instead of creating their own.

Idiocracy is real.

But it's what all the cool kids are doing these days, isn't it.

Microsoft rolls out safety tools for Azure AI. Hint: More models

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FAIL

More MS genius

MS: "You know what would be fun? Making the the very software you rely on to create secure access to your network, vulnerable!"

Also MS: "You know what be even more fun? Using half baked AI to pretend to make it secure!"

Also MS: "Fix our code? LOL! Suck it plebes!"

AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware

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Re: Scary

Beat me to it.

NEVER forget who owns github now.

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No. I've seen AI generated video and it looks EXACTLY like an LSD hallucination. Many still artworks as well.

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Re: What is it going to take ?

What will it take?

Remember that lovely financial event in 1987? That's what it will take.

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FAIL

Re: So nobody ever tried the commands before publishing?

"...but even the most incompetent of "testers" can surely spot..."

Imma stop you right there...

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Terminator

LOL! Petard meets hoist

See title.

Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs

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Re: Dubious

That's a really odd thing for them to say because my brief stint with IBM was nothing BUT mundane, useless tasks. And of course pointed questions about why I wasn't getting my real job done. Nor someone else's.

Which was the last straw.

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Re: Clueless

No need to guess. 40 years of documentation proves it.

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WHOCOULDAKNOWED THIS WOULD HAPPEN?!

Oh wait. Everyone here on El Reg.

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Re: McKinsey don't understand development

McKinsey understands NOTHING, except how to grift corporate punters.

They are not, and never have been, been useful in any way. They are the OG useless consultants.

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FAIL

Welp...

.. they're boned.

Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests

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I see bad UX design everywhere.

It is out of control.

CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power

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Mushroom

I'll keep saying it!

Maybe keeping track of which hand we wipe our arse with isn't a good idea.

Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came

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Everything you said.

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The Dell support website has a utility to update all drivers and BIOS. I've been using it for years.

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us?app=drivers

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Re: Easy to use, direct and no fuss

Tedium became the substitute for updated and improved.

Shiny bling instead of useful utility.

Intel throws chips on the table, Microsoft plays the Copilot card in wild bet on AI PCs

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Terminator

AI PCS can bugger off

MS can't even get their normal system right and now they want us to adopt Clippy on steroids?

Oh hell no.

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Re: "sluggish sales"

Not to mention the ridiculous price increases of basic PC and laptops over the last year.

A laptop I bought a year and a half ago is now almost double what it cost me then.

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

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Flame

Hahahahahahahaah!

Good!

I have to use 3 blockers! The Internet has been crippled by ads. And personal data collection. And hackers with nasty viruses. Of course we should fight back.

And nothing was learned by the big money in 20 years.

'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw

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Facepalm

Shocked I tell You!

Well, not that shocked. In fact, not shocked at all.

"Well that escalated quickly."

Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court

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Trollface

Elmo Fails again!

Elmo: "Free speech!"

Also Elmo: "Not like that!"

Court: "Yes, like that."

3 million doors open to uninvited guests in keycard exploit

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Re: Hotel locks are a joke

I've been dealing with keycard access companies for the last year. The entire industry is a mess.

EU antitrust cops probe Microsoft ties between Entra ID and 365 services

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I see by the downvote the MS fanbois are out as usual. Have my upvote.

After just finishing an Azure/Intune/Entra/MDM transition project, I know more about it than I ever wanted. And none of it is good. Combined with MS's clumsy desktop account management on the PC side, it was about as much fun as a train wreck.

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Devil

Yo! We heard you like tedium!

"He said Microsoft has baked complexity and "layers" into its licensing."

He is correct.

"So we added more tedium to our tedium!"

Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one

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Pirate

How did we come to this point?

How did we come to accept license changes as normal? And not just changes, but unilateral changes? How can anyone trust ANY software company?

How did bait and switch become legal in the IT world?

Truck-to-truck worm could infect – and disrupt – entire US commercial fleet

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UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled

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Churn Baby Churn!

E-waste inferno!

Churn baby churn!