* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Lonestar bags $5m in seed funding for lunar datacenter project

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Isn't prgress wonderful?

From vaporware to vacuum-ware!

The future is so cool!

/s

The Great Graph Debate: Revolutionary concept in databases or niche curiosity?

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Re: Is a database debate a detabate?

GO AWAY! BATE-IN!

Elon Musk yearns for AI devs to build 'anti-woke' rival ChatGPT bot

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Skynet?

So he wants Skynet.

We've seen the movie, Elmo. It doesn't end well.

Can we interest you in a $10 pocket calculator powered by Android 9?

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Re: WTF?

Excellent reference!

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WTF?

What's the point of this useless, Rube Goldberg, landfill tat?

Snap CISO: I rate software supply chain risk 9.9 out of 10

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It's rocket surgery!

Maybe it's just me, but I think I see the problem.

...but it's a tough security problem to fix because a single product can have tens of thousands of software dependencies.

Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites

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They can try

But there are two, federal problems: 1st Amendment (free speech) and the Interstate Commerce Clause. (states cannot regulate Interstate trade and commerce)

Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed

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Re: Quantum chat

Me - ow!

Amid the gloom of widespread layoffs, Fujitsu is hiring and acquiring

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The zaibatsu are NOT the industry

Despite perception, the tech ziabatsu are NOT the industry. I'm getting calls for crazy money for ordinary jobs that keeps the wheels turning and my CV is not something superstar.

Arm co-founder: Britain's chip strat 'couldn’t be any worse'

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Couldn’t be any worse?

Wanna bet?

Windows 11 update breaks PCs that dare sport a custom UI

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Devil

Re: Time to ditch this garbage OS

Lately? Where have you been for the last 20 years?

Microsoft adds features to Windows 11 monthly – managing it is your problem

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Re: Did anyone ask for this?

Are you saying that's not... water?

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Re: who's the users?

Ironic isn't it? People complain the biggest obstacle to switching to Linux is learning where all the controls are, yet Microsoft moves them every year. And people just accept it.

<insert Jackie Chan facepalm here>

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Re: "Continuous innovation coming to Windows 11 in March"

So, Borkzilla has officially adapted the "move fast and break things" approach to OS design.

Where have you been for the last 20 years?

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Re: I Don't Want to Have to Continually Fight with My OS Maker

I've said it before: if your software needs constant maintenance, it is by definition, broken and useless.

That the world has just accepted this, is insanity.

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Features? That's a funny way to spell cruft

I just went though mine last night and killed a lot of processes and services and limited a bunch of others.

And I hate that I'll have to do it again in a few weeks, months? And again and again.

Forget ChatGPT, the most overhyped security tool is technology itself, Wiz warns

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The simple truth

He speaks the truth.

News Corp outfoxed by IT intruders for years

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Epic poetic justice

See title.

Hey, AI hucksters. Dial down the hype. Lots of love, the FTC

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Bwhahahahaha!

When even the FTC knows your pants are on fire, that's saying something!

US government sets a 30-day deadline for wiping TikTok from feds' phones

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30 days?

Why does it take 30 days? It shouldn't take more than 30 hours. In a bad week.

Or 30 minutes, for that matter.

Semiconductor industry: To Hell with the environment, start building fabs already

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Re: Simple process

...and 'round and 'round it goes.

OpenAI CEO heralds AGI no one in their right mind wants

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Vaporware!

To infinity and beyond!

Google destroyed evidence for antitrust battle, Feds complain

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Re: Heh

I've seen this. So. Many. Times.

So. Damn. Many. Times.

Infosys founder slams working from home, side hustles, as slowing India's growth

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Re: Ffffft

He's a lunatic.

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Same old same old

Capitalism for me but not for thee.

Cause for a LLaMA? Meta reckons its smaller text-emitting AI is better than rivals

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I never get tired of the clever headlines!

That said, all of the public AI stuff is utter bollocks.

"Our crap is better than their crap!", is not something I'm going to get excited over.

Now IBM Watson Health, sorry, Merative decimates staff

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Offshoring?

Gee, what a surprise.

Train others to take over your job? Why do people still do this?

Ericsson pulls plug on 8,500 workers

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Pint

SKAL!!

America: AI artwork is not authored by humans, so can't be protected by copyright

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Re: copyright, saveguarding humanitys future!

I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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Shocked I tell you!

That's... actually an intelligent ruling.

Uncle Sam to block Adobe absorption of Figma over monopoly fears

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Excellent

Obvious elimination of competition is obvious.

Tech job vacancies hamper England's digital health plans

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Staffing gap?

I see the problem right away.

It's not a staffing gap, it's a pay gap.

There's an old saying: It's good to save money in business, but you CAN save yourself right out of business.

Open source software has its perks, but supply chain risks can't be ignored

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Brand name software is safer?

Is this satire? Parody? A bad joke? Brand name software is safer?

LOL WUT?!

Can YouTube be held liable for pushing terror vids? Asking for a Supreme Court...

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Appaling and beyond the pale

It is appalling to see so many comments that think enabling terrorism is somehow consequence free.

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That's your takeaway?

Not "YouTube enabled terrorism"?

Seriously?

Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge

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Re: Warm desking

They are the same.

Wipro tells freshers a job awaits - if they accept a lower salary than first offered

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Re: Used to work there till recently

You really have to wonder how a company like this stays in business.

Examples like this clearly show "market forces" are utter bollocks. They should have gone out of business years ago.

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46 percent cut?

Look for another job. Screw that.

Light from a long time ago reaches James Webb Space Telescope

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A long time ago...

...in a galaxy far, far away...

VMware, Windows 11 shafted by Windows Server 2022

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Nice VMware you have there...

Be a shame if something happened to it. Have you ever thought about Hyper-V?

Legacy comms outfit Avaya returns to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

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I see this all the time. A great product or service ruined by PHBs.

Just another reason we can't have nice things.

Adobe's $20b buy of Figma in crosshairs of Europe's antitrust cops

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As it should be investigated

This is an obvious buyout and termination of competition.

Salesforce woes continue as Twitter slashes spending with SaaS supermonster

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Re: "Activist investors?" More like "dry-land pirates."

I heard the exact same words.

That and Crimson Permanent Assurance.

Take the blue pill: Keanu Reeves has had enough of AI baloney

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Re: @anonanonanonanonanon - AI doesn't need to write well, just well enough

How will we tell the difference from now?

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Truer words were never spoken

The people who are paying you for your art would rather not pay you. They're actively seeking a way around you, because artists are tricky. Humans are messy.

People in power don't want [employees pushing back or having their own ideas], you know? So that's not your lifetime, that's like your next birthday. And before then, they're going to challenge how much they pay you. So everyone's gonna be an independent worker. "Look at all the independence you have! Let's not have unions."

Make Linux safer… or die trying

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Excellent article

See title.

Great article.

Ex-CEO of logistics startup Slync collared on multimillion fraud, embezzlement charges

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What a maroon

Many people would give anything to raise that kind of money for their business and this guy just pisses away the money and his life.

What a a maroon.

Google miscalculates severance payments for some Googlers

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Super tech computer company gets counting numbers wrong?

I will trust Google ever again, why?

Not that I ever did, but still, what an incredible, first year accounting blunder.

The Pentagon is shockingly bad at managing its employee smartphones

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I'm not surprised

I once worked on a regional government mobile phone deployment. Several thousand phones.

I will never, ever make that mistake again.

Google's $100b bad day demo may be worth the price

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Re: This piece nails it

I saw that as well. The title sums up it perfectly.