* Posts by ecofeco

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FAA grounds all US departures after NOTAM goes down

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Wait, I thought the SWA guy was promoted

Did he actually get hired by the FAA?

Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name

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Bit ridiculous

Tempest in a teapot.

If someone named one of the greatest computer systems in the world after me and mine, and wasn't a rapacious corporation, I would be proud.

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Re: MongoDB next?

Mongo only pawn in game of life.

Microsoft to move some Teams features to more costly 'Premium' edition

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Re: Straight up illegal

Predatory pricing used to be illegal in the U.S. as well. As still effing should be.

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Teams is a bloated, non-intuitive craptastic program.

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They are?

So less bloat? Don't threaten us with a good time, Microsoft!

Southwest promotes key staff right after that Christmas meltdown

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Stunning

What else can one say? This is just gobsmacking stunning.

US Supremes deny Pegasus spyware maker's immunity claim

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"We do what we want to"

Heard from every U.S. corporation.

Python Package Index found stuffed with AWS keys and malware

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Security?

We've heard of that. But it's expensive and we don't have the budget for it this year.

- manglement as usual.

Microsoft’s Nadella: Tech is in for a rough two years

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Re: M$

Looks like you got the 3 fan-boi downvotes.

Every word of your post is the truth. Documented, irrefutable proof, except to arse licking fan-bois.

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Re: CEO speak for...

What is cynical about truth?

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Re: 50% Generated by AI

Exactly. All this hype about AI over the past 5 years is just that. Utter bullshit.

All I see are more clever programs. Very cool clever programs, but not one nano-gram of intelligence.

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How do you know when a CEO is lying?

Their lips are moving.

In other words, he's hosing us with bollocks.

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Re: Oct 2025 Win10 End of Life. There's going to be so much obsolete Win10 h/w that can run Linux

All this, except Windows patches have been shit for decades, not just "recently."

No more holidays for US telcos, FCC is cracking down

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Re: Age verification

Of course not. In American, sex is bad, m'kay, but sacrificing children AFTER they are born is perfectly fine.

For the freedumbs of course!

Up to 18,000 Amazon workers in firing line as it chops cost

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Never forget

If you are an employee of the company that got bought, you should immediately start looking for a new job. You WILL get cut.

Rate of disruptive tech and science discoveries has slowed over the decades, claims study

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Re: Disruptive MBAs

They'd be lucky to get five years!

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Re: Way finder

I have no idea why you got ANY downvotes. That's EXACTLY how it works.

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Re: Who needs disruptive tech and science, ...

So it isn't just me who can't tell the difference between disruptive and deceptive. Whew. Good to know.

IBM staff grumble redeployment orders are stealth layoffs

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Same here. I would rather starve in the street than work for those bastards ever again. And that is NOT hyperbole. I've been homeless.

'Multiple security breaches' shut down trucker protest

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Re: There are moments like these

That was not from protesting. That was from their assaults, vandalism and violence. You know, real crimes, not pretend fatansy oppression.

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Re: Superspreader? Give me a break.

I see you have at least 3 downvotes at this time that proves your point.

Love the irony.

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Re: Superspreader? Give me a break.

Johnny, have you heard about...mutation?

OneDrive back on its feet, but ongoing Skype credit problem hasn't gone away

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Skype?

People are still that piece of trash, Skype? WTH?

Man wins court case against employer that fired him for not liking boozy, forced 'fun' culture

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Walk? No, run and run now.

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Re: Their "fun"..

It's stunning and forever amazes me how so MANY businesses sabotage themselves and lose contracts other people who give their left arm, mother and first born, for.

Southwest Airlines blames IT breakdown for stranding holiday travelers

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Re: Very simple explanation...former CEO Gary Kelly

Excellent explanation.

Thanks. I wondered what happened to SWA. I was pretty sure it was management change, as that is usually the case.

And lo and behold, you've proven it was.

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You would win that bet every time.

US House boots TikTok from government phones

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Again I ask...

Who the hell thought social media of any kind was a good idea on government systems?

Tech supply chains brace for impact as China shifts from zero-COVID to rampant COVID

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Re: Perhaps, but...

The article specifically states, demand. As in, orders. Again, right there in the article.

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Interestingly, deaths that can be attributed to Covid are at about the same level as a severe flu pandemic.

Yeah. No. That is a flat out lie.

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Perhaps, but...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/04/manufacturing-orders-from-china-down-40percent-in-demand-collapse.html

Demand from the U.S. has been trending down for some time.

Someone is not telling us the whole story. Not to say there won't be disruptions, but between cries of shortages and documented demand being down, something isn't making sense.

Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free

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Re: Centralised service, centralised problem.

This. All of this.

Just like the PC was designed to free us from the terminal/mainframe tyranny, everything about the Internet was intended as the same. To free us.

Yet everyone rushed headlong back to terminal/mainframe. With a LOT of help from those who wanted to force the walled garden on everyone.

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Re: A couple of solutions, offered for free.

I'd much rather go back to the days when I don't need 5 damn devices.

Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy

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Re: Some say there is nothing new and everything is bested with/in a re-run

Tales from the The Golden Oecumene.

Lawyer mom barred from Rockettes show by facial recognition tech

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Re: Everybody hates lawyers...

I guess?

For me, needing ones just makes me hate them more, because I can never afford one and therefore the reason I need one is never made right and the perps skate away consequence free.

So for me, I hate them less when I don't need one.

Being one of the 1% sucks if you're a Rackspace user

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Pint

Re: It can be done… but it ain’t fast,

You had to remind. You just HAD to remind me.

That's to help me forget again. --------------------------------->>>>

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Re: I just wonder ..

Exchange truly is a giant piece of shit. There is no polite way to put it.

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I never get tired of saying it

So, how's that cloud thing working for ya?

SystemRescue 9.06 is here with the shiny new Xfce 4.18

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Re: Time to get a new dual plug USB stick..

Got one, love it.

Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff

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Re: Documentation and training

This. Almost all of my jobs over the last 10 years (contract/temp) have had NO training and NO documentation.

And they expect, what? Fuck 'em. These idiots are killing their own companies.

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Both good answers. ^^

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CEO once again proves how out of touch they are

No, Mr. BMOC, nobody really gives a fuck about a company that does care about them.

Duh.

Epic payment: Fortnite maker pays record $520m to settle FTC case

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Insert clever game pun here

Good. Glad to hear there are beginning to be consequences for the ridiculous amounts of greed.

Apple 'created decoy labor group' to derail unionization

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Re: So why don't employees quit already??

That's a nice sheltered life you have there. It would be a shame if anything should happen to it.

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They were, but by the new robber barons.

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Not screwing over your employees? What kind of crazy commie talk is that?!

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Re: Communists

ALL American corporations are somewhat communist if you think about it, and not in the good way, but in the ruling party (board of directors) and fake elections (nominees from other rich people only), and those ruled have no say, way.

In praise of MIDI, tech's hidden gift to humanity

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MIDI a great idea... on paper

MIDI is a great idea with impressive specs. It's a shame most software makers can't seem to successfully execute its implementation.

I'm not blaming MIDI, I'm looking squarely at the 3rd party commercial software vendors.

China bins its COVID tracking app

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Bwahahahahaahha!!

Just in time for the new surge of infections!