* Posts by ecofeco

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Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of fraud: Blood-testing machines were vapourware after all

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Giving a grifter the benefit of the doubt is what is shameful.

ASUS recalls motherboards that flame out thanks to backwards capacitors

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Coat

So?

They are incapacitated?

You geeks have inherited the Earth, but what are you going to do with it?

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Re: Don't worry, where I live IT professionals still don't have their own "guild"

HA! I just posted about not even having a guild in most parts of world. Great minds, eh?

Yet where does THAT get us?

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Re: What do we do? More or less what today's lords demand from us

Ha! I posted almost the same thing. Geeks have inherited nothing. Hell, we don't even have decent guilds in most parts of the world.

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Geeks have inherited nothing

It's still the psychotic rich and powerful who run this joint.

We can only wish rationality ruled.

Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang

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Re: Grow a pair

You have problem with Corporate Communist Capitalism©®™, comrade?

Dutch nuclear authority bans anti-5G pendants that could hurt their owners via – you guessed it – radiation

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Re: That’s just silly!

But it has to be genuine wasabi. Not that fake horseradish stuff.

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Re: Simple solution...

Oh very well played.

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They often DO become Darwin Award winners.

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How often do you field these questions?

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What day isn't? Are there even ENOUGH days to do so?

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Re: "WiFi sickness"

I am still amazed these days at how many folks in I.T. are actually just mechanics and savants. Super smart about specs, super dumb about basic grade school science.

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Re: Rocky atoll for sale

Does it also come with a bridge? It MUST have a bridge.

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Re: Ha Ha Ha

You really have to wonder how people like that are allowed outside without a guardian.

Luxembourg judge hits pause on Amazon's daily payments of disputed $844m GDPR fine

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Giving Amazon the benfit of the doubt?

Oh hell no. Amazon is guilty of everything all the time.

I can't believe ANYONE is defending this company. Oh wait. If I've learned anything from current events in the last 40 years is that yes, people are this stupid.

Radioactive anti-5G pendant anyone? It pairs well with Ivermectin.

Cryptocurrency 'rug pulls' cheated investors out of $8bn in 2021 – report

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I will never not be amazed myself. How do people so effing stupid get so much money? Ah well, "fools and their money..."

...DESERVE to be parted.

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Until you learn how modern currency works, just stop with the "fiat" bullocks.

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But it's the coolest new thing!

"People don't like crypto because it's the newest thing and they are all just old farts who don't understand!" says the bleating tech douche bros edgelords.

But hey, it's your money. You screw you. The great pyramids of Tulip, Ponzi and Maddoff, thank you.

£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

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So that's roughly 55K American?

For those skills? They have got to be kidding.

It's strange innit, that the more IT controls the world, the less employers want to pay for it.

This will NOT end well.

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Re: IT person

What's crazy is that a printer needs fixing at all. A printer, at this point, should one of the easiest plug-in peripherals.

Instead, they've been deliberately made difficult. For the "churn" doncha know.

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter planning move to blockchain. How will it work? Your guess is as good as ours

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Lol wut?

So from bad to worse, eh?

After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more

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Re: The article leaves out important details

It's almost like you didn't read the article.

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Re: Pilots were no longer in charge

But it wasn't the engineers who made this decision. It was manglement.

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Just as some of us said

Manglement caused this.

Google joins others in Big Tech: Get vaccinated – or you're fired

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Re: Religious exception

It does and they are being deliberately ignored.

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/publications/youraba/2020/youraba-april-2020/law-guides-legal-approach-to-pandemic/

Web3: The next generation of the web is here… apparently

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Re: Forget technology

And before that, dial-up BBS.

The last damn thing we need is more layers of crap. The Internet is unstable enough as it is.

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Re: "Mildly amusing"?

Not enough upvotes.

Bloke breaking his back on 'commute' from bed to desk deemed a workplace accident

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Re: Who Pays?

Moot point. Germany has excellent public medicine.

Better CEO is 'taking time off' after firing 900 staff on Zoom

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Re: Well he deservers it!

Good point.

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Well he deservers it!

The unspeakable and unbearable burden of being rich and powerful would weigh heavy on anyone! (so, so heavy) He deserves the time off to recharge his spirit animal!

A snake, I think it was.

Cloud darling Hashicorp's IPO raises $1.22bn amid modest gains from a $80 start

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Who?

And what makes them different from everyone else?

Meg Whitman – former HP and eBay CEO – nominated as US ambassador to Kenya

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COTD right here.

Intel updates mysterious 'software-defined silicon' code in the Linux kernel

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Re: The plan is obvious

Will? They've been doing this for decades.

The SEC is investigating whistleblower claims that Tesla was reckless as its solar panels go up in smoke

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Was the actual panels?

Was it the panels or perhaps the installers?

You see, in America, company A contracts to company B who contracts to company C who finds individual contractors for the lowest bid who tend to have very shaky "credentials" if any at all. Who in turn, might also contract out to day labor who have no experience.

Or it could be the panels as well under the same scenario.

You see why I have to ask.

Tech Bro CEO lays off 900 people in Zoom call and makes himself the victim

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Most likely, yes.

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Re: No surprise

But "kicking them when they are down" is the entire goal of being an American CEO!

Or did you think Montgomery Burns was a cartoon character?

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Re: Glassdoor...

Glassdoor was astroturfed.

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Re: Glassdoor...

Your "experience" is lacking. There is the third and far more common situation: hustle means nothing and people have no choice.

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Re: Glassdoor...

It's ALL risky these days. Temp or perm. The days of most people staying with a company 10 or more years is long gone. And forget about pensions or benefits.

And please spare us the anecdotes to the contrary.

Uber's gig economy business model takes a blow from London legal double-whammy

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Re: Level playing field

...wanted to experience profit through being the middleman to other people's labors, whilst simultaneously denying any responsibility for even being involved at all.

Perfectly stated.

Miscreants make off with $150m of digital assets in BitMart security breach

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So....

How's that unregulated cloud thing working for ya?

Spar shops across northern England shut after cyber attack hits payment processing abilities

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Re: Cash Is King

the brittle state of computing in the year 2021.

This! This is the turn of phrase I've been looking for. It's also a house of cards.

This House believes: A unified, agnostic software environment can be achieved

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For, but....

...good luck. Herding cats never works out well.

Techno-tedium is all the rage these days. All the cool kids are doing.

The dark equation of harm versus good means blockchain’s had its day

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We know it has no future

It has no future, but like all fads, it's not over yet or soon.

Exploit it if you can. Use if you can. Ignore it if you can. But don't get caught as the last fool when it finally collapses.

Texas' anti-moderation social network law blocked by judge

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Hypocrisy has become a core Republican value.

Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour

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Sssooo....

How's that cloud thing working for ya?

NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

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So what else is new?

Using the wrong tools for the job has become THE requirement in all fields these days.

Rube Goldberg is laughing in his grave. Computers were supposed to bring efficiency and do all the heavy lifting. Instead, the powers that be have given us complexity for the sake of market lock in. And most of them are broken beyond Kafka's worst nightmares.

US trade watchdog opposes Nvidia's Arm buy, mostly over fears about datacentre innovation

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Let me put this into "real speak"

Becasue it OPENLY APPEARS to stifle competition.

Competition is stifled everyday in the U.S. In fact, in most of the capitalist world, but mostly in the U.S. there are only 6 companies in each major industry running almost ALL of each category. It just APPEARS you have a choice because each company may hold dozens to a hundred "subsidiaries" brands.

https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-control-everything-we-buy-2017-8

Ubiquiti dev charged with knocking $4bn off firm's value after insider threat spree

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Re: Either way, this is an indictment of Ubiquiti

"Even before information technology, there was an adage about putting all of your eggs in one basket."

This. ^^

Computers cost money. We only make them more expensive by trying to manage them ourselves

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Re: The time for it has arrived and departed.

Working on it? They've been the masters of unreliable for decades.

Equipment has become crazy reliable. Not 100%, but well over 90%. But Microsoft? Same old Microsoft.