* Posts by Derezed

191 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jul 2012

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You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B

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Re: I love when tech nods to cult shows like this

Spoiler alert: he went to jail

City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M

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Re: So, continuing the follow-up of the disaster

Not as much as the guy who signed off on the project

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

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Terminator

Do we even know if AI has anything to do with this bot? They’re normally simple decision trees with canned answers, the only clever bit being interpreting what it is being asked…everything else should be clearly defined and as accurate as the meat sack who authored the responses’ intention.

Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140K for sending 80M+ spams

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I heard about their abuse years ago. When I stopped using them I phoned them and threatened them with the data protection act as was…that ensured I didn’t get any of their horseshit marketing since. Sad because the product is good, the marketing is toxic so I won’t use them on that basis.

How governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu

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Re: Corruption

“ Yeah, yeah. Until someone moves on or gets hit by a bus. The reason they use the big boys is because they know when the shit hits the fan they have the resources to step up to the plate and fix things.”

This one is not true. Large companies don’t have lots of idle highly skilled resources to jump in when it all goes tits up. The only thing they have is the ability to take the hit when it goes to shit and provide a barely alive level of service to try to unfuck stuff. So they won’t go under but your project is still gonna die. Smaller companies often have more skin in the game and can’t afford to just write off their million pound customer like your Deloitte, ibm, Microsoft’s can…or just tell them to sit in line.

Lapsus$ teen sentenced to indefinite detention in hospital for Nvidia, GTA cyberattacks

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Isn’t being held in a Travelodge cruel and unusual punishment? I’d take Broadmoor as a pleasant upgrade. I want to hear if he hacks NORAD using a piece of wire, a gold tooth and a medium.

Come work at HQ... or find a new job, Roblox CEO tells staff

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Re: The struggle is real

Give them an inch and they’ll take a yard.

Today it’s 3 days, tomorrow it’s 5. The only thing that won’t change is the CEOs lifestyle…he goes to the office when he likes.

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Re: subhead got cut off

I think you fixed the wrong thing. He has a good reason not to work from the office like his drones: he’s rich and can’t be arsed. This will be BAU for senior management, their friends and tennis partners and GET BACK TO YOUR FUCKING WORKSTATION OIK! For everyone else. It’s a lose/win situation!

Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'

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Facepalm

This is why I have a job

2023 and this shit still happens?

Good for me for what I do…bad for people fucked over by an unbelievably poor system.

AI will replace us all…yeah right…this was a problem 20 years ago…another 20 and I’ll retire and people will still be pulling shit like this.

Do better!!!!

Saying they should have used MS Access instead of Excel for this application is like saying the person responsible for cleaning the Golden Gate Bridge should use a hairbrush instead of a toothbrush…these are desktop applications not enterprise data management tools!

City council Oracle megaproject got a code red – and they went live anyway

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Presumably someone’s bonus was tied to the retiring of old and implementing new. Job done!

Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor

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Re: “Google,” who dat?

I’d that a quote from Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse now?

PhD student guilty of 3D-printing 'kamikaze' drone for Islamic State terrorists

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Re: Looks like something a 10 year old designed!

Being an Islamic extremist and being thick aren’t mutually exclusive unfortunately.

Also self funded phds are self funded.

UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement

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Re: Sovereignty

THEY TOOK OUR JERBS!

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Pirate

Re: Aw come on

The British system is far worse. No anti SLAPP and libel tourists from dictatorships and kleptocracies come to London to sue journalists, human rights activists and any other little people.

95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers

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Trollface

Shocked

Nobody saw this coming. I am flabbergasted. Clearly NFTs are just better than fiat and are so much more fungible. My friend Brad sold me an nft of an adorable Roger smoking crack for $20k and now you say it’s worthless? Whatever.

Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

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So

Windows 11 doesn’t recognise my aging Samsung printer. They talk the talk…but they don’t walk the walk

Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia

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Terminator

Re: So Musk has blood on his hands

I think it was Shakespeare who wrote “they’re still fucking guns and they still fire fucking bullets “.

An armour piercing round from a shitty tank in the right place is still an armour piercing round.

Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads

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Another win for Brexit

“In the EU, as required by law, the notification is an invitation to opt-in to interest-based ads via Topics.”

Another Brexit dividend…why would I want the hassle of opting IN to something which Google knows I’ll love.

FUCK privacy.

IBM Cloud to 'uplift' prices by up to 29 percent

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Prices go up in areas with high inflation. Stop the presses.

I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation

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Re: Outlook...

I wish I’d been to collage to study English.

More UK cops' names and photos exposed in supplier breach

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Re: "Security measures have been taken by the MPS as a result of this report," the statement said

I believe there was no money left for lasers…it is said that they are both mutated and Ill tempered

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And if you DO trip, don’t get accidentally rolled up in the loose carpet and hit those loose rubber hoses on the way down

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Re: "Security measures have been taken by the MPS as a result of this report," the statement said

I think they cut the sharks in the last budget. Outsourced to Anchovies I believe…more cost effective

World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems

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Re: Everything is impossible until someone does it

I’m going with something climate related.

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Not sure what a wheel is, or its purpose. I’m enjoying this hot yellow stuff I made with some sticks.

Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI

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Happy

Re: Unsettle law

I'll have you know the MP pay board is 100% independent and definitely not in thrall to the merry-go-round of corporate pay and mutual back scratching. Whatever our hard working MPs get paid I am 100% sure it is 100% worth every penny. 100%. /s

Elon Musk's Twitter moves were 'reaffirming' says Reddit boss amid API changes

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Re: I suspect that Twitter has a profitable future ahead of it

Sounds valid and rational to me.

Not sure on actual cost savings vs not paying for stuff. I'd be interested to see what twitter needs data centre wise vs what it has vs what it pays for. You can't just stiff your suppliers indefinitely.

On the engineering solutions front, do Twitter have an R&D function that would be able to progress those engineering solutions to reduce costs? That sounds like something someone else would do and Twitter would lease/buy in whatever they manufacture. Wouldn't this be largely what any competent company would do, not specifically Twitter?

I don't know about the business focused leader thing...I'll take your word for it, but the upshot appears to be:

1) Twitter had too many staff that cost too much and weren't required

2) Twitter had too much hardware that cost too much and wasn't required

I guess the proof of these statements will be in whether the service continues to be a service in the medium/long term.

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Devil

Re: Reddit's CEO doesn't realize

As soon as Facebook "works out" how to make money out of WhatsApp I'll ditch it like a politician in a COVID enquiry...it won't be for my benefit!

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WTF?

Re: Nobody Mentions Why the Mods Are Upset

How does one suck off an ego?

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Re: I suspect that Twitter has a profitable future ahead of it

I'm interested!

What combination of things?

Over 100,000 compromised ChatGPT accounts found for sale on dark web

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Joke

Re: Is this worse that other products?

Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?

Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse

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Joke

Along with the early-middle, middle, middle-late and late internet.

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Re: Won't be pR0n.

Mike Strutter called, he wants his IP money!

Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy

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FAIL

We need to look closer to home for a real low point.

Namely the Lancashire town of Nelson.

Patricia Hannah-Wood was named the winner but...er...she didn't win...the wrong name was announced. The Tory Julie Green expected Pat to step down (since she had lost), but Pat is not for turning! Win or not, she's got her seat and it's her constituents' problem! ...local democracy in action! Your vote really does matter...unless it doesn't.

I guess there's no IT angle to this shit show though.

British Airways, Boots, BBC payroll data stolen in MOVEit supply-chain attack

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...or did they? The truth will out.

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Flame

Re: Ahhhhh outsourcing

What's your point? They still "saved" the money...all that's happened is all of their employees personal data is all over the internet...no biggie...a year's supply of Experian credit checker will be enough to sort all that out.

The cost to the business of this breach is...zero. They don't care.

Yaccarino takes wheel at Twitter early as advertising woes become public

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Re: I expect the landlords to continue to be stiffed on rent.

Only if the interweb link is disconnected...and maybe the air supply.

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Re: Wolves at the door

What meat is there? Does Twitter have an R&D department? Does it control lots of IP/Patents? Genuine question. Not sure ex ad revenue can be liquidated. Maybe it was that tat that the chief twat was flogging on ebay...ebay signs and merch and such...might be a lean corpse for the creditors to fight over.

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Angel

I don't know about that...it is pretty funny.

Crypto catastrophe strikes some Atomic Wallet users, over $35M thought stolen

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Coat

Re: Stop calling it crypto -- it is crypto-currency

I liked the other thread where it was called "Kleptocurrency". That made me happy.

UK tech industry pushing up salaries – but UI devs out of luck

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Re: How are these going rates?

Sounds like envy. Influencers are a tiny percentage of the overall work force and most people don’t give a toss about what they do.

Your analysis is likely overly simplistic. The other day when banks offered 100% mortgages as a solution to the deposit problem , some dick head said they can’t buy a house because one isn’t available local to them. That’s a massive fail and shows a cringey level of entitlement.

Under 30s are more than capable of being crippled by mortgage debt just like over 30s.

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So £60k is not a low salary. £80k plus puts you in the top 5% of earners nationally. There are lots of jobs that need high skill and intelligence so I’m guessing a few of those in that 5% aren’t IT folk.

AI, extinction, nuclear war, pandemics ... That's expert open letter bingo

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Terminator

Nothing cynical there. Feels like a letter written by the NRA talking about the dangers of guns.

BianLian ransomware crew goes 100% extortion after free decryptor lands

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WTF?

Re: Let's take full control of our borders!

I’m a remoaner.

What has membership of the EU got to do with this specifically?

Dropbox drops 16% of staff, points finger at hard-up customers and AI

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FAIL

Re: These transitions are never easy

That’s not HR, that’s c-suite grade bullshit.

Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a delusion little seen in this day and age.

Echo chamber, emperor’s new clothes. AI. Whatever.

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch flown to US for HPE fraud trial

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Re: And now, what's really up with this.

As Private Eye would likely say, damn that pesky due process. Outsourcing justice when we’re all destined for the sunlit uplands? I bet it was EU laws that made it impossible to convict fraudsters…can’t think of any other plausible explanation other than the entire shit show of a country is run on massive fraud and this is the US saving our blushes

Capita admits some pension data 'likely' to have been accessed in March breach

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Boffin

Re: Stupid

If you upgrade, might I suggest a T1 Line, that is if you can find an IP router compatible with your token ring LAN configuration.

Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster

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Re: The old old story?

Whatever the system they’ll be a back end uploader. I remember my migration and the complete anti climax of the data just flowing in. Took about half a day. We’d done it 4 times before then. The system was fully backed up before hand as a rollback if it went south. Shocking, shocking planning.

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Wow

They broke the cardinal rule of ERP implementation: everyone gets paid on time, full stop.

Also…some kind of non production system is in order?

I’d love to know what hideous manual tasks they were performing that couldn’t be completed in time. I vaguely remember CSV uploads of historical data and metadata but this was in the dark ages of 2010…this is 2023 where I assume they had an army of administrators keying in their forecasts and budgets and only realised nobody knew how to use the system and that the god awful web interface was a piece of shit after they started. Ooops.

Anyway, can’t AI just do this routine implementation now? What’s with the meat sacks getting in the way of our glorious new masters?

The end of Microsoft-brand peripherals is only Surface deep

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Not great

I replaced my Curve mouse/keyboard combo with a Comfort 50/50 setup. Horrible ambidextrous brick of a mouse, ok keyboard for around 100 quid. Not good, both buffer and suffer interference issues. Have to use my Logitech mk backup keyboard and bought a Logitech H5 hero…all wired. MS are dead to me

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