Posts by Snow Wombat

Here come the Gozers!

Yup.. looks like the rainbow hair'ed mafia is sinking their claws deeper into MS..

Except...

Silicon Valley and co can not be trusted, not to abuse those real time censorship tools for political ends.

So no, this is a terrible idea.

Now do the Media, and Silicon valley CEO's

Anyone wanna take bets?

We need to start a betting pool, as to how long it will take for the Rainbow hairs, to use that CoC to force him out, and insert one of their own into the leadership.

I give it 3 months.

It's a better CoC than the Rainbow hairs can produce.

Well This CoC would lead to a lot more productivity, and good behaviour than the one the Rainbow Hair'ed NPCs keep pushing on every other project.

You'd spend more time coding, and being nice to each other, and less time in flame wars about pronouns and which of the 7 million genders is the most oppressed.

The sign of a dying company

When they devote time to petty stuff like this, you know the ship is sinking.

Do you think their system will understand twatwaffle?

I hate it here.

So we get all out official release stuff 6-8 months behind everyone else, and they wonder why we pirate?

Even if we do wanna watch it legitimately, local streaming / pay TV services are prohibitively expensive, where you have to sign up to 3 different streaming services @15AUD / Month Each, and Foxtel at 60AUD / month

Even then, all the crap they have is on repeat, and with the new stuff being played with that 6-8 month lag, during peak ratings season.

Just means that everyone will just start sharing sites via other means, or like me invest in a VPN proxy service, so I can just search as if I am in a non insane country.

All the major parties are utterly inept at this sort of stuff, so I can't even vote for the "other guy"

Sadly the local chapter of the pirate party has been taken over by the Rainbow hair'ed pronoun crowd, so they are effectively an extension of the Greens now.

Well they certainly aren't...

spending money on their coding teams, to make a product that doesn't crash.

But then again Adobe has a monopoly that market, so why try?

Just keep borg'ing up any sort of competitor, or tangentially attached service.

Implying...

That the "correct" type of devs have access.

Meh it's Twitter. I assume the whole platform is compromised and never discuss anything important in DMs

well.. I'd say go to Linux..but..

Now that the rainbow hairs have taken over the project, Linux will be stone dead in it's current format, and just be maintained by the likes of Red Hat, and other corporate forks.

The FOSS community will be too busy in flamewars over the proper use of pronouns, to produce anything useful.

I don't see this catching on though, organisations would have to re write / replace FAR too many wheezing internal apps for this to be worthwhile.

Whelp..

Time to put in that home SAN expansion, make use of the shiny new 14TB disks that are out, and go back to pirating everything I want to keep.

HOW??!!?

HOW DO THEY KEEP GETTING WORK?!!?

SERIOUSLY!?!

In before 10 Billion dollar cost blow out.

Rollups suck...

They suck when one of the KB's breaks something critical, in a 20 patch KB rollup, and you have to uninstall the entire thing, then re install the 19 patches manually.

Idiotic.

yet it was gamers

Who were screaming fixed wireless would be a terrible idea, given that pretty much every comms and network engineer I know, is also some form of gamer

I can take a stab at it..

In no particular order;

1. Usability sucks

2. Massive capex required to replace incompatible kit

3. No real business case, when everything is sitting behind a thumping big NAT / NetScaler.

4. The additional cost of making sure every wheezing business app is IPV6 compliant

5. The cost of MAKING all those wheezing old business apps IPV6 compliant.

6. General business inertia to resist change, and avoid risk.

(involving, for example, nudity, bestiality, pornography, offensive language, graphic violence, or criminal activity).

Based on which locale's laws?

What is considered bad in the US, might be A ok (if somewhat distasteful) in many other countries.

This will be an enforcement nightmare.

Great!

So coding will have to develop the same level of regulation and standards as real engineering.

About damn time..

Woooo not me!!!

Yaaay!!! I picked the provider that doesn't lick windows in it's spare time! ^_^

proving that....

Morgan Stanley doesn't know their arse from a hole in the ground..

Seriously... people got paid to come to that idiot conclusion?

Only way that businesses are going to back to on prem iron is if the economics of Cloud become horrifically bad, because they would have to rebuild all their on prem infrastructure from scratch.

That would mean re hiring a LOT of IT bods, and spending a LOT of money, plus the disruption, risk etc.

Yeah... not happening.

Ahh boomers..

They can't into technology legislation!

Mind you, I am so happy will not be around when "Generation Triggered" is writing the laws.

/shudder

Database normalisation warning

Wouldn't the constant appearance of "Pitbull" Cause a database normalisation warning?

Mines the one fireproof lining.

They copied and pasted the Geek Feminism CoC

As a Windows Admin, I have to say nice job Social Justice warriors!

At this rate, you'll have completely killed Open source by 2020, having them devolve into bickering pie fights over respecting peoples pronouns, and driven all the quality coders and app devs over to the dark side.

Doing a better job of destroying OSS projects than Sun, MS and Apple combined!

Blood in the water attracts the sharks

Yeah, this is just opportunistic ambulance chasers looking for a pay day.

Class action lawsuits in the US are pretty infamous for being a massive payday for lawyers, and giving very little back to the affected consumers.

Holy Hell...

Why would you outsource something THAT important, to THAT pack of clowns?

I am in the process of re certifying a bunch of IT stuff, and my experience is that about 25% of the time I rock up and their systems are down or having issues and I have to re schedule my exam or sit around waiting to see if they can un F**k things so I can do said exam.

Complete clown show.

(El reg, we need to update the icons. We need a "bozo the clown" on for stories like this

Let me shorten that for you

If you have to any actual REAL work

1 through 6. - Don't.

Except...

Except when companies implement "blind hiring" practices and removed the Affirmative action bias, that trend reverses.

Given how the likes of Google and Yahoo are (were) perfroming, economic darwinism will win in the end.

Peak Code Monkey

This just means the market is saturated with wannabe hipster coders, learning web based languages.

Couple that with the UK and the US either offshoring code to places like India, Vietnam, Phillipines etc while also importing masses of H1B type coders.. no wonder the pay scale is in the toilet.

It beings.

While I disagree with what TDS says, I will defend their right to say it.

This is a terrifying development that domain registrars are acting as censor, and stating that certain types of content can not even have a domain.

This is the beginning of the slippery slope, because in every other realm of the Internet, we have seen this behaviour. It starts with "Hate speech" but very quickly the scope creeps and we have all manner of things being banned, usually by a very narrow and vocal group of far left / Marxist / Social Justice types.

Unless registrars are presented with court paperwork demanding they take down a domain, they shouldn't be touched.

PR / Business reasons is just a cover for censorship.

As much as I hate nazis...

I am uncomfortable with domain registars pulling sites for political reasons. Unless I haven't paid my bills, or your have a court document... you shouldn't be pulling my domain for ANY reason.

This is one of those "Slippery slopes" where the big domain hosts are going to be pressured to pull domains of anyone the ruling political class doesn't like.

This is a bad thing, regardless of your political alignment.

I just want a nice amoral registar and host who will keep my site up, in return for the money I give them. Politics of the day be damned.