* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy

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FAIL

Never forget this saying, it sums it up perfectly

"A future where A.I. creates art and writing and humans still do the dirty work is not the future we deserve."

GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes

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Re: Looking forward

Pretty sure it's just going enshitify everything right through a turbo-jet.

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Devil

I love the smell of vaproware in the morning!

It's the smell... of profit!

Space Force boss warns 'the US will lose' without help from Musk and Bezos

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Re: If that's true, then we're doomed.

Both of course.

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He what?

I can smell backhanded brown envelope from here.

75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively

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Re: Mark my words

It's going to be FAR worse than that.

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Re: Maybe for writing tests ?

"Welcome to Costco! I love you!"

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Re: Let’s hope it improves

You can be sure it will NOT get better.

Have you seen the last 20 years?

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And it all fell GIGO to bits!

Riff of the old phrase, "It all fell gloriously to bits."

Here's another: "Yo! We heard you like GIGO, so we added more GIGO to your GIGO! That's right! We pimped your GIGO!"

Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now

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Googlesoft?

Hard to tell the difference between MS and google these days what with all the EEE* over the last 10 years.

(*embrace, extend, extinguish for you newbs)

Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source

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Re: It's complicated.

What's to wonder? Of course it is.

And the MS fanbois eat it up and ask for seconds.

Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room

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Some people have all the luck

Best I was ever able to get was very nice, large hotel room by the pool and an unlimited expense to eat and drink for about 4 days while on temp assignment.

Unfortunately I had a screamingly painful toothache the whole time and no money for a dentist. (U.S. at the time. Dental was, and still is, stupid expensive) I was not able to partake of ANY eating or drinking except the bare minimum to sustain life.

Story of my life.

Ex-Microsoft engineer gets seven years after trying to hire hitman for double murder

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Re: Headlines

Sir, this is Arby's.

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Re: Headlines

6 downvotes?

I see the MS fanbois have arrived.

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Re: Fascinated by the basis of the GoFundMe

My guess would be she realized just how screwed she is (financially and reputation at least) and had a "psychotic break".

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Re: What a moron!

Lots of stupid in this world.

It's another reason we can't have nice things.

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Re: Couple of things

The cult of MS will do that to you.

96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers

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Exactly.

Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system?

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Re: I'll do it!

Ah, but it appears you DO have experience!

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Worse, of course.

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Re: Won't Somebody think of the Stakeholders?

Not to mention missing out on the backhanders from build-out.

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources

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Re: Did you ever hear about...

And there it is.

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Who could have seen this coming?

WHOCOULDAKNOWED?!

SharePoint logs are easily circumvented and Microsoft is dragging its heels

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You've just summed up the last 30 years of MS.

Chrome Enterprise Premium promises extra security – for a fee

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Re: Good guys Google

Naturally!

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The benefit directly depends on how much stock you have.

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Re: Does this already constitute a racket

Modern day capitalism in a nutshell.

"Nice thing you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it."

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Not soon enough.

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FAIL

The browser as a platform?

It was a bad idea 2 decades ago and still is.

WhyTF do we need an OS on TOP of the OS?

God save of all from this Idiocracy.

H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid efforts to crack down on abuse

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Exactly.

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Re: When did the change happen?

Exactly.

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Re: When did the change happen?

Round about the 1990s. It was the response to techs, engineers and programmers salaries rising.

Can't have skilled people being paid too much, now can we? So flood the labor market.

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Childcatcher

Shocked I tell you!

Well, not that shocked.

Er, well, not shocked at all actually.

Never mind. Carry on.

Got an unpatched LG 'smart' television? It could be watching you back

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Smart TVs

Dumb idea.

Arm CEO warns AI's power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030

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Re: peak humanity

God is working on that as speak!

Seen the weather lately?

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Mushroom

All to the benefit of...

... nobody but the rich.

San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks

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Re: Are you sure you got that date right? Was not it 88?

And PCI was introduced around 1993.

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Re: zip

I'm amazed it worked at all!

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Hell there was EISA before that and PCI was introduced in 1993!

ISA lasted until almost 2002!

I remember when having a 200MB drive was considered awesome in the 1990s!

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Re: Don't knock 'em...

In what world was this? I distinctly remember hundreds of unusable floppies from my youth.

And do NOT get me started about ZIP drives or chained SCSI.

UK businesses shockingly unaware of how to handle security threats

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To the surprise of...

... no one.

AI could crash democracy and cause wars, warns Japan's NTT

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Using 100 words when two will do?

Sounds like most people I've ever met.

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No! I am Spartacus!

US insurers use drone photos to deny home insurance policies

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Pirate

Lovely innit?

Corporate America is a one way street. For the corporations.

Crimson Permanent Assurance has nothing on these guys!

Change Healthcare faces second ransomware dilemma weeks after ALPHV attack

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Are you effing kidding?

Why am I not surprised?

What can be done to protect open source devs from next xz backdoor drama?

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Re: if systemd is so bad why is everyone using it?

That's nutz!

Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there's a get out of jail card

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Re: Why stop at cloud?

3 downvotes for stating facts?

This is why we can't have nice things.

Have my upvote.

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

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Locked in?

Is this the same government that breaks any promise it feels like whenever it feels like?

THAT same government? No, it can't be. It must be some other government. Right?

AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of surveyed executives

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Sorry?

Says who?

Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal

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Re: When did a competitor forcing your customers to pay more become a good thing.

Apples are NOT oranges.