Posts by Evil Auditor 2940 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2009
I'd be happy if only accountants were the problem. My struggle is, when I'm forced to futilely explain to a colleague that they cannot simply trust what comes out of a GenAI.
In Idiocracy, at least, if I remember correctly, they did recognise that there was a problem and tried to find someone who could help. We're not there.
That reminded me of the innocent fun I used to have with loosely (lousily?) protected Linux boxen at university. Remote logon to a fellow students machine and initiate shutdown with a ten second delay (or was it five, or three?) and watch and hear their reactions... No real damage done as all that was going on was students torturing C++ or vice versa. And it took an astonishing long time before someone figured to check the log...
I'm a thorough atheist but Jesus Freaking Christ! Some people here need to take their medication. Or get off the interwebs. Guys, it's not healthy to consume that amount of misinformation. It's enough that in real life I already have to deal with some "conspirationalised" people and some I like to call Putin's Suppositories.
And before one or both of you misinterprets my comment as a call for censorship, it is not. Feel free to continue posting whatever you want. As I feel free to comment on that the way I see fit.
Tech was simpler then. And mischievous pranks did not end with summary dismissal.
Indeed. Mid 90s I wrote a tiny program and e-mailed its executable to a nice colleague. All the program did was displaying a funny message (as decoy, probably it was a silly joke).
...and then check whether it ran from a certain location. If the program ran anywhere else, copy itself to this location and add a line in autoexec.bat to call the program at that location. Else, initiate a reboot.
And the next morning the reboot cycle began...
I'm becoming one of those crusty old farts I knew when I was starting out in computing. The ones who thought that Ethernet would never take off and that 9,600 baud was high speed...
I'm becoming one of those, too. And I know why. Partially, because I'm getting old. And partially because of stuff like this: The Truth About AI.
Turbines built for conventional aircraft, he asserts, can’t be adapted into datacenter power plants
I must have been hallucinating then, at a time, about twenty years in the past, when I believe that I saw -and heard and felt and smelt- a couple of Rolls Royce aircraft jet engines that were adapted for stationary use to power a large data centre. Surely, Blake Scholl must know for he is more cleverer than I ever was.
I wish I had a job where it was explicitly forbidden and people were forced to store and analyse data in a real database...
Absolutely.
Unfortunately, like many others, all we get are lousy (customizable) reports on lousy data in a lousy tool with very limited connection to financial data. Hence, I'm really glad that I can fiddle around with Excel and its native array functions.
Still what is it with Managers and training costs?
A sense of control, of being in charge. Training costs is something the hugest simpleton amongst manglement can "understand" and "manage".
Such as the company that compiled a exhaustive list of trainings, which would be supported in full or partially. On this list are also a considerable number of CAS, which change their names nearly every semester. Countless hours have been wasted with a) changing some relevant training on that crap list and b) justifying and approving specific trainings.
You are, unfortunately, mostly right. Privatim is the association of public sector privacy officers and their resolution doesn't mean any decision really. They do, however, have some influence in their respective jurisdiction. Let's hope they exert the power they have and that public administration follows... (Not holding my breath though.)
The software vendor uses the Windows Insider program to try out unreleased versions of its flagship operating system on its army of unpaid testers.
Paid or unpaid - there's someone testing this manure?! Anyhow, I'm pretty sure they spent more money on the anniversary wallpaper than on testing the program.
No need to have someone to talk to; it's the frame for the next extortion business. Instead of asking for my money to not distribute footage of my inexistent webcam, it will be "we recorded the sound of you watching contemporary interactive adult entertainment and detected rhythmic hand movement...
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