I think it even had tactical nukes perhaps also. This been three decades.

Automated factory Drone warfare with Terminator clones.

Screamers (1995)
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt011...

A military commander stationed off planet during an interplanetary war travels through the devastated landscape to negotiate a peace treaty, but discovers that the primitive robots they built to kill enemy combatants have gained sentience.
- Nicolas LeBlanc

This almost happened to our organization where one Indian worker interviewed fantastically for a position of a developer and then in further interviews we noticed that the person has changed and couldn't quite answer more questions after the initial technical interview and the worker kept on saying that he had a connection and camera problems in the later interviews and there was not a good clarity of picture in those interviews supposedly. The strong accent did not help either with the difficulty in understanding him.

However, the manager kept going with the process since he's not the brightest tool in the shed in our Peter Principal sociopathic promotive organization tree.

However, when he asked that new worker to come have lunch with us in person to meet the team and then pick up his badge and his laptop. Suddenly that worker couldn't make it and asked for the laptop to be shipped to Chicago even though he understood that we were across the country in a different location.

Penny Arcade - Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (GIFT)
https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

I've had my run-in with Internet assholes about 25-years ago while writing a Quake Console documentation website on PlanetQuake, and started getting hate emails for no apparent reason from assholes. Shut down that comment section and email link because of the abusive emails that wouldn't stop that weren't even on-topic to the site and documentation.

Then when social (misinformation) media showed up on the horizon, this made me stay the hell away from people on the Internet, and also unrelatadly because it was all about your data being harvested and sold.

This article describes what a nightmare workplace looks like that everybody should avoid. If you work in one of these companies, start looking for other work before you are no longer able to mentally function and the amount of prescription and non-prescription drugs overwhelms your system.

If you work in IT or do On-Call work then you will be asked to do something after hours and it's normal if there is an outage or some kind of a serious issue or a project is about to go live and you need extra preparation due to an unusual event, but if this is your constant workflow then you are screwed and also inefficient.

At the end of the article it throws the idea of being an agent boss where you use the Microsoft AI to do more useless AI slot production to help you work and produce more useless bullshit

I've used IRS Direct File for a few years now and successfully navigated it's weird interface and browser incompatibility (Firefox No, Chromium OK) problems to file moderetley complex taxes a few times.

It was a pretty good product that let me skip forms by mail submissions and I was able to do some daily complex filings with logs of ancillary forms well outside of the standard filings. Some years I'd be up to a dozen different forms also if I had to report additional IT consulting income and complex retirement account changes and distributions or conversions and NIIT taxes and excess SS credits.

It's sad to see this go away but with the current administration this is the least of my concerns as things are going to break at the cracks in the government services.

I'm not sure if breaking the government open is going to reveal the hidden puss of corruption and mismanagement within or instead create new avenues for the infection or corruption to take hold now that the rich, special interests, and corporations are at the operating table with their dirty hands inside the corpus.

http://freefilefillableforms.c...

That website doesn't work anymore and when trying to there before US Tax Day, April 15, 2025 this year it was stuck on a maintenance error. Now the website doesn't respond since the servers are likely shutdown.

Taskbar on the left of the screen please you idiots. When I have a dozen development apps opened I want to see the title bar names, not just fucking icons because sometimes I have multiple of the same app open doing different things.

Morons at Microsoft now.

Deprecating PowerShell in favor of retarded Python where white spaces matter. Everything is going GraphQL now also requiring non-defined json or yaml textual object structures.

Dumbassery of the highest degree.

Forcing new computers to use UEFI and TPM 2.0 for more DRM lockin.

CEO is a dumbass if he said that and is just blowing hot-air out of his ass.

We go for Dinner & Drinks on Movie Night at movie theaters in my area and we always shop around for the best dinner and drink experience. We eat good salads, pizzas, burgers, wings, and other semi-bar like foods and there with pretty decent drink and alcohol choices with plenty of specials and good variety.

Studio Movie Grill which was popular for a decade but then went down-hill fast in quality got replaced by a few of the other companies and they bought out their locations.

Star Cinema Grill is now in multiple locations with good drinks and food and replaced Studio Movie Grill in some locations completely along with building newer places with better screens and equipment. For middle-class normie families wanting a nicer experience then a MegaPlex like AMC or CineMark.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas are still around are have their own unique experiences and showings and cater to a younger audience with their non-blockbuster movie releases along with cartoon, anime, horror, sci-fi, and other old movie genre night series. More for Geeks than anyone else.

iPic Theaters is a luxury experience and price but in a very nice and comfortable setting and for really good and important releases we go there once in a while if the movie demands that level of expense to elevate the experience. For the Well-to-Do families since a night there is easly USD $100+ for a full movie, dinner, and drinks experience.

We don't go to AMC or CineMark since their food selection is atrocious and made of regular movie theather poped-fart-corn and crapchos or dried out single-serving greaseiazz. However, due to the competition from the other better chains they have had to up their game and get liquor licenses to open up full-service bars now for alcoholinc drinks, but their food selection is still reheated or microwaved crap.

We've been ripping out all of the IBM equipment and software out of our large Enterprise environment for the last decade, and we've been successful at getting rid of all of the crap that I mentioned because the old-timers who purchased IBM decades ago for our Enterprise have finally left or retired so all of the business contracts and connections could finally be severed without upsetting the upper management who are now gone.

IBM gave us free software if we purchased or maintained our existing contracts and almost a decade ago they took some of it and it took year to get it to work and function correctly and now it's taking a decade to rip it out of our systems because it's such unmaintainable crap and their consultants that have been outsourced are literally useless in getting it function or work or keep it updated. It took literally months for them to get even their fundamental software to work with the basic functionality.

Even a simple thing like an IBM. Same time chat client? They had us build over 80 servers where Microsoft old Lync chat, video, and voice client took one server for the entire Enterprise.

IBM WebSphere software is absolutely horrible to try to keep it working and maintained and it keeps breaking constantly and their search functionality hardly works. We're looking forward to dumping that whole thing since it's only used for our internal corporate website resources. And frankly, it's so bad. We're glad that at least we can click on links and they function half of the time.

Good riddance IBM you've done it to yourself. You basically off-shored and outsourced yourselves.

I've worked at so many places where after IBM somehow got in with their products, software, servers, or solutions because of some scummy backroom sales deals with someone who once was an IBMer that this just shows it's par-per-course for IBM >> HCL shift right the works workers also USA >> IND.

We're ripping out all IBM equipment and crappy software out of the enterprise environment because all of their products are just crap with even worse and incompetent offshored support that don't help or even know anything at all when they implement their solution poorly and broken and non-functional requiring so many extra contract hours to get working that it's costing dozens of times more than the original purchase cost and similar for implementation time scales.

Crappy IBM >> HCL products that we're removing and getting rid of as fast as possible.

Removing Out of the Environment

• SameTime
• BigFix
• WebSphere
• P-Series Servers
• X-Series Servers
• Mainframe Z-OS

This operating system is one of the slowest and the worst. Opening up Explorer and right clicking on a file takes seconds for the right menu to show and that's even the partial menu. When you do the shift, right click to open up the full advanced menu that takes forever also in the order of a few seconds .

Windows Explorer still crashes consistently and pretty constantly at least once a week for me. That is without any extra libraries loaded into it or any special right click menu options.

I can even make the default Windows library folders show up multiple times within themselves. If I browse around in a circular pattern, I can see documents inside documents inside documents library. And that is without using soft links or hard links or junction points. Just browsing around the correct way you can end up nesting multiple library folders inside themselves during browsing. A bug that hasn't been fixed since the original version of the Windows 11 Explorer. That's been so broken. It's not funny.

Switching Windows from one application to the next one is super slow if you're running more than a few applications, even if you have a 16 GB system and the applications are very low memory users with very small private memory area and very small working memory sizes .

The taskbar is locked to the bottom and can it be moved to any of the other edges of the window which is frustrating since I like my taskbar on the left and being able to read the window titles on all the apps that I have open, especially when I'm doing scripting and development which requires about a dozen applications open and being able to read the titles when I move between them on three vertical monitors.

But Microsoft is going to tell us how slow our computers are. So we need to spend more money on hardware when it is their operating system. That is just so god-awful slow like an old elderly dog moping around the house. There already is an application that does analysis on any type of slow boots. That'll tell you which driver or service is causing a slow boot to happen. And now they're going to tell us what other hardware is slow. They should look at their own operating system is getting worse.

Windows 10 is slow but at least it is usable. Windows 7 was faster and going back to Windows XP that was blazing fast. Windows 2000 was pretty slow compared to Old Windows NT, 3.51 and 4.0 . Windows 3.11 was reasonably fast in the user experience but it had some slowness on opening apps especially on old and slow systems and disk drives. MS-DOS was pretty blazingly fast for everything though except for network access but that is not the operating systems problem. That's just old computers trying to do network things in limited memory even after loading high all the drivers.

Windows 11 is just the slowest and the worst. The user experience is plagued by unnecessary delays and Windows Explorer is probably one of their worst and slowest apps .

I can still break the native apps like Windows Paint when doing simple markup on screenshots when reporting errors which happens so often, it's almost a daily task for me. If I do things quickly enough using shortcut keys, the apps lose context and don't know what to do. And I have to go and actually click the mouse in the correct places.

Yeah this was a very long time ago. I'll probably say close to 7 or 8 years ago. Yeah my friend it's not very computer literate so when I was over his house he asked me why is his Plex playback so slow and when I asked him to show me his configurations that I've never seen in the app before, I quickly browsed around and found something that said transcode videos. Don't remember at all what it was and once I turned it off his local Plex server was able to send the data the way it was and the local network. And suddenly all of his televisions in the house worked perfectly fine without being slower stuttering.

No, my friend did not read the fracking manual because he did not know what to look for. But I've had a few decades of video and audio and encoding and transcoding experience. So I kind of found the answer really quickly.

I thought it was a overpriced solution to what xBmc did at the time and to what Jellyfin does now.

Ask for being able to transverse NAT that is as simple as opening up a port or using upnp to let it open up a port on your server and then setting up dynamic DNS. Something that my friend did not know even existed or knew how to do because all he wanted was to install this software on his computer to play the local media on his television upstairs and in kitchen.

Yes, some of my friends were telling me about Plex and how you can install it on your own server as an app and then use it. But I looked at it once and refused to use it because I knew that it's going to get monetized and become subscription-ware.

I helped my friend fix a problem on his Plex server at home streaming in his home to another television that was too slow because his local connection was fast, but his local server was trying to transcode everything in real time slowing everything down to a crawl .

I looked at the software and realized that it's just a bunch of crap of real-time transcoding and media serving which could be done by a dozen other completely open source and freeware applications instead of this subscription piece of crap.

And now they're telling you that you cannot play your own personal media remotely without a fee. Just validates my point.

I used to work in NYC Finance and Chase did the same exact thing about 2-decades ago because they found the exact same problems with the cheaper outsourced consultants and contractors.

They even went full retard and actually did out-source almost all of their employees for a few years only to have to back-source and bring them back in-house as employees again after they suffered from some major project failures and outages. Of course those people who got sling-shotted lost their seniority and work time towards their pension so everything got reset so they got screwed over twice, until their pensions were cut again to be screwed for a third time.

NYC Finance IT Sucks! It's the roller-coaster of job hopping just like Silicon Valley. Everyone has a 1-3 year tenure as a consultant or contractor and then they bounce somewhere else, except for the mediocre FTE employee lifers who stick around and lick boots and are the "yes" people at every meeting but don't actually do anything except attend meetings to keep busy and send important sounding status emails.

Below is an article about it from 2005.

Outsourcing–and Backsourcing–at JPMorgan Chase
https://www.cio.com/article/25...

Outsourcing–and Backsourcing–at JPMorgan Chase
Sep 01, 2005
Outsourcing

JPMorgan Chase’s decision to first outsource IT and then bring it back in-house stands as a cautionary tale for any CIO considering an outsourcing megadeal.

When David Rosario got the official notice at the end of 2002 that his job would be outsourced to IBM, he was not surprised.

Rumors had been circulating for months at JPMorgan Chase, where he had worked as a network engineer since 2001, that the company would be signing away much of IT to an external services company.

The $5 billion IBM-JPMorgan contract was heralded at the time as the largest outsourcing deal on record, and it received a great deal of publicity in the mainstream and trade press as the wave of the future. JPMorgan itself had trumpeted the deal as a “groundbreaking” partnership that would cut costs, increase innovation and benefit its IT workers. ...

Outsourcing on the Outs at JP Morgan Chase
https://www.cfo.com/news/outso...

Outsourcing on the Outs at JP Morgan Chase
Published Sept. 17, 2004
By Ed Zwirn

About 4,000 technology workers and contractors currently employed by International Business Machines Corp. must be starting to feel a little dizzy.

The workers had been transferred from JP Morgan Chase & Co. to IBM as part of an outsourcing agreement hailed as “the largest of its kind” less than two years ago. At the time, JP Morgan Chase called the deal “groundbreaking” and said that the $7.2 billion deal would last seven years, according to the Inquirer, a London-based newspaper.

Effective January 1, however, those workers will return to the bank’s payroll, according to a statement by the companies. The reason for the turnabout, wrote JP Morgan Chase, is that the company’s merger with Bank One this past January “created a new firm with significantly greater capacity to manage its own technology and infrastructure.” The bank added that “after a rigorous review, the merged firm concluded it now has the significant scale, enhanced capabilities, tools and processes to build its own global infrastructure services organization.”

Some of the previously outsourced portions of its technology infrastructure that JP Morgan Chase planned to “insource” include data centers, help desks, distributed computing, data networks, and voice networks, according to the announcement. The bank added that IBM remains one of the largest key technology partners for JPMorgan Chase and will continue to provide IT services and products to a number of its major businesses.

I think you got it wrong my sweet summer child.

The Federal bureau of investigation and all of the alphabet agencies have been using something called Parallel Construction to create another chain of evidence that they can use to present for getting an indictment in front of a grand jury. While the real evidence that they obtained to identify the actual subject or person of interest came from illicit means such as wiretapping the entire world or other illegal ways.

They just create another chain of evidence that looks all legit and say they had a big break and the other chain of evidence is the one that really lead them to the suspect and that's why they're using that one and presenting that one in front of the grand jury and the judge. While the real evidence is hidden because it was a part of the fruit of the forbidden tree so it is all tainted and they never speak about it.