Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺

Analyst, engineer, wordsmith, early mediæval historian, beer judge: I write, break, fix, make and drink things.😏
Also @[email protected] & @bryangb.bsky.social

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

There was a time when we all used #tape, and yes, most of those use-cases are obsolete (anyone still using their Walkman?).
But in the world of data storage, it has never gone away - and it keeps finding new uses, as we were reminded this week.

[Freeform Dynamics @freeformcentral]

New on our @ComputerWeekly blog, there's many ways to build modern tape storage into your ESG & data governance plans & @Hammerspace_Inc has just added one more: treat tape as an equal.
@bryan_gb asks, How much more will it take to convince the sceptics?
https://t.co/cZQsMKh2x9

[Freeform Dynamics @freeformcentral]

Are you investing in generative AI? Many are, but what does it even mean - is it direct, indirect, something else...?
A clear view here should help a lot with seeing where the real value lies, writes @Dale_Vile on our @ComputerWeekly blog
https://t.co/XA2pSjM6sF

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

Pay doctors fairly!
Junior doctors are only "junior" compared to senior consultants - they are fully-trained medics responsible for patients' life and death...

[Katie Hutchinson @kt__hutchinson]

Monday I was the only F1 covering all medical wards at work. There was a cardiac arrest after my shift ended which I attended. Tuesday, I finished my shift performing CPR on a gentleman who deteriorated unexpectedly. I was the one who decided to escalate. (1/2)

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

Based on this video, it looks as if Microsoft's dedicated CoPilot key will replace what's the right Ctrl key on my keyboards.
Has MS forgotten about left-handers? 🤔
https://t.co/kaRVmhRMdN

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

The ability -given the right software- of NPUs to boost the performance of key functions, while actually using *less* power, has the potential to make them a must-have for laptop buyers at the very least.
#Intel #AMD #Qualcomm #Apple

[Freeform Dynamics @freeformcentral]

What's the point of AI-enabling a laptop or desktop when there's already so much AI compute power in the cloud? On our @ComputerWeekly blog, @bryan_gb explains some of the key whys and wherefores...
https://t.co/2iSvMXykkU

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

Utterly scandalous and shocking, yet utterly predictable given the pigheaded clowns in charge at the PO.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

A Christmas #PostOfficeScandal. When the Post Office finally paid compensation to its victims, it landed them with a tax bill. It promised to cover this - but failed. 1,100 postmasters will have a £10k tax bill on 31 Jan with no help at all.

Important 🧵:

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

@MSW_researcher @justrena He's just playing - or trying to - to 'his' authoritarian MPs, voters and newspapers. Like a lot of Tories, he's knee-jerk politics personified. Yeah, eejits the lot of 'em.

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

#VMware users and resellers - how's the #Broadcom deal working out for you so far? 🤔

[Freeform Dynamics @freeformcentral]

If you're a #VMware user or partner, then you -like us-were probably relieved when the uncertainty over the #Broadcom deal finally ended.

But now you, like us, are probably back to being confused, as Broadcom appears to chuck it all up in the air again...
https://t.co/yyrYw9ZtA4

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

Is this something you've tried - or seen tried? Would you recruit in ways like this?

[Freeform Dynamics @freeformcentral]

New on our @ComputerWeekly blog, a meeting with @OpenUK_uk leaves our @bryan_gb wondering - could, or should, you build #OpenSource project work into your #JobSearch?
https://t.co/Egoj2khoB1

[Freeform Dynamics @freeformcentral]

After 18 months and challenges from antitrust authorities around the world, @Broadcom has finally acquired @VMware. On our @ComputerWeekly blog this week, @bryan_gb looks at what Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has planned for the combined company.
https://t.co/niDffIQTVM

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

@phoenixcomicuk More to the point, Squid Bits is back on top form!! Great job @VenkmanProject 🤣

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

@DocCSarah @nstaylor601 @theAliceRoberts Yes indeed, in my experience most kids already know what minibeasts are - and surely most adults can guess!

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

@WebDevLaw Dear gods... We were already /cringing/ at this kind of ad when I was working in tech media way back in the 80s. 🤯

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

What's your take on #PrivateAI - much needed, or too late?

[Freeform Dynamics @freeformcentral]

In part 2 of our intro to #PrivateAI on our @ComputerWeekly blog, we look at some of the key questions to consider, including where to base it and why you might need to get model-focused.
https://t.co/LhDsJulPO7

[Freeform Dynamics @freeformcentral]

New on our @ComputerWeekly blog - can we deal with the fear that #GenerativeAI will reveal our #IntellectualProperty by taking our #AI private?
https://t.co/tip7odvbU7

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

Just so you know, I read all your emails, but not in a browser.
I tried to reply to say so but your email was sent from an address that refuses email - which is pretty ironic when you're complaining about people not reading their email... 🤣

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

Hi @CapitalOneUK I just got this in an email from you: "We've noticed you've not been opening our emails recently."
OK, I'm curious - how do you think you know this? Tracking links or some other form of spyware? Do you have "return receipt" set on? 🤔

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

Nice to see one of my - admittedly tentative! - predictions coming true. And yes, it seems we have the EU to thank again, at least partly anyway. 🇪🇺
https://t.co/X0w5UbKagc

[9to5Mac @9to5mac]

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year https://t.co/ravijP9ynR by @ChanceHMiller

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

@s8n Because it's the *love* of money that is supposedly "the root of all evil", not money itself.

[Bryan Betts 🇪🇺🇬🇧💙🇩🇪🇪🇺 @bryan_gb]

@ThamesPathNT @liz_lizanderson @LondonPortAuth @_TheWhiteSwan @KaptainKwack @TW11Harbour @ruths_gallery And an even higher tide is forecast for tomorrow afternoon!