Perhaps their best talents are in other countries, enjoying the fruits of their capabilities and higher earning power.
Posts by SnOOpy168
51 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Apr 2022
Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts
Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard
Alibaba opts out of Ant Group stock buyback
China's homegrown airliner makes first paid-for flight
Owner of 'magic spreadsheet' tried to stay in the Lotus position until forced to Excel
I was sent to a 12-person local brand of a financial company to assist in the email migration to O365.
Despite reminders of housekeeping weeks before our arrival, there are a few oldtimers who just ignored such emails.
Anyway, there was this old timer of almost 15+ years in the company who looked constipated when we came to her desk. She has a "don't touch my emails" look in her face, despite ours, her supervisor's, and the HoD's reassurance that she will not be let go if the email is missing.
The real reason is that she has accumulated over 30 GB of deleted items and a 50 GB inbox over the years. Keeping them there, just in case she needs to look up stuff. To backup her mailbox, it took almost a day. My colleague and I skipped lunch and dinner to ensure that nothing happened during the backup process. Gosh, finally home at 3 a.m.
Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise
Minnesota governor OKs broad right-to-repair tech law
Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams
China space agency reckons Zhurong Mars rover has probably been done in by dust
Chinese city of Changshu to issue salaries in digital yuan
Beijing lists the stuff it wants generative AI to censor
Google Pay mistakenly rains free cash on netizens
When Google cost cutting goes molecular: Staples, sticky tape, and PC sweating
Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years
China sticks national security probe into America's Micron
Ukrainian cops nab suspects accused of stealing $4.3m from victims across Europe
Diving DRAM prices are a problem not even AI can solve
China urges Apple to improve security and privacy
Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review
BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it
Microsoft: Patch this severe Outlook bug that Russian miscreants exploited
Bing AI feels like ChatGPT stuffed into a suit – not the future
China sought control of submarine cables to spy, says Micronesia
Singapore admits it should have explained COVID app data could be used by cops
Atlassian to dump 500 – by email – in the name of 'rebalancing'
As Big Tech lays off staff, TSMC swoops in to hire 6,000
China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency
Starlink performance sees a bump, and so do prices
while I can feel the difference between the 2 to 100 Mbps jump. I can't tell the difference if the ISP drops to 40 Mbps.
as long as my YouTube and Netflix isn't jumping or buffering, which I think at 30 Mbps for 4K video is ok.
But as a business user, I need a stable connection with acceptable latency.
Hands up anyone happy with Uncle Sam's $50B IT mega-job. Anyone?
FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab
US sanctions fail to stop Russia connecting with Cisco hardware
Cisco's biggest competition, is their own refurbished "Cisco Refresh – Certified Remanufactured Equipment"
Recalled those days decade+ ago, I hand carried a rather heavy checkpoint firewalls from HK to China, for a very grateful friend. Only to find out that I had earned myself a generous dinner thereafter.
These days with drop ship, e-commerce etc. Heavens knows who the final users are. It's a glass bottle theory - used for a taste of 7-up or a molotov cocktail
US warns aging air-traffic control code won't be fixed until 2030
Well, that means that folks at FAA or related sub agencies & sub contractors, will get to keep their jobs for another decade or more. Until their retirement that is.
Meanwhile, other countries with substantial air traffic like LHR, AMS, SIN, HKG, DXB, DOH etc. What system are they using, their uptime and upkeeping workflow. Will the mighty US of A send delegations to study them and perhaps leapfrog the incumbents ?
Surprise! China's top Android phones collect way more info
Just extracted all the URLs from the paper
http://iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/xmlns/
http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/2.1/
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/field#
http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/
http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#
http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/type#
http://www.aiim.org/pdfua/ns/id/
http://www.npes.org/pdfx/ns/id/
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
https://a.fxltsbl.com/accept/sdkService)
https://doi.org/10.1145/nnnnnnn.nnnnnnn)
https://frida.re/)
https://matplotlib.org)
https://miloserdov.org/?p=746)
https://mitmproxy.org/)
https://tracking.miui.com/track/v4)
worthy of a block ?
and found that the author has an additional paper on this topic too
https://github.com/Mobile-Intelligence-Lab/android_CN_trafficdata/blob/main/Wisec23_additional_material.pdf
Australia bins $41m app contracted to Accenture

SG Arrival Card (SGAC) with Electronic Health Declaration
Hey Australia.
Singapore has a visitor arrival e-card
https://www.ica.gov.sg/enter-depart/entry_requirements/sg-arrival-card
Perhaps you can study this and modify the workflow to suit your need. The code is already there, just a matter of inter-government cooperation and sharing.
US must adopt USB-C charging standard like EU, senators urge
I am embracing this news as the New Hope. I still have a toolbox full of old cables for my ancient devices (read iPad 2, and until recently Galaxy Tab 2).
Not that it matters anything to me these days of wireless connection.
<USB-C>
Transfer speeds up to 40Gbps.
Native power support for 100W/3A and up to 240W/5A.
Supports USB Power Delivery for fast charging.
<Lightning>
Transfer speeds up to 480Mbps.
Native power support for 12W/2.4A.
But the declutter of my table, of the different charging cables. And the sharing of common accessories.
Those days of many Nokia chargers on the table were a good reminder that the mandarins took so long to make it a law. Yup, I threw away many nokia chargers that are working but no longer any phone to use with.
Oracle sued by one of its own gold-level Partners of the Year over government IT contract
Atlassian: Unpatched years-old flaw under attack right now to hijack Confluence
Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it
HP turns back on $1b in annual sales by quitting Russia and Belarus
Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers
Meta to squeeze money from WhatsApp with Cloud API for businesses
How ICE became a $2.8b domestic surveillance agency
Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker
An international incident or just some finger trouble at the console?
It costs just $7 to rent DCRat to backdoor your network
Uber, Meta to reduce hiring as stocks slide
Saw a few youngling's disappointed post in LinkedIn about having accepted and moved for a Meta position, only to be told that they're no longer needed. I hoped their expertise will land them a job soon.
"In April, Meta reportedly froze the hiring of entry-level and mid-level engineers, with limited exceptions, and has now expanded its hiring limitations."