Posts by doublerot13

Lapsus$ teen sentenced to indefinite detention in hospital for Nvidia, GTA cyberattacks

Re: Given that it appears….

This is so true. I have many friends and contacts in this area and the divorce rate of parents of neurodivergent children is amazingly high. One carer described it as "all of them". Raising neurodivergent children is that difficult.

disgraceful on many levels...

I know hacking has always carried sentences way longer than crimes with real impact, such as rape and violence, but this takes the biscuit.

Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees

If it looks like a job, and is supervised like a job, it'll be classified as a job

I'm struggling to see what's wrong with that... see many happy "gig" workers these days?

OpenAI meltdown: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions?

don't see how this is bad for Microsoft

Seems like

- Altman goes to Microsoft and most of his staff follow.... Amazing for Microsoft, and every tech CEO out there kicks themselves for not thinking of this

or

- Altman stays at OpenAI, board go, Microsoft get a seat on the board.

Either way, Microsoft come out of this waaaaay stronger. I don't see how this looks bad on them, they can justify not having a board seat so far saying they wanted OpenAI to be "clearly" independent.

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie

Re: The whale

> Why would you inflict that on Brendan Frasier?

You're right. Sorry.

The whale

What about that fat bloke in The Whale?

Want a Cybertruck? You're stuck with it for a year, says Tesla

Seems reasonable

In the country I live in, lots of people bought multiple 3's and Y's then sold them at a five figure profit as soon as they arrived.

This rule just makes it easier for the people who genuinely want one. Nothing wrong with that.

Google, Amazon among big names in tech axing jobs this week

Re: Loyalty

Years ago I worked with a lady who worked directly with super senior people, and now chairs the board of a massive UK company - so she's no slouch.

Redundancies were coming and I said something along the lines of "they'll never get rid of us, we are too important / create too much good tech / the business needs us etc etc etc".

She looked at me, kind of sad at my naivety, and said "you don't understand, the company doesn't see you as a chess piece with skills and function, we are all draughts / checkers pieces to be moved and discarded".

I've thought about what she said a lot over the years, and wow she was right...