Posts by UnknownUnknown 1191 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Apr 2024
Recycling and ‘bins’ should have been standardised across the UK. Instead - like most ‘local democracy’ faux choice - it’s just generated several hundred differing provisions of the same service across the UK, slashed non-statutory green bins service and statutory food waste collection- that depending on where you live can or can’t go in the green bin.
Fucking madness.
… or Pay-Packet or BACS Credit for those not living in Trumpistan.
Any company that can change payroll bank account details without a robust process needs a clear out of some personnel. That should be portal self-serve, or via the Payroll Team only from a data protection perspective. Certainly not from a random phone call and sketchy impersonation.
So the impact is aesthetically challenging then… anyway there is plenty room for more offshore wind, on-shore wind, solar and hydro galore and jobs and energy security that brings.
A quick journey up and down the M74 and beyond makes that self-evident. I will include through adjacent M6 Cumberland and Westmorland too.
You can see it with the financing deals been done for data centres and 30 year bonds.
They will get turned into derivatives and flogged to suckers.
OpenAI is burning cash at a multiple 2-3x income.
Google, Microsoft, Meta. Oracle and X can bury bury the numbers to an extent and booking $30bn annual revenue projections from Open AI is future revenues further inflating shares.
US has growth rate similar to UK if you remove the AI bubble effect. It’s not going to end up well. Global Crash and further Quantitive Easing/Debt.
At least interest rates will crash back to near zero for debtors and (new) Government Debt.
The rich and commodity and share traders never learn as it’s someone else’s money. The rich have vacated The tech shares bubble already and can invest cheap on the crash.
(I wish aI had hoovered up a pile of mildly risky Rolls-Royce shares during their Covid time in the toilet ).
“The European cloud vendor forum has 38 members, according to its website. Amazon Web Services used to be on its board, but the cloud giant exited after the trade association changed the rules for admission to block non-European cloud vendors with annual revenues exceeding €10 billion.”
I guess Microsoft will be slung out of the pub doors soon then?
They still knock ?… how quaint.
If they do here it’s for a pin-code/high value for or age verify.
Mostly it’s dump the box on the doorstep and run. If you lucky the doorbell gets a single prod. If you unlucky - like Royal Mail- ram it through the letterbox in a square peg, round hole fashion.
Perhaps just deliver on promises to mae existing ID Dihital and don’t reinvent the wheel and maybe if some use in the real world.
Digital Passports, Digital Drivers ID.
Got a text from Royal Mail asking me to lock up a parcel that was sent to local Post Office “Don’t forget this pick-up code” the SMS sent. What is didn’t say was the jobseekers tossers in the PO wanted some ID - which I didn’t have as I had whipped out on lunch-break.
I have a photo of my Passport, or driving licence or I. A show you a copy of an eBank Statement, or HMRC on-line which should be reasonable proof of ID??
‘No we need originals … we don’t accept Digital Copies’
‘What not even of the text J showed you with the pickup code’
Sullen look and denied….. until I wasted a further 30 mins going to get ID.
Analogue fuckers.
There are already right to work checks and portals for employers to validate them.
The 17 Air is as retarded a decision as binning off the SE for the. Their ‘value’ offering blows as it stands now … esp. with the cost pressures buyers are under.
People want
- entry level iPhone in a small format based on prior model innards
- full function iPhone nn in a larger format without getting skinned for a Pro/Max.
It’s hard to work as a Team collaboratively in the office when other colleagues you worked with there have been fucked off for cheap replacements in Bangalore (or in Microsoft’s case also China).
What customers want - more reliable software, more Azure/M365 uptime, less CoPilot analysis insertion, less fucked up monthly patching, fewer security holes, and Windows 11 on existing hardware.
These are product issues.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulations-waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment
Been the law in UK and EU for years.
If you have tech recycling just offload it on Curry’s in UK.
https://www.currys.co.uk/services/delivery-installation/recycling.html
They may even give you £5 credit if you buy something on their trade in any old shite promo.
https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/semiconductor-maker-on-is-leaving-maine-and-laying-off-dozens-as-part-of-sweeping-reorg
Sadly eaten up by global nickel and diming and off-shoring … directly against CHIPS Act goals and other more recent Orange Orangutan bullying..
Texas Instruments I beleive bought the other plant mentioned.
Resurrect former UK Government IT and Hosting Champion (that the Tories closed down).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Computer_and_Telecommunications_Agency
Proper Sovereign Cloud … and they could also design/build an standardised ERP framework for Government that … isn’t shit.
However no… SPA25 will come….
Given that the vast majority of the UK’s AWS’s systems are hosted in the *AWS-Europe- west-1 region in Dublin … I’m wondering how far the CMA’s reach stretches.
Esp.. With the UK being outside of the EU post the catastrophe of Brexit… where with sweet irony those rules should have been enforceable throughout the EU….
* simple because the UK region not stood up until 2016… and most already had a foothold in Ireland.
Surely - like for cars/trucks/planes - being as fuel efficient as possible/using the least amount of fuel/energy possible is being ‘fiscally conservative’?
The GOP should be the standard bearer for this … not opposing it/maximising Petro revenues, throwing EPA rules into the trash and treating paying the minimum amount of tax legally possible be seen as a national pastime.
<Edit - my downvote every post made bot seems to be running every 5 minute now. Congrats ras-Putin>.
1. Siri/Alexa/Google .. get your ears syringed so you can hear and understand clearly spoken conversational English in its many dialects (other languages are available).
2. Siri if I am driving that’s literally when I need a fucking voice driven assistant- don’t clam up and say you can’t help me as I am driving. FFS.
To paraphrase Basil Fawlty … ‘Siri you are a useless cloth eared bint’.
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