Re: end of exchange oh noes!!!
Notes is like shagging an 80 year old. Everyone know where it is but no one wants to go there. :-)
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I'm in a Spanish forest, eating my lunch and watching TV via Starlink... Oh and typing this.
One thing to point out in all this GEO, LEO talk is... for example having 200 ground stations in the US, Starlink like any other Internet sat service links to local ISPs, so spreading it all out is good. SKYDSL for example has its/a ground station in Germany and is shit on a Sunday due to cat video contention.
Down vote for the use of British. It's NHS ENGLAND (and Wales). Scotland and NI are the placebos in all this.
I've only one question... If this is "federated" why are they writing back to old systems? Surely they could write back to new systems and then do "federated" reads combining old and new.
I mean it’s not as if they are updating the underlying patient data is it? Eek!
>But in addition to providing these legitimate functions, they secretly surveil users' web browsing activity, capturing URLs, sending this info to a remote attacker-controlled server along with the victim's unique tracking ID, and even redirecting people's browsers if instructed,
Sounds like it was made by Google and Microsoft. Isnt that their day job?
England (and I mean England) never has a pot to piss in even though taxation is really high. EU countries always seem to have a bit o'cash lying around. My local council here in Spain is up to its ass in staff, the streets are cleaned daily, bins emptied, grass cut, big parties organised and my council tax is less than 200€ a year, my car tax about 150€ etc etc. High speed trains offering cheap fares shoot about all over the Spanish countryside whereas England can't even build a railway between Birmingham and Central London without fucking it up and spunking money all over the place. Mystified.
Is that (for example) gov websites tend to divert you to stupid domains which have to obvious connection to the domain you are on. It's a minefield. Also they tend to have silly domain formats like...
bigAssedGovDeptName.WtfIsThisShit.es which on any click leads you to
EffinRabbitHole.XxxyyyzzPQ7775.es/someplace which is still a correct gov domain but you've no idea if it is or not.
Look, how were we supposed to know that Europe wasn't part of America and that we couldn't do what we damn well felt like without some bunch of pencil pushers sticking their oars in. If it wasn't for that orange asshat pissing people off we might have gotten away with it too. Anyway, here's onprem cloud... Enjoy.
IIRC BT offered space for sale on its cloud way back in the later nineties but obviously the price was way too high.
Anyhoo. Ionos is a joke but the one thing to consider is a sort of butterfly effect...
If a redneck in a Wisconsin wood, casting a vote, can control your IT strategy, you've got the wrong IT strategy.
Everyone back to onprem and string up the cloud salespeople!
I only had one run in with a bank chatbot before I realised it's excellent for dealing with your problems. You just open the bank app and go absolutely bat shit crazy on the thing and all you get back is "good to know" or "good to hear".
I address mine as Fuckwit (Bank of Scotland/Lloyd's if you want to get something off your chest)
Ok not a laptop but I bought a micro pc (8gb ram, 256gb ssd) from amazon a few months back. Had win 11 on it which got nuked and mint installed but it was 100 euros or so and works a treat. I just used an old TV which had HDMI ports for the display and had a mouse and keyboard lying around.
Hardware is now so cheap that you can cobble pretty much anything together without having to raid the piggy bank.
The Abu Dhabi bar and grill in downtown Athens.
I sometimes think we're being sold a pup with this AI malarkey, but I could be wrong. Pmsl.
Can we have a scale for AI accuracy... I'm thinking it should be in Farages.
The lower the Farages the more accurate it is.
Eg 1 Farage is pretty sound but 10 Farages is mad.
I'm waiting for the physical DDoS attacks to start... E. G. Lock out bank accounts instead of trying to access the accounts and use the massed panic created as a weapon, as people try to reactivate their accounts in an age of chatbots and other "fuck off you oik " customer "aides."
"Our competitive advantage lies in our highly skilled and committed colleagues (redundancies), the depth of our technical expertise (esp. for the coffin dodgers), our global capability with deep local roots (shut down branch offices) and our proven track record of delivery to a worldwide loyal customer base (subscription model coming soon).
I might be a tad jaded.