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I wanna see a kitten adverting rat poison in sunglasses playing bongos at max FPS, ain't that my choice?
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I might try the phone.
My 5 year old Moto G is getting old and Lineage hasn't been updated for a while, and my screen has a line down it cos I dropped it and the case is getting dirty.
I need root cos I will have to fix the OS and restore my idea of privacy whenever I let Microsoft install updates
many medium to large businesses and corporations processed data in house.
Off the shelf commercial software would be joined together with custom code to do what was needed.
A van with a heavy looking dude might turn up to take some tapes off site every day.
The data could come in from many places in many formats and would go out hopefully exactly as expected, exactly where it was wanted.
The processing and data control was often in the hands of a small, loyal team. Hardware would be supported in house too.
It sounds clunky, not exactly agile, but it worked well for many years. Data breaches were rare, faults were found and resolved quickly.
We now have businesses that contract out almost all of the data processing part of their business, not only car park management. But, payroll, human resource management, data management and data storage, coding, gateways, security controls etc.
And those contracted to do these tasks will sub contract those tricky parts they don't or can't do themselves. And as we move down the sub contractor pecking order, the understanding of and vested interest in the task diminishes. How long can a chain of sub contractors be?
The data will pass through a lot of control boundaries on its journey from a to b, all managed by different sub-contractors few of which will understand or even care about the process end to end.
As we rush toward a pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, numbered, globally connected, data sharing future. A future in which multinational corporations will exist name only, all the actual business function being outsourced. Expect more of your privacy to become public. Expect your corporate puppetmasters to care less when they respond to your pain with AI.
As the distinction between corporation and government becomes undefined, we welcome you to the machine.
the Sun, it's a fair bet. Its been pretty reliable for the past 4.5 billion years.
Then they trusted the person that said the Sun was a god that talked to him. It went seriously down hill form there.
Non reliance on a third party for business critical systems isn't expensive. Skills are rare though,
What would have happened if they just stopped and got out of the van, apologised, asked if everyone was ok and exchanged insurance details.
Do not raise suspicion, first rule of criminality. Why would the police search the van unless they suspected something?
Caveat: van has to be legal, driver must be legally allowed to drive the van, not be under the influence or have any previous and be able to act as if he had nothing to hide.
Most people expect the expected and do what is expected. Even suspicious policemen can be manipulated.
The drugs were still in the van an hour after the incident? ffs... Simon Tu is not a smart man.
I never get a full spec, it has to be done yesterday.
It's a maze of twisty little passages that all look the same, yet produce different and occasionally the right results.
It works and seldom fails even if it is an unstructured mess that is hard to maintain (for anyone other than me)
I welcome a machine coding for me, I was thinking of sub-letting my job any ways.
Beer because it helps me care less about the shite I produce
roflmfao
see title.
SSL Usenet, before all this chasing piracy ever happened. I guess if someone tried really, really hard they could have detected what I downloaded over the years.
Although the quality of Usenet posts has gotten real bad over recent years. Encrypted rar/zip files needing a visit to websites and marketing form filling required to get the password. Bit coin miners attached to exe files, Trojans attached to exe files. Mostly done so amateurishly it is easy enough to separate the wheat from the chaff... Still it's a pain in the ass.
Fortunately my desire to see or play the latest derivative shite has decreased in proportion the the increase in garbage posted to Usenet.
I do some work in an office. I have a key card to enter areas of the building. There are two floors and three doors, one door leads outside.
There are rules about start and end times, break times etc. Understandably so, my employer expects me to do some work for my pay and thus pays me for the hours I work. I consider that fair play. (if not pay)
I am tracked when I enter and leave the building or change floor. I expect this, I have to swipe an ID card. Did someone say this guy was a developer?
I don't exactly follow the 'rules', I don't stick to the x minutes for a break x times a day. I do what I need to do to think and do my job. I break those rules but I don't take the piss. I like my HR Dept, they leave me be because I don't take the piss.
"But $30 a month to have an ad-free, sponsor-free search engine with a decent grasp of language - now you are talking. Shame it doesn't exist."
I have thought about this, I think it is a good business objective... Being totally fucking honest.
I know this can work, I have tried it... One earns loyalty but does not get rich.
Now if one can find some venture capitalists who are not greedy and are looking to earn a comfortable living with financial returns that they could actually spend in a lifetime.... And are prepared to wait a couple of years for a return.
Get in touch via the register here... The totally honest, no track, don't take the piss, don't sell customer data can be applied to any online business, not just email. I believe it is possible to earn a good living using the honesty method.
Perhaps after a few years, by being honest, one can only afford only one yacht or holiday home? How many do you fucking need?
he knows ya know, he knows ya know,
He's got experience, he's got experience, he knows, you know
But he's got problems, problems, problems
Light switch, deciet forever, crawling from a corp to corp
Singing psychedelic praises for the good that the lies has wrought
You've got venom in your stomach, from all the lies you're fed
You shouldn't have listened to the Jobs at the confession
When he offered to give you head
He knows, you know, he knows, you know
H e knows, you know, but he's got problems
Fast geed, corporate fever, swarming through a fractured mind
Chilling truths they freeze emotion, it's best to keep them blind
You've got Google in you stomach, you've got Apple in your head
When your conscience whispered, the vein lines stiffened
You walked off with the bread
He knows, you know, he knows, you know, he knows, you know
He's got experience, he's got experience, he knows, you know
But he's got problems, problems, problems
etc.
A good choice for the position maybe? Depends how easy he can be manipulated or his honesty buried.
That's the power of a bash shell... rm -R is beautiful bitch.
It's easy enough to git clone back to the repo from your backup though right?
Please don't tell me you trust a third party to be your sole back up solution.
and cant be bothered to employ competent coders? Is it a failing of HR, or is this the way agile development works?
I dunno. I get shit from my gaffer because testing and refinement takes much longer than the quickly thrown together PoC I developed in order to say.."yes this can be done"
:-)
yup Google is good for search. Nothing else they have interests me. My 5 year old phone runs Lineage and I have a huge hosts file. And I still don't trust it with information I do not want to be shared with second parties, never mind third parties. Go ahead and laugh at me for being paranoid.
When is a phone not a phone? It is always a phone, its just a spying device too.