* Posts by Winkypop

6062 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter

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Linux

It’s just pining for the fjords (or Valles Marineris)

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

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Re: Tully

Fjordland Is amazing. The more rain, the better the waterfalls.

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Tully

At least it wasn’t raining.

* The wettest place in Australia is reputed to be Tully on the east coast of northern Queensland with a total rainfall of over 4 metres per year.

Four metres!

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

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Good, bad or ugly

It’s about time people stood up to these socially corrosive platforms. American mega corps can go fly a kite.

Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost

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Devil

Just as long as….

They budget for the inevitable cost over runs.

The judicial enquiries

Compensation for the innocent victims

Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?

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Re: Contrarian View (fg_swe)

This!

This is the type of shite one should avoid.

UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact

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Has this ever worked?

Anywhere?

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

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Meh

Ahhhhhhh

It’s such a bubble.

A massive costly bubble.

Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says

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Facepalm

Just remember that the majority of US voters wanted this

Most of which still can’t see any issues.

George Carlin was right.

Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help

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Have at it

Did they publish the test database so the public could do the testing?

Irish Excel whiz sheets all over the competition in Vegas showdown

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Black Helicopters

My greatest Excel achievement

Invoking the flight simulator in Excel 97.

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

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Re: A defining moment for the President

My goodness, the book depository is busy today, hey Cletus…

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

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Mushroom

intense solar radiation

Ironic.

The same intense solar radiation that the flying punters want to lie out in when they reach the Costa Del Lobster.

GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance

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Re: Data Sovereignty

If it did have one, who else but Lee Lin Chin to run it.

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Liberté, égalité, fraternité

…oh, and just a little peek.

TryHackMe races to add women to Christmas cyber challenge roster after backlash

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Facepalm

Unbelievable

“Onboarding”

HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting

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Facepalm

Right, so…

Something

Something

AI

Something

Profit!

Campbell's CISO canned after lawsuit alleges hour-long rant against staff and customers

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Make your own

You will never buy tinned again.

Of any brand.

X's location tags remind users of the internet's oldest rule: Trust nothing

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X marks the spot

Maybe

Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers

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I thank the FSM i grew-up before social media

A meet up with your friends involved riding your bike somewhere. Chat involved face to face conversation. Mind you “unliking” someone might have involved a physical altercation.

70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

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Devil

Simples

Everyone should just become a billionaire.

Why didn’t I think of that earlier?

SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap

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Joke

I blame

The rounded corners

Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI

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Devil

States Rights!

But only when we like ‘em?

Imagine if these dead beats put as much effort into universal health care…

Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached

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Facepalm

What a giant load of horse hooey

Insanity all the way down.

Win10 still clings to over 40% of devices weeks after Microsoft pulls support

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Megaphone

Now listen very carefully, I shall say this only once

We don’t want no stinking AI.

Microsoft, Alphabet throw more cash on the AI bonfire

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It will all end in tears

But don’t worry.

The billionaires will be just fine.

ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews

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Alien

That will explain it

Surely they’ve been testing this stuff out at Motorway services for years.

A wretched hive of scum and viruses…

Robotic lawnmower uses AI to dodge cats, toys

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Cats are right bastards

You come home to find oddly cats sized clumps of uncut grass as the cat has been gaming the machine.

It looks like……”feed me” spelled out across the lawn.

SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship

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The Moon?

Really.

The current government can’t even run itself at the moment.

And as for Musk’s promises…

England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache

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Re: LGR? I'm probably not the only one...

They’re going to run the whole shebang on his woodgrain 486.

Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out

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Re: Double-take?

Old saying:

“If you look like your passport photo, then you’re too ill to travel.”

Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop

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Hey Elon

Get your StarCruiser rocket shit together. Land on another planet. Start your very own dystopian hell-scape.

Thanks.

AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession

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Whatever happens

It’ll be Joe Biden’s fault, hey MAGA?

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

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The answer is obvious

Trump can use the Qatar Boeing 747-8 he was gifted.

The old mounting harnesses are not that difficult to build.

Fly it there.

Mind you, they may need to strip out the aircraft interior of all it’s mahogany and gold first.

BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries

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Big Brother

Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia

Now for a story from our reporter about an exciting new product.

Further details to follow in the next ad break…

China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests

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The Royal Horticultural Society

The RHS has announced an immediate plant breeding scheme to develop High Speed Leaves.

Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day

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Trollface

"never use the output without checking it."

Until it isn’t checked.

Hilarity ensues.

Auction house Sotheby's finds its data on the block after cyberattack

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Will

The stolen data be auctioned off I wonder…

X to combat bot problem by showing more info about users

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Devil

The whole platform is compromised

It’s just bots screaming at trolls across a giant void.

UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told

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Devil

Horse cookies!

Imaginary processes will save huge imaginary pounds!

Imagine that!!

Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack

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Joke

Nothing to see here

Move along now.

Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle

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Trollface

Is Jed Clampett available?

He up and moved to Beverley.

Hills that is, swimming pools, movie stars…

Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

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Coat

Commission LEGO

A 1/3 scale model.

Even at LEGO prices it shouldn’t cost more than $50M.

Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down

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Stop

Open season on comms cables, fine.

Just lay off shooting all those school kids please!

Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

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Alert

Unless it’s Basil Brush

I’m not using AI

Asahi runs dry as online attackers take down Japanese brewer

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Gosh

I bet they’re pissed about that!

Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more

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But seriously guys

Have you seen the price of new mega yachts these days?

ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

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Terminator

Pretty soon…

“Sorry, we have detected that you are a meat brain.

“The Internet is not for you, please leave.”

Cybercriminals pwn 850k+ Americans' healthcare data

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“undetected for almost a month”

A bit like the heartbeat from your average ER patient.*

This is the American health system we’re talking about.

* Other outcomes are available, depending upon income level.