Posts by Winkypop

Twitter's Singapore landlord says avian network still a tenant, despite eviction reports

Hello, Twitter Accounts Receivable?

Anyone still there?

Hello?

[Tap Tap]

Hello?

Heata offers free hot water by mounting servers on people's water tanks

Stage 2

Online gaming while in the shower!

Scientists tricked into believing fake abstracts written by ChatGPT were real

Kids these days

They have it so easy.

In my day, we had to convince a smart kid to show you their work while you quickly scribbled something similar right before class.

Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island

Re: "the island had become his petri dish of experimentation on health, wellness and sustainability"

The Professor has set it up to run on coconut cream pies!

Tesla fails to push racial discrimination lawsuit into arbitration

FSD

Full

Staff

Discrimination

?

FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty on eight charges

Not guilty your honour.

Some big boys done it and ran away!

Patients wrongly told they've got cancer in SMS snafu

Hi, your Doctor’s rooms here

If you have died recently please complete a P3298 (Update next of kin details).

Merry Xmas.

Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system

Re: Critical

“Was this a qualified electrician and if so in what?”

Worked with such an electrician.

His idea of fault finding was to put a large nail in place of the fuse and then go looking for the magic smoke.

Computing's big question for 2023: How many more questions can we endure?

Re: 99% of them are illegal

"Follow me like a creepy version of Prince Andrew"

Surely that’s a tautology.

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

Re: Cash is king

Does anyone else shoot a wry smile when the cashier thrusts the EFTPOS machine at your outstretched bank note?

If I had a dollar for every time this happened….

Don’t worry about the quality

Feel the blockchain!

Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts seemingly up for sale

Sluice Gates of Hell

Another fresh turd for the Twitter sewer.

FTX CTO and Alameda Research CEO admit fraud, pair 'cooperating' with Feds

Re: If only people had warnings about how risky Crypto is

It was a joke.

Obviously not a good one.

If only people had warnings about how risky Crypto is

(Shakes head)

Perseverance rover drops off first sample tube on surface of Mars

Crowd sourced funding

When it’s time for collection, send up one of those “claw” amusement machines.

Open it up to the Internet.

“Grab the sample tube, $5 a go or 3 for $10.”

Lawyer mom barred from Rockettes show by facial recognition tech

Yeah, nah

You* were argumentative to a server at Sausalito McDonalds in 1996, we have a photo.

No more Big Macs for you!

* we think, perhaps, maybe.

Elon Musk to step down as Twitter CEO: Help us pick his replacement

Re: Rudy Giuliano

Didn’t he get a gig at the Four Seasons Landscaping outfit?

CEO of compost?

That Ye guy

Or maybe Herschel Walker!

Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch

Yeah, nah!

Give it a short while and it’s going to show up all the (cat) hairs, crumbs and other detritus.

Swatting suspects charged with subverting Ring doorbell cams and calling cops

Charge the scrotes $100 per officer per minute

Including dispatchers, patrol officers and processing clerks.

US postal service electrifyies its next-gen delivery fleet

All these EV plans

And stuff-all infrastructure going in.

Devil's lettuce: Toxic weed harvested with baby spinach causing delirium in Australia

Vegetarianism on the rise?

No.

Just kids eating their greens for once!

Bill Gates' nuclear power plant stalled by Russian fuel holdup

It looks like you’re building a nuke!

Yeah, about that…

Musk bans private-plane-tracking @Elonjet on Twitter, threatens legal action

Re: legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to my family

I’d genuinely like to know more about Tesla wall tech issues

London cops break into gallery to rescue lifelike art installation

Life is a minestrone

Served up with parmesan cheese, Death is a cold Lasagne, Suspended in deep freeze…

There can’t have been more than 10cc in that bowl.

New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is

Ahhh COBOL

Got me started in IT.

I owe it a debt of gratitude.

Love

Twitter will lose 32 million users by end of 2024, Insider Intelligence predicts

By all accounts

Why would respectable business and government agencies remain on the platform?

Most business, and I would hope, all government agencies will denounce hate, treason, violence and disrespect.

Unsubscribe now, avoid the rush.

Airbnb hosts less likely to accept bookings from Black people than Whites

Online booking services

These are just cartels and/or middlemen.

I’ve often found better prices if you ring the proprietor direct.

Twitter dismantles its Trust and Safety Council moments before meeting

The cult of Musk

He’s a bit of a dill, but it’s his acolytes that scare me.

Bahamian rap: Crypto villain Sam Bankman-Fried arrested

And yet

Muppets are “investing” in crypto.

Still.

US Dept of Energy set to reveal fusion breakthrough

In related news…

Full Self Driving Fusion Drive coming next Summer.

Musk roundly booed on-stage at Dave Chappelle gig

Oh the schadenfreude

Both enjoyable and embarrassing.

More please.

NASA's Orion Moon capsule to splash down this Sunday

“Bill Nelson, NASA's administrator”

Is he the grandson of Major Nelson, and did they find a mysterious looking bottle?

China bans deepfakes created without permission or for evil

Pooh bear has rights too!

He probably doesn’t like being compared to that Xi Jinping dictator.

Europe's USB-C deadline: Lightning must be struck from iPhone by December, 2024

Dad

What did you do in the Cable Wars?

End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line

I’ve done the Oz to UK kangaroo hop over 20 times return

While the 747 was very good, especially up top, the 380 beat it in every way.

The 380 is so spacious and so very quiet. Business on a 380, say with Emirates, is sublime.

The 777 and 787 are OK but I always choose the 380 when given the choice.

Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina

The Amish are coming!

Lock up your ‘tricity!

San Francisco lawmakers approve lethal robots – but they can't carry guns

THX1138

Hi, I'm a robot.

Don't make me angry.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry...

Twitter search spam campaign hides China riots, researchers say

Re: It is a good thing that Elon has a sturdy grasp on reality

“You think the former President of the USA was a White Supremacist..”

No, that’s incorrect.

He IS STILL a White Supremacist..

Meta fined $275m after data-scraping fiasco leaked 533m Facebook users' profiles

That’s OK then…

"Protecting the privacy and security of people's data is fundamental to how our business works," the Meta spokesperson said

Is this code for: We don’t usually just give the stuff away, payment is preferred.

Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info

At last

The boner pill adverts will be far more customer centric.

European Parliament Putin things back together after cyber attack

Putin-pot is losing it

Be a real man and withdraw from Ukraine.

Foxconn workers protest over pay and lockdowns at iPhone factory in China

How dare the workers complain!

Send Elon in immediately.

No more complaints / no more workers.

Orion reaches the Moon, buzzes surface, gets ready to orbit

It’s 2022

I remember 1969 very well.

Apollo really was outstanding for its time and technology.

Up with this kind of thing!

Two arrested in massive $575m cryptocurrency 'Ponzi scheme'

Charles Ponzi

I imagine that Charlie would be both amazed and excited at how easy it is to STILL dupe so many.

We learn nothing.

Twitter set for more layoffs as Musk mulls next move

Re: Polled or Trolled?

I didn’t think Republicans accepted poll outcomes?

Oh, they do, only when they “win”

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

No jail time

She’s the new Twitter CEO!

Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home

Dear Elon

Don’t go anywhere near the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

Just in case.

Germany says nein to Qatari World Cup spyware, err, apps

No, not on your Qatari!

That’s a hard no from me.

By extension this also means no flying Qatar Airlines (remember the forced internal pregnancy tests?)

Why give these barbarians your business?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/world/australia/qatar-airways-women-strip-search-baby.html