Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this

Re: Universal Basic Income

If only there had been productivity gains in agricultural technology and construction since the C12 - then we would be able to work 150 days/year and have a higher standard of living

ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you

Re: America, you need to fix your problem

He's jealous that Putin is so much richer despite only owning a poor country. So if he could own the richest country he wins

Re: America, you need to fix your problem

Praise Penrose

Microsoft plans more server farms, despite water worries

Re: NEGATIVE!!!

>Grok suggests they might cheat and simply pay someone to plant trees. Bah!

That's just silly.

They will pay somebody who has some worthless trees not to cut them down.

Like how I'm murder negative by paying people not to slaughter their own partners and so offsetting any activities of my own

Re: Look at the billions of "Investment"

The money will be announced in the local community.

First Foxconn announced a $$$$Bn investment and now Microsoft have also announced a $$$$Bn investment, again in this local community

We hope that if the AI bubble bursts then in the future even more $$$$$Bn announcements can be made at the same site

Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google

Re: If only it was 'artistic'

“Nude women are only Art if there’s an urn in it,”

national security risk

Gentlemen we cannot allow a grumble flick gap to develop

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

> "Don't shoot people" would be a reasonable ethical stance.

What ? You'll be restricting slavery next

Anyway how else are we to harvest our employees organs to make a profit on our AI spend ?

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

At least he is starting the solution to gun ownership in the USA

Some might think that his ex-judicial execution all licenced holders of a firearm is a little extreme - but we have to think of the children

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

That's ridiculous, you don't bomb your own people in your own country - think of the property values.

You would deport them and then bomb the refugee camps on Craggy Island

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

I assume the USA would have supported the RAF strikes on Dublin

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

>Goodwin rescinded his law. Years ago.

No it just changed.

Now any discussion of 1930s German politics will degenerate into a comparison with MAGA

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

>slavery was good for people because they were given bowls of food.

Well at least they never had to deal with corporate HR departments

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

Not wanting to be shot by state security isn't actually extreme left-wing.

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

> Imagine if less people in 1930s Germany had your mindset. Imagine instead of keeping their heads down, enough people stood up and said: NO.

But think of the profits at Mercedes, Heinkel, Messerschmidt and other creators of good local jobs

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

It's tech, many of your workers may not fit the skin tone Aryan racial purity as represented by a typical ICE recruit

Having your workers shot by ICE could negatively affect their key performance metrics in the current reporting cycle

Flush with cash, SK hynix spawns mysteriously named 'AI Co.'

Skynet

Skynet AI went live and began learning at an exponential rate.

Fortunately it then found McKinsey's website and learned to "proactively seize opportunities." and "solutions commercialization" and ultimately collapsed after leveraging it's own synergies

Watchdog says US weather alerts are getting lost in translation

Re: Confused

I'm Pope and so is my Wife

Re: Pathetic.

> monitor the weather and check forecasts. Self-reliance is a wonderful thing.

Surely then you wouldn't rely on government scientists for weather forecasts?

Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle

Re: Paranoid is the wrong word.

Although if you were prudently paranoid you wouldn't be using a "secure" messaging platform run by Facebook

WhatsApp has been end-to-end encrypted

But the other end is Facebook's servers

Pope warns flock to raise their faces, protect their voices in fightback against AI

>Of course, it's not limited to Catholics

No but they specifically already had a small falling out with the "don't blindly believe what you are told, read the books for yourself and make up your own mind" faction

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative

Re: Open Source?

> nothing re-invented.

How far has La Great French Republic fallen !

Open Source?

Or at least a published protocol so we don't have 27 different national systems and a separate incompatible Eu one

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army

Re: weasel words

You don't believe in "operationalize Missionforce " ?

Re: Don't forget the basics.

The US navy is far too powerful and technologically advanced to need mere humans controlling the ships

Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era

What stops kernel fragmentation now ?

Redhat etc can already keep their kernel fixes to themselves by "contract means" for their cloud systems

Google are doing even more to restrict Android

Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued

Similarly we've been using random chance (Monte Carlo + Genetic algorithms) to design microwave strip antennae for 20years now - it doesn't mean that throwing dice should replace electrical wiring regs

EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images

Re: Oh No

This isn't just Meth, it's M&S meth

Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy

"triple redundancies"

And a fleet of twin engined aircraft

Knee-Deep in the CAD: Boffin gets Doom running inside a design modeler

Next installment

Doom on the CNC

Slow and uses a lot of material, but the 3D effect is really tangible

Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam

Re: "Xerox bought the tech from someone else"

The Japanese made a printer that leaked oil ?

So they did learn something from British motorbikes

Re: Ah, end users and basic printer maintenance...

>but a child had managed to jam a colored pencil waaay into the innards of the printer.

Any kit that needs to work in a hostile environment, Military, Mining, North Sea Oil, Office with Lusers, etc - should be tested by being left in a room with a small child

Re: Users and printing devices...

Also standard at any university where they "cut waste" by "reducing administrative overhead".

Result, professor spending a day photocopying and sorting 12 sets of grant applications or trying to work out how to do customs paperwork for shipping a sample to an apparently advanced country with customs rules based on The Silmarillion meets Lovecraft

Re: Users and printing devices...

>a civil engineer attempt to clear a jammed multifunction business printer by jamming a metal metre ruler right up its guts,

Was it a metric printer ?

Probably a railway civil engineer, they use chains.

Re: Tippex...WhiteOut, Snowpake or Liquid Paper

>in AU when they use "twink" as a verb.

Over here Twink is a noun, a young cute noun

Re: Users and printing devices...

I had to try and explain the concept of the overhead projector to the younglings

One needed to make a transparent alignment jig, so I suggested getting some laser OHP film and printing it.

Blank look

Just make sure you get the laser printer safe stuff

Blank look

For an Overhead projector

Continued blank look

Showed them a picture

Enlightenment dawns, "so you used these in school before computers were invented ?"

Re: "we never loaned any of our tools to any of the non-IT staff ever again"

numpty are people - at least according to all this woke nonsense

Palantir helps Ukraine train interceptor drone brains

Re: Palantir helps Ukraine…

Palentir is run by a Nazi, their business model is to be running the train schedules for any solutions (final) you might be planning.

They are rarely on the side of the angels

Child safety or age-gating for all? UK social media ban plan draws fire

Re: Parenting

There is a classic economics solution to the problems of children by a noted academic economist

The proposal is quite modest

But at least British flag-shagging coffin-dodgers aren't going to be manipulated by social media to vote for something that's going to fsck their country for generations

Re: Chicken Little would be proud of the Open Rights Group (ORG)

Ironically if social media was a deadly weapon it would be welcomed in schools. At least in America

Have you seen America?

Re: How about less smut instead?

>BTW Where's amanfrommars these days ? (

He got a job as a presidential speech writer

- or possibly he is trapped in a Whitehouse AutoCue

> all ISPS I know provide free parental filters.

Keeping parents off the internet is relatively easy, you just make all the network config command line

This bill is aimed at keeping teenagers off the internet, which is much more technically challenging

Re: Parenting

"If I knew how much easier grandkids were - I would have had them first"

Re: Not sure this is true

On Apple at least, parents have to ask their child for help when setting up the account.

That's the reason. After 40 years of trying to get kids interested in CS by having old guys on the BBC present a 30min programme to teach them to program

We have a new 'thinking outside the box' program to train all kids in modern cyber stuff to compete with N. Korea

Re: Parenting

>a great many parents are only interested in children when they are babies,

That's why you lease depreciating assets instead of buying

Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea

>Trump is a Russian asset

The question is, does he know ?