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Newer motherboards such as Carbon boot into a SEPERATE UEFI that ONLY flashes the update. It can't run code, it can't do ANYTHING else at all.
So any sneaky 'background' code still in memory cannot run. There's no running processes EXCEPT to load/install an encrypted signed flash file.
Then it erases the whole of system RAM and cold reboots.
The motherboard refuses to flash chips UNLESS it's running the Seperate UEFI only. and that code cannot be updated/overwritten as its in ROM only.
This is ASUS who throughout 2023/24/25 have repeatedly said they are ignoring warranty laws WORLDWIDE and if you don't like it "well sue us". They sold used motherboards/GPUs as new. Even stuff their OWN employees had used and upgraded from......and refused refunds/warranties/repairs etc etc.
Same company who's making bloated overweight saggy 5xxx Series gpus that lag immensely behind the competition so much they need a droop-sensor.
This is NOT the ASUS people used to trust. Bought out & sold down the river of enshittification long ago.
technically truetype fonts are vector IMAGES and come under this legislation.
So you can file endless take downs against the Whitehouse itself, with no punishment.
The definition of 'sexual imagery' is also left upto the complainant....so if you say you find EVERY image of trump sexy (apart from needing some sort of mental health intervention) you can request the images be taken down. And KEEP suggesting endlessly.
There's no punishment for a fake takedown, NOR is there any blockage to using a bot to search the entire internet, AI analyze the images and send a removal request!
Hell if you're into colors, you could say a plain white background arouses you and therefore must be changed! Still comes under 'images' as its an image constructed as a bitmap on screen.
IBM is moving its stuff to India because its facing over TEN THOUSAND discrimination lawsuits.
For firing people due to age AND if they're non-white or LGBTQ.
Literally emails from high-ups saying "I didn't know XYZ was an [n-word]. fire them now"
They're going to be on the hook for multiple 10s of billions over these US lawsuits, and are trying to escape to another country basically but hoping to keep the US sales alive.
It affects every UK citizen AND every worker or tourist coming INTO the UK.
And the government is retarded. Basically they've asked for an encryption backdoor that "just knows" if you're a good guy or a bad guy. If you're a good guy it magically decrypts the data for you, if you're a bad guy, it somehow senses your evil intent and refuses.
Literally they're asking for either a) a magical fairy godmother to reprogram iOS or b) an AI entirely running on the phone that somehow can tell if a person isn't nice.
Oh yeah these rules "don't apply" to anyone with more than £10million in the bank (or in offshore bribes as per Keir Starmer)..so rich people can have secrets but no-one else
Civil Service recruitment freezes have meant for the past 2-3years civil servants with deep technical knowledge have been 'frozen' in their pay grades, unable to apply for more senior roles.
Basically jobs are offered internally but on a same paygrade system, so for example no-one from grade Higher Officer can apply to go up a grade to Senior Officer.
So they leave for jobs with potential to be promoted, and the SO grade remains filled with non-technical people.
THEN they refuse to backfill the lost skills, so there are hundreds of highly-critical roles with no-one in them.
oracle's state-of-the-art system/software has slightly less security than keeping your data on the desktop in a plaintext file called not_a_secret.txt
Seriously. Remotely...2-3mins to access ANY oracle subsystem. With local access, you're down to less than 30seconds to have full admin control of an entire database.
I've worked with vodafone. Their "bonuses" are around £100 a year for the lowest staff.
For high-end managers it goes up to around £150k (paid via various sneaky non-taxable methods natch). Their pay system is incredibly unbalanced towards top management
and WFH for the ordinary call-takers/admin staff being £100 , WFH is cheaper in terms of commute costs!
15mins? thats nothing.
My work has a lot of printers made by (H)opeless (P)roducts. You phone 'tech support', wait 30mins and someone on the other end literally yells stuff like Fuck Off or just laughs but then hangs up anyway. They've sworn at tech staff, execs and once someone that was only one level below a cabinet minister. They literally don't care.
So we had to minimize the contract, cancel ALL new printers (about 40 of them) and are just waiting for the contract to die mid-april.
Early days of digital cameras. My work department had NINETEEN of the suckers to give out as target-prizes for reaching specific company goals.
"somehow" every single camera (costing around £600 each) had gone "missing". They were found on a team leaders Ebay account. ALL of them.
But there was a woman he'd been shagging who hated him when he dumped her via text for someone else.
So when the cameras arrived, she'd sneakily opened every.single.box and slapped a tiny ID sticker onto each camera. Guess what those cameras on Ebay had?
A high up exec 'bought' one of the cameras, and was able to prove they were the stolen items before the team leader could dispose of them if he'd been accused.
One day some big company is literally going to hire hitmen to kill one of these groups, no matter what country they are in. Ruin the CEOs performance bonus this year? he got a bit angry and he's rich.....
And it'll make ransomware groups think twice about what they're doing.
Or the US will throw bomb/sword drones at them and their families for "national security" since these scammers are literally terrorists and in the eyes of the US valid targets just as much as ISIS.
So basically r/funny r/AskReddit r/gaming r/worldnews r/todayilearned r/aww r/Music r/memes r/movies r/Showerthoughts r/science r/pics r/Jokes r/news r/space r/videos r/DIY r/askscience r/books r/nottheonion
are all going paywelled. i.e. 95% of Reddit itself. Along with restrictions to making 'alternative/rival' subreddits that aren't paywalled.
And so Reddit DIGGS it's own grave. People will find an alternative site.
One example is the gamergate person. Received $5,000,000 dollars in aid and posted ONE charity video. that was it.
And she's the tip of the iceberg. USAID wastes 10s of BILLIONS every year on weird fringe charities, both left and right wing.
It needs to be torn down, Audited, people charged with embezzlement/fraud and a new system put in place.
Firing the top-end execs so they can't shred documents is step 1.
Elez "changes" to the underlying code of the US payment system need to be reversed.
Taking bets he's made it "filter out" what he considers "bad names" like Patel, or anything Jewish etc....and it'll start cancelling payments.
If he put a delay into the code, so it kicks off in a few weeks, he'll claim "wuzn't me...it was them <slur here>"
OH Noes! Nvidia lost 0.3% of its share price, it's doomed! DOOMED!
It only looks like a lot because NVIDIA is worth $3,000,000,000,000 !
And it turns out deepdesks ACTUAL ability is on par with Chatgpt 0.9 Alpha or earlier!
So a shitty model but with less resources. Because instead of running in CUDA it runs in a lower level language PTX.
A re-write of ChatGPT would end with the same speed increases.
Teams is buggy and will report you as "busy" if you schedule anything in your Outlook calendar.
Just schedule your start and end of shift as a single event in Outlook on Your Own Calendar. Hey presto! teams will show you as RED-STATUS busy all day!
Are HR going to bitch that you aren't allowed to set yourself reminders for starting/ending work? get that in writing and then they can't complain if you're late / claim tons of overtime etc.
They wouldn't legally have a leg to stand on as they'd have ORDERED you not to set reminders.
The trick is to (outside of work) make a website that looks wildly inappropriate but isn't.
Visit it multiple times then take it down. When HR files a complaint, just tell them "granny-gives-blowjobs.com" is a site about elderly people styling their friends hair! Act very very offended.
Rinse+repeat with other employees until HR is sick and tired of wasting their time!
LinkedIn's "apology":
Dear Meatbag Product,
We at [Insert AI Company Name] deeply value your trust and the opportunities you've given us to transform the world through innovation. We understand that some concerns have been raised about our use of publicly available information, data contributions, and, let’s be honest, stuff we probably shouldn’t have been snooping around in.
Let us reassure you: we hear you. Not literally, of course (unless you enabled microphone access).
While some have expressed discomfort about the use of personal data in our AI training processes, we want to emphasize that this data was used in the most respectful, forward-thinking, and pioneering ways imaginable. We didn't just see data; we saw dreams, aspirations, and very clickable memes.
We are not apologizing, because what we did was technically legal, and let's face it—innovation requires bravery, boldness, and an uncanny ability to skim through mountains of terms and conditions that no one actually reads. By utilizing your data, we’ve been able to create groundbreaking tools that may or may not directly benefit you but have certainly enhanced our shareholder value.
We promise to move forward with even greater dedication to finding new and exciting ways to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence. And if that means combing through even more data, well, we’ll always do it with the utmost vague respect for your autonomy.
Thank you for your understanding, your data, and for giving us the chance to redefine the boundaries of trust, privacy, and human patience.
Warm regards,
[Insert CEO Name Here]
Chief Innovation Wizard
[Insert AI Company Name]
P.S. If you'd like to opt out of this process in the future, please send a notarized letter to our headquarters via carrier pigeon before January 1, 1876.
The system also left the council unable to provide an audit trail or detect fraud for 18 months.
The council said it will comment in due course - Sent from the Councillors diamond-encrusted iPhone on his solid gold yacht.
Seriously though - "somehow" the countil top-execs are now multi-multi-multi-millionaires. And there's no papertrail or audit possible to explain how they ALL have 100x their salary.
Java is ancient, unwieldy and useless.
PLUS apparently they wanted over £500,000,000 A YEAR from the UK government just for Java licenses. So the government has abandoned Java development 100% and is switching to alternatives!
Lord knows how much they've tried to bill the US government. gotta be 3-4x that easy.
Its not so much "ignoring" more than every single FAA employee needs to be financially audited, as Boeing has a record of "pay to go away". Basically illegally bribing government officials to ignore whistleblowers and sweep serious issues under the rug.
But even Boeing couldn't hide the Max crashes and mass murders that resulted. Whistleblowers had been saying for a LONG time that Boeing was using substandard (cheaper) alloys and skimping on security bolts etc etc. But the FAA just poo-poo'd multiple people saying the same thing for YEARS.
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