Posts by Ashto5

Corporate execs: Get back, get back, to the office where you once belonged

WFH forever

I would only go back to the office for

1. Job pays silly money

2. I could not get any other work

That’s it

Italy, Japan, UK to jointly launch sixth-gen fighter jet by 2035

AI & VR & ML

Will this thing actually need a pilot ?

As long as it has a credit card registered it will be able to download the next patch on its own.

Still it will be awesome.

San Francisco investigates Hotel Twitter, Musk might pack up and leave

Keep the servers running

All he has to do is keep the servers running and the thought police out of it.

The revenue will pick back up as it does have a couple of people still using it.

Musk is not stupid enough to lose the position of trust put in him by venture capitalists.

The rest well they can f off.

This is what the mega rich do all the time.

Why does every media outlet now demand his demise?

Moral of the story

When YOU encourage people to get mega rich don’t be surprised when they don’t a an F what you think.

His toys his rules

SF bye bye

Tech contractor who uses an umbrella company? UK tax is coming after them

Re: The other side of the coin?

Do not take the job.

If you are freelance and then take an umbrella role.

YOU JUST PAINTED A VERY LARGE TARGET ON YOUR BACK.

HMRC receive the details from the umbrella company and they link that companies house filings and YOUR tax records and there is the defacto list of people who by doing the same role via different mechanisms ADMIT they are employees.

HMRC have 10,000 cases opened against these people.

Work through an umbrella and your MENTAL.

Re: HMRC have switched tactics...

This is NOT win win.

Big companies like banks stopped using freelancers and offshored they work to India.

Tax receipts from 10,000 freelancers stopped overnight.

Tax receipts for the offshore £0.00 rounded to the nearest penny.

This is not a zero sum game this is and was always about setting workers against each other.

Bad lazy law IR35.

Re: How many IT contractors are there in the UK?

I believe there were 400k approx but that has now reduced to around 200k due to IR35 and covid

Blockchain needs a reason to exist, Boris Johnson tells roomful of blockchain pros

BOJO and Daddy Pig

Did he mention Peppa or Daddy pig ?

If not then they didn’t get their monies worth.

Intel offers Irish staff a three-month break from being paid

The Bosses ?

Will the bosses be taking unpaid leave ?

Or will they still rake in their 6 or 7 figure salaries ?

But hey you there mr cleaner we cannot afford your £9per hr fees

Intel

Must be totally ucked up to promote this.

Twitter tries to lure brands back with spend-matching scheme

Twitter

Ha ha

So much hate on here for Twitter and Musk.

Really who cares ?

Twitter falls who cares ?

Musk falls who cares ?

Hard left hard right websites brands adverts end up on them anyway

This all seems to be a way to try and bring Musk down

Seriously who cares ?

How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens

Fortune favours the damn lucky

While being less senior than now, in a moment of madness I decided to see if I could rebuild the entire DB and Data from scripts.

It took me a few days to get it working and I was then able to recreate from scratch the main system of the company feeling pretty good about it.

I went home thought nothing of it until we came in the next day with the fire brigade lights flashing and the building shut, a water pipe had bust, and in the main server room a tsunami was occurring.

The bosses were panicking about the business not surviving so when I mentioned I could rebuild the system in a matter of hours IF they got my desktop out.

Later that day the system was back up and running slowly on my PC.

Hero back slapping ensued then it struck me the data I had been working with was at least a week out of date, best not to ruin their day so I kept quiet.

One of my Finest hours

Elon Musk to abused Twitter users: Your tormentors are coming back

Re: Seriously ?

I am NOT missing the original reason for censorship on Twitter.

What I am am writing is that you don’t have to be on there and then complain you can walk away.

Q-anon people existed before Twitter and assault rifles are prevalent in the USA as a Brit I wouldn’t presume to tell you about the craziness of that.

The statistics show more people killed by hand guns in everyday situations and not coordinated armed militias.

Hey have great day and maybe avoid the places where those nasties hang out ?

Seriously ?

Twitter

It is not real

It is a website and that is all

If you feel offended then walk away

If you feel comfortable then stay

There are many platforms for different people

On the running into the ground, I don’t buy that one. Musk is NOT an idiot I think he is clearing the decks of the expensive people and people he would end up in battles with

Revenue drops but wages also drop and pretty soon the revenue will creep back up but salaries will not

I believe he will bring it in to profit

And I suspect his backers know this

But remember Twitter is not for everyone

Have a great day

Israel sets robotic target-tracking turrets in the West Bank

Palestinian will build their own

I can only surmise that the Palestinian people will build their own version.

I feel that it will not be long before there are automated killing machines on both sides.

If Isreal is so sure it is right then maybe they should just get on with the extermination of Palestinian people.

You would think the Israelis would recognise a despotic regime.

World's richest man posts memes as $44b Twitter acquisition veers off course

4D Chess

Everyone screaming about Elons Twitter play.

Twitter was losing $4m a day

Sack all the expensive staff

Keep all the support people

No new features but the site keeps up and running.

Advertisers who are “free speech washing” realise that others are still advertising on Twitter will return and maybe Elon will raise the price ?

Twitter can be a money making machine and Elon knows it.

Checkmate.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

She got off lightly

I have to say I believe that she got off lightly.

These massive frauds have massive consequences for smaller people.

Why does the tech sector still think a dropout from a massively successful institution, is some sort of success story?

There are a lot more CEO’s that need to be sent to jail.

This sort of sentence just sends the signal

Go for it, even if caught you will still be stinking rich when you get out.

Multi-tasker Musk expects to reduce time at Twitter, seek another leader

4D Chess

When I read these things I try to look for the hidden picture.

Twitter is losing £4m a day.

Scrap the staff, keep only those required to keep the platform functioning and legal.

Boom Twitter returns to profit.

The cost ?

More people piling in on poor old Elon.

But he has shown he does not give a brown swirly.

Hand it over to someone to recruit and redefine the direction of Twitter after you have cleared the dead wood.

4D Chess, check mate.

Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs

Plain Annoying

Win11 on one laptop

It is just annoying

Thank god it’s on my wife’s laptop and not mine

Ex-Uber security chief accused of hushing database breach must face fraud charges

NDA with a criminal

Who are these people making decisions about having an NDA with a criminal.

What on earth is their thought process?

The person is a criminal and totally untrustworthy and the other is a hacker.

More prisons filled with execs rather than workers that is what is needed 2008 financial crash NOT one person has been jailed for it.

Appeals court already under fire for upholding Texas no-content-moderation law

USA Today

Well what happened to the “American Dream”?

Sounds like the USA has truly moved to nightmare scenario, the UK is hot on your heels vague laws that protect no one but implicate everyone.

Our politicians are not worthy to lead a singalong.

I heard a quote on the radio “ the rich need to take care of the poor or the poor will take care of the rich”.

Supply chain normality returns for PCs but not servers, says Dell

Gaming Machines

The only real market left

The laptops need no more power so it will be hard to keep demanding more money, all the main services are cloud and browser based, they total rely on your band width.

Personally give me a phone that will run Vscode and connect to a decent monitor and wireless keyboard and mouse.

Apple app transparency changes bring in the ad bucks... for Apple

USA Big Tech

Phew thanks Apple for protecting me from FB & G.

I wish there was something I could do for them hmm

Tesla expands Powerwall-to-grid program to cover most of California

Oh how did we survive 100 years ago

I am amazed that the human race managed to survive without solar wind hydro battery and nuclear.

Gosh how did they manage it ?

California asks people not to charge EVs during heatwave

Shares

I look forward to the IPO

The Sunshine State

Err guys can you not like put up some solar panels and like get some of that sweet sunshine to make electricity ?

I know it seems like some mad idea to do this in the state where the sunshines for like 360 days a year.

Underwater datacenter will open for business this year

WTF

So now we are going to use the cold of the ocean to cool our data centres

Is that not warming the ocean by putting a freaking massive heater in it?

Co2 and all that crappola, warm seas release Co2.

Arregggghhhhhh!!!!!!

Micron wants tax breaks for '$160b' Texas chip fab plant

USA national debt

If you look back the records for incentives given to US big corps

It totals the USA national debt

It makes no sense to keep giving rich mega corps these tax breaks

You have bridges falling down cities rotting and homelessness on an industrial scale and you want to give this money to these people

Cancel student debt, cap property prices

Finally give some hope to the people of the west

Zuckerberg: Yes, Facebook kept Hunter Biden's laptop under wraps

Re: A Dutch saying

That’s the funniest thing I have read in ages

THANK YOU

$50m+ contract for crime-fighting IT system won by Fujitsu after no one else bid

Re: As its Fujitsu

Perhaps there was some direct integration in place ?

Post office system to police system

Qualcomm, GlobalFoundries double down on US chip production

A

B

3 Trillion USA Debt

If you tally the subsidies given to USA companies it totals the 3 Trillion debt held by the USA and which the public have to pay interest.

The USA version of capitalism is just pure BS.

No wonder the USA is in massive decline and China is in ascendancy.

Copper shortage keeps green energy, tech ventures grounded

BT Cabling Home Phones

As we move to 5G could we not remove the copper cabling and recycle.

I remember about 15 years ago the value of the copper BT had was higher than the total value of BT the government of the day stopped BT from pulling the copper out and selling it.

Choosing a non-Windows OS on Lenovo Secured-core PCs is trickier than it should be

Let the buyer beware

MS have provided OS and IDE that have allowed me to have a very profitable career.

So thank you MS, BUT ffs can you please stop shooting yourself in the face.

FBI and MI5 bosses: China cheats and steals at massive scale

Sounds like jealousy to me

Jealous much ?

Leaked Uber docs reveal frequent use of 'kill switch' to deactivate tech, thwart investigators

UBER revolutionised Taxis

UBER revolutionised taxis

But now with dynamic pricing you just get screwed by a different group.

Everyone back to the office! Why? Because the decision has been made

Jacob Reese Mogg

JRM

Is the current minister for

“Returning to Dickensian Values”

Microsoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions

Re: "customers will be asked to sign up for the scheme soon"

I do

It is not about the customer it is about the income stream and if some firms have to lose so that MS wins, then I expect MS to just do it; they do have deep pockets.

India extends deadline for compliance with infosec logging rules by 90 days

Fax Machine

OK, we need the tel number and then we can spam them

Intel demands $625m in interest from Europe on overturned antitrust fine

£650m to pay the lawyers fees

Lawyers be having money fights in their plush offices.

Seniors the only ones allowed to use the Ben Franklin notes.

Ca-chiiinggg

Ban Intel from EU systems

Just make the decision to not use any intel chips within the EU institutions.

The EU will recoup the £650m payment in about 5 years.

The EU could make a deal with its suppliers to only use a another chipset exclusively and get a huge discount.

Job done move on.

EU lawmakers vote to ban sales of combustion engine cars from 2035

Yawn Fantasy

Expect this to be sidelined

EU & UK do not have the capacity to build the electricity generation in that time scale

So now we have to turn coal back on or buy Russian gas

The rare earth ores required mean digging up half of Australia that’s going to go down really well.

You will be forced on to public transport and cycling to get anywhere

As for electric prices they will be through the roof

So no saving on fuel

Hybrid is the only way froward at the moment

But hey let’s close the door on that muppets

Meteoroid hits main mirror on James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Guys are just awesome

These guys are just off the scale awesome

Factor in the hits and have plans to deal with it

That’s how they kept the Hubble chugging along and why voyager 1 & 2 are still wizzing through space.

Just on awe of these guys.

Microsoft accidentally turned off hardware requirements for Windows 11

Win 10 is good enough

Don’t want win11

Small nuclear reactors produce '35x more waste' than big plants

Why the HELL Nuclear

It takes thousands of years to clear up the waste.

This is a trap to ensure energy companies can continue to make profits and YOU pick up the tab for the ridiculous clean up cost.

Solar and wind are free once you have the panels / blades.

Tech hiring freeze doesn't mean people won't leave

Does not matter

The ONLY issue for IT roles

If Rishi Sunak insists his father in laws Indian workers must be allowed UK visas

That will kill the market.

Spot On

You nailed it there

The only people demanding you back in the office are the ones who cannot sell you something unless you out of your home.

Elon Musk orders Tesla execs back to the office

Musk is like a bright light

He will attract the moths

He knows it

You know it

He is just another Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates etc

You only have the option to not work for him and or not buy his products.

He has pushed things forward massively.

The world requires these people otherwise we fall into bureaucrats Hands then nothing happens ever.

VMware customers have watched Broadcom's acquisitions and don't like what they see

VMWare will become truly virtual

If you have the scripts you can move your production environments to many other stacks.

It is only for VMWare to fun at it up and the move away will become a flood

Any existing bugs will be attributed to the take over