Posts by Ashto5

Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy

New Feature

The new feature rolled out last week

Power down the servers when any hate speech text is detected.

Awesome feature.

Lawyers join forces to fight common enemy: The SEC and its probes into cyber-victims

USA Law

The best money can buy.

There are plenty of reasons why government tech is stuck in the Stone Age

Not the private sectors faults

If you are going to order something from the “private sector” it is usually a good thing to know what you are asking for.

Changing your mind half way through costs a lot, not doing your due diligence costs a lot, reusing the same useless bunch of wankers who charged you 3 times the original estimate

Well that falls squarely on the shoulders of the civil service.

You wanna save money then have a single version of local government systems you can then deploy a version for each council because they all do the same bloody thing.

Really?

Wow what have all those politicians in the intervening 40 years been doing?

From your post it sounds like Maggie nailed it and made all the MP’s superfluous.

WFH can get you 40% salary boost in UK and US tech jobs

How did these companies survive

With everyone tossing it off at home and not working how have these companies survived ?

OR

Is it managers trying to justify their jobs?

Twitter stiffed us on $2m bill, claim consultants in lawsuit

Is Twitter still a thing?

Has it not collapsed yet ?

Canadian owes bosses for 'time theft' after work-tracking app sinks tribunal bid

Thinking Time

I can often just walk away from my PC in order to clear my mind and that is when the solution to a problem will present itself.

How can you put something like that into a time sheet system, making a cup of tea allows your mind to relax.

Ex-GE engineer gets two years in prison after stealing turbine tech for China

2 Years ?

That does not seem like a real punishment it sounds like a green light to stealing.

Get caught do 2 years and a pat in the back from said government.

Get away with it and make millions and a pat in the back from said government.

It almost incentivises the action.

Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code

All invention can be used for good or bad

People are the factor in all of this AI is neither good or bad.

If the AI can produce code that is truly usable rather than a broad outline then the security teams will have to step up.

So in a way a positive side from a negative.

Microsoft’s Nadella: Tech is in for a rough two years

50% Generated by AI

Hmm

Very dodgy figure.

I write code generators to solve some problems but I have never let AI do the code generation.

I think he maybe including the code lines given by a template when creating a new project.

I have not seen ANY AI created code, yes there is the little grey suggested code within VS but generally it is never what I need.

AI has its place but this constant push just reminds me of the VR hype.

Not worried for my day to day on this.

CES Worst in Show slams gummi gouging, money-wasting mugs, and other dubious kit

Literally flushing your money down the toilet

Lmfao

A device that tells you your toilet has piss in it :)

Gummies selling product don’t we have Herbal Life to take care of all of our vitamin issues

LOVED THIS ARTICLE

Microsoft said to be thinking of sinking $10m into self-driving truck startup

Goods will be delivered by Edge

All goods will be delivered by Edge and can be found in the downloads folder.

Double click fridge to see what virtual food you have.

Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data

Really?

I thought it would have been the default setting from day 1

As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave

Ocean warming

Cool that’s what the ocean. Weds right now a giant heater dropped in it.

MS may not have thought this through.

NASA may tap SpaceX to rescue ISS 'nauts in Soyuz leak

Is there a Twitter poll ?

Seriously we should have a Twitter poll

Should Elon use SpaceX to rescue astronauts ?

UP for yes

DOWN for no

Google, Mozilla to collaborate with Apple on fresh Webkit browser benchmark

Re: "Nobody intentionally builds a website that lags or stutters,"

When I design and build websites, I make the performance testing a top priority EVERY-TIME regardless of the “boss man” saying it is not necessary.

The result I can still go back and see some site still running the same code core.

Frameworks I try to avoid like the plague as you say a plague in all their houses.

Management of UK govt's £158b property estate held back by failed IT project

Splash the cash

MP’s and civil servants throw our money around like it’s snowing.

Define what you need to support for these properties

Name, address

Repairs based on a defined list e.g roof, damp, wood rot

Then have a list of accepted contractors to do repairs then offer a simple bidding platform for the work

Each day the property manager inputs work required, take away their ability to organise the work payment without going through the new system

Job done

Re: Staffing problems.

Or even IR35

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

Popcorn shortages

Popcorn shortages

We need to invest in popcorn ASAP

Corn will be like the new money that doesn’t require a bank

VC virtual corn could be the way forward anyone know somebody with time in their hands that could help build an exchange?

IBM to create 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license

Disgusting

It is not right to license software and charge extra for running it in faster kit.

It just smacks of the USA companies just milking there users.

You would think that the revenue today is enough otherwise they would have put their prices up previously.

Imagine buying a car upgrading the radio and finding you have to now pay ford because you made the car better.

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