Posts by steviebuk 2675 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
"I purchased Twitter because I believe in freedom of speech. Unless its about Twitter then keep your mouth shut"
"Thank you for your flexibility. Please continue to comply with company policy by refraining from discussing company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere."
He's still a dick.
"I want you all back in the office. No more working from home. I want you to all agree to this "new twitter" where you will work your arses off like I do, with no breaks so you can continue to make me more money. I'll be doing the same. I'll be working hard. Until I get bored, which is coming soon & I'll just hire someone to be my replacement cunt"
But as Richard Herring or might of been once of his guests pointed out, they should of thanked Judas. Without him Jesus wouldn't of died on the cross and saved us all.
I'm not a believer. People can believe what they want as long as they don't push that belief on me or make stupid laws from it. But the above was an interesting thought :)
Slightly off topic but I have a odd urge to say it. I can't stand bosses like this but would, in some ways, love the chance to be in that billionaire position he is in. As someone who suffers anxiety, I always strive to make new employees not feel that way. Its a shit feeling and people like Musk don't make it easy. Only reason is I'd quite like to make work an enjoyable place for people, not an anxiety ridden place. Hearing people on a Sunday "Oh its' back to work on Monday, I hate it" Its never great. But I guess its a difficult one as then you end up like David Brent. But there's also no need to treat people as shitty as Musk apparently does. I remember years ago now seeing a documentary on recruitment and the manager pointing out what attracts him to looking at a CV etc. But he also said he has a relaxed dress code. He wanted people to feel comfortable at work and he said it works. They are more productive and he said there sick days decreased because of it. And as something as simple as a relaxed dress code.
I wouldn't say get rid of the office outright. Some people like to be in the office, some don't have the setup required at home, some want to get away from the kids (someone said that at our work) but forcing people back to the office when its clear working from home works is a stupid idea. It a sign of a person who's out of touch. Its easy to say when you can afford to be driven in. But when you're lower down in the chain, have to take public transport or live miles away so have to sit in shitty traffic all morning, it makes more sense working from home.
It's just another notch in his arseholeness. Why people worship at the alter of Musk is anyone's guess.
He decided against the court case (most likely cause he'd have lost) and took over Tweeter JUST before the mid-term elections. Coincidink?
Then this today:
To be clear, my historical party affiliation has been Independent, with an actual voting history of entirely Democrat until this year</p>— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
When I started on Twitter way back in about 2007, then stopped cause it was just people saying "Getting up". "Having dinner". "Having a shower now" etc, I started again in 2010 when I started a new job. Decided to do the same in a piss taking way. No one got it. I had to walk a sea front walk every morning. So it was "Going to work" (photo of the sea). "Going home" (Photo of the sea) and that was it :) it amused me for a bit. Then didn't use it again for years.
Now it's only good for @WHS_carpets
The maths comment is good to hear. Back in the late 80s, early 90s while still in high school, in the UK I did part time work at a hotel where my mum worked. I remember specifically being behind the bar (wasn't allowed to serve obviously) and my mum was saying "He wants to be a programmer, but you do it, don't you require maths?" she said to someone working there. He said "Yes, you'll need maths to doing programming". I disagreed. Got into college and eventually got learning Pascal. Thought he was right cause I've always struggled. After the 5 years of college course I got to the end and decided programming wasn't for me. Maybe it is a maths issue. But glad to here its not. 2000 I finished all my courses and just a engineer instead. Started to look at Python again though, understand it a bit better than I did in college, now looking at Powershell though.
If its the same project I'm thinking of then that was partly the NHS to blame by the people I spoke to. Contract was signed then a month later in their "meetings" a new NHS project manager would appear wanted extras added. Same the next month and so on. Until Fujitsu said "You can't keep adding to the project once you've agreed to the contract." Eventually got fed up and pulled out. Thats what I was told anyway.
But they should never be given any contracts ever again for the Post Office scandal. For claiming there were no bugs at all in their software. People died and went to prison for their bullshit.
Someone is still getting brown envelopes I bet.
No its because if you look into the history, you'll find the CCP with Xi have their fingers in every pie. Xi was bought in because they believed he'd be neutral and keep the country open to the world. But alas he's become another Mao, is closing China off and becoming a North Korea. And breaking all agreements regarding them being given control of Hong Kong.
The only point you make that is valid is cost. Because China uses slave labour, everything is cheaper. So despite me not wanting Chinese kit, we're still stuck with their CCTV cameras cause they are cheaper than the competition.
Yep. Worse is what he's said about Taiwan, which the CCP loved so much, put it out on all their news outlets. Shortly after the CCP gave him tax free allowance on his new vehicles in China. Funny that. Not only his he pro-putin he's clearly a CCP shill.
At this point he's shown what a true cunt he is. He gives no fuck about anyone, just profit and how much money he can make. He'll say and do whatever anyone tells him, even if they are holding guns to a group of peoples heads. He'll first ask "What do I get out of it?".
Same. Hardly left with any money for myself after mortgage and other bills each month. "Move jobs then" people say, easier said than done. You risk going somewhere else and getting booted after the 6 months probation because "We've decided to cut back" or get made perm only to be let go a year later because "We're outsourcing IT".
And people like me learning are just as bad.
In one of the problem sets that I got working, if I remember right, I did an if statement one way, then the else a completely different way. Realised after had passed the checks. I thought it was amusing that I could get the code working but in a section do it two different ways. I should of changed it but just left it.
And theirs my point. There's a good way of creating insecure code. Let people like me write it. I bet I could cock it up just as well in Rust.
I don't know if I agree with Mark on this but I don't think its his financial interest. He already made a packet when he sold Sysinternals to Microsoft. Its why Bryce Cogswell retired I assume once the contract of "You have to work for us for x years then you can cash out", when that hit, Bryce said "I'm out". I assume he just wanted to enjoy the money and do other things, but Mark didn't.
I didn't agree with Mark's comments about engineers being against cloud because they know it will take away their jobs. That's not the only reason we dislike it. And I feel that comment was self serving.
I'm also assuming it will be easy to write insecure code in Rust. Does he forget that there are so many free courses now, with so many people wanting to learn stuff just because. Because of this and maybe because its not fully part of their career people rush though so code will be buggy. I'm currently dabbling in Python and watched one guide where the "trainer" exploited how exceptions worked just to get her code to work for the video. I worked that out, others might not and write the code in the same poor way, eventually head into the industry for a small company that can't afford to check. Wrote a small or large app for them full of holes.
That's one way insecurity happens, management forcing you to rush also doesn't help.
None of them give a shit about China's human rights issues or that the CCP WILL steal all their tech. Musk lost his morals first, now Ford. All they see is a big money market but its not. Just look into China's recent history and you'll see why.
Hollywood thought they could tap into a massive movie market with China but have finally realised how wrong they were. The CCP kept demanding stuff be edited out to fit their market. Fine, let the CCP do it themselves but instead the studio would not only censor it for China, but also the rest of the world & wonder why they then had poor viewing figures. Why not just censor once & then you don't have to bother paying again so you make more money.
They were wrong. Turns out viewers in the Western world don't like movies censored to appease the Chinese market so some films viewed poorly so recently they rolled back and finally told the CCP to jog on. The Japanese and Taiwanese flags on patches were back in Top Gun. They wanted the Statue of Liberty removed from the new Spider-man movie and Sony quite rightly told them to fuck off.
You also have ticket sales. One guy who lived their for 15 years, some may know of him from The China Show, said when he'd go to the cinema with his girlfriend. He wanted to see the latest Hollywood movie and the guy at the till printed out the ticket for the local shit Chinese movie. Crossed out its name and wrote the Hollywood movie name :)
So they were basically all fudging the numbers so the local Chinese film would do well (because they mostly do poorly). So not only does Hollywood get incorrect figures for ticket sales they also lose the money as that ticket sale goes to the Chinese film instead of the Hollywood film the person paid to see.
Turns out without the Chinese market Top Gun still did massively well.
..because they probably have their backup plan in action already to carry on with burner phones. If they admit guilt and can afford to pay the fine then they probably know they can easily get away with it again, make more money and know what they'd look for so know what how to hide better. Burner phones would be the way to go, set to not backup to the cloud and when asked to hand them over, accidently drop them in salt water (the sea).
my Star Trek joke at beginning.
Anyway. My limited background in programming is back in 90s in Pascal and COBOL in college. Then C++ when finished all courses in 2000. Now started to try to learn Python (I was never good at programming. Got bored for all those years but a little interested again)
Anyway. The long winded point. I'm no expert but surely this doesn't need to be AI? Is this another bullshit marking "We've used AI". Surely if you're detecting one species you just have that as your reference in the code. The audio listens out, does it equal to this frequency or this list of frequencies or similar. Yes it does. Send data to HQ else carry on listening.
As I type that I wonder if the AI bit is it not having an exact frequency it can match so it has to see if its similar. Surely that's still not AI and just a fancy algorithm marketed as AI so middle managers buy it.
why has Microsoft not been hit with an anti trust case again just like in late 90s. Because its exactly the same issue. Search for any other broswer on Windows 10 or 11 and Microsoft intercept the search to put in the advert for their own Edge browser. And from the way its worded any one not into IT will read the message and choose Edge instead.
before we're all forced to work over 48hrs now hitler Truss is getting rid of worker rights. She wants us to work more like China and as I bang on about over and over China use slave labour so appears that's what Truss wants. I get more done working from home than having to deal with walk ups coming to my desk "While you're hear I just have this issue".
Log a fucking ticket!
I was the same for years then the stupid company was at also made the stupid decision to move to gsuite (its shit) and "encouraged" us to use Chrome. I disliked it but discovered Google Keep. Actually really useful if you find a website interested in. Find a bit of a website interested in etc, you just highlight send to Google Keep. Essentially really quick note taking. Sadly no one has made one for Firefox, not an official extension for Google Keep for Firefox so I ended up moving perm to Chrome. Didn't help when I moved into my new home, due to having no room the PC that worked perfectly fine day before move. Decided, a year later of not being turned on, for Windows 7 to go all weird and refuse to update (before updates were ended) and then firefox detonated and kept crashing and killed all the bookmarks.
So now on work laptop, even though no longer required, I sadly stuck with Chrome.
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