Posts by steviebuk 2825 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
For you as you, assuming American, will be the one that pays the tariff. No matter how much you believe in what comes out of the orange idiots old gob, YOU will pay the tariff.
So the bullshit "I'll lower prices really quickly" isn't going to happen. It will put all prices up. The idiot bankrupted two casino.
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So sounds to me they want, on the cheap, a fire safety officer but don't want to pay for that knowledge so you're just an "admin" instead. And/or forcing an admin to be a fire warden when that is supposed to be a voluntary job, you don't force people into it.
Which is odd as they are also hiring for a fire safety specialist who works with the senior fire safety manager. Then why are you forcing the admin to do fire stuff?
As always its a case of the higher up people getting all the money then penny pinching when it gets lower down the chain. No doubt their IT is underfunded. I've seen this before in other museums I did support for.
They'll now hire an expensive consultant to help them "secure our IT better". That consultant will recommend everything the IT team already did but was told "We can't afford that" but now the consultant has said it, "That is a great idea". Been there, seen that as well. Where a consultant asked us what we saw, how it could be made better etc. We told him, told him we'd already made these suggestions before. He took our ideas, palmed them off as his own, they said how amazing he was and started to implement some of those ideas. Shocking, demoralising and REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING.
We already knew this because man child Winnie the Pooh doesn't like to be questioned. The other questions you can ask it are local Chinese questions, such as Chinese dishes etc. This will show you if they've just robbed Western code. And yes, that is a thing. I can't remember which model it was but they robbed Western code so when the model was asked to create an image of Duck Soup it created an image of a duck, swimming in soup :)
"The robotics business is booming, thanks to the hype surrounding artificial intelligence and the demonstrated capabilities of robotaxis like Waymo."
https://youtu.be/Oi4KXpA9hS0?si=9j7KadvLpoATJDQQ
And
https://youtu.be/g_Qq8WoHppg?si=ML-zHHSe0c9jaO0r
And
https://youtu.be/7W-VneUv8Gk?si=H--tdYvFIZc7tfjR
Is someone going to just tell Trump to fuck off. Get back with free trade with the EU and let America rot fot 4 years. The idiot voters chose him, they can suffer the high prices he's going to create.
Alex Salmond didn't with the golf course and let Trump fuck over a load of contractors and people that live there.
He should be in fucking prison. Now threatening Greenland. He really needs to fuck off.
If they gave a shit they wouldn't of caved to Microsoft when they stopped supporting Windows 7 with their newer chips. And as mentioned, have words with Microsoft about the forcing of TPM which is going to create a massive amount of e-waste. Because although people could replace Windows with Linux Mint, the average user isn't going to know how to do that.
The orange idiot is clueless and so are his staff. He's just opening the flood gates to be breached more and more. Lets hope they go after his personal servers. His server will consist of these he'll have downloaded
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPrBO9ljSjVQ5lMn4SFoi8xBOCvOvUyMF&si=18ncnxiI0LLnhzm0
He'll just say "I'll just cut off the EU from Twitter." and because people like to bend over, they'll let him get away with it. However, that probably won't work now as the likes of Bluesky exist. A decentrialised Twitter alternative that you can even host yourself.
Just like tiktok. Trump put in place the ban. The update from Biden meant just meant the app was to be removed from the Play store and Apple store, not a full ban. But most don't realise this. To prove a point Bytedance shut the servers down to cause the back lash and allow Trump to been seen as the white knight. And because of his supporters are brain washed, they don't see this.
Its what the people in the open source world try to create. Its why Immich was created because the guys wife didn't want to pay for Google photos anymore. It doesn't suck up your data, you can self host it and its just amazing. Its possible and helped more if people pay for it.
It was the orange idiots idea to ban tiktok in 2020. His supporters will deny this despite him saying it on video.
Now he's making himself look good by delaying the ban. He'll do a deal with the CCP, much like in his first term where his daughter was allowed patents in China. Oddly, considering China doesn't honor patents.
He'll try and get a deal where his family will own half of tiktok and he'll gift it to one of his sons. After all, he'll now have access to all the classified documents again that he can sell.
Sadly, he's become the king of grifters helped along by a large chunk of idiot Americans that voted for him. Even the ones he's now going to deport.
Those platforms are banned in China. I think the difference is, if you call Trump a cockend on those platforms, despite the government seeing it, the goon squad won't be sent to your door to make you disappear. However, in China this happens. Although with Trumps second term he might try to make it happen.
In China they started using the term Winnie the Pooh to reference Xi cause he looks like him. This was to get around censors. When the CCP realised, all Winnie the Pooh references were banned. If you start calling Trump a big orange twat, on the western apps, they won't ban the term "big orange twat".
If your kid dies at school in China, the CCP doesn't what anyone to know anything and the Chinese people have had enough.
https://youtu.be/pnmfhygGGsw?si=CMqieBEfO9UVzOvH
"There is some whispering TikTok is otherwise set to simply cut off access to US users come Sunday." TikTok is a clear and clever CCP syop app. You make it so popular that anyone that mentions its a syop app is deemed "a conspiracy theorist". I hate conspiracies but its clear TikTok is a syop app. Its banned in China for a reason, all Western apps are banned in China, which is their right. You see no Western government going mental over western apps being banned. Yet the CCP, who claimed they have no involvment in TikTok getting massively bent out of shape when a ban warning appeared.
Its not even a ban, it will just be removed from the Apple store and Play store. The "We'll just turn the servers off for US residents" is an attempt to get US voters to argue it should stay. They won't do it because its so valuable to the CCP with all the devices its already installed on.
Anyway, its all dead now because Biden has decided to let Trump decide. If China give him enough money he'll allow it to stay or allow Musk to buy it. Musk is in bed with China because of his factories over there. So it will all just carry on as normal. The snooping will continue under the cover of Musk owning it.
The 50 cents lurk around these parts so expect downvotes.
something about it during his 4 years but didn't. Bernie Saunders has been warning about Oligarchy since 1993 but no one was interesting in stopping Trump. The GOP have just seen his power and decided to drop all their morals and grab on. Hoping that while he's around they can exploit the power. Once Trump The Felon has gone, watch the GOP implode (hopefully they implode before his 4 years are up).
always been a cunt Eric Schmidt has. They are all for "Work hard, work long hours and you'll be succesful". No, they'll just make you lots of money then once you're done with them you'll drop them. THAT is the issue. You may want to do the long hours etc to get rich, but its no motivation when you know you're doing all those long hours to make someone else rich.
Its why Elon loves the H-1B visa because it means he can become even more rich on the backs of others but pay them a LOT less than he'd have to pay America workers. And also knows if those H-1B visa workers don't like it, they'll loose their visa and will have to go back home, so he knows they'll just keep their mouth shut. He then knows he can make them do whatever he wants, even if it means working long hours, 7 days a week.
They are all cunts (the execs, not the H-1B visa workers)
incharge. Then I give my advice and am ignored. A lowely, low paid engineer. The overpaid consultant comes along, says what they want to hear and gets the praise. We're all still there in the corner muttering "But this is going to take a MASSIVE amount of energy the UK doesn't have and you're supposed to be going green. The consultant doesn't actually know what they are talking about they just know how to sell their shit so they get paid".
Years later "We've learned lessons from the failure of the AI implementation. We are greatful for all the work our consultant has done but they have no moved on. What was that? Did your engineers warn you? Erm...we have other engineers?"
Cunts.
True, the only use for ChatGPT is to give me a very rough idea of how to do a powershell script (knowing full well it will be mostly wrong) but at least ChatGPT doesn't insult me for asking unlike StackOverflow.
The only other 2 uses is commenting code when lazy and telling me what a bit of code actually does because I, again, don't want to be insulted by the folks of StackOverflow.
But, the government don't appear to understand how power hungry these LLMs are. Its OK, idiot Starmer might give China back the building of the nuclear power station. China def won't put in a backdoor for the time it all goes to shit so they can make the reactor go pop. They def haven't already done this (as has been seen in the news) with America's infrastructure.
Professor Brailsford do a talk on this on computerphile. All his PDF talks have been interesting as he was around for the birth of it all. Listening to his chats on fonts when they were a new thing and just being able to print special characters, finally, like chess pieces. Worth a watch.
Because China does = bad. Not the people, most in China are pleasant apart from the nationalist. But the CCP is bad. World War 2 happened a long time ago now, yet the CCP still teach their kids (its taught in schools) that the Japanese are bad and to hate them. Just look up the Uyghurs people and see the concentration camps they've been put in. Any Chinese company HAS to report to the CCP. So yes, its very well possible tp-link have been compromised specifically for the CCP.
Lets take Twitter for example (yes its shit but before the great cock called Elon owned it). Its been banned in China forever, does the US government shout "China, stop causing trouble. Unban Twitter" no. Because despite the CCP being cunts, its their right to ban it. But, when TikTok is threaten with a ban, TikTok that the CCP say they have no involvement with, the CCP oddly went mental over this. Could this possibly be because they use it as their syop app? Yes, it clearly is, considering the data it slurps. What better way to spy on other nations. Making a popular app that seems like any other social media app. Use that app to cause disinformation and infighting. That's the way you destroy a country, let them fight each other. Its currently working in America, the fact a large amount of idiots voted in a rapist and felon back into the Whitehouse.
where our TV in the back room in the house I grew up in broke. Family friends husband came over. Put the TV on the floor, opened its back. Inside the cover was the schematic printed on the case! He traced the fault, repaired it, TV continued to work for years. Now, they don't last as long and are made purposely difficult to repair or refusing to allow access to schematics. So that you bin it and buy their new latest one.
Sadly, companies have gotten away with this due to customers. If we all, collectively, said "Fuck off" and stopped buying, it wouldn't of happened.
Apple tried it with the Apple 2. Wozniak wanted it upgradable, Steve Jobs didn't. Wozniak won the arguement and lucky for Jobs he did. Apple kept afloat due to the Apple 2 sales because it was upgradable. Almost all of Steve Jobs personal ideas failed.
Now, because people who aren't tech savy just accept the shit and carrying on buying, companies know they can get away with it.
Fran from franlabs on YouTube made the Frantone many years ago which apparently is really popular. But unforunately she said its not viable to hand make them anymore as she used to do. Maybe she could do kits instead and everyone put them together themselves. But I think even that's not viable for her as she mentioned, a while ago now, hand making the circuitboard was expensive.
http://www.frantone.com/
for anyone interested.
Yep. Its totally shit and I use a reg fix to remove the try new outlook button. However, have now seen they are going to start forcing it soon. With SatNav in charge at Microsoft, customer service and listening to your customers has really gone to shit.
I miss the days of an iso or msi install for office. Last one was 2016. At least then you could stay on it for years. Benefit was you could craft training that would be perfect for years and years.
Now if you attempt to do training or guides for 365, in about a month its all fucking changed. Really fucking annoying.
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