Posts by Beach pebble

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

Rich mans sickness

Seems Musk has a serious case of rich mans sickness, and believes that firing off his thoughts is a cure.

Cops turn LockBit ransomware gang's countdown timers against them

"Nobody does a middle finger – digital or analog – quite like the British."

I do recall the British are rather happy doing a 2 finger salute despite very little use of bows these days, the index finger waving is more of a USA variant.

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

Re: Exactly what destroyed the UK car industry

Perhaps you have a clue where Tesla is from?

Re: Exactly what destroyed the UK car industry

"IF Metall workers in Sweden – where Tesla doesn't manufacture vehicles but has a number of repair and service shops – have been on strike since October after what they described as years of Tesla refusing to bargain with the union. IF Metall-represented employees claim Tesla hasn't guaranteed them good wages, a pension or insurance."

The core cause is in the article, perhaps you just skimmed thru it and missed this. Sweden is not the USA.

No reliable way to detect AI-generated text, boffins sigh

Re: Just check the commas

See icon.

Just check the commas

One detection pattern is the use of commas in AI generated texts, the average human struggles to get at least one in sentences.

Microsoft chases Google with ChatGPT-powered Bing

While today Bing has issues and no answers

Seems something is and has been for a long time broken with how Bing indexes sites since many site owners voice being dropped off while everything is working fine with Google search. With a spotted index that AI has far less to work with.

Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina

Re: Fragile

Perhaps German as in HAMBURGers?

BOFH: Selling the boss on a crypto startup

There is a slight notion that "datum" was left in the English language by Vikings, like so much else, many years ago.

DuckDuckGo tries to explain why its browsers won't block some Microsoft web trackers

There is this option: https://www.qwant.com/

European engine

No advertising tracking

Respectful privacy

The time you solved that months-long problem in 3 seconds

Re: I replaced a network cable.

Reminds me of an issue with a simple terminator some years ago at a clothing company with zero tech skills, we being an airline computer tech department sent one of our skilled techs when we got a call out of the blue as we thought it was a complex network issue to solve.

The tech upon return thanked me for a nice stay over in a foreign land upon return and getting paid to visit an office packed with nice people of the opposite gender, apparently he got properly pampered.

Client payed for all hours, hotel, flight etc and called to thank us for stepping up as they had tried to source locally but were ignored by other providers.

UK spy boss warns China hopes Russia will help it take over tech standards

Re: IT Airbus Cloud

OVH? That's one bot infested hosting provider. Followed by Hetzner.

Fujitsu: Dumping older workers will wipe out quarter of forecast profit

Re: Skills and experience

Universal:

Using age is the wrong metric; capability should be the metric.

Facebook invents new unit of time to measure modern attention spans: 1/705,600,000 of a sec

Why waste a flicking second more

FB, flick the switch when you're off.

China crackdown: VPN vendor gets prison

That firwall has some holes...

Considering the sheer volume of port calling sh*t on a daily basis coming from Chinese IP's it would seem prudent if they actually sorted that out first. Somehow people using VPNs tend to do far less damage...