* Posts by HatHatHatHatHat

27 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Dec 2017

This data center will be Europe’s first with hydrogen backup power

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Dutch have been active on this space, including contracts with South Australia, where solar panels have already periodically produced more energy than the state need! Plan to convert excess into hydrogen.

Reality check: We should not expect our communications to remain private

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Really!

President Biden orders transformation of 'Federal Customer Experience'

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Smell of a unicorn startup in the air... soon to be followed by a major personal data breach to the boot ☺

Google sued for firing staff who claim they tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto

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Surely any barrister worth their salt would be able to argue that noone thought they were being serious when they said that ☺

While the iPhone's repairability is in the toilet, at least the Apple Watch 7 is as fixable as the previous model

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Heads will roll :D

EU and US seek 'common principles' for data governance and AI

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Forget standards.

With "free" software model, privacy will continue be corroded for profit into foreseeable future.

Yahoo! India! shuts! down! news! operation!

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Crickets.

Jack Dorsey's side hustle – payments outfit Square – acquires buy now pay later darling Afterpay for $29bn

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Ka-ching!

UK celebrates 25 years of wasteful, 'underperforming' government IT projects

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More program managers..

US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight

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Re: Already convicted without a trial..

I ment the future trial.

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Already convicted without a trial..

.. only question is where he will do the time.

Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors

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Re: You need to prove who you are to buy a SIM in Aus?

Really, how?

SQL now a dirty word for Oracle, at least in cloudy data warehouses

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Ah the times I've tried, and misarably failed, explaining that to the guy with wallet at client :)

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Lol - state if art, after period of phenomenal fragmentation, is now consolidating aroud, yes you guessed it, SQL!

LinkedIn China pauses new member signups ‘to ensure compliance with local law’

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All they want is admin access to linkedin database. Signups will be accepted again in notime...

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

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Re: Interesting

They will randomly block pages (with script minus Police, lol) until public gets angry and the pollies will budge.

Reviewing and profiling your code is boring? Well, Amazon will now sell you an AI editor to do it for you

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All while checking whether useful, in which case code forwarded to a supervisor :,-)

Assange should be furloughed from Belmarsh prison, says human rights org. Here's a thought: He could stay with friends!

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It pains me to say this, but he would have been treated better in Russia..

Things I learned from Y2K (pt 87): How to swap a mainframe for Microsoft Access

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Access, only second to excel (of course), as a reason why we had global financial crisis.

Rockstar dev debate reopens: Hero programmers do exist, do all the work, do chat a lot – and do need love and attention from project leaders

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Rockstar developer wastes time in corporate world if there are no clearly communicated performance based review (=compensation) structure in place.

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

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coincidentally both oo and gimp are free...

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

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Fanbois not give a $hit

Microsoft: Reckon our code is crap? Prove it and $30k could be yours

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NO ONE will qualify for the 30k awards and therefore M$ will claim they have faultless browser

Twist my Arm why don't you: Brit CPU behemoth latest biz to cease work with Huawei – report

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trade war bargaining chip?

Bitcoin price soars amid technical troubles for exchanges

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Only meltdown will be the winkelwii - crying conspiracy.. again...