Plenty of Kpop acts do this already, and a couple haven't even bothered with the meat-sack stage. Apoki have done one for the pronouns by identifying as a rabbit astronaut.
Posts by Natalie Gritpants Jr
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Tech renders iconic rockers Kiss genuinely immortal
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files
Top Ukrainian cyber officials fired after allegedly pocketing kickbacks from govt IT deals
Being fired is getting off lightly if your country is at war and you are the cyber security boss. The next article on the Reg is about Capita getting another large govt contract, so I wonder if we do any better with or without corruption givern there are so few companies willing to take on these contracts.
Rocket Lab mission lost in the Paschen of the moment
Apple Private Wi-Fi hasn't worked for the past three years
Clippy-like AI at forefront of Windows update previews
Martin Goetz, recipient of the first software patent, logs off at 93
Japan cruises ahead with drive-thru EV charging trial
Silicon Valley billionaires secretly buy up land for new California city
Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom
Tesla is looking for people to build '1st of its kind Data Centers'
Boffins say they can turn typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy
RIP Bram Moolenaar: Coding world mourns Vim creator
Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway
Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable
"orthogonal layers of beech placed under extreme pressure"
Pah! - that's just plywood, I'm renovating my gables and am replacing the split and rotten pine with Tricoya. It's guaranteed for 25 years in the ground without any protection. At £300 per 2.4x1.2 m sheet it's a bit pricey, but I'm planning on not going up there again. It's very un-resonant when you tap it. I might build a speaker cabinet out of the offcuts.
Number of pensioners hurt by DWP legacy system error actually 165,000
Sounds like every government run computer system has had so much shit shovelled into the spec by politicians and lobbyists that no-one wanted to build it, and now even fewer people want to maintain it. Maybe that's what I'll do when I no longer understand what the clever kids are asking for and just want a quiet life buggering up Cobol.
Australia's 'great example of government using technology' found to be 'crude and cruel'. And literally lethal to citizens
Boss such a tyrant you need a job quitting agent? It works in Japan
California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots
Crook who stole $23m+ in YouTube song royalties gets five years behind bars
So if he hadn't collected the royalty money, where would it have gone? Straight into the pockets of the streaming services, I guess. Not sure how the accountants would have hidden that as they won't want it to say "Royalties that weren't claimed, and we didn't try to deliver".
Maybe the streamers should refuse to play songs they don't have the royalty recipient of. Pretty sure they would find the royalty owners that way.
Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson
Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan
UK smart meter rollout years late and less than two thirds complete
Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight
IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects
So the tax owed by the monitoring and assessment officers is equal to the amount spent on actually doing what the department is meant to do. Okay it's for two years, but unless they are all paying more than 50% tax/NI it means their wage bill is greater than the amount they are monitoring and assessing. And now it's even larger.
You may as well give the money out as a lottery among companies less than a year old.
Virgin Orbit-uary: Beardy Branson's satellite launch biz shutters
SambaNova injects a little AI mojo into US supercomputer lab's nuke sims
Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner
Stupid idea to use a playlist as an alarm. So many things that could go wrong and stop it altogether. It relies on: a working internet connection; a working spotify account; a working route to spotify; a playlist that has songs that will wake you up instead of carrying on sleeping; your spotify app not having lost its credentials; a working spotify server; a working setting in the alarm app to launch spotify.
There are probably more ways to fail than this, but just pick an alarm sound that is on the phone.
Tokyo has millions of surplus Wi-Fi access points that should be shared with blockchain, says NTT
First attempt by Japan's ispace biz to land on Moon ends in awkward silence
Florida folks dragged out of bed by false emergency texts
Inside FTX: Jokes about misplaced funds, diabolical IT, poor oversight, and worse
Google to kill Dropcam, Nest Secure hardware next year
British Prime Minister Sunak’s plans for UK NFT on ice
Worse than pointless
If the government were to issue something of value, they would have a duty to support it until no-one had any trace of it left. E.g. they still accept old money. Given that no-one knows how long digital stuff will last, you are looking at a potentially infinite support cost.
Lebanon's IT folks face double trouble as leaders delayed Daylight Savings Time
Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry
Re: "On average, a typical user switches ten thousand times per month"
10,000 / 20 / 8 = 62.5
Do they really think the typical user is switching teams view every minute continuously? I guess some poor souls are having to have multiple chats and copy-pasting between as their job (PHB), but I thought that was the point of popping out chats.
Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware
Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop
Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten
Yes, Samsung 'fakes' its smartphone Moon photos – who cares?
Don't worry, that system's not actually active – oh, wait …
NASA finds crashing spacecraft into asteroids is a viable defence strategy
Re: If violence doesn't work
On the scale of energy used to create the asteroid in the first place, this was a light brushing with a feather. Besides, can you do violence to an inanimate object. We changed it, but I don't think we "damaged" it. It's just a rock that will float around in nothingness until it hits something.
Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed
Puri.sm puts out LapDock for its Librem 5 smartphone
Results are in for biggest 4-day work week trial ever: 92% sticking with it
UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics
Tax could be a lot simpler
Just charge 0.1% on every payment into a UK bank account (personal and business). Ignore cash, as it's only used by poor people. Let the banks collect it (they know exactly where all the money is and has been). The big businesses who will use offshore accounts are already dodging tax, so you could probably add 0.01% on every transfer of money overseas.
Might upset the rich and the financial industry, but that would indicate you're doing it right.
There's no place like... KDE: Plasma 5.27 is out and GNOME 44 hits beta
Figuring if a monitor is off is hard for a graphics output. The EDID data from the monitor is meant to be powered from the graphics card, so unless the EDID data has the field for monitor power included ther may be no way to tell. Some monitors do this but others don't and it's not something you find in many review tests.
Many monitors can be switched between several inputs. Do you want your computer to think it's off when it's on but switched to another source?