Posts by jospanner

Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

I don’t actually want to live in a world of total law enforcement

Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl

Re: senior network engineers did their job too well.

The marriage of corporation and state? They should invent a term for that. /s

Microsoft's Euro-mandated File Explorer surgery shows 'less is more' is still a thing

Re: Just ditch US products?

Viva Europa, ahora más que nunca

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

Re: it wos The Reg "wot won it,"

Why would marketers have a philosophy degree

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be

Re: Oh dear god

God, you’re such a rebel, how do you do it?

Re: not quite...

“Colourblindness” is childish idealism that fails to engage with reality.

Equality of opportunity doesn’t exist, that’s the problem.

Sounds like DEI is the best option then, thanks

Re: Your choice...

Funnily enough I’m now banned from joining the US military

Re: Apartheid America

And how do you enforce a colourblind society?

Enforcing that would be DEI, wouldn’t it?

And I’d love to hear your definition for “woman”, I’m sure this is going to be tasteful.

“Recruiting people with the most appropriate skills for a role irrespective of race, gender, or background”

And how do you make sure that happens, considering that we know for a fact that people will overlook flaws in candidates who they relate to?

Ignorance really is bliss when you’re drowning in information

Re: Puzzled........

Once upon a time it would have been true that the earth was flat, as you would have no means to prove otherwise, or even conceptualise how an “oblate spheroid” “earth” would whizz around something called a “solar system”. Talk like that and they’d think you were bonkers, a witch, or both.

Are you sure you have the truth right now? How can you tell?

Welcome to philosophy of science.

Re: Big problem requiring serveral partial solutions

This is funny because all of the arguments I’ve seen about Marxism in the 21st century are just people being upset that someone is criticising capitalism.

Reddit’s first public year shows growth, but Wall Street’s still not happy

Beautiful economic model we have where netting $72 million is a failure.

Amazing. Purge the lefties to bring in more revenue. I’m left wing, though.

Re: How did Reddit ever become a thing?

Pay you for owning shares

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

I always liked playing as Luigi in Mario Party

Re: Here's an idea...

The tendency of the rate of profit to fall.

But we’re not allowed to talk about that.

Re: Non-infrastructure development

Learning from history? What kind of commie pinko DEI nonsense is this? Stop getting in the way of profit, god damnit.

Re: widening the A303

Yeah who likes being able to walk to local amenities?

Far better to haul one’s ass into a massive BMW, drive 5 miles to the nearest square mile of nondescript generic concrete, along the way wondering why you spend half an hour in traffic, and then wonder why you can’t find a parking space.

Then moan about it on the internet because having a big ass antisocial car is your RIGHT, god damn it!

Re: widening the A303

Oh rubbish, that’s what’s called an “excuse”, and you don’t want to admit it.

People managed with smaller vehicles for decades before the US obsession with size infected our roads.

People carriers, estate cars, and hatchbacks did people fine, until the enticement of sheer size took over. We lived out of a Clio and then a Polo as a family for years and never had issues.

Ask yourself how literally anyone managed before 2010 with a car, not a truck. Basic critical thinking.

Re: EI-AI-OH?

Because there HAS to be something, otherwise we might have to admit that big tech capitalism might not be working out. That infinite growth isn’t possible.

And we can’t admit that.

Existential threat.

Re: There is no business case for the investment amounts that have been mooted.

Do you think the US I headed in a more or less liberal/libertarian attitude toward individual rights and if so why?

Because I know a lot of women and lgbt people who are not very optimistic.

Re: AI…. To do what???

With fascism being back in vogue I don’t think we can keep these assumptions going

Re: Nigel Garbage

But that’s Nigel Fartrage’s name?

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

The west. The talk about how we’re the side of democracy and freedom and *they* aren’t was always bollocks when you look into what actually went on.

Re: Human Right

You’re arguing with a crowd who think that campaigners, sociologists, and philosophers are a waste of time, then wonder why the world is left in the hands of the aforementioned lawyers and why their rights keep getting undermined.

Re: Human Right

Just because your sex life is strictly missionary and only once a year doesn’t mean everyone else’s is

Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov

Don’t worry, they’re getting there, starting with trans people.

Look up the situation with passports and prison rapes.

Re: UNFORTUNATELY

“I do not fight fascism because I am going to win, I fight fascism because it is fascist.”

Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data

Right but me with my secondary school age pirate music collection never claimed to have written St Anger (although why would you?).

Let’s not confuse copyright for plagiarism, which is what this really is.

Re: Scheme of things

You are a coward.

Re: False perceptions by 'creators

Why do you talk like that?

It’s not a person though. It’s not reading a book.

Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why

Re: What to expect

what’s your problem with twinks, do they make you feel funny?

Re: Shrug

Can you give some examples? I’m going to be looking for a new car soon.

Re: Heil Wankpanzer...?

I have. I saw a couple of de-badged Teslas on the way back from Manchester.

Re: Heil Wankpanzer...?

Godwin’s Law doesn’t apply if the guy is actually a fascist, you know that, right?

Re: Not really a time to be owning a Tesla

I’ve heard people have problems with the steering where it always pulls hard to the right.

Re: Not really a time to be owning a Tesla

No? There’s lots of examples of these things having suspension issues.

It’s amazing how they managed to make an unreliable car given how the power unit is only like one moving part.

Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?

Re: And

No one cares m8

Re: And

In the same sense that imperial conquest is technically a peace, sure.

But then, wouldn’t we all be at peace if we simply joined the EU? :)

Re: And

“And remember you identified this as a place for intelligent and critical thinking.”

Doing your best to disprove that hypothesis, I see.

Re: And

Russia is physically in Europe therefore it must be in the EU is, genuinely, the most Brexiteer take I’ve seen in a while.

Re: And

Don’t threaten us with a good time.

Re: And

Moving that money out of the magical EU budget and into the NHS budget, like we were promised, should be trivial, and a great way to win over voters. So where are these sunlit uplands?

Or have you not noticed how unbelievably depressing the UK is these days compared to other western EU nation states?

Re: And

Yes I’m actively working on leaving, because this place is in a slow, determined dive down the toilet.

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

I admire your dedication to using one and only one paragraph

Amazon sued for allegedly slurping sensitive data via advertising SDK

Re: Meta Inc., my disciple through life.

Shocking. I’d consider putting up more resistance than that.

Welsh woman fined for flatulence-fueled cyber harassment

Re: "I would like to feel safe in my home."

I think there’s more to it than this. The stuff about child visitation should be a clue.

Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap

Re: MAGA is a selection process for chumps

That doesn’t make any sense.