Posts by jospanner

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

Re: Riiiight

The DWP undiagnosed me with chronic fatigue because, over a telephone call, I “didn’t appear fatigued”. This set off an 18 month appeals process that involved me getting free legal representation thanks to a Wiltshire law firm. 1 month before the tribunal the DWP sent me a letter accusing me of *fraud* wrt PIP, and then 2 days before the tribunal date they caved - completely.

They dragged that out for 18 months, and added a fraud allegation on top, and they must have known they never had a leg to stand on for any of it, because they never bothered putting it in front of a judge.

18 months I was broke and relying on friends and family. I was so stressed out and ashamed.

Bastards. Complete bastards.

UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias

Re: May not be a racial bias at all

Yes, because the media wouldn’t shut up about it.

Re: This isn't the real problem

But Belgium is quite nice actually

Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack

Re: > ages 7-12

You think it's more plausible that the Iranian state murdered 153 school children? More plausibly than a missile that was launched during school opening hours, and pointed at a base that had a school near it, did, in fact, strike a school during opening hours when it was full of children?

This smells of "motivated reasoning".

Denizens of DEF CON are 'fed up with government'

Re: Blaming the wrong people

No one said this, you’re arguing with yourself here.

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

Re: Almost time

The platform is being used to produce and host material depicting child abuse, made from images of real children.

I wonder why you're prepared to die on this hill?

Re: Still debating what to do?

Show hard drive.

OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it

Re: One day...

Here’s hoping it’s the Affini

UK VPN demand soars after debut of Online Safety Act

Re: Quaint

With a name like that, I think you’re in the wrong industry.

Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says

Re: Encryption vs Encoding

Oh you mean Musqueamview?

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

Personally, I stick with Windows ME because I’m a psychopath.

Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%

Re: Still, there IS a chill8ing effect,,,

So is a bomb threat ok if you write a melody to it?

Re: Still, there IS a chill8ing effect,,,

Do you think posting a bomb threat online is ok?

Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims

Apparently storming the capital is ok now

Re: Damn.

Americans bravely submitting their own kids to the coal mines rather than do anything “woke”.

Re: Damn.

With what labour? Are you going to Cultural Revolution all those scientists and public servants you laid off into the factories? Worked so well the last time.

Re: Damn.

Unhinged screed punctuated by “DEI”.

Glorious.

UK govt data people not 'technical,' says ex-Downing St data science head

Re: stating the bleeding obvious

The irony is palpable.

Ok but why does a politician need to understand how a light switch works vs, say, politics, philosophy, and economics?

Yeah I’m sorry are we really arguing that tech bros would make better politicians?

Re: I'd go further

So no, then.

Re: I'd go further

The rules literally aren’t the same, that’s why governments are run like governments and businesses are run like businesses.

Re: I'd go further

Asking the question “why is the government trying to promote good health” with a straight face

Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore’s Law is dead and buried

Re: Feynman

I was surprised to learn, recently, that Feynman never actually wrote a book. You wouldn’t know by looking at the listings on amazon.

Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0

The last three people I’ve introduced to Linux, the conversation has gone roughly thus:

„So how do I edit images?“

„Oh yeah there’s a pretty powerful program for that, I think its pre-installed actually.“

„What’s it called?“

„Sigh… GIMP“

„What?“

Which for a software ecosystem that lives on word of mouth is pretty fucking awkward to deal with.

Weird how every other piece of software avoids this discussion by being named by grown adults. Almost like it’s a relic of a backwards culture and doesn’t belong today.

Oh yeah that’s why marketing departments spend $0 on naming a product.

Re: [citation needed]

Peter Mattis is American though.

I mean neither of these are good.

One day you’ll be around actual grown ups and have to explain why it’s called „gimp“ over and over.

Yeah it’s childish as hell.

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.