Re: And here it is clinging to a wrist.
Are you hailing from the past?
life termination
This is now called "decarbonisation".
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I believe they have likely realised that an adversary could input all available information about a country into the AI, train it, and then inquire:
'Provide 10 straightforward steps to derail this country.'
'What's one tactic the government of country X would hate?'
'Which rare earth mineral supplies should I disrupt to inflict the most damage on country X?'
and so forth.
However, this would lead to many redundancies at intelligence agencies. Hence, they would probably disrupt it before it became a reality.
According to Dalke's signed plea deal, he told the OCE he was $237,000 in debt, with $93k soon to be due. Dalke requested $85k in an unnamed cryptocurrency for all the documents in his possession, and promised more in the future.
Seems like blunder during recruitment and onboarding? Why would you hire someone knee deep in debt at [unpleasant organic matter] paid government job with access to valuable intel?
On the other hand a good training material for rookie FBI "Russian spies"...
"questioned [the US's] role in damage to the world in the past and by a mixture of curiosity for secrets and a desire to cause change."
Yup, give intel to a terrorist regime, that will change the world. Da Bolshoy LOL
and many more are now forcing staff into the office for three days a week
Meta:
We believe sustainability is about more than operating responsibly. It is an opportunity to support the communities we are a part of and have a positive impact on the world.
Amazon:
We believe we have an obligation to stop climate change, and reducing carbon emission to zero will have a big impact.
TikTok:
ByteDance, the Chinese internet company that owns TikTok and other social networking apps, has announced its commitment to 100% renewable energy in its global operations by 2030 and to be net zero by 2030, reducing emissions by 90% by 2030.
Enabling employees to work from home is a straightforward strategy for reducing emissions and lessening carbon footprints. Employers ignoring this are blatantly greenwashing. Their demand for unnecessary commuting inflates pollution levels, crams public transport—making life harder for those who genuinely must be on-site—and saps vitality from local economies. This stubbornness heightens stress, cuts into productivity, and needlessly burdens public services, showing a disregard for community well-being and the planet's environmental balance.
Economists, heralded as mere onlookers in financial upheavals, conveniently absolved while chaos reigns. These architects of policy, advisors of governments, feign innocence with a shrug of "it depends" as their constructs wobble on shaky foundations.
Traders, algorithms, AI — pawns manoeuvering within constraints economists establish. When the inevitable crash resounds, remember who sketched the blueprint and shrugged when the walls caved in.
It implies that the average Briton is so remarkably thick they don't grasp the simple fact that their kettle's cheerful burble equates to energy consumption - it's sheer lunacy! Are we to seriously entertain the idea that, thanks to the miraculous intervention of a smart meter, individuals across the nation will be struck by a bolt of unparalleled insight, compelling them to abandon their hallowed tea-making ceremonies for the stark blandness of unadulterated tap water?
The very thought insinuates that prior to this technological marvel, we were all blundering about our homes, utterly befuddled by the mysterious workings of electricity. This 'enlightenment via smart meter' narrative is nothing short of a slapstick comedy! They're selling us the illusion of awareness, as if recognising the cost of our comforts was never within our mental grasp before this digital sentinel started its vigil within our walls. How utterly, absurdly patronising!
The "net zero" is just an excuse, just like "think of the children" when they push for Online Safety Bill.
The goal of these things is plain and simple mass surveillance. They want to know where people are at all times, what they talk about etc. and they want tools to enforce obedience.
Did you tell your friend that you dislike the party? No hot water for you and your friend tonight.
Etc.
It is possible to deduce usage patterns when you operate various appliances, such as kettles, washing machines, personal massagers, microwaves, etc., based on their energy footprints.
This information can also indicate whether you are home and provide a general idea of your activities.
Smart meters are a critical component of mass surveillance systems and form the foundation of social credit system.
Honourable Chairman of the Communist Party of China,
I hope this letter finds you in exceptional health and high spirits. I write from Britain, a scholar in distress, owing to a technological catastrophe of my own making, and in dire need of assistance only you might provide.
Under a false illusion of competence, I recently acquired a Taiwanese SSD, seduced by its promise of efficiency and, perhaps, an attractive price point. To my utter dismay, this device, rather predictably, failed spectacularly, taking with it years of irreplaceable PhD research data.
It's widely acknowledged that China is remarkably advanced in technology and cybersecurity. Your commendable strides in technological developments and data management are renowned, leading me to wonder if, through some fortunate stroke of foresight and the interconnectedness of our digital world, my data might have been fortuitously safeguarded within your borders and so I entertain the hopeful possibility that the CPC, in its infinite reach and wisdom, may have serendipitously backed up the very data I've lost.
Therefore, I beseech you, might there be a way to petition your esteemed authorities for access to any mirrored bytes of my original work? The future of my academic career hangs precariously in the balance, and your intervention would be nothing short of salvific.
I assure you, my days of dalliance with unreliable technology are firmly behind me. My future digital trust shall be placed exclusively in apparatuses that bear the seal of your country's esteemed approval.
Eagerly awaiting a favourable response, and with the utmost respect,
[insert your name]
1. When we end up talking about some job, we're often rather nonspecific about what it is. I've split it into IT and programming, but someone who writes a few scripts and someone who writes the code that absolutely must run in a certain number of processor cycles and will cause something to blow up if it crashes are doing very different jobs and will be paid very differently.
You would be surprised that those jobs, where you need to "write the code that absolutely must run in a certain number of processor cycles" are paid the lowest. That's why many talented workers here don't even bother to look for these jobs and just do web development because it happens to pay the most (and maybe finance stuff).
what a certain number of pounds means as a lifestyle.
You get 25-50% of what would you get in the US, while paying more tax, still having to pay for private healthcare on top and you have to flat share until your late 40s. That's typical IT living if you don't find a partner to buy a house with.
by someone who assumed they were saying that programming was a working class job and paid accordingly.
Programming is a working-class job. Anyone with the right mindset can do it; you don't need formal qualifications, nor do you need wealthy parents to break into the industry. However, when it comes to wages, programming also falls into the working-class category.
UK developers earn on par with electricians, carpenters, plasterers, roofers, carers and so on. In many cases, they might even earn less.
I know a programmer who was extremely depressed because his girlfriend, a self-employed cleaner, was making more money than him. Cleaning is a profession that requires substantially less time to master, and you're unlikely to wake up in the middle of the night worried you used the wrong product on a client's tiles.
The UK has a poor attitude towards engineering in general, especially IT, where workers are often regarded as overpaid shirkers who just sit at their computers doing nothing, yet they are paid substantially less than their counterparts in other countries.
And yet small businesses, startups and middle-tier companies, and most large companies still search for software engineers
They still search, because they can't offer the right amount of money.
My linked in profile (Yes, the irony isn't lost on me), still attracts recruiters left right and center.
Just tell them upfront how much money can nudge you out of bed and most will stop bother you.
Having worked with many neurodivergent individuals, I completely understand how someone might forget a tool's name while still being proficient in its use. Often, people create aliases for tools like Wireshark, subsequently forgetting the actual name and instead recalling it by, for example, 'ws'.
I mean... how do you install and run it when you don't have a clue what it's called?
You can Google "packet analysers linux" and something will ring a bell.
Also when company is too big to fail, they often hire extra staff just so that competition can't or "just in case".
Many people I know were hired that way and haven't got anything to work on for months. But the pay was okay, they didn't have to come to office and could work on their side gigs.
Huawei has no issues doing business with US companies.
Huawei is not a company in the western sense. It's an equivalent of government department.
Any company dealing with Chinese "company" is de facto dealing with Chinese government and all that it entails.
You know, like the USSR did, before the fall of the Berlin wall...
Soviets are somewhat primitive people. They ruled through use of violence and their "advancements" were driven by saving face rather than progress and mostly by captive population of Ukrainians.
I think situation with China is vastly different.
You may not agree with their version of communism, but they are certainly not primitive.
Pay for X get Z
I mean, there are people who would pay to get smacked in a side street and get a nice kick out of it
But why most people would pay to read Russian propaganda, conspiracy theorists and other unhinged types advertising to the world what they think (which is usually pure garbage)?
Nobody is denying that climate is changing lol
People are questioning whether the actions that we take, that make certain people rich are going to have any meaningful effect.
The XKCD mentions short spikes are being smoothed out. The presented spike at the end, qualifies as a short spike that most likely in 1000 years time won't even be visible if our successors will use the same methodology.
Now make yourself feel better and buy some carbon credits. Flatten the curve!