* Posts by ds11

10 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Oct 2021

'Return to Office' declared dead

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Outsourcing has been a thing for two decades. If my specific role could have been outsourced, then it would have already been. The risk is for the next generation where the jobs where you build your skills and experience have been outsourced, so there are few opportunities to move to highly skilled, difficult to outsource roles. In summary in the long term, the UK IT industry is in a spiral of decline, and this is nothing to do with WFH

Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble

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FAIL

With thinking like that, you probably should invest in a holiday home on Venus

Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved

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..when you have shifted so far to the right that you have fallen off the edge of the world, and are now looking at everything sideways

Rugged satellite messaging phone Bullitt fired out ahead of MWC

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Different Satelites.

Its reported that this uses geostationary rather than LEO such that sending messages does not require a specific view of the sky, albeit at the expense of greater latency

Palantir's Covid-era UK health contract extended without competition

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FAIL

Actual use for Blockchain?

Health records may actually be a genuine use for blockchain with my health records directly under my control and where I am able to grant or deny access to them at a granular level.

Meanwhile, in the real world..........

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Re: WEF

BBC have done a series on the origins of Qanon - worth a listen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001324r

Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts seemingly up for sale

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True Elon fan would have said 420M accounts

/s

Two signs in the comms cabinet said 'Do not unplug'. Guess what happened

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Easy Fix

People like water flowing downhill follow the easiest path. Just install a few extra empty sockets in the area, people with gravitate towards them

Koch-funded group sues US state agency for installing 'spyware' on 1m Android devices

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This is a tech site

The previous comment was valid. This is a tech site and should explain exactly how the "software" got on the phone.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends

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Re: BBC

...and i raise you Richard Sharpe the "Rabid Brexiteer" chaiman of the BBC