* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia

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Facepalm

"anonymous age verification is possible”

In other news:

- cold fusion “easy” says MP

- perpetual motion “solved by luncheon break” says Lord

- teleportation “a doddle” explains Minister

- lost socks “a committee has been formed” proclaims Home Secretary

NASA tweaks Voyager 2's power supply to avoid another sensor shutdown

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Alert

Head office called

They want us to try what?

Just what the universe needs right now: A black hole with wind

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Trollface

Large orange gas emitting vacuous void you say?

Looks like Trump has launched his re-election campaign.

Amazon, Bing, Wikipedia make EU's list of 'Very Large' platforms

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Devil

Twitter, very large?

I think some dude is working on that.

Come back later.

Elizabeth Holmes is not going to prison – for the moment

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Devil

Orange turtlenecks are in this season

Quit stalling, the sooner you get started, the sooner it will be over.

First attempt by Japan's ispace biz to land on Moon ends in awkward silence

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Scores are in

The Chinese lander gave it a 6 for a poor dismount.

Singapore tells its people: Go forth and block those ads

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Re: ScamShield privacy concerns

Singapore has an odd definition of privacy.

I’ve been finger printed 4 or 5 times, all of them when passing through passport control at Changi.

US Supreme Court snubs that guy who wants AI recognized as patent inventors

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Supreme Court rejection

They only take on religious decisions these days.

Autonomy's Mike Lynch loses battle against extradition to the US on fraud charges

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Devil

Does he like music?

Has he got a large music equipment box?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57760993

Microsoft nopes out after Twitter starts charging $$$ for API access

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Facepalm

More and more

Like Trump everyday….

Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight, 45 more than NASA planned

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Re: Fly me to the Moon….

I bought my license many years ago. I have it here somewhere...

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Fly me to the Moon….

And let me play among the Mars…..

US extradites Nigerian charged over $6m email fraud scam

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Re: I was disappointed to note that

Hey!

You told me that offer was just for me!

I’m starting to think you might be a bit dodgy.

A Mark

Don't worry, folks, here comes Chuck Schumer with some ideas about regulating AI

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Devil

Politicians and AI

Aren’t they complete opposites?

Elon Musk actually sits down and talks to 'government-funded media' the BBC

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In conclusion

Big knobs run the BBC and Musk is a bell-end.

San Francisco fog defeats pack of Waymo robo-taxis

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Sounds like

You’d have Waymo-re luck in a meat bag taxi.

FBI: How fake Xi cops prey on Chinese nationals in the US

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Big Brother

organized criminal syndicate

Chinese government described in a lychee shell.

Goddard Space Flight Center's new boss swears in on holy Pale Blue Dot

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Swearing in book?

Apollo 11 Flight Manual for me

Tupperware looking less airtight than you'd think

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I attended numerous Tupperware Parties in the 60’s

As a pre-school kid.

Mum would drag you along of course.

Countless afternoons spent in other people’s houses playing with other kid’s toys…

Meta has nothing to say about politicians making deepfaked ads

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Re: If you’re using Meta to get your news

Indeed

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If you’re using Meta to get your news

Then you’ve already given up on facts.

Theranos founder Holmes ordered to jail after appeal snub

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WTF?

Still not serving porridge?

Rich person fakes billions in investments, gets time a-plenty before staring stir.

Poor person steals a bottle of bourbon, straight to jail, do not pass Go…

Oh how the privileged are, well, privileged.

Inside FTX: Jokes about misplaced funds, diabolical IT, poor oversight, and worse

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FAIL

ipso facto crypto crapto

Surely the whole industry is one big joke.

It certainly seems the management thought so too.

Astronomers clock runaway black hole leaving trail of fresh stars

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Re: NaCl Love Song

+1 for the Kate & Anna McGarrigle reference.

Smile! UK cops reckon they've ironed out gremlins with real-time facial recog

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Big Brother

So

Instead of going out and actually collaring the individual perps, EVERYONE is a suspect until proven otherwise.

Lazy policing.

Twitter scores legal hat trick with three cases filed against it in one day

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Space Karen works by different rules

Only he knows what they are.

Australian bank stops handling cash at the counter in some branches

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But Madam

Your nearest branch is located in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.

NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight

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Bring it on

It’s been a long time since Apollo.

I’m not getting any younger.

Hey Siri, use this ultrasound attack to disarm a smart-home system

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Stop

Simple but effective defence

Don’t allow these “devices” in your house.

School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator

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Facepalm

You and me and Elon McGee

Florida.

Say no more.

Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records

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Longevity in the US

Has been privatised.

All praise the mighty dollar!

No money, no care, no chance.

Unknown actors deploy malware to steal data in occupied regions of Ukraine

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Give the Russians enough rope

…something about incompetence…disorganisation…corruption…and one’s own petard…

Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers

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Land of the free

Union organising, not so much.

Amazon opens its ad-hoc Wi-Fi-sipping Sidewalk mesh to all manner of gadgets

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Umm

No

French parliament says oui to AI surveillance for 2024 Paris Olympics

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Big Brother

Relax citizen

It’s for your own good.

Grand frère t'aime.

Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life

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Alien

I blame

Intergalactic fly tippers

Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong

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Happy

Pooh and Piglet

So, Xi and Putin then.

Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data

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Bad, but not as bad as it could have been

The crooks may have the owner’s address but at least they don’t have their current break-down location!

How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers

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Flame

Fahrenheit 451

How hot does a server burn?

Welcome to Muskville: Where the workers never leave

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Musktopia

He’s taking ideas from that other huckster Joseph Smith of Mormon infamy. Own the town, own everything, operate your own worthless scrip, buy up around you, expect total devotion, worship regularly, then run for President.

Let’s just hope he doesn’t get as far as the wife stealing and the child abuse.

Catholic clergy surveillance org 'outs gay priests'

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Religion

No not creepy as hell.

Nooooooooo

Yikes!

US officials probe Tesla's incredible detaching steering wheel

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Devil

Sat in your lap

Husband: I have control.

Wife: You have control.

(Looks behind him)

Husband: Kids, do you want control?

Aussie tech worker payroll scheme operators found guilty of tax fraud

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Re: next up...

People killed themselves over Robodebt. It was that bad. It has destroyed lives and families.

The senior wonks knew, the junior wonks knew, the pollies pretended they didn’t know.

Crimes were committed.

Ex-Tweep mocked by Musk for asking if he'd actually been fired

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Just think Elon

If you build a Mars colony and you are there to run it, you will become master of your own planet!

When do you depart?

'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail

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Humpty Dumpty

Was an innovator.

Elon Musk yearns for AI devs to build 'anti-woke' rival ChatGPT bot

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It will write a positive poem about Trump

The minute Trump does something positive.

Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites

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FAIL

The Taliban rang

They want to discuss a merger….

Also, they are very impressed.

NASA finds crashing spacecraft into asteroids is a viable defence strategy

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Re: Worrying.

As an Aussie, all I can say about 4X is: bring on the killer asteroid mate!

Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy

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These Twitter “Teams”

You mean Bob, Alice and Jeremy?

Three people, three teams right?

Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed

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Re: Tell me you're middle-class without telling me etc etc

Ooooh “Agenda 2030” that’s a new one to me!

Sounds extra looney.