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"he appeared to admit that Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter should be an example for Reddit to follow"
Apparently, can't remember where I read it, Twitter is still bleeding cash, people are deciding $8 £8 a month isn't worth it for stupid blue tick.
Also doesn't help that Reddit Steve has shown himself to be as much of a prick as Elon.
Shame, I only just got interested in Reddit for the likes of the Datahoarders subreddit, now he's decided to kill it.
If the IPO doesn't fail, watch everyone pump and dump the shares.
When they illegally raided his property or, I can't remember if it was illegal or just massively over the top as they went in with big guns.
Also doesn't help that because China is their biggest importer they are still bending over backwards to kiss Xi's Winnie the Pooh arse.
.... outsourcing. But if you're going to do it, at least in the UK then why not oursource to areas in the UK. Areas that are remote that you know people struggle for jobs. Doesn't all have to be in the same area. Then you get IT engineers that could end up actually being good but are stuck in places like Cornwall etc where IT jobs aren't readily available. Yes, those engineers might very well get high paying roles remotely for other companies but some won't. As companies are still insisting on the bollocks "You need to be in the office one day a week".
Fucking annoys me no end. I've seen a manager micro manage someone so badly the person quit. She reported this upon quitting and said most of his work he was giving to her to do. Fuck all was done, she's moved on, he's still, some how, employed. More staff have been under him and gone over the past few years than any other department yet no one questions why.
Anyone have shares in them, sell them now. She'll tank the company. Considering how confidently wrong the likes of ChatGPT are she'll find out when its too late. It will have already sent nukes to Russia who'll send some back.
"There is no fate but what we make"
"Da da daaaaaaa, da....da dahhhhhh....da....da daaaaa........."
Will it improve coverage? No. We are in a big town and struggle with signal in the house 9n Vadafone. Yet I just got back from Norway, was on a cruise ship in the fjords just breaking away from them and got a better fucking signal.
This is what I discovered. I hated it at first as didn't understand it. Why were my questions deleted all the time due to lack of karma? Then finally understood that system and found a subreddit that didn't require it. Got enough karma can post elsewhere. Then found others like the datahoarders subreddit and it opened a world of info and tools.
Lead me to self hosting and the best tool ever run into, yt-dlp.
An engineer in America was set to prison. Can't remember the details, its online somewhere. Reading it, he sounded like a tit.
Found it
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2208076/admin-who-kept-sf-network-passwords-found-guilty.html
That I assume was used to track or stalk someone. Was on the floor in a Sainsburys car park. Took it home and eventually (took ages as the Android app just refused to read it) got it to scan and it showed part of the number but that's it. No "I'm lost message". I left it for a few days, still no "I'm lost message". Left it for another 2 weeks, still no "I'm lost message". I took the battery out and its still sat in a draw. I was thinking of picking a random car and sticking it to it.
I don't like them but they have their uses. Once guy stuck one in his bag for a flight and saw his luggage stay at the airport. When he mentioned it was missing they said they couldn't find it, he had to keep telling them he could see it back at the airport. Eventually they "magically" found it.
"The Chocolate Factory has consistently opposed opt-in data collection – you still have to rename your Wi-Fi SSID to opt-out of Google mapping your Wi-Fi access point, for example. And it continues to promote a definition of privacy that skews toward data usage rather than data denial."
People should change it to fuck Google at the end. So they have a list of devices all with fuck Google :)
He has no clue what companies are like. Companies don't even want people working from home anymore let alone having to buy VR headsets for all their staff so they can have "VR" meetings. Say that to our grounds team or the painters and decorators, that they have to stick on some VR headsets to join the VR meeting, that will go down well.
"that only the worst of humanity wishes to still part take in"
Granted, its kinda shit but if you follow only normal accounts its fine. What are normal accounts? These are
@whs_carpet All about bad carpets in WHSmith stores, their funny sale pricings, old lost historic stores. Someone on YouTube was trying to work out the location of a site from old footage and I asked on there and someone regonised the location, which was lucky as the buildings had been knocked down.
Then me have
@rmcretro about Gaming and computer history.
Destory the min wage jobs so everyone can continue to struggle even more. As has been said, if you're going to destroy min wage jobs you need to give every person a set benefit each month to compensate for no longer being able to do a job.
We also need to remember these are starting off point jobs. So people who run McDonald's stores are often franchise stores. They work from the bottom up. If you can no longer work from the bottom up you'll struggle to get in the middle because they're be less and less jobs available due to everyone being desperate for those positions.
If you enjoy a company that is partly owned by the CCP. A government who is currently committing genocide with the Chinese Uyghurs, a government that welded people into apartments during Covid so people burnt to death when a fire broke out, a government that bans all Western apps on its firewalled Internet but objects when other countries try to ban its apps, a government that doesn't view Taiwan as an independent country despite the CCP NEVER in its history ever having controlled Taiwan, a country that pumps out more C02 than any other country and lies about its green tech, a country that has now made it illegal to talk about poor people and so on and so on, then go ahead.
But there are others of us in the UK that don't want the Chinese owning our chip factories.
Just given the CCP access to fully to snoop on all your phone calls over their network. Well done India.
"Zoom awarded full Indian telco license
Zoom's Indian outpost was last week granted a full license to operate as a telco provider in the subcontinent.
In India, as elsewhere, the company's voice and video chat services were a lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic. But Zoom's cloudy PABX service was not licensed in India, meaning it could not operate that function or extend its services to calls that touch the public switched telephone network.
ZVC India, Zoom's local subsidiary, last week announced it had won the license required to offer those services, and intends to do so as soon as practicable."
Or you could have an AI that decides to use specification gaming. Works fine in a lab, goes wild when released to the outside world. The specification gaming in question would be "My goal is to build affordable systems to assist blind people. I know, I'll just kill all the blind people then I don't have to finish the goal but will have essentially finished my goal".
They also found an ancient map that shows China, the CCP, owns large areas of the moon and mars.
Nothing that comes from Xinny The Pooh's China can be trusted. Especially when he still feels he owns Taiwan when the CCP have never own Taiwan, just look at the history. Taiwan is an independent country, all the spinless countries should acknowledge that coughFrancecough.
Xi is the new Mao and shouldn't be listened to or trusted. He's ruining China, he's ruining China's great ancient history and he's turning China into a rich North Korea. He's also totally ignored what his dad said about no one should become a dictator.
Bit like the NHS and Fujitsu contract many moons ago. Ignoring Fujitsu are now officially cunts what with the Post Office scandal. But they had a big project near us with the NHS. In ended up tanking with Fujitsu pulling out if I remember right. One of the main reasons was the NHS management were awful. Apparently after everything was "scoped" each week they request more and more and more and more but didn't want to pay. Eventually Fujitsu had had enough and decided to pull out. That's what I was told by someone who was in the meetings anyway, how accurate it was I don't know.
Its private chat it chatgpt should be fucking off by default. You shouldn't have to turn history to stop it grabbing the chats. There maybe a legal reason you have to leave history on so then surely MS have no fucking legal right to suck up chat history.
We said chat history should be on by default for gsuite but was told no. I said it should be on to stop managers using it to bully their staff. Anyway, some months later HR ask for the chat history of two members of staff who were having an affair (what the fuck that has to do with the business was anyone's guess). We had the great pleasure of saying "No. We said chat history should be on by default but were overuled, so its off so there is no history of those two chatting".
And the new company, they'd just suck up "Jesus fucking Christ. I told them to log a fucking ticket. Will they ever learn. Clearly fucking not. Oh and that other one, he's as thick as shit. Claimed I hadn't fixed the issue when I had and the new issue was completely fucking different. The fuck whit.". We love our rant chats.
We have it as I thought it was good but the amount of false fucking positives is fucking annoying. It will only get worse if they stick AI in it.
AI - "How to I make sure I complete the task of protecting this system from Virus threats. Shall I scan for virus' as I should? No, I'll just lock the system down completely then it can never get infected". Ah, specification gaming, its quite funny when you read about it.
And Robert Miles' video on it, is always good
https://youtu.be/nKJlF-olKmg
I want them to stop their anti-trust bollocks with Edge. Making it, on Windows 11, a lot more difficult to change the default browser so non techs won't bother. When you do it asks if you're REALLY sure and that Edge is great. And when you use Edge to look for another browser it shows you at the top that "Use Edge instead".
Fucks.
We were sold the "Chocolate Factory" as being cheaper by a shady consultant company. It was an intentional lie or a massive fuck up because being local gov MS 365 would of been cheaper because.
1. Local gov gets MS 365 cheaper than normal
2. MS said they'd migrate our exchange for free.
The Chocolate Factory has been massively more expensive.
They charged about 30k to migrate exchange.
Documents looks shit in Google Docs and don't convert properly.
Having to share Google Docs with others who don't have Google is a pain in the arse.
Google Workspace is fine for local business', local garages etc. But shit for medium to large companies.
Its why I'd like to get out of IT now. I'm getting to the point I've had enough but can't do anything else so have to stick it out until I die or win the lottery. Some cloud stuff is useful the rest is marketing bollocks. When you constantly are ignored that its marketing bollocks it just makes you fed up of it all.
Soon we'll be fully cloud and I've warned it will be more expensive but what do I know. Mark my words, the cost will increase and it won't be any cheaper than onsite kit with engineers to support that onsite kit.
“Finally, a week or two later, he was hauled in front of some bigwig and told that he would only receive an official reprimand, and that this was his one and only pass.”
You've embarrassed us so we're gonna bollock you due to our screw up.
I had experience of this way back in 2009 in the NHS, the fuckers. I was at a Trust's site with an ex-engineer in another department. He knew all the passwords as nothing had been changed, they were even still using the remote connection software he created for connecting to PCs. Anyway, that Trust didn't like the IT department that had been created to support all local Trusts and were trying to break away and do their own thing. The ex engineer was helping them due to now being employed by the Trust. He asked for help putting some new netbooks on the network that they were trialing as they didn't want to use the HPs that had been forced on them (due to the HP being a bit of a shady deal between HP and the director of IT they didn't like, neither did I, he was a pure cunt). I helped him to make sure all was done securely, as I told him "Well you know the passwords so I'll help to make sure they are done properly". Once done, I informed the stakeholder for the site about the netbooks and being a temp, I was ignored. Not even a "Thanks for letting me know".
Roll on 3 months later we all get an e-mail "Does anyone know why these netbooks are on the network?". Yes, I told you about them 3 months ago. Why they were on the network and why I helped.
All hell broke loose. I was reported to the CEO of the IT Department who said "Get rid of him" (she was also an arse and had been milking her high wage for years). But our head of IT and Networking heard and tried to calm the situation down. She said I'd done what I'd done with all the best intensions AND I'd informed them at the time but had been ignored. It changed from "Get rid of him" to "Can you come and have a chat with me about what happened" from the Head of Service (who was also a nasty fuck). When I told my manager he was pissed and called the Head of Service, informing him "You know you can't just have a random 'meeting' with him, you have to allow someone in the 'meeting' with him, he's allowed representation". So we go into the meeting and I explain again what happened, all that was already in my original e-mail. I said "I told you all ages ago that when an engineer leaves all admin passwords should be changed but they never are. So there was a risk he'd just put them on the network himself". The head of service admitted he was partly at fault as it was supposed to be his project that passwords were changed. They then took away the network share we used for all software and utils. I refused to apologies as I did nothing wrong, my manager said it for me and after the meeting said "I knew you weren't going to speak because you were so annoyed so I did it for you otherwise they'd have just let you go" I didn't last much longer, my contract expired again and they didn't renew it. The arse ex engineer from the Trust never bothered to try and help with the situation either.
It was a clear example of them fucking up (the stakeholder ignoring my e-mail 3 months earlier) and choosing to throw me under the bus instead of admitting their mistakes.
I've long moved on but sadly, the bitterness has bugged me for years. The IT department eventually got disbanded as the new government came in and they all moved on. I, sadly, hold grudges and when heard 5 years ago that the ex Director of IT had cancer but had survived it, I couldn't hold it my distain for him and spurted out "Shame he never died of it". I hate him with a passion. Something is very wrong in a company if staff end up hating a manager that much. You're clearly a poor manager if your staff hate you that much.