* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Indian developer fired 90 percent of tech support team, outsourced the job to AI

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Terminator

AI scammers

I think, therefore I scam

Almost all classic US video games 'critically endangered'

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If you live near Gloucestershire UK

There’s always The Cave.

https://www.rmcretro.com/

Belvedere Mill, Chalford, Gloucestershire, GL6 8NS

Great YouTube channel too.

Musk sues law firm for overcharging Twitter when Twitter was suing Musk

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WTF?

Who knew

You can pay lawyers in poo emoji now?

NASA humanoid robot to be tested as remote oil rig attendant

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Terminator

So, you’re new here eh?

How about we catch up after the shift and open a bottle of Deoxit?

Australia's 'great example of government using technology' found to be 'crude and cruel'. And literally lethal to citizens

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FAIL

The dead hand of Scott “I don’t hold the hose” Morrison

It’s never his fault, apparently.

So many harmed.

So few contrite.

From cage fight to page fight: Twitter threatens to sue Meta after Threads app launch

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Space Karen Vs The Zuckerborg

Can they both lose.

Please?

Mars helicopter phones home after 63 days of silence

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Black Helicopters

Dark side of the hill

Mars helicopter was just having a quiet spliff and a listen to some Floyd..

Deloitte wins deal worth up to £100M for UK border platform

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Re: Big4

The consultancy game in a nutshell.

Twitter rate-limits itself into a weekend of chaos

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Thumb Up

No Twitter without an account?

Best idea yet.

I look forward to never seeing Tweets again.

Virgin Galactic finally gets its first paying customers to edge of space

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Re: Rich people's toys I guess

A day trip to the Moon.

As soon as cheese, especially Wensleydale, hits a certain price, we’ll all be visiting.

Mark Zuckerberg would kick Elon Musk's ass, experts say

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Musk would win

His preamble speech would render Zuckerborg unconscious.

Apple stomped all over NYC store workers' union rights, judge rules

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Facepalm

Land of the free

Just not to those who organize, OK?

Because: Communism…

Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine

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OK

Let’s take an untested, uncertified pressure resistant vessel to an extreme water depth, oh and bring along paying customers.

It’s a nightmarish scenario that quite literally gives me the shivers.

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Re: putting in perspective

On the money there Bob.

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

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Devil

“Smart home”

Oh the irony.

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

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Re: Not a flight risk?

If he emptied it of old KFC wrappers and left some of his boxes at home he might get further.

Australia to phase out checks by 2030

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Headmaster

If I remember my grade 3 spelling class

Here in Australia it’s spelt “cheque”, mate!

Mrs Walton would not have lied to us.

Crypto catastrophe strikes some Atomic Wallet users, over $35M thought stolen

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Re: Stop calling it crypto -- it is crypto-currency

I agree.

We should just cut to the chase and call it: gone.

Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse

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Facepalm

More expensive iTat

I’ll leave this for the ultra-hipsters.

Yaccarino takes wheel at Twitter early as advertising woes become public

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Alert

Make sure you get paid

In cash.

Australian cyber-op attacked ISIL with the terrifying power of Rickrolling

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Link for non Australians

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it

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Meh

I’m not sure Elon could run a bath

He really is the Emperor of hubris.

He clearly believes his own press releases.

Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors

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Joke

Anti-Trump, clearly

Everybody knows he likes watching the Gorilla Channel.

FBI abused spy law but only like 280,000 times in a year

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Big Brother

Move along citizen

There’s nothing to see here.

Russian businesses want to party like it's 1959 with 6-day workweek

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Simple, comrade

We cut potato into more pieces.

Da!

That Meta GDPR fine is €1.2B. Plus biz must stop sending EU data to US

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And yet

People all over the world just can’t wait to pump in more and more PI to benefit these corrupt shlepps.

One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned

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Alert

Great news

The ASX should leave well alone.

EU passes world's first regulatory framework for cryptocurrency

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Devil

Crypto rules for dummies

1. Don’t.

2. If unsure, see 1.

Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted

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Trollface

“Digital identifiers”

Be afraid.

Be very afraid.*

* Political stupidity ahead.

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

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Meh

Re: With two-faced "friends" like Dyson, Britain doesn't need enemies

“Miriam Morgolis”

And even, Miriam Margolyes

Oh yes please!!!

However, she’s too smart to take a dud gig like that.

This upstart is selling tickets for a SpaceX trip to the world's first private space station

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Mushroom

Great idea

Send up all the billionaires.

Every last one.

Then set the controls for the heart of the Sun.

Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech

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Coffee/keyboard

“There's that whooshing sound again..”

Icon —>

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Trollface

This Brexit whatsit

It’s a bit shit

Of course Russia's ex-space boss doubts US set foot on the Moon

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Joke

“Moon Landing, Coronation - easily mixed up”

Indeed.

I hear that the Stone of Scone was actually found on the Moon by Neil Armstrong…

A right Royal pain in the Dallas: City IT systems crippled by ransomware

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Trollface

It’s Texas

Would way more guns help?

Hubble spots stellar midwife unit pumping out baby planets

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Alien

Planet formation, or

an Intergalactic Bypass construction crew?

Pornhub walls off Utah in age-verification law protest

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Old Joe Smith wasn’t so shy

He’d “bless” all the “spiritual wives” he could get his mitts on.

Twitter's API paywall crumbles (but only for those saving lives, predicting weather, etc.)

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Childcatcher

Like a child

He just makes and remakes the rules as he goes along.

SAP users not happy about German giant's price rises

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Devil

They all bought into SAP

They knew what to expect.

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

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Parents have kids so that other people can look out for them

Some, parents anyway…

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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

Russia's APT28 targets Ukraine government with bogus Windows updates

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Joke

A Microsoft spokesman said in response

“Hey, that’s our job!”

China has 50 hackers for every FBI cyber agent, says Bureau boss

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Black Helicopters

China

The more competent version of what Russia tried to be.

Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor

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Make a great calculator

I imagine it would handle logarithmic functions very easily.

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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Coat

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.