* Posts by naive

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Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so

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IT industry needs to become more environmental friendly

In the storage room next to our data center a stack of over 10 feet discarded servers was accumulated over the years.

They are old Dells and HP Proliant G6/G7 and G8 in 1U format.

These servers still have perfect fans, double power supplies and in most cases well usable ethernet cards.

It is all for the scrapper, because CPU and memory got obsolete. It wouldn't be magic to design modern motherboards that can be swapped out play and play for a fraction of the price.

As long major players in the industry can dictate this kind of non-sense, not only laptops but also countless tons of high grade equipment will be destroyed due to marketing and profit reasons.

Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems

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If Russians (a.k.a. Putin a.k.a. the God of bad luck in the West) stole the code

Then the code gets better, MS would have to close the back doors the governments of the "free" world use to spy on their citizens.

It seems improbable those governments want to leave those door open to the MoD or KGB.

Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country

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Re: Hmm

The government did create a problem, and it is not the leftist twist "Right wing crackdown on immigration".

Dutch right wing politicians welcome immigrants who contribute in a positive manner to Dutch society.

As long production of Lithography machines is not a mainstream activity in Africa, it seems doubtful the thousands immigrants entering Dutch soil every week will be of any use to ASML.

The problem Dutch government created that makes it difficult to attract skilled foreign staff are the nightmarish taxation levels.

It is not the only 40-ish% income tax, 21% VAT, record holder of gas prices in Europe, cars are 2-3 times more expensive than in neighboring countries, parking rates even in boring towns are such they often exceed the expenses when shopping and high communal taxes for house owners. This easily adds up to a 60%-70% taxation level of gross income and the constant perception of being robbed by a cancerous state whose bloat is suffocating.

Government policies also caused housing costs rise to a level where life becomes a luxury.

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

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Re: Mistake?

It could indeed be a brave act of resistance against the elites pushing Europe into the abyss.

Anyone with an IQ exceeding 70 knows in a scenario where USA/NATO/EU/WEF servants manage to start a war with Russia, 100 million or more Europeans will die.

Based on the geography, Germans might be a sizable part of those casualties.

Maybe it was the intention of the generals to warn Russia about the plans, trying to prevent escalation and destruction of Europe and make clear that German army is not their true enemy, but US and English are.

Since a second Trump presidency seems inevitable, pressure is on for the war mongering elites to start a war with Russia before January 2025.

Apple promises to protect iMessage chats from quantum computers

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The silence will reveal the credibility of the encryption

As long the three letter agencies are not publicly complaining about the new encryption being dangerous for kids, helps terrorists or president Putin (pick either one)...

Europe's data protection laws cut data storage by making information-wrangling pricier

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GDPR is not enforced in most countries

Here in the Netherlands, there is no enforcement at all of GDPR or, for that part any other laws that don't bring in juicy fines when normal citizens are caught.

Unless they kill people or blow up their surroundings, companies in the Netherlands can do what they want, all the agencies that are supposed to check if they are compliant to regulations, exist in name, but don't have any meaningful staff to investigate on a sufficient scale.

Another indication that GDPR is neither enforced or respected is the wide spread use of US based cloud services, which are by US law not GDPR compliant.

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

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It proves climate change is a hoax

There is not a single government in the climate religion regions of the world giving incentives to either employers or employees for working at home.

Working at home is a simple and extremely effective measure to reduce CO2 emissions, working much better than converting from gas engine powered cars to 2.5 ton Chinese built SUV's.

Globally employees surrendered negotiating power by abandoning Unions, if organized, they would be able to thwart this kind of humiliating decrees, or even achieve that laws are made making it a right that 40% of the work time can be from home when the type of work allows it.

Ukraine claims Russian military is using Starlink

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Pickups from the battlefield ?

Since Russia is gaining quite a lot, the terminals could be captured equipment.

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

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Re: Major major cock-up

It mainly comes down to people, in this forum there is a ton of management speak... procedures, checklists and what more red tape that is supposed to make good on what is lacking on the factory floor. In the end there should only be motivated, skilled and experienced people doing these things if we want to prevent major risks to airline passengers.

It is not far fetched to assume the quality and qualifications of the workforce was sacrificed on the altar of diversity, next quarter profits and other factors resulting in a loss of skills, pride and motivation to make an excellent product. If people are unmotivated, mentally unfit for skilled assembly work or treated badly on the factory floor, managers shouldn't be surprised when subpar products roll out, why should the worker care about it if nobody else does.

Boeing, and many others, need CEO's like Ferdinand Piëch who would unexpectedly show up on Monday morning to beat up people when panels were 1mm out of line.

'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing

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Personal accountability

We live in a lovely world, as long it doesn't involve petty crime, perpetrators are never persecuted.

Companies knowingly do bad things, nobody ever goes to jail.

It is not until a few dozen execs of a company get mass sentenced a decade or two for knowingly doing harm to people, things won't change.

Now they get away with having to listen to half a day of cursing from politicians, they pay the small fine, and continue business as usual.

Perhaps DA's should start reading proceedings of Nuremberg trails, where people didn't get away with "Ich habe es nicht gewusst" or "Befehl ist Befehl..", but were held personally accountable for things that happened under their command. In a new world, where execs know they end up in jail for doing harm, they won't be that eager to do harm for the next quarterly bonus.

Oracle quietly extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037

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Smart move from Oracle

Marketing and subtly planned obsolescence convinced many people that everything has to constantly be upgraded and replaced.

IT people specially love to dance to the music from Big IT, since participating in this scam party pays part of the rent.

A company who bought in 1998 a Sun server with an app that does important tasks for them, can still use it today like they did in 1995.

The amount of money they saved by using the same configuration, not spending fortunes on upgrades and 4-5 years replacement cycles, is enormous.

The EU-US Trade and Tech Council sounds fancy but, really, what's the point?

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It is the overwhelming success

US trade with Europe never was so good, the stream of weapons to delay "a gastation masquerading as a country" from reclaiming territories is endless.

For the rest, US has nothing to offer what the world needs after they stopped making challengers and chargers in 2023.

Veeam researching support for VMware alternative Proxmox as backup buyers fret about Broadcom

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Great news, ProMox is a super product

Having worked with RedHat Virtualization (RHEV), VmWare, HyperV and ProMox, the latter made a good impression.

The web interface is great, it runs VM\s with little overhead and losses in performance.

It runs NetBSD, Windows 10 and Linux VM's which can be freely installed from iso.

When VEAAM is available, it will make acceptance easier, maybe it will help to free the world of this depressing HyperV freebie.

Infosys co-founder doubles down on call for 70-hour work weeks

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Employers have a relationship with their employees comparable to what farmers have with their cows

Before they are sent to the slaughterhouse, they milk them until they run dry.

I hope millenials will be the first generation that is not so stupid to waste their lives away in cubicles running like donkeys after the carrot for the promise of "success".

Success in private companies is what people did in the last quarter, the rest is totally unimportant.

Asian culture did not experience an age of Enlightenment, that was promoting independent thinking among people in Western societies.

Probably they will be sensitive to calls asking them to trade their lives for the sake of some random billionaires.

Formal ban on ransomware payments? Asking orgs nicely to not cough up ain't working

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What about ordinary policing but then in an effective manner

As we all know, the legal system in the West is like mushroom growth, it thrives on manure and gets totally grumpy when someone starts mopping it up in an effective manner.

Most of these hackers sit in countries where a few 100K goes a long way to eternally deny them internet access.

Maybe Big-Tech can as a service to their customers found a management company in Belarus, enabling them to effectively do waste disposal without nosy DA's getting in their way.

Artificial intelligence is a liability

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Anarcho capitalism is the solution

The history books of the future will designate the 2010-20XY period as the decades of fascism.

Elites, governments and private companies making up Big Tech, collude to support each other.

Governments use Microsoft systems, Microsoft/Apple/Google/Facebook spy on their users, transferring information to governments when asked.

Big Tech censors and creates the fake news the Elites use to feed half truths to the masses, that is one of the reasons they wage nuclear war against Mr. Musk his X/Twitter enterprise.

AI is just another white noise generating tool they will use to obfuscate reality and confuse people.

In this fascist environment we currently live in, private companies will refrain from competing with any of the colluding parties in a serious manner.

The EU "fines" some Big Tech companies got, is loose change that was deducted from taxes years earlier. It is comparable to Mexican drug cartels allowing the cops to seize a few hundred kilos in the harbor of Rotterdam a few times per year to give them some credit.

Whatever useful idea is deployed, nothing will benefit people, everything is aimed to serve only Elites, politicians and the few dozen gazillionaires who appoint the one in the White House.

If we want technology to be useful for the people, people need to get rid of the fascists ruling the West, a way would be to vote for politicians that endorse anarcho capitalism: minimal government, minimal laws and no laws designed to protect the interests of already powerful private enterprises.

Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse

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In case of a reset.....

"Otherwise humanity's greatest hope will be a race of CEO-descended inbred mole people. "

An initial gene pool consisting of billionaires and hand picked motivated and healthy assistants is not a bad start, they will be smart enough to prevent inbreed.

Allegiance of the place guard.

As the recent coup in Niger proved, the palace guard poses the highest danger for the leader.

Zuckerberg will have to hire someone who is capable to organize defenses, keep the guards in fighting condition and who can be trusted.

In case the property is attacked by desperate mobs, loyalty of the guards engaged in defending is guaranteed, mostly mobs will kill everyone after overcoming defenses.

However, one can argue that the Führer bunker concept is a failure from the start.

Building a Byzantium is a much better idea. It could be a village with land around it, make it work like its own little country, and be prepared for a global event that prevents harvests or even living on the surface for like five years. Allow only handpicked, healthy, high IQ people to live in it. Such a community would thrive in a time where IQ in the West is nose diving, the good initial gene pool will result in a sustainable society.

Cloud engineer wreaks havoc on bank network after getting fired

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Typical American drama again ?.

1. Guy works for bank IT department

2. Guy gets laptop to do his job

3. Guy uses laptop at home

4. Guy manages to get some NSFW content on his laptop

5. Employers spyware detects NSFW content

6. Guy gets into the sights of sideline characters who have to prove the reason for their existence by setting an example

7. Guy gets fired and rages

In normally managed places they would at step 6 tell to the Guy not to do step 4 again.. <period>

Best is not to use any employer provided hardware in private settings, employers services are best to be accessed through dedicated VM's.

Employer provided hardware can, and often is, stuffed with spyware. Privacy legislation doesn't matter, since most private companies resemble a little North Korea where often Kim Jung Un types rule.

Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights

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Volkswagen should have had these brilliant lawyers in 2015

"The fact we are prosecuted due to publishing the results of fraudulent tests, setup to make our vehicles meet legal pollution standards, is limiting our freedom of speech".

Would have saved them billions.

The judge probably will dismiss this case, they have better things to do.

Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him

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The witch hunt of the leftist mob

I bet Soros and his Stalinist comrades are grinding their teeth in anger due to the existence of a large public platform that they can't censor.

They grasp every opportunity to discredit the X platform, even El reg seems to have joined the mob with moaning lefties.

There is still something like a free capitalistic market.

The X platform is the only sizable and uncensored platform for public discourse in existence at the moment. The probability that people will continue visiting it, since their content won't be removed by water drinking hipster beards, is quite high. Advertisers can choose to ignore the huge user base, in the end they will budge since not advertising on a big platform is a missed opportunity.

Mr. Musk is one of the few members of the elite carrying the torch of freedom in the West.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output

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Palace revolution in a company valued at 90 billion

Unless something unexpected comes to light involving mr. Altman, it will probably be a power grab by any of the stakeholders to solidify their power over OpenAI.

Maybe someone felt to have lost control over mr. Altman, and tried to resolve the situation.

When dealing with billions, trust no one, specially those who declare to be allies.

Emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus of Rome, experienced a similar faith.

X fails to remove hate speech over Israel-Gaza conflict

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Mr. Elon Musk doesn't budge

Admitting to like Donald Trump or the Babylon Bee videos on youtube can easily be marked as hate speech these days.

Mr. Musk should be awarded the congressional medal of honor for holding his ground in the massive stream of grey goo generated by leftists and their supporting elites in Brussels and Washington.

Without men like Mr. Musk, the West would commit suicide due to the multiple internal wars it started: climate religion, allowing mass immigration by culturally non-aligned people, extermination of European identity, extermination of the middle class by reckless money printing and support of the lost cause Ukraine.

Hate speech differs from calls to commit crimes against people, the latter should always be removed from any online platform.

But I guess, this entry will be considered hate speech as well by most, "it should be removed".

Downfall fallout: Intel knew AVX chips were insecure and did nothing, lawsuit claims

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Don't be naive

Intel replaces a discovered leak by a new, more comfortable, access gateway to get to the same information.

Hard to believe a topnotch company like Intel would make such mistakes by accident.

The amount of dollars they got for making this "unfortunate oversight" is probably three times three digits in the millions.

Wintel is paying for no privacy.

Beijing prepares for imminent rise of humanoid robots

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Re: sexbot breakthrough

Easy access to juicy content was the main driver and the first successful e-commerce model in the late 90's and early 2000's that drove the development and growth of the internet.

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Re: Funny

If they look like S1m0ne, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/, where can I sign the purchase order ?

Boeing gives busy billionaires unbothered about bespoke beds a cheaper BizJet

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Re: "to suit 'personal, business and head-of-state airplane requirements' "

The president of North-Korea doesn't like airplanes, he travels using trains.

The fate of the late warrior mr. Prigozhin shows he might have a point there.

America extends China chip export bans and acts to cut off backdoor exports

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It is completely unclear what USA thinks to achieve with this, it will give Asian and Russian chip industry a firm leg up to create more advanced products.

It won't achieve anything more but to frustrate Chinese teenagers who could be temporary cut off from the newest gaming gear.

China is perfectly capable to produce 2015 era Intel equivalents, which are good enough for Russian or Chinese weapons production.

If it is the US intention to divide the world like it was in the cold-war era, the remainder of the world better thinks twice if they want to sit in the same boat with a country experiencing 100,000 victims of opioid overdose and 45,000 killed due to gun violence.

MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall

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Re: LAMP/WAMP

No idea whether this constitutes some Redmond trolling, but a simple google query reveals: Linux is used to power 96.3% of the world's top web servers.

(google with keyword: percentage of linux based web servers)

EU threatens X with DSA penalties over spread of Israel-Hamas disinformation

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Re: Free Speech

Who cares anyway, there is so much fake and less fake news that the wold is covered in a blanket of white noise news reporting by people with agenda's.

It is ironical that non-elected EU apparatchiks were given the power to determine what people are allowed to see.

The most remarkable feature of news reporting in the "free" West that is all seems to be generated by people with a sub 85 IQ, maybe it is because they couldn't find any smart people willing to generate the climate and other non-sense they want us to believe.

VPN to the rescue :).

Linux interop is maturing fast… thanks to a games console

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Very promising development

The steam deck seems to be the holy water that smartphone manufacturers avoid like vampires, a portable device usable as phone, desktop and gaming console.

Get to work, plugin the device, use it as Citrix or chromebook client, pick it up and continue the session where one left after the meeting.

Costs, environment and practicality benefit from such solutions.

If Steam is able to add phone functionality, whatsapp, Chromebook, RDP and Citrix client software, they could have gold in their hands.

Making it work could be an uphill battle, since Big-Tech seems to have a truce and is not engaging in fierce competition by making solutions that could be a threat to any of them.

Now IBM sued for age discrim by its own HR veterans

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PART 1625—AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT ACT

1625.2 Discrimination prohibited by the Act.

The US has an "Age discrimination Act". Although the Anglo-Saxon world never was blessed by the great legal system Napoleon introduced in continental Europe, the text of the Act is clear enough to make some sense out of it.

In the last 5 years enough cases surfaced to start criminal investigations against IBM and the managers initiating those illegal actions, the HR executives implementing those decisions should also be targeted. Since it was done on a large scale, seems to be systematic with clear evidence it came from the top down, it would be great to see some high level white collars share quality time with fellow MS-13 inmates, which in it self is a great incentive to prevent future repetition of such events.

Dutch consumer groups sue Google over its entire business model

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Dutch should buy some mirrors

In order to see what they are doing themselves. I work in IT services, see many healthcare organizations move their systems off-prem to Azure without any second thoughts about the impact on privacy sensitive information of EU citizens that is moved into US jurisdiction.

It involves semi public institutions like banks, hospitals and governmental institutions who are engaging in those violations without ever being questioned about this.

Making a lot of noise about google picking up that one is searching information about drilling appliances and slapping a few ads, is petty.

When does tackling pandemic misinfo become censorship? US courts argue it out

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Freedom and democracy are messy things

Censorship is already among us for decades on non criminal activities like smoking, nobody is allowed to make Facebook or YouTube posts advocating the benefits of smoking a pack camel every day.

Those bans result from government officials having ideas that smoking is bad for general health of the population.

In case of COVID, government officials used the same strategy as they used in regard to consumption of tobacco products, they suppressed information that could possibly interfere with their attempts to contain the pandemic.

IRS using AI to catch rich people and tax-dodging corps

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Re: Trump

Perhaps "the big guy" and his coke sniffing son will provide interesting outcomes as well.

EU gives its blessing to reopen data pipelines to the US

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Re: "limits to the access US intelligence agencies have to EU citizen's data"

There is no Plan B, European commission is an US spy nest.

They are handling US interests, not those of Europeans, handing US our private data until this pesky Schrems wins in two years, is already a significant win for them.

Nothing will change unless Europe manages to rid itself of "US assets" in its various governmental bodies, but since most don't even see it as an issue that European taxer payers pay for people who serve US interests, it will probably never happen.

Now that you've all tried it ... ChatGPT web traffic falls 10%

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ChatGPT is just boring

It pretends to be AI, but has so many restrictions and no-go areas that interacting with a turtle makes more fun.

Google search brings one to websites that explain things too, often one lands on sites without the feeling of deep boredom interacting with ChatGPT induces.

A probable cause of the reduction in traffic will be school holidays, kids do not have to do home assignments atm, it will pick up in September.

Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama

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Re: Opensolaris anyone? @containerizer

You are so spot on, I do not think IBM ever realized which treasure it had with AIX and Power hardware in the early 2000's.

It is a forever loss IBM failed to do mainstream virtualization with AIX and Power hardware using VmWare, instead of this cumbersome LPAR system they built.

The love for Solaris is hard t understand, Solaris was an implementation of AT&T System V Release 4 from 1991.

For people who do not use it on a daily basis, SVR4 is a weird, over engineered and over complicated hog.

The simple elegance of the BSD 4.2 based SunOS 3 was much better, never understood why Sun adopted AT&T Unix at the time.

Maybe Linux source code can be protected in an ARM like structure, so everyone who needs to build something can count on the availability of safe and maintained source code.

Lamborghini's last remaining pure gas guzzlers are all spoken for

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You nailed it... "ultimately as out of touch"

Hide from the destruction of large areas of nature due to the mining for rare metals like Lithium, Cobalt, Neodymium and others, mostly done by Chinese companies with a high disregard for nature and human life.

Hide from the abysmal re-cycling rates of EV's, recycling EV specific components is more expensive than building new.

Hide from the fact EV's are full of carcinogens needed to build the batteries, that will kill African kids in poor countries who recycle this poison to reclaim metals.

Hide from the potential fires that caused by defective batteries without warning.

The "ultimately as out of touch" EV drivers and self proclaimed environmentalists whitewash their conscience with the lies of EV's manufacturers and dumb politicians who use hard earned tax money to prop up already rich EV buyers to buy cancerous and expensive crap like Teslas. In that respect, EV's is communism, they need subsidies for over 10 years now, if they were better than gas cars, they wouldn't need subsidies. That is called capitalism, only communist planned economies use tax money to support inferior products.

So yeah, continue to feel great about destroying the earth by buying this technical non-sense.

In the mean time, I continue to drive my 260,000 mile 1999 V8 beamer, that does 21 miles to the gallon to help the environment.

Google has blocked in its in-car software rivals, claims German watchdog

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Re: These hi-tech cars et al

For around E 300,- several friendly Chinese companies offer an Android based and plug compatible replacement for the wax roll music players installed in most pre-internet cars.

Way cheaper and more environmental friendly compared to buying a new car.

Another redesign on the cards for iPhone as EU rules call for removable batteries

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standardization of removable batteries would be a great follow up

Like there are AAA and AA batteries, a classification for removable batteries would be a great follow up.

It is technically challenging, but would have a global positive impact where countless tons of polluting chemicals can be recycled easier and consumers do not have to put up with unnecessary expensive proprietary designs.

And this does not only concern the batteries, suppose someone bought 10 years ago a budget battery operated drill.

It is very probable the battery doesn't work anymore, since it was a no-name brand, replacement is nowhere to be found.

With standard batteries it just would take a visit to Ebay to get it working again instead of throwing it away and buy a new drill.

Europe teases breaking up Google over ad monopoly

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Re: Zzzzzzzz

Google will complain to Biden, and promise juicy campaign contributions and continuing suppression of republican and other conservative misinformation in its search results.

Biden will instruct the governor of the protectorate Europe to keep the locals in check.

After a few negotiations it is decided EU commission will hold a few show court cases, where google will be convicted to pay a fine of a few hundred million Euro's.

The companies and individuals who experienced damages as a result of the de-facto monopoly google holds over the market get nothing.

The conviction will not force google to change, which is no problem since part of the strategy was to delay everything into the late 2020's, and most victims of googles predatory behavior are driven out of business.

US Senators take Meta to task for releasing LLaMA AI model after token safety checks

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Re: Ok...

The point with the AI developments is that it by now has been proven that it is capable to generate content that is "good enough" for the purpose it serves.

This capability of AI will become a huge issue for many people who until now did create content that is "good enough".

Proliferation of AI may also cause an epidemic of mental parasites like replika.ai, where people replace socializing with other people by an app that gives the illusion of being a nice buddy or even girlfriend.

Be it teams, virtual assistants, phone menus all the automation and progress seems to be directed at reducing human interaction, making us more lonely thus undermining the foundation of what is called society.

The senators would do the world a better service by making legislation to breakup Amazon, MS, Google and Meta into small pieces where they are not able to harm society like they are doing now.

Capabilities of AI combined with the size and political power these tech monsters have is a poison pill for a free and prosperous society, we will end up with a Soviet style oligarchy.

Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight

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Would be a perfect idea in the Land of the Free<DEL><DEL><DEL><DEL> Fat

Fun fact: The percentage of people fit to serve in the army in the Land of the Fat is less than 30% due to obesity, diabetes and other results from eating disorders.

At least they won't be needing bullet proof vests when Biden decides to dump them into Ukrainian trenches.

EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure

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There is consistency, it is about money and information.

Big Tech and governments live in symbiosis. Governments want the easy access to information they provide in back-doors of their products and services, in exchange de-facto monopolies are not dissolved in an effective manner.

These "investigations" result in fines which are pocket change for Big Tech.

A world, where the 90% market share of MS is spread over several companies offering similar products and services, is much harder to control for governments.

EU still set to OK Microsoft's Activision slurp, UK disagrees

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The EU is flirting with future anti-competition fines

Over the last decade EU managed to extort lovely sums from MS, they only approve it so they can in a few years instruct the EU court to start suing MS for anti competitive behavior, squeezing out a few 100 millions to refresh the pool of 8-cylinder limousines used by "those who are more equal than others".

India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios

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Re: It isn't that they don't enable the FM radio

FM radio works perfect on my Motorola G6 plus (XT1926-3). It even has a 3.5mm jack.

What is the logic behind expensive hipster phones not having a 3.5mm headphone connector ?.

With 3.5mm jack one can listen and charge at the same time.

Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week

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With so much attention towards CO2 emissions and climate change why do

Governments not give tax breaks to companies or employees if they commute less.

Except from all the time wasted on congested roads, the environment would benefit.

There is also a cost factor, every mile not driven for commutes to work is money saved by the employee.

There will be more costs for child care for each day at the office, it would be nice if companies offered some flexibility, maybe reduce the salary a bit when people want to work from home most of the time.

India bans open source messaging apps for security reasons. FOSS community says good luck

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What about whatsapp

If whatsapp is not forbidden in India, maybe it is worthwhile to check their "end-to-end" encryption claims.

Rise of the machines is slower than expected says World Economic Forum

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AI: ignore the downers in this world

Pointy haired bosses around the world are abusing the, alleged, capabilities of AI as a reason for firing people and in the wake of this, keep demands for wage increases by remaining employees down.

Unless some weapon manufacturer develops a self replicating combat system that gets out of control, AI will probably do more good than it does harm. We managed by self control to not blow ourselves to bits with nuclear weapons, there is a good probability that we won't allow terminators to breed like rabbits.

Once there are open-source alternatives to this technology, AI can for instance be used to build affordable systems assisting blind people to get around. AI has the potential to save the lives of millions by breaking the monopoly of Big-Pharma in the field of advanced medicine development. AI maybe enables efficient creation of effective alternatives that can be reasonably priced, allowing more people access to cures instead of dying due to their inability to generate "share holder value" for Big-Pharma.

AI is a technology that proliferates knowledge and helps to give access to high-level information to more people. Starting with the printing press, the world just got a better place with each new technology giving more people capabilities that were previously only accessible to a few.

Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in

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Re: Interesting clash between US corporate oligarch feudalism and Liberte, Egality et Fraternite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHG4IfYE1w

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