The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone
Under the U.K. law, it’s illegal for the company to even talk about the existence of the order.
If history has taught us anything, it’s that governments can always be trusted and backdoors never fall into bad actors hands.
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If Hollywood has taught us anything, if a bad guy
opens the back door, a suave debonair, martini drinking Scotsman will save us, after he beds a few salacious named ladies."Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz
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Syringes Washing Up on Shore Close Five More New Jersey Beaches
The medical waste was first reported along the state's coastline over the weekend, and has continued to cause public safety issues.
It just rained (again). Is it safe to swim in the ocean?
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New Jersey was deep-sixing medical waste offshore (including medical waste for New York along with it), so maybe they still do this? Also, did anyone bother counting plastic straws on any beach? Then we would have basis for comparison.
If memory serves, Sandy Hook NJ was where all the used syringes were washing up on the beach for the news story years back.
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
If Hollywood has taught us anything, if a bad guy
opens the back door, a suave debonair, martini drinking Scotsman will save us, after he beds a few salacious named ladies.But in this case, he works for the back door bad guys, so we are fukt.
I hope the UK sinks.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
If Hollywood has taught us anything, if a bad guy
opens the back door, a suave debonair, martini drinking Scotsman will save us, after he beds a few salacious named ladies.But in this case, he works for the back door bad guys, so we are fukt.
I hope the UK sinks.
That is so short sighted! If the UK sinks where will we get our…uh…hm…
No I guess you’re right, nothing would change.
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I have to slightly disagree, sadly : the Six Nations Championship would then be the Three Nation Mess That France Always Wins, which would certainly be amusing for a couple of years but would soon lose some appeal. So there would be some minor inconvenience.
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Not to worry! You just go find yourselves 3 other nations of equivalent economic and cultural power to replace them with! Say, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico!
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The idea is sound, but I worry we may anger the US government if we beat their former colonies every year, and we don’t have quite as many aircraft carriers as we’d need to do that.
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Meta’s laid-off ‘low performers’ defend themselves on LinkedIn and Reddit
You’d be a fool to take a job at Meta (or any of the other high profile tech companies if this becomes a trend). Meta has hemorrhaged billions on the Metaverse and recently indicated layoffs were because of it, Then Zuckerberg recently appeared to have acknowledged that his years of enshittifcation aren’t working and promised a return to the OG Facebook experience which will also no doubt lead to restructuring and layoffs. All those things are fine as they acknowledge mistakes and try to correct them. But to then tar thousands of your laid off workers with the “low performance” brush and negatively impact their ability to get new jobs is a cunt’s act.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Meta’s laid-off ‘low performers’ defend themselves on LinkedIn and Reddit
You’d be a fool to take a job at Meta (or any of the other high profile tech companies if this becomes a trend). Meta has hemorrhaged billions on the Metaverse and recently indicated layoffs were because of it, Then Zuckerberg recently appeared to have acknowledged that his years of enshittifcation aren’t working and promised a return to the OG Facebook experience which will also no doubt lead to restructuring and layoffs. All those things are fine as they acknowledge mistakes and try to correct them. But to then tar thousands of your laid off workers with the “low performance” brush and negatively impact their ability to get new jobs is a cunt’s act.
They’ve got like 8 job postings for my field and they have been up for months. I never really bothered to research much into how they function or what they are doing, but no wonder they can’t fill these roles.
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Reuters: Arm recruits from customers as it plans to sell its own chips
I believe that not competing with your customers was a large factor in TSMCs success. Even though TSMC are a fab and ARM are/were a chip and architect designer, I feel like this won’t be good for ARM in the long term. Gemini confirmed my opinion that it could hasten adoption of RISC-V (albeit we’re still a way aways from RISC-V being competitive in performance and high end stuff).
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Maybe ARM is afraid that their design knowledge and services aren’t needed in the future when someone creates a chip design AI.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
with the “low performance” brush and negatively impact their ability to get new jobs is a cunt’s act.
pretty rare these days for companies to inquire beyond ‘did they work for you’ in many cases it isn’t legal to do anything other than verification of employment.
what if they were? now they know they need to perform. a LOT of millenials/gen z needs a kick in the ass.
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Fun with words.
As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use
The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…
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They are taking a piss without even pulling their pants down, aren’t they?
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Meta Has Spent Over $100 Billion On VR - Aftermath
One hundred billion American dollars. Keep that in mind as you watch this. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGG2sXLsEPi That video was made in 2025. UPDATE 7:20pm, Feb 17: Meta have taken the video down.
Above headline isn’t news but the video in the linked page is something else. Kept making me think of Team America.
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And I thought Star Citizen was bad…
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I’m guessing that a lot of that 100 billion has gone on subsidizing VR headsets to try and boost numbers? I just can’t believe it is all development costs even with the hardware side.
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They would have been better off just buying Second Life and adding VR support
