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Well luckily most companies do not actually provide anything important. If a company like Google or Facebook "stops working" and simply "dead spins" in place... there is little damage caused by that. The companies will go even if no work is done there until it fails eventually. For management this isn't an issue as any failure can be attributed to "changing market conditions".
This is why long established engineering firms get their recently retired employees to come in for 5-10 days a month. Just for a brief transition period of around 10 years or so.
Everything a company values should be documented in a way that new hires can easily learn.
When a corporation talks about "values" though, they often don't include "preservation and sharing of comprehensive knowledge" as one of them.
And then they lay people off, bring in contractors, or outsource knowledge based operations, and wonder why nobody knows what's going on.
AI is going to be like that. People will only operate at the highest levels. You know, the levels where they push a button and expect everything to be automatically how they assume it should be.
this is how i considered myself and my job during my whole carrier. "putting an oil drop in the right place, removing the little sand grain fallen in a gear". "glue people" is a very nifty expression too. Thank you for the story
#altText A social media post from a user "Harmony?" Text: I've spent over 30 years managing large government operations. One lesson I carry with me comes from the retirement years ago of an employee most would have considered "obscure." He was a quiet man arriving each morning with his sandwich, working steadily, and leaving without much fanfare. To many, he seemed part of the furniture. It was only when he left that we truly realized his value. Over the years, he had accumulated deep, almost invisible knowledge. He had taken on countless menial but essential tasks simply because he had the experience to do them well. He was, in many ways, the oil in the machine. His departure forced us to scramble. We suddenly saw how many small, critical pieces he had been holding together, pieces no job description had captured, and no system had tracked. Since then, I've often thought of him when I see organizations subjected to blind cuts. The true cost of such decisions is rarely visible on a balance sheet: it's in the loss of quiet expertise, institutional memory, and the small acts of continuity that keep complex systems running.
Now imagine #humanity as a whole: almost all of human knowledge, plus an increasing amount of AI slop, is stored in digital format (the oldest forms with the longest life, half a Century?) with the newest forms the shorter lifespan. An SSD without power can be expected to retain its data at the most a couple of years. The way it's going, it is more a matter of when, rather than if, we become extinct. A couple millenia and there won't be much left of our "Great" Civilization.
It's one of the reason that offshoring / outsourcing jobs to dramatically underskilled + underpaid resources from poorer countries has caused so much havoc in IT circles over the years.
Bosses just thought the glue people could perform total KT (knowledge transfer) by writing everything down in multiple binders.
They never realized it's the WHY that matters about an operation / process / task at least 50% more than the WHAT.
reading more of the likes of your good self and @molly0xfff and @pluralistic, for example, I am belatedly beginning to understand that the big lads don't actually care if the business works or not.
The money doesn't come from the productivity or output or generation of the business, it comes from *promises*, which investors swallow like prophecy and strawberry wine. The business is slow or clunky or ugly? Who gives a fuck; we're high on grifty speculation, you simpletons.
Many companies have already done this and many of them are now regretting it and scrambling to "fix" the slop that's been pushed to production.
within the past couple months or so I've been getting mails and messages from contacts on behalf of other clients about coming in to refactor or just straight up fix code, apps, etc that were pushed to production by AI Slop and "vibe coders". The tech debt is insane. It's gotten so bad I've been having to refer them to other devs who are looking for work.
I remember doing this a few years ago when companies were just offshoring to India but it was no where near as bad as it is now.
IT has many a tale of Project Leads who grease the wheel of progress yet get fired after every "on time, on budget" success.
On paper, they aren't seen as "productive" (fewer code commits) but they keep teams on task without creating anger, smooth over interpersonal friction, and inject realistic time management.
No death marches. No kids in rehab. No divorces. No mental or health crises. Undramatic function.
Such people are seen as disposable even while creating big revenue.
It feels like when this crash finally happens (ugh, could it hurry up and do so already?) it's going to come down HARD.
Hopefully the surviving companies will offer some very generous raises to the people they stupidly fired before because those people will deserve it to clean up the mess.
The next hype will be GlueAI. It will figure out what all of your AI systems are doing, generate code to interface between the systems, and solve all problems.
The UK and Germany have agreed a friendship treaty aimed at resetting the countries' post-Brexit relations. The treaty comes nearly a decade after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
Resistance to the Imperialist project in the West Asia (Middle East) region has deep historical and cultural roots for the people of the region. It was never exclusive to any religion; it was linked to an Arab identity and civilisation.
For as long as man has vied for dominance over his fellow man, the killing of political rivals or upstarts has been standard operating procedure. Often, the assassination comes in a spectacularly overt form -- such as a stabbing, a shooting, or a hurled bomb. Notwithstanding some of the childishly naive explanations implicating, in certain cases, a "crazed lone gunman,"
reasonable and mature people will naturally and properly suspect that, when such events occur, a conspiracy was afoot and a coordinated coverup is to follow.
But there is another form of assassination that is just as old and just as common, if not more so. That is, the silent assassination by poison. Murder by poison automatically comes with built-in "plausible deniability" because the final symptoms of the deceased can mimic those of other "natural causes."
For your consideration, "Dig 'em Up!" explores the conveniently timed sudden deaths of 40 famous individuals directly or indirectly tied to the nasty world of politics.
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๐ ๏ธToday is a very important day, one day from the future bunker, we are preparing the space for the event, starring @otkidach
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>woman on twitter says with my money I shouldn't be single >I tell her I moved out of the city because of swarthoids >Women mode activated: "racism is why you're single"
The Song of Wade was a popular legend that survives in only one enigmatic text. Now, researchers think they have solved a longstanding puzzle about its meaning.
Israรซl vient de frapper la paroisse catholique de Gaza. Netanyahou est dรฉcidรฉ ร aller jusquโau bout du nettoyage ethnique de Gaza. Ce que nous redoutions est arrivรฉ: un char israรฉlien a frappรฉ lโรฉglise catholique de la Sainte Famille ร Gaza ce matin. Selon le patriarcat latin de Jรฉrusalem, il y a des dรฉgรขts matรฉriels et des blessรฉs, dont le curรฉ, le Pรจre Romanelli. Il y aurait aussi deux morts โ ร confirmer. Mais le message est clair: intimider les chrรฉtiens, pour les obliger ร partir, eux dont le maintien ร Gaza symbolise le refus du nettoyage ethnique. Dans tous les cas, Israรซl abรฎme toujours plus son image: mรชme ceux qui sโaccrochent au mythe du ยซ combat judรฉo-chrรฉtien contre lโislamisme ยป vont รชtre รฉbranlรฉs.
Au moment oรน jโai commencรฉ ร รฉcrire, on pensait quโil nโy avait pas de mort ร dรฉplorรฉ lors du bombardement qui a touchรฉ ce 17 juillet au matin lโรฉglise catholique de Gaza, paroisse de la Sainte Famille. A prรฉsent, on parle de deux morts, information qui vient dโรชtre confirmรฉe. Lโarticle sera actualisรฉ dans la journรฉe.
Le patriarcat de Jรฉrusalem nโaccorde pour lโinstant pas foi ร lโarmรฉe israรฉlienne qui prรฉtend quโil sโest agi dโune erreur. Forcer les chrรฉtiens et tous ceux quโils protรจgent ร partir
Dans un article publiรฉ dimanche 13 juillet, jโavais expliquรฉ comme les chrรฉtiens de Gaza, catholiques et orthodoxes, รฉtaient un obstacle minuscule mais bien rรฉel au nettoyage ethnique du nord de Gaza โ et en fait de la Bande tout entiรจre โ poursuivi par les Israรฉliens.
Jโai donc tendance ร interprรฉter le bombardement israรฉlien de ce matin comme une premiรจre intimidation: vendredi dernier 11 juillet, lโarmรฉe israรฉlienne a demandรฉ aux habitants des deux quartiers oรน se trouvent les paroisses chrรฉtiennes de la ville de Gaza de partir. Et les chrรฉtiens refusent dโautant plus dโobtempรฉrer quโils ont accueilli des rรฉfugiรฉs des zones environnantes, chrรฉtiens ou musulmans; et quโils ont des dizaines de malades et de personnes รขgรฉes dont sโoccuper, qui ne supporteraient pas lโexpulsion.
Ce qui se joue, cโest bien lโaccomplissement, ou non, du nettoyage ethnique. Netanyahou brรปle ses vaisseaux
Certes, les chrรฉtiens ne se mobilisent que trรจs lentement pour leurs frรจres palestiniens. Il est vrai que les cerveaux sont embrumรฉs par la propagande, qui en a abusรฉ plus dโun, sur le ยซ combat judรฉo-chrรฉtien contre lโislamisme ยป. Et puis il y a le bloc immense des ยซ chrรฉtiens sionistes ยป, en particulier chez les รฉvangรฉlistes.
Cependant lโimpact du bombardement de lโรฉglise de la Sainte Famille โ construite au lieu vรฉnรฉrรฉ depuis les origines du christianisme oรน lโEnfant Jรฉsus et ses parents ont sรฉjournรฉ plusieurs mois au retour dโEgypte โ est dรฉsastreux pour lโimage dโIsraรซl, surtout au moment oรน lโopinion mondiale trouve enfin un relais รฉlargi avec la confรฉrence de Bogota. Et oรน la lรขchetรฉ des pays-membres de lโUnion europรฉenne, qui refusent de suspendre lโaccord dโassociation dโIsraรซl avec lโUE, fait des vagues dans le monde entier.
Netanyahou, clairement, brรปle ses vaisseaux. Ces derniers jours, lโarmรฉe israรฉlienne a de nouveau bombardรฉ le Liban et la Syrie. Aujourdโhui, il fait bombarder, pour les intimider, les catholiques de Gaza. Le Premier ministre israรฉlien dresse dรฉsormais les chrรฉtiens contre lui.
On remarquait ces derniers jours, rien quโen suivant Vatican News, une sainte colรจre qui monte au Vatican. Le pape Franรงois gardait confidentielles ses pressions sur le gouvernement israรฉlien. A prรฉsent, le pape Lรฉon porte le sujet du comportement dโIsraรซl devant lโopinion mondiale.
En octobre 2023, quelques jours seulement aprรจs le dรฉbut de la guerre, les forces israรฉliennes ont bombardรฉ l'รฉglise grecque-orthodoxe de Saint-Porphyre, la plus ancienne de la bande de Gaza, tuant au moins 18 personnes.
Dans la matinรฉe du jeudi 17 juillet, lโarmรฉe israรฉlienne a frappรฉ la paroisse catholique de la Sainte-Famille, la seule de la bande de Gaza. Le pรจre Gabriel Romanelli, curรฉ de la paroisse, est blessรฉ, annonce le Patriarcat latin de Jรฉrusalem.
Le Service dโinformation du gouvernement (SIG) de Matignon a dรฉcidรฉ de confier ร une entreprise canado-amรฉricaine Talkwalker (filiale de Hootsuite contrรดlรฉe par des fonds amรฉricains) ,la mission de veille des rรฉseaux sociaux, notamment lโanalyse de lโopinion sur les rรฉseaux sociaux. Une dรฉcision qui suscite incomprรฉhension et inquiรฉtude. Souverainetรฉ, sรฉcuritรฉ des donnรฉes et cohรฉrence stratรฉgique sont au cลur de la polรฉmique.
Matignon a dรฉcidรฉ de confier la veille des rรฉseaux sociaux des Franรงais ร la sociรฉtรฉ canadienne, Talkwalker. Pourquoi un tel choix ? A priori, cโest une question de tarif. Concernant les inquiรฉtudes sur la sรฉcuritรฉ des donnรฉes sensibles accessibles ร lโentreprise, Matignon assure quโelle sera soumise ร des rรจglements stricts. Une entreprise รฉtrangรจre pour surveiller les rรฉseaux sociaux des Franรงais
Cela fait 8 ans que lโentreprise franรงaise, Visibrain, assure la veille des rรฉseaux sociaux des Franรงais. Son contrat a pris fin et un appel dโoffres a รฉtรฉ lancรฉ. Mais ร la grande surprise de tous, Matignon a choisi de confier la mission ร une entreprise canadienne connue sous le nom de Talkwalker, dont les fonds sont amรฉricains.
Evidemment, cette dรฉcision de Matignon inquiรจte les Franรงais, certains fonctionnaires et les diffรฉrents services de lโEtat. Pourquoi confier une mission aussi stratรฉgique ร une entreprise รฉtrangรจre ? Pour mener ร bien sa mission, lโentreprise canadienne aura accรจs ร des donnรฉes sensibles issues des diffรฉrents services de lโEtat, y compris ceux des armรฉes, du ministรจre de lโEconomie et de lโagence de lutte contre les ingรฉrences รฉtrangรจres. De plus, Visibrain possรจde des ressources techniques plus performantes.
Le Service dโinformation du gouvernement (le SIG), un organe placรฉ sous le contrรดle du Premier ministre Franรงois Bayrou,semble รชtre convaincu quโil a fait un bon choix.
Si Talkwalker a obtenu le contrat, cโest surtout ร cause de son service ร bas prix. Selon Matignon, il serait trois fois moins cher, le prestataire รฉtranger a su sรฉduire un รtat en quรชte dโรฉconomies budgรฉtaires. Mais ร quel prix ?
Il semble que derriรจre cette รฉconomie apparente se cache une perte de contrรดle stratรฉgique. Le social listening โ lโรฉcoute et lโanalyse des tendances sur les rรฉseaux sociaux โ est un outil de renseignement civil important, notamment pour anticiper les crises sociales, les mobilisations ou encore les campagnes de dรฉsinformation. Confier cette fonction ร une entreprise รฉtrangรจre soulรจve inรฉvitablement la question : peut-on externaliser la perception de lโopinion nationale ร des acteurs รฉtrangers, soumis ร dโautres intรฉrรชts ? Des donnรฉes sensibles sous pavillon amรฉricain
Le SIG tente de rassurer : les donnรฉes exploitรฉes sont ยซ publiques ยป, le contrat est ยซ juridiquement en rรจgle ยป, et lโentreprise est ยซ soumise aux rรจgles europรฉennes de protection des donnรฉes ยป. Pourtant, ce discours se heurte ร une rรฉalitรฉ juridique prรฉoccupante : le Cloud Act amรฉricain, votรฉ en 2018.
Ce texte autorise le gouvernement des รtats-Unis ร exiger dโune entreprise amรฉricaine โ ou dโune filiale contrรดlรฉe par des capitaux amรฉricains โ la transmission de ses donnรฉes, y compris si celles-ci sont stockรฉes ร lโรฉtranger. Autrement dit, les donnรฉes publiques collectรฉes par Talkwalker pour le compte de lโรtat franรงais pourraient, lรฉgalement, รชtre rรฉclamรฉes par Washington.
Par ailleurs, Talkwalker, le prestataire retenu, ne serait pas encore capable de surveiller TikTok, pourtant expressรฉment mentionnรฉ dans lโappel dโoffres. Or TikTok est aujourdโhui un canal central de diffusion dโopinions, de mobilisation politique et parfois accusรฉ de ยซ dรฉsinformation ยป, notamment chez les jeunes. Visibrain, de son cรดtรฉ, le faisait dรฉjร .
La France ne cesse de proclamer sa volontรฉ de renforcer sa souverainetรฉ numรฉrique, de relocaliser ses donnรฉes, de crรฉer un cloud national, de contrer les influences รฉtrangรจresโฆ Mais dans les actes, elle choisit une entreprise รฉtrangรจre pour รฉcouter ses propres citoyens.
Le dรฉputรฉ MoDem Philippe Latombe, spรฉcialiste du numรฉrique, a publiquement interpellรฉ le gouvernement. Plusieurs fonctionnaires รฉvoquent dรฉjร un refus dโutiliser lโoutil Talkwalker, quโils jugent risquรฉ et inadaptรฉ.
and i was assured that the evil (((people))) who run everything financial want me to spend all my money on porn and degen gay content. how could they let this happen??
the issue i had trying to bend the pipe ends into this form was that getting the exact 135ยฐ angle without making some good quality press dies, so i went with a weld in bracket instead
qr code is the squares code that, if used with a qr code scanner redirects me automatically to a website or to download a pkpass file, right?
after downloading said pkpass file to my android, any wallet application like fosswallet should recognize it and add it to the local library (on my android device), right?
what other formats do transportation authorities use?
To those residing in Germany, is pkpass use widespread there? What are common formats used there?
obligatory I know this is not a linux question, but you provide good information and alternatives
qr code is the squares code that, if used with a qr code scanner redirects me automatically to a website or to download a pkpass file, right?
after downloading said pkpass file to my android, any wallet application like fosswallet should recognize it and add it to the local library (on my android device), right?
what other formats do transportation authorities use?
To those residing in Germany, is pkpass use widespread there? What are common formats used there?
are qr codes and pkpass files the same? what other formats do transportation authorities use?
qr code is the squares code that, if used with a qr code scanner redirects me automatically to a website or to download a pkpass file, right?
after downloading said pkpass file to my android, any wallet application like fosswallet should recognize it and add it to the local library (on my android device), right?
what other formats do transportation authorities use?
To those residing in Germany, is pkpass use widespread there? What are common formats used there?
Exactly. No matter the y dimension. Barcode data is only stored in x. Whereas QR uses x and y for data.
They also use the corner squares and a few specific dots to allow scanning from greater angles. Basically allowing the data to be read in 3d space. Even though only 2d is used to store that data.
This is why QR can work well with cameras. Whereas bar codes are designed for very short range laser reflection.
PS lots of info on QR online including open source programs to make your own.
The same goes for bar codes. But readers involve some very simple maker skills. Making simple barcode readers was a common school science project in the early 90s.
Your generic "barcode" for something like a UPC is considered a 1D barcode and uses things like the spacing of the lines and thickness to encode data. Although some 1D barcodes can detect the barcode is damaged they cannot do error recovery.
Your 2D barcodes, like QR or Data Matrix, store data in both directions and depending on format can have varying levels of error correction (duplicate data) built into the barcode. They also obviously can take up less room and hold the same or more data as well. You do need a scanner that can do 2D barcodes though, as not all scanners will read them.
@mint @dsm @foxcat @verita84 Oh yeah, Im certain all ISPs do that at this point. You might luck out and have a rural company that doesn't care but certainly the big providers do.
@dsm @foxcat @verita84 Here it's by the law, blocking access to resources ranging from CIA media to illegal casinos to a Wireguard gunned you dared to set up on a big hoster.
Once I tried to get their service installed at a new apartment. They sent out the same tech 3x over 2 months. He wasn't qualified to run "a new wire to the pole. So 3 wasted visits.
They tried to charge me for 2 months of service and 3 tech visits while I still couldn't get online.
@dsm @foxcat @verita84 @mint Im just stunned at how little their people know. I asked the guy about port forwading or something and he just gave me this blank stare.
They have a walk in store here and it's worse than the damn cell phone store. Kind of thing where you stand around like an idiot until someone comes by with an ipad and then leaves you standing around for another 45 fucking minutes.
@mint @dsm @foxcat @verita84 I want to run AntiDPI stuff at network level but unfortunately can't due to my connection being Fiber and my ISP being a little bitch and not letting me use my own router. I could put that eWaste in bridge mode but im scared that it will reassemble the broken packets before sending them out defeating the effect
@verita84 @munir @dsm @foxcat My guess is GPON, getting a compatible SFP module (and a router that supports them) is expensive and pain in the ass, easier to switch the terminal itself to bridge mode if available.
@mint @munir @dsm @foxcat @verita84 That usually works and I know it worked for AT&T in the past. However my current ISP does some retarded custom auth to even get an IP leased to me and their shitty router doesn't have an option to run in bridge mode.
@phnt @munir @dsm @foxcat @verita84 Mine also didn't with a default admin account (only having an option for second NAT with DMZ), but there was another admin account with default password I found which let me both extract the PPPoE password and switch it into bridge mode.
@mint @munir @dsm @foxcat @verita84 The garbage I have doesn't even have a normal login page. Instead it does some weird rendition of 6 digit codes generated by the ISPs servers from the dumb mobile app. (Everything has to be "smart" these days.) It doesn't even seem to host some alternative page on another port or page.
Genuinely infuriating considering that the previous ISP didn't care about anything as long as the MAC address on the interface stayed the same. But than 2 acquisitions happened.
@phnt @munir @dsm @foxcat @verita84 @mint Yeah I had to do everything via a goddamn ohone app with the comcast router. To get into bridge mode I had to get in the router by way of a login page and I realized they had set the default login as admin:password.
we are again 5-10 years behind the US, where military pivoted back from DEI cringe to stronk hard men ads. this will pivot in Germany as well, just hopefully not too far right again
2X No fue culpa tuya ni tampoco mรญa fue culpa de la monotonรญa nunca dije nada pero me dolรญa yo sabรญa que esto pasarรญa
Tu en lo tuyo y haciendo lo mismo siempre buscando protagonismo te olvidaste de lo que un dia fuimos y lo peor es que
No fue culpa tuya ni tampoco mรญa fue culpa de la monotonรญa nunca dije nada pero me dolรญa yo sabรญa que esto pasarรญa
De repente no eras el mismo me dejaste por tu narcisismo te olvidaste de lo que un dรญa fuimos
Tu distante con tu actitud y eso me llenaba de inquietud tรบ no daba ni la mitad pero sรญ sรฉ que di mรกs que tรบ estaba corriendo por alguien que por mรญ ni estaba caminando
Este amor no muerto pero esta delirando ya de lo que habรญa ya no hay na te lo digo con sinceridad tu estas frรญo como en Navidad es mejor que esto se acabe ya no me repita la movie otra vez que esa ya la vi
Bebe yo te quiero pero es que yo me quiero mรกs a mรญ es un adios necesario lo que un dรญa fue increรญble se volviรณ rutinario no me saben a nada tus labios ahora es todo lo contrario y lo peor es que
No fue culpa tuya ni tampoco mรญa fue culpa de la monotonรญa nunca dije nada pero me dolรญa yo sabรญa que esto pasarรญa
Tu en lo tuyo y haciendo lo mismo siempre buscando protagonismo te olvidaste de lo que un dรญa fuimos (ambos) eh eh eh (ambos)
๐ฌ๐ง I appreciate how the song captures the essence of love and heartbreak in such a relatable way. The visuals are stunning, and the chemistry between Shakira and Ozuna is palpable.
I'd love to hear what everyone else thinks! What are your favourite moments from the video? Let's get a discussion going!
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๐ช๐ธ Aprecio cรณmo la canciรณn captura la esencia del amor y el desamor de una manera tan relatable. Los visuales son impresionantes y la quรญmica entre Shakira y Ozuna es palpable.
ยกMe encantarรญa saber quรฉ piensan los demรกs! ยฟCuรกles son sus momentos favoritos del video? ยกVamos a iniciar una discusiรณn!
"SYRIE โ Le massacre dโAlaouites et de Druzes nโest que le dรฉbut dโune effusion du sang qui ne sโarrรชtera de couler que quand ils en auront fini avec les Kurdes du Rojava. Que fait lโONU ? Le rรฉgime criminel de Damas ne se contente pas dโavoir massacrer des centaines de civils druzes.
New negotiations between Iran and the US should not be held until the American side fully implements the preliminary conditions set by Tehran, the Iranian Majlis (parliament) stated on Wednesday.
"On n'osait plus y croire, pourtant la dรฉcision est tombรฉe ce jeudi 17 juillet. Georges Abdallah va sortir de prison. Lโarticle Georges Ibrahim Abdallah va sortir de prison le 25 juillet, aprรจs 41 ans dโenfermement est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque."
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I finally watched The Godfather III, or as it's called now, "The Godfather: Coda: "The Death of Michael Corleone"". It wasn't as bad as I had been led to believe. Looked pretty, relatively easy-to-follow plot (one reason it got negative reviews, as Godfather fans prefer the subtlety of the first two), lush costumes and sets. Sofia Coppola was cringey as Mary, but I learned she didn't even want the part or to be an actress, and only did it because Wynona Ryder dropped out the day filming started and her dad needed a replacement pronto. Dad (Francis Ford) was also declaring bankruptcy during shooting, so needed the money. You know, everyone pulled together for The Family, the Coppola family, even if it hollowed out their souls.
So now I've seen all 3 and don't have to watch any more, and can go back to reading a new translation of The Book of Job instead. Hooray!
@raccoon the movie is Ever After: A Cinderella Story and it is referencing the siege of Weinsberg.
in 1140 King Conrad III defeated the Duke of Welf and placed Weinsberg under siege. the wives of the besieged castle negotiated a surrender which granted them the right to leave with whatever they could carry on their shoulders. The king allowed them that much.
Leaving everything else aside, each woman took her own husband on her shoulders and carried him out. When the king saw what was happening, he laughed and accepted the women's clever trick.
"A king" he said, "should always stand by his word."
"On July 11, the US-derided International Criminal Court (ICC) told the UN Security Council that war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed in Darfur. This includes systematic rape, bombings, kidnappings, ethnic cleansing, and starvation. Most atrocities are attributed to the RSF targeting non-Arab communities, though SAF has also carried out
TEHRAN (Tasnim) โ Despite overwhelming pressers from Tel Aviv and Washington, the International Criminal Court (ICC) dismissed requests concerning the arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and former defense minister.
Les machines ร gazรฉifier l'eau sont trรจs utiles pour รฉviter d'acheter des bouteilles en #plastique, mais l'entreprise #SodaStream, qui semble contrรดler la plus grande part du marchรฉ des recharges de CO2, en plus d'รชtre israรซlienne, appartient au pollueur #PepsiCo. Aprรจs quelques recherches, j'ai trouvรฉ une entreprise franรงaise plus dรฉcente qui remplit les bouteilles vides par correspondance. Un parrainage de 5 โฌ est proposรฉ grรขce au lien ci-dessous.
Au Club Bulles, on sโest fixรฉ une mission : remplir vos cylindres de CO2 alimentaire avec du gaz franรงais, vous les livrer le plus rapidement possible et surtout au meilleur prix. Notre principale arme, cโest de faire tout cela en France.
Oui, excusez-moi, j'avais mal compris ! J'ai corrigรฉ le message.
ยซ En parrainant vos proches, votre filleul bรฉnรฉficiera dโune box รฉchange offerte (3โฌ remboursรฉs sur son premier remplissage) et vous d'un bon de 5โฌ de rรฉduction sur votre prochain remplissage. ยป
Si je comprends bien, il faut acheter une box affranchie et l'utiliser pour renvoyer les cylindres de C02 que vous souhaitez remplir. La rรฉduction sera donc appliquรฉe lors de la facturation du remplissage. Je prรฉcise qu'ils ne remplissent que les cylindres ร vis par contre. Si jamais vous commandez et ne bรฉnรฉficiez pas de la rรฉduction, dites-le moi et j'irai me plaindre !
If they wanted to really fix airport security, they would let the airports hire whatever security they wanted, and just require them to carry insurance. Then most security would be like "oh, you look fine, go ahead"
GOP Bill Will Strip Largest Teachers Union Of Fed Charter: โIt Has Spiraled Into A Partisan Machineโ
'The NEA...passed a resolution โto defend against Trumpโs embrace of fascism by using the term facism [sic] in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trumpโs program and actions.โ In the resolution itself, the teachersโ union misspelled fascism'
And it will still โadvocate for LGBTQ+ studentsโ following a Supreme Court ruling against LGBT propaganda in classrooms dailywire.com/news/gop-bill-wiโฆ
WASHINGTON โ Representative Mark Harris (R-NC) in the House and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in the Senate plan to introduce legislation to strip the National Education Association (NEA) of its federal charter Wednesday after backlash over its leaโฆ
"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. ..."
Why is that war ship (Destroyer?) in the black sea helping #Ukraine protecting our #democracy from the Russian invasion?? Have #US given up on democracy and freedom fights?
TLDR: my bank sent out emails with websites which looked a lot like phishing mails, so much so that this similarity could potentially be used against them legally by potential phishing victims
โ Discussion at hackernews (soon)
Chapter 1: Youโve got mโฆ
Tuckers Nuts Resist! ๐บ๐ฆย
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •But but but ... The agents of our new $500M investment in AgenticAI should handle being the glue ... Right?
Right?
Maximilian Overdraft, Esq. ES
in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •Everything a company values should be documented in a way that new hires can easily learn.
When a corporation talks about "values" though, they often don't include "preservation and sharing of comprehensive knowledge" as one of them.
And then they lay people off, bring in contractors, or outsource knowledge based operations, and wonder why nobody knows what's going on.
AI is going to be like that. People will only operate at the highest levels. You know, the levels where they push a button and expect everything to be automatically how they assume it should be.
Corse_Pia
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •A social media post from a user "Harmony?"
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I've spent over 30 years managing large government operations. One lesson I carry with me comes from the retirement years ago of an employee most would have considered "obscure." He was a quiet man arriving each morning with his sandwich, working steadily, and leaving without much fanfare. To many, he seemed part of the furniture. It was only when he left that we truly realized his value. Over the years, he had accumulated deep, almost invisible knowledge. He had taken on countless menial but essential tasks simply because he had the experience to do them well. He was, in many ways, the oil in the machine. His departure forced us to scramble. We suddenly saw how many small, critical pieces he had been holding together, pieces no job description had captured, and no system had tracked. Since then, I've often thought of him when I see organizations subjected to blind cuts. The true cost of such decisions is rarely visible on a balance sheet: it's in the loss of quiet expertise, institutional memory, and the small acts of continuity that keep complex systems running.
Fish Id Wardrobe
in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •these people are vital โ but โ why did he not document all these little processes he took on? that was part of his job, too.
I can't know, of course, but often the answer is, the place he worked for didn't allow for him to do that effectively.
LisaBanana โ
in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •Dan: Who they protect?
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •JimTheWhyGuy โ๐
in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •It's one of the reason that offshoring / outsourcing jobs to dramatically underskilled + underpaid resources from poorer countries has caused so much havoc in IT circles over the years.
Bosses just thought the glue people could perform total KT (knowledge transfer) by writing everything down in multiple binders.
They never realized it's the WHY that matters about an operation / process / task at least 50% more than the WHAT.
(Hence my handle.) ๐
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •It is called the linchpin effect. ๐ก โ #linchpineffect
debliu.substack.com/p/the-impoโฆ
The Importance of Linchpins, and Why You Should Become One
Deb Liu (Perspectives)Iwillyeah
in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •reading more of the likes of your good self and @molly0xfff and @pluralistic, for example, I am belatedly beginning to understand that the big lads don't actually care if the business works or not.
The money doesn't come from the productivity or output or generation of the business, it comes from *promises*, which investors swallow like prophecy and strawberry wine. The business is slow or clunky or ugly? Who gives a fuck; we're high on grifty speculation, you simpletons.
Shirley Eugest
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •Many companies have already done this and many of them are now regretting it and scrambling to "fix" the slop that's been pushed to production.
within the past couple months or so I've been getting mails and messages from contacts on behalf of other clients about coming in to refactor or just straight up fix code, apps, etc that were pushed to production by AI Slop and "vibe coders". The tech debt is insane. It's gotten so bad I've been having to refer them to other devs who are looking for work.
I remember doing this a few years ago when companies were just offshoring to India but it was no where near as bad as it is now.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •IT has many a tale of Project Leads who grease the wheel of progress yet get fired after every "on time, on budget" success.
On paper, they aren't seen as "productive" (fewer code commits) but they keep teams on task without creating anger, smooth over interpersonal friction, and inject realistic time management.
No death marches. No kids in rehab. No divorces. No mental or health crises. Undramatic function.
Such people are seen as disposable even while creating big revenue.
OmegaProject
in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •Nazo
in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •It feels like when this crash finally happens (ugh, could it hurry up and do so already?) it's going to come down HARD.
Hopefully the surviving companies will offer some very generous raises to the people they stupidly fired before because those people will deserve it to clean up the mess.
SpaceLifeForm
in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •The next hype will be GlueAI. It will figure out what all of your AI systems are doing, generate code to interface between the systems, and solve all problems.
Then GlueAI 2.0 will be released to fix the bugs.
It will be turtles all of the way down.
#AI #Insanty
Mike McCaffrey
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •I would like to boost your post, but I only boost inclusive posts.
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