The UK government has revoked the student visa of a Palestinian student who lost relatives in Gaza after she spoke at a demonstration at the University of Manchester....
That's a fairly standard response from the home office when they don't want to do something.
It's amazing they can tell it's against the public interest, because a cursory glance at the polling numbers would seem to suggest the opposite. They must be very smart.
After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company's return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....
When I worked in the office I worked in a cubicle all on my own behind a support column and a potted plant that I put there specifically for the purpose of being unviewable by the idiot manager who wandered around and got in everyone's way.
Also now people don't randomly come and ask me questions about why the printer isn't working, or start sentences with "can you just", and "it will only take a moment".
I don't know if I'm more productive at home than when I was in the office, but I'm definitely not less productive. I would probably be more productive but there really isn't that much to do. My job is to basically sit around and be there, I'm ready to jump into action when everything breaks.
Many people chose a 'remote' role that requires no office visits but hamstrings your career growth.
Not really. Everyone knows that in the business world the only way to reliably get a promotion is to switch companies anyway. So I can be on permanent work from home and then when I want a better job I can just switch to another company, that may or may not require me to go into the office sometimes. I can have my cake, and eat it.
It is not the 1930s anymore, I don't have to work for the same company my entire life. Everyone but the business people seem to know this.
I never went back to the office after the pandemic.
I actually got really sick and had to spend a small amount of time in hospital, afterwards I might have slightly played up the emotional trauma to management so they couldn't try that BS. Eventually they did anyway I along with a lot of my colleagues quit and got another job straight away.
Apparently they have now flip-flopped again and are back to permanent work from home for everyone who wants it. I wonder if losing a third of their work force in a month had something to do with that.
Russia has claimed it's going to attack a NATO country since before the Ukrainian war started. They like to say it every now and then, just to remind us that they exist and North Eastern Europe is not just an unpopulated wasteland.
Russia would be hardest hit though because most of their population is confined to two or three cities. In most of the rest of the world the population is more distributed.
It would be devastating to all sides of course, assuming Russia's oligarchs haven't stolen the nukes, but Russia would come off worse. Anyway Putin wants to be in charge he isn't going to risk getting the entire country destroyed, if only because it's not fun ruling over a crater riddled radioactive moonscape.
I've had to point this out to people a few it's amazing how Americans think that the US is the only country in the world with any real military might.
Even without the United States NATO still has two nuclear powers. A military that would rival that of the US on its own. Access to space assets such as spy satellites, gps systems, and communication systems. Extensive bioweapons research labs, if they wanted to go that route (although realistically they would be better utilized to research bio defenses). And more money than the adversary. They also have a population that on the whole seem to be more on board with the politicians then not (relatively speaking).
I'm sure if there was a war, the French would go on strike about it, but they always do that.
All the United States brings to the table is just more people and more stuff. I'm not saying that wouldn't be useful to have access to it, but losing it wouldn't be as devastating as some Americans seem to think.
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
They did that because they needed a reason for their forces to be near the border (Of course it wouldn't fool a concussed chipmunk, but that's not relevant). This is why historically Russian military exercises often get up NATO's nose, because Russia does this a lot, it claims " training exercises" as an excuse for its forces to be in NATO waters.
But simulating a nuclear strike doesn't require forces to be in NATO territory or anywhere near the UK.
It's not the exercises itself that's the problem, it's the fact that Russia often uses them as justification for moving forces around.
If Russia simulates a nuclear strike against London for example, how will anyone in London even notice. They're just going to say they did it. It won't actually involve doing anything.
"We've almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!" The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
Same with Jurassic park 3 and the T-Rex that somehow managed to kill everyone while at the same time being still confined in the cargo bay.
The original script made perfect sense and then for some baffling reason they deleted important scenes for the theatrical release. In the original script the raptors were also in there, they got out through the small hole the T-Rex made, and then they killed everyone and jumped into the sea and swim to shore. Then for some totally bonkers reason they edited it and decided that the raptors had already been transported earlier and had nothing to do with this bit.
Which would have been fine but then they should have reshot the entire boat sequence. The problem is then they would have needed the T-Rex to have escaped. Not really sure why they didn't do that as it didn't really change the plot all that much and at least then it would have made sense.
I think the problem was that they decided late on in production that they didn't actually want to deal with the CGI of having the raptor swim in water since water is hard to do. But again they should have reshot it.
So what you're saying is variant Star wars characters is going to be a thing?
Disney owned the property now so it's totally possible for the TVA to show up at some point. They may as well, It might actually make Star wars good again.
I love the explanation. "Human body heat combined with a firm of fusion generates electricity."
So they have Fusion, and yet they're relying on body heat. Yeah, makes a lot of sense everyone knows the human body is several hundred thousand degrees.
The best way to have it would be that there was a directive that they couldn't kill humans. Of course you need to deal with the issue of the agents taking bodies over and then getting them killed. But the matrix never made much sense in that regard anyway since neo and co killed so many innocent people it's ridiculous.
Because Luke is his son and he still cares about him. He just tries to hide it from the emperor and in the end has to kill him to save Luke.
The problem is the audience only ever finds this out in the final movie so it doesn't make a lot of sense in the first two films. I'm not sure if there was a good way to address this though because the only option would have been to have a scene where Vader basically explains all this to Luke. It seems a bit late in the story for it really to be relevant.
Actually that raises another point. It is really unclear in the first film what exactly Vader's position of authority is. Because he seems kind of subordinate to Tarkin at points. He even tells Vader to leave that officer alone when he's strangling him, and he obeys the order.
There's an episode in House where they do that. But it turns out that it's all just Houses imagination anyway, and so that makes sense because really everything is about him. So it makes sense that nobody cures the patient if he isn't there.
Yeah the author addressed that. He said he needed a way for the main character to be isolated and presumed dead for the story to work and really couldn't come up with anything so he had to kind of abandon reality for a bit.
There was actually a community back on Reddit dedicated to fixing that bit of the story.
The question card is where he writes. He calls it that because that's where he writes questions.
They also don't encode spaces when they talk to him I always assume that was to save time. They only have about 8 hours a day and they can only send one message every 30 minutes or so. If they take too long to send a message they'll cut into the next message and they need to give him time to go back inside.
It's like watching sovereign citizens write Void Without Prejudice on parking tickets and think it has any kind of validity. The law does not work on magic words it works on contracts.
The other thing of course is that he just wrote it in all caps because they are simple straight lines. In the book it's explained that the only way he can keep track of what they're writing is to draw it in the dirt with a metal rod. Because all the ink in the pens boils off if he takes them out into Mars's atmosphere and the laptops also break because the liquid in the LCD boils off.
That is also why they need to give him time to go back inside to write the next question. He can't use the pens outside.
But the game isn't even available on PlayStation so why am I creating an account? At the very least it's pointless busy work. And apparently not even well thought out.
Did that actually break computers? I remember hearing about it at the time but I also don't remember having a problem. I didn't think I took any real precautions either, I just carried on as per and nothing ever happened.
Both. He just makes stuff up based on whatever random thing he's thinking about at the time, and our pathetic excuse for PM doesn't override him. Thus, official policy is made.
The processing was done server-side as it is with the other thing. If you find a way to do it client-side let me know otherwise I'm not interested in your dumb product.
A modern smartphone has a screen that's going to break. Those old phones had a block of plastic that was an LCD screen and then some buttons made out of some form of rubbery sponge.
They broke all the time, the point was that you could just put them back together again in 30 seconds. Everything is glued in place now, so when shock happens they rip and snap.
it's easy points for someone wanting to signal that they're doing something against the fictional illegal immigrants who are supposedly voting en masse whenever the right wing politicians don't get their way..
Nuclear power is complicated because it still involves mining. Which will inevitably damage the environment even if all the mining equipment are electric vehicles run on solar power.
It statistically significant because middle-aged people who were about to give evidence at a trial dying is not a common occurrence. Happening once is suspicious happening twice is extremely suspicious.
It is not like Boeing is staffed by geriatrics on the edge of life as it is
See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a....
I've met them they seriously don't think like that. They have so much money that they can afford to be completely irresponsible with it. From that standpoint it is easier to just throw money at the wall and see what sticks and go through the effort of actually working it out.
Microsoft have sucked at naming things basically forever. Look at their windows versions. First they were numbered after the year release which made sense, they kind of break the trend with millennium edition but it's still sort of worked because it came out in 2000. Was also a 2000 which confused things and then after that it just continued to go downhill.
95, 98, 2000 (presumably because they didn't want to call it 00), XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (because nine is evil for some reason), 11
There's a rumor the next version is going to be called X, I assume because they haven't really advanced as a company since the '90s and they still think that's cool.
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...
I suspect it's more affecting for younger people who don't really think about the fact that in reality, no one has seen them naked. Probably traumatizing for them and logic doesn't really apply in this situation.
UK Home Office revokes visa of Palestinian student after protest speech ( www.middleeasteye.net )
The UK government has revoked the student visa of a Palestinian student who lost relatives in Gaza after she spoke at a demonstration at the University of Manchester....
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees ( arstechnica.com )
After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company's return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....
Putin is ready to launch invasion of Nato nations to test West, warns Polish spy boss ( www.lbc.co.uk )
Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens ( www.pbs.org )
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? ( www.youtube.com )
What plot holes could be adequately explained away with a single shot or line of dialogue?
"We've almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!" The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.
NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.
Sony cancelled the PSN account linking requirement for Helldivers 2 ( lemmy.world )
"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" ( lemmy.world )
Conservatives crushed by ‘worst local election result’ in years ( www.theguardian.com )
Spread of Tory losses leads former minister to say there’s ‘no such thing as a safe seat any more’...
Drew Barrymore Reveals She Accidentally Left Her "Sex List" at Danny DeVito's House ( www.marieclaire.com )
Ukraine can strike inside Russia with British weapons, UK’s Cameron says ( www.politico.eu )
UK’s top diplomat also pledges £3 billion of annual military help to Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes.’...
Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app ( arstechnica.com )
Rabbit R1 AI box is actually an Android app in a limited $200 box, running on AOSP without Google Play....
The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake ( www.techradar.com )
Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14955332
Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors ( english.elpais.com )
With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant
...and I don't know which possibility is the least worrying
Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App ( www.androidauthority.com )
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Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking ( kotaku.com )
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It ( www.theatlantic.com )
Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps ( www.404media.co )
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...