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byfelixrising
y 07, 2026 @07:12PM
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Attached to: Bose Open-Sources Its SoundTouch Home Theater Smart Speakers Ahead of End-of-Life
I agree. This is at least in the right direction and should become an industry standard when companies want to retire the cloud component of their products. Ideally mandated by various large consumer protections from various large jurisdictions.
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byfelixrising
2, 2026 @04:43PM
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Attached to: A Decade of BBC Question Time Data Reveals Imbalance in Journalist Guests
Hell yes. And as soon as possible.
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byfelixrising
r 11, 2025 @04:07PM
(#65851971)
Attached to: Disney Puts $1 Billion Into OpenAI, Licenses 200+ Characters for AI-Generated Videos and Images
No, haven't heard of it, but I have no doubt there will be multiple movements. When the singularity does happen, it's going to be a pretty wild time to be alive - what's the Chinese curse? "May you live in interesting times"
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byfelixrising
r 11, 2025 @01:27PM
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Attached to: Disney Puts $1 Billion Into OpenAI, Licenses 200+ Characters for AI-Generated Videos and Images
It is interesting to draw a line from the Luddites of the industrial revolution to the present shift with AI. Then it was machines that replaced manual labour. Now we have systems that can imitate human reasoning and threaten to absorb much of the work done by white collar roles. Generalised robotics is also close to taking over many blue collar tasks. The real question is whether society will adapt fast enough. Human capital is still valuable, but the form it takes is changing. The pace of that change is uncertain. Will we become a new kind of Luddite movement in response, or will we find a way to reshape our roles around these new tools?
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byfelixrising
er 10, 2025 @02:46AM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Locally-Hosted Wireless Security Cameras?
Maybe you don't realise just how busy 2.4ghz is these days. PoE Ethernet app the at, dedicated channels and power. Unless you rent.
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byfelixrising
28, 2025 @04:47PM
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Attached to: Australia's Streaming Quotas Become Law
Honestly the level of local tax dodging strategies in use are off the charts and only worsening Australia's net trade deficit.
Apple: earned billions in Australia in 2023/24 and paid zero income tax here, per the latest ATO transparency data and analysis of the report.
Microsoft: same story as Apple in 2023/24, billions in Australian income and zero income tax.
Netflix: about A$1.2b in Australian revenue in 2023/24 and paid zero company tax.
The âoebig fiveâ US tech firms (Microsoft, Google, Facebook/Meta, Apple, Amazon) together paid only about A$650m of tax on their Australian operations in 2022/23, despite multi-billion local revenues.
Having local media quotas is the bare minimum. Updating the tax rules to exclude strategies like exorbitant charging for IP for trademark and marketing materials from company owned subsidiaries in low tax jurisdictions. It certainly doesn't go far enough.
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byfelixrising
28, 2025 @03:51AM
(#65822497)
Attached to: Australia Spent $62 Million To Update Its Weather Web Site and Made It Worse
Nice write up, sums up a lot of the issues with a major rewrite of a decades old system.
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byfelixrising
28, 2025 @03:49AM
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Attached to: Australia Spent $62 Million To Update Its Weather Web Site and Made It Worse
You have to remember this wasn't just a website, it was several decades of technical debt sitting on end of life onprem databases, middleware and legacy code that needed rewriting. This is also a migration to cloud enabled modern stack with a heap of backend and front end Integrations.
Did Accenture charge a bomb for the BOM website?! Yes they did. Australia has a problem where government departments outsource all the decisions to consultancies and doesn't do much in-house any more in the name of "small government". In the process the tax payer pays through the nose.
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byfelixrising
r 22, 2025 @08:40AM
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Attached to: Ukraine Is Jamming Russia's 'Superweapon' With a Song
Came here to say the same. Common misconception, many people don't know this important detail.
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byfelixrising
r 20, 2025 @06:18PM
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Attached to: Future Google TV Devices Might Come With a Solar-powered Remote
My Samsung remote has had the solar panel in the back for some green washing too. So glad I can save 100mah of power every 3 months!
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byfelixrising
r 15, 2025 @07:03AM
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Attached to: Apple's $230 iPhone Pocket Sells Out Nearly Immediately
Sheesh, if you need proof, it's the people willing to pay this much for a bag.
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byfelixrising
r 13, 2025 @11:57PM
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Attached to: Apple Tries Selling $230 iPhone Pocket 'Sock'
Proof we are now living in the era of the Idiocracy
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byfelixrising
r 15, 2025 @02:50PM
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Attached to: Government Told To Prepare For 2C Warming By 2050
The world can't manage to handle the tragedy of the commons situation. It's not me, it's them!
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byfelixrising
0, 2025 @09:34PM
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Attached to: Apple Nears Deal To Acquire Talent and Technology From Prompt AI
It's official, the bubble is bursting.
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byfelixrising
0, 2025 @04:57PM
(#65717450)
Attached to: Australia's Queensland Reverses Policy, Pledges To Keep Using Coal Power At Least Into the 2040s
Idiots everywhere...
They've also been cancelling renewable energy projects there were well down the planning pipeline because of spurious "community opposition".
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