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Post by dutyfree on Jul 19, 2024 23:33:44 GMT 12
Cyber protection takes down internet
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Post by harrytom on Jul 20, 2024 2:59:20 GMT 12
remember what was suppose to happen in 2000? y2k. seems a bit late  |
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 20, 2024 13:25:14 GMT 12
tell us about it! We were booked on AirNZ ticket to San Francisco today on United code share flight. Flight was cancelled due to this MS Cloud crash, after alot of shagging around AirNZ finally found another flight for us later in the afternoon on AirNZ plane.Crazy thing was even though AirNz and United websites said the flight was cancelled our travel agent's booking system was still showing it as current. A mate in IT says BNZ, KiwiBank and some NZ hospitals are amongst the thousands of business affected world wide. Any smart IT manager will be rethinking their company's reliance on cloud based platforms. Hopefully will be sitting in the sun in Costa Rica in ~36hrs  |
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Post by muzled on Jul 20, 2024 13:52:15 GMT 12
All the while, the fix was obvious.
Update Microsoft said in a support note that it has received reports from customers running Azure virtual machines that rebooting them, up to 15 times, can fix the Crowdstrike faulty update.
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 22, 2024 16:38:08 GMT 12
This outage is yet another reminder of the importance of cash www.voicesforfreedom.co.nz/cash-is-cool/excerpt Imagine…
A system where your ‘money’ only exists online
What happens when:
-there’s a power outage?
-a systems crash removes your ability to make transactions?
-hackers access user accounts and personal details?
-your weekly purchases exceed your personal carbon score allowance?
-the views you express online run contrary to that of the current government?
-you donate funds to a cause or organisation deemed ‘dangerous’ (such as the Canadian truckers)?
Could access to your finances be limited or removed by the Government?
Sleepwalking into accepting measures to become a cashless society alongside the digital ID and wallet technology enabling such a system would be a grave mistake.
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Post by em on Jul 22, 2024 17:01:20 GMT 12
Barn door is open Attachments:
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Post by em on Jul 25, 2024 8:07:39 GMT 12
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 25, 2024 8:18:41 GMT 12
Advice here from RCR on how to respond to the survey The survey is a typical one designed to lead the responder to answer in favour of the proposal, starting with the lie of "digital cash". Important as many people as possible respond
Note it closes 26 July
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Post by muzled on Jul 25, 2024 8:49:46 GMT 12
Advice here from RCR on how to respond to the survey The survey is a typical one designed to lead the responder to answer in favour of the proposal, starting with the lie of "digital cash". Important as many people as possible respond
Note it closes 26 July
Excellent work by RCR, thanks for posting! |
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 25, 2024 9:19:43 GMT 12
NZDSOS summarising the Digital Threats to us, recommend in particular listening to Catherine Austin-Fitts and over in the UK, what is one of the new Labour government's first moves, to introduce legislation for Digital ID's, using the same wording "Digital Trust Framework" that is in the legislation Labour pushed through in NZ, with full support of the opposition parties, last year
as several commenters note " Digital ID, Centralised digital currencies, Facial recognition & AI combined will create the ultimate form of authoritarian control mechanism!"
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Post by GO30 on Jul 25, 2024 12:22:40 GMT 12
Hmmm, doing that survey tells me the decision has already been made and they are now only trying to find the best way to spin it.
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Post by muzled on Jul 25, 2024 12:51:54 GMT 12
Hmmm, doing that survey tells me the decision has already been made and they are now only trying to find the best way to spin it. I agree, and I think you're probably right. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't do their shitty survey... |
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 26, 2024 4:53:43 GMT 12
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Post by em on Jul 26, 2024 8:39:31 GMT 12
Interesting deep dive into the New deal and how digital and crypto currency came about and where it might be going . It is left leaning but seems mostly factual which is a refreshing change from shouty , doctored news bites . washingtonspectator.org/paranoia-on-parade/ |
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 27, 2024 3:01:11 GMT 12
so many advances have unexpected side effects, we hear so much about AI these days - mostly the upside rather than the dark side (use for control of populations), but in this electricity deficient world we also have this goodoil.news/the-picks-and-shovels-ai-investment-is-absurdly-cheap-2/excerpt But in addition to the hardware required to run AI, there is also an ongoing energy need. And it’s not trivial.
In fact, for every dollar companies spend on a GPU (which can easily run $40,000+ each), they will have to spend another dollar for the energy to run it.
AI applications like ChatGPT can generally be broken down into two stages: training and querying. The training phase is where they feed vast amounts of data into the algorithm so that it can ‘learn’.
And this training phase is absurdly power-hungry; training a single algorithm can be the equivalent electricity of tens of thousands of homes. It’s like a small city.
Then there’s the ongoing querying phase, i.e., the power consumed when users say “Generate an image of a cat playing the harmonica.” Millions upon millions of queries in real time require substantial energy, about 10x as much as Google uses for its entire search function.
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They won't be sourcing all of this additional power from weather dependent unreliables
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