>deciding how to inform users they could be about to deliver a lethal dose of radiation to their patient

>"MALFUNCTION 54"

>refuses to elaborate

>leaves company

Rly tho this is horrifying and a good reminder of why QA and code reviews are important. Imagine trusting your life to a program written solo by some random neurodivergent "code hobbyist."

What could possibly go wrong ? This will TOTALLY save the company from it's demise

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Since bankrupt crypto lender Celsius froze withdrawals in June, customers' funds have been in limbo.

However, CNBC spoke with former employees who verified that the recording is authentic.

In the audio, Chief Technology Officer Guillermo Bodnar says the plan is in "early stages."

What's laid out may have changed in the weeks since the call.

In the recording, Celsius co-founder Nuke Goldstein outlines a compensation plan for customers who deposited assets in Celsius' "Earn" account, for which Celsius had promised yields as high as 17%.

He said if customers wait to redeem their tokens, there's a better chance that the gap between what Celsius has and what it owes will be smaller.

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In brief Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko tells Decrypt that he believes a major, long-lasting franchise IP could come out of the current NFT space.

Could the next major entertainment franchise come out of the NFT market?

That’s what Solana co-founder and Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko believes, telling Decrypt at this week’s Mainnet conference that NFT projects could lead to significant IP in the decades to come.

He described NFTs as the “dominant, breakout use case” right now for Web3 technology, and said that tokenized assets can be used as the backbone for all sorts of creations.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club, for example, allows each NFT holder to create and sell derivative artwork and projects based on their owned images.

Like, OK—some of these are going to be Friendster, MySpace, or Facebook, but it's really, really hard to predict.”

psyop?

More sneed: https://old.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/xm49gy/google_ceo_pichai_tells_employees_not_to_equate/

As Google tries to navigate an unfamiliar environment of slowing growth, cost-cutting and employee dissent over cultural changes, CEO Sundar Pichai is finding himself on the defensive.

At a companywide all-hands meeting this week, Pichai was faced with tough questions from employees related to cuts to travel and entertainment budgets, managing productivity, and potential layoffs, according to audio obtained by CNBC.

Pichai was asked, in a question that was highly rated by staffers on Google's internal Dory system, why the company is "nickel-and-diming employees" by slashing travel and swag budgets at a time when "Google has record profits and huge cash reserves," as it did coming out of the Covid pandemic.

"How do I say it?" Pichai began his measured response. "Look, I hope all of you are reading the news, externally. The fact that you know, we are being a bit more responsible through one of the toughest macroeconomic conditions underway in the past decade, I think it's important that as a company, we pull together to get through moments like this."

The most recent all-hands meeting comes as Google parent Alphabet, Meta and other tech companies are staring into a slew of economic challenges, including a potential recession, soaring inflation, rising interest rates and tempered ad spending. Companies that, for the past decade-plus, have been known for high growth and an abundance of fun perks, are seeing what it's like on the other side.

In July, Alphabet reported its second consecutive quarter of weaker-than-expected earnings and revenue, and third-quarter sales growth is expected to dip into the single digits, down from more than 40% a year earlier. Pichai admitted that it's not just the economy that's caused challenges at Google but also an expanding bureaucracy at Google.

Still, he at times sounded annoyed in the meeting, and reminded staffers that, "We don't get to choose the macroeconomic conditions always."

After the company's head count ballooned during the pandemic, CFO Ruth Porat said earlier this year that she expects some economic issues to persist in the near term. Google has canceled the next generation of its Pixelbook laptop and cut funding to its Area 120 in-house incubator.

Google launched an effort in July called "Simplicity Sprint," which aimed to solicit ideas from its more than 174,000 employees on how to "get to better results faster" and "eliminate waste." Earlier this month, Pichai said he hoped to make the company 20% more productive while slowing hiring and investments.

How to be more productive

One of the top-rated questions posed by employees at this week's meeting asked Pichai to elaborate on his commentary regarding improved productivity and the 20% goal.

"I think you could be a 20-person team or a 100-person team, we are going to be constrained in our growth in a looking-ahead basis," Pichai said. "Maybe you were planning on hiring six more people but maybe you are going to have to do with four and how are you going to make that happen? The answers are going to be different with different teams."

Pichai said leadership is combing through more than 7,000 responses it's received from employees regarding suggestions from the Simplicity Sprint effort.

"Sometimes we have a product launch process, which has probably, over many years, grown more complicated than maybe it needs to be," Pichai said. "Can we look at that process and maybe remove two steps and that'll be an example of making something 20% more efficient? I think all of us chipping in and doing that across all levels, I think can help the company. At our scale, there is no way we can solve that unless units of teams of all sizes do better."

Pichai also briefly acknowledged the recent employee survey, in which employees criticized the company's growing bureaucracy.

Another employee question concerned how the company will share its plans for potential job cuts, after news leaked about the Pixelbook pullback and the cuts at Area 120, which affected workers' "ability to focus on work."

Pichai responded by saying that telling the entire workforce of cuts is "not a scaleable way to do it," but he said he will "try and notify the company of the more important updates."

The all-hands, known as TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) was in New York, where Pichai took questions in front of a live audience of employees.

"It's an interesting choice for Sundar to be in New York for TGIF the week after travel for employees is cut to only the most business critical," an employee wrote on Dory. "I'm sure Sundar has business-critical meetings in New York."

Pichai responded: "I think so. I think it qualified." Some in the audience erupted in laughter.

Pichai dodged employee questions asking about cost-cutting executive compensation. Pichai brought in total pay last year of $6.3 million, while other top executives made more than $28 million.

'We shouldn't always equate fun with money'

He did address the bigger theme of cost cuts, and indicated Google's culture can still be enjoyable even if some things, like certain swag items, are getting taken away.

"I remember when Google was small and scrappy," he said. "Fun didn't always --- we shouldn't always equate fun with money. I think you can walk into a hard-working startup and people may be having fun and it shouldn't always equate to money."

Employees wanted to know why management is asking employees to adhere to the return-to-office policy "while also saying no need to travel/connect in-person."

"I do understand some of the travel restrictions at a time like this and RTO and people wanting to see each other, definitely is not ideal," Pichai responded. "If you haven't seen your team in a while and it'll help your work by getting together in person, I think you can do that. I think that's why we are not saying no to travel, we are giving discretion to teams."

Kristin Reinke, head of Google finance, said at the meeting that sales teams will have more leeway to travel since their jobs require meeting with customers.

"We know there's a lot of value in being next to your team but we're just asking simply to be thoughtful and limit your travel and expenses where you can," Reinke said. For example, she asked that employees temper their expectations for holiday parties.

"Where you have summits and big meetings, please try to do them in the office," she said. "We definitely want people to still have fun. We know there's holiday parties coming up, there's year-end celebrations, we still want people to do that. But we're just asking them to keep them small, keep them informal --- try not to go over the top."

Towards the end of the meeting, Pichai addressed a question about why the company has shifted from "rapidly hiring and spending to equally aggressive cost saving."

Pichai disagreed with the characterization.

"I'm a bit concerned that you think what we've done is what you would define as aggressive cost saving," he said. "I think it's important we don't get disconnected. You need to take a long-term view through conditions like this."

He added that the company is "still investing in long-term projects like quantum computing," and said that at times of uncertainty, it's important "to be smart, to be frugal, to be scrappy, to be more efficient."

Bret Hill, Google's vice president of "total rewards," fielded a question about raises, equity and bonuses and how they will be affected by the changes. He said the company doesn't plan to deviate from paying workers "at the top end of the market so we can be competitive."

Pichai reiterated that sentiment.

"We're committed to taking care of our employees," he said. "I think we're just working through a tough moment macroeconomically and I think it's important we as a company align and work together."

A Google spokesperson said, "Sundar has been speaking to the company consistently over the last few months about ways we can be more focused." The spokesperson added Pichai reinforced that company "leaders are working to be responsible and efficient in all that their teams do" in a moment of uncertainty, and that they're "ensuring that our people are working on the highest impact / highest priority work."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/google-ceo-pichai-fields-questions-on-cost-cuts-at-all-hands-meeting-.html

We took action today to advance Internet freedom and the free flow of information for the Iranian people, issuing a General License to provide them greater access to digital communications to counter the Iranian government’s censorship.

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) September 23, 2022

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I really wanted the name of this article does not sound dramatically but I was not able to invent any other title … none the less the wireless/WiFi topic can be problematic on the FreeBSD land.

Smartphone USB Tethering One of the alternative possibilities is to use your smartphone with USB cable to provide the Internet connection.

The first and obvious way is to just use that smartphone with USB cable attached to your FreeBSD to provide Internet connection no matter if that smartphone provides that connection using LTE/4G connection or WiFi connection to some WiFi hotspot.

% ping -c 1 e.pl PING e.pl (195.46.43.240): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 195.46.43.240: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=65.638 ms --- e.pl ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 65.638/65.638/65.638/0.000 ms You can now see that you got the needed IP address on your ue0 interface.

You will just have to add wifibox package with pkg(8) – the FreeBSD package manager.

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In the wake of the recent Iranian government crackdown on dissent after Mahsa Amini’s death, the international hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a new operation against the country’s online infrastructure.

It is worth noting that on September 16th, 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini died in Tehran, Iran, under Police custody.

Amini was arrested for failure to follow government-mandated forms of the Hijab.

A Google search for the Center’s website shows it was hacked by Anonymous (1) – The deface page left by Anonymous plays a video containing content that shows a message of support to Iranians (2) – Screenshots 3 and 4 show what is inside the database Forensic center’s database. (

JUST IN: In response to a violent police crackdown of protestors and censoring communications, #Anonymous launched #OpIran and have now hacked over 100 Iranian websites, including several belonging to the Iranian government. #

However, it is clear that the group is determined to continue its fight against what it sees as an oppressive regime.

If this happens, Elon Musk stays winning!

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen should give Elon Musk’s satellite Internet service Starlink clearance to operate in heavily sanctioned Iran as the country faces widespread protests, a bipartisan group of lawmakers said.

Musk “recently stated that SpaceX would seek a license to provide its satellite based Starlink Internet service to Iran,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Yellen. “

Musk called for the exemption in a tweet on Monday.

“Iranians are taking to the street demanding justice for Mahsa,” Malinowski said. “

We need to do our part to ensure that Iranians remain connected to the outside world.”

A Treasury spokesperson said the department already allows some services related to Internet communications, including those that use satellite terminals as Starlink does, and that it welcomes applications for specific licenses related to Internet freedom in Iran.

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Specifically, the IRS summons seeks information about customers of SFOX, a cryptocurrency prime broker, who used banking services that M.Y. Safra Bank offered to SFOX customers engaged in cryptocurrency transactions.

As described further in the IRS’s petition in support of the summons, though taxpayers who transact in cryptocurrencies are required to report any associated profits and losses on their tax returns, the IRS’s experience has demonstrated significant tax compliance deficiencies relating to cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.

SFOX has partnered with M.Y. Safra to offer SFOX users access to cash-deposit bank accounts.

In this action, the district court granted the IRS permission to serve what is known as a John Doe summons on M.Y. Safra.

• • • This case is being handled by the Office’s Tax and Bankruptcy Unit.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jean-David Barnea is in charge of the case.

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(0) don't whine to me, punk. i care plenty about art and artists, but not the illusion of ownership as regards masterpieces. no one has any qualms about reading the metamorphosis despite kafka's insistence to the contrary, frankly, your sanctimonious shriveled comment inspires only my contempt.

(2) Because we are on legal mist about legality and regulation.

We really aren't. It's just moronic luddites who don't understand technology acting as if we were, but that has as much relevance as the opinion of people who think that vaccines cause autism

(0) Btw, look at will Smith now. People are tired of the victim mentality. If something can paint your shit as good as you. Maybe your shit ain't that special.

(-1) This is a shit take lol.

(19) Greg Rutkowski was kind enough to share his brushes and techniques on Gumroad back in the day, so even if his name was removed from the prompt, artists have the means to emulate his style

(-1) This is not a good comparison. I mean Ronaldo can show you how to take a penalty and give you his shoes, you're not gonna become him. Also it would take years to learn the style even if you know the technique, compared to AI where millions can generate the same thing. If anyone thinks I'm wrong buy his gumroad and make a video with your newly acquired skill lol.

(23) People here hate artists way too much lol...

(2) I don't hate artists, I hate stupidity.

(0) I think it's envy.

(-3) It’s self entitlement. They got a toy and they don’t want it taken away, or, god forbid, made fair towards the people whose work is explored.

(39) Gonna go out on a limb here and say more people know of Greg Rutkowski's name than ever before. Also, actual prints of his art are going to be selling more, not less.

(71) Ah.. Exposure. Truly the favorite currency of any artist. /s

(35) Yeah, that's a pretty optimistic take. In reality, working illustrators and other folks making their living in the visual arts are pretty much screwed.

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Even a year ago, my For You page was mostly stuff you could only see on TikTok, whether it was Vine refugees making comedy shorts or song memes like Here Comes The Boy.

Everything has the same warmed-over feel.

Of course, since it’s mostly content that has already blown up elsewhere, there’s usually something compelling about it.

Now that on-platform culture is being overwhelmed by viral arbitrage, and the actual content is getting closer to what you see on every other network.

Instead of a space for creation, it’s become a space for distribution That culture had ups and downs over the years, but by now, it’s hard to find anything that looks like a unique Instagram aesthetic.

There are also social networks that went too far in the other direction: culturally vibrant platforms like Vine or Tumblr that face existential financial problems because they simply can’t make the network effects pay off.

You will never be a real Lain. You have no niche, you have no wires. You are a modern gooner man twisted by energy drinks and cyberpunk culture into a crude mockery of technology's perfection.

All the "elitism" you feel is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people hate you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your ""lainbros"" laugh at your nerdy appearance behind closed doors.

Electrical engineers are utterly repulsed by you. Hundreds of years of electrical studies and all you see is a cartoon girl. All the STEM programs refused to accept you because you're an alcoholic mitwit. Direct power formulas and sine waves fly over your head, just like the rest of the basic algebra you refused to care about in school. And even if you get a depressed underage girl home with you, she'll laugh at your existance to find out you just sit on the internet all day. Your shitty Neocities webpage made with day 3 web development skills because "the web is bad anyway" just so you can think you're cool for using Monospaced fonts.

You'll will never be happy. You fake your depression into a spiraling mist to fit in with your other "laincels" and tell yourself that you'll never seem to understand, but deep inside you know you couldn't write a turing machine in Regex. Your brain is wired to short-term dopamine rushes with weed. You'll sit in a corner and cry while listening to Goreshit and Tokyopill on (((Spotify))) forgetting about what a Flac file even is.

Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll become a normie, get a job, find a girlfriend and wageslave into the cold abyss. You don't even know Common Lisp, you sit and siphon the Python courses from High school and Google random things on the internet in an attempt to make basic Python software. You have no clue how to get started without thinking of your dumb niche anime girl to motivate you. You hang around in IRC even though you dread for those sweet Emoji reactions and images in Groomercord and pretend you have nostalgia for IRC like a bumbling zoomer. You shit on operating systems and standards without understanding an inch of the pain developers go through to develop such things and standardize them, you probably don't even know what a DBus is yet you pretend you hate it, just to fit in. You think Lisp is the most powerful programming language and you won't even write a practical piece of software in it. You'll waste all your money on VPS's self-hosting Pleroma written by other laincels.

This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

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Most of the companies participating in a four-day workweek pilot program in Britain said they had seen no loss of productivity during the experiment, and in some cases had seen a significant improvement, according to a survey of participants published on Wednesday.

Critics, however, worried about added costs and reduced competitiveness, especially when many European companies are already lagging rivals in other regions.

Jo Burns-Russell, the managing director at Amplitude Media, a marketing agency in Northampton, England, said the four-day workweek had been such a success that the 12-person company hoped to be able to make it permanent.

The result has been that the company is delivering the same volume of work and is still growing, even though half of the employees are off on Wednesdays and half on Fridays.

“It’s definitely been good for me in terms of making me not ping from thing to thing to thing all the time,” Ms. Burns-Russell said.

She has taken up painting as a hobby and feels calmer overall.

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Brave’s native crypto wallet now features integrations from Babylons.io, Biswap, Cyberbox, Everlend, Famous Fox Federation, Friktion, Francium, InstaDapp, KyberSwap, LooksRare, RadioShack, Polynomial, Solanart, Step, Unstoppable Domains and WallStreetBets.com.

said Dmitriy Boshenyatov, CEO of CyberBox.

InstaDapp Instadapp is the premier interface for multi-chain DeFi enthusiasts.

“NFTs are transforming the digital realm and that’s why we’ve taken another step to ensure NFT collectors can purchase their NFTs and display their collections in the best way possible thanks to Brave,” said Quentin C., CEO for Solanart. “

Utilizing real-time on-chain data for any Solana wallet, Step keeps its users informed about where their money is, and offers insight into what’s happening in DeFi, NFTs, and other on-chain activity.

WallStreetBets Wallstreetbets.com is a DEX on Ethereum and Polygon that lets users trade, earn $WSB (the DEX’s governance token) for providing liquidity, and also participate in the platform’s NFT project: Wally’s NFT.

Some genes in the engineered mice were abnormally tuned down, resembling a pattern usually seen in schizophrenia and autism. And although the mice grew to adulthood and could breed healthy pups, the birth rate was far lower than that of their non-engineered peers. - relevant bit from the article.

In a way, the technique mimics evolution at break-neck speed. Based on existing data on mutation rates, the type of genetic swap introduced here would generally take millions of years to achieve naturally.

Made in a lab in Beijing, Xiao Zhu pushes the boundary of what’s possible for genetic engineering and synthetic biology. Rather than harboring the usual 20 pairs of chromosomes, the mouse and its sibling cohorts only have 19 pairs.

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Google suffered a significant loss Wednesday when a European court denied its appeal of an antitrust decision and issued a fine of 4.1 billion euro ($4.13 billion), a record penalty.

Driving the news: Google had challenged an earlier EU ruling that said it used its Android mobile operating system to stymie rivals, but Europe's second-highest court upheld it.

Why it matters: The hefty fine and ruling is a win for top EU antitrust official Margrethe Vestager, who has aggressively prosecuted Big Tech companies, and could set a precedent for future European antitrust rulings covering tech giants.

What they're saying: "The General Court largely confirms the Commission's decision that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network operators in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine," the court said.

• The court did find in Google's favor on one point regarding revenue-sharing with mobile device makers and carriers and slightly reduced the penalty.

The other side: "We are disappointed that the Court did not annul the decision in full. Android has created more choice for everyone, not less, and supports thousands of successful businesses in Europe and around the world," a Google spokesperson said in a statement.

Flashback: This is Google's third EU antitrust fine. Previously, the search giant was fined in a shopping case and an online advertising case.

The big picture: The company is also facing a slew of antitrust suits and inquiries in the U.S.

• A judge Tuesday allowed a lawsuit to move forward against Google that was brought by 16 states and territories, led by Texas, over its advertising technology.

What's next: Google can appeal the ruling to the EU Court of Justice, Europe's highest court.

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/14/google-loses-appeal-eu-antitrust-ruling