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IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

theregister.com
271 points·by freitasm·5 bulan yang lalu·168 comments

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freitasm
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
The corruption is everywhere, small and large. You can't trust the game is not fixed now and you can't trust the government either.
freitasm
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
This is the New Zealand model. Multiple ISPs but only a few fibre providers - the largest one is Chorus, with a few that are very localised, but follow the same rules.

The ONT is accessible to all ISPs, and you can provision both available ports with different ISPs if wanted. Usually, a change from one ISP to another happens within the day, like number portability.
freitasm
·9 hari yang lalu·discuss
I run a forum site. It's been going on for 23 years now, and over that time, it has reflected the country's technology adoption history.

We still have new signups every day and a community that helps others when needed - not only online but in real life too.

The structured discussions and the focus on topics make this type of site a lot easier for some people when compared to platforms like Discord.
freitasm
·14 hari yang lalu·discuss
Sounds cool. Couldn't see it though. "Rate limited" on my first visit. Using a static IPv4 and IPv6.

Unless your host is limiting number of requests, indiscriminately.
freitasm
·17 hari yang lalu·discuss
Meanwhile, the Epstein files continue to be ignored.
freitasm
·21 hari yang lalu·discuss
So much winning.
freitasm
·bulan lalu·discuss
So you get a file. Any file. Not necessarily the file you want, unless you already know its contents and how to traverse the folder hierarchy to get to that specific point.
freitasm
·bulan lalu·discuss
So in theory you could have War and Peace somewhere.

Each folder represents the file content so far. So how to find a specific file without knowing its contents - by its title for example?
freitasm
·bulan lalu·discuss
Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.
freitasm
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I joined AdSense in 2003. At peak it was generating US$15k a month.

Nowadays it will be a miracle if it passes of US$800 a month.

I think the shift to a more localised audience (NZ), diversion of ad spend to large social networks are responsible. Our traffic is similar in volume but nowhere near as "valuable" apparently.
freitasm
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Another annoying thing: very few apps are copied from old device to new devices and bring their settings and most importantly login. Of about 80 apps on my device, only five or so are ready to use after a migration.

Going through dozens of apps, doing logins, 2FAcand changing settings is a PITA.

Devs do a poor job on that front.
freitasm
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Another thing that annoys me on Android is the setup experience itself. All my recent device presentcthe same behaviour: login with a Google account, transfer data, setup voice assistant and some other defaults,done.

Then after the first app updates is done, a notification comes with "let's finish setting up your phone" and again asks to setup voice assistant, check defaults and whatever else is in the flow.

Has no one noticed that the setup flow seems to run twice?

And it's not one specific device. I do it with eight to ten devices a year, from different OEM, writing reviews and testing. They all have the same behaviour.
freitasm
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Subscribers can share the link as a gift, so readers can see the original, not the proxied version.
freitasm
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Their consitution says elections can't be hold in times of war.
freitasm
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
"Portal team includes former DOGE member Coristine"

"...user activity on the site will not be tracked."

Ok, stopped reading right there.
freitasm
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
And the original is gone.
freitasm
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The rates are so low that they don't need to measure anymore. That's what they were told, probably.
freitasm
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
No, it's not, as there are ads that pay per impression, not click.
freitasm
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Opera Mobile.
freitasm
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
But this government was just collecting the worst of the worst from the streets.

Or were they lying all along?

(Narrator's voice: they have been lying all along).