Well when you address the Need Congress that is Slashdot audience and mention aliens in Dune you trigger a strong reaction from us because the whole point of Frank Herbert's Dune universe is that there are no known aliens, all the weirdness of that universe is human derived. Purity of the Human evolution only on the Golden Path's door step.

The only references to alien intelligence is the human created machines that we're defeated once during the Butleriam Jihad and which survived and escaped by travelling away from the human controlled sphere of influence in the Universe and who will come back in the future to annihilate the Humans once again unless the Humans are so strongly subjugated by Leto II God Emperor that after his death they will explode into the Universe so far away from control control that not even the machines will be able to find nor catch them to exterminate them.

The only other reference to other aliens are the bringers of the Sandtrout which turn into the Sand Worms on Arrakis (Rakis) [Dune] planet and there might be an inference that they are from another Galaxy.

Finally the last weird somewhat alienish are the two facedancers overseeing the events with almost prescient powers but they are just further genetically engineered humans by the Tleilaxu genetic butchers.

Yep, I completely agree with you ZipNada, but I knew that the book is not going to offer up some phenomenal new science fiction shift of a paradigm type of a literary invention.

I wanted something that was very much like The Martian which was a science fiction-based adventure in space instead of on Mars. I would say science fiction lite and enjoyable like a shoot-em-up heist movie except for nerds and geeks with some nice science thrown around; and without having to do any equations or discuss quantum mechanics only special relativity and bit of raw space gamma radiation.

Andy Weir Is able to capture a nice science fiction-based adventure that is very linear and enjoyable to read and watch. He does introduce a few new concepts which are very enjoyable and then he just builds the story on them and moves it forward with little mishaps and issues that have to be resolved until the final outcome.

His other book Artemis that takes place on the Moon is also a very enjoyable lite science fiction read. Would make for a great movie with an awesome chic actress who'd need to have a bit of attitude and spunk about her, a real character of a lady. Gosh, so many choices for casting. I'd love for someone to suggest a few actresses who would fit that role.

Think of Project Hail Mary as a Science Fiction X-Com Bromance Adventure in Space with Biological Power Cells!

Yes, it's worth seeing the movie.

Sorry about the bad grammar in the original subject. I was dictating it and the phone while walking in the market. I didn't see the mistake.

I ended up hearing about this movie coming out from the same author that did the Martian whose name is Andy Weir.

So I immediately got the book and read it and after that went to see the movie. I ended up reading his other book, the one that was in between about the girl at the space station and that was pretty enjoyable so.

This movie's definitely enjoyable and we want to see it in a nice theater where we have dinner and drinks and it was definitely worth it. Since I read the book week in advance, it was a nice little visual representation of the book and it was very faithful to the book.

The author definitely captured the ability of doing hard science space stories and making them appealing in book form and also in visual movie form.p

"mentioned in Frank Herbert's Dune as the planet of at least one alien species."

Editor David is using AI generated slop again. Because that code is patently wrong and could only come from some AI hallucinations.

Qualcomm makes telecom wireless chips and lower tier processors and the upcoming 6G will increase bandwidth at the cost of increased latency and lowered distance from the tower. Anything to do with PI features over the wireless telecom network will be incidental.

Agent based communications will be text based or condensed and compressed mutually negotiated binary format for efficiency of transmission for speed and lower latency for responses. That's not going to require additional bandwidth of 6G since it won't be mixed media nor high bandwidth video transmissions.

PI agents will eventually communicate to each other as the preferred interface method over classic APIs, but that is going to be like trying to use foreign language translators to interpret meaning, sublety, and original intent of the prompter as it's translated through the telephone game over multiple hops, losing meaning and coherence at each step of the way.

Nothing to do with new 6G wireless protocol and chip sets.

I completely agree.

Long time ago I mentioned that the Microsoft Recall feature that takes a screenshots of everything that you do on your computer is just training data for their Copilot PI.

Now with organizations and the executives forcing PI adoption and mandating it as part of performance reviews, they generally want everybody to train their PI replacements so they can start the next batch waves of layoffs and the next economic crisis bigger than anything else that we've seen in the past.

This is exactly like the movie Office Space when The Bobs are trying to figure out what everyone does at the company but this time the layoffs are followed by the P.I. (Pretend Intelligence) push into the replacement roles by the consultants, but not before you're told to train the P.I.

Office Space (1999)
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt015...

The Office Space Bobs Plot No One Ever Talks About Is Genius
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Frozen Accounts

Don't forget that PayPal would routinely freeze accounts for over 180 days or longer for anybody that use them for small business that had a very high volume of credits and debits and they would claim that it was a security reason. But meanwhile they would hold all the money and make the account inaccessible and not even answer to the person why the account was frozen for real.

Every so often you would hear of somebody running a legitimate business and they received a payment from some other PayPal account or person who themselves was flagged as problematic and that would trigger a chain lightning event. Where anybody else associated with that person or that person's account or a hacked person's account would just spread like wildfire and freeze every associated account for a very long time. Without anybody having the ability to do anything about it or get a real answer or even identify what happened.

You made a sale or you purchase something from somebody else online. You paid them with PayPal and zap. Your account is frozen and you don't really have an answer to what happened and any money you had in there is gone for months. If you will ever get it back or not, you will never know. And support will not tell you. They'll just say security reason and your account is frozen.

The government had to step in and threaten regulation but PayPal would still routinely do this to a bunch of small business owners and eBay sellers.

Banking Accounts Linked

Luckily I stayed away from PayPal and only used it as a way to pay for eBay or receive money from online sales and immediately transfer the money out of there directly into my bank account. I didn't like the reason why I had to have my bank account linked but I figure if something went wrong I go straight to my Chase Bank and complain to them and I would have much better results than complaining to PayPal which would hide there support number on their website for a very long time and people had to get it from Reddit or from Google searching.

Other Apps More Popular

Everybody that I know is using Venmo or CashApp or Zelle to send money between each other. So PayPal is pretty much on its way out but online web stores still do a lot of sales through PayPal so it's going to be a very long and slow burn to replace it because it is so tightly integrated with web, front ends and shopping cart systems.

I'm a dual citizen of US and EU and now that my 16-year job in the US in the IT sector had ended I am entertaining the idea and looking at relocation to the EU now that my wife's US citizenship paperwork had been filed and all presence criteria requirements have been met.

My wife would love to leave the US and work in the EU and my US friends who are progressive are supportive among with my family in the EU. A few of the same friends are a bit jealous of the opportunity also since they can't easily get legal sponsorship to leave without a job willing to sponsor them, a bit of a reverse of the US H1-B STEM things but in reverse to go to the EU. While I can just go work there right now without even relocation since I have everything ready and up to date.

My conservative friends are eyeing me with a bit of confusion and suspicion for entertaining the idea the leave the American Dream since they didn't travel nor vacation internationally and their world view is myopic and small. They hear the idea but look at me bewildered for even suggesting to leave the #1 Best Country in the World (j/k) for somewhere else.

Citizenship & IDs

I've ensured to keep my EU citizenship status updated and passports always renewed and valid by jumping through hoops over the years by traveling to ambassies and consulates to renew them at some cost. I made sure to also obtain and keep my EU personal citizen identification card valid and updated also since those are more widely used and accepted for legal and other common usage purposes there since the EU uses them for personal and citizenship identification purposes like the US uses their Driver's Licenses.

Banking

I've also made sure to open and keep bank accounts active and debit cards valid to have easy access to finances and verified the ability to withdraw my own money from the EU in the US with those debit cards and also wire transfer money between the US and EU accounts through the SWIFT network which is similar to the US ACH (Automated Clearing House) financial network using the account number and denomination prefix manipulation for foreign funds deposit and currency conversations.

I've keep up with to the US FATCA FBAR reporting requirements also to keep Uncle Sam off my financial back and avoided any FPIC (Foreign Passive Investment Company) mutual funds that are domeciled outside the US to avoid that US unfair taxation money grab morass for US persons.

Telephone

I also have a valid SIM card and phone number from the EU using their T-mobile network provider which is common and popular there a bit but have to recharge the card once in a while.

Family Connections

I've kept touch and renewed lost family relationships in the EU on both of my parents side and got the lost contact information for the lost side of the family and started to rebuild those relationships. Turns out they are some great people and also work in technology!

Job Competition for Skills

Let's see what EU has to offer for IT jobs and my future!

Now the US job market will have to compete against the EU job market for me and my wife since they might lose me.

The new data center building projects and upkeep sounds interesting and IT skills in scripting and automation of hardware maintenance and operations will be needed now and in the future keeping all of the disparate systems taking to each other.

I love scripting and operations and DevOps work across all OS kind of like I do across the US and EU and like Windows and Linux!

Yeah I've had a Google Pixel 6 device and before I Google Nexus 6 device and anytime I had the Google Assistant I would notice it that it would randomly turn on even in a quiet room because I would see the screen to that whole circle thing as it's listening to you and recording everything that's being said.

I ended up turning off the assistant feature because it kept doing it and every so often it would even turn itself on even when the assistant was completely turned off and disabled in every single setting in every single account in every single application. It would still happen randomly even though there was no action. Word said or it wasn't even possible for it to turn on. I even had to freeze the application.

Of course they are listening to you. Just like the Facebook app is listening to everything you're saying because it has microphone access. Same thing as TikTok ck and all the other applications.

Smartphones are spyware devices just like Richard stallman has said just a few days ago on his speech. The KGB and FSB and Stassi could not have done a better job than the big Silicon Valley big tech companies creating smartphones and everyone carrying this thing with them all the time.

I've been a heavy PowerShell scripter since version 2.0 and managed thousands of Windows servers of every version all the way from 2000 up to the latest and greatest and doing a lot of C# direct access to the framework and usage of all the objects in the framework along with win32 direct DLL access for certain system level calls.

Prior to that I was a very heavy Batch/Command developer with natively compiled GNU/Linux Utils from GnuWin32 and then native GNU Utils commands. While at the same time writing some bash scripts for all kinds of Red Hat and Debian based Linux distributions that I was administering also for many servers in the large Enterprise environments.

Inconsistent Cmdlet Implementations

I agree with you that there is some weirdnesses with Powershell but most of the problems I found is like you said the inconsistency of how certain cmdlets work and who developed since some of the standard features such as -ErrorAction Stop do not work on some command that's from different modules and developers who ignored parts of the core development ideologies of PowerShell or they didn't implement enough functionality to be able to nest those commandlets inside catch/throw/finally error catching logic to stop scripts that end up with a failure result in a throne error exception.

Many of the commandlets by Microsoft that were originally developed had a very high standard of compliance to the Powershell, advanced functions, implementation of all the core and comment switches and they worked great. But as time moved on many of the third party modules and snap-ins didn't follow those practices. So you end up with a very strange behavior or lack of functionality for trying to catch errors. And I've had to work around a few problematic ones over the years.

PS Snap-Ins to Modules

There was a big migration right around version 3 up to version 5 of Powershell of third party functionality moving from snap-ins to modules and that broke a lot of stuff and a lot of scripts and a lot of remoting functionality broke especially for trying to administer old Exchange servers going into the new Exchange servers. Which required a lot of rewrites and a lot of new authentication logic and command remoting functionality was completely changed and how it functioned.

Some of those created breaking changes and caused pain and environments that didn't have the latest and greatest things. So you kind of got stuck in this world of trying to execute old 32-bit. PS snap-ins and DLL libraries into a 64-bit world that is now running on modules and version 5 PowerShell.

PowerShell v5.1 Schism to v7+

The very large change and schism of the entire language between 5.1 that comes natively with Windows server all the way up to 2019 if I remember correctly and now the separately installed Powershell 7 with a whole new executable to call and enough little changes to the language has caused a massive schism of scripts. Powershell scripts written for version 2 all the way through version 5. Work pretty much seamlessly with very little adjustment. But trying to get anything working from version 2 through 5. On version 7 ends up with the roadblocks and showstopper errors and requires almost complete rewrites.

There are many limitations and bugs left in Powershell version 5.1 that was native to a lot of the servers and it was installed by default as part of Windows remote Management framework WRM and it became the de facto version to write Powershell up to because you could install WRM on any server of 2003 all the way to 2019 and later. So a lot of scripts and plugins and modules were written exactly for version 5.1.

None of the bugs that exist with Invokeâ"RestMethod of not being able to access the headers in order to make sure some weird REST API authentication that is header based is actually correctly functionable or when APIs give you the pagination information inside the header become a problem and you end up having to Invoke-WebRequest and then manually access the headers and the body and parse the body as a JSON object which is at least possible.

Under Powershell version 7, now you have the ability to access the headers from the REST API commandlets but now you have to change your whole script to run under version 7.

Power shell My Favorite Scripting Language

I have to say that Powershell is still by far my favorite scripting language to administer large Enterprise systems and I have done some amazing scripts in the thousands of lines with a lot of care and capture of errors and unusual situations and have gotten some amazing results. Even multi-threaded and multi-process like remote execution and then collapsed to a single result set object structure into single output and have been using that for over a decade now to manage thousands of servers.

Powershell is by far my favorite scripting language because it is object oriented and when I need to get little pieces of things it works great. If I need to deal with rest API or direct win32 dll access or access databases or other type of Enterprise storage systems or interface with large Enterprise or third party networking systems or storage systems or virtualization systems or any type of other systems, Powershell makes writing scripts that are robust very easy .

If you understand Powershell and you understand the C# framework and you understand how pipelining works from Linux and how you can incorporate it into your Powershell for fall through functionality with filtering and object molding you can do some amazing things.

Leaving Job to Script in PowerShell Again!

One of the reasons that I am leaving my organization at which I have been 16 years is that I have been moved to a team to do high-level analysis and away from hands-on scripting and PowerShell work. So now I'm looking for any other organization that is a very high PowerShell user in a large Enterprise environment so I can go back to hands-on keyboard writing some amazing scripts because frankly writing PowerShell script is like creating and solving your own puzzles and once you understand the environment and the universe you're working in then it is very pleasurable to do the work because you understand the boundaries and the limitations within the systems and the entire environment.

Does anybody need up high level PowerShell developer in a very large Enterprise environment of thousands of servers that need automation, scripting and integration with all the other third-party systems?

Because I'm actively looking now for something now and I want to offer my skills and help to any other large organizations that need automators and scripters and integrators.

ServiceNow will nickel-and-dime you to death with their SaaS Artificial Ignorance AI agents and charge you per each guess of the agent, not per answer or correct prediction. That's their business strategy from their chat agents and predictors.

Maybe they'll finally be able to analyze to real useful data and not the crap in their Task inherited tables shor_description (aka subject) fields and descriptions.

The same thing happens in my car but once a month when the radio automatically switches to the XM input mode and the advertising XM1 channel after I've canceled my subscription over 12 years ago. Even though the car is always on Bluetooth mode playing audio from my phone that I have saved as actual MP3 and AAC files.

I can guarantee that this is being pushed by XM radio and they give a kickback for any subscriptions back to the car manufacturer and it is not done by Subaru. They just go along with this advertising practice. Same thing happens on my old-fashioned XM Toyota radio but every month.

I think somebody needs to curb stomp advertising into the ground because it steals your time and your peace of mind. It is a theft of your consciousness.

You are definitely not a native English speaker but posing as one on this forum website. You have English language failures all over your posts. So all of the conspiracy theories about your account and your post on every single story appear to be more true the more you post and expose yourself for astroturfing a Socialist or Communist agendas.

Native English speakers do not write sentences like that or make those mistakes in writing. It is also not an error of voice to text transcription since those get the grammar and spelling correct when spoken by true native English speakers or by secondary English speakers who speak a Western hemisphere language from a romantic language root or from a proto-Indo Slavic language tree.

Your text has very small nuance of mistakes that is noticed by a native or seconday English speakers in your grammatical structure and in subtle spelling errors of common homonym words.

Since this website is owned by foreign entities that do nothing about your astroturfing account and they must be in bed with you or at least cooperating with your goals.