Posts by CGBS

White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em

A bunch of idiots looked up....

First: Re-read the statement, "drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for research and various other reasons." So any Amazon delivery drone, or university research project would all fall under that category.

Second: the FAA and WH said all along that there was nothing there: ie beyond the recreational drones that increased in number as the hysteria grew, the drones flying all had proper flight plans, etc... Why is this so hard for people to understand? The answer is: Americans are particularly stupid, so yeah, most of what was seen were manned aircraft, and the drones were all (until the end when everyone and their stupid dog put their drones in the air to find the truth, or whatever) flying within the bounds of the law. So sorry the answer doesn't titillate, but next time you see cars on the road you don't know the names of the owners, their country of origin or their destinations, call the local police office and demand this information be collected for you and see what the response is, if they don't simply hang up on you immediately.

DeepSeek limits new accounts amid cyberattack

Such timing...

Smoke Bomb!

Apple beats expectations, but drops in China

So shocking...

What? No! Say it ain't so! Even after all of the bribery in the guise of joint ventures or local investments (ie the BYD battery development scheme), Apple still hasn't gotten what they want from China? I am simply shocked. Maybe if you put in a few more billions worth of investments. Maybe you'll get total access to that sweet, sweet Chinese market. Transfer the money and find out, it's the only way Tim.

Intel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it?

Re: If you're going to have a loss, clean out the cupboards

Unless you mean Pat himself, what would you suggest they get rid of? He has already lopped off many, if not most, of the non-core departments and the largest problems are the ones related to their main products as it is.

Re: Meanwhile...

The fact of the matter is, was and will always be, no matter how good Apple hardware may or may not be at any given point in time, you are totally dependent on the Apple walled garden when you use their gear for anything. And to be blunt, when it comes to workstations and server, Macs can't compete with Threadripper, Epycs and Xeons. With CXL coming online, the memory situation will be getting even more lopsided and DPUs like Pensando will make the gulf even more extreme in terms of what you can bring to bear in terms of resources for Intel/AMD and Mac hardware. You can just plug in a few new GPUs in your Mac Pro, right? Unless of course Apple has a sudden and unexpected change of heart and allows anything to be plugged into those PCIe slots, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

As the Bible Tells US

"And lo, though thou driveth a thing into the ground, with abandon and fury, ever thee shalt thy CEO worship and bonuses pay" -Bible 3:16 NKJV As quoted on Pat's Twitter.

Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it

It's not Intel's fault

Hey, Pat Gelsinger had that entire department occupied every morning from 8-12 for Bible Study classes. Don't blame the Xe team for the leadership being too busy preaching, offshoring more jobs, and selling off parts of the company like it was a hunk of shawarma meat on some street vendor cart in the Middle East all while telling people about what it was like at Intel in the 1950s. Also, Raja. Where is that little grifter these days?

Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers

A growing market....

Say what you will about Cisco (the worst of it being true), they don't pass on making money. If there was a growing market here that one of their dealers could swindle into a convoluted contract that once it expires renders the hardware being covered by said contract functionally useless, they absolutely would be there selling it.

Tesla trounces shareholders who alleged Autopilot was all share-pumping lies

Re: New allegations by the end of October

Well by her logic, as long as the thing that was claimed still has enough time to come true, I think she will find it legal. As long as she also has the potential to find a suitcase full of cash on her next vacation in the Virgin Islands sometime around next April. The 4th cabana from the end. She probably wont like $5 bills by then, something about the way Lincoln's eyes are judging you for your sins.... But that's all just speculative puffery.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any dumber....

The number of things I can find that I would describe, as even merely tolerable about my country just keep falling by the day. So as long as you are a company and engage in puffery, you can lie, apologies, make speculative comments, about anything as long as it takes place in the future. Sounds about right.

Got an idea for dealing with space waste? NASA wants to hear from you

Good news everyone!

I propose Pluto be used as a dumping ground.

Extracting vendor promises won't fix cybersecurity. Extracting teeth might

Gotta watch out for the quiet ones...

I mean, she's not wrong on some fronts. Enterprise's willingness to simply buy a product, no matter the cost or functionality, because no one was ever fired for buying, "insert a name," has definitely played a role in the evolution of many evils in the tech world. Their approach to security is just a cost of doing business judgement, not a security call and they have been allowed to consolidate to the point of practical monopolies (apparently the US based the little revolution thing on how this was one of the great evils of the world, my how times change). Even worse, government's have abdicated their power to the tech companies for things only a government responsible to it's people should ever be allowed to do. When's the last time you verified your identity to buy an age restricted item (smokes, naughty things, whatever) with your google login? It will get there. Fines are just a cost of doing business. They can lobby to have regulatory bodies packed with their stooges a la Boeing and the FAA or a pharma and the FDA. Only a big old stick to break them will work at this point and so far I only hear a bunch of loud yelling.

Imagine a government that told Big Tech to improve resilience – then punished failures

Imagine a country that has a monster corporation that runs in parallel of the government and where a stern talking to is less of a consequence than has been dolled out to the leaders of that same monster corporation by the government in the past. If sending people to prison isn't a deterrent, a strongly worded report is going to be met with panic and horror.

Ransomware forces hospital to turn away ambulances

Re: Ransomware forces hospital to turn away ambulances

You are fun at parties aren't you?

So, keeping a totally offline, base version of your life saving equipment is a bridge too far? I mean I know it may mean that a doctor isn't capable of checking the imaging results while they're golfing and may have to actually figure out where the imaging department is in the hospital and walk down there to look at a screen in person, but maybe? I know that is totally the same thing as keeping a horse as a backup for your car.

You would think that someone as vital as a hospital would not require an internet connection to function. Is there really no way to have things, like imaging devices at hospitals, etc... to have a hardware switch to be able to switch over to a totally offline backup software stack so that when this happens every other day, vital resources like this don't have to just be shut down? I know storage is very expensive these days though and everyone is on a budget, so that maybe a bridge too far.

China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband

Re: I wish China good luck

You mean the same censor organization that Musk writes articles for extolling their virtue and how they are the bright and shining future of humanity?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/13/23304250/elon-musk-pitch-magazine-china-cyberspace-cac-censorship-agency-tesla-spacex-neuralink

Russia tells citizens to switch off home surveillance because the Ukrainians are coming

Re: Ukraine is spying on your ring

I saw this as someone that wants to see Russia utterly made impotent: be careful with your hopes and beliefs. When all is considered, that territory taken from Russia is literally nothing to a country that size. They could allow Ukraine to take even more just to cause their supply lines and troops to be spread thin on all fronts. True the psychological impacts may even be so great as to topple Putin in the long term, I won't deny that as a very real outcome. But it is simply not true that Russia is out of equipment though they have certainly lost a great deal of everything. Check out Covert Cabal's Youtube for satellite surveys of tank, ifv, artillery and spg numbers for example. And they have more manpower they can still call up resulting in an even larger military force grinding down Ukraine in the short term. And again, another draft may very well be the end of Putin, but will it end him soon enough to prevent those increased forces from hitting Ukraine or even worse, being in the hands of a new person in charge that is more determined to see things through than Putin? This is at best a desperate side show. One that has only been forced on Ukraine by the lack of proper aide (or perhaps better said as the proper concentration of aide delivered in a single point in time) from the West.

New category on pornhub incoming in 3...2..1..

All that new AI-fueled datacenter space? Yeah, that's mostly ours – cloud giants

incestuous Corporate Data Consortium

So, all of this power and water is going to the normal cloud providers so that they can continue expanding their efforts in violating and collecting more and more data on their users to bundle and sell to advertisers as well as making everyone in the world in someway dependent upon them for the simple act of existence (what do you use more to identify yourself, your government ID or some identity provider according to google, Microsoft, etc...?). Seems worth it.

AGI is on clients' radar but far from reality, says Gartner

Gartner abandoning the ship?

Well, if the grand pooh-bah of corporate rats is jumping ship and NVIDIA's B100 may not be a thing because something, something 2025...could the storm be breaking?

Faulty instructions in Alibaba's T-Head C910 RISC-V CPUs blow away all security

Re: Only on T-Head's CPUs

They don't like it when you point out the Emperor's clothing selection, or why they have such a rabid, devoted group of fans desperate to push and do the hard work for the thing, despite the fact that all of the work seems to be accruing to the benefit of a certain singular locale in particular.

Amazon Labor Union votes overwhelmingly to join forces with Teamsters in NYC

Re: I hope the screw amazon to the wall

You have signed and framed pictures with Malcolm Gladwell don't you?

Teamsters: making sure you don't have to piss in a bottle while being monitored by 12 AI cameras and sensors in Bezo's garage by the docks since 2024.

Wrongful termination lawsuit accuses Neuralink of Herpes B-infected monkey business

I wouldn't even give her story a second thought normally, but when we are talking the leader of a cult so deluded and blown out on ketamine that they think their sp-sp-special guy is the defender of free speech while being a pet of the poster country for censorship to the point he literally wrote an article for the official publication of the office that censors the internet in China, thinks the latest taxi that will be coming from Tesla in a year or so is the first time this taxi thing has been slated to be the next big thing in about a year or so, has crowds of deluded, all male, tech bros cheering at the 4th destruction of the reusable vehicle that has not even achieved orbit and was slated to be getting people to the moon about 6 months from now up until a few months ago (I'm sure it will be about a year from now), unceremoniously locks out thousands of loyal employees who, if they are lucky, maybe hear they are laid off by the parking security guy that won't let their cars into the lot that morning while at the same time throwing a tantrum about his 40, 50, whatever billion dollar package for his efforts at making a car company largely even still in existence because of it's selling of kabuki theatre style green washed carbon indulgences, a libertarian champion of small government both in the taxes they take from him and regulations they impose on him to keep body counts from self driving cars down to a minimum while he has built his entire empire on nothing but government grants, loans and contracts (yeah, we are the ones paying for all those reusable Starships that all only got used the once) so if the story DIDN'T contain viral laden primates on the attack, that's when I would say she is a liar as she obviously doesn't work for one of this guy's c-c-companies.

Why RISC-V must get its messaging right on open standard vs open source

Useful Idiots

The amount of words used to say nothing in the article is quite stunning. This is following the same pattern of so many other industries. It's a honeypot to attract useful idiots. Put out the lure, in RISC-V's case initially some high minded global community nonsense to appeal to those in place on the board at the time along with all the funding for this great act of humanitarianism we call RISC-V. In the process a second trap is set: the IT Bro's unending quest to be the first at the next big thing. This is of course the crowd that brought you monkey portraits and virtual real estate, so you really don't need to put in all that much effort. Before long, you have a legion of useful idiots doing all the initial setup work for you: everything from spurring the hype of the next big thing to even greater heights, contributing millions of lines of code, and getting the product placed all across the world. Then, as has happened time and time and time again: snap. The trap closes. Nothing on the upside of the Chinese maximum wage and state subsidies is able to compete with the hardware being shoved out in unending lines of e-waste. A national stated goal of cornering and reigning in this new market is no longer even a subdued goal as were past efforts to control the worlds surveillance camera market as an example. They will of course gain all the related industries and production in orbit around RISC-V chips, many probably being the tried, tested and proven 49-51 Joint Venture. Ultimately the people that made the initial move to Switzerland will mostly end up with nothing while a few with a good deal of money. The missionaries of the coming of the age of RISC-V will find themselves having been bug beggars to their own demise as the few RISC-V shops outside of China layoff and closeup shop. Furthermore overall tech jobs in the field of processors will have been shrunk and eroded by the new chips: x86 and ARM will have less and employ less. Don't forget, ARM China is still very much a two company one name situation. And AMD and Intel have both been so helpful on the x86 front. Along with that quiet 3rd holder of the x86 patent. This has all happened before.

We polled thousands of IT pros – and sustainability just ain't a priority right now

Energy Efficiencey Has Always Been a Lie

This should not come as a shock to anyone. The old line of the latest product being more efficient than the last gen is a fig leave as old as the IT Department. Sure you get more work done with less (a very little less many times) power, but somehow the work that needs doing is always going up at far higher rates than the efficiency can overcome. Consolidation is always the standard, not actually using less energy overall. The tech industry has never had a working moral compass nor even really known what morals and ethics are all about. They just want to be the first ones to hit the next big thing on the next tech rush.

AMD's baby Epycs are nothing more than Ryzens in disguise

Re: Benchmarks

Yes, what part about the article detailing the fact that Ryzen 7000=Epyc 4004 are you referring to exactly?

Look around...

You say this, as if it should be blatantly obvious Ryzen 7000=Epyc 4004, and it is, but stop and look around. Look at Dr. Ian Cutress' Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFq-9K7JZE . Or Phoronix's article on the things: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-4004 .

People do not understand there were so many left over Ryzen 7000 that they just slapped a new label and price tag to let a purchaser at a company somewhere buy desktop parts and run them as if they were server parts, because, go find a half way reliable supply of 8004 and its motherboards. So mock the heavy handed beating over of the head the fact that Ryzen 7000=Epyc 4004, but a very large number of people simply do not understand what they are actually paying for at all.

Brain-sensing threads slip from gray matter in first human Neuralink trial

Features not bugs

If we lose this one, we have the perfect volunteer pool: the desperate and marginalized...said without a single stutter.

Since the US' regulatory systems has been completely co-opted and most hard investigative publications have gone the way of the Dodo or Buzzfeed...ProPublica, it's all on you: who, where and when did the, no doubt, charitable donations go to FDA staff, committee members, their spouses, etc... in order to get this abomination approved for human experimentation?

The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things

Re: Had to kill my smart thermostat

Venstar Color touch line. All local API for Home Assistant and still has an option for their cloud service if that's ok with you, or neither as you can use the touch screen to put in schedules, etc...

Sure IoT security is non-existent, but who really believes that if there were secure, well made IoT devices that they would be able to sell a single unit? Consumers, both corpo, government and individual, would look at the price tag and just keep looking until they came to the same insecure, half baked, or pre-installed with Chinese back doors (or all of the above) options they buy now. Blah, blah, blah the 6 of us who would pay don't matter. Like it or not, at this point it has been made painfully obvious most people don't care that everything they do is tracked and sold or that the crappy smart blender is using more bandwidth than their computer. All that matters is that it is cheap (for consumers to buy and corpos to consider being hacked an acceptable cost of doing business) and has a phone app.

Google co-founder Brin named a defendant in wrongful death complaint

Re: More than surprising

It takes a lot to be put in the position of saying a billionaire wasn't the bad guy in the situation. But such stunning ignorance is capable of anything. How do you think planes make it from a US or European or Brazilian factory to a place like the Pacific to begin with? DIY, assemble it yourself mail order?

Brin having a plane transferred from one place to another isn't a crime or a risky endeavor. Where he does become a typical billionaire villain is not taking ownership of the fact that the people he hired screwed up big time and then allegedly (believably) began to engage in stall tactics and other underhanded maneuvers. From the pilot, to the mechanic, to the management company. None of them did the most basic of checks nor followed any sort of protocol on the books.

Re: PennyPinch Engineering

Only on the internet could your response get a down-vote. There are no victims in the story other than the spouse. Had Brin done as you suggested, I would even go so far as to say he is not responsible either. As you and others have pointed out, this is not some unheard of way to move aircraft. They do this sort of thing all the time. But now that Brin has engaged in this sort of stall and cover up, he has made himself responsible and then some.

That runaway datacenter power grab is the best news for net zero this century

Think you're missing another part of a bigger picture. The environmentalists that oppose nuclear just are not that big of a group, and while the fossil lobbying is loud and controls a mass of stupid that go nuts at anything, it's still a matter of good old fashioned capitalism. Nuclear is too expensive and doesn't shunt the appropriate amount of excessive profits over a short enough time for it to be worth it. All of which are stupid reasons, but the last one is a big issue. Either find a company that will be satisfied with a reliable return on investment in the long term and keeping a payroll of well paid, highly educated and skilled workers (good luck) or it will have to be a government funded/backed approach (and then you get to deal with the group of which the fossil fuel people are a subset : government can't do anything well, so they shouldn't and if a private company won't do it, it shouldn't be done...obviously).

All you need is power!

This article is data center simp approved. Would you like to tell us about how the next gen of hardware is so much more efficient and imply that it will decrease energy use? So, Yes, obviously a nuclear reactor means data centers are no longer a massive problem. They will be free to build as many of them as they want to help collect even more personal data and help write more code for useless apps that just collect more data and are of basically no real benefit to anyone. Power is the easy part. Stupid fears and stupid planning/construction the justify stupid fears are somewhat more difficult. Seems like there is some other component you totally ignore....hmmm....what is it, what is it.... Phew, getting hot in here with the 4090 going full on, one sec... Sorry about that, had to redirect human drinking water to cool this...right, cooling! That's it! I'm sure single phase cooling will be just as safe and drawback free as consuming entire rivers or unleashing floods of all the fun two phase chemicals. So yes, just about the power. Also the small issue of no one wanting to pay for nuclear reactors because it doesn't make the profit fast enough, requires skilled workers that no longer exist and will take a stupid amount of time to make new ones, etc... etc... etc...

Software troubles delay F-35 fighter jet deliveries ... again

Re: The F-35 engine

You're thinking of an AM radio broadcast antenna. These aircraft don't use that. Easy to confuse. And to save you the typing, just because it has Active in the name, doesn't mean that it's a sonar ping that everyone can detect and get a fix on. That's kinda the point. A short extremely directional scan here, another one on a different frequency there (all of the components able to do something different all at once) and it's stupidly hard to detect or even understand what you are seeing if you do. There are also other advantages that if put to use means that somehow the stealth factor has already been obviated so turn it all the way up and start cooking things.

Re: Billions

It's good to see that both sides of the problem are represented in the forums. The ones that think it's a total failure despite the fact that 1,000 of them have already been made and frankly, if there is a better option, people should buy that and then the defense industry simps. Fair and balanced.

Re: Billions

How exactly did the Navy lose its balls? Naturally the Navy was responsible for the company closing by being forced to take over for the last two years. Obviously the decade prior to that point had no bearing on anything.

Penguins get their Wayland with Firefox 121

Like a long car trip as a kid

Are we there yet?

Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come

Re: Probably '95 or '96

Trust no one. I had not planned on that being the guiding principle of life. Yet here we all are, beggars to our own demise.

Re: Innovation happens in other areas beside the OS though

But will the chips be sea salt and viengar, sour creme and onion, or, bleh, BBQ?

Change has been enormous

I don't know, I think we have come quite a long way. We use the water and energy on par with entire nations just to steal and sell people's data. The creation of that sort of enterprise takes a lot of effort. Read the EULA or ToS the ones complicit in the scheme always like to scream. As if any of it is actually a real choice. You can always choose not to, and be unemployed on the street after all.

At least friends don't let friends VIM. There has to be something better at this point yeah?

Re: Improvements???

The vast majority of people don't even know what linux is and I am not sure how one can view the building of a massive surveillance industry as freeing or democratic.

Re: "Yes, I could buy an ad-free version, but why should I?"

Do I work for free...by free do you mean do most people go into the homes and cars and places of others, attach tracking devices and cameras to everything and then sell that on the open market just because the person paid for a dumb ass phone game? Is that what you mean by free? That doesn't sound free. That sounds very expensive.

From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?

Re: Our experience with Excel to WASM compilation for the last few years

It's secure if.....if every single major player on the web doesn't do or act in the same manner by which they live and breathe and track and sell everything they can about everyone. And certainly there are no known vulnerabilities that allow a VM to swipe information it should not be able to from other VMs or the host system while running who knows what program in said VM, right? And even if there were the average user obviously keeps their bios and drivers and everything else up to date so naturally you won't be putting millions of ignorant normies at risk all for your dumb app, right?

Artificial General Intelligence remains a distant dream despite LLM boom

These things are search engines with a clever way of presenting their response. There, I said it.

Re: Inverse correlation..

I represent NVIDIA and I would like to offer you a free GPU in exchange for deleting your post. /S

Re: Specific example

If by lie you mean no one programmed in the ability for the program to simply say I don't know...then yes, it lied. And while it, the program, did not lie, in a way, it not being able to say I don't know exposes the lie of its programmers: they want these things to look all knowing. Wonder why?

Lawyers who cited fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT must pay

The fact they didn't program the thing to give, "I have no idea," as an answer is a bit telling. Why is it so important that the AI always have the answer? My cynical self would say that always having an answer would be something to make normies think this is something that it's really not; to increase the hype train and grab some of that sweet sweet investment money after crossing out the words blockchain, cryptocurrency and NFT from the company "About Us" section and put AI in that spot. Even the use of the word hallucination betrays the intent. We are going to use words to make you think that its a real boy. Now give us your money. We will call you when the next hype goes live.