Posts by KayJ

After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over

Re: Splashing harmlessly in the ocean

TETSUO!

The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit

The Ones Who Walk Away From Redmond.

AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals

Re: No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information.

Explosive bolts, 10,000 volts at a million miles an hour.

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

I would expect the Nork equivalent of taqiyya to apply, if not now, then before very long if this shibboleth becomes common practice - denying the faith is fine when you're doing it to the outgroup.

Trump tariffs to make prices great – a gain

Re: The fall of the Roman Empire 2.0

I think that it's closer to the fall of the Roman Republic with Trump playing both Sulla (term 1) and Caesar (term 2.)

RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory

Re: Security?

Why, it was so easy to write a floppy-based virus for the Arc that a bored smartarse schoolchild could do it. Happier, simpler times! *whistles innocently*

Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

“No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense”

I wonder if they'd be up for a friendly wager...

Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry

Re: The future's bright the future's orange

Donald needs banana bigly!

So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?

Re: Popcorn

So - tell us what you wold, what you really really wold.

There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032

The chances of anything hitting the moon are a million to one, I say.

Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation

Singe.

Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024

Re: Lift us down where we belong

Seems more likely that any professional astronaut - that is, competent and competitive people who've gone through a long, intense and difficult process getting ready to fly in space - would feel delighted to have more time in space. Though they might not be at liberty to say so. ;)

Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers

Re: Considered harmful

You're a big website, but you're out of shape.

Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors

Re: Why should an IT outage necessitate shutting the school

Quite. The most prominent are registration, catering (mostly biometric) and the facilities building-management-system (heating, potentially also water). With the best teaching will in the world it's a no-go if students are unaccounted for, cold, hungry and without toilets. ^^

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

If I were an alien on a nefarious mission to Earth - or even one of Winnie's friends - I'd _probably_ turn off the external lights on my sneaky stealth probe.

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

It baffles me that in a country with such ready access to firearms the tall poppies grow so free.

Ransomware hangover, Putin grudge blamed for vodka maker's bankruptcy

Truly the world is full of eejits and coincidence is possible, but it doesn't strike me that "mystery ransomware attack" and "Putin's grudge against them" are separate things given the little prick's sponsorship and tolerance of all manner of cybergoonery.

iOS 18 added secret and smart security feature that reboots iThings after three days

Re: Some Things Never Change......

Silly sausage, it's an upgrade package for the Abrams tank...

*is immediately squashed by a flying restaurant*

Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season

Re: made platform-level algorithm changes that increased the visibility of posts made by Elon Musk

It's such a shame, is what it is. Twitter could have been (arguably was, formerly) a good and useful thing for the world, and he's taken all that clout and potential and pissed it up the wall. "But for Wales?"

Tech support world record? 8.5 seconds from seeing to fixing

A good portion of the time I find that problems have magically fixed themselves either just before or at the moment I walk through the door. Boxen feel my soothing aura no matter where they are, like Jesus and the Centurion.

Intern allegedly messed with ByteDance's LLM training cluster

I can see they're really upset abou tthis. I honestly think they ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

Hold my Pimms! Wimbledon turns to tech for line-ball calls

Excellent. Hopefully the scurrying ballbeings and lofty umpire can be exterminated next, so that we may better enjoy the splendour of those colossi of the green lawns as they stride and grunt.

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster

Re: At the Weyland Yutani IT Department

We can't have any patching in there. I want you to, uh, collect backups from everybody.

Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official

Re: The message is clear

FOD POKELOD

Python script saw students booted off the mainframe for sending one insult too many

Re: Somehow became corrupted?

Somehow, OPERATOR returned.

Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire

Re: Recursion to the rescue

With prejudice.

ITER delays first plasma for world's biggest fusion power rig by a decade

Re: Bummer

There's a whole collection of senile old men in charge of the world's supply of portable fusion induction devices, odds are good you'll get to see one closer than 93 million miles.

Russian-trained spy whale spooks Norwegian fishermen

On baleen it seems likely.

Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world'

"A central risk to the ongoing privatisation of the NHS, our data exfiltration and election meddling" more like.

Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7

Re: They could be sulking

Hmmmmmmmm ahhhhhhh...

BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who

Re: Exterminate!

We are the superior beings! We do not apologise!

Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments

What's the blandest thing on the menu?

How to improve Chinese TV? Better censorship, says top tellie-maker

Never did get the adulation for The Three Body Problem, it wasn't anything new, or interesting and it felt like the _shocking novelty_ of a major sf story coming from China temporarily overrode all other consideration.

Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation

Re: Modern slavery

I think - in terms of prevalence - the definition of modern slavery is very much wider than the "classical" slavery *and* that in historical eras, enormous numbers of people lived who would now be considered to be living in forms of slavery, so that the comparison is not now for instance "50 million now versus 12 million in the transatlantic slave trade" but rather "50 million now versus (12 million *and* an unspecified but very large number of their contemporaries who would now be considered to be living in a form of slavery.)" - coerced labour / serfdom / corvée etc., child labour, coerced marriages and the generally low rights and esteem of women and children everywhere.

GPT-4 won't run Doom but will play the game poorly

Sound of gunfire off in the distance, I'm getting used to it now.

Legal eagles demand $6B in Tesla stock after overturning Musk's mega pay package

"The first thing we do..."

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

How does that quote from the Prof go? Something like "if Lord of the Rings was an allegory the lords of the West would have taken up the tool of the enemy and used it against him" - very on the nose for this bunch of chancers.

Angry mob trashes and sets fire to Waymo self-driving car

I'd burn that for a dollar!

Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery

Re: Unpossible!

Belgium, man. Belgium!

In its tantrum with Europe, Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta, still hasn't fixed them

Jeeves, I will require my mobile telephone and the number 4 iron.

Standards-obsessed boss ignored one, and suffered all night for his sin

He really leaned in to the roll.

Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault'

Re: Behind bars for a few hours

There is a segment of the population and media which actively glorifies and/or makes a joke of prison abuse, especially rape, as if it were an extra dimension to and a natural consequence of the prison sentence that society imposes. It bleeds through in to the popular culture that normalises the idea. It's fucking abhorrent.

Sports Illustrated boss fired – but it's totally nothing to do with AI fake news

I'm pretty sure Auntie use AI generation to feed their sports presenters. Joe Wilson and his ilk sound like they're regurgitating with all the flow of ChatGPT impersonating McGonagall.

Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec

Re: "I don't know who makes the profit"

They have good battery life and are simple to use and maintain. The ones we have are, touch wood, reasonably cheap and reasonably tough as well (although nothing is student-proof.) They're a good fit for school use and as a long-suffering school IT bod I would *much* rather maintain a fleet of chromebooks than a fleet of windows laptops (in addition to desktop Windows boxen for heavier lifting.)

Mac daddy Woz hospitalized in Mexico over mystery malady

Re: Not Mac daddy

Lyrical gangster?

Inclusive Naming Initiative limps towards release of dangerous digital dictionary

"All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon when dis-tributing scones in the park..."

Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file

Re: That's the way to do it

That's one way to settle a beef.

Medusa ransomware crew brags about spreading Bing, Cortana source code

I first read that as "ransomware crew brags about spreading Bing" - the fiends!

This US national lab turned to AI to hunt rogue nukes

Re: Officially recognised???

There's also some European countries which host US bombs and which would (in the event of daddy P having a full on Untergang tantrum) be employed by the air forces of those nations, with roughly the same degree of autonomy (very little) as Belarus has over anything the Russians base there.