Posts by KayJ

Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over

Re: Lazy Altimeter Design

Tiktoks I think, but it's hard to call the relative merits of "environmentally damaging mass air travel" versus "widespread popularity of robot Chipmunk short-form content."

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book

Slop calls to slop.

Headset hype meets harsh reality as Apple and Meta VR shipments fizzle in 2025

Re: Smart?

It's certainly a Grey Area.

GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens

What could possibly go right?

User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis

Honestly I struggle to cope when people tell me things that I 'know' to be wrong, untrue and counterfactual. There's a part of my brain kicks in wanting to immediately and loudly correct them. I try to keep a lid on it these days because experience has slowly taught me that - even if it is only one time in ten - sometimes the buggers are _right_ and it's not a good look to be telling someone "that's nonsense, don't be silly, of course it's not XYZ" only to discover ten minutes later that it was, in fact a problem with XYZ.

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

X, pronounced "sh"

England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion

Re: There is no requirement for a specific make of pen

There's sometimes a belief that Apple-brand *nix machines are just intrinsically better - the _only_ computers that are good for $creative_subject - than those mundane Windows boxen.

And there's a prestige angle. So there's always a demand for Apple kit.

Though strangely they tend to end up running the same software. Or these days, accessing the same web apps...

Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

Re: Cardinal Kowtow

"...let a Hundred Acres bloom"

NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter

Re: No one would believe

That's slow, sure.

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

Re: What a load of fearmongering CODSWALLOP!

"Serf" rather than "worker", so it conveys a certain disdain and contempt for the poor things.

GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are

Re: Gold is cheap!

Fie, man, fie.

Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant

I bet he facepalmed. He should knuckle down and brute force it.

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

Re: What happens if you play AI country music backwards?

I lost my bot / on the bleep-bloop road / and I'm cryin'...

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

There was a lot _more_ music reaching the UK top 40 during the late 80s-early 90s period (before Cher and T-Pain began the apocalypse) than at any point before or since, so for those of us of a certain age we do have an unusual time of pop to look back on that stands out from the usual nostalgia cycle. 90% of it was crap same as it ever was, but there was more to choose from.

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Re: Captain

Starboard bow?

EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems

Re: suffers teeting problems

If they fix the typo it'll be nothing but a mammary.

Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle

How about a really big Zorb? Just roll it gently over the top of any inconvenient bridges, houses, passers-by and whatnot.

Big money is nervous about AI hype, but not ready to call it a bubble

If the fallout from these things ever fell directly on a majority of the ones responsible they wouldn't happen. Ain't it all a bleedin' shame?

College student went on a destructive rampage, then confessed to ChatGPT, cops say

He thinks he can kill ChatGPT. Is it too much to hope he'll share the plan?

Blood-red bot stalks the burbs armed with . . . groceries

Not kerbs nor bicycles nor inquisitive small dogs can stay these bots from their trundles round.

Many employees are using AI to create 'workslop,' Stanford study says

Re: Thus shall be the perpetual motion chastisement for our Sisyphusic crimes

Zeus hates the sound of a bragging tongue.

Zorin OS 18 beta makes Linux look like anything but Linux

Re: Zorin... Industries?

We may hope to see that one day it will be.

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil

Re: Instructions for brewing lunar tea...

And a lot of money - it's not for the pu-erh.

Re: Tea..

Ask a cup of tea!

Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

Re: been there, done that ...

*the Eschaton has entered the chat*

Commodore Amiga turns 40, headlines UK exhibition

It belongs in a museum!

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds

At last, someone will recreate the Towering Moa from L.A. Lewis' classic horror story!

One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts

Re: Heathens

It was the right to _use_ bears _as_ arms to cause suffering to the little children - although he did that using his sockpuppet 'Big G' account to help out his mate Elijah.

Trump's budget bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle

Re: Just Wondering

If you asked Boeing very nicely they might build you an X37B for around about* that.

*astronomically speaking. I'll guess they'd ask for a half billion, rounded up to a billion.

Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1

Re: Alpha Centauri

They're definitely popular in Epsilon Eridani.

Re: Right on Commander!

An' ye tell that to a CMDR today at Shinra 'n they won't believe ya!

Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo

Re: Small meatsack + not Elon's progeny = not worth saving

Move fast and break bones!

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Re: I wonder

Smartest man on the cinder.

Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

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My name is "Format now?"

Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload

Re: Whoops

You are Richard Stallman and I claim my £5!

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.