Posts by Eye Know

Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder

Re: Americans do not understand irony

Some of its own citizens.

Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city

Driving doesn't scale

People like to walk to the shop.

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

Soon, oil prices will only go up for a while yet.

The honest answer is, people don't have the foggiest idea how to build an algorithm to answer email, however give them an AI agent they can explain stuff to and they will get it done the expensive way. Despite it being enormously wasteful of energy, water and land.

It's kinda like interpreted code vs complied code back in the day.

I've found some use cases at work

I've found some use cases at work, but nothing we would pay for, not with the hit or miss results we get.

GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center

You must work in sales.

Re: "simply do not understand phrases like "backward compatibility""

Perhaps they work in sales and don't have to deal with the consequences.

Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers

FFS

It's going to be the same old.. Get a huge discount if your use our service to find a deal bollox.

Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely

Re: Wrong vocabulary

Somehow you are saying that doesn't affect European imports to the USA.

Re: Bollocks

Still subject to "feature" updates and under the control of a government that has shown no adherence to the law.

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

Re: Wow, the comments...

Starting and ending your comment with insults while posting anonymously to avoid insults is very open of you.

We have already seen how AI is being used to manipulate the truth, degrade the quality of software and enshitify the Internet. The speed of improvement is not the issue, the end goals of billionaires and other American entities are the problem.

Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

This shows

Their staff are not using it, just like everywhere else. People ask for all users to have licenses and 3 months later ask to reduce the license count to a handful.

Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt

Re: AI's just want to be bad

Or the bubble bursts and everyone scales back their expectations.

'Hey! I'm chatting here!' Fugazi answers doom NYC's AI bot

Re: Ok for businesses to take employees' tips

It's still vastly inefficient, even when you have very strict training. Computers get more inefficient the further you get from setting the logic for them to follow.

Help! Does anyone on the bus know Linux?

Much less distracting

Much less distracting than a Windows boot loop or that creepy BSOD with the inappropriate sad face.

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Re: In what crazy world....

They will tell you your opinion goes against the ethos of AI, it's for the LLM to decide. How else are we going to get Skynet?!

Pope warns flock to raise their faces, protect their voices in fightback against AI

A great exercise for anyone in IT

Run a LLM yourself, you'll learn very quickly just how inefficient they are at the basic tasks you give them.

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

GOOD

There is a big slowdown in interest from our clients, Microsoft pissed off a lot of people with their AI bloat in M365 forced on them like a cable TV company making you take a "bouquet" of channels.

Microsoft euthanizes ancient deployment toolkit

Re: Passwords in the clear

Reminds me of MS Recall in that respect.

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

Re: Wat will Grok take down ?

If Twitter was a UK company it would have been shut down years ago, they are not operating within the law.

Re: Wat will Grok take down ?

You need to spend some time offline, I don't mean in a car either, get some fresh air and feel the elements. Not everything you see online is true.

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

But why does it smell of piss?

The time is coming when I run out of US cloud services to dump, and I haven't really been trying, they just keep pissing on their own products.

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

AI

Billionaire opinion machine.

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

No slow down

Just like with .com, it didn't slow-down, it imploded, if there was a slow-down it lasted two weeks max.

Bastards are driving up RAM prices now too, the sooner this bubble bursts the better.

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

The first I heard of this was a story about the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change releasing a paper on it, he clearly has some tech-sales people taking him out to dinner again. It failed the first time Tony, get the message.

Starmer is a fool for bringing back Blair and Mandelson. A fool for concentrating effort on everything but what's important to people. We have government by lobbyist and media, but somehow, they are in fact still much better than the Tory conspiracy theorists we had in the last "government".

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

Re: Single point of failure

Exactly. You can do the right thing, but it's gonna cost and require expensive skills or you can use as much effort as is affordable, just like everyone else.

Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu

The choice vs polish thing is true and a major stumbling block, at home I switched from Windows to Ubuntu at the beginning of the year and have stuck with it. One of the biggest headaches was working out which of the many ways to configure the system is active. The chopping and changing of audio system, and even windowing system over the years makes it very difficult to research an issue as last year's fix might configure something that is ignored, configurations are routinely overwritten too, leading to even more confusion and deeper research. Then you pop into a forum and get shouted at because you don't know the correct terms or that something has changed, so you don't do that again, you either give up, change the hardware you can't get working or keep searching.

However, after many rabbit holes I'm happier with the system I use today than I have been for years with Windows. One way Ubuntu could make things easier is to have an app that just lists which of the many ways to configure the system is active. I'm fully aware that someone reading this is foaming at the mouth shouting "write it yourself", well that's a whole different rabbit warren.

YouTube's AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos, calls them dangerous

I only use Windows for work

All my own stuff is on Linux, the best way to switch is to wait until you need a new PC and install Linux on it, if you find you need Windows you'll have to use the crappy old computer. It was a successful motivator for me in February this year and I have not gone back to the dark side.

Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block

I had not heard of it

I had not heard of it, but it sounds like half of the functionality of NextCloud AIO, there's your upgrade path for on-prem.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

365 Apps

We also saw 365 apps crashing across a number of client companies. Possibly due to integrations, still investigating but it appears to be getting better in the UK.

Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide

All those eggs

In one drug fuelled, fascist, basket case.

Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026

I'd not come across this before, it doesn't surprise me MS would replace it with something that's not feature complete.

Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so'

Re: This again?

Because Microsoft France said what Redmond have refused to say. It's not a revelation, just a confession.

Re: Neither can OVH

France is not the USA, it should not be judged by the same low standards as the Criminal in Chief.

Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'

So...

This sounds like the plot from Batman Forever.

Little LLM on the RAM: Google's Gemma 270M hits the scene

GIGO

Garbage in, garbage out.

30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff

Azure

I think it goes higher, no human would change the name of a well known product like Office.

Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don't have to dash to the printer to grab the 'Fire everyone' memo

28 years ago

I used something similar but better in 1997, I printed, walked to any printer at any campus, swiped my student ID and out came the print.

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

It's years of scapegoating that caused Trump and Farage, the general public don't give a crap either way about professional language guides, but you tell them that people are getting something paid for by their taxes and they go all knuckle dragger racist.

Some bloke in Epping tries to kiss a girl and there's weeks of demos that "they are all the same", imagine the same logic applied to the driver of that car in Liverpool who ran all those people down, drivers "they are all the same".

How about renaming the black-lists to gammon-lists

Like spam, but thick and sometimes very salty.

Re: "Inclusive Language Guide"...

The list has certainly caused a few snowflakes to self-identify in these comments.

Fungus-inspired Linux hack gives Amiga a Doom-only brain

I think it's very Amiga

The custom chip everyone wanted 30 years ago.

Microsoft: SharePoint attacks now officially include ransomware infections

Phew it's on-prem

Luckily on-prem SharePoint is a hellish nightmare, so was mostly avoided by my clients and ditched by the few when they got 365.

Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

AI gives opinion rather than facts

It's all very simple, the AI bullshitted then realised the 2600 knew the rules. Opinion is not fact, AI is never 100% sure of the truth.

Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all

They are one of my forwarders...

They are one of my forwarders but not the only one, and I use PiHole so didn't notice.

Everyone who cares about staying connected should run a caching DNS server with multiple diverse forwarders.

Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess

It reminds me of ASIC chips

You can be a jack of all tasks and a master of none, or a specific piece of software that operates very efficiently.

Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs

This isn't like Windows XP

Back when XP was retired it was a tired old OS with more holes than a block of Emmental. Windows 10 isn't in that situation. People know this. Sure there could be a widespread exploit found and enterprises know this but for everyone else I'm willing to make a bet Win10 will be around for a while longer than we saw XP past it's cut-off, despite the profit wishes of MS.

Cloud lobby warns EU: Clamp down on water rules and we'll evaporate

No favours

Treat them like everyone else and they will find efficiencies.

Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking

Re: Ahh nostalgia

In the 80s I once asked a teacher why there were old washing machines in the IT classroom, he said they were disk drives on loan from a university that didn't want them back. :D

Christ, NT4 driver issues were bad enough, I wouldn't have survived IT had I started earlier than that. :D