Posts by Baird34

Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it

Morals

The guardrails are put in place by the creators. So Grok having no morals says a lot about the ultimate boss. After all, it is the marketplace of ideas so long as they're the 'right' ideas.

China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks

Right back at ya

Let us hope our spooks are doing the same thing to them.

193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting 'violence-as-a-service'

Lovely

What a timeline we live in, and things in the world just keep getting better and better.

X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement

Age Verification?

I think in the spirit of Age Verification laws such a barrier to Twiiter should be applied. To get in you have to prove you have the intellectual maturity less than that of an 8 y/o. Society surely needs protecting, think of the children.

Amazon is forging a walled garden for enterprise AI

Hotel California

Hmm, they make it a matter of convenience for your benefit. Reminds me of Hotel California, you can check-in any time you like...

Microsoft wedges tables into Notepad for some reason

For the love of God

Is nothing sacred?

Never thought I'd see the day when I had to look for something more basic than Notepad.

Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans

Workshy Layabouts

You know, you wish these welfare queens would stop asking for things for free, get off their arse and get a job. Why should the state have to carry these people with handouts? Makes me sick.

Louvre's pathetic passwords belong in a museum, just not that one

Feature

Re: CISA, the reduction in security is not a bug, it's a feature. The country is being run by people who are anti-government, they want it to go down. All the better to point and say "Look, government doesn't work". This is the nature of the Christian Libertarian.

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

Keeping it up is hard

Credit where it's due, AWS perform outstaandingly well, if companies were to decentralise, their downtimes would be greater.

I have a hard enough time keeping my home lab up.

CISA exec blames nation-state hackers and Democrats for putting America's critical systems at risk

Fallen

Isn't there a story about a boy standing next to a fallen tree, with an axe in his hand, telling fibs? It rings a bell.

Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap

Scolding

It's the behaviour of scolded children, they'll be back at it soon enough. You can't keep an impudent child down.

Google is very sorry for pulling down COVID misinfo and pledges never to use outside fact-checkers

Politicise Everything

How is medical disinformation and lies political? I know it's the trend to politicise absolutely everything, but come on. Where are the grownups in the room?

I want to politicise how people eat scones, if you put jam first then cream, you're a Communist and need to be silenced. As for those that pronounce scone scone... Hanging is too good for them.

And people that pronounce tomato tomato, my blood boils.

OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

I think therefore I glam

I'm not sure if I read all of this article, can't be certain, so I'll just say that I have. It looks better that way.

US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid

Re: A whole shitshow from start to finish

As in any good system, arrest those at the bottom not those further up. *

* No bosses were harmed in this slave labour production.

Easy to say if you're native colouring. You might have a different opinion on a day or two of 'inconvenience' if you didn't.

They look funny

I imagine the South Korean workers got scooped up because they have tan skin and look funny. Therefore sus as anything. Dunno if I need a /s, probably ought to. /s

FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons

Civil Vandalism

Destroy anything good, destroy anything civic, destroy anything good spirited. Why, because they can. And they call themselves moral.

The crazy, true story behind the first AI-powered ransomware

Nice

Our computers wil kill our computers. The end.

Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites

Re: Will that help people with disabilities

As I have no idea what CRT stands I chose 3 things Trumpians like to hate on. By the downvote I dunno if I goofed there. Hey Ho.

Re: Will that help people with disabilities

"See CRT for another example."

Is that Climate, Race, and Trans?

Vanity Projects

All good emperors real and aspiring enjoy their vanity projects.

I wonder if the sites will have a gold (side)bar.

End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs

Re: Willful Attempt To Access Pron

There was someone on the BBC news who was a recovering porn addict, he suggested restrictions on porn were no bad thing, even not allowing "any porn" might be a good idea. By my reckoning that's an alcoholic asking for prohibition for all of us. Lordy Lord.

Re: "stops kids from using VPNs"

"rub other things together to get to that issue..."

Issue, a tissue, we all vpn.

Microsoft CEO feels weighed down by job cuts

Anyone who ever had a heart...

If he was laid off or replaced by someone cheaper it may weigh heavier on his heart. I'm assuming corporate bosses have a heart.

Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs isn't just a bad idea, it's the law*

Re: Out of curiousity

That looks like it. Glad its not me being thick as is usually the case. It had me stumped.

Out of curiousity

"This has very little to do, in theory or practice, with protecting children frI have om harm online, and everything about protecting Bluesky and Epic's bottom lines."

I'm not as up on acronyms as I should be I guess. What is "frl"?

Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits

Re: "without falling to bits"

You can bet your bottom Deutsche Mark that the unhappiness at a few minutes late was used to explain why privatisation was the solution.

Re: "without falling to bits"

Bhut, something, something, market efficiency.

Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions

Careful

"significant anomaly at the rear."

As a IBD sufferer I can vouch that anomalies at the rear are never fun and best avoided.

US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data

Re: There isn't a hurricane on the way

You're one of those sheeple aren't you. There's no such thing as weather, it's just a way for communist scientists to control us, duh.

(Hope I don't need a /s)

Salesforce adds AI to everything, jacks up prices by 6%

Customer service

Salesforce: Thank you for your order, would you like something extra?

Customer: No thank you, that's all please

Salesforce: Let me add something extra for you, you're welcome

Customer: I'm fine as it is

Salesforce: Let me add extra for you then, your custom is appreciated, have a nice day

Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone

$47.45

Should be $45.47 but every dollar counts.

US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name

Dad's Army

Not so much dad's army as fad's army.

As Europe eyes move from US hyperscalers, IONOS dismisses scaleability worries

Rats

Like rats jumping off the ship.

American science put on starvation diet

Thicker than thick

Well to a large segment of Trump voters the bible has all the science one needs. The strong undercurrent of anti-science thinking in the US has become the overcurrent. Rule by the thick for the thick, it'll turn out well. I'm thinking of learning Mandarin, it may stand me in good stead.

Even a humble keyboard is now political in Taiwan

Re: Funny how the dishonesty in the US

Obviously we get a curated version of these happenings while other parts of the world get the unvarnished truth. It also goes without saying they get curated versions of their part of the world too. News all over the world have their own local and domestic requirements when it comes to what to talk about and how.

Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits

Mean-Spiritedness

As is quite common nowadays, the numbers may be trivial, but the 'mean-ness' is the point.

You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection

It's a shocker innit.

Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush

Re: FFS

Motivational quotes such as 'Work sets you free'.

He can't!

He can't! I've just finished designing my avatar in paint. I spent flippin ages on that. :(

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

My asshole is more consistent and dependable, and I have Ulcerative Colitis.

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

Re: Me ?

The term FAFO comes to mind.

Meta debuts its first 'mixture of experts' models from the Llama 4 herd

Re: Reality be damned!

There's a reason that sciences and arts and rational though all 'lean to the left'. That's because rational humans lean to the left, it's those that don't that are the abberation.

Re: Ah, progress by numbers

If it's not Olympic sized swimming pools or double decker buses I'm not going to understand it.

Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms

Some things never change

"We’ve been clear that these lawsuits are without merit and would ultimately increase prices for patients and employers. We'll continue to defend ourselves through the legal process. In the meantime, we’re focused on continuing to deliver for our customers and patients."

In this Orwellian world we're in where peace = war, and love = hate, some long-standing corporate Orwellianisms provide some consistency "If you stop us from artificially putting prices up, prices will go up" they cry.

OpenAI asks Uncle Sam to let it scrape everything, stop other countries complaining

To copyright or not to copyright

Funny, one side of corporate America has used copyright laws to maintain hegemony and crush innovation. Now another corporate American is wanting to bypass copyright laws saying it crushes innovation. I suppose this guy will copyright the stolen copyright material though. I feel they make it up as they go along.

Think of the bosses though, if they have to abide by laws then they'd be out of a job, then where would we be? We know where they'd be, jobless or in prison, but where would we be?

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

Gaslighting Abuser

Their responses sound exactly like those of an abuser gaslighting their partner. "I'm keeping you locked in the house to protect you" "I'm keeping you in sight of my cameras so that you can have an enhanced life experience". "Don't you know I'm doing this for your own good, yet do you ever thank me? No you do not!"

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

Free enterprise

So companies are organs of the state, not 'free enterprise'. Reminds me of China, or certain regimes in Europe's gloomy past.

I'm not sure how this sits okay with the 'free market' types. Oh yes, money.

Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel

Re: Dicts?

You'd have to place it in the header as a dict head.

Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

The king is dead, long live the king!