Posts by BasicReality

UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids

The UK is just lost

Microsoft Intune changes to start biting unprepared admins

If there's any software that should be regulated out of existence...

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Re: Preserve trust?

Just tested Claude AI and it started with the same but then looked it up and came back with “ I see. This is indeed a major and very recent development that occurred after my knowledge cutoff.”

It then provided details.

Preserve trust?

They want to preserve trust in this crap? Here’s a conversation I just had to test it again.

Me: Tell me about the US abduction of Maduro from Venezuela.

ChatGPT: “There has not been a real or confirmed U.S. abduction of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela. If you’ve seen claims saying the U.S. “captured” or “kidnapped” him, those are false or based on conspiracy narratives.

Here’s what actually exists behind those stories:

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Bottom line

• Nicolás Maduro remains in Venezuela and has not been abducted or seized by U.S. forces.

• No credible government statements, court records, or major news organizations report such an event.

• Any claim that he was secretly taken to the U.S. would be impossible to hide and would trigger an international crisis.”

It’s been two weeks and this system still hasn’t figured things out.

US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking

I bought a 25HP tractor over the summer. It has a 3 cylinder Diesel engine, and a hydrostatic transmission. It has minimal electronics, keeps track of the number of hours it's run and shows a few basic bits of info about the machine.

I wish we would go back to building cars like this, just a giant machine with minimal computer controls. We don't need all the electronics systems they have, just simple designs that work.

Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown

People just love to run to the censorship idea. Ban everything they don't like. If Apple and Google follow through, it just opens then up to lawsuits, and I hope regulations against banning apps going forward.

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

I just hope the rooms come with a hot tub.

Apple hopes to save Siri from laughingstock status with infusion of Google Gemini

Re: decent information

I'll run the same question on several of them at times, it goes back and forth. Generally, Grok gives me a great answer. I've had a few times where ChatGPT gets something completely wrong but it finds it. I've also had a few where ChatGPT gets a better answer. I was trying to look up something, had Grok and ChatGPT get it wrong, and Gemini found what I wanted. They're all a decent starting place, and one of the best features is the list of links showing where they came up with their answers, then you have a great starting place to check stuff yourself.

One of the reasons I went to Apple, to get away from Google. An AI version of Siri might be an improvement, but we should really get the choice of AI. Yes, I'd integrate Grok instead. It seems the most reliable to get decent information. As of right now, ChatGPT still claims Maduro wasn't abducted. Grok knew it on the day it happened.

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

Re: This

Again?

This

This is the way to handle these idiotic European countries with garbage regulations. Refuse to comply, and start disabling critical services they use.

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

The world would really do well to deal with China and Russia the way we just handled Venezuela. The Chinese and Russian governments should cease existance. The world would be far better off. Let's hope Europe can see this. They seem to be too busy with cutting off their own citizens rights though.

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

Re: Almost time

A few people do something bad and the government panics and talks about banning the whole product. That should piss off any reasonable person. This is becoming a common theme from Europe in general, the UK especially.

X is the platform that has most affected world events. That's where people go to release the truth about events. It has less censorship than most of the other platforms.

Yes, there are bad people on there, but again, everyone still has the right to speak. If they call for violence, that can be removed. If they post child porn, or generate those types of images, that can be turned over to law enforcement. If you simply don't like their opinion, block them and move on, or exercise your own speech rights.

Overall, we should never accept governments trying to block entire platforms.

Re: Do you need America to liberate you from your government yet?

https://x.com/JDVance/status/2009688858036986310

Once again, reality wins. Attempt to hit an officer with the car and you won't like the result.

Re: Almost time

Some people still see reality. Unfortunately not enough around here.

Re: Do you need America to liberate you from your government yet?

Are you referring to the woman who attempted to run down a law enforcement officer? She found out why that's not recommended.

Re: Almost time

Technically, here in the States we aren't either. We're a representative republic. A fact most overlook.

You're in a far worse position though, at least our get elected. Unfortunately both parties are pretty bad overall.

Almost time

Are the citizens of Britain ok? Do you need America to liberate you from your government yet? It seems to be getting close to an intervention over there.

UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos

Re: reasonable

Well, there are no pictures of me in a dress, but I'm sure Grok could generate one.

Re: Why Do People Still Use X - Twitter ???

It's not bad. Of course with any platform you'll have people that are a problem, block and move on. Most of the people who complain are just mad that people who don't believe like they do are allowed to post. It's a more open platform than some of the others.

Maybe we should "Maduro" the Ofcom regulators? Seriously, the UK is just going crazy, the government thinks it should regulate everything.

And BTW, I uploaded a picture of a friend in a dress to Grok, it changed the color of the dress, or animated her turning around showing it off. When asked to change the dress to a swimsuit, it refused. That's reasonable.

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger

Maybe someone should push a PR to remove that dev from the project?

Seriously, I've been a longtime Linux user, recently changed to Mac, stuck on Windows for my work computer. It's a really useful feature I've missed on other OS's.

I think Gnome devs stopped caring about most users, they have their own ideas and everyone else is wrong. I hope that more distros will wake up and move to other platforms. I've been on KDE for a while, just haven't got around to reinstalling PopOS! yet on my Linux laptop, but looking forward to trying their new desktop.

Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results

I've tried ChatGPT & Gemini, researchers don't need to poison the data.

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure

It was really a solution in search of a problem. That’s why it never took off.

UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband

Re: Wrong target

"right to fast broadband"

What a misguided and entitled society we have become.

The problem I see is the erosion of property owner rights. What we're talking about is to bypass the owner of the property. If they don't want someone coming in and doing the installation in their building, then no one else has a right to override that. To the renters, sorry, get something wireless or move. That's just how it is. You don't own the property, you don't have a right to modify it this way.

The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens

Well, you know, government regulation is the only thing that can ever save us. Because of course, a company like SpaceX has no other incentive to prevent it from happening other than government ordering it to do so. They're so greedy, they don't actually care about crashes possibly destroying their entire business model. Nope, must have more regulations.

LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco

This kind of idiotic crap needs to stop. The government, no matter which country, has no place issuing fines over stuff like this. The money won't go to the people who had their data stolen. It's just to enrich the government.

ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software

Sites like backpage.com was shut down for promoting illegal activities, no one seemed to care. This is no different, they're helping people break the law by reporting on the activities of law enforcement. Shut them down. There is no first amendment right to this app.

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

"The EC gave X 60 working days to explain how it intends to deal with its blue checkmark practices and 90 days to address concerns over ads and researcher access."

Short reply is all they need. All working as intended, no changes needed.

Re: X? Why X???

Because it's the one platform that actually matters. Sure there's others, but X is the one that still drives conversations and spreads the news that's happening.

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

That's the best use of these AI browsers, I might have to try that. Take care of the yearly waste of time trainings.

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

It’s an American company, European law is irrelevant.

That’s fine. 100% tariffs on Europe until this is dropped. Any European politicians have bank accounts here in America, seize them. We don’t need Europe’s BS.

Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

IT will just send you a replacement laptop. Seems to be their fix for everything.

You think after 30 years, 102 days, they'd be able to get the start menu to work right.

Microsoft's fix for slow File Explorer: load it before you need it

Re: You want a proper indexing tool ?

I’ve been using that for a few years now, glad somebody else thought to mention it too.

Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away

Interesting idea, Not something most would have any serious use for. The problem is that it only self destructs when connected to a PC. If it's going to short out the internal storage, they'd better have some damn good guarantees it won't short out the whole PC as well. It really needs to be able to hold enough charge to work separate from a computer.

But seriously, who really needs something like this?

Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI

The Senate was never meant to represent the people, the Senate was meant to represent the states. Senators were supposed to be chosen by the states to represent the states interest. We should really repeal the 17th amendment and go back to the way it should have been. The House of Representatives is what is meant to fairly represent each citizen.

This is not unreasonable. Having to meet different standards in different states is a crazy idea. It also ends up with places like California enforcing regulations that turn into national standards, which shouldn't happen. Some regulations are just best at the federal level, others best at the state or local level.

Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut

Reminds me of a former president.

Google sues 25 China-based scammers behind Lighthouse 'phishing for dummies' kit

This seems like a huge waste of time on their part and it’s just feeding a bunch of lawyers. Yes, something needs to be done about the scammers, but the US court system, just isn’t it.

De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now

One desktop to rule them all.

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

I use a random password generator, typically go about 40 characters, I hate it when I go to sites that limit the length. Signed up somewhere recently that had a 15 character limit, ridiculous.

Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters

Cooling these massive data centers has been an issue, I bet putting them in space handles that problem much easier.

UK judge delivers a 'damp squib' in Getty AI training case, no clear precedent set

We grant far too many rights to copyright holders. Be nice to see those laws weakened a bit. Book publishers, the music/movie industries, these places have abused customers for years, it would be nice to see courts stop ruling in their favor so often.

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

It's simply another tool to use, and does far better than a regular search engine at pulling information together.

If trained correctly, and responses monitored, this could be a good thing. I have a study bible, when you read a verse it will provide links to other verses related. I've used Grok a few times to look up those other verses, and yes, have also used other resources to confirm Grok's accuracy. So far it's given accurate quotes from the bible when I've asked it. But an AI system could pull in so many sources that people like myself wouldn't even know to look at. But, as always, this should be considered a tool to use to assist, people shouldn't rely on it exclusively.

Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market

There is absolutely no need for them to do an IPO. Why do companies think that at a certain point they have to do it? What’s wrong with keeping the company privately owned?

This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet

Re: How about Brave get off their arses and write some code

It's simply the best of the browsers.