Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

Re: Let's see...

But most important of all, the gift strokes the Pumpkin Fuhrer's ego, and that is all he really cares about...

VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals

Re: How is this legal?

It wouldn't be in Canada; here if you merge a company, you merge not just their assets, but their liabilities, and you are legally required to honour the agreements the acquired company entered into. A contract is a contract, even a digital one.

Apple patched one first, but Microsoft’s blasted five exploited flaws this Pa-Tu

Gee, the only Microsoft update I got today was for VSCode.

Guess there are advantages to running Linux aside from being able to run all your Docker-CUDA loads, not just the ones that use precompiled vector sizes and types.

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

Truth hurts, doesn't it, downvoter? Take a look at all the rights being suppressed south of the Canadian border, all the people being illegally arrested or detained, including visitors to your country who never were any "threat" in the first place.

You've FINISHED the job of turning into a paranoid shithole. You STARTED the job as soon as 9/11 happened and you started parking paramilitary "police officers" all over the nation.

Now you're so paranoid about even the media and reporters that you'd rather believe a con-man's outright and easily disproven lies, even though it has cost you your international reputation, your trade partners, your security agreements, and untold billions in withdrawn purchases from around the world. "Making America Grotesquely Anti-democratic."

Mark my words: in 20 years, those red MAGA hats will be looked on with all the "love" that KKK robes and Nazi paraphanalia from Germany are today...

That was before it became the New Nazi States of America under the Pumpkin Fuhrer and Muscolini... it's anything but an equality-minded democracy now.

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

Re: Reasons not to upgrade to Windows 12

1. Artificial Ignorance screwing things up

2. "recall" being used to scrape and transmit screenshots at cop's requests using your mandatory "always on" connection.

3. Linux is free.

4. Linux doesn't require hardware upgrades.

5. Only once have I seen a Linux environment hacked.

6. Steam with Proton Experimental enabled will run over 90% of my windows games just fine, though they take longer to start up.

7. Who the hell wants to give the Nazi States of America a dime while the Pumpkin Fuhrer is messing with the global economy and security to stroke his own insane ego?

Screw Microsoft and Satya and their AI nightmare.

LMDE6 rules.

And will forever more; I'm not switching back to the ineffective bugfest again. Turns out that all the CUDA loads and docker images I couldn't get running on Windblows run just fine under LMDE6... on the exact same hardware. The problem isn't hardware support; it's vendors who lack functioning brain cells...

US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check

Re: highly regarded AI

Only three more years of near-misses and crashes to go. I'm sure all Americans feel much safer now. {/SARCASM]

After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – job cuts, leaning on AI

Re: Makes sense...

But now we'll be able to blame the computer and sue the vendor instead of having to take the hit of it being caused by human error. We think it's a winner!

Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI

No, the BS from tech-bro billionaires out to rip off society will never stop because their greed for more never ends. Look at Musk - despite having billions to his name, he still wants even more. The man is seriously fucked in the head!

NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs

Re: Sigh

They are rolling their own applications based on tools available, same as they always did after the 70s

Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency

"Hiring mandates?"

Let's start by bringing back everyone Muscolini fired...

Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy?

Re: Earn?

But to hear him cry about uptake in the EU and elsewhere would have you thinking they were on the verge of bankruptcy. The only thing he has actually done is to skim corporate profits to play golf with potential customers. Tough job, eh?

Time to EARN the pay instead of whining like a baby about the tariffs imposed by the idiot YOU ELECTED

‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix

It's the Trump "Art of The Deal" management to be utterly and completely full of shit when putting out press releases, apparently. Either that, or Broadcom's management has "connections" in the CIA to gain access to the same ultra pure crack that the Pumpkin Fuhrer enjoys so much...

Stop Pakistani content at the border, India tells media, tech biz

Trump and Modi should get together with Nutter'n'yahoo and have themselves a big old CIA supplied crack party...

37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions

You think cloud vendors rip you off? Wait until you get your "AI" bills...

Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you

Trump brain hurt. Use 4 letter words, please...

IT pros are caught between an AI rock and an economic hard place

I'm done retraining and retooling. I've done it all my career and at 61, I'm just flat out tired of fighting to still end up living paycheque to paycheque.

Retirement beats the stuffing out of spending my remaining years arguing with computer "AI" systems to get them to do what I want, and fixing the bugs they inevitably create.

Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all – at least for consumers

Re: Why trust Microsoft ?

Not to worry. You can always get plastic surgery...

Or switch to LMDE6.

Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

Re: Censorship on foreign produced movies

They need to get this crackhead in the Oval Office into treatment already - his brain is so fried he can't even put together coherent tantrums anymore, never mind making any actual sense!

Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet

Re: Oh the irony...

Well, they interfere with profits.

And unlike the Ferengi who follow the Rules of Acquisition, the Pumpkin Fuhrer and Muscolini both blatantly and explicitly ignore the regulations and laws of the US, choosing instead to denigrate and interfere with the judiciary that is doing their JOB of reminding this rogue leadership that their powers are NOT those of a dictator nor without limitation.

Re: What will China want in return?

Hand ANY humanoid robot a weapon that a human can carry and suddenly you have an automated weapons platform...

Re: What will China want in return?

I just find it amusing that mere weeks after Muscolini was promising "millions" of them in a year or two, he suddenly has an excuse to ship none.

Convenient, eh?

As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses

Re: But when deeper thought was required, ChatGPT fared poorly.

Not without an absolutely tremendous amount of work and shift of focus to context-aware models and long-term memory of evolving topics of discussion, such as working as a true development partner that remembers the design decisions on the project at hand from inception to date like a real programmer does.

LLMs as they exist now are just statistical experiments in fraud. They are not "intelligent" on the least, with absolutely no awareness of the meaning or intent of what you are asking, just that statistically, this text should be barfed back in response.

Re: But when deeper thought was required, ChatGPT fared poorly.

The problem with trying to teach students to recognize when the AI is wrong requires knowing enough about the possible answers to do so. We have the same issue with conspiracy theorists - they count on the audience being too uneducated to realize they're being fed a line of bullshit.

Siri? Will tariffs hurt Apple? Tim Cook says brace for a $900M whack, for starters

Re: Times are going to be tough....

In other contrary order, I do believe that the Pumpkin Fuhrer intended them to shift production to US soil, not Vietnam et. al.

Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills

Like you can't afford it, you whinging self-entitled pissant!

Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush

Well, we built these prototypes, see, but they required a PS5 top of the line console for each eye display, and a specialized 1440p 2HD pair of microdisplays that cost us about $25,000USD for each experimental rig. Once we got Quake II Remastered running on it, there was a run on developers and "developers assistants" ordering the rigs to play the game in VR mode...

Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%

Re: Trump - Terminating the constitution

Very specific cases, like his personal enemies and opponents...

Re: Still, there IS a chill8ing effect,,,

I predict riots in the US within six months if the Pumpkin Hitler and Muscolini aren't leashed and their fantasies of unchecked power dashed ignominously.

Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends

Seeing as it was Muscolini and his Xitter "platform" that were the primary spreader of the misinformation and he's not in the UK, I fail to see how a UK law could have dealt with it unless it allowed for completely blocking the Xit Storm.

Intel tweaks its 18A process with variants tailored to mass-market chips, big AI brains

Good old Intel. Constantly going on about upcoming technology and then expecting you to pay premium prices for the crap that is shipping now.

Why would I care about future nodes and processes that have nothing to do with what is actually available and not just another "someday" forecast?

It isn't like Intel has even been able to deliver on their behind-TSMC technology on time for over a decade!

Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA

"requiring us to offer an inferior cash generation service."

There was a typo above. The only thing Zuckerborg cares about is a degradation of the cash hoovering services Crackbook runs.

Screw the self-entitled US and their egotistical "leader." They don't get to dictate law and policy to the rest of the world.

EU Chips Act heading for failure, time for Chips Act 2.0

Sorry, but given the current market shares, 20% is fantasy in anything less than two-decade timeframes, because the existing players haven't stopped building out infrastructure and capacity either.

BOFH: The Prints of Darkness pays a visit

"I'm not sure how deep the sump is, but I know for a fact that it can take half a dozen of Design and Style's office chairs without breaking the water line." *BWAHAHAHAH!!!

New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant

Re: Just fuck off.

Exactly. The suits at any moderately-large corporation neither know nor give a shit about their employees, save for the 3-4 they pass on the way to their office and chat with.

To a suit, an employee is just an expense, not a part of production. Which would, of course, be why companies like Intel and IBM are committing long-term suicide, and are starting to see the results of those misguided "profits first" ideas.

Assassin's Creed maker faces GDPR complaint for forcing single-player gamers online

They emphatically do not let you opt out! Maybe try playing some games released after 2010 and see for yourself.

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

Re: Dementia

I see the Trumptards are out in full force. Tough shit - your guy is a psychotic loon in need of therapy.

Re: Dementia

He is suffering from dementia; there is no other rational explanation for his psychotic behaviour. The man should be sent to a mental health facility for care and treatment, not be running anything!

Hey Google, if Chrome is going to be single soon, OpenAI is interested

Talk about leaping from the frying pan into the fire; I can't imagine anyone worse to take over chrome!

Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE

Re: Oligarchs

They really should change the tag from "Anonymous Coward" to "Anonymous Ignorant Asshole."

Re: Oligarchs

Rather literally when crossed...

ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations

Re: Only option ?

At the rate DOGE and MAGA are destroying the heart of what used to be the USA, I expect it's the US that's going to be falling into a pre-industrial society within the next decade...

Microsoft rated this bug as low exploitability. Miscreants weaponized it in just 8 days

They were speaking "American", not English like the rest of the world. Poor Yankees can't even spell properly!

"American" means hearing or reading exactly what you want to hear, and facts be damned about what was actually said. If need be, engage selective hearing to only detect a soundbite out of a 5 minute monologue, and think that is the "meaning" of it all. Especially if doing otherwise involves a hard dose of reality dashing one's dreams and fantasies of power and control over the world.

Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure

Re: Hmmm

It is perfectly normal for any vendor to give themselves "a discount" on their own damned products! Just because Windows doesn't come for "free" like open source software does is not Microsoft's "fault"; they don't "owe" companies like Google or Amazon anything. Nor is this an issue of "monopolistic behaviour." You don't need a monopoly to take advantage of locking in your customers; just ask Apple about that.

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

I found a use for GitHub co-pilot free edition. I've been letting it generate prototypes of some stuff that I already know can be done, but the samples and documentation I'd been working with are years out of date with current standards, so I asked the LLM (Claude 3.6 I believe) to produce code to do what I described doing without being any more specific about how to do it than I had to in order to coax the fool thing into producing the kind of Java object source I wanted to see.

It came up with some surprising simplifications and improvements on some things, and a completely different way of tackling another issue that I hadn't thought of, even though I'd used that feature to implement composite keys in the past.

I have other tools for bulk code production once I know how to write a proper solution to an issue. Much faster tools (I just got the creaky old code base up and running again for them tonight, version 2.13 of MSS Code Factory is alive again after over half a decade idle, but using modern maven packages (there were surprisingly few code changes required despite the years gone by.) So obviously I'd never run it on this hardware before, as this hardware is only 3-4 years old.

It took seconds to produce my sample code once I got it running cleanly so error log output wasn't slowing it down (not to mention the larger aggravation of erroneous code production.)

I definitely had a productive 61st birthday yesterday and into the wee hours of the morning. Next I need to start applying the new code styles to what I produce... and then implement some new ideas and features that I've picked up over the intervening years.

Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog

Re: It may not be Russia.

Americans can't even spell properly and you want them to use words from French?

He already has been paid millions by the Russians in loans when no REAL bank was willing to get anywhere near his multiple bankruptcy ass...