Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?

Re: Hey, I couldn't Organize a Piss-up in a Brewery, so Why Not Let me Cock Up Your Cuppa?

And why do you think it's a "security risk?" You already run Windows so it's obvious you don't really give a rat's patoot about security!

I agree - after seeing how many errors GitHub copilot produces and how long you have to argue with it to get it to do what you want, I'm not letting that steaming pile of shit touch anything outside an IDE.

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Re: Calm down...

The only "terrorists" I'm actually aware of are in the Oval Office...

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

Re: "in contravention of standard operating procedures"

The Department Of Government Evisceration is doing a wonderful job of paying back Putin for the Pumpkin Fuhrer...

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

Re: Chaotic fu**wit continues to cause chaos.

Of course he needs the money - he still owes many millions to Putin & co.

The summary says there is "no certainty" at this time. There is actually plenty of certainty in the world.

For example, I am absolutely certain that the Pumpkin Fuhrer and Muscolini will screw up absolutely everything they touch while the Republican lap dogs beg to "suck it" for Trump.

Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp

You keep deluding yourself that the world loves being raped by American businesses...

I'm not an American; my education included basic socio-economic terminology and theory as agreed upon by world history in the EU, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Funny how often the "American Definition" for those same global terms has completely different meaning in the US.

I blame the American "education" system.

Put that fascist right the hell out of business before he interferes with any more elections...

AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed

Nobody "owes" Bezos profits...

Tough shit, Bezos - Windows isn't "open source" like everything you use from the community but refuse to pay support for!

Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter

Re: Ouch

No, it has nothing to do with tariffs, but with technology restrictions. But NVidia has been far from honest on the issue, constantly "getting around" the restrictions by making minor changes to their parts and cards so they "don't qualify" for the restrictions imposed. As far as I'm concerned, that's bullshit that the CEO should have been criminally charged for.

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

It's just evidence that the White House has access to the very finest of Cocaine and Meth imported from Columbia and Mexico by their CIA operatives...

China ups tariffs on US goods to 125%, calls Trump's war a 'joke'

Re: On day one...

Why would anyone want to buy a cesspool of guns, drugs, alcohol, and illiterate Trump supporters?

Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

Re: Alleged Use Case

Depends on USSC rulings and the administration at the time in the end as to what happens with this intrusive and risky nightmare.

Re: ...better choices

Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 is an offshoot of Mint the Ubuntu desktop that derives directly from Debian 12, but with additional repos by default. Not one fragment comes from Ubuntu on LMDE.

Come to the Debian side, not the Ubuntu side...

Although I refuse to abide by American-led identification of the masses, I can certainly understand why the Pumpkin Fuhrer's Fascist/Nazi administration would want to identify and track the information and activities of all users, citizens or not, protected by US rights or not, but at the will of the second most petty and childish man on the planet next to his unelected South African buddy...

To me, this is just a nail-in-the-coffin reason to say "Oh hell no!" to anything and everything on the market with a supported or potentially supported in the future "New Pocket Unloader."

And if they try to use my Nvidia card to support "Recall EVERYTHING YOU DID on your favorite gambling, porn, chat, dating, banking, tax account, retirement portfolio, etc for easy access by LEO requests remotely from our always on, always connected, backdoored Windows Hello AI PC.", well then, it would just be time to shift back to LMDE 6 and say "Screw Satya and the USG three letter agencies!" for one final time...

The most important experimental distro you've never heard of gets new project lead

Let's be realistic, though. Even with a full suite of tools and personal data, a distro installation in its entirety still rarely exceeds 250GB, usually more like 40-60GB of storage. So even if you took entire copies of the distro for your versions, you could store a minimum of 8 snapshots on a 2TB SSD...

Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs

I've been looking into GitHub copilot information online, trying to make sense of how you can use it to analyze, correct, and enhance an existing code base.

I'm surprised how many keyword tokens and phrases are required to work with it.

Surprise, surprise, but without actually having contextual models, mutable memory so those models can be updated, and an actual understanding of what they mean, "natural language" input still doesn't exist.

You have to use phrases and terms the computer is happy with, not what comes naturally to you.

OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit

In an ideal world, those two would enter Thunderdome and the crowd could ensure "two men enter, no man leaves!"

Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney

Re: Minor correction

Well, there was a robot specifically for optical media at a bank I worked for that had a capacity of 1000 CDs or DVDs with two player slots that was entirely controlled and searchable by the management software on it.

It existed to serve the legal requirement for a 7 year immutable search history of the bank transactions, I believe.

This was a pretty much retired unit by 2000 and it's data was going to "age out" in a couple more years.

The newer models were bigger and faster...

Re: Minor correction

Not at all. CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs all deteriorate faster than tape, store far less per disk than a tape does, and requires several times the number of storage management robots as a result.

But of course Muscolini's sycophants gape-mouthed drooling conclusion is that he "must" by "smarter" than everyone else in IT. *LOL*

Re: leader of the free world

Yeah, but in theory the US has a system of checks and balances, where Congress, Senate, and Supreme Court are supposed to reign in a rogue president.

They seem to be rather notoriously absent, save for judges whose rulings Trump just blatantly ignores. That kind of criminal activity should justify immediate impeachment for violation of his oath of office, but when the government is comprised of lapdogs and spineless cowards for the most part, that is incredibly unlikely to happen before the mid terms.

I expect physically violent riots in the US long before the midterms if the idiot in charge remains unchecked. In fact, I expect it within 2-3 months!

Meta's AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you

I've actually been intentionally verbose on Facebook because I was planning to download my history and do just that some day. My account is my extremely verbose mostly-public journal, though the privatized segment of it's history dwarfs what remains what remains public since I list did a "friends only" hiding of the most recent bi-polar meltdown gone awry.

So have at it, Zuck. Simulate away. I'm not replaceable based on Facebook posts; that ignores all my actual experience about IT and related subjects that leads me to make my statements. You can't simulate what you don't have a model for...

April's Patch Tuesday leaves unlucky Windows Hello users unable to login

Co-Pilot already did fix it for the April patch fest... :)

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Re: Faaaark

Muscolini is emphatically not the "genius at all things" that his sycophants believe him to be, and 20-something hackers are not experienced enough to meddle with such a carefully tuned and tweaked and babysat system as what they messed with.

In fact, allowing such people to mess with your code base usually precludes the sudden realization that the entire database has been corrupted and you've lost the last 20 years of records...

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

Re: We asked....if this would be an opt-in feature

Great. More Microslop crap to disable and remove for the sake of sanity..

Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

Re: My hot tip

Oh, come on, Windows 11 isn't all that intrusive once you disable the AI and remove it, disable the widgets, and get rid of the "pre installed 365 experience".

China hits back at America with retaliatory tariffs, export controls on rare earth minerals

Re: Can they do this ?

I look forward to the entire world hitting back at the unjustified American tariffs. And I do blame America, not just Trump, because Congress, Senate, and Court system that are supposed to be the "checks and balances" to prevent this kind of rogue behaviour are notoriously absent and therefore complicit with his behaviour.

The only way to deal with a bully is to fight back to the best of your ability, and if the whole class rises up against them, the bully is in for a sound thrashing indeed.

Besides, China has trillions in assets they've earned being the world's manufacturer; they can afford to go toe-to-toe with the American administration on this.

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

Re: Bullies think those they are bullying will back down

The problem with a bully is they never expect the entire freaking class of students to rise up and pummel the ever-living shit out of them for being bullies... but I do believe that is what the world at large is doing to Trump.

Re: Question.

Why the Americans ever allowed a convicted criminal to even run for President is beyond me...

Does that apply to his imported MAGA hats, too? :P

EU may target US tech giants in tariff response

Gee, that's a shame. I wonder how the US population is going to respond to those 60%+ tarrifs on Chinese goods at Wal-Mart and the like...

Tit-for-tat just pisses off Trump, yes, and he responds with more tariffs - which increase prices for the American consumer even more. He's already cost the American Citizen 10-25% of their spendable income, which goes to the corporations to pay for the extra cost of their products, padding the income stream of said corporations and the magnates who own them. The billionaires he actually listens to are loving it, but the people are starting to rise up by the millions against the abuses of this tyrant.

Even if he declares martial law to protect his lard-ridden arse, there are militia in the US that claim to have spent their whole lives preparing to prevent just such an event.

Widespread bloodshed will result...

I'm pretty sure even the idiots in the Congress and Senate as it stands now will realize that is going to make them unelectable for the foreseeable future; no one wants to see the US degenerate into a civil war except Putin, and that man owns Trump lock, stock, and over-the-barrel.

Re: Skidmark across the pages of history...

Sorry, but Brexit only impacted the UK. The Pumpkin Hitler's stupidity is affecting the whole world. There is no comparison...

Canada OKs construction of first licensed teeny atomic reactor

Typical circle jerk government. "You can build it, but we haven't decided if you can ever turn it on..."

And you wonder why governments around the world are so deeply in the red!

Trump fires NSA boss, deputy

Re: NSA

Besides, Trump would shut down any reports before they were made public to embarrass him.

US DoE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land

For what? No one wants to do business with Americans until you've impeached and prosecuted and convicted the Pumpkin Fuhrer and his buddy, Muscolini and rebuilt the government institutions that they've been busy destroying. Even then the world's nations are unlikely to ever trust the Americans again... you blew it big time.

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

Re: I feel liberated already...

Trump supporters don't like facts. They prefer Trump's lies because they're comforting to their Grade 4 educations...

Re: I feel liberated already...

Ah well, what does it matter how the psycho came up with his bullshit numbers? Everybody knows they're bullshit except him, and he's just signed up the US for the worst inflation and depression since the 1930's. And for exactly the same reason: because although tariffs sound like they should work, but they've been proven time and time again throughout history to cause the direct opposite effect of the one desired.

But Der Fuhrer Trump has a grade 4 education, so he can't read history books, and he's too bloody stubborn to listen to those who can read.

Remember: the suicidally stupid segment of the American population voted for mass inflation - blame them; Trump can't help being a moron, but people shouldn't have encouraged him.

Data doesn't lie, but Microsoft's new Power BI prices might make you cry

Gotta pay for the "AI Enhancement" of their portfolio somehow! May as well be through the time tested practice of screwing the customer.

Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole

Well, it's a good thing I reinstalled Windows 11 Pro when I did then, because my mobo's network interface isn't supported by the Windows installer and I see no options for installing drivers before the installation proceeds without networking available...

Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

Don't worry - he's just getting started. Next week he's broadcasting America's nuclear arsenal inventory details to 100 random people on his GMail address book...

Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal

Re: "xAI and X's futures are intertwined."

Not now that Muscolini OWNS the USG and whatever was left of Trump after Putin's creditors claimed their share.

Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare

Re: AI PC's were a Gimmick

Lenovo has done some innovation around whole-system integration and cooling solutions that Dell seems to kind of flail and flop at, which is why Dell "servers" are more prone to overheating...

Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts

Anything that slows down the Pumpkin Hitler and his buddy, Muscolini, is a good thing. I'd rather the impeachment and charges of treason came sooner rather than later, but these two psychotic toddlers might be on stage until the midterms unless more Republicans remember what actual patriotic behavior is, and sprout spines.

VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores

VirtualBox 7.1.6 runs my oldest VM, an Ubuntu 22.04 installation, just fine. That's the only VM that outlived my career, as it has all my old hobby project work in it's github instance hosted therein. I like to be able to back that up separately from everything else whenever I've put some time in on my pet projects (which hasn't been in a very long time now, as they're just kind of long in the tooth and I'm trying to decide what, if anything, to do with them all...)

The nut of it is that Oracle doesn't want my money unless I'm paying for 1000 seats of their software, so clearly they consider me too small to worry about - one guy running his own VMs on one box is kind of "under the radar" of being worth the effort of collecting money from - they'd spend more processing the bill than they'd earn, especially in this age of Trumpian and Canadian-response tarrifs. (Stupid approach. The last time the US did this, they entered the stockmarket crash of the 1930's and subsequent massive recession. But fools never learn, and Trump is the Ultimate Fool with his sidekick Tool...)

Congress takes another swing at Uncle Sam's software licensing mess

Oh, come on, this is amateur hour for any serious thing called "management!"

What the hell are the "managers" in government doing if they can't even track their own expenses and ROI on those expenses? What do they "manage"? Access to the doughnut stash in the break room?