Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security

And the disparity between "have" and "have not" in the world just keeps growing by leaps and bounds with the likes of Ellison playing with obscenely expensive toys like his yacht while the "average" employee gets the shaft to pay for it all...

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid

Get those psychos off the kernel list before we get a "Recall" style privacy nightmare and Microslop "code quality" injection from them that borks the whole thing.

Artificial Ignorance: Just say "no damned way in hell!"

Microsoft reaches for yet another out-of-band patch to deal with latest update issue

It doesn't take months or years to implement quality control - it's just a matter of actually giving a shit and doing testing. Clearly Microslop doesn't give a shit despite the words.

US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems

And if you install Linux on your old Windows 10 hardware, that's one less sale they make while you still have a perfectly usable computer.

Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession

All around the Mulberry bush

The monkey chased the weasel

The monkey thought it all in fun

'Til POP goes the BU-bble!

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures

Microslop: The same Artificial Ignorance that brought you the last three deployment disasters this month strikes again...

Meta cuts about 700 jobs as it shifts spending to AI

*chuckle* You actually got me to laugh out loud with that one!

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

No need to opt out. I stopped using GitHub Copilot after experimenting with it and a few different LLMs and their code suggestions for a couple weeks to deal with one particular issue I had. I didn't like the way I found it working, so I haven't used it for anything else - I consider it a fraudulent technology. Sure it spits out text super-fast, but it isn't sane text, and you have to spend more time fixing the mistakes it made than it would have taken to just do it from scratch without making mistakes in the first place.

Talk about a balloon waiting to be popped; this whole "agentic" mission is just more Bafflegab for the Peons who Pay The Bills.

And man are those bills ever getting big considering it doesn't even work as promised...

Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China’s top AI models

If you care to actually read the article:

"Per analysis by Google researcher Laurie Kirk puts it nearly on par with Apple’s M1 chip – which the iGiant launched in the year 2020."

That's performance only 6 years behind what was considered one of the most efficient and high performance processors of the year.

But do you really need to match "modern" CPU performance to be useful in serving workloads? From what I understand, most web environments run dozens or hundreds of CPU threads at relatively low performance, but with massive parallelism. So you slap enough of these new RISC-V processors in a cabinet, and you're going to serve some serious web capacity, even if it isn't as "efficient" as the latest and greatest.

How many enterprises have you worked at that run the latest and greatest? How many of you can afford the virtual systems on offer that promise deployment on the latest and greatest hardware instead of a 4-6 year old blade?

Parallelism definitely changes the metrics of "what can I do with it?"

Considering where RISC-V performance was even 2-3 years ago, this is a landmark processor.

NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers

It'll happen because Drumpf says "Bing Bang Boom Whoosh!" *LMAO*

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

Re: this is what I don't get

I don't even vaguely resemble Donald... :P

Age checks are only Phase I.

Next come the USG controlled "system kill switch" options.

Der Pumpkin Fuhrer will NOT stand by and be criticized by liberal minded technoweenies.

Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'

Re: Peak Musk...

Musk has lost and and all grasp on reality in his isolated little evil stronghold retreat on Mt. Doom. Too many sycophants saying "Yes Sir" and not enough saying "You're a freaking loon on that one, you are Sir"

Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor

Okay, that's fine for moderate amounts, but what about those of us who consume 8-12 mugs of "programming fuel" a day?

UK blinks on AI copyright carve-out after star-studded revolt

"The government has no preferred option" aka "No matter what we do, we look like wankers, so we're going to do nothing"

Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update

A restart may help, but I guarantee installing a decent Linux distro will!

Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing unsuspecting users

I wonder if this kind of "bait and switch" is even legal in Canada... probably is in the US - we tend to have slightly better consumer protection laws in Canada, but not much better.

Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave

Malicious ignorance is still ignorance. And both ignorant decisions were made long after IBM subsumed RedHat.

Re: Does This Claude Feature Mean...

No, Richard, we're still not going to call it GNU/Linux. Do piss off already with your whinging about it.

Between this and Wayland, IBM and the RedHat team would seem to be the source of the most ignorant decisions ever made about Linux; their whole disaster of code should be ripped out, because next up is embedding some damned kill switch under the guise of "think of the children" in the US. Unfortunately even my Debian system is infested with systemd. That garbage is almost everywhere!

'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge

The problem is that even if the EU rips Broadcom a new butthole for doing so, they'll still be a 100% asshole company.

IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab

Re: re: the systematic rape and pillage of US jobs being offshored to India.

Bingo. But unfortunately most people are missing your point that the true enemy of the common people are the CEOs and business magnates who buy entire governments, not the people overseas scraping for a living the same as them.

Not even 50 measly thousand a year for the average IBM'er.

French Revolution time, methinks...

GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center

Good bye, Gnome. You were an okay desktop, but you just jumped the shark. Wayland uses a software buffer for every frame rendered so it bloody well sucks farts off dead chickens steaming in the August heat for performance.

MORONS!

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

Re: Agreed

The fact the models can't learn new content on the fly just proves they aren't "intelligent" in any useful sense. They're just statistical snapshots, and always out of date and therefore useless for anything except hallucinating and faking news about current events. That's why companies like Apple had to drop the "news summary" feature of their products; the summaries are wrong because they're based on out-of-date information.

Aaaaaiiiiiiiiii!!!!! *Leaps off cliff*

This fellow has hit the nail on the head: There is no substitute for intelligent human beings in the mix, and punishing them for not meeting the wrong metrics just buries the business deeper in the hold of wasted spend,

Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth

Don't complain so much. The ads are getting through and the AI infestation continues unabated so everything is going to plan....

West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times

15 times what was bid and still no lawsuit? Who did Oracle pay off?

Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI

While I'm a big fan of the GPL and LGPL, I'm also well aware that Stallman is an idealist who'll die on his cross of freedom of the source rather than compromise for the sake of expediency and profits.

I'm somewhat more pragmatic. My goal in putting something under the LGPL is not to restrict how it is used in any way, but just to encourage the public user community to submit patches and fixes for the benefit of everyone. Putting something undere GPL is a recognition that some people might pay for this, and to leverage some licensing fees out of them for a commercial license. See? Pragmatism - and profits.

But in the end, I believe all source code should be published and available for inspection so that users of the software can verify for themselves that it isn't doing anything nefarious or crazy with their data. To those who don't feel the same, all I can say is: What's the matter? You ashamed of your code?

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

"Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!" -- Mel Brooks "Blazing Saddles"

Musk makes the Macrohard joke again

*Pfffft* "And then we simulate an entire company and... *pffft* *cough* *cough* steal all their money!"

GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan

Students always expect "free" or "subsidized" services. A more self-entitled lot there has never been, unless its the stream of litigants claiming they deserve money because someone "offended" them online.

Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack

In the race for "Who has the most CVE's?" Microslop wins thanks to their Artificial Ignorance advantage...

White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms

Either the US has copyright laws or it doesn't. Make an example out of Drumpf & co.! Put the MPAA and RIAA to some actual use for a change!

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Re: Comparing fruits

Giving "the powers that be" the ability to block you from using your own computer because it has decided that you are suddenly "underage" is a threat far too easy for exploitation to be ignored. I would never grant the incompetent branch of society known as "government" from having such control over my system.

BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge

Ooo... Ptomaine Poisoning - a Pestilence for the Putrid Peasants. :)

Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns

Kudos! Good job, people.

There is nothing lower than the scum who try to rip off the elderly and weaker minded individuals in society with these scams.

I'll skip the details of what I tell them when I end up speaking to such low lives; suffice to say I can be extremely rude and nasty when I think it is called for...

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Re: The Idiocracy!

Reading my plethora of anti-Pumpkin Fuhrer posts, they'd find a reason to detain me, and rather than sending me back to Canada, would send me off to some shithole nation's prison system for the "crime" of saying that Nazism/Fascism has grabbed the US by the nether regions...

Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones

Although I do make enough use of my cell phone to need a data plan, I don't use it for gaming, AI, remote access, etc., so I've never needed to install any "out of band" applications on it. I'm curious - can someone provide an example of a "must have" application like that which a more intense user of an Android phone might require rooting their phone to do/use? Is this something you do on a daily basis, or is it something you just did once or twice to prove it could be done?

Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought

Nonsense - they bragged about destroying Iranian centrifuges by hacking the controllers over a decade ago. But the Orange Menace hates not being first and regularly lies about such things.

Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

Re: Big deal!

I think they mean if you offend Trump, you can expect him to sic government agents and charges against you regardless of the legality of said charges...

Grok was trained on the very worst examples of humanity through Xitter feeds and the likes of 4chan and 8chan.

What else did you expect it to do except spout racist, bigoted right-wing conspiracy theories and argument-baiting bullshit?

Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids

Not to worry. When the bubble bursts because the corporations have clued in that LLMs are just fancy expensive snake oil, the existing capacity won't see anywhere near full utilization.

The AI bit barns are going to end up as bankrupt as those who built them

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

You realize this is only an issue for FOSS in the US. The rest of the world can (and should) tell the Americans to "stuff it, Nazi!"

Russia I can agree on, China not so much. They've built the surveillance and monitoring network that the Americans are trying to emulate, but China only did it for their own citizens instead of trying to infect and monitor the whole damned planet.

To HELL with the Fascist States of America under Der Pumpkin Fuhrer, and the rubber-stamping complicit Senate and Congress that are going along with the illegal invasions, illegal tarrifs, and illegal mass murder of civilian populations. You are NOT a "bastion of freedom" any more; not even CLOSE. You've become the greatest threat the entire planet faces today, and show no signs of changing course.

Canada, the EU, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand must unite and defend the planet from this latest rise of the ugly scum of Fascism, the same as we did in WWII.

Don’t blame AI yet for poor jobs numbers, analysts say

Let's be blunt: those jobs were lost because of Trump's tarrifs making it unaffordable for companies to pay the staff the wages they now need just to survive this illegal consumption tax on the population. Yes, AI affected the tech job market, but most of those job losses are not technology jobs.

Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation

I don't know about that. He's got at least two neurons establishing a connection from time to time at random, so although he doesn't have any coherent thoughts, he's closer to a thinking organism than Der Pumpkin Fuhrer is!

Re: Screwed?

Like any "good player of the game", Anthropic is good at putting on a show while knowing full well what the overall plan of the oligarchs is. Don't forget, in "1984" the perpetual lie, the perpetual war, the perpetual editing of "history", and the perpetual oppression of the masses is the mantra, and it is abundantly clear that these psychos are treating that text of warning as a guideline for how to set up and successfully run a Fascist Empire.

Anthropic knows the fascists win if the American people are foolish enough to think that Trump would accept election results that go against him; he's already proven he'll use bald faced lies and an insurrection to reject such votes.

He should have been hung as a traitor after his first insurrection. Now it is probably too late to stop him without World War III between the EU, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand vs. the now-fascist US. Our nations have a long tradition of fighting fascists, rather than being last minute cowards who claim they were "responsible" for a globally coordinated assault and victory. The Americans started with the history rewrites decades ago; they've been preparing for this most of my life.