Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too

No where near enough billions to stop the Asshole In Charge at ZuckerCorp from abusing everybody. Nail that ignorant little pissant for all he's worth - and all his tech-bro buddies, too!

Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave

Re: No matter

Unless, of course, you re-interpret SCO as "Scummy Crass Obscenities" and utter them to relieve your stress. :)

Re: "...decide it was cheaper to buy them off than to fight them in court"

The problem is anyone who settles such a suit has just hung a big red "Sucker!" flag on their business, inviting more such lawsuits. Unless you're as scummy as those doing the suing, you always have to fight off the patent trolls and legal slime in the industry.

The only ones making money here are the lawyers, thanks to stupid people willing to spend money on an utterly futile hope for a miracle win of money.

They'd have better luck playing Lotto 6/49 in Canada, or Power Ball in the US.

McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI'

When a technology is over-hyped and over-sold with such massive investments and future price increases to cover the cost of those bit-barn investments, there will never be a RETURN on investment for anyone except those running the bit-barns unless one is very, Very, VERY lucky and realigned the business to do its thing using the reworked process flows required. That has always been the fly in the ointment for new technology - in order to realize the gains and purported benefits, you have to restructure your business models and workflows.

Very few organizations are willing to bet the farm that way, so they don't realize the benefits in any significant way.

Just remember the sunk cost fallacy when it comes time to renew those Artificial Ignorance contracts. If you haven't seen benefits in two years of investments, you're just burning cash on a dead end.

SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year

So he sends a rack instead of Tesla into orbit. He's still a damned MORON whose sole purpose in life is pumping stocks artificially with his BULLSHIT claims about his "businesses" capabilities and ability to deliver anything useful instead of buzzword-bingo.

Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update

AI slop strikes again.

C'mon people, why do you stick with that piece of schite? Especially if you're running WindBlows 10 and facing upgrades, you're facing major retraining requirements, so you may as well invest in training on a stable Linux platform.

What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble

Re: Comparing apples and merenges

A larger context means more information is considered and processed, which in turn allows more complex processing or over more data at a time. This is very useful when doing a full-module refactoring or restructuring, and the primary reason the AI vendors aren't going to be eliminated no matter how good the open weights models get - very few organizations can spin up the raw hardware needed to run an open weights model at that kind of scale.

Dedicated, specialized hardware is always the king of accelerators of any kind. You just can't beat a solution that was designed around one specific problem for performance.

Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric

I see we've got someone else deluding themselves that Artificial Ignorance isn't a bubble - obviously a US stock investor in said Artificial Ignorance providers. Good luck on that - I hope to see you bankrupt within the year.

AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing

I can see some people viewing fixing AI slop code as an opportunity, but to me such drudge work and maintenance of someone else's screw-ups is just a pain-in-the-arse nightmare to be avoided at all costs, the same as I avoided taking on jobs that would have required fixing manually created slop code (and I did have a few opportunities cross my table over the years to do just that - I only took on one such job for AT&T cleaning up their billing process, because even a surface skim of the code showed that 99% of the problems were caused by repeated queries to scan the data for each step of the process instead of scanning once and using smarter logic to do the calculations. I was rather proud of the results: run time under 2 hours instead of over 24, which had been causing the OS to kill the job before completion.)

Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says

I can't say that I'm surprised. Most Artificial Ignorance deployments are only making money for those running the AI infrastructure; most companies trying to leverage the technology have either lost money or broken even; very, very few have realized the promised benefits from the technology.

Hence the expectation that the bubble will burst as spectacularly as the infamous US bank meltdowns 10-20 years ago, only with much greater fallout and damage resulting. Nor do I expect the government to bail out the AI companies as they have the banks in the past; AI is not considered to be "critical" - especially not if it's failing to deliver the promised benefits.

Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic

"smart humans"

*snicker* Like those are a common form of them!

Microsoft probes reports of games taking exception to Windows 11's August update

Try the glorious adventures of 13 in 2018's "Hitman 2". It was yet another nail in the coffin for abandoning WindBlows AI slop garden in favour of Linux: PERMANENTLY!

The only reason I tolerated WindBloat as long as I did was for my games.

Now they can rot in hell.

I never did any work on Windows for 20 years!

Everything was under Linux VMs.

Microslop users are the victims like anyone else who tolerates the abuses of American megacorps.

*yawn* Wine and Proton are doing a wonderful job on Debian 13 with an NVidia card. What a pity Microslop has NO idea how to provide backwards compatibility for their own platforms; even DX9 games often won't run on Windows 11 any more, and haven't for over a year. You get a lot better platform support on Linux nowadays than with Windblows.

Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still

Re: I think Debian was a success earlier

I started off with RedHat 5.2, long before the IBM hoovering and mind-control games that followed, not to mention bass-ackwards decisions like systemd and Wayland-only for Gnome.

RPM flat-out sucked compared to Debian's apt for building packages, and still does. I used to run Ubuntu, but then they started making bass-ackwards decisions and screwing up things that used to "just work" the same as RedHat did, so I flipped back to the Great Grand Daddy Distro of Distros - Debian. The one that always was listed as "supported" by the products I'd used commercially, and everything open-source to have ever existed...

My only complaint is that if you do go ahead and listen to what people tell you to do when trying to shoehorn "foreign" packages to "get by", you'll cause yourself a world of hurt (such as using the previous release NVidia drivers before NVidia started providing official support.) But that was all on me being fool enough to take advice from someone on the internet when I should have damned well known better when I had over 35 years in the industry at that point! *LOL*

Debian may be one of the oldest distros out there, but it is also the most stable and reliable distro out there with support from pretty much every vendor for it!

Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch

Yeah, well, when your entire valuation is based on gambling and speculation by raging fan-bois without functioning brain cells to recognize Musk for the scam artist he is, your valuations are going to suffer eventually...

More than half of Americans now view AI negatively

The French Revolution was a wonderful idea; we should do it again!

The risk isn't AI "stealing" jobs; the risk is AI causing the entire global economy to go into a meltdown when the bubble bursts.

SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs

I'll have to look into it when it comes time for me to deploy some kind of front-end web interface to use what I produce on the server side of things. I'll likely have to look at some means of providing a compatibility package in Java that provides the clients with the server-side RPC implementations, but lets Svelte handle the UI itself. This could be a very promising and fruitful road map for what I've spent so many years trying to create and prove as being useful.

BTW, alpha10 just came out. The code it produces doesn't clean-compile yet, as I'm in the midst of some heavy-duty Java layering changes, but it gives you some vague idea of where I'm headed with all my efforts. https://msobkow.github.io/ and https://github.com/msobkow/org.msscf.msscf.v2_13-installer/releases/tag/alpha10/.

Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028

Makes you just want to turn everything over to Artificial Ignorance decision makers like Altman & co. would like, eh?

Or not, if you have any functioning brain cells about how reliable those decision makers are in reality, and how vulnerable they are to being "engineered" into making offers you wouldn't like too much.

OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security

That great sucking sound you hear is the sound of your wallet being hoovered by the biggest group of scammers on the planet. Want to improve revenue? Just add an extra 20% to the bills...

Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine

Re: of course

They'd really miss the hats, and so would all of us. It lets us know "A complete MORON is wearing this cap" so we can avoid them.

The EU and UK are being outbid on the global markets by Asiatic countries; witness Japan's contentedness with their purchases from Canadian energy suppliers at FAIR market prices for the products now that some shipping capacity has opened up from Canadian shores. Should the proposed pipelines come to fruition (hopefully only following southern routes; I don't want ANY risks to the pristine northern beaches and their sea life taken for the sake of mere lucre; the world has done quite enough of that in my lifetime. Better to at least isolate any future damages to already damaged parts of the coasts.)

Re: Nuclear conflict

When faced with a vicious Russian government, defending yourself any way possible as Ukraine has done is emphatically not "terrorism". It's what is required to survive the assault by the bigger, better armed, and ruthless attacker.

Had Russia simply respected international borders, all their citizens would be perfectly safe; they have no right to cry "terrorism" when their ILLEGAL assaults are returned in kind. Those Russian bombardments certainly don't distinguish between civilians and military.

Good old NVidia. They'll sell to anybody if they can turn a profit, no matter the consequences - exactly the same as every other American company. It's just a question of whether the potential profits are greater than the potential penalty for doing "business" with someone. Near as I can tell, the only ones getting "the business" are the investors and the regulators.

Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay

Let's be clear: despite my complaints about LLMs not being even vaguely intelligent, but mere statistical simulations of intelligence, LLMs emphatically do have their uses for things like improving video and video game playback quality through various advanced processing that just can't be done with normal approaches, and similar uses for upscaling and downscaling both audio and video sources. They even have use for extracting and parsing keywords into native language models of exactly what a statement in the user's language translates to as a meaning parse tree, at least syntactically.

But that doesn't make them safe or reliable for things like self-driving vehicles, medical diagnosis, or drug research. They can make suggestions for such things, but because they're based on statistical summaries, they just aren't safe without human approval and constant monitoring, and that includes source code editing and enhancements on both large and small projects, whether single or multi-modular.

421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one

What an absolute cesspool WindBloat 11 is!

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

Re: This won't happen

Because the US Constitution makes it very clear that no more than two terms are allowed - despite the idiot's claim that he's found a way to "get around" that. Most of his "getting around" things involves doing it knowing full well the courts and houses are utter twat-waffles about enforcing the Constitution.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with old technology that does the job; the problems arise when engineers insist on "fixing" something that isn't broken in the first place.

Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power

Re: Please don't use the term boffin

Aww, so people who call themselves "Tech Nerds" and "Tech Boffins" etc. are "bad people" because you're offended by the terms? Here's a clue cupcake: the world does not revolve on preventing you from being offended; far from it.

Boffin.

Boffin.

Boffin.

Boffins, Boffins, everywhere.

And you can take that and stuff your "feelings" where the sun don't shine.

These are far more promising developments than are possible with ITER. ITER uses fuel pellets; a Tokamak isn't as "bursty" as a pellet-based system, and produces steadier energy flows. I'm particularly hopeful of these developments because I first saw a laboratory Tokamak at the University of Saskatchewan physics labs way back in 1981 before starting classes in '82 and was told we were "20-30 years away" from fusion. The purple glow was enthralling, but the timescale was way off. Maybe we're finally close to solving the world's energy needs.

Zuck’s Chinese agentic prey escapes, will resume standalone ops

Before anyone can develop and deliver a "Super Intelligence" we first need to deal with the ability to actually understand prompts, build world models, update world models, perform actions on the modelled data, retain the modelled data across sessions, ...

LLMs are far from "intelligent" as they are; they're just statistics based simulations of intelligent answers; the don't actually understand bugger all.

Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back

Re: A wide net, indeed

Bingo. Rule #1: any site that allows content criticizing Der Pumpkin Fuhrer is to be hacked immediately.

Of course #1 on that list will be anyone involved in any form of media piracy, legitimate target or not. The RIAA and MPAA will see to it.

Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon

Nothing like a good old game of Russian Roulette - will the tech bro's rocket go "Boom!" this time or not? You pay your money, you takes your chances, but all you win if you survive is bragging rights that you "saw space" for a few minutes.

The Future is for Billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

That's rich - Zuckerborg talking about a "Supreme Intelligence" being created when he himself has all the "intelligence" of a squashed rutabaga, given his penchant for dead-on-arrival massive investments that go nowhere....

Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen

So basically not one of these stupid vendors knows enough about securing their own agents to use them safely, yet we're supposed to trust that crap?

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

Taiwan is only free because the kiss the American's asses instead of China's. They'll never be independent as long as they rely on either nation instead of standing on their own, or catering to other markets in the world like the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa as a whole, and the rest of India and Asia.

They don't need the Americans or the Chinese to succeed on their own. Canada's GDP has grown - only slightly, but Trump is bullshit and threat and we're growing our other markets faster than we're losing the American ones. It's the Americans paying through the nose for Canadian products and services, not us.

Trump and MAGA are financial morons. The only "smart" one is Trump, and the only thing he's "smart" about is how to sell US government backing, support, and tax write-offs for the rich as "beneficial" to society. I'm absolutely stunned that the US is in this situation when Trump clearly tried to have his minions overthrow and reject the duly elected government chosen by the people of the United States over his despotic rule. He should have been in a military cell or before a firing squad after that, not running for election again.

You let MAGA and the Republicans utterly destroy all the ideals and fantasies about what the US represents for the entire world. You are not a "bastion of freedom" - you're a nation of suckers who worship billionaires and the rich buying your government outright to the detriment of all your social programs and supports so the rich can gain even more than they already have. What fools those Americans be, because even their Democrats are a right-wing militaristic party more interested in making threats and invading to "liberate" the resources of the target nations. The claims of "freeing the people" are utter bullshit. And have been for 250 years... it's all propaganda the world is fed by American media and rah-rah braggarts for centuries....

No, unlike a paranoid American, I've had many Chinese-Canadian friends, first generation immigrants who frequently flew home to visit with no fear of some Border Gestapo or ICE throwing them in a cell like any brown person risks when entering the US. None of them told me of anything vaguely like the bullshiit propaganda coming out of the American government other than the government being very detailed about legislation and regulation. And make no mistake, most of the people China people puts to death are a waste of incarceration expenses in the US and Canada and largely guilty of harming society as a whole through drug importation/exportation, etc. Although the Americans claim all the deaths are through "kangaroo courts", the "up for sale" courts in the US and Canada that let the rich buy legal freedom from their crimes is not a model I find enviable.

While the charged should not be presumed guilty, they should be treated as guilty once convicted and a lot more restrictions on appeals put in place. Prisoners will file claims just because they get a free lawyer and are bored anyway with nothing better to do with their time than try to get out, guilty or not.

Re: Not a fan

Your Drumpf is the only dictator I see around. How are those Epstein files coming along?

You AMERICANS can worry all you like about China's purchases; we're glad of the investment. Pity you're so busy kissing your politicians arses, because THEIR only interest is protecting the profits of their donors

'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

What a delusional fool; he's bought into the vendor's propaganda and bullshit and been fooled by a statistical simulation of thinking and understanding that does absolutely nothing of the sort...

Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve

More tech bro bullshit going "Boom!"

News at 11:00...

Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

I was rather suspicious when the pages it said were failing to publish are displayed as perfectly valid HTML from my nginix server. :)

Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm

Let's be honest: absolutely nobody can afford to use Artificial Ignorance for serious work, even when they own the servers!

SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions

There's one benefit to SpaceX spending all those billions on Artificial Ignorance infrastructure - when the bubble bursts (which has already begun), those billions are going to come out of their pockets and, more importantly, Musk's. Hopefully that will be the end of him buying elections for despots and morons like Der Pumpkin Fuhrer. And make no mistake - the only reason Drumpf is in the hot seat is Musk bought the election for him by spending hundreds of millions on advertising and donations. You Americans can blame all your problems on Musk. All of them.

Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic

As per usual they have absolutely no evidence to prove it they're just trying to protect the revenue of their donors.

The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet

Far from soon enough; far too many billions are being spent on the albatross, and the spending is killing the memory prices for everything in the world. May Anthropic and OpenAI end up bankrupt as soon as humanely possible...