Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill

Re: re: the "open question"

It has already started to pop. Have you seen how NVidia's stock is nose-diving now that investors realize that all their reported future profits and agreements rely on the AI scam continuing unabated, despite the abject failure of so-called AI to deliver actual productivity gains or any ROI at all for most people who bought into it?

The only ones who seem to really be benefiting much from its deployment are the Altmans, Bezos, and Zuckerborgs that sell the AI "services" themselves.

Open models will kill the chance of NVidia benefiting from those deals, because their customers (OpenAI, Anthropic, et. al.) will be going bankrupt when people realize they can "get it for free" by investing in some local hardware instead of paying thousands of dollars for "tokens."

Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first

Re: Winning at anything

I'm reminded of Charlie Sheen's idea of "winning" his way into rehab...

Already too late.

Again.

America hasn't "led" the world for some time now. China has outpaced them on development, research, and production, and the disparity is only going to get worse with the budget and education cutback Der Pumpkin Fuhrer imposed on American society.

You are not going to resume leading the world when your average voter has a Grade 4 education nowadays in reality when they aren't being given a "pass" just for showing up.

Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack

Input: "proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems"

> The user has made a data entry error. I will correct it...

Edit: "proves frontier labs can't be trusted t^Ho^H ^Hp^Hr^Ho^Hp^He^Hr^Hl^Hy^H ^Hs^He^Hc^Hu^Hr^He^H ^Hs^He^Hn^Hs^Hi^Ht^Hi^Hv^He^H ^Hs^Hy^Hs^Ht^He^Hm^Hs^H"

Response: "proves frontier labs can't be trusted."

> There. Fixed that for you.

Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics

Seig Heil, Mein Fuhrer! We won't interfere with your corporate donors fucking up the civilian power supply, water supply, and infrastructure any more. We'll just bend over like you do and take it up the poop-chute...

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

To be fair, only the American people have consistently heard lies from Republican wankers that the policies the population likes are "socialism" or "communism" because they threaten the unjustified incomes of their billionaire donors.

The fundamental problem is it isn't an issue of a "right wing" or "left wing" LLM in any sense of the word, but one that distills its answers from the common sense of reputable answers on the internet that proved popular.

Is it any surprise that the general public prefers the ideals of socialism and libertarianism rather than put up with the billionaire vision of oligopolies and the financial rape and ruin of the populace to feed their never-satisfied greed?

OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models

Which is, of course, why the likes of Altman and the CEO of NVidia are in a tizzy and want open models blocked from use.

If Altman can't pay for all that compute horsepower he bought on credit, NVidia doesn't get paid, and NVidia stock takes a nosedive not seen since the bank failures 20 years ago, and Altman and his greedy cesspool go bankrupt. The same applies across the board.

The powerful have always feared the intelligent. They can't be fooled into believing there are benefits to blocking Chinese open technology from the US for anyone except the billionaires that are all too happy to rape you and your wallet for all you used to be worth...

Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering

Damned would-be billionaires and billionaires. May they all die a slow and painful death as soon as possible...

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update

Microsquishy: "We can screw up anything, even if it isn't our system affected. We're absolute masters of disaster."

The last Space Shuttle returned to Earth 15 years ago

How much does Boeing pay you to shill for them? Or do you work for them? I see no other reasons for defending their failures.

I like the explanation for why they failed you gave, though that doesn't deny their aircraft failures. I think it has more to do with corporate culture and mismanagement myself.

Boeing had a history of aircraft manufacturing defects and crashes for over a decade before they started wasting those billions; they're just a "preferred status" Military Industrial Complex Supplier that the government wants to support.

Guess they shouldn't have wasted all those billions on Boeing failures.

Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills

Yes, because every profit hungry corporation out to maximize their returns is going to stop increasing prices because someone "asked", even if it IS Der Pumpkin Fuhrer doing the asking!

Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI

Re: Full AI communism

What any American means when they scream about "communism" and "socialism" is "damned foreigners stealing 'our' money and daring not to worship The Almighty US Dollar." And make no mistake, many people worship money with a level of fanaticism that even the most hard-core religious zealot would be hard-pressed to match.

Here's a clue for America: You do NOT have some innate right to rape the world for your own benefits. Not by a long shot, nuclear threats or no.

Two problems with that:

1. Der Pumpkin Fuhrer reads and speaks at a Grade 4 level (and that is being generous on some days)

2. Der Pumpkin Fuhrer doesn't want to read anything longer than half a page; this has been reported by his aides in the past.

In short, he's willfully ignorant, and has all the opportunities in the world to educate himself. He just doesn't want to because he might learn he's wrong.

LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in

To be fair, the vast majority of USB based devices try to automatically install their drivers on insertion, too, and there is nothing anyone could do to prevent one of those drivers from hooking into an ad display trigger mechanism.

Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs

What a weird way of implementing communism - sharing among the corporations and businesses instead of the citizens. Only a business owner who paid off politicians could have come up with such a "novel" idea.

Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots

Re: I’m a car man

"Ooops, sorry, that was just the drugs talking again... they're hard to resist when even 100% pure cocaine is virtually free compared to your wallet."

He's got the same stink about him that Trump does that way. Perpetually lying and committing fraud, yet suckers by the millions are adoring fans of them.

Truly the ignorati walk amongst us... or crawl, depending on exactly how many functioning brain cells they actually have.

Both "Optimus" and "Self Driving" are a stock pumping LIE Musk has repeated for years!

When does the arrest and incarceration for these frauds happen?

SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no

"Testing is for suckers! We're a trillion dollar company spending tax-payer dollars; we don't need to test - payment is guaranteed."

-- Duh Muscoid

OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning

Re: I don't get it.

What amazes me is that the American people are so forgetful about their own real history, preferring irreverant and invalid "soundbite" quotes from their "leaders" instead of learning the truth of the situation.

Nor am I limiting that issue to the MAGAts. The whole US is in one naval-gazing "the outside world doesn't exist" delusional state of mind the majority of the time unless they're actually being attacked on their own soil. Even attacks on foreign holdings largely get ignored because the American people flat out don't give a shit about something most of them don't ever think about at all.

Yet your militant, aggressive nature has been no shortage of the cause of mass murder, death, and blatant resource theft in the world. THAT is the reality for the 90% of the world that exists outside of your paltry 400,000,000. Less than a THIRD of China's population. Less than a THIRD of Indias. Less than a THIRD of Africas. Last I heard, the world population was approaching 12 billion, and that was a number of years ago. That would make you even if you were a billion people instead of 4-500,000,000 a paltry 1/12th of the global population, and virtually powerless as a result.

Your nuclear weaponry and constant belligerence are the only reason you're even relevant to world politics, much less a "world power." You're just world bullies and prone to making violent threats followed by invasions.

Suck on that truth, because that has been America's situation for over two centuries, not just when Trump showed up. No wonder you have so many enemies...

Re: Another electronic munition?

Many have postulated that NSA encryption standards are the ones they have the tools to crack, too. Probably take a while, but theoretically "impossible" to crack and what goes on behind closed doors are often two different things. The US thinks primarily in terms of weaponizing technology for the simple reason that the US has made so very, very many enemies in the past 250 years through unjustified wars, seizure of foreign national assets, and even mass murder of civilian populations and infrastructure - blatant war crimes under international law.

How many billions in oil have been stolen since they "liberated" Venezuela from the "despot" who was willing to send oil to US enemies for non-USD payments? I believe the real beef the US has with Iran is they sell oil for Yuan.

Re: Canada.

The donation was over a million dollars according to our newspapers here.

Don't forget the blind patriots who think the US is perfect and infallible. You know, the ones who forget losing in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. The ones who think mass murder is justified. The ones who turn a blind eye to the Epstein files because they flat out worship the administration like brain-damaged cult members.

Never say never; this administration is flat out notorious for demanding the impossible or objectionable and then dumping tariffs on the "offending" country.

Look at what they're doing to Canada right now because we refuse to give up our dairy and egg management so they can flood us with inferior, chemical-laden products from their factory farms. 50% tariffs, even on goods covered by the so-called "free trade" agreement (CUSMA) that Drumpf himself signed and claimed was a "good deal" for America.

They'll have no qualms about doing the same to China to protect American billionaires and their abusive corporations.

Unfortunately for Drumpf, the only thing he's doing is making the whole planet hate the US and all it stands for...

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

"Token limit exceeded - you're going to hell!"

The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now

Re: Google GEMMA is pretty good.

Actually on a 128GB Debian host with a 12GB 4070Ti, unsloth/gemma-4-12b-it-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL (roughly 26GB) runs quite acceptably. The token limits are about half those of the model itself.

Re: Price is the killer feature

The US is the most corrupt state in the entire world at this point, with it's administration blatantly taking payoffs from corporations and foreign nations to get what they want at taxpayer expense.

China, on the other hand, would have shot Der Pumpkin Fuhrer a long time ago for half of the crimes he's been convicted of, never mind accused of.

Re: Price is the killer feature

You'd be surprised at how fast a 26GB model version of Google's latest runs on a 12GB VRAM 4070Ti on a 128GB Debian host under llama.cpp. It isn't all that much slower than an online provider, and if you're looking at several files at the same time, it is significantly faster because it doesn't have to upload them over the internet. Now granted, it does make my CPU fans run a little, but it's not taxing my 16-core AMD4 processor all that much compared to a Java build, at which point they crank to full speed.

Re: Price is the killer feature

I guess your billionaire CEOs shouldn't have offshored all the American manufacturing and production to "save money."

You Americans did this to yourself; China just accepted your manufacturing contracts.

I believe so.

Actually, it was the Chinese who came up with the first "logic process" models, not OpenAI or Anthropic. (I refuse to call it "thought"; it isn't thinking.)

Re: About Cookware

This in flashing bold face red neon...

Re: About Cookware

Why should a Chinese company pay American penalties?

It isn't like anything they did is proprietary in the sense of being unique information collected; they ALL scraped the internet.

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

Re: Decline and Fall

And to threaten and tariff anyone who won't go pout along with them... just wait until Canada signs trade agreements with China! Der Pumpin Fuhrer will finally die of a brain aneurysm or a heart attack when he hears that...

Based on no presented evidence, proof, or suggestions that said will ever be provided.

"We will NOT tolerate competition with our billionaire overlords and Pumpkin Fuhrer in the US of A, especially not from open source that doesn't even steal our revenue!"

-- White House Official Arse Kisser

Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional

I find it absolutely disgusting that these flim-flam artists are allowed to keep bandying AGI as a viable future for technology that has no memory of conversations, no actual world model, no learning capacity, and has yet to deliver an example of an LLM that can actually understand and think about a problem even at the level of a field mouse.

As far as I'm concerned, such talk at this time is blatant investment fraud and market manipulation

IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them

Of course other companies have managed to replace the losses with AI revenue, but as they so often have in the past 20 years, IBM is a non-contender that only their "locked in" customers use. The public market has eluded them again, and they continue their slide to irrelevance and eventual bankruptcy.

Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises

Why should they budge? Companies like Oracle are famous for driving up consumer prices on electricity because the "deal" the company got on a "bulk purchase" has to be recouped.

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

It didn't "escape" they neglected to isolate and restrict what it could do properly. Is it a problem? Yes, but it's a far cry from an "escape."

Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid

Depends on whether the politician in question is a Mamdami or a Trump.

Just imagine the data centres being blocked from using civilian power infrastructure and being forced to supply their own (mandated green) energy.

AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep

Re: Unreliable computers are worthless

The "trillion dollar industry" can't come up with a model capable of thinking even on the level of a field mouse, much less a four year old human.

Although people will often cheat to get where they want to, when a software development and maintenance system cheats, you get security holes, bad code, and erroneous implementations of the logic that should have been written.

Just further proof that these tools aren't intelligent and that the whole thing is a flim-flam scam that doesn't deliver what is being advertised and promised by the vendors.

Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain

You WILL use our cloud services and pay through the nose, Bucko! No more avoiding it; we've made SURE of that.

Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents

This highlights the importance of having alternative tools in place for any analysis; choosing just one provider can leave you hanging. It really isn't much different than making sure your code builds with multiple compilers in case you need to shift tool chains or platforms.

You always need to keep your options open.

SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit

Re: Send in DOGE

Starting at the very top!