Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

I smell class action lawsuits for failure to deliver and for putting businesses at risk with their AI slop code in Windows 11 growing day by day. And make no mistake. Artificial Ignorance produces SLOP no matter how good a prompt you feed it, because it doesn't understand you at all! It's just text statistics! Much less understand an entire real application in the business world. I'm talking about those enterprise applications with hundreds of tables and thousands of users and many terabytes of data, all squirreled away in an SQL repository somewhere on the internal network behind the web application servers.

No matter how it has been architected, those systems are complex and have hundreds of thousands of dependencies and side-effects that are counted on to make the whole thing function. And AI slop screws that up every single time I have let it loose on more than a trivial application of a few dozen files.

Yet Microsquishy is bragging about how much AI slop there is in Windows 11.

I say again: class action.

TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years

I'm expecting the bubble to start bursting within six months as more and more companies demand "So where's the ROI you promised us?" The bankruptcies will start before 2027.

Lawmakers urge FTC to probe Trump Mobile over 'deceptive' marketing

I don't understand why everyone is so afraid of Der Pumpkin Fuhrer. Kick him in the nads, knee him in the face, and kick him until he's unconscious when he falls down, apply handcuffs, and cart him off on charges of Treason to the US Constitution.

Simple.

And it's better treatment than his ICE agents give people of colour... regardless of whether they're citizens or immigrants.

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow

Vibe coding has its uses. Juniors bug the AI with questions Google could answer instead of the senior programmers...

AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits

My forecast is for mass bankruptcy, thousands of lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic for failing to deliver the promised ROI benefits, and pleading to "bail us out - we're too big to fail!"

And I expect it to begin before the end of 2026. It's time to prove that it's a net positive investment or the bubble bursts within six months.

AI and automation could erase 10.4 million US roles by 2030

Apparently they didn't pay much attention to the hundreds of thousands in total who were laid off this year because management bought the pigskin promise of a silk purse and did the layoffs before the benefits were proven to exist.

The fact that many of those companies are trying to bring back the laid off at lower salaries tells me that the whole exercise was a scam to slash payroll expenses for people they know they still need even with their Artificial Ignorance investments.

Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters

You know that the flim flam has been successful when there are announcements like this even as businesses who've invested in Artificial Ignorance are asking that one hard, critical question;

"Where's the ROI you promised us?"

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders

I have an issue with your conclusion that selecting a brand name has to "inform the user" what your product is. I think you've got it backwards - building the brand's reputation is what associates it with a product or service.

If that weren't the case, Apple would have near zero market share because the brand name has absolutely nothing to do with computers in and of itself.

Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers

Re: The universe IS analogue - … - it simply IS, immediately and without processing delay

I like your analogy of quantum "speculation."

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Apple's iTunes recognizes the CDs because iTunes still has digital copies of those albums to serve up, so it has the information. Microsoft never ran a streaming service, so they have no use for the data except to feed their player. Hence no profit motive, much less a staggeringly high one like Apple has.

OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering

Re: Idiots

I have one issue with your comment: LLM's don't decipher the meaning of a prompt at all. They don't have the concept of "meaning" in the first place; they just do statistical analysis of the prompt compared to a bazillion other prompts and questions that have been asked, and produce a statistically likely response to that. It never understands the question at all.

They keep on pretending that they have any control over what those statistics monstrosities produce for output, but it's wishful thinking. It's not actually intelligent so it has no idea when it's being abused.

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

Given how famous Xitter is for abusive content and posts being allowed, I seriously doubt that they're doing bugger all to monitor and police AI prompts.

Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on

Oracle: where projects and budgets go to die.

UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos

Those tools don't have millions of users, though, hence the focus on Grok: footprint.

Who are you kidding? You'll convict them, they'll tie things up in 10-20 years of appeals, and nothing will actually change because Musk is an arrogant and ignorant twat who sees the whole world's wallets as his to fleece.

What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32

A good idea? Microsoft??!?!?!?!? *BWAHAHAHAHA*

It strikes me that the EU and the rest of the world that "requires" Microsoft as an OS could well decide "enough is enough" and stick a foot in the ground with the Proton 10 API set for Wine and tell Microsoft to take a huge flipping hike with their AI-infested, insecure-by-design-and-being-made-worse-by-AI-authored-"code"-injections core Windows 11 OS...

Well, I'd say that it's about time for a "AntiSquishyOS" to be released by someone somewhere... though it's worth noting that the whole Proton architecture identifies itself as "Windows 10" which is why Microsoft is really forcing everyone onto Windows 11 - they can no longer guarantee their partners that their products won't be running on a system without Microsoft DRM installed and enabled, and Thou Shalt Not Run Without Thine American DRM!!!

This above all else: Thou Art Interfering In Our Grotesquely One-Sided Profiteering Model!!!!

Steam in the meantime will work on a Windows 11 identifying version of Proton, and Microsoft will disable that when it gets too good and too capable and mandate Windows 12.

Lather rinse repeat ad nauseum...

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind

If it were possible to actually ban stupid people making stupid "contributions", I'm sure the US wouldn't have the President they do.

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

? I don't understand the big deal. I don't use the GMail web interface for anything; I have email clients on different platforms that fetch the email from my gmail account as well as other accounts.

Why would I want to give a web service access to all my data, especially an American Data Hoovering Conglomerate like a Microsoft, Google, or Amazon hosted service?

Optimus Schmoptimus - Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot is already in mass production

Let's face it. About the only claim Musk has come through on is that he would get Drumpf elected...

EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them

Despite Drumpf's abject ignorance on the subject, the Americans do NOT rule the world!

Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line

"Do the impossible and I'll pay you a pittance compared to what I'm making. Thanks for saving my bacon..."

How Microsoft gave customers what they wanted: An audience with Bill Gates

Tech support: where phone calls go to die.

Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong

I have a much simpler theory: tax writeoff. Burning revenue that they'd be taxed on if they don't spend it.

Tis the season when tech leaders rub their crystal balls

I read the whole article as trying to tell you "...but if you only spend even more you'll see a return on Artificial Ignorance."

You won't.

It's dead-end technology with a very limited niche set of actual productive and safe uses.

China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company

Reminding people every two hours that they aren't dealing with a "human being" is a joke. It only takes 10-15 minutes for some of these scam artists to fleece their victims with "companion AI fees." It's like the old pay-per-minute phone sex lines. Get them on and bill the crap out of them, then pursue them without mercy to pay what is legally a legitimate bill. They "used" your service... they probably didn't expect the hundreds of dollars in fees, though.

Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer

It still isn't going to save Intel. Good long-term play for NVidia, though - they acquire a foundry when Intel finishes failing.

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work

In essence, LLM systems are only guessing a plausible text response for your query. There is no intelligence, no understanding of your question, no actual thinking going on. So of course the results are pseudo random - they're values generated within the domain of the response to intentionally vary the response.

If you want predetermined and reliable results you're better off with a proper expert system for the domain.

Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow

Without true AGI, the bots are a dead end fantasy. And LLMs will never produce true AGI because they don't understand anything - they're just statistics gone mad!

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

The American investor community is notorious for obsessing over bubbles. It has happened time and time again in my 6+ decades on the planet, and it is happening now. And when the bubble bursts, the bankruptcies are rampant and huge. You can count on a significant chunk of corporate America to come to the federal government, cap in hand, pleading "You have to bail us out - we're too big to fail!"

Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

Let me know when you have hi-res media instead of MP3 "quality" garbage.

Still, I know there will be tens of thousands if not more who will download this piracy archive.

Man, if they ever catch whoever uploaded that, they're toast! The media moguls will go all out to see them drawn and quartered!

NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift

NETWORK time protocol.

NETWORK.

That means it is inherently UNRELIABLE.

DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission

Re: But not Phil Collins, sadly

Some of Phil's heart-felt feelings and lyrics would make tremendous changes on the POTUS and his minions if they sank home in the black abyss that passes for a heart in them...

"All these trillions of tarrif dollars flowing in from the gullible fools on the street, boys! Lets do some serious spending..."

pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree

Sounds like it is leaving all the "heavy lifting" to KDE, which is a shame, because KDE and Gnome with their Wayland-only future focus are show stoppers for me.

I need X-11 protocols for a number of reason, not the least of which is being able to run a remote session on the internet. It's not like anyone provisions home office servers in their living room nowadays - you lease space somewhere, or a machine somewhere, or a VM somewhere. Regardless of how you're hosting, you need remote access.

I don't know what kind of crack or meth the Wayland team has been smoking, but their game performance is half that of the X-11 stack and all but unplayable for half my games, doesn't support DLSS at all, rendering the benefits of my video card moot, and with NVidia repeatedly downplaying the importance of Wayland drivers in their eyes, I don't see that changing any time soon. Like "never."

Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul

As long as there are multi-billion dollar valuation Artificial Ignorance buyers out there consuming "Mass Quantities", the everyday consumer and lowly SMB provisioner is screwed, even if the rumours of a huge speculative buy of memory is true.

If those rumours are true, let me be the first to nominate the hidden buyer for the firing squad or the guillotine; I'll let them choose their terminal exit option...

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

I don't care about the finer points right now. All this talk of Pasties has me thinking "time for breakie!"

US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired

You might be surprised some day. :)

I wouldn't help bail them out of the mess they made for any price; let it all burn...

Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future

Hey, it's win win for Micron - they get to screw over their new Artificial Ignorance customer base while they shaft their existing server and desktop customer base.

It's all good for their bottom line - screw YOUR bottom line!

India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64

Well, I suppose if you're starting from nothing you'd be "proud" of a 1GHz chip, too, even though that's pretty much useless even for smartphones. Maybe it'd be useful for primitive and crude smart devices, but not anything of any major note...

Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3

Those are all paper and digital deals that will not come to pass (or at least not be paid for) when this rather obvious stock-pumping bubble goes "Pop" and takes 3/4 of North America with it...

Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger

This yahoo just can not clue in that he doesn't get to "sidestep" Congress whenever his feeble addled brain gets gas...

BOFH: If another meeting is scheduled, someone is going to have a scheduled accident

An electifying story that kept me on the edge of my seat... :)

Microsoft won't fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say

Re: Irrelevant

Lack of experience? Hardly - I'm retired from a 30+ year programming career, and I didn't buy the excuses while I was working and I don't buy them now. Unless you're STUPID enough to buy into Microsoft's frameworks or a LOCKED IN VENDOR, there is no reason your code shouldn't be migrated. Stupidity, laziness, and incompetence are NOT excuses.

Re: Irrelevant

Because I didn't want to go on an evidence-based rant as to why now is the time - people with functional brain cells are well aware of my arguments in support of Linux (especially Debian 13) over Windows 11 on the desktop. Games were the only reason I used to run Windows, and with the release of 24H2 and the latest from Steam/Proton, Linux now runs more games than a "real" Windows system does!

If that can be achhieved, I have no sympathy for your "enterprise apps." You either wrote them and have the source to fix them, or you have a vendor you probably pay hundreds of thousands a year to support said application.

Either way, your argument doesn't wash.

New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks

I'm not surprised. It does, after all, have to use JavaScript at some point, and that is prone to bugs like no other language.

Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors

And then *pop!* goes the bubble and like the banks a few years back, all the "big" companies will claim that they're "too big to fail" and demand government bailouts.