Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future

Just proving my point of a couple months ago that Intel was behind the times with their "18A" and that by the time they hit full volume, others will have left them behind. Intel has been behind on the development curve for nearly 20 years now, living off reputation no longer earned.

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Re: Majorana

That was just the appetizers before the meth and crack were pulled out at their staff party... it's the only real explanation for why Microslop believes its' own bullshit. Certainly if they had any talented researchers on the project, there wouldn't have been these kind of gaffes in the code, but the fact that they're denying the code errors just proves they're not in possession of a full deck.

"Ah spent THREE HOURS searching for this tripe with Google, so it MUST be true. There's an entire WEBSITE devoted to this exciting new technology. Of course, they're just looking for investors to build the design..." *LOL*

Re: Python is not a Microsoft product

Or a typical Microslop coder. They're not exactly famous for high quality, reliable software. Heck, lately they've managed to even bring back a few bugs and problems that were fixed previously, such as that recent WiFi stack problem for networking.

Anybody who's used Windows 11 since they started slopping AI everywhere know not to trust Version 11 of a Microsoft product, never mind 1.0.

Re: Childish - but expected - response from Microsoft

Sounds like a Trump-style denial of reality. "They didn't provide an alternative explanation for our bullshit, so they must be lying and out to get us."

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators

Agreed, but I wouldn't be surprised if they've made it a requirement because it's a "nice sounding buzzphrase that all the major vendors have anyhow."

I remember way back when PostreSQL first came out in the research days when I was at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK, Canada, back around '84-'85 in third year when the "Business Programmer Students" started working with it on the student systems. You knew very well that if you saw someone log in to that particular 400-series class on our VAX-780's, you may as well log out and come back some other time, because two measly users of PostgreSQL were enough to completely saturate the capabilities of a VAX.

It wasn't until a few years later, around '89-'90, that I had exposure to Oracle's 5-series releases on HP hardware. I mostly wrote software the fed the database test data results, but I had to know enough about the database to make sure the data I fed it was "clean" for it's use. Around '91 I actually started doing paid programming in SQL, evaluating, of all things, the early releases of SybaseASE, which itself was based on Ingres technology, like PostgreSQL was.

Over the years, there really weren't any major commercial databases I didn't touch for months or years at a time on projects, but I still stick to PostgreSQL for my own projects, and have for over 20 years...

Brits still reckon Big Tech isn't paying enough tax

Re: Global accounting is the problem

A lazy timid civil service around the world isn't the cause of all the world's problems - those are caused by the arsehole companies that the lazy timid civil service should be chewing on like rabid Rottweilers instead of Joe Shmoe's local family business. We've got the same problem here in Canada.

Our CRA (Canada Revenue Agency, Canada's "IRS") even caught a bunch of companies and individuals illegally offshoring and laundering hundreds of millions of dollars. You know how many people were arrested and locked up after the big furor about them getting caught?

Absolutely none. Zero. Nada, zip, zilch for arrests and jail time.

The same is true here in Canada.

The bottom line is the entire world is sick to death of being raped for profits by American techbros like Musk and Altman.

21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI

Re: If you can't sell your flagship products

I haven't heard of someone starting a new project with Oracle's offerings in decades. The last 10-15 years of my working career, the only place I saw Oracle used for new development was in places that were already thoroughly in bed with Oracle despite their contract price gouging. And I doubt any of those places have shifted off Oracle since then - they're kind of anal about SLA's, even when the vendor doesn't meet the SLA's they agreed to.

When you're going to put all your eggs in a pyramid scam, you can't afford to pay people; you're too busy sucking up to the people running the scam and paying off "investors" for their BILLIONS IN LOANS.

Given Oracle's history of disastrous development or migration costs, adding Artificial Ignorance into the mix to speed up their screw-ups sure won't help anyone except the investors. The clients will be screwed, the staff will be screwed, but the investors will be paid off.

AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them

They already do cost more than proper development staff and skilled programmers, because the fees for those Artificial Ignorance services don't include all the expenses caused by their screw-ups when used by inexperienced or junior developers. And lets face it, those layoffs over the past couple of years have been almost entirely senior staff because "the computer can do it; we just need babysitters for the machines."

Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let's play Truth Or Consequences

Could be worse - they could have tried to pass off video game footage as being "coverage of the war" like Trump did. *LOL*

Hallucinations and errors aren't a solvable problem, though, they're endemic to the fact that it is a statistically driven summary of information that loses context and details during the distillation into its tokens and weights.

I say again: There is no "solution" for Artificial Ignorance hallucinations. None.

Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest

I wouldn't do it to Broadcom out of spite, I'd do it out of revenge for them TURFING my so-called "perpetual license" by hiding the VMWare Workstation installs behind their clients' servers instead of distributing updates. I switched over to VirtualBox for a while, but now I don't run any VMs at all right now, because the one piece of software I still needed to isolate has finally stabilized enough that it doesn't mess up system upgrades when it is installed any more (Keybase used to prevent upgrade of the kernel by having a VFS that root couldn't scan, so the update would "hang" as soon as it hit that "drive.")

We'll never know the details; it'll be settled in a "secret" agreement between the litigants, the same as always. Broadcom is not going to want to take this to court and let the real cost of their shenanigans be known to the public. It'd kill their scam.

Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 – unless they're on 26H1

Cue the bug reports.... *LOL*

Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated

I'm sure millions of people would volunteer to use a dull, rusty knife if need be to "deal with" the American administration.

Time for a global revolution against the billionaires and the governments they buy... fire up those guillotines, boys!

Re: Follow the money

Bingo. The insider trading on the oil markets from the war has earned "certain people" hundreds of millions of dollars...

Of course the petty orange dictator, Der Pumpkin Fuhrer, is taking revenge on Anthropic for refusing to let the military weaponize their technology. Thou shalt not tell the petulant boy-child "No," or he throws a temper-tantrum and tosses the game board.

Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads

AI strikes again. Does anyone need any further proof than the never-ending stream of screw-ups from Microsquishy's "AI enabled" maintenance teams that it's a fraud that screws up more than it fixes?

Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles

There is "unaware" and then there is "blithely unaware" and then there was this user community! That's almost as good as users complaining there computer won't work and only later mentioning they have a power outage...

AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job

Re: "An actual practical use of AI"

Another victim of OpenAI and Anthropic's brainwashing...

No, your "great tool" will never replace a skilled programmer, just useless turds that shouldn't have been in the industry in the first place, and only because the bean counters are so concerned with "ship it NOW!" that they ignore all the issues and security holes in the crap code the AI barfed out.

Re: Intelligence agencies

And mental health issues are apparently as prevalent in society as ever... :(

Of course he's working. It's the US. The whole point was to force him back to work...

AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

How many times have the "AI" companies tried to fool everybody that "this new model solves the problems we had previously?"

Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction

To be fair, every large company or government makes big, grand announcements that don't come to fruition until years later, if ever.

The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess

And retrieval by the authorities on request...

These are the voyages of the Starship Artificial Ignorance. Her mission? To boldly screw up where things haven't been messed up before...

Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo

AI "patches" strike again...

Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven

The main thing of interest to me this go-round are the Intel performance tweaks that they say improve AMD performance as well; the rest isn't largely relevant to my use cases. Besides, I'm not sure what Debian 13 does with kernels this new, whether it puts them off to the next major Debian release or only puts them in the development branches initially. Still, regardless of what Debian 13 does, it is an impressive list of changes and a substantial amount of modification. I'd definitely postpone upgrading until the kinks are ironed out unless I had to have one or more of the new features.

There's no such thing as an agentic CPU

Re: Er, missing the point ?

Yes, but it requires a program tape that stretches from Saturn's orbit to earth and back again to run... :)

But, but... Bafflegab! Marketing! Fraud! How are we supposed to profit if we tell the truth?!?!?! *LOL*

A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI

How about you stuff "making it easy for AI" up your festering, hemorrhoidic arse!

Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks

I'd been thinking about a move to Devuan to get away from Debian 13's systemd, but given what I read about how you have to manually install NVidia drivers and the like, I've decided to put up with the bloatware and risks. Manual installation of "foreign system" packages is a horribly risky way of installing and maintaining software with as many dependencies as the likes of CUDA have.

Java's Project Valhalla finally lands a preview in JDK 28

Was this written by an AI slop generator?

"The memory footprint of reference types is greater than for reference types, ..."

US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive

The order was issued because Trump is taking revenge on them for refusing to allow the military to weaponize their technology, plain and simple.

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

Re: In support of Plain English

I'd love to see him tear the AI dweeb a new arsehole in court by presenting a copy of the license that the LLM ignored...

"...token generator with no intelligence or adaptability..."

Bingo. LLMs have absolutely zero intelligence, and statistical massaging of mass input prediction never will. It's not "Artificial Intelligence" - it's fraud to claim they're intelligent.

Thanks for the tips on how to block LLMs from using my code; expect changes in the future.

NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can

No wonder the EU is up in arms about digital sovereignty then.

Not that the EU would ever allow a Palantir contract because of the way they send data to the Americans, but I wonder if their legislation would allow an individual instead of a hospital to opt out if they did allow such contracts?

US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses

The guidance system for it, however, is not "1940's technology" and not cheap...

Look! We can take out a $5,000 drone with a $1,000,000 missile. We're sure to win the war now... *LOL*

EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow

This is a very smart initiative for the EU to be taking in light of the prevalence of US tech providers that have to answer to Trump's belligerent USG. I'm not surprised the Americans are getting pissed off about it; they think they have some divine right to rape the entire planet for their profits. Then again, given the administration's history of sexual abuse charges and "settlements", rape seems to be endemic to American culture at this point in time.

Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

Just thought I'd clarify that my "local box" isn't exactly a slouch - it's a 16 core AMD, previous generation, with 128GB memory, 4-5 hard drives of old data and backups, 4TB of NVMe drives, an RTX4070Ti, and a iFi Xen DAC 3 for audio through a Marantz amplifier and KEF speakers. It's my TV, my stereo, my video game system, my development box, and my personal computing box all in one. I'm just lucky I had to buy such powerful hardware to work my last contract before retiring - it's the sweetest box I've ever owned. And with Debian 13, it runs absolute RINGS around what it used to be able to do under Windows 11 Pro.

As an interesting aside, when I ran Windows 11 on this hardware, the CPU water cooling fans and case fans would be running almost constantly, but under Linux, the only time they even seem to spin up is when I'm doing builds or playing video games, or running my backup scripts (7-zip compression maxes out CPU use on the box for several minutes beyond what even gaming does.)

Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss

"Only 28 percent of AI use cases fully meet ROI expectations..."

And therein lies the proof that it is nothing more than a hype-bubble about to burst. 28% isn't enough to earn and maintain the trust of any industry that isn't a pyramid investment scam itself.

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

The mouthy chief should be the first to lose his job... he's an employee of the state, not it's ruler.

OpenAI could go from AI pioneer to AI's BlackBerry, says Forrester

Re: How much AI will be running on device and therefore "free"?

Also, don't forget that even with local application software, it is common to have to pay subscription and licensing fees to use it. Just because it's on your local device does not make it "free" in any way.

Re: How much AI will be running on device and therefore "free"?

You underestimate the greed with which to lock in is being performed. And you're also under the delusion that AI is "useful" instead of a source of more problems and issues with code that you don't understand 'cause you never did understand why it was coded the way it was. You're not a programmer; you're a babysitter for a machine.

Don't forget, Microsoft is even thinking about making the operating system a subscription service! All of the AI companies are trying to do the same thing - force you to pay, and pay through the nose.