Posts by Pussifer

Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix

I told you!

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2025/03/20/chatgpt_accuses_man_of_murdering/#c_5040679

It's AI all the way down - and here it is!

X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement

Re: The Commission should

Is this satire?

Re: The Commission should

@ Zolko

I agree - they seem to be streams of effluent that should be drained and taken to a treatment plant. I thought Sputnik was the first artificial satellite launched into Earth's orbit. I used to like watching a bit of Al Jazerra (and RT) a decade or so ago, I've not watch either for a while, I get my entertainment elsewhere these days.

Re: The Commission should

Yep, block Twitter in the EU (and UK) - nothing of value will be lost.

There are alternatives and people would quickly switch to them.

MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers

Shira Perlmutter got reinstated to her job. There are ongoing appeals, etc. but SCOTUS allowed her back for now - https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supreme-court-defers-decision-on-whether-trump-can-fire-head-of-u-s-copyright-office/

Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof

Re: AI is now top of my list...

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Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

This is why, when seated, you should have your seat belt buckled - even loosely. If you hit turbulence, or a super rare incident like this, you're less likely to be injured by hitting the ceiling or overhead lockers. It wouldn't stop you being injured by an unsecured idiot around you though.

If it's a Boeing I'm still not going.

Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam

Re: The interesting part

But hopefully they will still have Parrots.

UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK

Re: Common sense prevails?

A PC from Power Computing with Windows 11 removed from the spec. list saves £110 - or £150 for Pro. That's ~20% on a reasonable spec. computer.

Powerc also offer options to have Windows installed but not activated so you can use a licence you already have.

I have no affiliation with Power Computing other than being a high satisfied customer for around 20 years.

Invasion of the message body snatchers! Teams flaw allowed crims to impersonate the boss

A Microsoft product with serious vulnerabilities - say it isn't so!

Just in case - /s

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

Re: Matthew 19:12

A tight rubber band will also suffice - less blood, less painful (probably).

Chatbots parrot Putin's propaganda about the illegal invasion of Ukraine

Re: pseudo-AI

"Didnt the US intelligence determine that Russia had the kompromats on Hillary as they expected her to win? Before the Obama meeting that suddenly hid the report and wrote a new one claiming the Ruskies were manipulating the election (contrary to the original report)." - codejunky

Did they?

Why not post a link to the report(s) or whatever you're referencing?

Still not downvoting you so you could add another thumbs down to your tally.

SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition

Re: The outcome:

Only three?!

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

A reminder about how the Daleks sounded - NSFW

TV Offal - https://youtu.be/AWiq-0rf_bA?si=ERnSE_IKxW_TNqu8

Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian'

Re: in accordance with the law

"Everyone knows what 'woke' means. Claiming otherwise is just moronic." - SundickUK

Yes, yes, of course everyone knows what 'woke' means /s. Please explain what woke means to you.

Here's the video where an author of a right leaning* book is asked 'what is woke' and then fumbles badly - https://youtu.be/9b86ZqIhuFo?si=NFzd5N7GY5JAWxQv&t=388 - I've jumped to the point where the author, Bethany Mandel, fails spectacularly to explain what woke is. Absolutely brilliant! A fuckwit of the highest order!

* I'm probably under estimating how right wing the book is.

Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees

Re: +

Corbaby - (that's really free!)

Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited

Re: Buying votes ?

"Voting by mail usually skew elections toward Democrats. Wonder why?" SundogUK

Because Democrat voters can read and write? Whereas people that tend to vote Republican . . .

Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire

Customer = victim. Care = ? (do they care?)

Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University

No point . . .

. . . in investing in vaccine research in the US with Trump and Bobby brainworm in charge.

Online property ad reveals looted Nazi war art, triggers police raid

FInd ...

... Kadgien's daughter, take her in to custody, release her on production of the painting. It's Argentina, so the law may be flexible re. length of stay in custody until something is resolved.

Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links

Re: "LLMs often fail to summarize accurately."

I'm sticking with v.141 until either the AI crap is removed, or it stops working.

Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting

Re: Trump is a con-artist...

... and he's old and not in the best of health. And he's supposed to be out of office in January 2029. These companies only have to wait for 3 and a bit years, less as his term starts to expire and he doesn't have the clout he has at the moment. Time is in on Intel's, and every other companie's side, not so much on Trump's presidency - we hope.

Re: Trump is clearly highly susceptible to bribes

Susceptible? Susceptible? Shit, I'd wager that it's a tool in his fart of the deal toolbox.

UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act

Re: I wonder what China thinks ?

And? Different names and different colours but is there any real difference from one bunch or useless gits and another bunch of useless gits?

Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0’s speed and reach 256.0 GT/s

Nice

"A new connector may be on the cards" - geddit? Connector, on the cards, cards that fit in connectors.

Well I enjoyed that.

Trump officials float plan for Americans to share their medical data more freely

Re: Give My Medical Data to Trump ???

"You really do not have a clue, do you!" - Cliffwilliams44

And you do? Please elaborate for us.

First release candidate of systemd 258 is here

Will Poettering go down in history as the Thomas Midgley of computering? Midgley was a very clever man but had no idea of the damage his work was creating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

I just deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – and I'm a citizen

Re: What happened?

"In a country that clearly voted massively in favour of Trump." - codejunky

No they didn't - 49.80% of the voters that voted, voted for Trump. 48.32% voted for Kamala Harris.

Source - https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024presgeresults.pdf

Trump won the electoral college 312 to 226 - which is a big margin in the race that selects the President but as individuals Americans were fairly evenly split between the two main candidates - so no, no massive mandate.

"The first thing I wan to say is 'Mandate my ass'" - B Movie by Gil Scott-Heron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOp507HJMA

xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

Re: semi-preserved brain of Joseph Goebbels

Listening to Stephen Miller is something else! He couldn't look or sound more like a Nazi than he already does - maybe stick an SS uniform on him and the ensemble would be complete?

Here's an article from 2017 - https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/5/1687333/-Trump-s-Stephen-Miller-and-Hitler-s-Joseph-Goebbels-are-chillingly-similar

Former and current Microsofties react to the latest round of layoffs

Re: JFC, again?

I must remember to copy and paste the question that is being asked in case the question poster deletes their post.

The question was something like 'what does JFC mean?' Asked by someone who must lead a quite sheltered life.

Re: JFC, again?

The J is the first name of our Lord and Saviour, the F is the F-word, the C is the surname(?) of our Lord and Saviour.

Personally I like to add an H after the J - no idea what the H stands for though, just sounds even better as an ejaculation (in the Sherlock Holmes sense).

Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo

Re: Gosh

Is Elon balanced?

Re: Gosh

Special needs supporting a fellow special needs.

Breaking the nerd internet: Three overlapping generations of tech history – in one selfie

beast666 - shit posting his/her/its way to a silver badge. What a total wanker.

Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

"They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats." What kind of person would say that during a debate by potential political leaders on TV? Possibly a person that knows that ill informed people watching will take that as the truth as their blessed leader knows all. I'm struggling to remember Sleepy Joe saying anything along those lines. Perhaps you can enlighten me and post a link to something Joe said that is anywhere near as crazy as "they're eating the pets of the people that live there".

PS I still don't downvote people, however out of touch of reality they are.

Hmm... indeed.

You as an Anonymous Coward appear to know everything there is to know about these riots and Jan. 6th.

I believe you to be a functioning nutter that takes every word of the great orange turd as the gospel truth - clue, Trump is barely coherent most of the time let alone truthful.

Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

Re: activists?

Absolutely!

I like your handle too. Imagine, that those letters, in that order, come around to be used again.

Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington

Re: Erm

I do suppose you also saw the word 'diversified' in there? There's no national energy emergency either, turn off the shit that powers Twitter, Facebook, Tik Tok, etc. and there's likely to be an abundance.

KDE 3 lives to fight another day as Trinity Desktop 14.1.4 hits the shelves

Re: Well done Trinity.

3.5.10 was the last good KDE for me. That would have been on SUSe something. Not sure what I settled on after that, it could have been the start of my journey with Linux Mint - 7 'Gloria'? I have been a very happy Mint user from there on, with Cinnamon as my desktop. To give Microsoft some credit for something, the Windows desktop* is (was) as intuitive as anything else I've seen.

*W95, W98, cleaned up XP, Vista, Win7, even W10, though I'd stopped using Windows early Win7.

OpenAI pulls plug on ChatGPT smarmbot that praised user for ditching psychiatric meds

David, you are on fire! Perfect.

Now that's funny! Do not regret having a sick sense of humour, it can be a handy tool in dark times.

State Dept reorg could harm US in tech battle with China

Re: trip trap trip trap

I believe the term should be moronic troll :-)

Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA

Meta, Apple, Alphabet - fuck 'em, fuck 'em all.

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

Re: Dems Are Scared Sh*tless

"How do you think they got all their $Millions on a salary of less than $200,000 ??" - ditto the Rep millionaires in government?

It seems a shame to 'waste' the opportunity to not mention how you have typed waist instead of waste. Nice :-)

Re: If you can give a dictator credit

As the US stands at no.31 in world educational rankings I believe it is the the former. Even Russia is higher at no.22

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education-rankings-by-country

Re: Grok transcript

I believe a red hot poker up the jaxie was also a method used for unloved rulers.

US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts

Re: This explains everything!

Thank you, thank you! I never want to go to twitter.com so nitter.net enables me to see this sort of stuff showing the MAGA morons without sullying my browsers with twitter/x shit.

Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft

Windows 'pooping it's pants' due to a driver it tried to install but didn't need?

Escape goat - https://youtu.be/gZE85L2XHSc?si=r4zdI91bLACJ-PMY&t=1090 - and many others in this full episode of Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Good-ish. All episodes of Modern Life is Good-ish are worth a look. Plus his Googlewack program, all available on his YT channel - Gorm Hub - https://www.youtube.com/@davegorman235/videos

Sorry snee :-)

". . . Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), which users access when their device is unbootable" - what's this 'device is unbootable' mentioned? If my device is unbootable it's because of a hardware failure not my OS pooping it's pants.