Posts by DrewPH

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing

If you look up "unbridled optimism" in a dictionary, you'll see the Philippine Government's statements that are quoted in this article.

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

Re: Make it simple

Hey folks we found the gatekeeper.

Asahi Linux takes on Apple M3, minus a few creature comforts

Re: I'm surprised

Yep, there are still significant gaps in Asahi's support for M1 and M2.

Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers

Re: creating a monopoly?

Upvote for "inmates"

If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers

So when I run out of memory (which is now unaffordable) it will hive data off to NVMe drives, which are now also unaffordable. Got it.

MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case

The MNT Station is very pricey

So what's new? Everything they produce is massively overpriced.

Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose

Given the level of overlap between most of the propsals, from both the "some AI" and the "no AI" camps, I can't see this ending in a meaningful result that will satisfy anyone at all.

Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant

Airgap?

Are power plants seriously not airgapped? Insanity.

Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore

Re: There are websites that pass validation??

Unfortunately that page is now advising us to use AI slop instead of JavaScript.

Re: *shrug*

So don't use shitty frameworks.

Re: There are websites that pass validation??

So style your footer h4 elements differently from your body h4 elements. D'oh!

*shrug*

The sites I build are largely standards-compliant. I do my best to build for accessibility.

But I can't influence anyone else so worrying about this isn't something that would be worth the oxygen expended.

Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive

Company that goes all-in on AI gets screwed over by AI. It's kind of delicious.

We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi

Re: Tipping champagne

I'd love to get tips from my clients.

"Here's the keys to your new private cloud app and here's the final invoice. Gratuities are optional but 20% would be appreciated"

Re: The Shocking Thing Is...

I had a trustpilot account, once. All my reviews were negative, because, well, that's reality now. And they closed my account.

Shillpilot.

Not to be "trust"ed.

‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

*shrug*

I'm going to continue my everyday life working on the assumption that this is delusional bollocks.

Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests

"there didn’t appear to be a good solution to that problem"

Eliminate the problem. Don't use AI. Refuse all AI requests. Simples.

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

Re: The AI bubble is already popping

Worth it.

OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT

From now until the end of my life, whenever I need the services of an expert or professional (doctor, dentist, engineer, etc), I will be insisting on someone who qualified before about 2021.

AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns

Kill it

Kill it all. All AI. With fire.

LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower

Re: you have to be really desperate…

> Quite why LinkedIn still has the draw in terms of having to use it when job hunting is beyond me.

It's that old but potent combination of inertia and FOMO.

Passive membership FTW

And this is why, although I maintain a basic LinkedIn profile for identity purposes, I never, ever engage with it. No posts, no comments, no likes (or inspires, or whatever bullshit icons are currently offered).

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update

So you were intelligent enough to pick Linux for your OS...

But then you were dumb enough to put Microsoft code on it?

My brain hurts.

Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything

I'm at a loss as to why anyone would downvote this but please note you are not reducing my happiness in any way. You did however provide a soupçon of amusement, thus actually improving my overall happiness.

Re: I'm curious to see

I think we need to erect a Church of the Holy Locale Guru for worshipping BetterBird...

*carries on happily using LibreWolf and BetterBird*

ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

I've always removed the Health app from every iOS device I've owned, as soon as I got it. Why would anyone put health-related info in the cloud, whether it's Apple's cloud or anyone else's?

China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol

Fuck China

That is all.

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

It's good news day

Couldn't happen to a nicer... what even is Oracle these days?

Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief

Versions...

"WordPress 6.9 is affected by both vulnerabilities, and version 6.9.5 contains fixes for both, while WordPress 6.8 is only affected by the SQL injection flaw, and version 6.8.6 fixes it.

Additionally, WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 is also vulnerable. Version 7.1 Beta 2 fixes both CVEs.

Versions of WordPress prior to 6.8 are not affected."

Never mind about old versions or betas, what about 7.0.x which is the current version?

Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief

Bring on the Chinese memory. I want reasonably priced kit again.

Any effect on the US is its own fault for wanting AI in everything.

OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'

If AI makes honest mistakes, why have AI at all? For fuck's sake.

At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills

Gartner thinks...

As soon as I saw those words I stopped reading.

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

Re: All this wonderful AI code

> If it's so great

You see, there's your problem. It isn't.

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

Switzerland is probably the only country in the world where these wouldn't get stolen within weeks of installation.

Re: 19MWh? are you sure?

Even in Switzerland standard gauge is in the majority. How else do you think all the famous historical express trains got from Gemany and France to Italy?

LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic

FPGA?

Floating point google analytics?

Flaming pancake grappling ataxia?

Yes I know search engines exist but it would be helpful for articles like this to clarify less-than-universal acronyms or link to something.

OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter

"a voice experience that is refreshingly easy to talk to"

Or to quote Douglas Adams,

"your plastic pal who's fun to be with"

Shudder.

Avoid AI atrophy – new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay

These devs don't need a new tool, they just need to STOP. USING. FUCKING. AI.

New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead

Burning the planet up, for... absolutely no discernable benefit. What a wanker.

AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

Re: It's quite simple

Bring it on, the sooner the better.

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

I miss my Psion 5. Great keyboard, and that keyboard hinge was so elegant. Never seen anything as good since.

NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet

That search phrase got me what I needed to learn up on this.

Thank you!

Have one of these on me if you're so inclined -->

A couple of my clients' sites are in a world of pain due to apparently residential botnets like this. Any chance you could point me to a link that would help me educate myself about blocking them?

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

Re: The state of Utah may be surprised to discover

Dr Dan Holdsworth knew, that's who.

Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions

If only certain other organisations would take the same approach.

*cough* Fedora *cough* Zed *cough*

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Bring it on. Honestly the entire world economy needs a reset.

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

"barrier to innovation"

At this point, *gestures wildly around*, I think innovation is definitely overrated. Much like economic growth.

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

Re: If comics have taught me anything

Here, have some humour. Try to catch it as it whizzes over your head.

Researchers drop checkm8-style BootROM exploit for A12 and A13 iPhones

Re: Sounds like a good thing!

My huh was directed at Brewster's Angle Grinder, not at you. As you would have realised if you checked the screen with any care at all.