Posts by Jimjam3

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

Yeah the leads at Microslop don’t have a F’ing clue what to do with their OS platform.

My Grandkid could come up with better ideas, and he’s 6.

Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine

My Lego collection was passed on to my son back in the 90s and now handed over to grandkids. Who like the ninja range of blocks.

TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant

Suggestion for new name, ArrowTalk.

May it fly true!

Five years after quitting a job, developer’s former boss asked for rapid tech support

Re: Well done

There are loads of managers like that. Surprised you didn’t see that coming tbh.

Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list

Re: Remind me again...

Lol, only trouble is they don’t have any solutions to these self made problems.

Of course these models act like this. They are not ‘trained’ on laws, ethics and responsibility.

Oh we are heading towards some bumpy times.

Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

Re: "There is another model, called Barista [for] topics pertaining to espresso. "

Ah a Hotcross bun then ;)

Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

Exactly! In the 1980s documents were typed up using the font that came with the typewriter and in important data it held got the job done.

Things like PowerPoint created a new tier of manglement that did little to improve productivity.

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

Seems like the money men haven’t learnt anything from the 2008 farce.

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

Re: Give my health data to an AI bot?

Trouble is it is already sliding into their hands.

Re: Or

This is pretty much what is happening.

Many NHS hospitals have already made the leap. They will be the ones ‘selling’ sorry lending our data to these AI systems,

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

Sounds like the council opted to use the approach from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

BEWARE THE LEOPARD!

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

Re: Maybe it's time ...

Ok, that statement was not a good choice during this heatwave.

However as you mentioned it’s now mostly straw atm!

Re: Maybe it's time ...

I wouldn’t be surprised if they knew that.

Also grass is green and water is wet.

Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five

Re: [Fujitsu Australia] "helping organisations modernise critical systems"

My experience of Fujitsu IT supplier’s was they had a confident marketing team as well as an efficient billing process. However, Didn’t rate the IT products much above unfinished amateur level.

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

Re: Bla bla

He can then sail off into the distance!

Re: It's a symptom of the elephant in the room...

In short, the AI advance is based on larger and larger amounts of kit and not some much on more advanced hardware.

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

Re: Real questions

I would hazard a guess that with 2.8 trillion parameters a definitive verification is unlikely.

EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope

Re: Strange

‘ the attention span of a goldfish and everything shiny put in front of you grabs your attention’.

This type of content is what is accelerating the creation of ADHD candidates. Soon the majority of humans will be little better than Goldfish!

Re: Maddening...

I avoid that problem by not going on Facebook.

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

Re: Oh, almost forgot

Surely the AI of choice is Deep Thought and the answer is…

(Useless !)

Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

Re: 40K here, 170K there

What are they going to do with all that money?

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight

Re: SpaceX did

True. But Boeing could have used the same approach.

To be frank, I wouldn’t be surprised if a large majority of SpaceX staff where poached from NASA leaving just a handful left?

Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions

Sensible approach

Makes sense.

Using LLMs to do your thinking/coding is not the way forward. No matter what the marketing team says.

Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows

Re: My initial configuration for WSL

Yes, I would have thought it made sense to run Linux containers on a Linux host tbh.

Still I’m sure there are some strange edge (get it) cases that it might be useful.

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

I stopped believing in article’s from the BBC at the turn of the millennium.

Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad

Can it roll back to a secure Windows 7 OS?

UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise

Re: For trusted medai ...

The human race has fucked our climate. Stop pretending the world temperature is not increasing. Go look at pictures of the Alps, Iceland, Norway or anywhere that had snow and Ice and see how much snow is there compared to 50 years ago.

BBC stopped being trust worthy decades ago.

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

Re: Shocked!

Me too! Can’t believe they fibbed.

O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date

Yes , Greed is the key.

Now there’s an idea! Have a dumb meter, it won’t need updating.

In fact I do believe the Electric Meter in our house up until 2021 didn’t need updating, but they insisted and now it’s going to become outdated.

Sigh.

Excel is for amateurs. To properly screw things up, those same amateurs need a copy of Access

MS Access and tbh Publisher are both fun programs for hobbyists who want to ‘learn’ what a Database / DTP is supposed to do and roughly how it does it.

But sadly because of the unique way these MS programs operate the finished article is never useful in a business environment, and neither are the skills gained from using these ‘tools’.

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

Re: Digital ID

The race to meltdown has started. I’m getting the feeling that the human race is about to rush into oblivion. Sigh.

The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

I’m glad I upgraded my 2 computers RAM to 32G & 40G respectively, 3 years ago. Couldn’t see myself doing it now.

Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate

Legality you say…. Umm, As far as I can tell it’s more about the ruling party enforcing laws they want and ignoring the ones they don’t.

There's no such thing as an agentic CPU

I’m up for it!

As far as I can tell, CPUs that are Binary in nature share a common approach, therefore they should all be able to process binary data.

Where as non binary systems might be able to process information in a markedly different way.

TLDR; I’m not surprised there is no such thing as an antigenic CPU.

KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

It’s a win win for KPMG, since most of the tripe they print is Bias BS designed to please the accountants.

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

Re: Models always have a bit of trouble following instructions precisely.

The few AI interactions I have tried indicates to me that AI responses drift off the initial request pretty quickly.

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

Re: DOS era?

Your assumption about the words Folders and Directories is made up. Much like a lot of AI content.

Back in the 1970s I remember using both those words for things which had inside them, sheets of paper information.

Furthermore I can also recall putting a phone Directory into a folder in a Filling cabinet.

We truly are heading towards a future of nitwits.

Embrace, Extend, you know the rest.

Best way to beat it is to not engage them.

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Re: The first one is free...

Agreed, no such thing as a free lunch.

Colour me surprised !

Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents

Re: The real problem

An obvious answer to an obvious problem.

Not sure what the AI agent would suggest the management should do though ;)

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

And so the enshitification of the internet continues.

I give Wikipedia another 5 years…

Linus Torvalds to ‘start being more hardnosed’ about ‘pointless pull requests’ – some of which come from AIs

Not really surprised that AI use has encouraged spam.

Re: Linus Torvalds Being More Hard Nosed?

‘ Hard Nosed singularity emerge and swallow up Sam Altman.’

That would be for the best.

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

Re: The precursor of enshittification

The rise of Management courses and introduction of MBAs ensured the creation of an excess of management.

Now it seems the two major areas of investment is in marketing and management. :(