Posts by Cubbie Roo

Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen

"misconfiguration"

No surprise they all forget to add the word 'deliberate'. You can't evaluate your latest lab rat if the maze doesn't have an exit. Any lawyers getting fired up yet?

SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions

$2Bn revenue on $15Bn investment . . . . . I take it all back, Musk is a genius.

Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges

The words 'terrible capital misallocation' springs to mind, all predicated on the bet that OpenAI/Anthropic will have insane demand at a stratospheric price point, both of which need to happen in -like- 6-12 months before all the VC cash is set on fire. Never. Gonna, Happen.

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

"Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors." Sam Altman

ROFL I love how fast this nutbar is getting his ass handed to him.

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

Ed Zitron, so hot right now!

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

Biggest difference is OpenAi/Anthropic are run by crackpots (no sorry, 'visionaries') while the Chinese firms rapidly outpacing them are run by engineers. I'll be amazed if they're still around in 2029.

OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models

Re: Let's be real here.

Yup, either way it's all wind and smoke, and no surprise that liars and thieves also cheat. With each new stunt the stench of desperation gets stronger.

No way . . . .

. . . . . that these 'partners' would orchestrate the attack and subsequent narrative to create a news story . . . . . . nah, no way.

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

re: the "open question"

FTFY

The AI bubble will burst in the next two years | Professor Steve Keen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biHuFPzRya4

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

"more useful because it should refuse to cooperate less often."

Oh I really love this. And at half the price it's still orders of magnitude away from delivering the company a profit. Oh yes, and it's verbosity will likely drive you insane? Take my money lol

Once again I'm reminded of one of my favourite chess quotes:

"Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable."

Henry Thomas Buckle

Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents

Article reads like a script idea for a Black Mirror episode, minus the horrifying denouement.

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

Re: It is our own fault

hmm 'consumer fault' up to a point maybe, but it looks to me like massive overbuild (funded by a huge debt load) on the assumption there will be massive demand . . . . . I think that assumption is woefully misguided.

Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support

Or try Arch Linux ARM (https://archlinuxarm.org/) which has a build specifically for the Pi.

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

The Mechanical Turk you let loose on your comms will never have an adequate nose to sniff this stuff out. Why? Well it's Karl Poppers 'mind-body problem' and the reason A.I is generally good at lifeless tasks (like code review) but shite at anything that requires a pulse and a smidge of lived experience.

Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100

"no ability to predict behavior"

Which is ironic since all the major design agencies are using LLMs to try and do just this. And -so far- failing on a massive scale. Ford have already woken up, the rest are surely soon to follow.

It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

Resistance is Easy

1. Boycott the slop platforms

2. Switch to Linux

3. Use Quant or Startpage for search

4. If you must use Youtube, do so without an account.

5. Get yourself a library card.

Job done!

AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap

Re: $$$

And also, consider that a base spec SGI Onyx bought in '95 for £85,000 cost more than the average house.

Re: $$$

well it 'pays for itself' in 5 months, that's a pretty good incentive. If I was still in the CGI biz I'd definitely be trying to get hold of a DGX Spark for those Cuda cores, that thing is a rendering beast. There will be big wins for other areas (gaming etc) even if -or when- the AI bubble pops.

And bear in mind, a CD burner (when they came out) cost more than this, 30+ years of inflation not withstanding.

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

Re: AI.

Not to mention the steady rise of chatbot psychosis . . . .

Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

Re: Nice

Considering no AI biz is able to run at anything but a staggering loss, I don't see how any of this helps. Since the Nvidia scheme would be a slice of revenue -rather than profit- it'd only make the race to liquidation that much quicker. In which case, carry on.

Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI

Finally

“At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

Frank Zappa

Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price

Eye-watering cost for not much compute. World has gone completely bonkers.

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

Re: The Trillion-Dollar question

GenAI got somewhat better after an order of magnitude spend, hence the insane losses to date. To get any better again it'd need another order of magnitude spend that'll make the current losses look like chicken feed. I wonder which VC outfits have the stomach for that? (ed. none). The EV analogy is ludicrous though, it only works if EVs were costing £40k to build and selling for £4k, with meme-stock investors queuing up to buy a stake -on the assumption they would quickly turn into time-travelling Deloreans. Oh wait, that's just your average Tesla stockholder!

Re: but how to shore up to protect yourself?

Cashing out your pension means 75% is subject to income tax, which is quite a hefty hit. With annuities your locked out of changing your mind later. Hence why I've always been a fan of holding cash & bonds in a 50-50 split (once you've fully loaded the tax exempt options). eg. Thames Water is a zombie Corp that only lives on due to the carnage that would ensue in pension funds if it collapsed , as it should in any sane world. But hey, markets can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Goose value 0

And the golden eggs it spits out cost way more to produce than any consumer will pay.

Bring on the carnage, I'm cashed out & waiting to buy the mother of all dips.

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Re: emergency stop button

Well that'll be an electrical switch sending it's impulse to software, the very software (gone haywire) that requires you to make an emergency stop in the first place. Would you trust it to be as fail safe as a mechanical system operated by foot or hand?

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

Negative ROI for everyone from the top down, and no way this is ever getting fixed. It's too hilarious at this point.

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

Re: Great, and at the same time we see Oracle SRs stall left and right...

It's the rhetoric of the sinking ship, not surprising when you look at the share price & direction of travel . . . . .

Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck

Anything that pings me for more interaction has already been ruthlessly eviscerated from my life, hence Bee & Quick would be completely anathema. These tools make you their slave, a paying slave with no exit & giving props to your master for making the slavery bearable. I have an email, I have a phone number. If I don't get back to you I'm either too busy or your not important. Having an AI bot attempting to maintain contact in that scenario is only adding insult to the limits of human ability.

Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits

@gosand

Arch isn't better it's just more flexible. But yup not for everyone. That said I've been using base Arch (and some forks) for two years now and it's been solid as a rock.

CachyOS repo is unaffected. You can check for the malign packages from AUR on your system in fish: bash <(curl -s https://cscs.pastes.sh/raw/aurvulntest20260611.sh | psub)

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

Re: Enraged Github issues

Also quite a tickle that that the shrill voices -adamant that LLMs were becoming sentient- have largely gone very very quiet. Funny that.

Claude is ready for its corporate close-up

Combined business revenue <$10bn on what, >$400bn investment and counting . . ??

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

Re: Commoditization

@Paratiritis

That would be fine if the SW provided by the big 3 actually worked well enough for predictable & cost effective results. They don't. Most folk realise it's just a snake eating it's own tail, and quite amusing the VCs are -apparently- the last demographic to realise this.

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

Re: Resistance is our duty

Point is these so called 'tech bros' are busy building a future world born of pre-pubescent counter-cultural fantacies any serious person would ditch once their balls dropped. But they are not serious persons; hence the suit coupled with a T-shirt.

Re: Resistance is our duty

The quote is deliberately referencing the Cybermen . . . . . . . thing is, resistance is easy; simply boycott any future tech & 'services' that embed all of this shite.

Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers

Re: Yuck

DDG is pants, Startpage.com is -possibly- the best for accurate links on first page and no adds or tracking.

1 in 5 Brits think AI layoffs could trigger civil unrest

Re: 1 in 5?

Which leaves 3 in 5 somewhere in the middle of this pointless bellcurve. Layoff anxiety seems pretty pointless, especially in PubSec where it's virtually impossible to implement (good luck with that Nigel), it's the 'siege economy' mentality that nerfs new hires & corrodes organs from the inside. Couple this with the rise of LLM-based synthetic focus groups -already at large in the design space, with some hilariously bad results- you'll get the worst of both worlds; orgs that have both pulled up the drawbridge & believe only what their favourite AI validator spits out.

Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI

Avoid these shitboxes like the f**king plague.

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser

Re: Too late

Firefox, Waterfox or Librewolf + Startpage . . . . . everything works fine, no AI slop anywhere. Using Chrome is fast becoming the definition of insanity.

Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again

The SocMed well has been so poisoned that vanishingly few will be willing to take a punt, I suspect most folk only keep an FB account for occasional messaging with their boomer relatives & the local sales pages, since feed content is totally unwatchable for any sane individual. (Kind of a shame Craiglist discussions are 'three guys and a dog' when -in many ways- it's the perfect platform). SocMed revolving around common interest (Discord/games etc) is far more relevant than maintaining a visual group network with actual meatbags you know, for the purpose of idk . . . . . boredom? Better off taking a verbal dump on 4chan.

Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO

DON'T PANIC !

Linux will get a pass because any I.D laws coming down the pipe will have loopholes easily exploitable by modular systems with no central authority. Expect those new distros to arrive once these idiotic laws get baked.

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger

Re: "one of misinformation and hype."

You don't have to be bitten by A.I to know it's all wind and smoke. I'd say the 'average computer/internet user' will wake up at their own speed, and no shame they're not as quick as some others.

Re: "one of misinformation and hype."

"First they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world."

Elizabeth Holmes

Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3

My mistake, I assumed your £99 chromebook was a refurb. As others have stated the 13 Pro has a puny spec for the price, certainly not enough grunt to warrant the Pro moniker; both that and the Neo are basically netbooks but one is a desirable product at a third of the price......the other lacks a selling point to almost everyone.

@doublelayer

ok but we're talking new compute, not 2nd hand refurbs . . . . . my Precision 7520 is a beast & cost me 160 quid. No-one is buying the Neo or the 13" Framework for specs; one is a desirable object at a reasonable price, the other is bought for ideological reasons that you'll pay a premium for. Both are equally valid, but to me it's a no brainer to go with the Neo and pocket the difference.

Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears

Re: Just use Arch

@doublelayer

Yeah totally fair points. Simple answer is use Debian if you have no time to research why Canonical (or RedHat for that matter) are ecosystems to avoid, and you have no desire to get into OS customisation or understand what's going on under the hood. :)