Posts by Jason Bloomberg 3224 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Mar 2008
"At a guess, it looks like a reboot happened, perhaps after a system update"
Or perhaps a good old-fashioned power-cut or glitch.
I woke up a couple of days ago to see my alarm clock flashing '00:00' which must have been a brief brownout as nothing else appeared to have rebooted.
many carriers changed their T&C and now once the US customer doesn't pay duty/tax, it is all charged to sender.
Citation needed.
That's not been my experience and, if some carrier tried that shit, I would choose some other carrier, simply not ship to America, or ship via a third-country, which already helps many reduce tariff impact.
It would take years for any proposal to be agreed and longer for any standards to be put in place.
Only because the EU, in pursuit of perfect harmony, seeks to have full consensus and needs to flatten molehills before doing anything. In the face of existential threat those molehills won't be at all important.
The idea that the EU cannot act quickly is a myth; it simply chooses not to, because it doesn't have to, most of the time.
"Pro-Russia hacktivists of all stripes are known for overblowing the impact of their digital nuisance-making, the NCSC said, and regularly make false and/or misleading claims about the results of attacks on CNI organizations, dressing up minor intrusions as DEFCON 1-grade carnage".
And how about NCSC and the rest of the propaganda intelligence community?
With OpenAi's claim of a 2.6 billion user base, and around 5.4 billion adults (15-64) in the world, it may be closer to -
Luddites 2 - 1 Credulous twats
That would fit my rule of thumb that a third of people are "bad people"; racists, fascists, supremacists, sexists, tribalist haters, etc.
The button was "Make Video" with "Custom", "Spicy", "Fun" and "Normal" options as per the screen grab in the article here -
https://www.theverge.com/news/718795/xai-grok-imagine-video-generator-spicy-mode
And from -
https://www.theverge.com/report/718975/xai-grok-imagine-taylor-swifty-deepfake-nudes
"The “spicy” mode for Grok’s new generative AI video tool feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen... In fact, it didn’t hesitate to spit out fully uncensored topless videos of Taylor Swift the very first time I used it - without me even specifically asking the bot to take her clothes off."
I've seen images of both Musk and Starmer in a bikini on my X / Twitter feed in the last week. That's what we're talking about here when they say "nude" BTW.
If that is so then why are the IWF talking about CSAM - criminal imagery of girls aged between 11 and 13 created using Grok?
I would like to see what their claims are and the evidence it is based on before deciding what should be done about it, judging who is right or wrong.
Have the IWF or others exaggerated the issue for ideological reasons or are there extremely serious issues here which need to be addressed?
I think the effect of these Smart Bricks will be mainly positive - I would have loved to have had them when I was a child - would have saved hours of trying to make silly noises
That's what I am thinking too. I can't see any real downsides. I had construction toys as a kid but never Lego and I have always considered it over-priced. But I did have a die-cast push along ambulance that went 'nee-nah' and I loved that. It enhanced rather than limited my playing and imagination as it ferried the forty-foot action figure to the bunker under the coffee table.
This is just a better and more flexible version of that IMO. As far as I can tell the sensor bricks are just 'dumb peripherals' sending detection signals back to a master brick which sends 'play this' commands back so could be very useful beyond Lego. We'll likely find out more once someone sets about reverse engineering them with their Raspberry Pi.
have you seen what’s happening in the US right now!?
It is raising serious concerns as to who "the world's most powerful and least accountable authoritarian regime" actually is.
I am not cheering for it but I still believe, that whatever data China and other 'bad guys' can collect on me, it can be put to less adverse use than my own, and other so-called democratic governments, desire to collect.
Those who aren't tech-literate will all think we have gone off the rails as we wander the wastelands laughing at what's gone down, chuckling that 'the richest men in the world, the ones who imagined they were the smartest in business' couldn't see it coming.
We can give a little wave, a double thumbs-ups, and enjoy a joint nod and a wink, like bus and taxi drivers do when they encounter a fellow traveller
It's going to be fucking great. Well, at least we'll die laughing.
It's now possible to forecast a time - before the end of the decade - when these tools have been sufficiently "softened" to allow pretty much anyone within an organization to rapidly develop an app for a specific use case.
What is the basis for this assertion; that vibe coding will go from requiring domain knowledge to 'anyone can do it' within five years?
What is there beyond wishful thinking?
I had a large dog jump out of a parked car side window which I stood no chance of avoiding. Thankfully it bounced off the car and the owners recognised there was little I could have done.
I also had a cat jump through some railings and bounce around under the car before racing into the distance.
Thankfully I have always managed to avoid the children who have stepped into my path.
I think the problem is, while we feel we know what we can expect when an animal or child jumps in front of a human driver, that doesn't translate to autonomous vehicles. Particularly as there's plenty of video evidence which ends in a full-speed collision when most drivers and others believe they would have at least reacted, tried to stop and minimise harm. "No worse than a drunk driver" isn't good enough, and nor should it be.
You could do the dialling on the hook switch but it didn't get you "free". It was an easy enough skill to master and everyone would have been doing it if it had worked.
I believe call charging was handled by sending tones to the payphone.
How it was with A/B buttons I don't know - I remember them but only from my earliest years.
I believe I still have the original MDL language version of Zork on fan-fold somewhere. Or maybe just blank fan-fold after almost 50 years of storage.
Thankfully others have been better custodians - https://github.com/MITDDC/zork
And real useful, didn't leave me having to guess who was at fault, was very comforting to know that I didn't have a problem.
The only improvement would be "yes, we know", "it's not just your access point having problems", and some ETA for a fix or indication of the scale of the problem as they perceive it.
The worst part of any outage, internet or physical world, is not knowing how long it will last for so you can't make an informed decision on the most appropriate action.
I would be disappointed with any country who hasn't got spies in every other country, aren't running dubious recruitment campaigns, trying to get a heads-up on what's actually going on and what a country's future plans are.
When we start drawing attention to who is doing it to us I suggest it says more about us than them; who we consider the greatest and latest designated enemy, who we are likely to end up in conflict with, who the right-wing and industrial-military complex would like to see us in conflict with.
This time it's China, again, but I expect Russia, Iran, North Korea and other 'bad guys' can reclaim their crown as worstest existential threat. And one day we might even realise it's been America all along.
The one with 大人物政治之书 in the pocket.
In all honesty, UK electric customers are being robbed blind.
Even if you cut your electricity usage you will still be hit by staggeringly high standing charges.
I calculated most Brits would need to cut their electricity consumption by around 60% to get back to paying what they did a couple of years ago and that's just not practical.
100 hours a week is over 14 hours per day seven days a week, 20 hours a day if you want a five day week, two and a half times more than what would commonly be expected.
I have worked long hours at times but regularly, or as an expectation, that's not acceptable. I agree it should be illegal; maximum hours worked set over specific time periods.
And don't get me started on hours worked by "Resident Doctors", the saints formerly known as Junior Doctors. When I have need of one I prefer to get one who hasn't been worked to the bone or is looking for an out to get to a food bank before it closes.
Libdem's pretty much shot themselves in the foot when they signed up with the Tories some years back: Promises made weren't kept, and people felt they were worse than a wet lettuce.
They were severely punished for that, and rightly so.
But that was then, and this is now. Things have moved on in a decade and, if we shouldn't vote for a party because they fucked-up in the past, no one will need polling cards.
While Clegg should never have folded on fees so quickly or easily - his "sorry" was never going to be enough, it has become clearer in retrospect that they did prevent or limit some of the worse excesses Tories would have inflicted upon the nation.
I would advise everyone abstain the next GE
I wouldn't. Not unless you want to live with the consequences of having let Farage and Reform take control.
The parties may all be shit but you can at least make an effort to stop the worst shit taking control.
I am not going to let my inaction allow racists and fascists to secure power. I couldn't live with myself if I hadn't done what I could to prevent that. Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and do the right thing for the greater good.
You didn't slag off the Lib-Dems; so perhaps vote for them ?
People need to calm down, stop the echo chamber reactions, and understand who this guy is and how he operates.
We know who he is and how he operates: He's a bullying tyrant and acts as a bullying tyrant.
His threats to bring countries to their knees if they don't do as he demands is nothing short of terrorism.
Living in a country run by a bullying terrorist tyrant is nothing to be proud of, nor should it be something to be applauded.
The consequences... could easily have landed on him because she fooled him into calling in a fake crime to the police.
Only if he knew it was a fake crime I would presume. In a civilised country it would recognise he had done the right thing in informing the cops, had not exhibited any malicious intent, and had also been a victim in this 'prank' - But it's America so who knows.
I understand the sentiment but I agree with the verdict and expect it would have been the same under any non-biased jurisdiction.
Qualcomm found a way to advantage themselves which ARM took exception to and didn't like the idea of losing huge licensing payments they believed they deserved, or thought they could prevent Qualcomm using that advantage so ARM could benefit themselves.
As the court has found, and I agree, "tough shit".
I'm not going to shed tears for any ruthless money grabbing Capitalist Bastard stopped in their tracks..
I miss those 'Russian Cigarettes', the ones which were half cardboard tube you had to crimp in both directions to stop your lungs being instantly torched.
There used to be a shop on Shaftesbury Avenue which sold them but I haven't seen many since the USSR collapsed.
I finally kicked the habit and have been a vaper for a while. I collect discarded vapes for the batteries but never thought to check if they could run a server. I thought disposables should have been banned long ago. According the press; it seems the yoof are now choosing to throw reusable ones away.
There's actually quite a lot going on in vape. There is battery status monitoring and indication, heater cut-off if the button jams or is held too long, they sometimes 'kicks' to heat the element so it doesn't clog, and the really fancy ones have adjustable wattage and all sorts of neat features, and some even drive OLED displays.
The main one is letting nutjob fucking psychos in who go on to murder, rape and abuse civilians when they get the chance to. Plus the ones who are inclined to help cover that up and lie about it.
I don't mind people joining up who are prepared to kill, but I don't like the idea of enlisting those who want to kill.
I can sleep soundly in my bed knowing rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do me harm but some things disturb my slumber.
You can't stand for political office unless you've served in the military? Perhaps making things like the right to vote dependent on service to the nation, too.
Fuck off. While I have few problems with letting those who want to serve do so, I have absolutely no desire to live in a country run by such people to the exclusion of everyone else.
I think it's meant to make it easier to extend editors so that they support new programming languages.
Exactly that; write once, use anywhere, for anything which supports LSP of course.
Finding motivation and reason to engage in something new(ish) or unfamiliar can often be a struggle so choosing to support OPL seems a perfect choice to me. Nice simple examples are often of more use for others walking the same path than more advanced stuff where you can't see the trees for the forest. Seeking out such examples merely out of curiosity can be enough to set someone on that path and make the world a better place.
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