Posts by Pascal Monett 19078 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Interesting point. What would replace passwords with ? Biometrics ? Because you really think I want to have my face stored on all those servers that I don't control and that, history tells me, will be hacked at one point or another ?
I can change a password. I can't change my face.
Joe User doesn't even understand what those words mean.
You are clearly a professional. Your solutions, efficient as they are, are not available to the guy who just wants access from every bit of electronics he has at his disposal and has no idea of the consequences.
And I'll bet that, if you start trying to "educate" him on those consequences, he'll shut you out in order to continue to easily consult his FaceBook page, and whatever else he usually does.
Um, if you're sent a link by the police, I believe you're supposed to trust it.
This is all from Dutch translation, so I'm pretty sure we don't have all the details, but it would seem that the issue is not that he clicked the link, the issue is how he handled the aftermath.
You don't go telling the Police that you'll only give back if you "get something in return".
I have no way of knowing the particulars, but we're talking about the Dutch. DEutch Police are vastly more trustworthy than ICE thugs, so if they arrested him, I would tend to believe that he was a bit stupid in his response.
is hardly an example of Justice.
It is now a Trumpian tool of dystopia and should be entirely replaced. The only problem is : with what ?
The USA is failing. It has a convicted criminal at its head and a political machine that is 100% geared towards continuing the march into oblivion.
I'm sure they will succeed.
Why on Earth would you need to reinstall Linux when you have a working environment ?
At the condition, obviously, that your display server is air-gapped from the Internet, If It Works, Don't Fix It applies.
On top of that, the "fixer" obviously didn't do his job properly. Ever since we discovered that Swiss air-traffic controllers were too few and overworked (can't find the source, sorry), it would seem that the vaunted Swiss efficiency has taken some buckshot to the wings.
The only people who are surprised are the idiots who are employed by companies pushing LLMs with billions in the bank.
As someone said recently : "the i in LLM is for intelligence".
And they will be bitterly disappointed.
Or, and this is quite possible, they will readjust their expectations to find it quite acceptable. Which, in turn, will end up proving that Idiocracy was, in fact, a documentary.
I think I can guess which path we'll end up with . . .
I have been called upon to write documentation for internal software for a few years now.
It's not easy. You need to write the docs for the people who have never worked with the software, not for the people who've been working with it for years (or more) and who just need a reminder. I was specifically told that my documentation would be read by new hires. That practically added double the number of pages to the purely technical side because I had to make sure that the new hire understood the interface (and its quirks) that he was working with.
As a result, I have the greatest respect for people who do that job for a living, without ever actually working with the product.
It's not easy, especially when you can't help but ask yourself : is anybody really reading this ?
JWST is at L2 and there are zero plans for its maintenance.
L2 is 1.5 million kilometers away. I'm guessing that L1 is just as far. It took a whole month for JWST to get to its current position. You can't do maintenance on that scale and, btw, what happens to maintenance ship afterwards ? Is it supposed to come back ? With what fuel ?
Etc. Etc:
Well done, Google. All those changes and angst and grumbling for, in the end, being even more blocked than before.
I'd make some suggestions on what you could do, but Heaven forbid that I help you improve your ad-slinging.
And I really like the fact that you are trying to keep ad-slingers from stealing other ad-slingers revenue. Reminds me of the old adage "There is no honor among thieves".
And you are the Thief In Chief, so you should know.
The signal is clear : they're gonna shove that AI shit down our throats with a funnel and a hose and our hands tied behind our backs.
Thank goodness there will always be good people capable and willing to code blocks and workarounds and make them available to all who care to need.
God bless them.
Simple : don't allow automated downloading of anything.
Get those coders back to their actual jobs : making sure their stuff works.
Oh sure, allow anyone to manually download a package. Then expect him/her/it to install said package on a test server, verify the code and that it does the job, then push it into production.
That would go a loooooong way to ensuring that malware-embedded fake packages would have no hope.
But obviously that will never happen, because it would mean that an actual human, paid by the hour, would have to actually work to ensure the proper functioning of his company's environment.
What an idea, eh ?
It is not surprising that this company is soaring financially. This is a time when governments everywhere are becoming more and more attuned to the idea of surveillance, due process be damned. Cue V for Vendetta. Honestly, I am starting to believe that that film, as well as Idiocracy, are actual documentaries, not fiction.
I am hoping that I will see the day when Borkzilla, Oracle & Co are shut out from European borders and White House interference.
6.something% ? Are you kidding me ? You're going to need a lot more investment than that. You're going to need datacenters, you're going to need network administrators, technicians and even (shudder) actual desk jockeys that all know their job.
The good ones don't come cheap and you're going to need them if you really want this to work.
Time to put your money where your mouth is.
It never was and he did his damned best to try and get out of it at first.
Except that His Business Geniussness didn't read the fine print and found himself forced to finalize the deal.
That goes a long way on explaining what his attention span is.
I'm terribly sorry, but what makes you think that Musk's mind leaps to anything on the basis of logic ?
The only reason this failure of a human being is a billionnaire is because he was in the right place at the right time, aka the start of Paypal, who's only reason to exist is the utter failure of the US banking system.
He got kicked from Paypal's board, but his shares enabled him to go on to financial heights unimagined and unworthy of him.
And here we are, with a person who has a 16 year old mind in the body of a 50+ year old man.
Attention span ? Careful, goldfish, you have some serious competention here.
It's funny (not really) how Microsoft has an iron grip on anyone who doesn't actually have to face its failures on a daily basis.
Windows really is good enough for home users - they're basically incompetent and only surf the web, read/write mails and maybe watch films. That's fine.
For business users, you've got three types : the grunts, the managers and the IT guys.
The grunts don't care, if there is an issue, they call IT and go get a coffee until it's fixed.
The managers don't care, they just shout into the phone and complain unitl it's fixed.
The IT guys bear the brunt of Redmond's incompetence. They sweat and swear and fix things as best as possible, but until the beancounters start tallying the costs of Borkzilla's failures, management won't care and won't change.
No, it does not.
I don't really mind about the profile pic not being real, fine there. But the CV is supposed to be real. If you need a coding tool to create it, you have already failed as a candidate for a job.
At that point, an interview is just a waste of time.
On top of that, a video interview with a blurry face ? Sorry ? And you're stupid enough to hire that ?
"he's not an easy target for this type of scam " and yet he fell for it, hook, line and sinker.
Well that gives me clear idea of your professionalism (aka I won't ever ask you to do anything AI for me).
Not suprising, since BYD is eating Tesla's lunch.
You can pretend your cars are Made In AmericaTM, but you cannot ask your customers to pay a high price for a car that is less advanced than what is coming out of China.
On the road, I still see plenty of Teslas - the ones that were bought at least three years ago (and more).
The new electric vehicles on the road are practically all BYD and, having taken a look at their features and performance, if I were to buy an EV, it certainly wouldn't be a Tesla.
If Musk pays as much attention to his new robots, I see no point in buying into that either.
Musk has the attention span of an 8-year-old with a new toy. After a week, it sits unused and forgotten in a corner, and it's up to Mommy to clean it up and put it away.
Except he has no more Mommy to take care of him.
Yes. There is no use-case for basic users.
Satistical analysis machines have fantastic returns when it comes to detecting new planets, new galaxies, new black holes, new asteroids - ie data that has no bias, where the initial use case is properly defined (and the LLM has not "learned" by reading social media posts).
SAM machines already fail when it comes to medical analysis - the human body is apparently more difficult to interpret than a machine can cope with, however many billions of paramteres it has.
As for programming, there are apparently some people who need to go back and read this post to find out just how wrong their opinion is.
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