Posts by Pascal Monett

Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly

Agreed. Downvoting is so simple.

Proving your point is much less so.

But hey, downvoters are just click-surfing. They're not going to tire themselves with enlightening people as to why they disagree.

Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief

"undermine Western memory makers"

Oh yeah, because you are sooo important on the global market.

Go ahead and make sure that your citizens keep paying the highest possible price.

What morons.

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

an "honest mistake."

As in : we did a Microsoft and didn't check all use cases because that would have been too expensive, so you pay for our oversight.

Tell me why I should this hallucinating fuck-up again ?

Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem

"when many phones still had removable batteries"

Also called environment-friendly.

A notion that has gone to waste, apparently, along with a lot of other things we could have still used . . .

Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all

Re: "In the end, the boss will have the final word"

You're lucky you don't get fired.

Because the C-Suits have a tendency to get rid of anything that gets in their way.

"In the end, the boss will have the final word"

Yup. It's the golden rule : he who has the gold makes the rules, even when they are abysmally stupid.

Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas

Quantas IT help

So, if I write to His Tiny Dick Warmongering Pete Hegseth as White House IT service, I stand a chance of getting him to give me next month's bombing schedule of Iran ?

Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open

Grr. I should have wrote a trillion.

975 billion parameters

So, when will get a billion parameter hallucinating fuckup ?

AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges

known as the world's "datacenter capital."

Yeah. Just like the Superbowl is a world championship when there's only US teams competing.

Ah, the US. the most self-centered country in the world.

Interesting point

But my motherboard's cooling pipes are a closed circuit. I don't see that they lose water, or whatever it is that use to cool my motherboard.

So why do datacenters lose water ?

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

Gartner thinks

Well that's a first.

Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider

Go on, Zuck

Keep investing billion upon billions.

That way, when (not if) this pseudo-AI pipe dream finally implodes, I will have a large tequila and laugh at your foolishness.

Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package

It's amazing

It's absolutely amazing how much Redmond has contributed to the malware industry since its inception.

Honestly, they should get a lifetime award for that.

Awesome

You really have to hand it Redmond : Windows is by far the beat platform to teach malware writers how to beat the system.

I'm thinking that Borkzilla should receive a lifetime award for its contribution to the blackhat community . . .

Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days

"Meta realized the error of its ways"

Non. Meta realized that it might be roasted and did a basic CYA maneuver.

Meta does not make mistakes. It simply overcalculates its ability to throw up a smoke shield when snaffling yet more of our private lives.

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

"there was still some good"

There still is. You just need to know where to look.

Curiosity Stream is an endless fountain of information. Animalogic is a treasur trove of information for people who are interested in all things on four paws, or otherwise. The B1M is a great tool to know what's going on in construction, and why. Crash Course is a an enlightening channel into plenty of things.

You're interested in space ? Check out Dr Becky.

History ? This guy has you covered.

Current events ? You won't go wrong looking here.

Other sites for curious minds are here, https://www.youtube.com/c/inanutshell/videos">here, here, here and here.

I could go on.

The Internet is still great. You just need to know where to look.

Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told

"Orbital datacenter gold rush"

Call me when they've found out just how hard it is to dissipate heat and found a viable (aka economical and efficient) solution for it.

Until then, I will sleep easy knowing that whatever they throw up there is going to burn itself from the inside.

Not to mention that those beautiful Nvidia whatever chips will inevitably be subject to cosmic rays that will skew their calculations unless those orbital datacenters include a meter or so of lead shielding - which will make the costs skyrocket enough to make Musk's eyes get teary.

Fashion mart Miinto unzips breach details, warns shoppers to watch for phisherfolk

Is that an AI girl in the image ?

Is the girl in the article's page image a fake ?

She looks like one.

Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year

"he had therefore paid tax on it"

Yup, par for the course for a FIFA club. The benefits go to the club managers and FIFA - everyone and everything else is just a deductible.

AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X

Good

Almost 50% of pseudo-AI slop is on Twitter and LinkedIn ?

Am I glad I never look at those sites and don't have an account there.

That preserves me from half of AI shit.

Thanks, Twitter and LinkedIn. Just like Facebook back in the day took over email spam, now Twitter and LinkedIn are hoarding AI slop.

There's always a sewer somewhere, you just need to know where to avoid stepping . . .

OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up

Davide Beatrici

An individual no other open source project will ever accept as contributor.

And that is all he deserves.

Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays

"busier Patch Tuesdays"

As in more frantic rollbacks when said Patch Tuesday royally buggers everything up yet again.

Get the popcorn ready, people !

Microsoft closes book on Nightmare Eclipse's RoguePlanet zero-day

Weeks after

Well, what are you complaining about ?

At least it didn't take years.

Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk

Only a billion pounds ?

Pah. Pocket change.

Call them when it reaches a trillion pounds and their retirement is in danger.

Then they might do something about it . . .

Thief posed as Wi-Fi fixing hero, then stole priceless trophy

It really is a shame

It is very unfortunate that some individuals will take advantage of the privileged access they have to do a specific job to line their pockets with whatever they think they can get away with.

Oh sure, in the short term they might indeed profit from their thefts, but in the long run they will most likely get caught - especially when we're talking about people who can't secure a better job than cleaning or security - and the consequences will then be dire.

But you need to be intelligent to have that kind of foresight . . .

Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek thinks AI is going to pay off

"intends to massively increase its investment in AI"

Which will massively increase the pain when the bubble finally bursts.

Or have they not read about all the companies that are frantically backpedaling on their AI use ?

The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey

What ?

"SpaceXAI is charging $2 per million input tokens and $6 for every million tokens generated"

So that's $8 for every million tokens. Why make it simple when you can complicate things ?

and, at 80 tokens per second, that's three and a half days of working space. Which means almost $70 per month.

Netflix is cheaper.

And more interesting.

OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter

"OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter"

Oh great. So the drunkards at the bar will finally stop hitting on the poor girl serving them, big win for her.

And for Humanity, what will that bring ?

Bugger all.

Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows

Re: "May fail"

Indeed. Everything Windows may fail, especially after Patch Tuesday.

Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking

You forgot a word there, Nvidia

"Across every industry, AI is helping increase our annual revenue and drive down annual costs while boosting our productivity."

I can't wait to see you having to eat your words on that last part. As far as productivity is concerned, I am still waiting to hear of a successful business implementation.

All I hear of at the moment is failures and rollbacks.

So, Nvidia, you got any examples to back you PR ?

Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter

"use seawater for cooling"

Great idea.

I'm sure salt water will have no nasty impact on those delicate cooling pipes.

No, none at all. Sure.

AI startup that’s never turned a profit says it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease

Re: Late 2027?

Making the building is peanuts on the overall cost sheet. Construction workers have nothing to fear, they'll get paid.

Nvidia doesn't have much to fear either, it'll get its billions.

The only ones who have something to fear are the investors stupid enough to continue riding this burning bandwagon. And if their are, they deserve all the pain they'll get.

Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

Did you get that in writing ?

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

Just shoot them already

This subject has bored everyone to tears eons ago.

Shut up and move to something new, like who owns the flavor vanilla.

EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account

Cockroaches in diving suits

Where are the frikkin' lasers on their heads ?

I mean, I get that, before using sharks, you have to start small, so let's get on with it . . .

MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage

"she used the same or similar passwords on all of her accounts"

Sorry, but you can't go blaming banks for not using MFA there. Different passwords would already have been a major hurdle to overcome.

But okay, she was old. An unfortunate consequence is that managing one's online life gets very complicated, especially for someone who hasn't spend their adult lifetime dealing with the Internet in general.

C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

Amazing

Uh, about that 9-line emulator : could the guy who wrote that interest himself in an open-source version of VMware ?

He can do it in 20 lines, I'm not picky.

Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module

Yes ! Finally !

"Thorium is the future for ultra-safe, clean power production"

I have often posted my opinion (here and elsewhere) that Thorium reactors are the future of civilian power generation (until we finally get fusion, of course, and even then, one fusion reactor won't be powering an entire continent).

I'm very happy to see that an industry captain is sending the same message.

That sentence is too complicated for AI to grok.

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

Good

I'm very glad CxOs are feeling the pain.

Soon, they're going to start counting the ROI on this adventure and, with a bit of luck, they're going to scream in their disappearing bonuses.

SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI

I just love this

I love hearing about how an erstwhile corporate godzilla gets itself shrinking pains when trying to Cloud its customers without their consent.

Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

40K here, 170K there

I found a quote for a Grace Blackwell desktop tower at $90K+. Even if you can expect a steep discount for ordering them in such quantities, that's still a budget in the billions.

Nice going for NVidia. They're really sweeping the AI floor for every crumb of profit.

Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway

Big Corp tells flea to pay up

That's what you get when you deal with the devil : a crooked deal.

Do No Harm ? That is sooo last millenium.

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

Re: Oracle balls deep in AI

I just hope it's a steel trap, with locked jaws and serrated teeth.

A 40% stock drop ?

Couldn't happen to nicer guy.

Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

Interesting

No access security on the conference room Ethernet port ? Normal, it's manglement that uses that and they're time is too important to be bothered.

60 employees with the same password ? WTF ? Was there a conference where somebody wrote on the whiteboard "winter2023!" and everyone present agreed ?

New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch

Re: Do they have names?

Or Batty ?

Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors

Re: The biter bit?

Yeah, it's called irony.

Nothing like a thief to not appreciate being thieved.

UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies

"ministerial sign-off required for any consultancy spend over £600,000"

And that is going to change what, exactly ?

Just that the minister in charge is going to get also get a nice kickback.

T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out

$24 million

"$24 million for extended support covering six products, a sum it said would cover over 20 staff needed to support T-Mobile"

I would think that, for $24 million, they could hire another 20 additional staff and still come out way ahead.

Unless they're paying those staffers $1 million per year ?

Somehow, I doubt that.