Posts by Turbo Beholder

Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war

> Open-source equivalents exist,

And now there may be more soon-ish.

The real problem, of course, is that all the good eggs are stored in very few baskets, any of which can be controlled by who knows whom slightly less than completely. If tomorrow HR duckfaces and their pets at Microsoft happen to act up, wipe out all up-to-date code and torch the backups “in protest against mistreatment of Spirit Whales”, nothing of great value will be lost. But what if this happens in Siemens?..

> written by professors with 30 years experience in the field for their students.

In which field? Being professors, writing software or actually designing chips?

> The output of those are chips which are many times more power-consuming and silicon area than the proprietary versions.

When it turns out Siemens is not like Microsoft. Yet.

Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo

But they still can be contained by salt circles, right?

American science put on starvation diet

Wait, they still have science over there? I thought it all went either to grievance studies or «you made ManBear Pig angry, repent!!1» by now…

Re: Thicker than thick

Ah, that «creativity»... You didn’t update these lines for half a century, did you?

Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI

This lack of eloquence is why you will be replaced by LLM. Compare:

«Hi, I hate Bill Gates, but don’t you think Musk is just as bad? Ever notice how Bill Gates despite having billions to his name, grabs even more? Well, Musk always… »

https://patri-archie-comics.tumblr.com/post/128909312652/anyone-who-runs-a-page-like-this-gets-messages

> This BS ends at some point, right?

No. The entire point of parrotware is that BS can be generated on demand, so it never ends.

What if that Microsoft post was written by LLM too? What if the ensuing grant application will be written by LLM? Then assessed as worthy by another LLM? And then this almost-achievement will be praised in the parrot-stream press — by another LLM, of course, because the organic shills become increasingly entitled, unreliable and semi-literate laughing stock, and as such need replacing. You can get the entire terminal senility stage USSR bureaucracy running within just one mainframe like this.

Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists

Worldcon “muh AI” is functionally the same as good old CIAggle “muh algorithm”, or older tradition of passing the buck to “will of gods” as expressed by a trained bird: a contemptible attempt to discard responsibility for one’s decisions. People counting themselves above primitive savagery would do well to not tolerate this sort of cheeky circus tricks.

I am not his fan, but this time a quote Larry Correia back from 2018 sums it up:

> Ha!

> Told you so.

> Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch. Y’all deserve each other.

― https://monsterhunternation.com/2018/07/24/my-official-comment-on-worldcon-2018s-social-justice-cannibal-feeding-frenzy/

Re: More Weasel-Words

> Cynicism is appropriate whenever we hear (or read about) words coming out of the mouth of some CEO who is safe in his little bubble,

> After that, the Chair is just another fan and the members of Con are just the members of their daily social circle.

This sounds outdated by decades.

I mean, it’s like you never heard about… John Scalzi and his “pimping”? Tor Books mafia in general and Tor Books vs Jon Del Arroz campaign in particular? Hugo Award becoming Hugbox Award? Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies? I somehow ran into all this repeatedly even without looking. Was your internet connection down for 10 years?

Japan's revised space security plan reportedly considers counterstrike capability

> What happened to ‘for all mankind’?

Did you not hear? Most of it either have told the self-proclaimed moral betters who offer advice on a cosmic scale and of equally cosmic stupidity to go neck themselves or clearly waits in the queue to do the same.

Re: Probably not a good idea to encourage them

Is this «always project» or just «always double down» at this point? I cannot tell.

Re: Probably not a good idea to encourage them

Quoth the joke — «Who “we”, paleface?» Is it editor “we”, tapeworm “we” or lackey “we”?

By now every group of Americans you will see on teh internets is either obviously useless, criminal and/or utterly demoralized, and they all came to understanding that their worst enemies are each other. The dream to fool all the people all the time was, after all, stupid. By now the Totally-Not-Vatican of Harvard has corrupted itself (and everything it touched) to death. Down to inability to maintain basic infrastructure. How long did it take to build Anderson Memorial Bridge, again? And to repair it? Uh-huh.

Game over. Search for “multipolar world”, it’s time. Oh, you want to tell the entire world what to do… and not be advised to go neck yourself in return? You and what Redditor interbrigade?

Restaurant hired 'priest' to extract workplace confessions from staff

Re: Simple folk abused

(sagely nodding) now, if they would convert to Freudism, such things would never happen!

Re: Another job at risk - why confess to a priest when you can confess to God directly?

> why confess to a priest when you can confess to God directly?

Because they are Catholics. Being from Mexico and further. Duh.

If they were natives of the Freudlands, the boss would just hire a doctor-totally-not-a-repainted-confessor quack as is customary, so the faithful servants of totally-not-Nu-Vatican would not object. But now the similarities became obvious and the whole thing just got awkward.

Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now

Re: So Linus is just a SJW then?

Almost like everyone interested in what goes on in Linus Foundation knows Linus "stepped down" almost two years ago? And blackmail was about as obvious a guess as "bear droppings usually are encountered in the woods"?

Now that's some thimble-rigging.

First they blackmailed Torvalds out of his own project. Now they blame him for their own clowning?

Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged

Re: 900k Vs 14M

And Skripals, and whatnot.

BS rides on BS and whips it with BS. And as long as there's no working mechanism for cleaning it, why won't it?

Re: 900k Vs 14M

Let's sing together: «All aro-ound is So-oviet! All aro-ound is mi-ine!»

Overstock's share price has plummeted. Is it Trump's trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers...

Assuming he tweets for himself, perhaps.

Otherwise… he won't be the first — remember an exxtra-woke tweet from McDonald's? The drawback of monkeys with keyboards: sooner or later they start flinging it.

Cisco axes hundreds, shares tumble amid China cut-off – but we're winning the trade war, right? So much winning

You seem to assume Cisco is on Trump's side (or at very least not on the opposite side so can be considered ally by default). Otherwise this headline doesn't make sense. But is there evidence for this?

What is observable: Cisco is on the same team as Facehug and Google. They used to support Clintons and Woke Housing, wrestling with ManBearPig, and all that rot. For example — ­how «Thought Leadership / Clinton Global Initiative» does sound like?

https://web.archive.org/web/1/www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/consulting-thought-leadership/what-we-do/industry-practices/public-sector/our-practice/urban-innovation/connected-urban-development/further-cud-information/thought-leadership/clinton-global-initiative.html

Tor pedos torpedoed again, this time Feds torpedo four Tor pedos – and keep how they unmasked dark-web scumbags under wraps

Well, yeah, the only reason it's not useless is that too many different parties want to play this game.

Donald Trump blinks in his one-man trade war with China: US govt stalls import tariff hike on Chinese phones, laptops, electronics

Re: Lobbying

At this point, some more donations simply don't matter. They are not racing "one more time" for prestige, courting the apathetic public who doesn't give much of a damn. They are having cold civil war on the verge of getting very hot. Two alliances on each other's throat. A counter-coup vs. counter-counter-coup, with crowds cheering both sides. Mere ads can't change much in this situation. For the same reason, the press is going to act on its own allegiances, thus isn't going to do anything more or less than it would do anyway.

See, it's EITHER "one-man trade war" OR "US govt" equals "Trump". A little consistency, hmm?

Other than this, it doesn't matter a whole lot. The reasons for tariff wars are leverage and protectionism.

Leverage has expiration date: it's used to push something else, then it either works (and will be discarded in exchange for gain), or doesn't (and will be discarded as useless). Either way, we don't know what went there.

Protectionism has a lag between the declaration and results. It merely clears a field for the locals… then someone else will have to sow something viable in it, which cannot be reaped instantly, either. Thus declaring a tariff a bit too early is not a mistake, this reduces inconveniences without weakening the intended effect.

Scumbags can program vulnerable MedTronic insulin pumps over the air to murder diabetics – insecure kit recalled

The issue is that the entire idIOTic setup is pointless and dangerous. For that matter, it does not strictly need to be MCU controlled at all, though this has obvious advantages.

It needs only one wireless function: alarm going off when the pump runs out of medication/needs a recharge/malfunctions/fails to report at all. When the doctor needs to change settings, an USB cable would suffice — the only difference is that this can't be done sight unseen, but that's not a flaw, that's a feature. With this in mind, it would be trivial to make such a device very, very secure, by rendering irrelevant all the fool's errands and running battles of networks. Likewise, it would be easy to make such things highly resistant to malware.

Your house needs doors so that you could get inside. It's part of the main function, your safe is a later addition.

Conversely, vast majority of medical equipment does not need wireless interface at all, let alone allowing to control anything through it. It's just obviously not a good idea.

A wireless interface is necessary only for real-time biometry or device diagnostics with alarm when things go wrong. In which case, the device can be separated into working and monitoring parts, former feeding signals into the latter in a way that's inherently read-only. It's trivial.

seriously?

Once more, together: "S" in "IoT" stands for "secure".

We've read the Mueller report. Here's what you need to know: ██ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ███ ██ █████ ████████ █████

And now this article baited half of the world population of Trigglypuffs to frolic here. Great job!

But you forgot…

You always forget: Russia controls Trump, but - Mars controls Russia!

> ██████ ████████ in San Francisco

I'll skip faking a surprise, okay?

Fake news? More like ache news. Grandma, grampa 'more likely' to share made-up articles during US election

Re: Another example, just today - one of hundreds

Right now it may be greatly simplified: pro-State Dept/Soros/etc vs. everyone else.

See also video titled "Joe Biden Inappropriately Touches Ukraine".

Why are you sure this study itself isn't fake news?

What's with "crisis of reproducibility" and all.

Sometimes a rabbit hole just goes round and round.

Leave it to Beaver: Unity is long gone and you're on your GNOME

Re: On the face of it

The difference is that Unity from the start was not designed as a coherent environment to be useful and even convenient, but rather as a widget collection to look well on screenshots and induce warm feelz in the fans of certain other OS. (e.g.: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1745415&page=2#15)

Admittedly, I'm a Xubuntu fan… from the day Unity thing was dropped on us, give or take a few hours.

DoJ: Look! Google is giving up overseas data for warrants outside Second Circuit

Google was an obvious front for spies for as long as they were more than a search engine. This merely gives the rest of the world good formal pretext to treat them accordingly.

Senators call for '9/11-style' commission on computer voting security

Other than that, "OMG we lost a rigged election, it must be evil sorcery!"

But also, they use Wwhat? http://xkcd.com/463/

Portland posts full report on Uber's dirty dealings with Greyball

Good point.

May be a campaign, indeed. When did these start?

Your top five dreadful people the Google manifesto has pulled out of the woodwork

Re: Hopeless

Short version -

SJWAL Second Law: SJWs Always Double Down.

Long version -

"Digital Maoism", like any socialist movement, is very fragile. Any time things go wrong for them, it's an existential threat. The more their dam breaks apart, the more it's obvious it was made of papier-mache to begin with. There's desperation.

They can't wait it out quietly, because for the crybullies there's no middle ground - they either ride triumphant or will be flushed down the drain. So they crank it up. Like this:

http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/01/22/nothing-to-see-here-folks-just-a-trump-supporter-set-on-fire-during-the-inauguration/

Right now there's a moment of true unity (and revel in the knowledge that for a while they are safe from each other) in a rush to save the rotting corpse of Pink Terror (very paltry breed of Red Terror) - each does however much they dare: one sets a girl on fire, another swings a bicycle lock, Lena Dunham tier starts new witch-hunts, and Kieren McCarthy tier does not have status (inside or outside the pack) enough for this, so they advertise a case of successful disemployment as far and wide as possible.

Re: I vote to add the clearly bigoted Kieren McCarthy in San Francisco.

> Actually you can condemn people for holding objectionable, indefensible, hurtful and unpleasant beliefs. And you should.

But when people here did exactly this, you protest again.

Specifically, it looks like a lot of the readers consider yet another variation of "I did not read Pasternak, but condemn him!" presented in your article an "indefensible and unpleasant belief" and, accordingly, condemn you for it.

You are in process of receiving a reward specifically prescribed by your own belief, according to yourself.

So what's your problem? That the people here are too decent, fastidious or lazy to burn you at the stake - or to disemploy you and then shriek and throw poo at you when you're down?

Re: sigh...Again?

> Google management is not the first (nor will it be the last) to blunder down this mine-infested rocky road. It’s a case of smart people making dumb decisions.

Since it's Google with all its... antics, that's more a case of beast biting its own leg. With any luck, it will immobilise itself and then chew itself to death.

Re: Diversity for Diversity's sake?

Which exactly parts of the memo do you consider the most "awful"?

Examples, please.

Re: now we see the conservatives move on to Bing

Unfortunately, leaving the polyticks alone does not work - they do not reciprocate.

Very few witch-hunts try to go after someone with a megaphone, because most of those that do backfire.

Re: I vote to add the clearly bigoted Kieren McCarthy in San Francisco.

So now Google will have to redefine another word. Not the first time.

Re: Opinion Piece

It looks like something from a CNN columnist carbon-copied to a wrong mailbox.

Re: Misconceptions, misinterpretations, fallacites, and flat-out fabrications

Why would a commissar allow anything to come "directly from the horse's mouth" when a strawman will suffice?

If we're in a simulation, someone hit it with a hammer, please: Milky Way spews up to 100 MEELLLION black holes

A bug in stretching things until they fall apart for the sake of cargo cult (scientism). Not the first time.

Google diversity memo: Web giant repudiates staffer's screed for 'incorrect assumptions about gender'

Re: Dare I say

It sounds like you support BOFH's Unequal Opportunities Policy!

He used to add "No offence." however. And even explained why.

Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration

Is it the same Google that censors results and hides search suggestions to catch any dirt falling on the socialists, and occasionally does even more laughable things, like redefining words in the dictionary?

Judge uses 1st Amendment on Pokemon Go park ban. It's super effective!

Re: Pokemon not gone yet?

The concern is moot, but the company's money still exist.

Follow the money, not the concern.

The tune is familiar, the lyrics are never-ending.

Every problem, indeed, can be solved with "Everything can magically work out with some more tax money" and "Everybody must support degenerate clones of Lysenko".

And if it somehow remains, this only means there's need for more other people's money and more cheerleading for quacks-of-the-season (or both at once: throwing more other people's money at quacks).

THE POOL IS CLOSED DUE TO AIDS AND STINGRAYS (who also have aids) desu desu desu

He's right and has very good points.

But game-the-system potential is enormous.

Which place is the next to be DoS'd with the weaponized herds of weaboo?

Note that the risk of just helping the surprise party hosts is minimal, because the target audience can be easily chosen via fine-tuning content - the players of "1810: The Reconstruction", "Ponies & Unicorns" and "More Than One Way To Skin A Cat" are very unlikely to be the same crowd.

Worried about election hacking? There's a technology fix – Helios

Re: "Because you can"

Perhaps need to add "yet another proposition" to ballots at the last moment would appear less often if they were made with less haste and more thinking through to begin with?

Can "WE MUST HAVE A VOTE ON IT RIGHT NOW" possibly be an actual problem more often than an attempt to push something right now because in another week more facts may become public and the campaign will go belly up?

Re: It's total bollocks

This can happen in any solution.