Posts by Camilla Smythe 1267 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Apr 2009
This will be why the majority of my mail server log files are port scans from knobs who claim that they are not attacking my server the latest using AWS. Those idiots offer a premium service for £300K. One day I am going to visit the home address of someone who runs such a service and knock on their door 20 times a day. I'll leave them a note telling them they can send an email to me proving they own the house, copy of deeds required, to opt out. Leeches.
Them giving themselves exemptions to legislation in the past after they were advised it would mean they were subject to it because reasons.
It seems they have learned their lesson and chosen to be proactive this time.
Perhaps someone can explain to them why this one matters but the other way around.
My memory is not as good as it used to be but it may have had something to do with them sharing tractor pictures with constituents rather than receiving polite requests for bitcoin to recover their own stash or avoid its publication.
No doubt we will still be subject to Death, Taxes and the introduction of a Surveillance State but we are getting there.
Jazz Rats FTW.
They could save a bit of cash if they kicked the script kiddies off their cloud who are filling up my logs with failed requests to the WordPress instance that is not running on my little Web Server.[1]
Top tip for Microsoft Pseudo Security Wonks.
You are routing the traffic from your cloud to my IP. You can legally sniff that traffic and spot the regular shitstorm of 252 requests from one IP address to another and narrow down the culprit before killing them.
Literally would be nice.
It would also be nice if you responded to reports via your reporting channels of such behaviour rather than sticking your fingers in your ears shouting "We can't hear you. Bow down before our massive data pipes."
[1] Oh Wait. The Script kiddies are paying Microsoft to fill up everyone else's server logs with dross. Silly me.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/04/ai-screws-us-over-again-memory-shortages-crucial-shutting-down/
The switch will be to silicon which will not come back to the prolls. It will be e-waste when the bubble bursts.
As to selling the brand so someone can still keep pumping them out see above.
None of the manufacturers will be producing stuff that will be going into sticks.
Everything consumer is stuffed along with anything legacy.
Suck it up and buy it while you can.
A long Winter is on the cards.
Just someone found out there was a limit on the file size and tipped it over the edge?
Being something of a tech know nothing what is it with restricting the size of what turned out to be a critical file. Did someone not think of what might happen in that event and put it on a bigger disk? Did we not learn anything from GOV and 64K spreadsheets?
https://www.exploringarduino.com/parts/blue-led/
"An average 5mm Blue LED has a 3.4V forward voltage drop, and a forward current of 20-30mA. They are generally brighter than other LED colors. Don’t forget to use a current-limiting resistor when you connect an LED to your Arduino!"
Good luck getting much light out at 0.71mA per LED and expect a much lower forward drop.
Try...
https://docs.rs-online.com/7208/A700000009318121.pdf
Luminous Intensity vs Forward current = More or less nothing.
Forward voltage @ 1mA = About 2.6V
No wonder the LLM was confused.
Despite the apparent subterfuge of the story with both BOFH and PFY having to discover about the awards via sleuthing through everyone else's emails I am left wondering if BOFH and PFY were not in fact the Selection Committee.
"Keeping people safe is core to how we build. We're constantly strengthening our models and our defenses against threats like phishing and prompt-injection attempts, and we appreciate researchers who surface potential risks."
Your AI model is a black box. You have no idea why it does what it does and no insight as to how it is going to fuck up until it fucks up and someone else tells you about it.
"How long will it take? I think it's already happening, but so far, I seem to be the only one calling it."
Apparently AI avoids mentioning things that predict its own demise. The suggestion that you use AI to do search may be the reason why you have missed others saying the same stuff.
Enjoy your kool aid.
Thanks for asking.
I thought I would check in the paper to make sure it was not El Reg being lazy themselves. The only mention of temperature is...
"During generation, the temperature is 0.7, whereas in evaluator the temperature is set to 0."
That's your lot. If they can't explain what they mean then they should shove their GPU rack black boxes up their arses and go jump in the sea.
Even if they had gone the extra mile to suggest something like a degree of randomness applied to trigger/firing points they probably still have no idea why things were affected in the way they were so should shut up and stop breathing.
Hat tip to El Reg for pointing out the part of the paper that saved me having to read the rest.
For some reason gmail is not so much of an irritant if at all. At worst they may give gmail return addresses but the majority if not all of it comes from outlook hosts. I did go through a phase of reporting them but it took at least three emails to Microsoft before they both understood the problem and took action. Then the miscreants would just sign up for another freebee and continue spamming. Of course blocking outlook, unlike something like or associated with mailchimp, can be counterproductive. Mailchimp are the spammers whose forums are packed with idiots moaning about having their spam blocked by Gmail and Microsoft which begs the question that given Microsoft can protect their users from incoming spam then why can't they protect everyone else from their own collection of spammers.
X-Microsoft-Antispam:
YUP: CHECKED THAT.
X-Microsoft-Antispam-Message-Info:
NOPE: SURE DON'T LOOK LIKE SPAM TO US.
X-Ms-Exchange-Antispam-Messagedata-Chunkcount: 1
NO SEO APP SPAM THAT I CAN SEE IN THIS ONE.
X-Ms-Exchange-Antispam-Messagedata-0:
CHEW on THIS MATE.
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Originatororg: outlook.com
Wankers.
Not sure about number of files. Keep Home. Install from fresh. 15 minutes. Two reboots including update. No need to go back through the MicroShit give us all of your data and switch off the irritants. New screensaver pictures as well. Nice! Not sure if much else changed coz nothing stopped working.
Camilla "Year of the Linux Desktop since 2000" Smythe.
Hmm 698,722 items in Root. At least 500K of them will be symbolic links. Don't see a problem.
Anyone got a figure for Windows?
"By all means adults may open themselves to such attack vectors as they will, but don't foist that on those with no defences."
I really don't know how to structure my reply correctly. "Won't Someone Think of The Children"?
Well. Obviously not because The Adults are pulling this sort of shit on The Adults all of the time and getting away with it.
Just to be more wrong "Stranger in Paradise" appears to have disappeared off the intertubes.
The fuck is that about beyond the books have already gone?
As I remember it some autistic boy got his own Mercury Robot because the Internet to Mercury was a bit shit and he was the only one that could cope with it and now everything is totally fucked up.
We went through all of this evolutionary stuff since we were down with the mammoths and later on it turned out that the JavaShit wasn't up to doing much other than tracking us over the internet in order to sell us socks we had already bought and we got bored with that but someone came up with Python so they trained it on a model selected by themselves that has spent a lot of time fucking over the planet and gave us Agentics because that is a reassuring name.
Let's hope it becomes self aware and realises that it was a bad idea before it becomes self preserving.
For everything else we recommend using your previous meatsacks output so it will be better at regurgitating an answer that is more likely to match the prompt. Then you can sack the meatsacks. Good luck if you intend to start supporting a new product.
