* Posts by Youngone

1571 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jun 2009

Google brains plumb depths of the uncanny valley with latest image-to-video tool

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Re: But … why?

The goal is to have AI generating all the stuff that humans might, but without the costs of actually employing anyone. It's an MBA's wildest dream.

How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model

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My assumption was that Oracle would be happy to outspend anyone who tried this in court.

US accuses Army vet cyber-Casanova of sharing Russia-Ukraine war secrets

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Re: I wonder how he got caught

I'm assuming that despite being a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel he's thick as pig shit and boasted about the "hot Ukrainian" he had as a girlfriend and was turned in.

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Re: Depends more on the cause of your fines

That all sounds weirdly Soviet.

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

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Re: After eleven - Mint

I've been living entirely with Linux Mint for about a year now. Civ VI runs fine and it's the only game I still play.

The only thing I do miss is Photoshop but everything else has a Linux equivalent that works just as well (or better) than whatever I was using under Windows.

Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

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Re: voluntary redundancy?

In my country, the number 2 ISP in the country asked for volunteers to be laid off and 100% of the staff applied. Hilarious.

The guy I dealt with wasn't accepted, probably because they couldn't contact him. Goodness knows I couldn't

Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs

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Re: "arguing that the labor agency is unconstitutional"

Smedley Butler complained about the US Marines being used as the enforcement arm of United Fruit in 1935.

So yes, quite a long time ago.

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

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America has had several "federal subsidised push(es) for a national fiber infrastructure." The corporations took the money and didn't do the installs, then they asked for more money which resulted in not much more fibre.

Then they sponsored laws to prevent communities building their own fibre networks.

Duo face 20 years in prison over counterfeit iPhone scam

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A bit harsh?

20 years seems a bit harsh to me.

I'm happy they should be punished, fraud is fraud, but 20 years seems a bit over the top.

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

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It was his use of "females" that tipped you off wasn't it?

Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up

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Re: Mrs Henry Ford will be turning in her grave

Neither Ford nor GM are going to fail, because American taxpayers are waiting in the wings with a huge pile money to hand over as soon as they need it really badly.

What's more, management at Ford and GM are well aware of it.

Yay capitalism!

It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety

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Re: Just AI?

I'm sorry, but her "her obvious creative and business talents." are completely unobvious to me.

She's the child of multi-generational wealth who gained her first recording contract because her father bought a large stake in the company.

The Grammys have no integrity and never did. They're an award for whoever sold the most records last year.

I have heard her described as "the McDonalds of pop music" which sounds about right to me.

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Re: Just AI?

The rapid princess. I love it so much I'm pirating it.

That's mine now.

Top Linux distros drop fresh beats

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Re: Style is optional

I agree with you about MX. I use Mint at home as my main machine and it's boring.

I mean that in the best possible way too.

Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim

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Re: No Love For QuickDraw 3D?

Thanks, I really enjoyed that story.

It makes my own situation feel a little less unique. I too work for a vast American corporation that has lost it's way. We however don't care enough to attempt to subvert the corporate bureaucracy in an attempt to actually do good work, so everything is circling the drain.

I would also disagree with his assertion that the powerpc Macs were great machines. As an end user at the time, we put up with them an no more.

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Re: No Love For QuickDraw 3D?

I thought the bit where he wrote "...the first successful spatial computing device, the HoloLens." was the giveaway that doesn’t actually know what they’re talking about.

CISA boss swatted: 'While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique'

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Re: Some light relief

It seems odd the none of that was raised by Fox when Dominion sued them and they settled for $800 million.

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Re: Thought Experiment

Not where I live, and I'm struggling to find a single UK resident killed in one of these incidents.

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I'm not sure how the police shooting people so often that they're used as an instrument of revenge makes it the phone companies' problem.

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Thought Experiment

Can anyone name another country where this happens?

As Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix

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That's a very interesting article. Thanks.

Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing

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Two Things

Two thoughts came to me.

The first was that this new city will be "socioeconomically integrated" because the servants need to live somewhere and the second was that State Senator Bill Dodd seems to not understand how America works if he thinks this whole project will be decided "based on facts, not slogans, misdirection and massive campaign spending."

More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are exposed to old denial of service bugs

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Re: They're missing the real reason so many SonicWalls are unpatched

I don't think anyone is thinking that Cisco are less scummy than Sonicwall.

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Sonicwall?

I thought they died years ago. We had a couple of their firewalls at one place I worked at, but the support was so poor we got rid of them.

Windows 12 fan fiction shows how Microsoft might ladle AI into the OS

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Re: Windows OSXII

I thought it looked a bit like Gnome. Not as good though.

Daughter of George Carlin horrified someone cloned her dad with AI for hour special

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7 downvotes?

It's not like you're wrong.

It's not all watching transparent TV from a voice-commanded bidet. CES has work stuff too

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3D? Again?

I love the way tech companies keep trying to foist 3D onto people despite failing to create a market repeatedly over the past 30 years or so.

I suppose I admire their persistence.

US Navy sailor swaps sea for cell after accepting bribes from Chinese snoops

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Re: Only $14K?

That's pretty much what I thought.

It may be an indication of the quality of management in the US Navy.

Swarms of laser-flown bots visiting a planet light years away – and more NASA-funded projects revealed

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Re: A couple of issues to be sorted?

Though I wonder if it would be possible at that speed to enter a hyperbolic orbit with the star, and re-enter that system every few years/decades to collect more data.

That's a great idea.

China's GPU contender Moore Threads reveals card that can cope with Nvidia’s CUDA

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Re: > China are not going to invade Taiwan, because they can't.

How is sending drones going to achieve anything useful?

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Re: Commodity tat

China are not going to invade Taiwan, because they can't.

The last time any significant amphibious invasion was attempted, the invaders had been fighting for 4 years (most of them anyway), they had 2 dress rehearsals and the target did not possess satellites or a significant ally who could intervene.

China would need to get 1,000,000 men across the straights of Taiwan and supply them. Taiwan and the US would be able to watch the build up in real time and would know exactly where the landings were going to be. Imagine China's casualty rate.

China could destroy Taiwan of course, they possess nukes. That's going to cripple their own economy, so they won't do that either.

Halley's Comet has begun its long trek back toward Earth

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Re: Disappointing

I was working night shift in semi-rural New Zealand at the time, and walked home every night under Halley's. I can confirm, it absolutely was spectacular, not "...more of a dim smudge in the sky that could not be seen with the naked eye." as the article says.

Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org

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Re: KDE on X

Canonical and Debian don't make decisions about default anything without thinking it through, and Debian definitely listens to technical people before implementing a thing as important as a display manager.

I'm yet to see a really coherent criticism of systemd. It has certainly made my life much easier.

Plex gives fans a privacy complex after sharing viewing habits with friends by default

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I paid something like $25 (local money) for a license for Serviio several years ago and it does everything I need.

It's worth a look if you're in the market for that sort of thing.

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

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Re: Tesla should deal

I've seen some statements that claim the world is flat. It doesn't mean I should believe them.

Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch

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Re: Gladys Berejiklian

I once worked at a company that had a former PM on the board. (Not Australia obvs)

I didn't have much time for her, as she seemed to me to be rude and selfish but I was repeatedly assured that she "did a huge amount for the company" and "worked really hard".

Anyway, a few years later when the business went titsup, she was quoted in the media (as chair of said board by that time) as saying "I had no idea what was going on".

Really.

Wish you could sing like Charli XCX or possess any musical talent? YouTube AI might make that happen

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Re: Copyright war

As always there is one rule for us and no fucking rules for big business.

Correct. And if you don't like it, you're welcome to purchase your own set of rules.

RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 arrive – one is free, one merely free of charge

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If Oracle had bought Apple they would have killed it stone dead.

I'm basing that on the assumption that you're talking about that mid-1990's period when Apple lurched from disaster to disaster and was something of a joke. (Speaking as someone who sat in front of an Apple Quadra all day swearing).

We all assumed Apple was on its last legs and we'd be "upgrading" to Windows machines at some point.

Tesla Cybertruck no-resale clause vanishes faster than a Model S in Ludicrous Mode

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It's a ThunderCougarFalconBird

US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft

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Re: Wow, innovative!

We* could have sent people to Mars in the 1970's but it was decided the money was better spent elsewhere. Unfortunately.

* By "we" I mean the Americans.

Google Photos' AI Magic Editor won't change pictures of IDs, receipts, faces, or bodies

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Stupid Google, spoiling everyone's fun

No ID cards, receipts, human faces, or body parts? What's the point then?

FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse

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I'm still trying to find a use case for our current copyright law that is of public benefit.

US slaps sanctions on accused fave go-to money launderer of Russia's rich

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Bad news

Won't this affect the London property market?

$350B DoD nuke makeover efforts lack oversight, say inspectors

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Re: "some of the cash infusion could be wasted"

None of that really matters as long as America continues to burn through the vast sums of money they do every year.

Nobody is invading America, and the ability to project power globally is enough of a deterrent to prevent anyone messing with America's overseas interests.

50 year old ICBMs are the MAD icing on the cake for everything else.

The "threats" these reports throw up are almost entirely self-made, and designed to keep the cash flowing.

Which brings us back to my first line.

Biden's facing the clock to veto Apple Watch import ban after ITC patent ruling

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Re: Live by the sword...

"...even the world's largest company is not above the law."

Except it is to all intents and purposes.

Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware'

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Re: That sounds about right...

Office '97 was the real breakthrough for Microsoft, and the reason was that everyone who wanted to could install it from the CD for free and it would never ask for money at all.

That is how the competition was killed off.

iFixit pries open Google Pixel 8 Pro with clamps and picks

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"A kind-of-good phone which is marred by having some half-baked things" describes every smartphone I ever used, including the iPhone 13 work has given me to use.

GNOME Foundation's new executive director sparks witch hunt

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Re: ...dull grey, one size fits all goo.

I suspect you're right. Anyone who believes in "shamanic spiritual hygiene" is either a grifter or an idiot.-

Paying for WinRAR in all the wrong ways - Russia and China hitting ancient app

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Re: WinRAR? Why?

Many years ago, in a previous job, we sent a bunch of engineers to China to oversee the design and manufacture of some stuff, and all the drawings were compressed into .rar archives. The Chinese guys helpfully gave our guys a cracked version of Winrar to uncompress them and explained that .rar files were "better".

(No, I don't know what better means either).

Of course they all bought some weird keylogging virus back from China with them. Because of course they did.

Look, boss – Nvidia's still cool with staff working from home

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Re: A contrary view

I'm unsure why 2 people downvoted you.

The reason I go to work is because they give me money so that I can live the rest of my life. Your attitude seems entirely reasonable to me.