Posts by sabroni

Musk's first year as Twitter's Dear Leader is nigh

re: We also had an amusing inside peek (the twitter files)

The twitter files showed precisely fuck all.

Re: Because by doing so you're showing Musk two fingers?

No, because by doing so you're going to be understood by more people. If you use words the way other people do then you communicate better.

Re: The fly in the ointment...

..is that mastadon isn't advertiser friendly so will never become something that a rich cunt can buy and fuck up.

And that's a negative to you? You don't think that social media without adverts might be better?

Equal Employment Commission sues Tesla for racist discrimination, retaliation at Fremont plant

Re: Without some very damning evidence that Elon is a massive racist

How about buying Twitter so he could let all the racists back on? That not racist enough for you?

Are you a black Twitter user?

re: people being deplatformed for questioning the narrative

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones

(https://twitter.com/gourmetspud/status/1588570438224908288)

Re: Come-on Elon, get with the program, the Big Guy requires his cut ;)

Oh yeah, all that Biden corruption. The evidence shown at that impeachment hearing was just devastating.

55-inch Jamboard and app ecosystem tossed into the Google graveyard

Re: Blackboard and whiteboard are basically the same thing

But the discussion is about INTERACTIVE whiteboards. Is that the same thing as a blackboard?

EFF urges Chrome users to get out of the Privacy Sandbox

There are 469 Interest categories

Show me the list, I'll tell you what I'm interested in, no snooping on my web history necessary.

Unions claim win as Hollywood studios agree generative AI isn't an author

You can vote with your money more effectively now than ever before

If you want a little bit of challenge in what you're watching then maybe a bfi or mubi subscription would get you the variety you're looking for. If you're paying for Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney then you're part of the problem you're moaning about.

Re: Did it matter? Did anybody care?

No, of course not. The management decided to give writers a pay rise because they are lovely people who want to do the right thing.

OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT's internet browsing privileges

re: summarize relevant contemporary information.

Where summarise means "subtly change to mean something different".

If the Linux Foundation was a software company, it'd be the biggest in the world

If the Linux Foundation was a software company

then Linux as we know it wouldn't exist.

Devs learn rival Godot engine in a week to poke fun at Unity

re: Why on Steam?

I can read the article for you, but I can't understand it for you.

Twitter, aka X, tops charts for misinformation, EU official says

re: Though for no obvious reason.

The comment is designed to silence trans people and their allies.

Here's a tip, when you find yourself echoing the rhetoric from the rise of Nazi germany, make sure that your are blond, blue eyed and healthy.

re: Our legacy media is full of disinformation. See climate change, covid, race, immigration etc.

Did you ever meet a conspiracy theory you didn't like?

re: the objective reality

Nice obsession with genitals you have there.

Re: So what gives someone the right to silence anyone?

The owner of the property is allowed to decide who uses it. If you're in my house and you want to shout racist abuse at passers by I'm perfectly within my rights to tell you to fuck off.

Twitter is supposed to be a business. How is driving most of the customers away helping the bottom line?

Re: What are syncophants?

It's when a group of sycophants synchronise brown nosing.

California governor vetoes bill requiring human drivers in robo trucks

Re: using firearms and explosives to commit hijack and robbery

Might not have occurred to you but the reason most civilised people generally frown on these things is because it's bad to do them to people.

I don't give a fuck if autonomous vehicles are hijacked and robbed.

Re: Requiring drivers in autonomous vehicles should be for safety reasons only

When there's a nice, totally isolated, "autonomous vehicles only" road system then we can get rid of the drivers.

While these things are around pedestrians they need a human in control.

Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech

Re: Give it another couple of decades and I'm sure they'll be doing a lot better.

Good grief.

Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk's multiple messes

Really?

How does this federated protocol become the next Twitter? How does a billionaire buy it? What are you talking about?

re: Nothing new under the sun.

The only thing constant is change.

Neuralink's looking for participants willing to be part of human trials

Re: But cut the fucking snark!

FFS, if you want craven fealty to Musk you can go to just about any other site on the web. If you don't like the snark, go elsewhere.

'Small monthly payment' only thing that stands between X and bot chaos, says Musk

Big Idea Ventures

Take a look: https://bigidea.co.uk/

El Reg looked very hard to try and find someone who would say this idea wasn't bollocks.

Well done.

No really, well done. You're willing to throw away the credibility you once had to keep the bigots on side.

Textbook publishers sue shadow library LibGen for copyright infringement

Re: Who will think of the poor, downtrodden multi-billon corporations?

El Reg Editorial staff seem pretty keen on them judging by this puff piece.

Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late'

Re: Surfing the trailing edge can be lucrative

Unbearable smugness was the other criticism, I notice you've not managed to get rid of that.

GitHub alienates developers by force feeding them AI recommendations

Re: Borkzilla

Don't they make FireFox?

Portable Large Language Models – not the iPhone 15 – are the future of the smartphone

re: Yes they are.

Oh No They're Not!

Re: And a personal LLM would have pointed you towards one.

Hmm, or more likely pointed you towards one that looks like the others but is slightly changed in an arbitrary way.

It's not like Truth is important to the LLM, it just wants to show you what it thinks you've asked for.

I don't get it, am I wrong about how these things work or are all the fanboys fucking delusional?

Dutch consumer groups sue Google over its entire business model

Re: The advertisers and marketeers are the true scum

Of course, poor Google are nobly trying to get the very best ads they can possibly have in front of our faces and evil advertisers forced them to collate all the data into privacy busting user profiles.

Pity the poor Chocolate Factory, what else could it do?

IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week

Re: No heating/cooling required.

FYI, You can post with html: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house

Re: No heating/cooling required.

Surely this is magic?

Why the fuck are we still building houses that need heating?

UK admits 'spy clause' can't be used for scanning encrypted chat – it's not 'feasible'

Upvoted by the hard hard of thinking. Not the pat on the back you think it is.

X may train its AI models on your social media posts

Re: stopped censoring conservatives.

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones

(https://twitter.com/gourmetspud/status/1588570438224908288)

This idea is the definition of garbage in garbage out.

What kind of bigoted bullshit bot would you get it you trained it on Space Karen's new super hate platform?

From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?

re: WASM is the new Flash. Or Active X. Take your pick.

Both of those were pretty successful before they fell out of fashion. Flash was the interactive internet for a good couple of years before JS took off. So you're saying you expect this tech to be pretty successful before it is inevitably superseded?

Twitter says it may harvest biometric, employment data from its addicts

xeeted

He didn't xeet, he tweeted a tweet. When they start serving all their content from x domains and not twitter domains then maybe it's time to start calling it X. Currently X is just a graphic on twitter.com, while other content is served from twimg.com. There's no X in either of those domains.

He's super rich and he can do what he likes.

We don't all have to go along with him.

UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'

Re: he did his job perfectly

At Putin's request, destabilise the western border of the EU while Russia fucks around on the east.

If we were still part of the EU do you think Putin would be so keen to fuck with it?

Re: A fun one

You've got a fucked up idea of fun. The man is a lying, immoral scumbag.

He had a funny haircut though and he looked hilarious on that zipwire so let's fuck the economy up!

Re: IR35 changes that culled experts from projects across multiple sectors.

Aww, did your tax dodge stop working? Don't worry, I'm sure you're still vastly overpaid!

Re: There is something else going on, that we haven't been told about.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Re: If I can do it, why can't NATS?

Because a flight plan isn't the same thing as an invoice?

Re: I'm surprised people are not more forgiving.

Really? Haven't you met many?

Tesla's purported hands-free 'Elon mode' raises regulator's blood pressure

Re: Safer roads.

For those inside the automated cars maybe. What about us stupid meat sacks who still walk to get places?

This profiler chatbot promises to help speed up your Python – we can believe it

Sounds cool

Pity they decided to add hallucination to the feature set.

Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps

re: How this is not monopolist behaviour?

I'm going out on a limb here, but given the article lists 3 other big cloud providers, is it because MS don't have a monopoly?

Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom

Re: Bought a motorbike and got it down to 30 minutes.

Try homeworking, get it down to 0.

Re: and to spontaneous conversations and innovation around the office

Ah, the non-measurable and completely anecdotal part of the argument.

"It's difficult to organise a big project, let's put all the people in a big building and hope the right ones bump into each other."

What is it with all the back to work bullshit?

Planet not killing us quickly enough?