Posts by desht

Microsoft Copilot boss Mustafa Suleyman to chase superintelligence

They're chasing superintelligence

and finding superidiocy.

Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed

Re: bs=8M oflag=direct status=progress

Or, you could write a 2-line* bash script and not need to worry about remembering it. Amazing things, these computers with their ability remember stuff for you.

* Well, you need a hashbang header line, right?

Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims

VIBE

Vastly insecure, but executes.

Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder

Re: BMJ - ICE

Unlikely. This particular coward has obviously had a swastika installed where their brain used to be.

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

Re: LOL

If?

Trump says he got a deal for rare earths in Greenland, but they won't come easy

Re: Ha

Don't worry, pretty much no one here takes you seriously.

Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena'

Re: great option for experienced users too

Same here, and I started with SLS Linux in... 1992? Mint has been my choice for the last 10+ years 'cos it's been solid and reliable.

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told

Re: Knickers in a twist?

Criticise them on their policies and performance (there's plenty of room for that) and not their physical appearance, you mysoginistic dickhead.

AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them

Re: What the fuck are humans for?

> For me, I would say the vast majority of human behavior could be characterized as biological LLMs

What a fucking stupid thing to say, part two.

> Like it or not, AI has become the repository of cultural and technical memory.

What a fucking stupid thing to say.

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger

Fuck off Gnome

That is all.

You don't need Linux to run free and open source software

> GIMP is pretty much the only program I still use since MS-DOS days that does not offer to save unsaved changes when you quit.

Umm... no.

It most definitely does prompt you to save your work if you try to quit. Just tried it a moment ago.

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Re: /usr

I'd learnt that it was "convert and copy", but since "cc"was already taken...

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

No. Don't be stupid.

Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance

Re: Cloudy with a chance of errors

That would kinda suck.

Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push

Gonna call direct BS on that statement. My son is still annoyed at a W11 stealth-install on his gaming laptop.

'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it

Re: I watched the video. He's basically describing Linux.

Memo to kmorwath: it isn't 1995, and this isn't comp.os.linux.advocacy. Although you do resemble the Windows trollboys who liked to hang out in that newsgroup.

Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'

Remember, folks

The cloud is just someone else's insufficiently cooled computer.

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

Re: I must be missing out...

Terms for genitalia, of both genders, have been used as insults for many centuries. Would you be calling the language sexist if IGotOut had said "lazy pricks" instead?

Or are you the sexist one, perhaps, for assuming that this sort of language scares off the poor delicate ladies but it's fine for the gents?

Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide

Re: My nerdy formner CEO offered me a choice ...

Not even close. I had a MBP for a few years at my previous job at $BIGCORP and I never really enjoyed using it. Not as bad as Windows, is about the best I can stay about it.

Now 100% WFH and happily using Linux Mint.

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

Re: US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy

The stupid, it burns.

Lowercase leaving you cold? Introducing Retrocide

There's nothing wrong with descenders; they improve legibility. What's wrong is that a) this abomination of a font exists, and b) that it somehow merited an article in the Reg.

Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Re: Slower access

> Brings back memories that does!

Certainly does. That book was absolutely invaluable when I was writing & debugging xzx, the first Speccy emulator for Linux/Unix machines.

Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad

AI

can go die in a fucking fire.

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

Re: It's all just bullshit

> Just like a clever parrot can mimic speech but can never understand anything.

Well, no. Clever parrots have the understanding level of human toddlers, or possibly slightly better. So parrots are infinitely better than so-called "AI" models in this respect, which have no understanding whatsoever.

Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it

Re: my heart bleeds

But, but, I thought mass-scale piracy was OK now?

Or is that just for AI corps with deep pockets and friends in government?

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

Nah the chodemonkey is also a self-declared trumpanzee and magatwat, whereas the eel is Putin's bitch.

Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices

Re: What is the world coming to?

> Where do you see me panicing?

In the comments for this article. The word is "panicking" btw; looks like your pretense at being a native English speaker is slipping, Vlad.

Admission impossible: NSA, CISA brass absent from RSA Conf

Homeland Security boss Kristi Noem

Better leave your dog at home if you plan to attend.

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

Re: Econ 101

Translation: "I'm too fucking thick to understand the differences between taxes and tariffs, but I won't let that stop me"

Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

Re: Is it news?

I'll think you'll find he's a useless tool.

Top Trump officials text secret Yemen airstrike plans to journo in Signal SNAFU

Cavalcade of bozos

... was the term used by Paul Merton on HIGNFY a few months ago, though I doubt even he guessed at the depths of fucknut stupidity that this administration wallows in.

GCC 15 is close: COBOL and Itanium are in, but ALGOL is out

Re: Microfocus Cobol

The MF COBOL compiler is indeed written in COBOL, but it compiles to INT code, an intermediate form which runs on a virtual machine, mostly written in C.

There's also the code generator which emits GNT code, native code for the platform it's on, with a common object file format across systems, also loaded by the C runtime. That's also written in COBOL iirc, but it's been a long time so I could be wrong on that.

Reference: I used to work on the C runtime.

Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order

Re: Hmm

Vance wouldn't recognise actual free speech if it came up and bit him on the arse, and neither would you, it seems.

Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface

Re: As long as the paid-for versions remain ad-free.

> Fascist much?

Saying people shouldn't use defective products is "fascist"? I thought fascism was more a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

But what do I know, eh? My washing machine broke down yesterday and the repairman told me not to use it until he got the new heating element ordered and fitted. If only I'd known what you know, I'd have kicked him out on his fascist arse!

Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did

Re: Number10

You must be new around here.

Adélie Linux 1.0 – small, fast, but not quite grown up

Re: It's one of the *only*

I'm with you on that over. "One of the only" is even more ridiculous than "could care less".

Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz

Not an imaginative or original option, but one that works just fine for me: Mint.

Especially given that my new rig has an AMD video card - it worked, literally, out of the box. Install Mint, install Steam, install my games, done. *

* Unless you love online games with anti-cheat bullshit built in, which tend to only work on Windows. But you can always check what works on protondb.

Kill Oracle's 'JavaScript' trademark, Deno asks USPTO

> What is so horrible about properly calling it ECMAScript?

Because, as others have already pointed out in this thread and elsewhere, ECMAScript sounds like something you'd go to the doctor to get a cream for, not a programming language.

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive

The article doesn't state what percentage of respondents either don't know or don't give a fuck about AI either way.

The .io domain isn't going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty

Re: What about Farmer McDonald's website?

That was a justified response.

AI code helpers just can't stop inventing package names

Re: "I would be extremely impressed if..."

> maybe give Prolog a go

No.

Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time

Re: WFH is a laugh

You know being a corporate kiss-arse is pointless if you post anonymously, right?

White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown

Re: "The Biden administration"?

Calling the invasion a "SMO" was pretty much a giveaway that he's a paid Russian shill. One who speaks English well, mind.

Musk's X, Media Matters headed to trial

That argument would only make sense if the current Republican party in any way resembled Lincoln's, which it very clearly doesn't.

Google trains a GenAI model to simulate Doom's game engine in real-ish time

"a little"

A quick guide to tool-calling in large language models

Re: What could possibly go wrong?

Here's the important part of that sentence:

> AI models can break down

Russia tells citizens to switch off home surveillance because the Ukrainians are coming

Re: Ukraine is spying on your ring

Good grief, you post a lot of shit, don't you?

Re: Ukraine is spying on your ring

> I'm simply copying from the left.

No, you're simply a twat in the employ of the FSB. Do yourself and everyone else a favour and give it up. No one here is buying your Russian shite.

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

Re: And I suppose the women were coerced?

I think in this case, "woke" means "not a mysoginist creep who crawled out of the 1950's".