* Posts by desht

148 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Nov 2009

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Trollface

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

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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

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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

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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

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Re: Number10

You must be new around here.

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

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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

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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

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> 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

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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

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Re: What about Farmer McDonald's website?

That was a justified response.

AI code helpers just can't stop inventing package names

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

> maybe give Prolog a go

No.

Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time

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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

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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

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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

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"a little"

A quick guide to tool-calling in large language models

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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

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Re: Ukraine is spying on your ring

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

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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

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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".

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Re: And I suppose the women were coerced?

It's creepy and weird, and if you think it's fine, then so are you. Not surprised you posted as AC.

Core Python developer suspended for three months

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Re: "It was their behavior that got them there in the first place"

"Racism/sexism/whateverism = anything the radical left doesn't like."

I'm hardly radical left (I'd call myself centre-left, but that probably makes me a woke radical commie tofu eater in the eyes of some chuckleheads here)

But oddly enough I find myself not liking racism and sexism, so I'm not quite sure what argument you think you're making here...

Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

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Re: I Feel Sorry For GB

> We may be headed in the same direction, but at least we have the Constitution with the Bill of Rights, and the 1st and 2nd Amendments in particular, that at least give us a fighting chance.

How's your book-burning drive going over there? Understand you've got quite the bonfire blazing.

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

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You're weird.

systemd 256.1: Now slightly less likely to delete /home

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Re: Why would anything in /home be in tmpfiles.d?

> The f'ing tool should default to doing nothing.

Are you referring to systemd here, or Poettering/Bocassi?

I mean, either way, you're right...

HR expert says biz leaders scared RTO mandates lead to staff attrition

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What bothers me most here is that 5 prats upvoted this crap.

The UK Digital Information Bill: Brexit dividend or data disaster?

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Re: A gift?

> I present some facts and get to witness it in real time

Choadmonkey speak for "I spout some brainless shite and get to tie myself in knots trying to justify it"

Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments

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Re: Ok adding my not so consipracy take...

But not as firmly as your extremist head is up your extremist arse.

Tedious? You wrote the fucking book on that one.

Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

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Re: Chrome used to do the same thing

I exclusively use Firefox to read Gmail, and have never once been prompted to switch.

Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple

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Re: Yeah

> So water evaporates at 100F, does it?

Of course it does, and at temperatures well below that. You may be confusing evaporation with boiling.

> Shouldn't the humidity be the objective, not the temperature?

A combination of both of those factors determines how effectively water can be evaporated away from an object.

Judge crosses out some claims by writers against OpenAI, lets them have another crack at it

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Re: ChatGPT copies original training text

Clearly a filter working here, but I'd argue that filtering some jokes based on the religion is *more* insulting. Filter them all, or don't filter any.

US starts 'emergency' checks on cryptocurrency power use, citing winter power demands

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Re: Straw man

> Do you live without money now?

Well, you're apparently able to post without a brain, so I guess anything's possible.

Critical vulnerability in Mastodon is pounced upon by fast-acting admins

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And this is why I won't trust Xitter, running on any number of servers run by who knows what kind of monkeys (with no accountability) who may or may not fix problems like this and introduce vulnerabilities that could affect me even if I'm not on their server. (There are other reasons I have no interest in it, though.)

Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage

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FAIL

This cloud thing...

Bit shit innit?

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

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> If Unity can't keep pace with developer needs

I think it's less that they can't keep pace, and more that they're a bunch of lying backstabbing arseholes who reneged on their pricing commitments, and suffered the mother of all backlashes (and even now haven't fully rolled back on their changes, meaning competitors like Godot and Unreal are seeing a big uptick in interest).

YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus

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Re: I can smell something... smells a lot like bullshit

I dunno, it feels more representative of whiny babies who can't take a downvote.

Fujitsu wins flood contract extension despite starring in TV drama about its failures

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Re: Horizon

Have a read of this witness statement: https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/evidence/witn00620100-david-mcdonnell-witness-statement

And then you'll realise that wasn't really designed at all, more cobbled together by cowboy developers, and defended by a bunch of management bastards who knew full well it wasn't fit for purpose.

Shame about those wildfires. We'll just let the fossil fuel giants off the hook, then?

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*irony meter explodes*

I mean, you reached for the red pill, but found the thick pill instead.

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> Fixed that for you.

No, you didn't. You just crossed out some words you didn't like and added one that you did like.

As for your pathetic attempt to equate science and religion - jog on, sonny. No one with more than a couple of brain cells is buying that bullshit.

Microsoft confirms Smart App issue renaming everyone's printers to HP

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Re: Many years ago....

It's called Windows 11 (at the moment).

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

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Excellent!

Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not

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Re: like video games localization

Ah, so Wine/Proton/Steamplay are the insole of the gaming world!

Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support

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Re: Are you sure, this isn't the plot of an IT Crowd epsiode?

Nah, asking them is easy. The trick is getting an answer.

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