Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Re: Total C-Suite fail

But you agreed to it when you clicked OK on the 300 pages of Microsoft EULA.

You did have your lawyer review the EULA before you clicked OK didn't you ?

Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods

Re: Protecting the EU sellers.

>Chances are your UK seller is paying some UK tax

Cough Apple, Cough

AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical

Re: Amateurs

No you have it on the personal card of one of the founders, or for bonus points the partner of the founder cos they had maxed out their own card

Either way it's bloody silly. Banks have (mostly) solved this by now, surely AWS can do other MFA

Amateurs

Wait till you have a vital business service tied to an email address on a domain that you no longer own, because you let it lapse when you found that it was a trademark by your competitor (and you had assumed that if you could get the .com domain for the name you were good)

That's a proper startup enterprise-grade screw up

High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required

Re: This sounds like a horrible idea

Or just install one server that is always faulty and one server that's always correct - then just ask either server if the other server would say it's correct

Don't sysadmins play D&D anymore ?

UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

>Because not all govt projects are funded from the public purse. Money is borrowed

I must try that line with the bank

Re: Hooray!

To be replaced by an analogue ID card scheme.

It will be a giant piece of paper, like the old driving licence, but hand written .

Which you will have to carry at all times and can be inspected by everyone from the neighbourhood watch to MI5 dog warden

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

Re: The most obvious single point of failure of european industry is AutoCAD.

Auticad is big in civil and building construction but it's not the giant it was

Re: The most obvious single point of failure of european industry is AutoCAD.

In the high end cad apace Airbus run Catia or there is Solidworks also built by Dasaault

Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief

Re: Subsidised?

It's even worse for Samsung, they have to negotiate with Samsung for fab capacity and Samsung are a right bunch of basterds

Re: it's in nobodies interest

>Dropping prices is not good for anybody but end users and some companies who do not belong to the big boys.

Current high prices and restricted supply isn't even good for the memory makers long term.

It's a short term windfall which is being eyed by workers and government tax offices, but they can't commit to spending it on building new plants

Once their existing stock is sold at huge profits then they are paying more for wafers against HBM and GPU. Leaving them with the risk of ordering runs for much higher cost parts that might not have a customer next year. And long term will see technology drives to use less memory.

It's like the Iran oil shock, it's great for oil companies while they have stuff in the pipeline (as it were), but they aren't going to be building new rigs on the back of it and it will lead to faster take up of EVs and renewables by their customers.

>Literaly, the first line of my post said that the chinese are NOT selling cheaper. just bringing more volume than what the bigunns are offering.

Then for customers that can buy the stuff, market prices will fall at least in the medium to long term

If they are charging the same as Samsung/Micron there is no value in western companies taking the political, and future supply chain, risk of buying from them

Re: Subsidised?

>The margins are thus astronomically high.

If they are selling existing stock, yes.

If they are having to go to TSMC or Samsung and saying: we want to pay you more for a DDR5 wafer run than NVidia are offering you to make HBM or GPUs

So you're saying that increased supply to rest of the world will allow the remaining unsanctioned Taiwanese and Korean suppliers to reduce their prices in a restricted American market?

Click here for my ebay listing of the Brooklyn Bridge I have for sale

Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push

Re: Safe from the US Cloud Act

>so just ask Spain for how they'll help shoulder the cost of defense

Defense from ? Russian tank armies rolling across the Pyrenees?

Just like how the USA is protected by its geography, boarded by 2 friendly nations and 2 vast oceans is able to be strategically secure while spending absolutely nothing on defense beyond some coast guard.

Spain is safe from anything except an Imperial France or Andora getting the Q-bomb. It probably doesn't need to spend 5% of GDP on F35s

Re: It's not just AIrbus moving off!

Every country should have it's own domestic Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication Society

Re: Safe from the US Cloud Act

You have to assume that any technical data has already been supplied to Boeing (who are even now looking for someone who can read)

This is to prevent Airbus's business critial AWS service being shutdown 'for national security reasons' during some sales competition with Boeing

SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit

Re: SpaceX stock

Perhaps they will invoke the Tesla model, lose money on every sale but make up for it in volume ?

SpaceX stock

But I'm reliably informed it isn't a rocket company. It's future $Tn profits will come from its magic bean farm

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

Re: Tin men vs GPL

>It's not isomorphic, compilers are formal, deterministic transformations of the code

I'm not sure that's true for all optomising compilers that do statistical analysis of code paths

IIRC it's one of the issues of getting absolute reproducible builds

And similarly is there any reason an LLM can't ensure it produces the same output for the same prompt ?

Re: Metal v Wetware?

Are we still Boycotting NRC because of their license, their crappy code, or their arrays starting from 1 because they auto-converted the code from Fortran ?

Re: Tin men vs GPL

>Tin men don't have tinman-rights and cannot claim copyright on their output, you see.

Is that also true for compilers ?

LLM: prompt a human types -> LLM generated source code

Compiler: high level language human types -> intermediate code -> randomised by Monte-Carlo reordering optimiser into fast but incomprehensible spaghetti -> binary

Re: Metal v Wetware?

An AI co-pilot first officer, that can do a "make this code meet Kernel guidelines" or "write an outline function for this framework" that is specifically trained on Linux is useful.

I've had Deepseek write a device driver skeleton that was perfect 1st time

Re: he’s not wrong, but …

But if he gives a reasoned engineering argument how are we able to drive clicks for engagement ?

AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites

"from most regions in the world"

So off-world colonies were still able to connect normally ?

AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You

Madness

>customers should brace for bigger software bills

Since when do customers pay for software ?

Software should be paid for by venture capital and then investors until it's IPOed and then becomes free when they realise nobody will pay

Customers paying for software is probably communism

Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas

Re: Hmm

>had there not been a viable network path for the data to be exfiltrated

Or just contract with BT to provide your network connection

NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one

Apollo's famously primitive computer systems

But since then we've invented Powerpoint - which I think explains everything about Artemis

OpenMandriva's accused repo wrecker says it wasn't sabotage – it was a message

Re: Reminds me of an old saying

no means a 'sabotage' .... my action was meant to launch a message,

It did, the message is that you are a cnut

EU lets wearables wriggle out of user-replaceable battery rules

Re: To be fair...

But presumably trades size, weight and cost for that. Not sure you want a bio-monitor-bullshit ring built to the same design as a Panasonic Toughbook

Re: which comes first - the dead battery or end of updates?

My Casio FW 91 never received any

'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes

Re: ...conspiracy theorists.

Of course that's just what they want them to think

Re: necessary to mention...

... said that the fire was an act of God.

God, aged 5786 / 6030 / 14.6Bn years, has so far declined to comment

IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value

Re: What IBM did next

IBM announce they have RIF'd all their AI systems that are more than 50days old

If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic

speak Dutch if you want .... an honest appraisal of potential shortcomings

And they say we will never have human-level AI

Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly

Re: So...

And on something like x86-64 hand-crafted assembly has underperformed what a modern compiler can do for years, or possibly decades.

Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower

POWER

You are required to say it in Clarkson voice.....

Backup and running? Not this digital sign

Re: Alight Media?

You just wait till you encounter a dirty telephone,,,,

Someone pasting a giant poster that just says: "Ad-copy.pdf file not found"

A cunning plan

Is this a brilliant viral marketing campaign to make you think "hey my shitty Microsoft PC could also fsck up, perhaps I better enable Microsoft Cloudy Backup Surveillance AI with Clippy Services for Workgroups" (or whatever it's called) ?

Or it's a brilliant marketing campaign by Linux

Or is it just a fsck up ?

Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though)

Re: One or several theories around the Fermi Paradox...

This also explains the Fermi paradox.

Surviving alien species are health eaters and our galaxy contains one of those Red labels for excess sugar, eating the milky way would be more than their galactically recommended intake

Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street

Re: Excel Boxing

Or Red Bull - Extreme Excel

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

When things get really weird we have to reboot the Matrix and reset reality.

For some reason this seems to be happening more and more often these days

So we just need to work out when the intern, who engraves the comments into the system, hits the pub on Friday afternoon

Noticed the last couple of weeks that anything I comment over UK time weekend is stuck until Monday

EU and UK officially blame Russian spies for cyberattack on Poland's power grid

Yes but a gentlemen would at least wait until the war starts

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

Re: No, the real challenges are technological and economical

Like replacing Golf Courses

AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X

Re: And YouTube too

Apparently it is a problem, so much of the potential online training data is now AI generated that the while thing risks spiraling up its own fundament.

It seems Reddit is now the biggest repository of Real Human Content (tm) but then you have AIs trained on Reddit

Re: "sick of reading non-human prose ? - we’d recommend getting off the platforms altogether."

It's a market opportunity.

"sick of reading non-human prose ?"

Our new AI X-bot will read TPFKAT for you, saving you the wasted time and psychological damage of viewing their AI drivel yourself.

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