Posts by DryBones

Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes

Can we just expand that to days that end in 'y', please?

It'll work much better.

AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far

Predictive Text, Collective Delusion

I have it on very good authority from someone whose Master's focus was on actual AI, that what we are looking at is not AI. It will never be AI, it cannot be AI. LLM is a giant ball of expected responses to inputs. It does not reason, it is very easy to poison, twist, and otherwise tamper with. We have at least one article where they admitted that AI could never be "secured". Expert systems, neural networks that have been trained on matched patterns and work efficiently in specialized spaces not meant for abstraction, are much better solutions in almost all solution spaces.

And these companies want to build it into everything, appear to be in fact be committing several flavors of financial fraud (round-tripping, for one) chasing the hope that by throwing enough computing power at this thing, they will have something close enough to a sentient mind that they own, to please their shareholders. We should just call it Skynet and get it over with.

We are seeing a cost spiral to prop up a bubble that is starting to develop leaks. Micron is getting out of consumer memory. AMD and Nvidia are doubling, tripling prices. The resource costs in terms of power, water, are enormous, and they are concealed from those that should be concerned by them. Meanwhile, Intel appears to have not forgotten that consumers got them where they are, and are developing GPUs for the mass market, not data centers.

I, for one, am watching carefully and will be taking note of those that abandon their end users to chase imaginary profits... and those that do not.

Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance

Hard agree.

Pressure dropped below safe levels, the system engaged, and at that point the pilots were the backups. They could not be primary, as if something happened to them they would be unable to engage the emergency system. Ideally, they could stay conscious all the way to normal pressure levels, then take over if the system had a malfunction.

Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance

Re: Does freedom of speech work both ways?

1) No, he was lying by omission and implication. He willfully misrepresented the way the body's defenses and infections work, as well as the value of vaccination. If they didn't have to be nice, I imagine the average immunologist would prefer to lay the both of you out cold.

2) The government brought him to the platform's more direct attention, and that he appeared to be violating their ToS. The government makes platforms aware of security threats, too. Nice try at false equivalencies, though.

3) Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. That's at least 70% lies by gas volume. The reason you don't lose sleep over them is because you don't think too hard about what's actually happening.

It's amazing that you even tried to backpedal further down that thread, especially after dropping "TDS libtards". And then you went on into more false equivalencies, plus the usual statistic-level lies equating support for Palestinians with supporting Hamas and wanting Israel to die. It's too inconvenient for your narrative to have someone able to ask, "Why does nobody want to talk about the Palestinians?" Maybe because then everyone would have to face the fact the fact the US been supporting mass killings of an occupied people, numerous violations of international law and crimes against humanity.

Federal agencies DOGE questions about what cost-cutting team is doing

Re: Popcorn!

Oh, no. They worked hard on this. It's this modern recreation of Nazi Germany, but also they're schizophrenic and stupid.

I figure it'll be over with once a) The people with authority to stop Trump use it, or b) Someone with a firing solution uses it.

Re: Where is the much vaunted transparency...

The same place as the rest of the bald-faced lies, as we've ever said.

No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers

Yeah, that's completely honky. The website hasn't been altered, parts of it simply aren't being retrieved.

If a website has malware, and your malware protection blocks it, are they trying to make that illegal too?

Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs

Well that's a stinking heap of bullshit. False equivalence all through it, too.

Is this really how you think? "All traditional media lies to me, so I might as well go soak my head in all the YouTube influencer feeds, they certainly aren't lying to me"?

Fox and WaPo need to be sheared from their owners, and placed in the control of those that actually respect and crusade for quality journalism.

Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM's network

Well, nothing that the Founding Fathers wrote up involved all 3 branches of government being controlled by fascists. It was all predicated on them actually willing to be a check on each other, not conspiring to install an oligarchy.

Re: @Ace2

You need to go retake Reading.

And find a better way to argue than lame false equivalences.

Re: @Ace2

Oh, are they?

You're a gormless idiot. You believe anything the Hair Fuhrer and Muskrat claim without actually seeing the proof.

Even if they are telling the absolute truth? This is never, ever, ever ever ever the way to fix it. Never.

You identify issues. You develop a plan to fix them, you put the plan into motion and evaluate it.

This is just burning things to the ground and claiming they were bad people, and you're lapping it up like it was ambrosia.

Feckless fool.

Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

That's what the independent watchdogs, Congressional oversight, audits and such are for.

There are well established processes and procedures for doing this, which are used in the accounting and business worlds.

None of that is being done here. You should be questioning much, much more of what you have been parroting.

Re: Literally everything you just wrote is wrong

Actually it's just 1 problem.

The branch of the government in charge of enforcing the laws isn't. They're basically doing what they accused others of doing.

So it's pretty much going to be Authoritarianism vs Extrajudicial Measures.

Re: Clear conflicts of interest

Please. Like you're going to go look through it all yourself.

No, you're not, sit down. You're just going to trade someone telling you that it's all horrible and bad for someone telling you that it's all perfect and good now, and never have an inkling to what the actual state was and is.

Ford CEO admits he drives a Chinese electric vehicle and doesn't want to give it up

Re: Charging infra (in the US at least) is dying

You're half right.

A lot of businesses are doing it just to tick the box.

Meanwhile, Tesla. How much are they worth again?

People want these vehicles. They may not fit every use case, but people want them. And they fit the use case for 90% of commuters. Yes, you have a counter anecdote, you are the 10%, sit down.

Tesla and the Chinese are just going to have the rest of the US automakers for dinner. We'll see who survives.

Starliner's not-so-grand finale is a thump in the desert next week

Re: It's more than hoses

And? You don't need to actually fly to figure any of this out. You can do it in a conference room.

Zuckerberg says Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts

Re: the next one

So, 2 conspiracy fantasies and 4 truths, then.

Come back when you're actually learned enough to understand why the last 4 are true.

Re: Words fail me...

Please go study "innuendo" and "plausible deniability". It was the same sort of speech that the Orange Man always uses, weasely double-talk that from the strictest reading wasn't anything bad. But to anyone with actual sense is painfully obvious what was going on. It's Budget Mafiosi stuff, like all the rest of his act.

Except they weren't. They were repeatedly disproven. I'd write "nice try" but it wasn't.

"Censoring one group but not the other is tyrannical": Hi Mr "My lies are as good as your truth."

Top companies ground Microsoft Copilot over data governance concerns

Re: "Yeah, it's a real mess"

How many different parameters, permissions, and properties need to be set to restrict access to a certain thing, though? Which ones apply to which? Which ones interact to cancel each other out and allow access anyway?

The first job of AI is to find all the places that access management is fucked up. That's it.

Microsoft's Recall should be celebrated as the savior of SMEs and scourge of CEOs

Rubbish.

What a crock of shite.

Recall is a solution in search of a problem. The author is trying to find a problem. The more obvious one would be, "How do I automate the process of stealing every bit of IP my company has?"

It isn't secure. It can't be made secure. If it could be, the number of data breaches would be declining. They are accelerating at an accelerating pace.

The only way to prevent data being stolen is to make sure it's never collected in the first place. The author needs to be collected and put into detox, until they have all of the Kool-Aid out of their system.

Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women

Re: True statement

Way to prove you didn't read the articles.

The first is quite plain if you bother to think critically about it.

1) Police are reviewing claims of election fraud they have received relating to "concerns around marketing material".

2) It comes after the Conservative candidate for High Peak in Derbyshire, Robert Largan, put out a social media post on Saturday in red Labour colours saying "Labour for Largan".

3) The Conservative Party said: “The materials clearly carry imprints, as required by electoral law."

So claims are being reviewed. The police have not said WHOSE marketing material is under investigation, but there is word there is one taking place. Robert Largan says he has not been contacted about it. That's it.

The second is the same.

"Right and far-right parties are set to make gains, but the picture is widely different across the continent."

And then it goes on to explore various concerns in a selection of the countries within the EU. Come on, now.

Google finally addresses those bizarre AI search results

Re: You DO eat rocks as food.

Yeah, vernacular doesn't science make.

How two brothers allegedly swiped $25M in a 12-second Ethereum heist

Re: Thanks for the complete explanation

So, "Pump and Dump", then.

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

I would posit that the switch from typewriters to computers let you do the same thing the same way but better.

Mechanical linkage to electronics, the action of fingers to keys is the same.

So that doesn't really hit for me the same as saying, "We can replace this entire orchestra with a fondleslab."

Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts

Re: Dave Calhoun

"Affect"

Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms

Re: ambiguous?

The best Reg article headlines are an ongoing battle between tongue and cheek.

Re: I see no reason here

As someone that was on a criminal trial to completion as a jurist, I can assure you that they do.

It may be in some certain situations, like how there can be a bench trial or jury trial. But where I am, at the county level the jury deliberates guilt, then sentencing within the guidelines. The judge can overrule, but if not grossly outside the provided range it stands.

Uncle Sam tells hospitals: Meet security standards or no federal dollars for you

Re: They knew what they were getting into. I say let them crash!

To turn it the other way, did you just say "You should pay us money, even though we don't keep your private or payment information the slightest bit safe, and are looking into how we can sell it to drug makers without getting sued out of existence,"?

We wouldn't tolerate this from a store, you need to show cause on why we should tolerate it from facilities where we go when things actually are a matter of life and death.

California commission says Cruise withheld data about parking atop of a pedestrian

Re: In fairness

Hi. As a human, I can understand, "Pedestrian was hit and propelled into the path of another vehicle." And I will bloody well see it happen. And I know to stop, check, see if I can reverse off them.

Not, you know, pull to the side while dragging them beneath. This is all basic kinematics and object persistence.

US warns Iranian terrorist crew broke into 'multiple' US water facilities

That's pretty much criminal negligence, it appears.

UnitedHealthcare's broken AI denied seniors' medical claims, lawsuit alleges

Re: UHC

Which is what the Republicans and insurance companies orchestrated, and are quite happy to have you think this is as good as it gets.

It's manifestly false, and much more efficient and affordable healthcare systems around the world demonstrate this.

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

From what I've been reading, in the EU they do not. Because they performed operations that were not explicitly authorized by the user in order to do their fingerprinting. Which makes the operation of their blocker-blocker illegal.

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

Re: No videos until you consent?

I do not.

If they can't work out how to do things without pissing people off they deserve to fail.

MOVEit breach delivers bundle of 3.4 million baby records

"While attacks on third-party software are difficult to prevent, we've taken additional measures to further strengthen our security controls to limit the potential of this type of incident happening again."

Like... burning MOVEit off their entire infrastructure?

No?

Didn't think so.

Sonos secures a victory in audio patent fight against Google

Re: The patent system is not fit for purpose.

I hope not. The concept that, "The microphone that has the input at the highest amplitude s probably the closest and therefore the correct one" is classified as Fucking Duh, and should not be patentable. And no, nifty bits about normalizing and going between different mics doesn't make it novel. That's called calibration, and should be done in any device that provides amplitude.

Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard

Re: Clarity

As far as I know, the Oxford comma is alive and well, and styles that don't use it are simply wrong.

Re: Voila!

Solar + storage. Duh. Someone hasn't been paying attention.

When does tackling pandemic misinfo become censorship? US courts argue it out

Re: Don't like the way you are framing this

Why does Sweden have some of the lowest excess mortality? They weren't idiots like USandians. They actually listened to their government, took some precautions, got vaccinated. The US? Much more scared of needles than guns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/opinion/sweden-pandemic-coronavirus.html

The CDC said that when the size of the particles that transmitted the virus wasn't properly understood. Cloth masks helped. But they were not as effective as surgical masks, which were not as effective as N95 masks. If you had been paying attention, you would have seen the studies going on about propagation and droplet size and airflow modeling, trying to get a grip on the actual dynamics.

And you overlook the fact that people are not horses. Their weights are different. Their digestive systems are different. The actual composition of other ingredients in the doses are different.

Ivermectin basically is meant to be a dose big enough kill the parasites but hopefully not kill the host. How many influencers did we lose to Ivermectin, again?

Idiot.

Re: Fairly obvious answer.

Yeah, that was a super-stacked misinformation sandwich that you bought during the pandemic.

Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.

India warns ecommerce 'basket sneaks' and 'confirm shamers' their days are numbered

So that's most of the tricks they use, then. Oh dear, what will their advertising departments do, when they don't need 80% of their staff?

Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads

Re: Worry less.

Well, that's some hilarious friendly-fire.

Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye

Re: History repeats

You should have told them their implementation was shit, and to fix it.

US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed

Re: This ain't rocket science.

What would you call multiple unsolicited emails from a sender not in the contact list?

Oh, spam.

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

Except the user's credentials can be exported along with the data. Whoops!

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

Re: "Being able to switch provider easily is an important part of a competitive market,"

Reverse the charges and report them? Wonder how fast they'll find the answer if their access to the system is threatened.

Elon Musk actually sits down and talks to 'government-funded media' the BBC

Re: "he would have walked away from the takeover deal if he could"

Oh please.

That line is trotted out too often by those unwilling to actually consider complicated situations, nor the simple fact that the rich people don't actually have their best interests in mind.

Re: Musk, the man who has...

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