Posts by Alien Doctor 1.1

Capita hears demand for pension scheme cleanup 'loud and clear' – but won't say yes

Re: Surge team

Wow elserg, I'm really surprised you haven't mentioned wine and steak yet ;)

Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module

https://www.allinthedifference.com/difference-between-mw-and-mwe/

Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure

I know that parts of Asia suffer the monsoons but aren't there multiple rural Indian economies already being drained of water by the likes of pepsi and the red one?

World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs

Is there...

nowhere I can visit without the fucking world cup popping up?

This is the most corrupt and expensive (to fans) world cup to date. The only thing it has shown me is that a corrupt organisation like fifa is happy to go to bed with a dysfunctional government and president that currently are grinding the united states and the world into some sort of dystopian farce.

GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections

Re: Captain, there's a Codeberg right ahead!

It's like rearranging the repositories on the the Titanic.

SAP customers warned AI agents could put costs on autopilot

Thanks e, it's nice to know I'm not alone.

I really wish I could go back 10 years and nip so-called ai in the bud. The disruption it has caused in the hardware supply chains, excessive energy, water and land-use, increased costs to businesses that think they are buying into the future and the absolute waste of money from investors is just mind-boggling.

I have always steadfastly avoided any disruptor businesses in favour of the status quo (uber etc, I'm looking at you and your ilk); the ai industry has reinforced my boycotts in favour of small and local businesses that know and respect their patrons and don't feed my cash into faceless, tax-avoiding entities that only benefit the owners and investors.

God, I hate you all.

AI to infest eight in ten premium phones within two years

Anyone got any old nokia's to sell?

Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

Re: Ahh LinkedIn

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. "

Aside from every other antisocial media site.

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’

Re: And so ..

Don't worry, it will be decades late, way overbudget and won't work anyway.

Hungarian government creds left in the safe hands of 'FrankLampard'

Re: What’s the bet

I would suggest Orbans password is FUGURO meaning Fuck Ukraine Give Us Russian Oil. The man is as classy as Putin and with the same charm.

Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market

Re: I for one...

I don't care about up or down votes on my previous comment. I have got a gripe off my chest and feel so much better.

I for one...

of probably millions, I hope, have already made the choice to boycott any product in the UK that has anything to do with the US. It has cost us a lot, but we now only use local stores and farm shops and as well as supporting local producers our money stays local providing better food and not the chlorine soaked shit the yanks eat.

When I was growing up I always wanted to visit the US, but that wish has now evaporated because of not just their stupid gun laws, but also the federal agencies that seem to have no oversight, lax controls that govern their actions and the big brother approach to everything. To my mind that is unfortunate as there are probably hundreds, if not thousands of areas where the welcome and service would be fantastic.

As a result of my current displeasure with an out of control whitehouse I also boycott all israeli products. The government there make previous rightwing systems look tame and ineffectual. Their celebration of the passing of the hanging rule for Palestinians is particularly odious and speaks volumes about their attitude towards international law.

Suffice to say, I believe this planet, due to authoritarian and populist governments is rapidly heading straight down the drain and we the ordinary citizens are irrelevant to and ignored by cohorts of fucking assholes around the world.

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Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them

Shoot me down if you wish, but for decades I have wondered how many of these cybercrims actually work as security professionals/$bigcompany devs.

Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption

slightly off-topic...

Since Thatcher privatised our national water industry last century we have seen several repercussions:

- investment in infrastructure has plummeted,

- billions of pounds of customer money has been siphoned off to investors and manglement bonuses,

- raw sewage leaks and intentional discharges have poisoned our shorelines and inland waterways,

- because of those leaks hundreds, if not thousands have suffered serious illnesses and people have died including children,

- the water companies are demanding huge increases in charges they can levy to pay for new infrastructure, and

- there are multiple occasions where water mains have collapsed leading to flooding and tens of thousands of customers losing water supply.

All of the problems can be traced back to Thatcher and her privatisation policies; and don't get me started on what she did to the UK coal industry and the miners.

Bitch, along with the whole tory party.

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

Well d'uh.

Get me another Duff and get ready for the nuclear power station go "poof"

Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor

I may well be if you're in your 70's, like classic rock and ambient music and have a penchant for pulp sci-fi novels from the 60's.

I metabollically cannot use caffeine, guess my brain is turning to mush right now.

Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack

Forgive my lack of business management experience, but why do any fuckers still use microshit and office?

And whatever happened to secure coding? I know I'm a bit old school with my COBOL and FORTRAN, but it does seem as though there are way too many new attack vectors being built in or untreated now.

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services

From experience it is shit

The better-half ordered a new desk from on online supplier which arrived minus some hardware. She rang the company and had to endure an ai slave. Two days later a complete new desk arrived and a week after that a third turned up. We've checked credit card statements and haven't been charged for the two new ones and guess what...trying to return them caused the ai to offer to despatch replacements.

I haven't laughed so much for ages.

Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations

Dear you arse of a...

Go fuck yourselves.

When you start acting diplomatically, stop hoovering non-US data, ensure privacy rights are respected globally then perhaps we can have a nice chat over a cup of tea and a biscuit.

Microsoft gives Windows laggards the 'gift of time' wrapped in licensing fees

Re: Thank you old chap

I think the games that stick in my mind the most for self-booting, if I remember correctly, are The Dig, Dragon Lore, Lost Eden and, especially, the Arthut C Clarke story turned into a multimedia game Rama.

Now I have thought about for a while longer, it's probable that many of the self-boots used all, or a subset of SCUMM to achieve their ends.

Thank you old chap

Have a thirst-quenching icon on me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-booting_IBM_PC_compatible_games

And how dare you accuse me of using ai. I lived and gamed through that period and don't need no steenking Absolute Idiocy to fill in any gaps that do not even exist in my memory. There were plenty of games that ran from cd after inserting disk 1and rebooting.

I used to love it in the late 80's/early 90's when games could be booted directly from the CD without involving DOS: that ability did stop loads of experimental bat and sys file editing trying to maximise the efficiency of hw components.

European Space Agency hit again as cybercrims claim 200 GB data up for sale

honest question

Why is it that incidents happen so frequently and millions (tens of billions) of files and records extracted? Is it the fault of the owners of that data, the devs that build the systems, the OS designers or just the fact that the black hats are so much better than the rest of us?

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

silly statement old chap

If american businesses operate in Europe then they are obliged to abide by European law. It's so simple to understand.

It's also very strange for the left-pondians (fcc and jd vance amongst others) to lecture Europe on suppressing free speech when we have already seen multiple instances of the shitehouse cracking down on colleges and students for speaking their minds on israel, ice, trump.et.c.

Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension

I wish someone would create a windows add-on to continuously remove all Absolutely Irritating bollocks from the m$ ecosystem.

Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80

Re: The problem

I hope your dad had better foot-health than mine, I wouldn't wear anything from someone with athletes foot.

Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems

Re: Prioritise

Thanks for reminding me about Deus Ex. I have forgotten the quote of Thomas Aquinas at the start of the first game, or if it's even relevant, oh well. Your post has reminded me how much I enjoyed the franchise and now reminded, I still have them on my gog account and I sense a set of replays coming on.

Prioritise

I really, perhaps foolishly, hope that governments around the world prioritise consumer grids - power and water - for use of citizens. There is not much point in accommodating all the hardware, both currently proposed and future, if we, the people of the planet are left unable to drink or power our homes, heating and devices; where will the tech bros find their paying customers?

Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority

Re: Fecking hell

The majority of internal servers are linux. Gradually all staff machines are being switched to linux as the users are trained on the new os and libre office. As we move to a full FOSS workplace and have no shareholders, all staff have a profit share and I am increasing our donations to the FOSS developers which hopefully by this time next year will be 15% of profits.

Fecking hell

This has to rank among the Most Stupid Microsoft Decisions Ever (tm). If anyone did this at my company they would be sacked for a serious breach of IT policy.

Additionally it's fucking typical of ms to leave company IT staff to police it.

The sooner the artificial irritant bubble bursts the better. I am fed up with the whole shit show.

Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA

Someone call Jean-Claude immediately, he may want royalties.

Privacy activists warn digital ID won’t stop small boats – but will enable mass surveillance

Time...

to dig out my old, moth-eaten NO2ID t-shirts, print some more posters and window stickers and get ready for another fight.

White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty

Re: I'm not a Yank but...

I can't help but picture 'They Live" everything time I have to contemplate the Great Orange Floridian Fuck. The scenes of the itinerant workers camp being raided by a militarised police force (California, DC and next Chicago?)

I had for decades wanted to visit the States, the great national parks and scenery. Now I physically shudder when I think about my old dream of going and send myself to sleep by imagining Trump dying and allowing the world to breathe a great collective sigh of relief (closely followed by Vance et al.)

The Divided States of America has become a rather dangerous joke and a parody of immense proportions. This nasty, bullying and dictatorial nation, with a thing in charge that believes itself to be a king or emporer should be completely isolated and treated as a tantrum-riddled child that will not, ever, learn to behave correctly, nicely and fairly.

Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register

I know TFA mentioned some sort of hobbyist exemption, will that include apps I write for my own use and sideload on my Samsung tablets?

Asahi, Nikkei sue AI search outfit Perplexity for copyright infringement

"which gives subscribers "direct access" to those publishers' sites"

The arrogance of ai pushers always astounds me. I am completely happy with my bookmarks and on site searches. I don't need no stinking pseudoscience summarising any website that I can visit and read with my own eyes and intelligence[1].

I do wonder how ai is going to survive if publishers lose so much traffic that they shut down their sites; ai is one of the biggest threats to the free and open Internet I think I have ever seen.

[1] assuming what I believe is my intelligence is not a figment of my imagination[2]

[2] assuming my imagination is not a construct of the super-simulation in which we reside[3]

[3] it's turtles all the way down

Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites

New clothes

I have a great new suit for the orangefuck pretend emperor although I can't find it at the moment, it's slightly invisible.

Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China

More phone-homery?

And what other info/data will be sent back to the UarSeofA?

US to deny visas to foreign officials it says 'censor' social media

Ah yes, the same free speech that allows uarseofa-based students to protest for Palestinians and against israel. The same free speech that causes people harm when they criticise the bloated orange fuck-face, his friends, family and policies. The same free speech that the american dictator believes is only his right to use.

The sooner trump, vance, rubio et al die, the better.

As someone above mentioned, the us has been on my no fly list since bush was in office.

Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits

Fortunately...

several of our charity staff run Linux at home, so I will be switching charity kit OS to Mint with LibreOffice as our workload suite.

I have wanted this for a couple of years and now am fully justified.

Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software

I find...

subscriptions similar to trump speeches, worthless, annoying and bloody difficult to stop.

Judge puts two-week pause on Trump's mass government layoffs

Re: And when the government ignore the ruling ...

I am surprised that ronald rump hasn't installed a golden throne behind the resolute desk yet. He does have a frightening attitude in thinking he is King of the World.

I was going to say that the sooner he has a heart attack the better, but that would then leave jd vance in charge - possibly even worse.

You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs

Re: Pay us money to unlock the other CPUs and memory.

Microsoft and Oracle pricing?

Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme

Re: That UK Gov Manadate thing

"might block ODF files as email attachments for feat they might be malware"

Something there just doesn't ring true. Have you forgotten how much malware was spread by nasty MS Office macros and VBA?

I have been more than happy with Libreoffice for several decades and am proud to support it.

Chris Krebs loses Global Entry membership amid Trump feud

Re: Probably only a matter of time

And if you decide to visit Canada make sure you book a direct flight.

TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech

I do miss Zappa so much. Time to put Broadway on again.

Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors

I have to wonder, given the amount of crap on the intertubes,how many Latin verbs can be correctly conjugated by an LLM.

Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234

Re: Great hack!

Same here in the UK for me, however our crossings in Bristol just beep at you which always makes me think the city council are just swearing at me: bastards.