Posts by Andy Tunnah

AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand

Re: Emblematic

Literally all they do is go "nuh uh"

Grok: Response to Corey Quinn's piece on Grok + Bedrock

Re: Grok: Response to Corey Quinn's piece on Grok + Bedrock

Absolutely crazy to label women not wanting porn created of them as some sort of puritan thing. Everything in here is such dudebro nonsense. You want decorum and civility ? CENSORSHIP! You don't want your AI to think the holocaust is somehow debateable ? UNFILTERED! You want an AI that's not run by a fascist ketamine addict who isn't loved enough so lashes out at the world and actively attacks democracies because even though everything points to the contrary he thinks his way is the best ? CUCK!

Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

Re: It's a plebeian subset of music culture

Your use of "differingly" kinda gives your post's intent away. You're making effort it to sound fancier than you are. So you're either roleplaying as some sort of snob but are too stupid for it and so dug deep in the thesaurus to find some archaic words to throw people off (because it's simply not a word anyone uses nor has anyone used in a very long time it seems) or you think this is trolling and you're again too stupid to know which words give it away that you're...well, roleplaying.

Anywho this was just sad. You're not trolling anyone, you're not baiting anyone. We all just pity you.

Re: It's a plebeian subset of music culture

Your post made me cringe so hard I almost turned inside out.

300TB is sweet FA

In a previous life I was a siteop (ran the servers piracy starts on) and way back in 2001 there was a 900TB MP3 only topsite. I got out not long after this (Buccaneer put the fear of God into teenage me) but kept various contacts. What was once a highly impressive archive site fell by the wayside within like 5 years, with 2, 3, even 5PB servers popping up in the 00s.

This is all to say 300TB in 2025 is easily matched by at least 50 archives as a very conservative level. You don't need activism, you've got pirates' incessant need to have bragging rights being eternal

Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China

Another day another bribe

25% to the government and probably a few million on Paedocoin.

The fall of the US is a horrifying yet captivating spectacle.

TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel

Re: "he planned to join an academic institution"

They're at the very least someone who changed their mind. In the middle they're a liar. At MOST they breached their non-disclosure.

And 2 of those points are immaterial. At the end of the day it's none of TSMC's business where he went to work *as long as they abide by the non-disclosure*. But if they lied, or if they simply had a change of heart, or Intel came knocking with a big sack of money to pick their brain, it's all technically OK. TSMC have zero power to say where you can work or not as while there is an NDA, there doesn't seem to be any non-compete.

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

Finally, Journalistic Integrity

> I too desire attention, but you've gotta earn it

See this is why we come to el reg - the last bastion of honesty and integrity from the fourth estate.

That and the self loathing.

Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums

Re: Am I understanding this correctly?

That kinda ignores what the ACTUAL content creators want, and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who was OK with some AI company scraping their creations, thoughts, comments, whatever and using it to pump up their AI bullshit stocks.

RubyGems maintainer quits after Ruby Central takes control of project

Tommy Robinson "right wing"

Tommy Robinson is only "right wing" in the same way Stalin was "left wing". Sure that's the branding, but they're a liiiiitle bit more than that aren't they ?

Slack threatened to delete nonprofit coding club’s data if it didn’t pay $50k in a week

Re: This is what you get ...

You beat me to it. Maybe because I'm old, maybe because I grew up before the time of this xaaS type world, but the idea of running anything important on someone else's system is just BANANAS

Huntress's 'hilarious' attacker surveillance splits infosec community

Re: That sound you are hearing is a Whoooooosh to beat ALL Whoooooooshes !!!

Look I'm as glad as anyone seeing this happen, crims getting what they deserve etc. but we can't pretend like it's OK, especially with lines like "no innocents were harmed". And I absolutely LOATHE "slippery slope" crap. But it absolutely is one.

Trump pushes EU into trade 'deal' that several EU leaders aren't happy about

Re: Laugh

You don't care that the president is a paedophile ? Sounds about right.

Re: Let's see what Putin's little b**ch Orban does

Ah yes, Russia would ride in and let everyone stay in place and not do any atrocities, those stoopid Ukrainians don't understand, Russia is only committing war crimes because they HAVE to!

I hope you're a paid shill, because if you're doing this for free that's just embarrassing.

US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data

What thin skin

I guess Trump is still angry that the hurricane didn't go where he wanted that time he modified the map, he'll never let it happen again.

I'm only half joking.

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

What a travesty

At least I got drugs out of crypto. All AI has given me is bad propaganda and even worse poetry.

Perplexity AI decries News Corp's 'simply false' data scraping claims

Because the AI will read it once and then make it part of THEIR ecosystem. 1 "subscriber" vs many.

Florida man gets 6 years behind bars for flogging fake Cisco kit to US military

Re: Good! Sod that dumb bastard

I'm downvoting you simply for suggesting that.

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

So many VR systems collect dust

VR is a commitment. It's a faff. You need the space, and as a product ostensibly designed for what would otherwise be sitting on the couch and holding a controller time, is a physical commitment.

Every person I know who got a VR loved it at first, promised to keep using it, even set space aside. But space in all but the biggest of houses is a luxury, and when you're "maybe gonna at some point get round to it" in a room, that room soon fills with boxes.

VR is a faff.

Ransomware payment ban: Wrong idea at the wrong time

Re: "Such a ban would need to be universal"

The UN has no legal jurisdiction.

Re: Wrong

Ah yes the famous rule of "if someone didn't back it up then it couldn't possibly have been important". Because people don't make mistakes or aren't sloppy or just suck.

Re: Wrong

> One could argue that the ONLY exception should be where it is paid in such a way where it can a) be used to identify the perps and bring them to justice AND b) can be got back afterwards.

You thought of this in the time it took you to write an internet comment, why do you not think someone could equally spend another 5mins to come up with a work around to your work around.

This is the issue with stuff like this. People think they've come up with some radical idea without realising literally everyone assumes the same thing and literally everyone thinks of a counter to it. And a counter to that. And a counter to..you get the point.

Re: Wrong

Ah yes because criminals are the moral type who will simply give up! God this is all so STUPID.

Crims won't stop and orgs would way the cost analysis and find someone to go to prison for it.

(Also how do you even make this illegal ? How can you frame it as a crime to pay to get your own data back under threat of damages to your company ? The idea of it becoming illegal is ridiculous)

Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?

More like winblows amiright.

I've never upgraded windows for any reason other than having to. WinOS is just something you begrudgingly put up with to use your computer, not something exciting. And making the new one radically different from what you're used to, something you use every day and have a work flow with, always seemed *really fucking stupid*.

US willing to compromise with Nvidia over AI chip sales to China

Re: Call them by another name and then what?

They accelerate the workloads of AI better than any other competitor. Also, and someone correct me if I'm wrong (most probably am, I'm an eejit) they're not just GPUs. They have accelerator chips, tensor cores, all sorts of special hardware that's either more than the consumer model or a whole other addition. I can't talk about value or price or things like that except to say - people are happily buying em, so they're obviously of value as they are.

I don't believe that they're a well known basic technology. Feels like if that was so the competitors would be a lot closer.

Kinda showing your arse a little bit there with that quote

"I'm telling you, if you redesign a chip around a particular cutline that enables them to do AI, I am going to control it the very next day,"

So then what is the point of the export controls and limits ? You set a limit, a company comes under the limit, so you change the limit to then include them ? Why anyone would say that out loud is baffling - you're basically saying "we want a total ban, but we're going to do this bit-by-bit and blame it on the manufacturer for following the rules we set out"

Re: Arms for hostages....

I genuinely have nfi the point you're trying to make, because you compared a very real and serious situation involving life, to export controls in general.

Sysadmin and spouse admit to part in 'massive' pirated Avaya licenses scam

What a horrible argument

It's easier to bundle software as one, and have features unlocked as needed.

Getting into any sort of argument that even mentions real world elements is asinine - there is no analogue.

Software is a product easier built as 1 thing with everything that can be done worked on as development goes along. If from day 1 some of those features were always planned to be DLC or whatever thten so what

California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull

Someone phone guinness!

We've reached a new level of punnery, surely the records need rewriting for this one.

(I'm 8 beers deep someone else can insert a dairy pun I'm off to bed)

Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner

Re: Is there a Gartner-Cycle for Gartner-Cycles?

"It's expensive enough that they don't want everyone to run out and buy it - leading to disappointment."

This is one of the most nonsense things I've ever heard. Nobody has ever considered this when making a product. I

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

Deserved

Who puts this much faith in devices you don't own or control or even know how they operate ? And an engineer too.

If I was his boss I'd be wondering about his competency if he puts so much faith blindly in this tat.

AWS teases mysterious mil-spec 'Snowblade' server

Re: Marketing Jargon Detector Goes PING!

Swap 1 dude in a troop carrier for this. Or a heli. Or APC. Or whatever. Portable doesn't necessarily mean it's a human carrying it. It just means it's mobile.

Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear

Re: Damaging networks?

Did you just skip over the bit where they mention them catching fire ? Knock off electronics are notorious for it.

Re: Makes $100M, pays $15M fine

Anything you can come up with in the time it takes to write a comment on the internet, *the real investigators who do this for a living have already thought of it*

Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted

Re: Twitter files

The removal of dick pics that come under revenge porn ? And they were ASKING ? And it was against the Twitter TOS ?

Re: Those funds are needed, in part, because Twitter is moderating less content

If you open a business it's your burden on making sure it operates within the laws of the land. If you open a club and a bunch of people start dealing drugs from it, it's up to you to sort it out, otherwise you get shut down.

Elizabeth Holmes is not going to prison – for the moment

Thank god you don't right laws, what sort of nonsense is this.

Knee jerk ideas to punish the "right" people, would only end up being used as a tool to punish the desperate.

And a mass murderer!

Henry Kissinger was involved. So maybe the first time in history he was the one who got screwed, instead of the millions of civilians whose deaths he caused.

Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers

Re: Close (but no cigar)

But anyone can supply that ? That's just twice the amount. And already incredibly common.

This is redundancy within the same system, that is the specialised bit. This isn't redundancy so that a failure can happen and then be resumed. This is redundancy so that a failure doesn't interrupt anything.

People who have this sort of redundancy will ALSO have extra systems in place for total failure.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Re: Bit klunky, but...

If someone feels stupid because someone corrects them then that is a failure of personality.

Re: Bit klunky, but...

The person who said he didn't know what he's talking about wasn't a Twitter employee. The fired employee wasn't impolite.

Musk tried to bullshit, he was corrected. He fired people. Musk isn't a programmer so why is he trying to act like one. Don't be apologetic for bellends.

I'm happy paying Twitter eight bucks a month because price isn't the same as value

They'll never get a penny

8 a month is a ridiculous fee no matter which way you slice it. And this whole article rubbed me the wrong way because Twitter has said out loud "unverified posts will be lower priority" so they are forcing people to pay to take part in a social media platform that offers no content other than what other people create. And ads.

They're not offering a service for the money, they're threatening quality if you don't pay it.

Obscure Asian fintech AMTD Digital becomes the new GameStop

What is with that title ?

First time seeing a bullshit clickbait title on here, it's kinda weird.

Everyone on those subs (not my thing but super fun to follow they're all a bunch of gamblers in denial but that's a whole other thing) is saying it's manipulated, that media is trying to turn it into a "meme stock" and very few people are into it. Hell, there's a lot of fun conspiracy theories too; the stock is being manipulated in such a way that when it's brought under control by force, those rules can then be used to also do the same thing to GameStop and AMC. I'm not quite sure what all that means tbh but considering they're constantly going on about how the SEC is corrupt, it's fun tinfoil stuff.

The dark equation of harm versus good means blockchain’s had its day

Re: Lack of comprehension and imagination ...

All nuclear waste currently in the US barely fills a US football field 10ft deep. Also it can be processed - a 155g drum, which is the amount of waste a human will cause in their lifetime, can be processed down to a 5kg mass (I could be wrong there, but it's small)

Nuclear waste is not an issue. People not understanding it and REFUSING to understand it has been the problem, They had a whole mountain setup for it and it got killed off because a politician came along with a sure-fire way to win an election and tell people all the dangers and scaries. It's depressing

Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline

Re: Not a bot whenever Yin is entertaining Yang

I bet you recite your posts to yourself in the mirror

Apple reportedly planning to revive the MagSafe charging standard with the next lot of MacBook Pros

"no matter how much you moan"

Yeah but I feel like if I keep doing it, it might just work. It's not worked yet but that's no reason to quit.

5 months later, 37.7% of Windows 10 PCs are running the May 2020 Update... Wait, people are still on 1809?

Re: Understandable

I don't believe it's the version I strongly believe it's the update combined with the ecosystem I run. It's just too many moving parts and too many interconnected thingybobs to then do an upgrade on a moving train ya know ?

I'll wipe and install the newest version. Then next year I'll wipe and do it again. It's about 2-3h out of my day once a year so when worked out like that it's not that big of a thing.

Plus the feeling of a fresh system with zero bloat can't really be beaten.

Understandable

Only this week I moved to the latest from 1709, because it was stable, and I'm not a fan of change, and more importantly I trust windows updates as much as a fart while sick.

And immediately regretted it. Messed up so many things, a lot of things no longer work, and am looking at doing a full system wipe and redo at the weekend.

I don't think I've ever done a big windows update without it going titsup in some way that made it not worth the effort.

Third time's still the charm: AMD touts Zen-3-based Ryzen 5000 line, says it will 'deliver absolute leadership in x86'

Re: Why skip a number series?

4000 are APUs, they split em off to make a clear line, instead of mixing it up.

Re: How long will it take

They could come out with 100% IPC games and I'd still feel chuffed with my 3700X. I can't think of a single thing that would make me not think it was the best CPU I'd ever bought, in the sense of the gains I achieved vs the one before it, and how much more "breathing space" it gave me doing..well, everything!

Plus because I was previously using Intel it's so nice using a chip that has such a reasonable TDP that I can have my fans ticking along at 200rpm at idle, and barely audible under load.