Posts by monty75

Check out the width of that Debian display

Re: just 1,200 x 320 pixels

Adult-oriented entertainment involving the other kind of gimp would certainly attract attention.

Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay

That’s a solipsism bias. You can see the benefits, therefore they must be real. Previously you didn’t, therefore they were always doomed. Logically that only works if you personally are infallible.

That’s survivorship bias. You don’t remember the half-arsed ideas that were loudly championed but that failed to go anywhere (metaverse and NFTs for example)

" AI has been destroying jobs and will continue to do so"

No, management has been destroying jobs with their absurd fantasies about replacing humans with spicy autocomplete.

Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace

Re: Two reasons

Both of those reasons assume that the slop machine is doing the software engineers job. It's not. It's dragging together some scraps of code of unknown provenance and stringing them together in a statistical way that matches the shape of the prompt.

AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story

- “While the engineers slept, the agents kept building," she said, describing how they "wrote code, tested it, found bugs, fixed them, and deployed it around the clock."

- “nothing ships without someone looking at it”

Which of these two mutually exclusive comments is the lie? And how many more things are they lying about to try convincing people to fire their devs and replace them with shonky auto-complete on AWS?

I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable

Great. Come back to us when you've created something that doesn't exist in thousands of examples in the training set and you've paid the actual (not VC-subsidised) cost of the compute.

UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project

If it’s for walking too slowly, I might support it

'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab

"under the former Conservative government, Jacob Rees-Mogg, then Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency"

Yeah, I think I can see your problem there

EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners

Re: Another brexit benefit

Schengen and freedom of movement are two different things. And my name's not Shirley.

Re: Another brexit benefit

What a lovely mad rant. Nigel will be proud of you.

Re: Another brexit benefit

This isn't an article about passports. Why bring it up?

Re: Another brexit benefit

Schengen only matters for people outside the EU. It allows them to get one visa for all Schengen countries instead of each individual country. Doesn't affect EU citizens freedom of movement.

Re: Another brexit benefit

We had freedom of movement. No restrictions on us travelling between other EU countries so Schengen was never a consideration.

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we’re not going to do it

Re: Chocolate and orange juice

It seems to be a British thing. Americans of my acquaintance have had their minds blown by the combination.

UK Home Office dangles £1.3M prize for algorithm that guesses your age

Re: Skull-measuring

Wait til they start cutting people open and counting the rings

How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'

Re: A billion quid extra on postits...

Agile means you do a bit and then your pointy haired boss changes the spec.

The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

Re: What Apple should have done

That sounds like you want Cryptomator https://cryptomator.org/

Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

Re: I agree

Further pedantry: radiographer is a graduate job. It’s a lot more than just being a point and click photographer

Public Wi-Fi operator investigating cyberattack at UK's busiest train stations

They're also useful for breaking wifi connection flows in hard-to-diagnose ways ;)

Per Wikipedia, the shared key (the wifi password, as normal people would say) authenticates what a client is allowed to connect and then "a Pairwise Transient Key (PTK) is generated for secure data exchange" during the initial handshake and then "the established PTK is used for encrypting unicast traffic, and the Group Temporal Key (GTK) is used for broadcast traffic". So, one key per client for most traffic except for broadcast traffic which, by its nature, should be visible to all clients on the broadcast segment.

DNS spoofing won't help anyone intercept TLS-protected traffic. They'd need a valid certificate for the site too or the user's browser/app would just refuse to connect.

Codd almighty! Has it been half a century of SQL already?

50 years and I'm still having debates with people about whether to pronounce it S-Q-L or Sequel.

'Little weirdo' shoulder surfer teaches UK cabinet minister a lesson in cybersecurity

It's a comparison on the same lines as "which is your favourite strain of plague?"

IBM sued again for alleged discrimination – this time against White males

Is this “The Left” in the room with us now?

Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic

And then, internet usage must have shot up again judging by the number of eclipse photos and videos I saw on social media.

Cybercriminals are stealing iOS users' face scans to break into mobile banking accounts

Face ID?

I'm curious about the capitalisation of Face ID in the headline which strongly suggests Apple's trademarked biometric system is being compromised. I don't see any reference to Face ID elsewhere in the description of what the trojan does. Isn't it actually that banks have used a crappy, roll-your-own face recognition system that is easily bypassed?

Welcome to 2024: Volkswagen really is putting ChatGPT into cars as a gabby copilot

Re: The ghost of Douglas Adams

He’s not a ghost. He’s just spending a couple of decades dead for tax purposes.

NIST: If someone's trying to sell you some secure AI, it's snake oil

Re: Everything is going to be AI

Would you like to buy a bridge? It’s got AI and everything.

AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers

You have to be impressed by the human ingenuity that can take any new trend and turn it into a low-effort grift.

Infosec experts divided over 23andMe's 'victim-blaming' stance on data breach

Re: But, you know

There's been a worse one since then

Trio of major holes in ownCloud expose admin passwords, allow unauthenticated file mods

In case anyone else was wondering if these all affect the Nextcloud fork of OwnCloud : https://help.nextcloud.com/t/do-the-recent-owncloud-cve-also-affect-nextcloud/175203

UK's cookie crumble: Data watchdog serves up tougher recipe for consent banners

That’s the point. By claiming legitimate interest they make them opt-out which is the opposite of what they’re supposed to be.

UK won't rush to regulate AI, says first-ever minister for digital brainboxes

Re: Congratulations, Viscount

> chatting with actual billionaire

He can do that any time his missus has her folks round

AMD says its FPGA is ready to emulate your biggest chips

I bought a cheap FPGA (Tang Nano 9k) to play around with learning Verilog. I enjoyed it but there didn’t seem to be enough money in it to really sink much time into.

Google HR hounds threaten 'next steps' for slackers not coming in 3 days a week

Re: if it ain't broke, don't "fix" it

HMRC have always been crap. Nothing to do with WFH.

Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams

Re: "The new Outlook behavior is being deployed slowly so the company can gather feedback."

“The frog is being heated slowly so we can gather feedback”

Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor

Kids playgrounds got there first. All the swings have had wooden chips installed under them for years.

Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late

Has there ever been an ERP deployment in a medium to large organisation that finished on time, within budget and delivered benefits over whatever it replaced?

That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models

Stop moaning. You’re getting a high speed train that’ll get you to London half an hour quicker (assuming you don’t mind walking to Birmingham first and redefine London as “somewhere just about on the Tube network” and you don’t need to get there in the next decade or two)

By “spent” I presume you mean “transferred into the pockets of friendly consultancy companies”

Thieves smash hole in wall to nab $500K in Apple iKit

Re: Where were the plastic police?

If the yanks build their retail stores anything like they build their houses, you probably could have kicked a hole through the wall in a minute or so.

Microsoft's Copilot AI to pervade the whole 365 suite

More worryingly, everything on your PC wanted to listen for random connections from the internet. Microsoft jumping on trends in a hurry doesn't usually end well.

Twitter rewards remaining loyal staff by decimating them

Depends : African or European birds?

Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death

Re: Idiots

It’s been available to download for a raspberry pi for years. They’ve already produced one reasonably well received hardware device hence this one being the Mark II. I don’t think it’s fair to call them idiots, especially when they’ve already done what you claim they should do.

WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

Re: Waffle

You missed:

Lessons will be learned

* time passes *

Same shit happens again

IAT - It's Always TLAs

Crypto exchanges freeze accounts tied to North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group

Re: What's the catch

The catch is that criminals will think twice before signing cryptocurrency over to Binance

And so will everybody else.

To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services

Microsoft: "Use our cloud and get infinitely scalable compute."

Also Microsoft: "No, not like that!"