Posts by dlc.usa

Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do

This Is Good News

However, AI's persistent failures to ignore clear directions, producing unhelpful results for which no refund is possible (and time is lost) are a very heavy counterweight to the good news.

Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests

Re: Would this be a perfect role for another AI?

Indeed, has anyone prompted an AI to play the game?

The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet

Re: What About Safety and Product Liability?

First OpenAI [https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6006457-openai-security-breach-gop-attorneys-general/?_bhlid=748e737957c38f172d45c6391e6ea60485bfd67a]

Then Anthropic...

Might this affect the IPOs?

What About Safety and Product Liability?

Even Anthropic has failed to keep its highly capable crackers from escaping their sandboxes, and negligence may be provable. This is important, this means something...

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Re: Lots Of Comments Here About "Why No Air Gap?"

Air gaps have vulnerabilities. This calls for Current/Vibration/Entanglement Gaps, and likely others not yet public.

Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

Re: Inquiring Minds Want To Know...

No, I did not get that far. I have relearned the need to follow every link before commenting on an article. My sincere apologies for assuming from the article proper no testing had been attempted. I am very very glad to hear it was and has been successful--that is huge!

Inquiring Minds Want To Know...

On what hardware is this being tested? It IS being tested, right?

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

We have not yet arrived at "the AI said to do it" is an acceptable explanation for a really bad decision of great import. It remains to be seen if we will ever get there... Of course there are pockets of gross negligence but these then to cease to exist one way or another.

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

Re: The problem, as usual, is other people

> Short circuiting that journey with AI tools makes folks for whom the journey is the reward feel cheated.

So it seems there are a few of us here seeking knowledge and understanding first before we seek to seriously change things. I'm holding off on orchestration as I keep catching up starting in January after my exploration of ChatGPT in 2023 underwhelmed me. This week it feels like the technology is changing faster than I can catch up and the government has taken away my best tool for learning for the time being! Beware of those unintended consequences.

Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships

Re: FSD ?

But the Baltimore bridge incident was crewed.

LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way

Or the article was edited?

If so, the comment pertains to the article's author.

Re: "young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old."

Oops--misquotation from the article's "6000" original. The question becomes is this attributable to a lack of proof-reading or STEM education or both.

Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave

Re: Does This Claude Feature Mean...

I think you've missed the point: https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-stands-with-president-trump-on-national-security-ai-directive-02272026 and the BBC reported this: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn48jj3y8ezo

Does This Claude Feature Mean...

... the U.S. Federal government now has less than half a year to remove systemd from all its Linux platforms?

Claude charts a new course with charts, of course

Article Voting

I forget--how do we upvote an article? [=> (for Mr. Claburn)]

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it

Re: It's Time To End The Confusion

Mainframes' age--they're still pulling their considerable weight.

It's Time To End The Confusion

Why can't the industry standardize on paging for (typically) 4096-byte virtual memory pages moving in and out of real RAM (main storage in mainframes) while swapping is for process spaces to be rendered non-dispatchable with no in-flight I/O to be swapped out? The article would have been so much easier to read if the usage had been defined up front. Maybe we need new terms for swapping and paging to arise that adhere to these distinctions and end the confusion.

All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic

We Hold These Truths To Be Self-evident

"'We only conduct lawful surveillance' and 'lawful' is a word whose definition we reserve the right to update. Ask me how I know." --[attribution withheld]

AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures

Public Health Warning

"This material has been created by AI and may be partially or entirely untrue and cannot be safely relied on."

as opposed to

"This material has been created by human being(s) and may be partially or entirely untrue and cannot be safely relied on."

Maybe I'm missing something.

GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down

What If

Humanity uses appropriately vetted AI to publicly analyze proposed legislation before it is turned into actual law, serving as a check on the more egregious bills coming forth. Then we can hear the legislators' reasoning for agreeing or disagreeing with the AI reasoning (and the AI rebuttals of their opinions). That could sell a lot of popcorn. If that works out well, then start letting it publicly analyze existing law to come up with recommendations for tweaking or outright repeal by the responsible legislatures.

Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red

SHARE Sing Along Documentation

https://blog.share.org/Article/paddles-and-songs-and-share-oh-my-a-reflection-on-shares-fun-history

Directions to obtain PDF(s) of the song book(s) are within.

Re: Don't by coy. Your nomination was: "We all live in a virtual machine, a virtual machine, ..."

Actually, it was a parody developed in the '80s for singing (and eventually buffalo stomping by leaders) during the Thursday night session of the IBM mainframe user group SHARE. However, the chorus was "we all run in a virtual machine..." and the only VMs available ran on the IBM S/370 family of computers. See https://techchannel.com/performance/seeing-the-world-via-the-mainframe/ for corroboration.

Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era

The Leader

This is, of course, the real concern, and the outcome may not be as certain as the comment presents. The personality of the new Number One must be as respectable to the team as Linus himself. If that person cannot quickly earn such respect, IT will be in a serious situation, one that AI cannot solve at this time and probably at that time.

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

Have We Reached "Do No Good" Yet?

Not that they'll make that public, mind you...

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement

Management Has Moved On

from airline magazines to AI magazines.

Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

Re: "long shaken their heads at the profligate ways of modern engineering"

Hmmm... Inquiring minds want to know if AI can be led into such software design and implementation...

BOFH: If another meeting is scheduled, someone is going to have a scheduled accident

Triggered from my Punched Card Days

Google '"It is a crock of shit" "and it stinks" status report joke', read top link.

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

Re: Dammit Gelsinger!

I'm curious--on what evidence do you plan B choosers suppose everyone in Hell, presuming it really exists, won't be eternally in total isolation from the rest of the population (each in his own galaxy, so to speak)?

Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports

Devuan Impact

"Will this be the day that Devuan loses its Debian dependencies?"

Certainly not in immediate practice--a statement of direction is needed at this time. Does Devuan have the manpower to lose the dependencies? Probably not at this time. Can they acquire such manpower? TBD...

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Meanwhile...

Global credit card and airline reservation transactions just work. File this datum under things an IT architect should know (and have the guts to say to the bean counters when necessary).

AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds

In the Image

of the trainers, they created AI...

Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe

MVS OS/360? Most certainly not

MVS could not run on S/360 hardware--it requires the DAT hardware of S/370 that supports virtual storage. At best, you're confusing MVS with OS/MVT or OS/MFT. But since your JCL won't run on either, thank you for playing.

Trump’s tariff‑shaped stick can’t beat reality on US chip fabbing

Re: And that will mean nothing

I, too, was alive, as was my oldest brother who had graduated the year before and was visiting the week before (had a significant conversation with the ROTC student who was killed). What of it? The only real question is was any legal precedent established in the following investigation and legal proceedings that may have relevance today.

Re: And that will mean nothing

Now wondering if the Kent State University massacre has any relevance...

Atlassian drops $1B on company that helps measure dev productivity

True, But...

There now is this glimpse of progress: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04664

It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI

Common Sense Is Uncommon

"It takes one to know one."

Nabiha Syed remakes Mozilla Foundation in the era of Trump and AI

Re: Position

It _does_ depend upon who you ask--the truth is a mix of different opinions and unity is hard to come by. The not so United States may be worse off than when Lincoln was elected President.

'It looks sexy but it's wrong' – the problem with AI in biology and medicine

Re: Not really AI

Apparently Intelligent is better (except for that minority that can tell the output is Actually Unintelligent).

Another massive security snafu hits Microsoft, but don't expect it to stick

Unfortunately, we all use Windows at least *indirectly* (and some of us against all willingness).

Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists

Re: Might

s/and/to/

Credible nerd says stop using atop, doesn't say why, everyone panics

Re: My response

RTFM is almost as old as computers themselves, and it applies to technologies older than computers, even if the acronym wasn't commonly used then. In the 21st Century it boggles the mind how few people RTFM _before_ they use some technical widget, despite the serious harm that approach can cause themselves and others. Somehow "human nature" falls short as an explanation. Does anyone know of any credible studies regarding this phenomenon?

Of course, with too many apps devoid of a manual (I'm looking at you, smartphones), the users cannot be blamed.

Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier?

Re: There is no "graybeard barrier"

So, life is meritocracy or something focused elsewhere... But do all approaches produce equal results?

White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em

What About This?

https://www.meritalk.com/articles/house-lawmakers-want-to-extend-expiring-counter-drone-authorities/ Is it coincidence the sightings stopped after the 20th?

AI poetry 'out-humans' humans as readers prefer bots to bards

Re: Well, I Don't Know Much About Poetry

That was a quotation from the popular song "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_World_(Sam_Cooke_song)], not a statement regarding my educational achievements nor was it intended as a question seeking an answer. Oh, and the SR-71 design employed heavy slipstick support back in the day, so I guess it was faster than referencing log tables.

Well, I Don't Know Much About Poetry

...but I know what I like.

P.S. "Don't know what a slide rule is for," either.

Verizon wobbles on the East Coast, outage cuts off night owls

A User Report

It was odd for me at home via FiOS in the DC Metro area. My Ethernet-connected subnet of GNU/Linux boxes was solid but the FiOS router's WiFi connections all complained the AP was not connected to the Internet. ???

X to allow third parties to train their AI models with social media users' data

Perhaps XAI or AIX as a suffix or prefix pronounced "mad" would fill the bill; e.g., AIXthink (yes, I am aware to the connection to IBM).

That needs to include a strangely capitalized "AI", I suggest. Perhaps just "XAI" would suffice, but then there's the pronunciation standard to consider, unless those letters are deemed silent.

Methinks we will need new words to connote the new levels of irrationality and hallucination that will ensue.

US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V

Re: Next week's news

...as a "munition" (word choices really matter with such usage)...