* Posts by Ropewash

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Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person

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Re: Gates

Since the wealth is not in the form of universally recognized solid objects, probably not.

They'll log it as some weird priest who was buried with a billion paper talismans surrounding his corpse to keep his ghost from wandering around being a dick to the living.

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Not where he's going.

Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'

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Re: QC

So old that the people whose knowledge is key to the project are now either retired or passed on. I've got a feeling that the map of their code has sections labelled "Here Be Dragons"

Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress

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Re: centi-billionaire Elon Musk

Etymology finally meets entomology.

You could also have mentioned the Roman numeral C.

Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated

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wasn't this done before?

I keep (mis?)remembering an old article I read about how some boffins used self-evolving code and a Xylinx FPGA to let the machine learn how to tell red from green on it's own.

It was a really interesting article, hope it's not one of my own hallucinations.

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

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Re: Probably by "Bitcoin-style encryption" Musk meant...

Isn't that the name of one of his kids?

Elon Musk bragged this group had been 'deleted' when DOGE shut it down - now they're appealing

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Re: Leftist policies

"the week will perish"

Reading this on a Sunday, I am inclined to agree.

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond

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Re: Just more evidence (as if we needed it)

Bad news. The publishers are all going to use AI to screen manuscripts. It will start rejecting anything containing content that wasn't created by a bot.

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Re: text editor

Have you seen the bloated crap genAI tends to create? If your file wasn't unloadably large when you started, it will be soon.

BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts

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Re: Gamification

I would enjoy the gamification of workplace harassment. I'm really quite good at it.

Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain

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Re: Fun stuff

An unexpected bonus to the system, being able to use it for maintenance of the steel building frame like that.

I exaggerate of course. 400V is far more than you'd need for welding. Most units push 50-100 at arc start and stabilize at +/-20 when running, depending on electrode type and arc length.

With 400V and 1000A you could weld with 3/4" rebar as your filler.

Siri? Will tariffs hurt Apple? Tim Cook says brace for a $900M whack, for starters

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Re: I'll never understand the stock market

Buy on speculation, sell on news.

Cook'd: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges

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It would be nice

If all decisions made by the court regarding these corporations were handed down as bluntly.

"Don't try to weasel out of this you bastards"

AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary

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So what I'm hearing is

Microsoft and others can actually be duped into paying me to dump sand in a parking lot, just as long as I pretend it's magic pixie dust that magically removes CO2 from the atmosphere.

Windows 11 poised to beat 10, mostly because it has to

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Re: When October comes

My win10 machine will get upgraded to ... win10.

I've completely lost interest in the continuous sidegrade/downgrade cycle. They can swing the security sword of Damocles over my head as much as they want, I no longer care. Over the last few decades I've found that for home use, a limited user acct and some internet common sense have kept me just as safe as any number of updates. I have tried the MS update route back when directx was a new and evolving thing. They broke things 50% of the time. I've run the gauntlet of rolling release Linux distros as well as the normal and LTS alternatives. Now I've decided that any machine that currently works properly can be left exactly as it is until it dies from physical degradation.

LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite

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"It will be in your phone, on your PC, in your car, in your TV, etc.etc."

No. No it won't.

IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India

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Re: Why is anyone surprised?

At some point in that course you charted one of them will have a 'let them eat cake' moment and then they won't exist anymore. So there is a bright side, eventually.

Don't want Copilot app on your Windows 11 machine? Install this official update

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Pint

No copilot. No roblox.

Might as well clock out early and grab a pint, you've earned it.

Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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"Time to find an angle grinder"

Correct. A welding job offers the comfort of never having to work with a computer at all.

Lots of angle grinders though. Especially when you're an apprentice.

SpaceX says bad vibes most likely cause of Starship 7 flop

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Gone are the days when you could just clamp a lump of lead to the back of your boring bar and hope for the best.

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

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Re: There is no reason for Windows 11

Ditto for the production machinery. I'm not about to suggest a modern OS upgrade for something that has ISA cards. They run just fine, have been running for decades and will never be upgraded until they finally expire from old age.

App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground

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Joke

Protecting Americans from the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act , sometimes assisted by the Mobile and Telephony Hardware Association of America.

MaTHAA PFACAA

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

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What it really gives them is the ability to arbitrarily decide that v1 software cannot run on v2 OS, please upgrade if you wish to keep using it, combined with the fact that your OS is going to self-update to v2 whether you want to or not.

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

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Re: Surprise?

Poettering does work for Microsoft, so not entirely impossible.

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

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Mushroom

Re: The unipolar world is officially dead

MAD still standing after 70 years. If there'd been one bright flash over Kiev, then there'd have been about 6000 of them over Russia, EU and US approximately 30 minutes later and most of us wouldn't be here to argue over who 'won'.

Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025

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Re: A "smart" ring

"I have a functional brain"

And there, I feel, you've really rather hit the nail on the head.

Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per second

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Re: we predict that Musk’s brain will communicate with the computer at about 10 bits/s,

We're talking quantity here. Quality is a whole other topic.

Are you better value for money than AI?

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"wow, you used this new tool to get that job done in half the time. Here's a full weeks pay for your 3 days, might as well take an extra long weekend on us"

Said no boss. Ever.

US reportedly mulls TP-Link router ban over national security risk

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Re: Stop quoting "security issues"

The American equipment is made in China.

As such, cost is less a factor compared to availability.

They need to re-build the entire US electronics industry if they want to use 'American Made'

Suggested Actions fails to suggest its own survival as Windows 11 feature killed

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Re: Another Worse than Useless 'Helpful' 'Feature'

"not using it themselves"

Not so sure about that. The accuracy, efficiency and aptitude of their work suggests they use these tools all the time.

Microsoft says premature patch could make Windows Recall forget how to work

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Thumb Up

Microsoft patch disables Recall functionality

So an actual patch then?

+1 for MS I guess.

AI PCs: 'Something will have to give in 2025, and I think it's pricing'

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Re: What in the heck even IS an AI PC?

"An AI PC is one that is compliant with the current marketing bullshit."

I honesty see this as the latest 'Made for Windows Vista' moment. When do they roll out the freight trucks with adverts on the trailer?

Heart of glass: Human genome stored for 'eternity' in 5D memory crystal

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Re: "the Sun is expected to swallow our planet"

"will no longer be a problem."

Not a problem for us, but for the thriving ten-billion year old cockroach population it will likely be insurmountable.

Musk's X, Media Matters headed to trial

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Re: Relax, don’t worry

The end result of a decades long CBT fetish. (Not 'closed beta test'. Seriously, whomever thought that was a good acronym is probably the same guy that keeps discussing ERP in business.)

Video game actors strike because they fear an attack of the AI clones

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Windows

Re: How to detect a clone

The answer to all of the above is yes.

Certainly the artforms could be said to have evolved each time, but in each instance something of value was lost.

Killing the storytellers ended our first-person relationship with those who tell stories.

Killing handwriting made written communication more homogenous and devoid of personality.

Killing books, and most of the stores in my city are now gone, ended our concept of ownership of the medium. We now lease our books.

Social media is anything but.

AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output

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Re: Prediction

We'd be a lot closer to an actual AI if the damned things could re-train themselves on the fly and pass the alterations back upstream to tune the base model.

Right now they're just artificial politicians. "I have no recollection of those events"

Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models

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"Anyone can copy it" Okay. "recreate with it" Understood. "reproduce with it" Wait. What?

'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft

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Re: Fundamental flaw

Too bad LLMs do not have pain receptors. My father knew a teaching method that worked quickly and efficiently.

GenAI dominates the narrative in ERP, but what is it good for?

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Does it have a place in ERP?

I have once again confused whatever ERP the article refers to with Erotic RolePlay, which genai is most definitely good at and where even the most bizarre hallucination is welcome.

BOFH: Why's the network so slow?

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Re: Talking Of Curry

If after, how many hours after?

Microsoft cancels universal Recall release in favor of Windows Insider preview

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It will be back. It will harvest data. It will be monetized.

It will also be abused to hell and back by every TLA or other miscreants, but what isn't?

AI PC vendors gotta have their TOPS – but is this just the GHz wars all over again?

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Re: Race to the bottom, how low can you go ?

I'll go one step further. A zero bit NPU will be infinitely faster while producing exactly the same results as I currently require from an LLM.

Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks

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Re: Doomsday virginity

and a few people will create Recall-chan rule34 featuring Recall vigorously 'ingesting' user data.

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

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Re: Wow. Massive kudos to someone at MS.

This is just the pre-cursor, just to see if the frogs will stay in the pan. The real horror begins when they start to scrape it for ad revenue.

Tesla self-driving claims parked in court

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Re: Wonder what took so long

And that reminds me of Rajneesh Osho's thoughts on that subject,

"but the corporations are retarded"

Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful

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Re: That is a quote I will keep

I believe it has been established that said human is cheating by being wired to a sex toy.

Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet

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"I'm not a dope-smoking sociopath"

You really should try it sometime, feels good man.

Logitech intros free tool for ChatGPT prompts... plus a mouse with an AI button

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Facepalm

So now...

We need another AI assistant to create prompts for our AI assistant. Add another assistant each time the previous layer has grown complex enough to require it.

Tesla decimates staff amid ongoing performance woe

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Re: in this case claiming that Tesla was unveiling a robotaxi in August.

You mean the beta-testers for the newest GTA game?

Guranga !

Why Microsoft's Copilot will only kinda run locally on AI PCs for now

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Big Brother

"more privacy" as the NPU dedicates 80% of it's runtime to the new AI powered telemetry.

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