Posts by Ropewash

Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one

FTFY

Yet it's doing the same job, albeit at breathtakingly lower efficiency.

BOFH: You know something's up when the suits want to spend money

Re: "colored pencil office"

California liberals and their politically correct policies are the reason there's even a 'colored' pencil office in the first place. We used to just have black pencils, but you ain't supposed to call 'em that anymore.

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Re: RE: can do it

They still are being taken in by Eliza. They just managed to stack a bunch of Elizas together in a matrix and named it something new.

SK hynix wants you to bond with HBM, so it coated corn in banana chocolate

Re: Alien Spacers

Not sure what performance you'd get. Corn requires a lot of voltage and chocolate, honey-banana flavoured or otherwise, is not the best thermal conductor.

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

Re: Lunchtime, doubly so... Reality is an illusion ...

But of course it did that. Not even the image specific machines can actually tell you what an image is about, only what pre-defined tags it is able to recognise. They cannot see the whole image AS a whole image. Show it an apple and 90% of the time it'll tell you that's an apple, not that the apple is accidentally in the dairy section of the store.

That an automated guessing engine cannot fully grasp the idea of QR codes is not a surprise.

YouTube's AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos, calls them dangerous

Re: Wrong problem

The best offense is a good defense. The only machine I own with TPM got it turned off in uefi. The other machines all reported they were safe via a block of red text in the update window.

Microsoft wasn't lying when they said win10 was the last windows I was going to install.

Sneaky Mermaid attack in Microsoft 365 Copilot steals data

Re: As Copilot is out of scope

The singularity as seen by Microsoft. So many holes that it is now only a hole, devouring all the surrounding data.

Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem

We will own everything and we will be happy. - Microsoft

Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster

4 million square feet

The 'abandoned building' youtube videos of the future are going to be really keen.

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Re: "Microsoft's quality control department"

Not sure about AI = Artificial Intelligence

but absolutely on board with AI = Actually Indians

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

Re: Viva Blocked

"How to use these LLMs"

Well I suppose if you just need to fill disk they're alright. Maybe shunt the models back and forth to stress test your network? In a pinch I suppose you could actually run them to keep the place warm when the heat goes out.

Never been more glad to be in trades than right now. No copilot, no AI at all. Not even any ML, though properly done ML might actually be useful, LLMs are decidedly shit.

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

Re: And?

On the bright side 'mining' for that resource is much more fun than driving a 100ton truck around a coal pit.

AI devs close to scraping bottom of data barrel

Traing your replacement

"need humans to monitor them"

We tradesmen do that already with apprentices. Not sure why people don't see that parallel in the more white-collar fields.

A bit of Schadenfreude, we were told to 'get with the times' as the CNC machines slowly automated away our skillset for profit... Your turn.

UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest

I guess everyone gets to be a vtuber.

Whether they wanted to be is an entirely different question.

Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally

Hang on a second..

Is this thing going to be named Hactar?

Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments

Re: could be paranoid, could be prudent

Always have enough iron and lead to back up your gold and silver.

AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs

Perhaps agentic AI could be used to spin up AI companies promising vapourware, secure VC funding and then nosedive directly into bankruptcy. Make it recursive and let it run until the system collapses. Perhaps it already has.

Alleged Scattered Spider teen cuffed after extortion Bitcoin used to buy games, meals

With crypto it's very much a case of 'ownership is 10/10ths of the law.' whomever has the keys has the coins.

There are ways around it, but that gets messy and can fork the blockchain they are stored on. (see : Etherium vs Classic-Etherium)

Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind yet another UK datacenter

Re: Google Cloud, Maps, Workspace Search are AI?

Hmm.. That link seems to have gotten the process backwards.

First draw the line you want, then plot your readings. [Which is actually how I expect todays 'AI' will handle the task.]

The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it

Why is this even a thing?

People willingly buy into a hardware setup that is dependent on the provider maintaining support but doesn't guarantee that support? Or is it directly in the contract that you're going to have a room full of pretty bricks after X years?

Imagine buying a hammer that requires you to sign into the cloud before it will hit a nail. Oh brave new world..

Terminators: AI-driven robot war machines on the march

It's not a matter of benevolence with current AI tech. It is incapable of actual decision making. Once the model is trained, the 'decisions' made will fall into the same range of probabilities no matter how much the situation might have changed or how much time has passed. An AI of today would still be giving todays responses ten thousand years from now.

Fork that: Three alternative kernels show devs don't need Linux

Source compatibility reminds me of Open Solaris. I'm no programmer and was faced with a driver I needed being written for kernel 4 when the open kernel was iirc 8 or 10. To my surprise I only had to change a few path names in the code and it not only compiled but correctly supported my hardware. (One of those TV tuner cards. Using the V4L Linux code ported to Solaris).

US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid

Native colouring in the USA is not the colour most people think it is, and it doesn't get you treated better.

Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself

Re: Does it mention...

There were more peeks and pokes to be seen in those than the ones further up the rack.

Trump stomps feet, pulls out 't-word' again over China rare earths ban

Re: I cannot decide who I want to win this tussle ...

Mad Max : Beyond Thunderdome springs directly to mind.

AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya

'no hydrocarbon fuel'

Leave them at least one out. They can burn bullshit. They already produce enough to be self-sustaining.

US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B

Re: The most socialist government the USA has had in ages...

I propose 'The Socialite Model' given that the entire political theatre has devolved into actual theatre.

Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork

Hmmm

Sounds like a very expensive way to arrive at exactly the same conclusion current police do using a simple color chart and a bit of racial bias.

Dam it

Microsoft kills volume rebates in name of 'transparency'

Re: Good job, M$

More likely they see it and say "How can we implement this ourselves?"

Meet President Willian H. Brusen from the great state of Onegon

Re: Many maps with different styles, few Bonds timelines

Imagine that. Dedicated machine learning is more useful then a complex network of Eliza machines trained on 4chan posts.

White House bans 'woke' AI, but LLMs don't know the truth

That is simply not the case.

Whatever he says today is the whole of the truth, even when it directly contradicts what he said yesterday, and will be replaced with a new truth tomorrow.

The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement

Re: the thickness of screw threads was not fully standardized in the US

You have indeed inflicted BSP on the world as the G series of fittings is BSP equivalent in size and pitch but is usually still specified in inches in North America at least.

i.e. to fit a G1/4 fitting you can tap the hole 1/4BSP.

Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all

That's one way to promote rapid resolution

"Revolver alerts were cleared by 2254 UTC"

Would that be a 38special alert or a 357magnum alert?

Google's Android boss suggests ChromeOS could be on borrowed time

What ever happened to Fuschia?

Wasn't that supposed to become Google's grand-unifying OS or something? I'd completely forgotten about it until this article.

Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges

Re: Whatever floats your boat

Yeah. This one. -->

Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs

Re: Upgrade? Why?

That would certainly make me happy. I'm tired of the system trying to re-enable cloud services I disabled for a reason.

Re: This isn't like Windows XP

So the golden arches represent both McDonalds and Microsoft.

"Over one billion served".

Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person

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.

Not where he's going.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Re: I'll never understand the stock market

Buy on speculation, sell on news.