* Posts by Ropewash

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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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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.

Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79

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Re: "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence"

I think that was very much his point. The electricity is 98% doing the bidding of the hidden intelligence.

The 2% gives you a token so you can feel you've achieved something.

USB Cart of Death: The wheeled scourge that drove Windows devs to despair

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Re: They would absolutely test it nowadays.

My own recollections

Alpha - known to be broken, but it runs well enough to start testing.

Beta - known to be buggy, needs widespread testing to find them.

RC - Mostly bug free but needs a few more tweaks.

Release - How the hell are there still so many bugs? Didn't you guys test this?

'Recession-resilient' Tesla misses Q3 expectations, slows Mexico expansion

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Re: Accuracy

He's an idiot.

Sure you could build a truck with all it's parts made to that precision.. If you didn't mind that each one would take a decade to manufacture with an average scrap-to-use ratio of about 9999:1 for all the sheetmetal, welded or molded parts.

I don't even bother to try to hit that kind of accuracy on machined parts unless it's absolutely required. It's simply not cost effective to scrap parts that would work perfectly well. That's why tolerances exist in the first place, you don't just spec a welded tube frame 3 meters long to the same accuracy as a machine-ground bearing fit 5cm in diameter.

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11

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Re: not happening

They can't even pick a default window manager without triggering a war.

Need a decent dining spot in Ottawa? Microsoft suggested a food bank

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I don't know about Ottawa,

But if this was Vancouver then that's a pretty sound recommendation for one of the places people can still afford to visit after paying rent.

S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it's in the clouds

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Joke

For anyone who just stumbled in off the internet and is drowning in acronyms right now,

ERP in this instance does not stand for 'Erotic Role Play'. Though it does make the story much more entertaining if read that way.

Musk's X tries to win advertisers back with discounts

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Re: "Incandescently stupid..."--Miles Taylor.

X.com-rays are certainly part of the ElonMusk spectrum.

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

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Re: Sleep well!

I certainly can sleep well, knowing the future AI overlords are now completely stunlocked by having their heads filled with perfectly balanced conflicting input.

LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

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Joke

Re: Rent seeking

Adception. Eventual goal being to make everything so homogenized that you won't be able to discern whether it's ad or content that you are viewing.

Joke icon ... for now.

Cops told: Er, no, you need a wiretap order if you want real-time Facebook snooping

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Re: Surprise

Soon to be;

Remand and Aggregation of Personal Expression

Micron chips in $600M for China memory facility despite Beijing sanctions

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Joke

$600Mn in Xi'an. $100Bn in NY

Identical twin facilities.

One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned

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Re: Blockchain not at fault

You would need to actually host the image on-chain. Which is beyond expensive for anything bigger than a pixelpunk.

What the current system does is attach a receipt to a link to your image. Your buyer doesn't own the image (it's on someone else's server), they don't own the link (it's pointing at someone else's server), they only own the receipt which doesn't stop anyone from copying the image, hosting it on a different server, minting it on a different chain and calling it their own with all the same digital 'proof of ownership' as your buyer can produce.

AI is great at one thing: Driving next waves of layoffs

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Re: So what exactly were all these laid off employees doing?

As one of those machinists, we did not get replaced by CNC. We were replaced by CNC programmers and operators. The machines don't know how to turn a solid model into Gcode, nor how to load themselves and set up their own tooling. They are essentially the same as the old manual machines, but require a different sort of human to control them.

What they did do however was speed up production so now the company asks for 5x more work each day and engineers are free to create all sorts of stupidly expensive parts with obscenely tight tolerances simply because 'the machines should be able to do it' as opposed to designing things in a way that actually makes sense for ease of manufacture & repair.

AMD probes reports of deep fried Ryzen 7000 chips

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Re: Stupid "Optimized defaults" nonsense.

For a short period during (iirc)the Intel BX days some board makers de-coupled the RAM from FSB through a multiplier.

So you could run 133 memory while keeping your FSB at 100 and your AGP therefore at 66.

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

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You can get away with pretty near anything if you have a white van, a blue shop coat and a toolbox.

I used to do machine repairs at a large manufacturing site and would usually bypass the hassle of getting a badge from security each visit. Never got stopped once.

Welcome to Muskville: Where the workers never leave

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Re: One wonders if he has a backup plan.

I was thinking it would come down to either Jonestown or Rapture.

ChatGPT, write a report about database glitches that crashed you today

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Well somebody has to populate their metaverse.

Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude'

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Re: Why?

Helicopter licensing is difficult for a reason.

People can't even drive in two dimensions without causing fatal events, three dimensions will be an order of magnitude worse.

Power lines, other vehicles, birds all must be dodged and when not dodged you need the now destroyed flier to not drop into people's homes.

Add to that the nasty tendency for people to get drunk or try to show off how good they are at aerial acrobatics.

No way do I see flying one of these to be any less regulated than a helicopter.

Trust, not tech, is holding back a safer internet

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Re: We need a better sheriff: let's draw up the job description.

Governments don't 'want' to control the internet. What they want is to have the upper hand at spying on their neighbors.

If they truly desired absolute control, the answer is simple.

Balkanise the network.

Guy accused of wrecking crypto exchange now hauled into court

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Re: Crypto is crud. Bur that's not the issue.

Because, despite what they themselves might think, the people writing code are not the ones who decide the rules.

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