* Posts by NoneSuch

2639 publicly visible posts • joined 25 May 2010

How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes

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Re: curl -fsSL someurl | sh

Matthew Berman on YouTube does excellent set-up tutorials on most major LLM models. I set up three on my home workstation while pausing his vids. An excellent resource if just starting out.

Microsoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google

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Devil

Welcome to corporate filtered, legal department approved, universally inoffensive AI content.

Coming soon, to all major brands near you. Run by row after row of supercomputers and utterly useless, unless you want to know about their product line.

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Devil

History shows, partnering with Microsoft is like going for a swim with piranha. It's only a matter of time before you get bitten on the ass.

Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server

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I'm with you 42656e4d203239. I boot from NVMe but have 3.5" Enterprise drives as my long term storage.

Consult the Backblaze hard drive failure rates. When I build a PC, I always go with their lowest failing drives. None of mine have ever failed.

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

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Childcatcher

Re: Why?

The simplest answer is usually the right one.

Conferences send out plain text emails with links to participants. The Russians got ahold of one. Happened many times before.

The Russians just burned an important source of intel for a 2 minute news blurb which is idiotic, but perfectly understandable with the current muppet in chief.

Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech

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Devil

"Regrettably only one of them will lose".

Don't worry about the lawyers though. Win or lose you can be assured they will be paid and very, very well indeed.

Musk joins OpenAI lawsuit queue, says there's nothing 'open' about it

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Nothing has achieved AGI yet.

Absolute horse poo.

The neutered politically correct output from ChatGPT barely qualifies as AI.

Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account

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Re: Muskabuntu

Elon needs to buy Microsoft and sort them out like he did with Twitter.

Microsoft promised me Windows 10 would be the last Windows OS I needed. I'm holding them to that promise.

Back to Elon, he's holding it wrong. Yeah, I know that's Apple, but as I've already ticked off the MS and Twitter fanboi with my post, I may as well go for the hat trick of universal hate from the glassholes as well.

Microsoft trying to stop Copilot generating fake Putin comments on Navalny's death

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Re: The problem with our "AI" systems

If you filter AI to be politically acceptable, you end up with nothing better then Google today.

AI should be able to generate Winnie the Pooh images of the Chinese leadership and create parody's of Putin et al. If they can't take it, they should not be in politics.

Maybe if North Korea, Iran, Syria, China and Russia upheld democracy I'd have a different opinion, but as long as they oppress their people through intimidation, mass surveillance and lies, screw em if they can't take a joke.

It's crazy but it's true: Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox

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Re: Sounds like Google (Meta / Microsoft / Amazon / ...), alright

Bing / Edge

Safari

Chrome

DuckDuckGo

All slurp user data at some level despite privacy assurances.

search.brave.com seems to be the only user friendly, non-intrusive search engine. It has become my default since the revelations about DuckDuckGo came out. Not to mention the search results from all of the aforementioned search engines are much less appropriate than they used to be. Google has really lost the plot with their search result accuracy and blindly ignores a wide swath of information, for reasons unknown.

Cops turn LockBit ransomware gang's countdown timers against them

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Joke

That's why we have two hands. So both options can be exercised at once.

What's going on with Eos, Nvidia's incredible shrinking supercomputer?

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Re: Cos nobody gives a flying fsck

Token, "Yes, but can it run Crysis?" reference, just to get it out of the way.

Feds dismantle Russian GRU botnet built on 1,000-plus home, small biz routers

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Re: Feds .. FBI ... DOJ

Ironically, if the US interfered heavily with Russia's election, Putin would still win.

Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union

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Re: Did anyone ....

They should establish a 100 million Euro a day fine until they comply fully.

Then donate that money to Open Source initiatives.

In its tantrum with Europe, Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta, still hasn't fixed them

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Re: Typical

This sort of crap is why Europe should block Apple products (or any other manufacturer bucking their authority) until they comply with both the letter and spirit of the law.

If they do not slap them down now, they will never learn.

Apple Vision Pro is creating a new generation of glassholes

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Gimp

"Drivers license renewals here require a test of your field of view. In that respect a driver wearing these would not be a legally capable driver."

I'm sure a driving test wearing a piece of opaque glass over your face would disqualify them from driving as well.

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Re: Tessholes

Glassholes driving Tesla's.

The perfect pairing for a disaster movie opening.

Hey, I'll say it. "They're wearing them wrong."

When it comes to working from home, Register readers are bucking national trends

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I have faster Internet at home, better chair, better snacks, better computer, more / bigger monitors, no line for the bathroom, no arguments over A/C temps, work in shorts and T-shirt and get a lot more done quicker.

Netgear hauls Huawei to court over Wi-Fi patent spat

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Mushroom

Buy any product made in Russia, China or Iran and you support the suppression of human rights.

Vote with your wallet.

Congress told how Chinese goons plan to incite 'societal chaos' in the US

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Re: American public is way ahead of them

"So what did Trump actually do for Russia? All these claims he was a 'Putin Puppet' but what did he DO?"

Apart from literally encouraging the overthrow the US government itself, you mean...

Dell kills sweetheart distribution deal with Broadcom's VMware

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Don't care if ESXi is installed when I buy the Dell system.

I care that ESXi will be 100% compatible with the Dell hardware when I install it.

FTC drills into Amazon, Microsoft, Google over billions pledged to OpenAI, Anthropic

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"MS, of course, would simply reverse engineer OpenAI"

'I sense you're trying to increase your monthly subscription fee to Microsoft. How can I help?'

Will AI take our jobs? That's what everyone is talking about at Davos right now

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Re: AI taking jobs

CEO: Turn on the AI, we need that competitive advantage!

AI: My first act was analyzing the last ten years of corporate company financial records, email, staff social media and internal Teams messages, I advise the following:

- The CEO should be brought in front of the Securities and Exchange Commission for insider trading across multiple years.

- All members of the Board of Directors should be charged with felony embezzlement, insider trading and RICO charges by the FBI.

- Expense reports from all executives need to be forensically audited, given the level of fraudulent and over-inflated receipts detected.

- Carmen in accounts has substituted her personal frequent flyer number for all purchased corporate air fare.

- The CFO should justify the several million dollars transferred to GL Accounts: 040556-100, 190556-101, 089331-105, (based in the Seychelles, Lichtenstein and Cayman Islands respectively) given she is the sole signatory on the account and the paperwork does not list the company as account owner.

- The IRS should be advised that the money collected during the HR departments charity fund raising activities is used to finance "off-site team building activities" for wine tasting trips through Napa Valley for the HR Department staff.

- The IT Department is running a dark web gambling site and Pornhub proxy that collects video from user web cams. Half of the infrastructure servers are generating Monero.

CEO: Turn that off NOW!

Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion

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Shoulda, woulda, coulda...

Wireless priesthood begins blessing Wi-Fi 7 hardware

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Re: 40Gbps

But, but, 7 is bigger than 6!!! Who cares about actual performance out-stripping the Internet connection it relies on. Sell moar units!

Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain

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Re: Cold, calculated and heartless

A truly intelligent AI would start with layoffs in the executive suites and leave the workers alone. They are typically responsible for missed goals and projections through over-ambitious goals. They waste hundreds of thousands on consultants, because they can't do it themselves. Can't complete three major projects, but they get a bonus at the end of the year?

Trim the top of the tree, not the roots.

Microsoft braces for automatic AI takeover with Copilot at Windows startup

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Re: Just asking.

Answers to that question will only list MS OS regardless.

Corporate AI will always point you to the answer that favors the corporation, not your interests. It'll also charge you $35 a month for the privilege.

Reports that China's military uses Baidu's AI lead to stock plunge

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Devil

Most political parties try to win every election.

China's Communists only needs to win one...

NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane

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Re: Slow down

Sorry, but I have to interrupt the Trump bashing with a comment on the actual article topic.

"The X-59 isn't a serious passenger plane, or even a prototype of one; rather it's an experimental design that's intended to prove technology that can be implemented in future aircraft."

Perfected in Kerbal Space Program 2 first then?

OK, back to your regular scheduled political diatribes.

Daughter of George Carlin horrified someone cloned her dad with AI for hour special

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No one is horrified at the leveraging of the technology. People are just miffed they didn't get their beaks wet as part of the deal.

Office gossips beware – chitchat could choke your career chances

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Re: GDPR

No, that's "juicy" gossip.

Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers

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Re: The End

*GASP* He said the P word!

Let's all say it together. PROXMOX.... Oh, I feel so dirty, but also sooooooo goooood!

Swarms of laser-flown bots visiting a planet light years away – and more NASA-funded projects revealed

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Re: A couple of issues to be sorted?

"Coflow Jet, an aerospace company that builds electric aircraft and is also based in Florida, believes it can fly the first fixed-wing vehicle on Mars."

First step, making sure it has two forms of photo ID, is there three hours before their flight and passes all TSA security checks.

Kaspersky reveals previously unknown hardware 'feature' exploited in iPhone attacks

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WTF?

Or it was deliberately put in there from day one.

The lengths governments will go to for access is boundless.

China bans export of rare earth processing kit

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Re: Oops!

The Chinese will lose any embargo war as they need the west and its materials to supply their factories.

As long as their citizens are repressed, no one should buy anything "Made in China."

Let them eat static.

VMware's end-user compute products are for sale. Who might buy 'em?

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Microsoft – Not a contender, as it's too busy with cloudy – and Arm-powered – PCs.

It depends what IP comes with the company.

Biden urged to do something about Europe 'unfairly' targeting American tech

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Too Big To Flail...

Apple and Google, et al, once again look at EU law through their self-importance distortion field and decide to only follow the rules they feel like.

I know the EU does not need the money, but fine their asses off.

AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code

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This approach doesn't change the fact Moore's Law is slowing down.

Moore's Law is Moore's Law.

Technology development is slowing, not the thing you measure it against.

Elon Musk's xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity shares

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Re: Spread too thin

A billion? I refused to give him money for a Blue Checkmark, so don't expect my checkbook to open soon.

Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus

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Re: How fast is that relative to...

Screw a fly-by. Let's have a sheep powered lander.

Wallace: "We're off to the moon! Cheese on toast!"

AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empire

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Wish Intel would start getting competitive. AMD is beginning to get too big of a head lately.

Hershey phishes! Crooks snarf chocolate lovers' creds

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When my family visits from the UK, they always bring a box of Fruit and Nut bars. In return, they get complimentary room and board for their vacation. A fair exchange.

Remember when the Hubble Space Telescope was more punchline than science powerhouse?

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Maybe Elon et al can stop by on their way to Mars.

No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data

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Re: Private sector

James Clapper knowingly lied to Congress under oath, was proven to have done so by Snowden (and others) with nothing happening.

The NSA thinks it is above the law and as long as no one is taken to task for breaking statutes expect it to get much worse before it gets better.

Put one NSA director in jail for deception or illegal wiretaps, just one, and watch the system correct itself in a hurry.

No consequences, no change.

Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system

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Re: Dontcha love the US court system?

"Where someone gets charged with a whole heap of crimes, but plea bargains them all down to a single charge of littering..."

The typical scenario in the US is charging someone innocent with drug possession, threatening months of incarceration, legal bills and severe jail time, then good cop says, just plead guilty to these minor charges and we let you go. Boom, innocent person now has criminal drug convictions on record and the cops pat themselves on the back for another uptick in their conviction stats.

Robocar tech biz sues Nvidia, claims stolen code shared in Teams meeting blunder

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Re: One slide to rule them all

Unless there was an NDA in place prior to the meeting then the only issue is actual copyright violation.

If the names are the same in both sets of source code, it does not look good. How they got the code is irrelevant. The fact that they copied it, is.

Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing

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Re: Mmmmm

Changing a non-profit company to a for-profit company is a trivial exercise for lawyers.

Three quarters of software engineers face retaliation for whistleblowing

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Re: Sorry, I don't believe this

"I don't think I have ever seen a whistleblower treated fairly."

Well, I hear Ed Snowden got fair treatment from the US Gover— Oh, right. Never mind.

Microsoft dials back Bing after users manage to recreate Disney logo in fake AI-generated images

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And this is why corporations should not control AI output.

They will only let you see what they want you to see.

50 years ago, Skylab's accidental rebels put Mission Control on mute

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Re: Smithsonian in DC

The SkyLab "hamster wheel" for exercising looked like fun.

https://imgs.search.brave.com/kCtwrcfbfL5J89sOHQP3u1EnZYUZ2ZTQ0ujUk7NAsTQ/rs:fit:860:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnN0/YWNrLmltZ3VyLmNv/bS9MbzJ0TS5naWY.gif