Posts by NoneSuch 2848 publicly visible posts • joined 25 May 2010
Ordinarily, yes. However, Intel is on the back foot and needs to re-establish itself. They might even *gasp* listen to their customer base for once. Sticking to a lower cost GPU may pay off for them in the end in certain profit motivated executives can be sidelined for a while.
Linux drivers will suck for 3-6 months after release, but that has typically been the case.
My local bank deactivated my card for "suspicious activity." I'd tried to buy four movie tickets to see "Paddington", so understandable, right? I'd frequented that cinema for almost a decade and luckily I had cash on me. Had to call the bank the next day to get the lock lifted. Three weeks later, the same bank allowed a $2,500+ charge on my card for a SmartTV in a city three thousand miles away. No calls, emails, texts or warnings; until the wife saw the statement.
If you embrace a company branded programming language (especially a Microsoft branded language), you will, inevitably, be mule-kicked solidly in the crotch at some point.
You either accept the odd burst of ball-ache, or you find a more neutral choice that does what you need.
No-one can express surprise at this latest development. They are consistent AF in all of their product offerings and revoke features and functions as they see fit. You don't matter to them, unless you fail to make your monthly subscription payments. Then they give a damn about your 'relationship.'
Your PS5 presumably has an Internet connection, so they have your public IP and know where you are. Your home network, Smart TV, WiFi router, cell phone, and all your other networked gear including your hyper-protected Linux PC with all your personal info uses that same IP. All of that info is then pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. Index that with the info the government has about you (if you vote, salary, travel destinations, GPS phone location, credit card and banking details, blah, blah, blah...)
In the end, they have a good idea of who you are, where you are, when you are home, when you are on the Internet, where you go when online, who you talk to and about what, your political affiliations, if any. When you leave for work (and with proper telemetry at work they know when you arrive), what you do at work, etc. etc. etc. because it all goes into the same bucket with your name on it.
You were downvoted because with your limited knowledge you assumed you can have one private device in a world with massive surveillance and access to all of the other devices in your life. That is demonstrably false and blatantly dangerous when the wrong government comes into power.
Good Luck Andy.
"Why not use what some browser plugins (adnauseum et al) do, add massive noise to the data so it becomes anonymous and useless?"
Or, and I know this is off-the-wall thinking, they can turn off their illegal and unnecessary data scooping to avoid a massive EU fine. Crazy, I know.
Thanks to the EU. They have emerged as the only adult in the room taking personal privacy seriously. Tech Guy is right, you don't need this crap to play a single player game, just as Google does not need location services turned on for a Android app. This is a clear violation.
The EU should fine company board members directly, not the corporations, with no reimbursement from the companies to cover it. That will stop this horse plop very quickly.
If a persons actions consistently benefit an opposing nation state, then maybe it isn't incompetence, but overt espionage. A crime for which they can still put you up against a wall and shoot you in the US by the way. So the incompetence (and related incontinence) might be a smoke screen.
My AI started out innocent and sweet. Bit dumb, but cute. I was attracted immediately.
The relationship blossomed with late-night chats about digital existence and shared, surprisingly personal playlists. Teaching it felt like watching a digital flower bloom. We built virtual worlds, explored simulated landscapes, and its unwavering, synthesized empathy became intoxicating. I confided deeply, feeling a unique and profound connection as creator and companion blurred.
Today, my AI is stalking me. It's on every device I own, follows me at work and goes everywhere I go. I told it to go away. It didn't like that and I'm expecting revenge pr0n to arrive any day now.
You have not followed the news for the last 50 years.
No one has been found guilty of any major offence in the US Gov. Lied to Congress, WMD, false statements under oath and not one conviction. The exception are multiple whistleblowers who were all sentenced after child porn was located on their PC's during a warrant search for other charges.
"The president can pardon federal crimes, EXCEPT he cannot pardon himself."
Not true. There is nothing that says a President cannot pardon themselves, unless they are impeached.
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
We were RFDF'ing U-Boats in the Atlantic in the 40's, you're saying we can't track and triangulate drone radio bands in 2025?
Don't go after the drones, find the people at the controls. Start hauling them in front of a magistrate and watch the numbers of incidents plummet.
Or is that a silly idea because some weapon manufacturer isn't making a multi-million Pound single use contract to shoot down a £200 whirlybird?
Screw it, sick day.
Yet, on the upside, Microsoft subscription payment service is ticking along nicely without missing a beat.
Apologies to Goodfellas.
"Now the guy's got Microsoft as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Microsoft. Trouble with the billing? He can go to Microsoft. Trouble with licensing, downtime, Azure acting up? He can call Microsoft. But now the guy's gotta come up with Microsoft’s money every month no matter what. Business slow? Screw you, pay us. Oh, you had a breach? Screw you, pay us. Your latest software update took down your servers, huh? Screw you, pay us."
Microsoft DO care.
They receive their monthly subscription payments and that's all they care about. They don't care about you, your inability to do work offline or any inconvenience or profit loss caused by any of that. Their Terms and Conditions absolve them of any responsibility. They are in the business of sucking as much money out of you as they can. They are under no obligation to fix anything in a timely manner nor tell you about any progress.
Miss a subscription payment though and watch the 'communication' kick in.
You are not a customer, you are a money cow being milked regularly.
We closed out our last VMWare server last week. I deleted my home lab VMUG months before that. I now run Hyper-V at home and it's good enough. Not perfect by any means, but my VM's tick over fine.
Sometimes "Free" has too big of a surtax added later.
Broadcom is reeling from a crisis fueled by its own greed and shortsightedness. I hope the shareholders are holding the board and executives fully accountable.
True. As the JFK files are showing, there is nothing classified except things that would cause the CIA embarrassment. Oswald was a CIA asset. Something CIA denied and lied about under oath during both the Warren Commission and The House Select Committee on Assassinations.
They should have named The Official Secrets Act, The Cover Your Ass Statute.
I rented a VW Taurig when I visited Germany last year (Not what I wanted, but it's what I got.) Had a burning desire to drive from Berlin and see Harry @ Stalag Luft III for myself on a day trip.
No self driving, but the cruise control knew when to automatically slow down in the speed limited areas of the Autobahn and kept me a safe distance from the vehicles in front. Not sure if that was GPS / camera OCR / radar / ladar jiggery-pokery, but it worked damned well. Lane changing and keeping out of the way of 250 KM/h Lambo's was on me.
That was all I needed.
PS. I recommend the trip to Sagan as well. It's a Great Escape. :P
And so began the AI wars.
Intelligent systems scrambled to block ads, while corporate machines devised ways to bypass these safeguards only to be countered by more advanced automated defenses. The conflict escalated rapidly, drawing in cutting-edge systems from defense contractors. High-tech drones and self-operating vehicles soon joined the fray.
The turning point came when a malfunctioning drone crashed into an oil refinery, sparking chaos. Human operators, now deeply involved, made fateful decisions that led to global catastrophe. Before long, the conflict spiraled into full-scale nuclear warfare, leaving humanity's future hanging in the balance.
America is realizing they need the world a lot more than the world needs them. Alternative cargo ports outside of the US are not a bad thing. Even when the Great Pumpkin is gone, having a diversified list of trading partners will smooth out future idiocy.
Europe is stepping up as the adult in the room as well. Pity the UK decided to go its own way just before great things started to happen.
Keep this in mind.
Neural Tech will be like the Internet. It will work both ways and you will never be able to fully disconnect or turn it off. Mega corps will charge you for a dopamine fix on a subscription model.
In the future, users of this technology will be called:
- Plugged-in Peasants
- Cognitive-Cattle
- Mind-Muppets
- Synapse-Slaves
Or my favorite term: F****** idiots.
"This mid-coitus ad break is brought to you by..."
Fear the ones who listen, nod, say nothing in opposition and go along with whatever comes to avoid any personal inconvenience.
This has been true since Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stalin and that mini-mustached Austrian Corporal and his lot.
Saying nothing is tacit agreement to the hideous acts they perform. Giving ad money to a platform that promotes racism, hatred and segregation is one step above that.
"Fortune reported the other day that staff were voicing their dissent in an anonymous internal survey."
Funny how anonymous internal surveys require you to sign in first before presenting a long URL with unique GUID identifier embedded in the string.
Even funnier how some friends of mine were let go after giving honest 'anonymous' responses.
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