Posts by Jedit

AI server farms heat up the neighborhood for miles around, paper finds

At last, a positive use for AI?

You can use the heat from the data centres to conceal your grow op.

Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

"I used up Max 5 in 1 hour of working, before I could work 8 hours,"

Motherfucker, you're not working at all.

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

"something completely different called enshittipification."

And the people who use it are Homo Enshittipithecus?

(Evolutionary nomenclature, please, I'm not dropping slurs.)

Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds

"There's an error in the 215th bit."

It's impolite to fiddle with other people's bits without asking.

AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions

"Yeah, this is just a bit easier said than done."

Not really. If you must set a hard boundary such that AI can do only what it can safely do, and you cannot reasonably set a boundary that allows AI to safely do things, then you must set a hard boundary such that AI cannot do anything at all. In other words, by excluding it from your system.

If you love your boss, imagine how much more you'll love their AI twin

"if my own work could be done by my agent, then what is this job position for me to do?"

Also known as "saying the quiet part out loud".

The difference is that a chatbot can ask simple questions about progress, provide reassurance, and mouth platitudes with some reasonable aptitude. Doing the actual work, not so much.

Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering

"Claude goes down more often than any of us would like."

Something else it's not good at, then.

WorldCoin's newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you

"World has only managed to sign up 18 million suckers users"

Is the strikethrough missing from this quote, or the slash? Who can tell. Either way the article doesn't require correction.

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

"that wouldn't be possible without someone with some talent"

Exactly - and that person with talent isn't getting paid. A very astute person has said that the purpose of AI is to give wealthy people access to skill without giving skilled people access to wealth.

Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes

"why on earth would any company allow it in the door in the first place?"

Buzzword bullshit bingo.

It's perhaps more nefarious than it would seem, too - and that's a high bar. Since the last Teams update, any files opened through Teams default to opening in Edge regardless of your settings. Edge, of course, reports back to MS, so you have to assume that anything you open in this way is being fed into the slop machine.

Repopulate! Repopulate! Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection

Re: Statement from Donald J Trump, President of the USA

EX-PRO-PRI-ATE!

"and thence found its way to the collector"

Who, I'm told, knew exactly what he had and how much people wanted it. He chose not to release it or even let people know that he had it because he was a twat.

UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power

"Or is the “AI” bit just …well …total bollocks?"

AI can be faster for iteration, as it can filter out pointless lines of enquiry rather than simply brute force everything. But that doesn't help to solve an unsolved problem, as without an extant solution it can't determine which lines are pointless.

As ever, AI cannot do anything that a human has not already done.

Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us

"that's when I'll believe they're ready to handle most anything"

If they replace their C-section with an LLM and the effect is indistinguishable, it will be an indication that LLMs aren't ready to handle anything.

So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue

Re: Wine and steak

You don't often hit, but when you do, you hit.

"1.5m square metres of floorspace"

IRTA "1.5 square metres of floorspace" and got slightly confused for a second.

"The British people must resist!"

I see we have started a pun thread. This is entirely your volt.

Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope

Re: I wonder how much data could you compress on a Laserdisc-sized blu-ray.

Not really. I bassackwarded my calculations; the LaserBlu would have a higher proportion of usable area, not lower. Annihilator is likely closer to correct on the exact figures.

(Not actually thumbing you down, you're just wrong because I was.)

Re: I wonder how much data could you compress on a Laserdisc-sized blu-ray.

Blu-rays are 120mm radius, Laserdiscs are 300mm. So a Laserdisc has 625% as much surface area as a BD. Excluding the hole in the middle and the safety boundary at the edge, which will remain constant in size and are not part of the usable storage area, I'd expect you could get six times as much data on your notional LaserBlu if all else remains constant.

Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool

"AI doesn’t take a dump without a plan."

AI doesn't take a dump, because it's a computer and the only asshole it has is the techbro using it.

Gamers furious as indie studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach

I was going to say - it doesn't matter if the Star Citizen player DB leaks, they've already been scammed.

Iran all but vanishes from the global internet amid US-Israel strikes

"the vast majority of the Scots Nationalist cheerleading accounts on Soshal Meejah have gone silent"

It doesn't matter which side of the independence debate you're on; up here we're all too busy laughing at how badly Labour fucked the Gorton & Denton by-election, and watching Keith dig his own grave with his mouth.

"the good sense to leave the US & Israel to slog it out"

Bad news on that front: Keith already managed to get the UK involved. Not that we were ever hoping for him or his ilk to have good sense.

Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans

" in a serious debate, I would consider it equivalent to conceding the point"

In a serious debate, you'd reject the definition and substitute your own.

This motherfucker is so stupid that in addition to saying that AI is more efficient than humans in obtaining information, he's suggesting that the best point of efficiency is to remove human users from the equation. In which case, who's going to ask it the questions? Answers on a postcard, please, although if they don't include confining Sam Altman to an institution and keeping him away from sharp objects they will be ignored.

Hotel's rotary switchboard so retro it predates the concept of crashing

"An old telephone switchboard next to a fax machine and typewriter - click to enlarge"

Dear God, I'm not clicking to enlarge that image. I could catch something horrid just from being on the same website as it.

Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

"I think the letter of the rules doesn't get applied when it comes to toilet breaks"

Toilets tend to only have one entrance, and it's fairly obvious when you take a suspiciously long time. Observing the stall/room should be enough, especially if the escortee has been observed directly at all other times. (Depends on the nature of the business, of course.)

DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events

"I guess I'm guilty by association."

If you had chosen to go there, yes. Most of us don't get to choose our secondary school though; we get sent to the one we're in the catchment area for. It's only people who can afford private education who get the choice. (Funnily, the British people who are in the Epstein Files do all seem to be privately educated. Because that's the province of the rich, and if you weren't rich on Nonce Island you were the entertainment, not a guest.)

Getting back to the point: these men are adults who, of their own free will, knowingly chose to associate with a sex trafficking pederast. They may not have been clients themselves, but even if they weren't they still would have been trying to exploit Epstein's contacts. They supped with the Devil; let them enjoy their just deserts.

£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'

"Big Nige ... will sort it out before retiring to France"

Well, he wouldn't be the first, would he?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley#Post-war_politics

Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK

"Maybe the parents should get off their arses and do something about it themselves?"

They should, but time spent parenting is time not spent making money for billionaires. That's in opposition to their goal to have life for the working person consist of sleep and monetised activity. And if they could charge you to dream, they would.

Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise

"the 'won't someone think of the children' argument"

The UK government are currently discovering what happens when you employ one of Epstein's mates. You'd think it would be wise of them to not reveal that they're thinking of the children, wouldn't you?

British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain

South Africa to become the world's dominant military power

... as AI refuses to provide strategies to kill the Boer.

DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day

Copilot is a waste of time

Literally. The other day Copilot hijacked my controls to do a location scan - in fucking Word, the last application that ever needs to know where you are. I didn't notice and kept typing. A small but very important chunk of text got missed out, and I had to redo the document.

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

"Epstein seemed quite keen to get Musk to the island"

I'm guessing you missed the e-mail where Musk was begging Epstein for an invite to the next paedo party and got a response that was transparently making excuses not to reply.

Not going to downvote you, there's a lot going on in those files and you can't assume people know everything - or want to, frankly.

"May I suggest a wild party on a little Island in the Caribbean?"

Musk certainly did. And got blanked, because he's such a cringeworthy little creep that not even the world's worst sex offenders want to associate with him.

"One can't deny that Musk is outstanding when it comes to vision."

If by that you mean he can disappear down the K-hole and return with hallucinations even more profound than his AI can compile. A true visionary doesn't just see the destination, they see the route - or parts of it, at least. Musk is more analogous to the Underpants Gnomes.

UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything

"Needless to say, the word "could" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here."

More like heavy lying. AI is not capable of producing any of the suggested results. They're not what AI is for even in the most optimistic of scenarios.

Follow the money on this one. Five'll get you ten the person who suggested this project is taking bungs from the AI peddlers. And even if they're not, it would be good to know who is responsible so they can be removed from office at the earliest opportunity.

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

"It is amusing to see Reform struggling to comprehend matters"

Reform as a whole may be struggling to comprehend it, but Farage isn't. Selling out the UK to his paymasters in both the US and Russia is what he's intended all along.

Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers

"working to set up AI-powered tutoring tools"

Well, I suppose one way to address AI creating a lack of entry level jobs for young people entering the workforce is to use the same hallucinating AI to teach them so they're not actually capable of doing even entry level jobs.

Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle

"Not sure if this lawsuit will do anything for Joe Public"

It doesn't involve the creator of Meta AI drowning in their own blood, so probably not.

AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup

Re: "the C-suite ought to start thinking outside its own experience"

That would be an inefficient use of resources. First, they're not specced for the task. Second, the last four words are superfluous.

Gartner questions whether Salesforce AI buffet will stay all-you-can-eat forever

"And then I have another 20 years to monetize that customer"

Christ, the sheer ego of the man. It's going to be fun watching the venture capital run out and this guy sitting in the ruins realising that he's been left holding the bag.

Power scarcity drives datacenters to Texas, where the juice is

Re: "They've already proven the grid in Texas can't cope with unusual demand"

No, but I remember his Florida trip because he made it right after approving these data centres. I, too, would be fleeing the most heavily armed state in the Union if I'd done what he just did.

"They've already proven the grid in Texas can't cope with unusual demand"

Also isn't the Texas grid isolated from the rest of the US grid because they insist on a different infrastructure? So if something goes wrong because of all this extra load, the entire state is instantly screwed.

House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16

Who aren't affected by this bill anyway. They're already not allowed to have social media accounts and will continue to be so.

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

"It took the focus away from cost of living and abused young girls"

More importantly, it's distracting from Jack Smith's testifying - today IIRC - that he has a case solid enough to convict Trump for inciting the J6 insurrection.

It's an interesting and unique legal case; because as per the 14th Amendment an insurrectionist cannot stand for president, Trump is not the president now. This raises the argument that the Republicans didn't stand a candidate in 2024, which would mean Kamala Harris is President. This doesn't just eject Trump, it takes his entire administration with him as they would all be serving under false pretences.

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

Looks like it's time for a few hits of cocaine

Yep, it's another episode of the game where we replace "AI" with "cocaine" and see if the meaning of the sentence changes or becomes less valid.

"More than half of CEOs report seeing neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from cocaine, despite massive investments"

""isolated, tactical cocaine projects" often don't deliver measurable value"

"So if your cocaine projects fail, you clearly just don't believe enough."

I'm giving this one 10/10 for accuracy and 8/10 for humour. Also I'm calling dibs on The Tactical Cocaine Project as a band name.

ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake

"a composable, modular, flexible, API-driven, best-of-breed model."

Given that I will never stop thinking of ERP as standing for "Erotic Role Play", and you can't make me stop, this sentence is somehow even more unintentionally hilarious than the actual meaning of it.

Re: Redundant or irrelevent?

About the same number as if you don't have it. Which is to say, most if not all of them.

S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain

Powergen Italia also spoiled things by putting a hyphen in their domain name. Unlike Mole Station Nursery, who boldly stuck with their URL - probably because it attracts a lot of passing traffic who can't believe it's actually real. (They have no reason to fear prosecution, of course, because they're the other kind of nursery and the only thing they sell is plants.)

UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids

"a damning government-commissioned review"

Damning, and utterly discredited by real scientists. Cass was awarded a peerage for giving the government an excuse to push their transphobic policies.