Posts by ecofeco

Hey Joe, those US CHIPS funds still coming? We kinda need them, says Micron

Re: Subsidies are "necessary" ?

Beat me to it.

Bootstraps for thee but socialism for wealthy me.

Hold the Moon – NASA's buildings are crumbling amid 200-year upgrade cycles

Re: What you expect ?

On a rocket sled.

Re: It is a tragedy...

You forgot the /s tag.

Re: The problem with bureaucrats

LOL wut?

Congress funds NASA, If there is not enough money, there is not enough money.

NASA's budget for financial year (FY) 2020 is $22.6 billion. It represents 0.48% of the $4.7 trillion the United States plans to spend in the fiscal year.

But I'm sure the problem is too many avacdos toasts and Starbucks and iPhones, right? /s

OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times

Re: What do you mean by "Liberal"?

3 downvotes for facts?

LOL! I wonder who that could have been?

Rhetorical question, of course.

LOL!

I see the far right has shown up in numbers for this article.

Re: Depends where your centre is.

It says it right in the article.

They used American left/right.

So not actually left at all.

Re: What do you mean by "Liberal"?

It says it right in the article.

They used American left/right as the baseline. So actually, moderate vs nationalist far right.

Right wing or Left wing are all relative...

LOL. No.

Re: Conflict

If you think ANY U.S. corporation is left wing, you should not be giving advice to anyone.

Re: Is that Left from a USA perspective, or Left from a Scandinavian perspective?

Exactly.

There is is no left in America. Only less far right.

The Overton Window has moved to the next town over, years ago.

What left wing?

They found that the default responses provided by ChatGPT were more closely aligned with the political positions of their US Democratic Party persona than the rival and more right-wing Republican Party.

LOL! That's NOT left wing. It's just not fascist.

Judge snuffs man's quest to have AI-created art protected by copyright

Re: Hollywood beware

Shhhh!!

Don't let them know. I would love to see them FAFO!

Internet Archive sued by record labels as battle with book publishers intensifies

LOL wut?

lim·it·ed

adjective

adjective: limited

restricted in size, amount, or extent; few, small, or short.

Please do let Oxford know they are doing it wrong.

Trouble with words, indeed.

https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2020/09/promoting-progress-celebrating-the-constitutions-intellectual-property-clause/

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/?loclr=blogcop

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108

As the Archive is not profiting from their cache, what leg have the publishers ever had to stand on?

The U.S. Constitution specifically states "limited time". 50+ years is not and never will be, limited. This lifetime+ copyright bollocks needs to end.

IBM gives z/OS an AI infusion in major upgrade aimed in part at easing admin chores

Re: Really??!!

If you are not playing buzzword bingo, just what kind of CxO and marketing exec are you?!

Not call: Open source gurus urge you to dump Zoom

I never get tired of say it

So.... how's that cloud thing working for you?

Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy

Re: the larger the satellite ... the more vulnerable it was

That is correct, but criminal hacking is criminal hacking.

LOL!

I knew this ten years ago.

But as always, people just looked at me like I was crazy.

Rapid7 prepares to toss 18% of workforce to cut costs

Same here.

I think I see their problem.

Microsoft, Intel lead this month's security fix emissions

How did I forget this?!

Linux vs MS: weekly security updates vs once in a while.

But yeah, MS superior. LOL!

How did we all forget this?

4 in 5 Chromebooks sold to US students in Q2 as demand rises

You've never had kids.

Accidents happen. Even to adults. Kids are still learning, Mr. Bumble.

Fact. I have no idea why you got a downvote.

I once supported around 200,000 Chrome books for a school district and it's the miles, not the tech, that makes them obsolete. And I also learned that Chomebooks are tougher than I would have thought.

I am no fan of Chromebooks, but they are perfect for public schools. Easy to fix and easy to replace and easy to reset/re-image.

Boeing abandons plans for crewed Starliner flight in 2023

Remember kids

Never let an MBA think they are an engineer.

In other words, this is a management issue, not an engineering one.

Techie's quick cure for a curious conflict caused a huge headache

Re: How I learned networking

You just described my first network and hardware, lo those many (MANY) moons ago.

Now add in a buggy server direct from the factory right out of the box. (looking at you Compaq)

Good times. /s

Re: "Ever done a little thing that made a big mess"

Holy guacamole!

Yikes! I will have nightmares tonight.

Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

Re: Windows v Linux

Modern Linux is light-years beyond where it was 15 years ago.

A modern Linux system will install, with all drivers, in far less time than modern Windows. And I have not had to faff about with a command line in years just to get one working.

Re: Has the borg taken over The Register?

Perhaps read this site more often?

Thanks to a couple of programs that aren't ported and will not run under Wine, I'm stuck with it as my production system.

But that's just my production machine. My others are Linux.

Re: AI-powered? Go away ….

It's like Clippy on bath salts.

I've spent 20 years working, professionally, supporting Microsoft.

It is indeed, bilge. And that's being nice.

Re: DAW Not!

Get teh Monster Cables! Don't worry about the cost, they'll see you coming!

Re: Exceedingly Unlikely

Redhat and SUSE would like a word with you about "a few harcore Linux users".

There are just as many ways as Microsoft.

You will have to google it. Too many ways to list here.

"linux desktop enterprise management"

Re: 3 Percent now and forever IMO.

We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

Linux today is nowhere near what it used to be.

Sadly, my main home and work PC requires programs that have not been ported to Linux nor work under Wine, or I would have ditched it years. My other "casual" machines are Minty.

I've been saying this for some time.

The PC freed us from the mainframe, and here we are, not just begging to go back in chains, but effing paying for it!

That Twix ad about left and right Twix?

It's no joke.

Re: Default

Have my upvote.

Fact.

The technical term is market inertia. The non-technical term is numpties.

Alarm raised over Mozilla VPN: Wonky authorization check lets users cause havoc

Re: Does anyone take this seriously?

Been this way for years with every company.

I know a couple of former ITSec folks who are former for a reason. That reason being nobody was taking their warnings and recommendations seriously and then tried to scapegoat them when SHTF. So they quit.

And there seems to be no change on the horizon either.

Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser

Re: Off topic

I'll give you an honest answer:

It's usually someone who uses a lot of applications/programs simultaneously and knows a few more tricks than the average office worker, but not quite tech support level.

MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water

This is interesting!

Very interesting!

Florida man accused of hoarding America's secrets faces fresh charges

Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

...It's almoat as if they don't realise that they are the tiniest pawns in a very large game of chess and that they will be the 1st to get sacrificed

Look at you, you selfwarewolf!

Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

Oh look, the inevitable apples are oranges, comment!

Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

Re: Tracking...

Spot dodgy websites?

Firefox has been doing that for years.

A federal watchdog to police Big Tech? Yeah, that'll do the trick, senators...

Re: Because all those "watchdogs" are doing such a sterling job...

Don't blame the agencies. The GOP have been cutting their funding for decades.

Netflix offers up to $900,000 for AI product manager while actors strike for protection

Re: I'm gonna say it...

Writers can only produce what the studios demands.

They are not in control.

A what?

Will they work with the social media staff and synergize new solutions by leveraging existing content and creating new paradigms to enhance audience experience and providing more value to stakeholders?

Clients turn to Indian IT outsourcers for AI faster than industry can train staff

Welp

We're doomed.

One problem with America's chip ambitions: Not quite enough staff

Re: (2B || !2B) // Good career $PATH? Oh, you want to sleep at night

Have my upvote.