Posts by druck

A billion dollars' worth of Nvidia chips fell off a truck and found their way to China, report says

Re: Fell Off A Truck

It would be a good idea to check that certain gulf states which have been buying vast amounts of B200 chips, can prove they are still within their borders.

Print Screen is for noobs: Capture images in Windows like a pro

Not on Windows

Just tried the built-in screenshot command on Chromium as explained in the article on a on a Raspberry Pi 5 attached to a 4K TV, it saved an image which was the size of the entire page but with the visible portion repeated, which is not what we want. Fired up Firefox and it's far easier menu option almost worked, except it said the article page was too big, so cropped it to 32700 pixels vertically. Switching from 4K 200% scaling to 1080 100% resulted in the full page.

P.S. Chromium still failed in HD 100%

No login? No problem: Cisco ISE flaw gave root access before fix arrived, say researchers

Cisco probably don't understand that being called the Microsoft of networking is a bad thing.

So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags

Benefits?

"It's no secret that we're surrounded by AI wherever we go," he said. "And although it has many benefits, it also has a dark side unfortunately."

I've yet to see anything that could be remotely described as a benefit.

AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes

Re: Language is anything but clear.....

An oversimplification. Many people swallow lies for their entire life.

Religion for a start, political dogma as a close second.

My use of AI means that I use it like a set of wheels to get me places quicker, but I'm still the navigator.

Except many of your posts suggest you have fallen for it hook line and sinker, either that or you work for an AI peddeller.

Coyote malware abuses Microsoft's UI Automation to hunt banking creds

Not signed?

I used to work on assistive technology before pretty much any security was added to Windows and you could hook in to all the UI calls an application made to build a comprehensive screen model. I left that field almost 20 years ago, but thought the whole point of inter-application security busting assistive APIs is that they would be restricted to signed code which had been thoroughly vetted. It doesn't really come as any surprise that Microsoft have failed on this too.

Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped

AI Productivity???

I'm just struck by how long winded the prompt was just to do a local rm -rf * when it specified the AWS commands directly.

First release candidate of systemd 258 is here

Know when to stop

Post#1 (maybe also Post#28) was something appropriate for an init system, the rest is just utter unnecessary bloat.

Agent P really needs to be put out of our misery.

Re: What?

Weeks? Things always seem better in the past than they actually were. Hours would be closer to the truth.

Britain's AI datacenter plans face energy, planning, investment challenges

Re: Drinking water or A1?

The water is used for evaporative cooling, quite literally the cloud making more clouds!

To convert it back to liquid water which can be returned to the supply would involve even more energy use.

Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?

More slurp

So Microsoft wants public money to fund open source software which is stored on github where they can slurp it to train their AI, which they use in commercial products and profit from.

I think you know where I am going to say they can stick that.

EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court

The best thing the EU can do is to let Broadcom continue to destroy the VMWare business, and allow it's customers learn a valuable lesson about the risk of vendor lock-in with large US firms.

Anyone who has migrated to another closed source solution, better be be planning for their next migration now.

The tiny tech tribe who could change the world tomorrow but won't

Re: One more request

Otherwise known as RISC OS.

Nothing to see here: Brave browser blocks privacy-busting Microsoft Recall

Microsoft and every AI company are laughing at you.

Microsoft SharePoint victim count hits 400+ orgs in ongoing attacks

Re: Worse

Nothing important then.

Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers

Re: "AI is changing the way we use our PCs,"...

After all, that's MY computer, not Microsoft's

I'm afraid it hasn't been yours for a long time if you are running Windows.

If you have an administrator account on a machine and you can't kill any process you like, it's not your computer.

If you can't chose what software to install on a machine and when (without it coming back every update), it's not your computer.

If you can't permanently disable unwanted features such as AI and advertising, it's not your computer.

Leading 3D printing site bans firearm files, but home gun makers have better options

The copier doesn't detect bank notes, but a specific pattern of yellow dots printed on bank notes.

Just noticed several earlier posts below mention this.

Stop flooding us with AI-based grant applications, begs Health Institute

Re: AI - creating as many problems as it is supposed to solve

Troll detecting AI probably

One in six US workers pretends to use AI to please the bosses

Re: Tool

I see "AI" as a tool.

I see "AI" as a fucking tool.

The sort of tool that if they were a junior employee, would be a useless insufferable bullshitter you would go out of your way to avoid, and if you couldn't avoid them you would be arranging a BOFH style "accident".

Cursor AI YOLO mode lets coding assistant run wild, security firm warns

YOLO?

Russian roulette mode more like.

With a machine gun.

UK uncovers novel Microsoft snooping malware, blames and sanctions GRU cyberspies

Re: Hello

Windows goodbye is my favourite, if only it were possible to abandon Windows forever more than once.

Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

Re: Bullshit

I've been calling out the Quatum bull for years. My worry is the PQC snake oil salesmen are getting people to substitute unproven and insecure algorithms, instead of bumping up key sizes of things we know work today.

GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

Re: Bring back Long Wave!

Bring back Long Wave before one of Vanguard class sub commanders forgets it's been turned off, and with the absence of Radio 4LW to reassuring him the UK has not been destroyed, looses off the Tridents.

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds

Re: Test Cases?

Researchers have already tried that and found the AI cheats when creating test cases. You may as well just print "PASS" a few thousand times as let AI generate something which you have no clue as to what it is testing or even if it is testing.

Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time

Re: "Tan has yet to pull the plug"

They wouldn't have dominated with their follow on to the StrongARM. The XScale was the worst ARM core ever, they clearly did not understand the simplicity of the existing design and ended up with an utter dogs breakfast. They clocked it up from 200MHz to 600MHz, but sacrificed instructions per clock with lots of ridiculous pipeline interlocks which have never been in any other ARM design before or since. Tellingly the XScale erata was longer than the entire reference manual for the ARM7.

Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses

Replace Cocaine with AI in this sentance

Your first hit of cocaine is free.

Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip

Re: DiarRhea1

Designed using ARM’s US-developed Neoverse cores

Developed in Cambridge England, thank you.

Re: Yawn

Someone certainly got out of bed on the wrong side this morning!

Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions

I suspect it will be necessary as most applications idea of dark mode is white on various shades of mid grey, where as I prefer white on black. With DarkReader you can set the brightness to -20 and contrast to +20 to get that, or if you want white on dark grey try -10 and +10.

CoreWeave's $9B Core Scientific acquisition is a bid for more power

AI farms and Crypto mining together

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy"

We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10

Re: It was me!

Why, oh why? What have those poor Raspberry Pi's ever done to you?

Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill

Re: Infosys

What next, give them 1 day a week off?

Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls

Re: It's no suprise.

I think they are talking about engine size in a tank (SUV), as 10 litres is on the larger side for lawn mowers.

ChatGPT creates phisher’s paradise by recommending the wrong URLs for major companies

Re: AI

FTFY: AI has no good purpose when security and privacy are required.

Cisco scores a perfect 10 - sadly for a critical flaw in its comms platform

Re: Does Cisco use Ciso gear inside?

No, as UKCSG found, there is no evidence of intentional backdoors, as they are so full of unintentional holes anyone can get in anyway.

'Elevated' moisture reading ignored before Heathrow-closing conflagration, says NESO

Re: LHR suing National Grid

Because it is! Big numbers are just small ones, repeated.

Not when you are dealing with high voltage electricity it isn't.

Microsoft's on-prem Exchange and Skype for Business Server go subscription-only

Re: "And prices are going up." ... "To support ongoing maintenance and updates"

And they didn't even try to justify the price rises by saying how much AI shit they have infested it with.

Re: Subscription only

It would be very easy for them to roll it back. If it detects it hasn't been patched recently, all the patches fall off.

Trump's budget bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle

Who wants to bet that with DOGE's cutbacks to NOAA the barge sinks en route because they didn't see a it-can't-be-climate-change hurricane coming.

Don't pay for AI support failures, says Gradient Labs CEO

Re: Frontline support is there to keep the customer from advancing

Pissing the user off with AI so much that they stop asking questions is counted as a resolution.

What dies the user do then? Ask an actual person they work with, thus wasting their time too, so how is that increased productivity looking?

Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP

Re: Stopping using Hikvision products won't change anything

I have tried and it isn't very easy at all. As much as I love the Pi for all sorts of uses, it isn't a match for dedicated hardware in specific roles.

The Raspberry Pi camera is good for general media use, but isn't optimised for low light levels and low data rates for continuous transmission to recorders without transcoding, and doesn't have sound without additional hardware. Packaging it in waterproof case isn't easy, I've tried various cases with clear lids which went cloudy due to UV, eventually I switched to a dummy CCTV camera which just has enough room for a Pi Zero inside and the camera replacing the dummy lens. But don't leave it in the summer sun running motion detection and transcoding software as it will fry.

After a couple of years of experimenting with this I gave in and bought a Tapo C325WB, much better picture day and night, fully weather proof, better motion detection, local recording, and cost less than all the bits I'd bought for the Pi.

AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all

Re: > "Open the pod bay doors, HAL," that's agentic AI too.

But it can't not know, it just puts together sequences of words which appear to be statistically related to the search terms. There is no intelligence to either know that an answer isn't possible or isn't likely to be correct.

A friend and I managed to make a voice controlled robot buggy using a BBC Micro at University. It could recognise "forward", "reverse", "left", "right" and "stop" with good confidence. We were very pleased until demonstrating it to others when we found that due to the very low sampling quality due to lack of memory, just about any other 5 words would trigger one of the actions.

Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking

Re: Fond memories of networking in the days of X.25

Event when I was at UCL in the late 80s, it was still easier get things to/from other UK universities via a US intermediary using uucp, than FTP directly over Janet.

Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages

Re: Uncle Sam wants Microsoft to use memory-safe programming languages?

It wouldn't make Windows stable these days as I'm sure Co-pilot can generate garbage Rust just as easily as garbage C.

The network is indeed trying to become the computer

Re: Would Moores Law be dead...

Yes liquid sodium is the way to go.

Starlink helps eight more nations pass 50 percent IPv6 adoption

Back in the UK...

PlusNet on IPv6: "Oh, we tried that out once about 15 years ago, decided not to bother."

Kaseya CEO: Why AI adoption is below industry expectations

Re: Agenthicc

LLMs are vastly inferior to sites such as Stack Overflow. They produce an output with no context and no providence. On the website you can see if the question matches what you are asking for, you can see the clarifications, and a number of suggested solutions along with comments on whether these are the best way of doing it, and any pitfalls and security issues. You get none of that insight if you accept whatever AI spits out.

Three goes to zero as UK mobile provider suffers voice and text outage

The answer would be to have two different ring tones, the first for establishing a connection and the second for when the far end is actually ringing.

Axiom Mission 4 finally set for launch June 25

Re: banana !!!!

I don't think anyone would be bothered unless the consequences of failure weren't so spectacular.

Personally I'd take a bit more care checking the code before I hit run, if I was holding up flight's through in a several thousand square mile exclusion zone, and risked several tones of debris potentially coming down on someone's head. But that's just me, and I don't have a rocket company to play with and $billions to buy my way out of any consequences.