Posts by druck

Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists

Why is quantum computing being bundled with AI?

To keep all the bullshit under one roof.

Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats

Re: I would assume

The expression heads will roll should mean something.

Salesforce willing to lose money on AI agent licenses when customers are locked in

The drug dealers guide to economics

The first hit is free, the next few are cheap, then you'll have to beg, borrow and steal to make the payments.

The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years

It was all sounding so promising...

...until we find out Microsoft is involved.

Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability

Re: Incoherent

If it was possible to get 3x, 4x or 10x more value from the software it would have been possible years ago with some fully deterministic API automation. I call BS.

The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens

Re: are my maths correct?

To make it a bit more realistic, although still 2D, try removing all the junctions with other roads and just allow the traffic to cross the same bit of tarmac at high speeds.

Although there are only a few retrograde satellites, every part of low earth orbit is crossed by a multitude of different orbital inclinations and elliptical configurations. It is pretty much like a 3D cross roads with things crossing at vast speeds from 180 degrees in each dimension.

AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns

Build up

They need to be building taller bit barns for the investors to throw themselves off when the bubble bursts, you aren't going to get a decent splat from the current designs.

British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted

Re: Fix the real issue first

Why spend the money fixing the service, when you can pay the maker of the AI agent to increase bookings.

Re: > economic inevitability of an increasingly perfect market

If people travelling for business insisted that the company pays for business class, as it was in the past, economy fares would be a lot cheaper.

'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it

Re: I watched the video. He's basically describing Linux.

Try mixing it with some tobacco next time.

Re: I watched the video. He's basically describing Linux.

Linux isn't even free - it's proprietary software.

WTF are you on?

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

Re: Television reception

Gilead?

Re: Hey Trump

It was the same when we few back from Auckland to London via New York (16 hours on a 787, but luckily with sky couches), had to go through immigration to get to another terminal, which took so long we almost missed the connecting flight. Canada next time, no matter what the extra cost.

Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted

Re: NVIDIA develops tech to curb AI chip smuggling

Well at least they will be able to track where all the units the UAE have bought are being shipped on to.

Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents

I'd rather it became more like Somalia than Switzerland, where any AI agents are gunned down and their blooded corpses dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.

Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix

As any pet owner knows

The best way to clean up after you pet has shit all over the carpet, is to dump even more shit over the top.

No? Well...

Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA

Re: What is so bad about SMS

That does happen, but it's more likely to be snatched out of your hand on the street while using it, so unlocked, and with lots of options to use account recovery.

Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another

Re: So Apple. are regarded as laggards

Even Apple can't polish this turd.

London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom

Re: You have a choice:

It's Ed Milliband who's responsible for this nonsense (and the bacon buttie), his brother David had the sense to escape UK politics many years ago.

Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

Re: This is what you call an "Agent?"

The name correlates quite well with what you would expect of an agent of a hostile power.

Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole

Zork/Lander? You mean Zarch?

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

You don't eat them, feed them to pigs and eat those.

The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC

Three other equally as shit articles on AI in the last two months by this "author", also need to be taken in to account.

Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain

Microsoft recently bought the ThreadX RTOS, their only contribution will probably be to kill it.

Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

Re: Regulatory Compliance

For the A330/A340 all documentation, design, every revision of the source code and associated test results were printed out, put in A4 box binders and take up an entire hanger in Hamburg.

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Wordsmith's comment has as much validity as hearing some speaking a foreign language you don't know and saying, "yes that sounds foreign", without any clue as to what is being said.

Russia-linked crooks bought a bank for Christmas to launder cyber loot

Re: What a surprise

At last - a true dual-use technology!

CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out

Re: Nothing to see here

@AC Muppet

Python 2 to 3 is not a point release.

Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation

Not the case of short lifetimes with ASUS routers, I have 3 generations (the older two repurposed as a mesh network), and their firmware is all updated regularly.

Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’

Re: Well there it is

All those QR codes worked for me using a 5 year old Samsung phone 12ft away from a 43" bedroom TV, so the requirements aren't that rigorous.

Brits to help foot power bill for datacenters under government AI plans

Re: Yikes! Can we afford to stay here?

A cluster of tealights under a ceramic pot gives a small but noticeable radiant heat.

There are a number of idiots that have burnt their houses down trying that one.

Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some

Re: You know I almost wonder

They laid off the QA staff a decade ago. You can't hallucinate up quality.

Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut

Half arsed

Rust commands silently accept all the same switches as the C versions from the GNU coreutils.

Half arsed fuckers. If they can't be bothered to implement all the options of the date command, leave it the fuck alone.

OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft

Re: It's the same money caught in a loop.

Rose tinted glasses. Microsoft have always been money grabbing shits, it's just far more obvious you aren't getting anything useful in return with AI.

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS

There's the tribbles to contend with too.

Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters

What have they been smoking?

That aint tobacco.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Re: Too much in us-east-1

As I wrote in the small print you can export keys to other HSMs wrapped by a key only known to the HSM, which again is never present memory of the computer so can't be stolen through the same route.

Re: Too much in us-east-1

What you have described is a hardware key store.

A HSM doesn't just store keys to be brought in to memory, the keys should never leave HSM* and the HSM does all the encryption and decryption.

_{* Except when they are exported, encrypted by a HSM key, for importing to another HSM.}

England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache

Re: This is crap.

I'm in Surrey Heath and we are having to bail out Woking's hideous tower block misadventure.

The same council which wont give their only 1/2 billion pound a year engineering company permission to add a few extra spaces in their massively oversubscribed car park.

Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land

Re: Political instability nixes it

They set fire to the cable to burn off the insulation leaving the coper, but only to find a puddle of melted glass.

ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare

Re: CGNAT is more widely used than you may think

Where you are, you should be grateful it's not still an analogue mobile.

Re: IPV6 over my dead salary

PlusNet are now in the midst of another IPv6 trail, and there seems to be no problems so far.

Hopefully this time they will follow up by rolling it out, rather than waiting for another decade or so.

India to dethrone US for dev numbers as AI reshapes coding, says GitHub

I hope you've created an agenic AI bot to create forum accounts and post shit like that, and you aren't wasting your own time.

Nvidia adds AI peanut butter to Nokia's 6G network chocolate, throws in $1 billion

AI circle jerk

Sounds like another AI circle jerk investment.

Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences

Re: Slung Out?

Not after seemingly buying their way in to dilute any criticism, and prevent future legal action.

New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails

Re: Email Swamping...

Just set the outgoing email size limit to 25K. With HTML email by default, they'll never get further than sending; What the f

Shield AI shows off not-at-all-terrifying autonomous VTOL combat drone

Re: AI-written PR slop?

Not just AI slop text, but AI slop pictures too. Look at the disproportionate size of the vehicle compared to its erector transporter in the first picture - it should be about 1/3 of the size.

New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process

Re: Linux Hibernation and Windows Fast Startup

That's sleep not hibernate which powers down the RAM and other hardware.

SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition

You can't bang your head on a VR model.

Like Apollo before them, ESA astronauts hone lunar landing skills in helicopters

Re: Hmmmm

Or suffers from vortex rings.