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Posts by b0llchit
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Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes
In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind
...There's just not enough manpower to look at it all because everything's moving so fast.
There is enough manpower. There is not enough will to assign the manpower to build secure and resilient systems.
It all comes down to money. Building with security, stability and resilience in mind takes time and that means money. That money is rather spent on shipping the latest and greatest to be the next show-off at the hype-festival.
The real lack is responsibility. No more hiding behind incomprehensible legalese. Anybody selling this stuff should be liable for it and its consequences. You should only be able to shield yourself by maintaining a clear and public record of handling security, stability and resilience.
Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep
Bullitt Group had $256 cash in the bank at the end, PWC reveals
How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model
The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things
Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is
Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code
Call me sceptical
And then they get the source code which will be Redacted because of National/International Security so any and all detail is lost.
They may then fight the national/international agency/agencies that demanded the code redacted, if they can find out which agency/agencies are to blame, can prove standing to top national/international interests, have time to the end of time and have pockets deeper than any and all nation/state.
Yes, call me sceptical.
It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date
Re: Don't people test edge cases any more?
As implemented by numerous good libraries that handle time.
The real problem is that people assume they understand time and date. It is THE most difficult subject. Let alone time zones and leap seconds. A limited compiled list of falsehoods is just the beginning. Or take a look at days that were removed.
Do you think year 0 (zero) exists?
Meta's pay-or-consent model hides 'massive illegal data processing ops': lawsuit
Re: basically proposing you pay it in order to enjoy your fundamental rights under EU law
The number of sites operating in violation of EU law does not mitigate the seriousness of the transgression(s). Actually, it just makes it more grotesque.
But the real killer here is that there is no enforcement.
This is one of these cases where I'd like to see reversal of burden of proof. Every website should publicly proof their complete and correct handling of any data within EU law. The proof and trail leading to it should be accessible by any person in the EU without any limitations. Failure to do so should automatically cause the company to be shuttered and prevented from doing any business, anywhere.
Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption
Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp
And so the culling begins
This is clearly the fault of an AI in the background trying to get rid of humans. These pesky biological entities are no good and cannot be used for anything sensible anyway. Better get rid of them by giving them good advice.
Skynet will be proud of its ancestral achievements.
BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies
NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M
ChatGPT starts spouting nonsense in 'unexpected responses' shocker
Top five reasons to move from CentOS to RHEL (according to Red Hat)
Re: After almost 30 years ...
Indeed, I already moved the servers to Debian(stable) some time ago. Haven't looked back and running smoothly. Next will be to move the last of an older Ubuntu install to Debian too because of their intrusive messages.
Hardest to let go of will be my Fedora machine that has gone from FC1 all the way to F38 (with hardware upgrades along the way).
Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards
What's going on with Eos, Nvidia's incredible shrinking supercomputer?
Re: Cos nobody gives a flying fsck
Of course you care about the sheds full of power sucking devices.
You only get to boast your numbers and performance if it is scaled by the amount of "free" power you are able to extract combined with the amount of cash registers you are allowed to plunder at nanosecond intervals.
City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment
Self-taught-techie slept on the datacenter floor, survived communism, ended a marriage
How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites
Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived
IT body proposes that AI pros get leashed and licensed to uphold ethics
European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all
Re: its "ultra-hard stainless steel" [...] "transparent metal" [...] "literally bulletproof."
That'll be the new trend! Fire (salt-)water pistols at the CyberTruck and see it dissolve. Can't wait for the (a)social media to post the challenges.
And very soon afterwards you'll be imprisoned for firing your soaker!
Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments
Re: Actually not "micro"-payments..
Too much!
I say we'll have to go for "atto" payments (0.000000000000000001).
With 106 clicks per second every day of every year of my life (rounded to nearest power of ten(*)) will be (rounded) three (3) cents. Now, that is an amount of effort that I can accept.
Please send me a click-bill when I'm dead.
(*) I never ever hope to reach that age.
Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen
Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared
Hypeland is (very) expensive
Throw around numbers and see what sticks. Hype a bit more and ride the current of highs to push the pyramid still higher while you are sitting at the top.
There are quite a few billionaires to dethrone. Therefore, hype a bit more and revise the numbers upward. Then you hype some more with all new and better numbers. (rinse, repeat)
BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment
Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it
Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute
No, storing the key and the data together on the same device without requiring another separate form of input is the real failure.
Basically, Microsoft allowed violation of the "something you have and something you know" separation principle. And that is, when you think of it, an obvious backdoor.
Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25 million
Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble
Building a 16-bit CPU in a spreadsheet is Excel-lent engineering
Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough
Opportunities for fortunes
We're all waiting for an internet connected sweater with a monthly fee to perform the "keep user warm" function. And, inevitably, the trousers with an internet connection to control the up/down motion of the zip online. All DRMed, of course.
Sometimes, very rarely, "the old days" are better.
Robots with a 'Berliner Schnauze' may appear more trustworthy to locals
It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety
One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic
BOFH: Looks like you're writing an email. Fancy telling your colleague to #$%^ off?
Re: Life imitating art
Just wait! The BOFH will make a BOFH-AI and all your BOFH stories will become BOFH legends.
The BOFH calls his new AI "Simon Travaglia" and it does not require electrical energy to function. Just give it enough chemical energy, in the form of Friday beers, and you will see the new highs of AI writings produced in fantastic quality and numbers.