Posts by Evil Scot

BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street

Waterproofing your car.

Very important when the battery warranty doesn't cover Scottish summer weather.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Thankyou for informing us about the deceased.

Please note we will still harass you for at least two weeks as we will not update our records of occupancy as quickly as our direct debit records.

They didn't say this exactly (they told me to ignore these letters)

Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines

Re: Apples and oranges?

Looks at Ubiquity Wi-Fi access point. There are some things that Coper is still good for. Glass / plastic is an insulator PoE needs metal.

Does the router power the Media Converter? No.

Does the router have a battery backup? No.

Is there a domestic UPS that could monitor battery state and supply power to two physical locations? Yes but it costs £1000s.

(I have a CPAP machine the first thing you know when the UPS battery fails is you cant breath considering a 10kWh home battery)

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

Steam Rule 15

If X has no guadrails and X has put this feature behind a paywall. Then X will feel the impact of the "Reputational damage" that they have done to the card issuers.

Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin

Want to adjust where your vents point

There is an app(let) for that.

Give me shaft encoders for fan speed temperature and vents.

Hell, give me buttons and a stalk for car play.

AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns

Re: Tulips, railway mania etc.

Don't MGM have their own Data Centres already. From Amazon.

NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter

Million to one shots happen 9 times out of ten.

Obligatory Pratchett (mis)quote.

Icon (bearded old fart in a hat)

Maybe someone else with a particular set of skills.

He will find you.

Re: No one would believe

As someone who has witnessed "Edy Hurst's comedy version of Jeff Wayne's musical of H.G. Well's literary version of 'the war of the worlds' (via Orson Welles' radio version and Steven Spielberg's film version)." as performed in the Leicester space museum's planetarium. You have nothing to apologise for.

Just glad someone got the reference.

No one would believe

That it is possible to connect to a computer system at such a slow baud rate

UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act

Re: Until....

Beware of the leopard

Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

I'm not expecting answers 'cause they're out of your remit.

But this video should help with classification.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4lpSFNFUE

Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon

Re: Artificially intelligent salmon?

The fish are fuel for the real intelligence compute cores. The Dolphins.

Please excuse me while a perform a double backwards somersault through a hoop, whilst whistling the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting

Re: There will be a reckoning, I reckon

But haven't HP already had their fingers burned by Oversold AI hype?

When this endeavour capsizes who will they sue?

Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

Re: "Questions such as the syntax for a particular command "

Took a moment to realise you meant the organisation.

GNU AI TechBros

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

Both original and APT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4lpSFNFUE

The only way AI helps the Music industry is "people who listen to Tom also listen to..."

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

Re: Implausible to say the least.

CableTel started this IIRC.

£12 ISP + £7 second line. Unlimited internet.

UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI

Re: Quote

This steampunk will not stand for this level of automation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DmrVweXK0Y

Icon: Goggles Obviously.

Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice

Re: Being a techie site....

With fishy names

Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone

Re: TDS

It is extremely hard to visualise/accept Climate change.

Yes, things were different when I were a lad... But.

Conflict Carbon. Well that I can see. I feel the impact on my wallet for the war that is going on near the EU.

Sometime a different spin on this would be better.

We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills

Re: Energy

What would you expect from THAT postal code.

Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb

Re: Cloud based - forget it

It could be said for all "microprocessor based" thermostats.

They are aware of the latency of heating the water in the system compared to heating the home.

Five minutes for the water to be heated...twenty minutes later the house is warm.

I wrote software to program industrial thermostats at the turn of the century.

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

Re: Brilliant.

Hmmmn...

Re: Viva Blocked

You are aware that they don't send that email.

And you are aware that you have to cancel to get back to your previous subscription level.

Microsoft hypes PCs with NPUs, still can't offer a good reason to buy one

One reason for massively parallel integer operations.

Format shifting Blue Rays.

No way would I go digital over physical

When Purchasing isn't owning... (Icon) isn't theft.

How your mouse could eavesdrop on you and rat you out

Re: Is that written by Microsoft?! Apple?

Penguins don't fly...

That would be Flicking the magic track pad on my MAC???

Or are you talking about my Lenovo laptop.

Criminals take Renault UK customer data for a joyride

Re: Does it include Nicole's phone number ?

Papa???

Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally

Re: Burns?

Waily, waily waily...

(Obligatory Pratchett Quote)

UK chancellor Putin the blame on Russia for cyber chaos, but evidence says otherwise

Re: Evidence

A certain Dr Who actor springs to mind.

Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees

Re: Does anyone want this

I cancelled that sub.

|It was the only way to return my subscription to last year's fees.

Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do

Do you mean forece upgrades.

By ramming it.

Do you mean auto enrolling current customers to the shiny "AI service" contract while increasing the price.

And then only allow them to select their previous contract by going through the cancellation process.

After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'

Re: Never delete the old web site, only rename it

Obligatory Pratchett reference

"Not as big as big Jock, Jock"

BOFH: These office thefts really take the biscuit

Re: Wording Matters

Yes but broad leave plants are better for hiding stuff behind.

Re: South Up Map

No, Try it with Fish Fingers.

To quote the band Chameleon Circuit. "Strangely it work... Alonsy."

Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

True.

My grandfather entertained the Mountbattens when he worked in India.

Sounded great to my parents.

Left me with a nasty taste in my mouth.

‘IT manager’ needed tech support because they had never heard of a command line

Re: On-topic, eventually.

I think many of us here know the interesting times quote originated in the counterweight continent.

Icon on me. Although I prefer mostly potatoes.

Re: I've seen that type of manager before

To soon?

Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league

It is more entertaining without the ball

And more interesting to watch too.

Google "Steampunk Virtual Cricket"

To quote sir pTerry "Deary, deary me."

Mine's the one with Goggles in the pocket.

Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley

Re: It's basically Eliza with graphics.

The left one you say...

Wish some one had said that 24 years ago...

The leaflet on Testicular cancer states:

On one hand there may be swelling.

On the other, shrivelling.

The ultrasound couldn't come soon enough.

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

Re: Replace 'AI' with 'LLM' in your editorial

Matters would have to be taken in hand.

Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off

Re: Combo toaster oven & LLM host?

But I am a waffle man myself.

Two wrongs don’t make a copyright

Re: Browser choice?

That is what has me "pure ragin".

I don't want to be tracked. I don't want to see adverts for something I have purchased.

I don't want to subscribe.

I don't mind seeing adverts relevant to the content I am reading.

Harry's razors get an honourable mention for placement in a beard care (oils etc) article.

Problem PC had graybeards stumped until trainee rummaged through trash

Re: He candy crushed it

Downvote for the game Quote.

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

I hate that term as it trivialises my trauma.

I am old enough to have experience from before the internet.

I am old enough to have predicted the leaks and the work arounds.

But apparently now I am a victim turned ...

Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals

Re: Kick the can down the road like the US

If you are one of our people. You have a roll of carpet behind the door for those other people.

(I really should fit that in the walk in wardrobe and airing cupboard.)

You DO see Windows 11 as an AI PC opportunity, say Dell and Intel

Re: You are better off going back to paper.

OK Boomer.

Tata Consultancy enforces return-to-office mandate for all US staff, effective immediately

Re: I'm sure the C-suite will be in the office

What FORE!!!

Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers

Re: Nice.

It thinks it knows what to do with the customer base.

It thinks it has us pegged.

Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer's websites

Re: No need in the future?

To whom shall I send the invoice for replacement hardware?

Icon: All keys suffered damage from the spit take.