Posts by Evil Scot

News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'

if it weren't for all the quality content from

Hot coffee meet nasal passage.

Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

Re: Hi, I'm Charlie Stross

John linked to this article an I was a little surprised by what was attributed to you.

I Tooted a warning to you about the accuracy of AI being as reliable as a fanboi for author guidance.

The fact that this story stems from a Redit post attributing Accelerando to John just proves me correct.

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

Re: Ah great

n*10^6

Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine

Re: No Imagination ?

Didn't Teach join the Silver Hoard?

Ah... Interesting times.

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

Re: On another matter altogether…

I don't want a Bosch, Black and Decker, DeWalt or Milwaukie.

I don't want any battery powered tools.

Mine is the one with a vindaloo stain.

Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow

Re: I'm with Doctorow on this

True.

Terabit switching fabric between scanner, storage and processor would be ideal.(with 200 Gigabit fibre linking the nodes.)

Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic

They dont like it up them.

I wonder if the BBC was paid for any of their stolen content?

UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

Re: Is it another Pig in a Poke?

Will Illegal working practices be curbed by legal means?

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

Launch the Zigs

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

The solution is in the headline

See icon

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand

Re: No. AI could encourage you in everything you do – just small comments to lift your self-esteem

Given the managers that use this phrase in front of me, I consider the completion of this phrase as "... a perfect fit for Uranus"

Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance

Re: VP Eric Brandwine explains people aren't all that great, actually

Same here. Although for management training.

Re: VP Eric Brandwine explains people aren't all that great, actually

I have never considered TASERing a computer before.

Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting

Shortly before...

So 2035 then.

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

No Comment

The Met use them for "Professional Standards investigations"

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

Re: Simon & Garfunkel

I would have chosen Vincent.

"Perhaps they never will..."

London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

Re: Not an easy building to alter...

Given the major changes Strawbridge is your man.

Meta’s latest AI improves its terrible content moderation, just a little

Re: Meta AI

Oh you have tried to report those "Herbal cancer treatments" too.

5 bots copy pasting the same script to a local thread on PSA testing is not spam.

Icon as there is no middle finger,

Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor

Re: What's all the fuss?

Minimal risks?

What is the cost of inaccurate data?

More than 900 wrongful arrests and 11 deaths over the horizon.

20 years to admit there was a problem and god knows how long to compensate the damages from an inability to sync record.

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots

Re: One way to cut the demand in half

And then these thing will be used to enforce the law.

A'la Corporal Downspout.

icon: Similar species according to pTerry.

Re: 300GB of RAM

I saw that and thought "Maybe turn off Full Linux Operating system Logging".

Then again I stand with Linus Torvalds' opinion of the CEO of said automotive company.

Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study

Re: Is there any part of the planet where the broadband isn't rubbish ?

Royal. Polyviscose I'm of Aberdonian stock FFS.

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom

Re: NISC

Not a fan of 'shrooms

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

Re: "panic spreads faster than Wi-Fi"

GNU not RIP

Always forward.

Do not record.

Return when end of network reached.

Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace

Re: Agent 365

Get me agent 47.

Re: I'm very happy to pay

Then Cancel your 365 subscription.

...

There will be no other way to roll it back

OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush

Nothing to do with improved resource contention issues.

I heard there was a change to resource demand recently.

50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access

Re: Then add another huge chunk for all vehicles being electric

I take it you only take cold showers.

Home charging is 7.2kWh Electric showers 8kWh+.

Icon for your research ability

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

Was hoping the server ran solaris.

When you regonimise as Carter blowing up a sun workstation seems only natural.

Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

Hide Progman.exe off screen

Had a boss who would grab a free workstation in the lab and play solitaire.

Set solitaire as wallpaper and hid progman.exe when nipping out for a comfort break.

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.