* Posts by GloriousVictoryForThePeople

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Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key

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Re: Pretty obvious

>That was then. This is now.

True. It should be remapped as "Co-Pilot Lock" so you can't inadvertently disable the AI

This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service

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Re: So, they're going to save money by....

No,No, we are effectively getting the 25% duty back. China are paying us to take the servers!

Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump

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Re: This is how America works

Old Ironsides' revolution - French 140 years

French - Russian 127 years

Based on that, 2031 looks like a bumper year

The workplace has become a surveillance state

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Re: Surveil ethically?

Neuralink.

It's mandatory.

Oh, and we got the ad-supported version, 'cos it was cheaper, and it only runs ads when you are clocked out.

Tesla Cybertruck recalled again. This time, a software fix for backup camera glitch

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> the rear camera displays are failing to turn on within the federally mandated two-second limit

This is computerisation for you. 2 seconds to "activate" a running camera. 10ms would be reasonable. Connect video feed to screen when R is active.

(And yeah this totally bugs me in my Mitsubishi which takes a second or two, generally bringing up the camera display as my tow ball goes through the door of the car unadvisedly parked opposite my driveway)

Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war

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The tinfoilers were right all along. Ham radio is now an adventure sport

Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits

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Re: Water under the bridge

> All the calculators I have bought in my adult life are HP calculators and RPN to me is a far more logical way to do calculations.

This is like that brain fungus thing that makes the ant climb up a stalk and die there to better spread spores, or Toxoplasmosis* infections.

* associated with impulsive behaviour, reduced perception of risk, and psychotic symptoms

**also a habitual RPN user

If you give Copilot the reins, don't be surprised when it spills your secrets

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>Specifically, if these bots are accessible to the public, and we're told a good number of them are, they can be potentially tricked into handing over, or simply hand over by design, information to people that should not have been volunteered during conversations, it's claimed.

I'll bet a lot of the staff don't have access to the documents due to security policies from the same manglement that is rolling out co-pillock willie nilly

Tesla asks customers to stop being wet blankets about chargers

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> "Tesla doesn't know how to make, or at least is unwilling to install, a connector that can handle consistent high-current speeds," Conner said.

The great news is that Tesla is a company that takes shared responsibility seriously - Elon has fired the person responsible. And everyone else.

Someone has been reading business books from that famous thought leader Ghengis Khan.

EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials

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Again, poor low speed torque is a function of design. Type A induction motors are designed for full speed operation and have low starting torque. That is because they are designed that way. You can design them for stall torque if you wish, and some IM's are. Or you can design for variable torque.

Stationary use IM's are designed for operation direct from mains, with minimal control gear.

They don't have to be, it's not inherent in the IM.

Beyond already commercialised motors you can have active rotor motors with electronics on the rotor to eliminate slip rings, and quite a few other tricks that have not been needed much in the past for stationary motors.

The referred paper was breathlessly suggesting that electric cars are in trouble without REE's for the motors, that is not even close to true. All the tricks that allow a petrol engine to work, can be used in an EV, and if they are economic for petrol cars they are still going to be economic with an electric motor.

Actually they might be improved. My EV has one major failing (despite its PM motors): It has limited stall torque even with PM motors. It can (and has), get trapped by very steep hills, rocks and bits of wood, despite being a 4wd.

This is caused by a design obsession with direct drive and no gear box. If they had even given it a 2 speed overdrive unit, it would have adequate torque.

As expected, Apple set to vanish Batterygate, dodgy audio lawsuits with money

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Were you so greedy you sued when there were some (perceived) consequences on your share price from your corporations bad behaviour (that effectively ripped off customers)?

If you were one of those who did, then yes, yes you should be.

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>It was a reasonable technical fix for a design flaw.

I would have been a reasonable opt-in temporary fix. The correct fix, was a reasonably priced, and easy to do, battery replacement. Apple did not offer this until forced.

In reality it looked more like a convenient bit of planned obsolescence, which encouraged people to replace perfectly serviceable (ok, imperfectly serviceable).

It was also helping to mask the consequences of a glaring failing of the product's un-repairable design, from that small number of customers who might care.

Boeing might be criminally prosecuted for 737 MAX crashes after all, says DoJ

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Re: The problem

Well, not everywhere...

The former Port of Auckland Limited (POAL) chief executive has gone on trial in a first- of-its-kind prosecution in New Zealand over the 2020 workplace death of 31-year-old father-of-seven Pala’amo Kalati.

"In enacting the Health and Safety at Work Act in 2015, Parliament’s “express intention” was to promote accountability of officers in senior leadership positions – “especially those at a distance from day-to-day operational and safety decision-making because of their seniority”.

The prosecutors drew on Australian research which found that corporate officers responsible for worker safety should be exposed to a “meaningful personal risk of regulatory action”.

Personal liability, backed by credible enforcement, was “the single most important motivator of CEOs”."

Asia's hyperscalers hustle for juice as datacenters drain grid

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Shirley there must be a mistake

Across Asia, power companies are bemoaning the loss of business and the need to mothball power plants, as the shift to cloud has seen millions of irregularly loaded old on-premises servers replaced with centralised cloud datacenters running optimal loads distributed across more efficient modern processors, drastically reducing the energy demands of IT operations.

That is what you meant to write, surely...

Amazon boss receives tap on wrist for statements breaking labor laws

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>"I think it's nice to be able to have a direct relationship with your manager," Jassy said

I'm sure the workers would like that too. But they won't let them into Zone ESE, Bldg 17, Floor 3, Aisle27, Row 5, U7, to see it.

Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins

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>It can't. There is no way for Microsoft, Amazon, or Google to get round it.

Actually it is far from insoluble.

They set up a local subsidiary, with local-ish systems.

In any and all roles with data access or authority to order data access, they can only employ single citizenship locals.

The employment contract explicitly specifies that they must ignore all orders from the non approved zone.

Now the NSA might be able to engineer around that, but it stops the day to day US courts ordering Irish data to be handed over by a sysop in Redmond

Meta to try 'cutting edge' AI detection on its platforms - asking people to add labels

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Re: Dumbass mouthpiece strikes again

Is that "post organic", as in "post modern"

Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors

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But how are we going to get our Brawndo?

Kaspersky reveals previously unknown hardware 'feature' exploited in iPhone attacks

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Re: Rogue Engineer

I see on his Linkedn page that he just left his job in Poland working for a train maker. If you need him better be quick, I'll bet Boeing want him back to make some more plausibly deniable software.

What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

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Re: It ain't going to work

It is true that artists only get a sliver of what is collected, but it is also true that they actually do get that sliver, instead of nothing.

However one, if not the major factor that allows that to happen, is that big focused music corporations also get money that way that they would not otherwise get, and a diffuse cloud of corporations (your hairdresser) get milked for it. This dynamic makes it work (legally and politically).

Free software is the opposite - big focused corporations don't want to pay, unless they are going to be getting lots more money from the great mass of unfocussed corporations and consumers. They currently see "cloud taxing" and free software as the way to do this.

To see how completely unprepared to pay-up megacorps are you just have to look at the Apple - Qualcomm fight. Apple is not prepared to pay anything significant for what is the core underlying technology of their whole product. It is only by being utterly ruthless and toxic that Q can get paid royalties at all. It seems delusional that Apple would share anything but floor sweepings with people who do not carry a very big stick.

I recently was at a supplier fishing event for tradies. Someone pointed out that the plumbers turned up with raycraft, and the sparkies turned up with tinnies. It was true: electricians will undercut each others rates. plumbers don't. Who knows why, but the result was very clear down at the boat ramp. I didn't notice any free software developers - I suppose you don't have to catch ramen noodles.

Good luck with your project Bruce, but looks to me more like something that cannot really do better than put free software developers on welfare or subsistence, not a decent living, and is more likely to see a big income stream going to megacorps if it works at all.

Cruise admits its driverless robo-taxis need a human at the remote-control wheel

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Re: There were 1.5 remote assistance employees for every Cruise taxi

... just not for his workers

EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle

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Anschluß

Where do I vote for Anschluß with Europe, and jack booted squads of euro-goons dragging Apple executives and appliance makers into the streets to be publically whipped with usb-c cables?

(Oh , time for my meds already, Nurse?)

LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity

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> That applies to just about the whole world and everything in it.

Except Beer. Beer was swill when I was young, and is infinitely better today. Eye wateringly more expensive too, but still better even at the price.

US military battling cyber threats from within and without

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... Beijing has buried malicious code in computer networks controlling water supplies,...

Nowhere is safe from the yellow devils.

Soon it won't even be safe to drink the water in Flint.

Australian Senate committee recommends bans on Chinese social media apps

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TikTok was also lashed, with a finding that it "engaged in a determined effort to obfuscate and avoid answering the most basic questions

What? Haven't these people heard of a poomoji autoresponder?

First of Tesla's 'bulletproof' Cybertrucks clunks off production line

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One upvote for a truly obscure reference

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

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Re: Titanium and compression cycles

You have to lift it out of the water and ship and truck it around, so weight in air is a big issue.

In water you still have 100% of the mass, to accelerate and slow using battery power, and when manouvering around a wreck.

So,it is indeed a big issue.

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

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He works for Microsoft && services are powered by Amazon, so it should be available (340/365)^2=316 days.

If he further expected his Google cloud mail to work as well, he'd be down to 294 days...

Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice'

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Re: Staff laid off because too many calls?

Helping the punters was starting to eat into the funding and adversely affect the executives desired outcomes and metrics.

Chinese state media hails Tesla megafactory in Shanghai as sign foreign business is on board

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"The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ Bank) has stopped handling cash over the counter at some branches"

It's not much of a bank, is it?

Finest in the district sir!

Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could

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Re: Not the first time

Or just make a new and slightly bigger one to eclipse the previous one.

As Big Tech lays off staff, TSMC swoops in to hire 6,000

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Man, how stupid are those Taiwanese!

Suckers staffing up when western tech geniuses are shedding dead wood

Who needs sailors? US Navy's latest robo-ship can run itself for 30 days

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Re: Never mind, the original Mayflower landed in the wrong country

the USA lives under constant threat of Cuban invasion

My son lives in Florida, and he can hardly sleep at night. I'm pretty sure a Cuban is responsible for that.

Meta, which pays for web scraping, sues to stop web scraping

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"This case is all about public data: whether the public has the right to search public information,

Since when are paid creepers, "the public"?

Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs

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Re: Arsehole

"Hi Chris."

"Hi Sundar, Nice to hear from you. How life at the Big G"

"Oh you know, just fired 12k.

Getting a bit of blowback about my stock options though.

Could you pop out a press release asking us to fire 20k instead."

"No Problemo - Why don't I make it a round 30k, that should make them properly grateful eh?"

Corporate tussles: It's actually like WWF wrestling

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

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Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

"if you rotate a 4x2 through ninety degrees it becomes a 2x4"

Ah, I see, 2x4s are made for dwangs.

Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system

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Re: Critical

So for such a critical infrastructure, the fuse needs to be built in such a way, so that a human feeling clever wouldn't be able to easily install a wire to bypass it.

You aren't familiar with Mr Darwin's theories are you?

Two Scotts among volunteers helping NASA to track Artemis mission

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Re: waste of money

Much as rockets and space are very cool, I think we get little payback from it.

Compare spending just on the SLS with the total US spend on fusion power.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2021/ph241/margraf1/

One of these things pushes the boundaries of pure science and applied engineering to the very limits, so far we are not even certain of an outcome. It might give the whole planet a way out of existential threats.

The other retreads the 1960's, but even when/if it succeeds there is no significant payoff for the people who paid for it.

NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth

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Re: new samples

Take it some cold beer or hot plutonium for all it's trouble!

Wind, solar fulfill 10% of global electricity demand for first time

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Re: :(

You seem to be supporting my point, not contradicting it.

Since baseload electrical generation (of the kind you describe) can't be shutdown quickly, you need to have loads that can be turned on and off at whim instead.

Process heat, augmenting existing fossil fueled furnaces with renewable electricity is that kind of of load. You can turn the heaters up and down as fast as you can send control signals. Your process always runs as normal, because it is (initially at least) a fossil fueled system anyway

This is economic because the (pre-existing) fossil fuel furnace is sunk cost - so there is no penalty for not using it when cheaper renewables are available.

Of course this is a transitional tool, in 30 years time, long after today's furnaces have been scrapped we need to do something different.

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Re: "clean" solar energy is genuine greenwash.

correction: Solar 46g vs Coal 1064g I think.

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Re: "clean" solar energy is genuine greenwash.

Easy to find some number for that: 46 vs 164g/kWh

Total life cycle GHG emissions from solar PV systems are similar to other renewables and nuclear energy, and much lower than coal.

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/56487.pdf

It is true to point out however than renewables are front loaded: most of the emissions happen today, not over the lifetime.

It is reasonable to expect solar to improve by a factor of 2 over time, while coal won't.

(My mate just added new panels and they are ~30% lighter/W than those installed 6 years ago)

Google kills off Stadia

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Re: This may come back to bite Google eventually

Say what you will about MS, they can and frequently do gnaw at a bone until it works. If anything that has been their strength. Surprisingly for an american megacorp, they play the long game.

Scientists overjoyed after DART smashes into asteroid Dimorphos, contact lost

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Re: There goes the prime directive... Murica Successfully Saves the world AGAIN with a bomb

Assuming your figures (18km/yr) are correct, then:

To miss a 12600 diameter object you have to move 6300km / 18km/yr = 350 x 570kg=200,00kg

SpaceX Starship is ~100T dry mass and 100+T payload = 200,000kg

Coincidence??

Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount

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Hard to understand how a class action can be settled confidentially.

Do the class members all settle without knowing what they settled for?

How Arm popped CHERI architecture into Morello Program hardware

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Re: Seen it before somewhere

"This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything."

I paid for it, that makes it mine. Doesn’t it? No – and it never did

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Re: Before computers we used to make stuff that worked

From cars whose engines overheated when the sun came out,

I still remember shock at British Leyland when they discovered that in some parts of the world, water fell from the sky unexpectedly fouling the ignition system that was right behind the front grille. Luckily they were able to put a piece of cardboard in to stop water.

BT accused of 'misinformation' campaign ahead of strikes

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Re: Misinformation Is Cheaper Than The Truth

"Up the workers!", as we say in the Labour party.

Massive solar project in Tennessee is all about Google

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This -> 100.5 tonnes is f-all.

And obviously wrong since 100T of carbon is ~10 truckloads of coal - not exactly going to run a power station for a year is it?

I roughly calculate that 100MW @4hrs/day average = 105,195 tonnes CO2/year for coal fired power.

At 2 years for construction energy and 25 year lifetime to 50% output, that's 1.8MT CO2

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