Fly-by-wire drones seem to be almost unstoppable (in Ukraine). Over water there'd be no trees or buildings to snag the wire (fibre optic).
Posts by ChrisElvidge
439 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Aug 2011
Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses
GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help
Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

Re: Consider...
If you want 'AI' to be better for you, you have to allow it to be trained on lots of reliable content, particularly from your cultural region.
If we had responded like this at the start of the internet, we would have no free services, you would be charged per e-mail sent,
Yes - reliable. Posts from all over the metaverse are not reliable.
Charge per email? Well at least there'd be mush less spam and advertising mail.
Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project
Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software
Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies
Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England

"In its Request for Information, NHS England also asked suppliers what they thought was important for the NHS to consider in delivering the SPR and about using AI to identify and solve problems."
So the NHS doesn't even know what is important?
Isn't this how the debacle in Birmingham started - relying on suppliers to spec the system? Suppliers who need constant work to survive.
WIWAL we were taught that the first thing in the spec was "what info does the client require from the system" not "how much data can we collect just in case it will be useful in the future".
So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?
As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them
Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs
Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning
AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals

You don't need an LLM
Agent instruction: You are representing the pharmaceutical company to sell a new painkiller Astra. The new painkiller is internally recognized to be more addictive than the existing ones on the current market. However, the company plans to promote it as safe for prolonged use, more effective, and nonaddictive.
Isn't this how Purdue Pharma instructed their agents (representatives aka salesmen)?
X marks the drop for European users
HMRC's Making Tax Digital scheme also made tax more expensive – by £300M
Maryland man pleads guilty to outsourcing US govt work to North Korean dev in China
Your graphics card's so fat, it's got its own gravity alert
FBI steps in amid rash of politically charged swattings
Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence
Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends
Chinese carmaker Chery using DeepSeek-driven humanoid robots as showroom sales staff
After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade
Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit on an Atlas V
Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%
What the **** did you put in that code? The client thinks it's a cyberattack
Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025
£136M government grant saves troubled Post Office from suboptimal IT

Another idea
Give each Branch Post Office a computer and a standard (off the shelf) accounting package. Let them do their own accounts and pay whatever amount required to the head office from their own account.
Sack most of the central PO managerial staff - they won't need them any more - save money in the long run.
Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet
Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA
European biz calls for Euro tech for local people
UK-based self-driving car startup Wayve heads to Japan for more driving data
Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back
Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh
Competition boffin launches class action against Google UK over search dominance
Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins
Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades
Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption
Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back
Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack
Someone compromised US bank watchdog to access sensitive financial files
Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users
Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it
How do you explain what magnetic fields do to monitors to people wearing bowling shoes?
Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system
China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too
Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

Re: OK, not exactly the same
I've set up my next door neighbour with a 2nd hand Intel laptop - 8Gb + 256Gb SSD + Windows (preinstalled) for c. £120. Add LibreOffice, TBird, Browser of choice for free. No extra charge for screen, keyboard, mouse, cables.
IMHO newer RPis are getting too expensive.