Posts by elaar 443 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Sep 2011
Plus, we've already seen what happens when large swathes of the general public are unable to carry out their mundane work lives.
They get in fights over toilet rolls. And if they're still unable to use up their time building pretend pubs in their back gardens and having BBQs, then we're likely to quickly descend into chaos and riots.
"making it more likely that the Web contains actual useful information"
Explain how it's doing that if it detracts people from publishing new actual useful information, meaning it will learn nothing new? What incentive is there for actual useful information to be published online if it's going to be instantly scraped, hoovered up by AI and broadcasted in results with no regard to the people that spent the time/money/research involved in creating that information.
An example is published medical research, which AI is actually enshittifying by creating bogus research papers, it's literally doing the exact opposite that you claim.
E-vehicles were never a bubble, in fact many auto manufacturers were very hesitant to design and create electric vehicles and government incentives were often required.
They were so cautious about electric vehicle adoption that we had a vast choice of PHEVs, despite the fact that Tesla was maturing as full on electric.
Compare that to the AI bubble where the point is many companies are jumping in and throwing money at it with no caution at all.
Is there any incentive for anyone to create a non-ecommerce website anymore? What's the point in investigating, researching, reviewing etc if the information is instantly slurped up regardless of any copyright laws, and regurgitated to the masses, whilst inherently subverting the user away from the real source (your site)?
From someone that can't stand seeing YouTube videos for absolutely everything, like a 10minute video full of fill and waffle to explain how to change one setting in a config or registry, it seems to be the only way (at least for now) that AI isn't going to steal all of your content.
I've reached the age where Dominos/Pizza Hut/Papa Johns just destroys my insides. Waking up at 3am gasping for water from consuming 20g of salt, grease and fake cheese has put me off for life.
There's so many other decent takeaway places now that produce pizza that at least resembles the real thing.
Why anyone over the age of 25 uses those American places is beyond me.
"The % of adverts on TV and radio is more of a problem."
Those are largely regulated, Facebook is like a Reform misinformation bot paradise, and let's not forget Cambridge Analytica, both of those alone are reasons why it should be avoided by decent, intelligent beings. Of course people look at the adverts, not all, but enough, look how rife health product scamming is on there.
Finding old school/Uni friends on Facebook was fun 20 years ago, where people amassed hundreds of friends, and you harmlessly threw sheep at each other, then it became such a cesspit that you realised you didn't need to keep a social media link to 99% of those people (unless you're nosey and bored alot).
We have some local groups on Facebook, local village, daughter's school group etc.. And they just tend to descend into older white guys moaning about everything.
People that compare the entire BBC to streaming services purely for entertainment, really don't understand what the BBC is, and what purpose it is there to serve.
There seems to be a growing population in this country that want to spend half of their lives binge watching tv series and being spoon fed news from DMGT, Murdoch and their Facebook feeds.
Exactly this.
If you continually use reliance on American technology/goods as a blackmailing weapon, then it may work at first, but will ultimately (in the medium to long term) cause large scale migrations away from that reliance. I would guess that the vast majority of Countries now wish to distance themselves from the US, and get their goods from elsewhere.
And considering a lot of people use it for health related topics, how long until it uses your personal inputted data to target ads (often for scam products?)
"Hey ChatGPT, can you do a meta analysis of Autoimmune Thyroid disease studies and provide statistics on ... blah blah blah".
"Yes, sure, but first here's an advert from one of our sponsors:"
BUY OUR THYROHERB SUPPLEMENT, IT CURES ALL AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, VERIFIED BY 6BILLION POSITIVE REVIEWS, WE OF COURSE HAVE A VERY SPECIAL OFFER IF YOU PAY $40 MONTHLY, VISIT OUR QUICKLY KNOCKED UP WEBSITE HERE->>>>"
"you're being forced into it because we've run out of v4 and v6 has been successful"
However you try to spin it, if something isn't fully adopted after 30 years, then it's a failure of design.
China, with the CNGI has widely adopted IPv6, but has spent an absolute fortune doing it, and this has been put in place by a Government, where as in the rest of the world it's very much up to individual companies to do it when/if they feel like it, with no immediate benefits, just hassle, especially if they have an MPLS with just a few public breakouts.
Of course v6 is a mess, it should have been obvious from the beginning that if they expected widescale adoption, then it should have worked alongside IPv4 somewhat better to begin with.
NAT doesn't "stop" inbound connections.
BUT, inherently it CAN'T forward traffic for unsolicited connections (where it has no active translation information).
This is true whether it's RFC1918 or not. So it's not about "what NAT does to stop an incoming connection", and more "what does NAT not do to which prevents an incoming connection".
As unsolicited traffic does not reach a user, that inherently adds a layer of protection.
"much easier than lugging the UK passport around"
Do you carry yours within a suitcase or rolled up rug?? A UK Passport is about the same size as most phones, but much thinner. I don't know how we manage to lug those cumbersome phones around with us.
When it becomes a standard card, people will put them in their folding-wallet type phone cases (mostly women due to not having wallets and proper pockets to put them in), and lose them on a yearly basis.
" So, instead of trying to ban a technology"
There's a big difference between banning a technology, and not letting minors having easy access to it.
How easy do you think it is for children to access thousands of photo-quality nude paintings? Great comparison that one....
It would have been nice if my 8 year old daughter could have got a few photos of Taylor Swift from google search (with the safety filter on) a few weeks back, without encoutering a photo of 2 men banging her from behind. With all of this technology, it would be great if we could make it slightly less difficult for young children to see that sort of thing....
So all of this sophisticated software tracking IIOC sharing is then completely reliant on Service provider's databases being correct, and the ability for engineers to wire correctly on a cold day, low lighting and within a cabinet which is a wire tumbleweed. There's definitely a weak link there...
"Honestly, its not AI that is holding these guys back. It is a crippling fear of learning something that isn't considered "modern"
Isn't that just a massive generalisation though, and equivalent to GenZ saying boomers are scared of anything new and insist on using their 20 year old version of Putty? Not true of course, but it's the same type of baseless, pointless negative stereotype.
But you've based it on your thorough observation though, so it must definitely apply to 2.5 billion people though.....
The Mega was a great design from Arduino, perfect for interfacing with older boards with 5v TTL.
They lost me with the Arduino Cloud though, the lowest tier was £7 a month, which is fine if you ended up with a proper project with lots of devices in your home linking to it, but really off-putting if you're starting out with a project, or just want to have a play with it.
Ahh the good old days, when the previous generations hadn't filled the entire earth with endocrine disrupting chemicals that messes up hormonal systems, they're also now getting things like colon cancer (previously only really seen in older age) because of all of the dodgy chemicals we lace food with, and a year on year rise in auto-immune diseases. Damn them for having ADHD and Anxiety!!
"So if such an individual is sat perfectly safe on a beach in France, why would they "risk their lives on a dangerous sea crossing, often after giving everything they own up in order to pay criminal gangs", if it wasn't because they know there's a far better payday waiting for them on the UK side of the channel? Why does even Macron say that the UK is a "soft touch" and that they keep coming for exactly that reason?"
Firstly, bear in mind that more claim Asylum in France than the UK, and also that currently France has bettered the UK in standard of living and disposable income in recent years, so your arguments of the UK being a soft-touch or a better payday compared to France is demonstrably false.
"If you think the UK should bankrupt itself trying to save the entire world from poverty,"
This is the real problem, many people in the UK have become so obsessed with the idea that illegal migration is our number one problem, which is consistently leading to idiotic voting patterns, based on slogans rather than logic, and obviously the problem just gets worse.
We're doing very well at bankrupting ourselves without factoring in illegal migration. Most councils are bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy, Government Debt continued to rise despite years of "Austerity", with public services scrapped/reduced, a massively increasing Social cost and Welfare bill (and no, not to due immigration). But most people don't seem to notice or care about these critical issues, it's the boats that gets them worked up, even though their lives have never been impacted in any way by it.
"Such individuals get given houses/hotels to stay in in, mobile phones & internet, food, full access to the NHS & Schools etc without contributing a penny to the costs "
Of course, how can they contribute to the cost when they aren't permitted to work? It's quite easy to moan about people "not paying their way", when they're in a situation where they can't.
The high costs for housing etc.. are due to the continuing backlog of processing the claims. Other countries in Europe seem to do this far quicker than us.
Temporary access to services is necessary, unless you want to live in a Country where there's 50,000 extra homeless people dying on the streets each year whilst waiting for claims to be processed.
The last statistics I saw quite some time back, showed that there was a higher percentage of tax paying immigrants compared to the average British public.
We're constantly playing whack-a-mole too with Fortigates also, it feels like we're changing the OS (for about 10k devices) on a weekly basis.
2 days ago we had to upgrade 30k devices from another Manufacturer for a critical vulnerability also.
People are often in the anti-Cisco camp on The Reg, but when you work for a managed IT provider, and have 200k+ routers/firewalls out on sites, then you know that Cisco is one of the better ones out there (as unpopular as that comment will be) ...
Does Trump expect other countries around the world to obey free market principles, whilst he ignores them and resorts to full-blown protectionism?
The rest of the world really needs to get together and simulatenously whack a massive Digital Servies tax on the US. Let's see how well the large US tech companies fare when they don't dominate due to widespread tax avoidance.
I think you missed my point really, which was that if Huawei posed such a security risk, then why was this limited to 5G Networks?
Really this was down to protectionism, the US wanted to give companies like Qualcomm a leg up.
Sure, things like Type Casting and Memory access could result in unsafe code, but it meant you understood the system and coded appropriately/efficiently, especially when RAM was very limited.
I think it's a shame that coders starting off today often have very limited knowledge of the way the code interacts with the system, and it's all left to the compiler/interpreter, bloated code, bloated libraries and the assumption that limitless resources can be used.
Farage hasn't had an intelligent idea in his life.
He's simply playing the game that the Tories were doing 3+ years ago, by shouting slogans that the Daily Mail readership want to hear, mainly about stopping boats.
The only reason he has any position in UK politics is because he carefully chose to stand in the most uneducated, poor town in Essex, which has a very high ex-prison population. And even Clacton folk now generally regret their choice.
Maybe if Ebuyer got to pay no corporation tax for 4 years, and fiddle the other years with multiple divisions and the "super deduction" tax break, then maybe they'd be able to offer free delivery?
Obviously if you buy your goods from US International companies, that are masters at tax avoidance, you might save a few quid, but it will eventually destroy all domestic companies.
I know very little about car remote technology, but why is it such a massive security threat on newer cars? Why can't the car/fob have preshared keys on them during the pairing stage, and then utilise the typical encryption methods that are common on the web? How is it so abysmally designed that's it open to man-in-the-middle type attacks?
Maybe there's something very obvious that I'm missing?
"How about getting parents to take responsibility for their darling rug-rats?"
Yes, make parents (many of which are tech-illiterate) monitor every single thing all of their children do non-stop on every single digital device until they reach the age of 16+ (I can tell you have children...) Or, we could just make it so that graphic porn isn't accessible to children with just a few clicks.
Have they gone about it the right way? Of course not. Moaning about the Parents isn't going to solve it though.
"Yes it really has. Most of your PC, windows, god knows how many linux contributors, products etc. Plus Google as one of the best search engines to come about. Whatsapp and before that skype, msn messenger and god knows how many things you have used and do use. So yes."
Have you not realised that the reason US International companies do so well is that they've historically been experts at dodging both International and Domestic Taxes, enabling them to dominate International Markets.
Take a look at Apple, What's it up to now, about $150billion in offshore profit swerving domestic and International taxes? Any attempt at countries putting in Digital Service type taxes to counteract it, results in the US government muscling in like some sort of Mafia.
I've paid more Tax than Amazon has in the UK in certain years. How can any domestic company compete with that?
None of the software you mention is unique in any way, it becomes mainstream due to dominance and money.
