Posts by Irongut

Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads

Re: Odd

There is nothing reputable about ANY property owned by Meta or Zuck.

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

Re: Blocking funds is only one path

I'd suggest putting RFK in charge of health was an act of sabotage and treason. You should imprison the entire administration on those grounds.

Re: In other news….

Not a problem since it does not land. In one piece anyway.

Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman

No, we would not.

It has no intelligence now, it would not have seemed to have intelligence 10 years ago or 20, 30, 50 or even 100.

Take it back far enough and we'd burn Mr AlternativeMan as a witch and destroy his pet demon.

It still would not have any intelligence.

Trump tariff turmoil hurting global smartphone market, but hitting US hardest

Re: AI May Be A Factor

I don't give a shit about the orange moron's tarrifs since they don't affect me.

But, I still won't be replacing my 3 year old phone this year because my battery still lasts 3 days and I don't want the AI shite Samsung have shoveled on to the S25.

Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?

Re: Because nobody wants AI in their PC?

I'd suggest the people most likely to buy an AI PC know nothing about computers. Your CEOs, CFOs, management and non-IT workers.

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Re: I wonder

My brain is nowhere near that bad on drugs.

I don't think you'd get very far with your female employees by giving them a dead horse.

But I wouldn't expect to get anywhere by telling women you're trying to father a dynasty and only your genes can save the world, it seems to work for him though.

Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs that leave clouds vulnerable

Insecure defaults and the ability for anyone to reinstall to get them. FFS.

So don't buy from HashiCorp because they can't write software for toffee. Got it.

Elon Musk bragged this group had been 'deleted' when DOGE shut it down - now they're appealing

Re: hmmm I think I seen this movie before

Not communists.

In my experience the leaders of the UK Socialist Workers Party like to turn up to demonstrations, meetings, etc in the Merc, BMW or Audi their Labour MP father bought them.

Eventually they become a Labour MP themselves and the cycle continues.

US to deny visas to foreign officials it says 'censor' social media

Thanks but no thanks

It's ok Mr Rubio, your country has been on my DO NOT FLY list for over a decade already. I do not travel to countries who fingerprint innocent visitors at the border like a facist police state.

Right now you're on my how do we remove this chunk of rock from the planet & blast it into the depths of space for the good of humanity list.

SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again

Lie down with DOGE, wake up with Fleas

Who wants to travel to Mars on a spaceship whose manufacturer thinks the solution to a fuel leak is ventilation?

We promise you won't explode or run out somewhere in the middle of the asteroid belt!

Icon = Starship, obvs.

Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia

"We want to make money off copying all your stuff but our source code? No, you can't have access to that." Miller admitted.

Never heard of him, his company or his now dead browser and I suspect I never will again. I certainly will not be trying their new AI browser.

Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates

Re: You've all got this wrong!

Ah now I understand why AI is so god damn dumb.

Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’

Re: Just....

I've been trying to get people to stop using ethernet over mains since it was invented. I'm afraid it is a lost cause.

They just don't give a shit how disruptive ther behaviour is to others as long as they can get their cat pics.

Google's AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations

Ok Sundar, the last time I went on a road trip was in the 90s. Before Google Drive, GMail or even Google existed.

How is your AI going to reply to that email? Which did not arrive in my GMail Inbox btw - that is just automated emails from Google and Microsoft.

Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous

Re: The problem isn't that they are conspicuous

A beach community where? I'm guessing the USA.

Much like Google's Glass in its time, I have not seen anyone wearing Zuck's SnoopBans in the UK.

Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt

I recently had to rewrite 834 lines of complicated code and asked my boss, who originally wrote it for assistance. He put it into GitHub Copilot and was very impressed with the 121 lines of code it produced.

Until I pointed out the switch statement that was missing half the options. And later the seven missing methods.

After I rewrote Copilots's garbage output, the complete and working file was 537 lines of code.

The only thing good I can say about GitHub Copilot is at least its broken, partial code was easier to read than my boss' working code.

Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America

Re: May not repeat but it rhymes

If you had read the article you wouldn't look like such a blathering idiot.

Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things

Fuck off Sundar.

Does your AI translation still regularly provide the opposite of the actual meaning? Attempt to translate surnames? Ignore several sentences for no reason? And censor the original text like a prudish American grandmother?

It's so bad I would never rely on it for anything important where I didn't already have a high level of subject knowledge to catch all the mistakes.

Why would I try any of this other crap?

Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love

What a load of bullshit.

> 'Make me an app for discovering California, the activities, the getaways.'

What does this app do? Beyond the nebulous "discovering California", what even are "the activities, the getaways"? What OS does it run on? What languages should it support? Does it need a map? Location tracking? Route tracking? Notifications? What is your colour scheme? Corporate logo? Your "AI" will produce a useless cookie-cutter app that looks like every app produced by it's other users which will then be rejected by Apple / Google for being unoriginal and having no purpose. BRAVO!

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’

Re: Failure?

> Perhaps if they adjusted their pricing back to more realistic levels instead of keeping them artificially high they'd sell more consumer stuff.

Sell more of what consumer cards? They have no more to sell because all the chip supply is going into "AI". Why would they sell them in a card at < £1000 when they can sell a rack at £200,000?

> If Intel can bring out products giving better performance for substantially less then Nvidia are charging

Which Intel products? Battlemage is a low end GPU at best and overpriced. I saw dual GPU Battlemage cards yesterday they are so bad. Only AMD can compete with NVidia and that only at the low - mid range unfortunately.

GitHub Copilot angles for promotion from assistant to agent

> the developer who asked the agent to open a pull request is not allowed to approve it

I understand why they have done this but it breaks the ability to teach yourself how the tech works and will be unusable for a lone developer.

Even if I wanted to use it they have made it useless to me.

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop

Bloatware Linux

"Flatpak, WINE 9, Chrome, Transmission BitTorrent client, a download manager, an image viewer, optical-disk burning tools (!) and multiple different media players"

If Samsung pre-installed all that there would be cries of "Bloatware!" from every commenter. If Microsoft did it there would be antitrust trials in multiple juristictions.

Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress

So they have decided to kill the US chip industry? Because why would ANYONE buy GPUs witgh tracking tech.

American politicians are not only begging Huwawei to improve their tech and take over from Intel, Nvidia and AMD but trying to help them do so.

Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%

Re: Blinded by TDS

Little tip for you and your Dear Leader... the "best and brightest" don't want to live in a facist shit-hole with no education system, no health system, crippling prices due to tarrifs on everything and government stormtroopers deporting people to concentration camps in another country.

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

Re: And then there was 2

Upside down bibles.

'We still have embeds in CISA': CTO of Brit cyber agency talks post-Trump relationship with US counterpart

Chamberlain was an appeasing shitbag too.

Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection

Re: No excrement on offer

Actually it is another totally left-field possibility which is actually true...

This is standard Google Play / Android security requirements and has been for several years.

As an Android developer who has published several apps on Play, this is just Google's standard Android security protections.

We all have to jump through those hoops, Nextcloud is not special or a victim here. File permissions have been getting more restrictive for years, notice the article quotes Android 11 requirements when Android 15 is about to be released. If Nextcloud can't handle Android 11 requirements then they are going to be completely screwed when they get to Android 13 which is far more restrictive.

OpenAI wants to build a subscription for something like an AI OS, with SDKs and APIs and 'surfaces'

> We'll have these surfaces like future devices future things that are sort of similar to operating systems,” he added.

Did he ask his RNG word salad generator for that answer? That is one of the most wooly headed non-technical pieces of bullshit I've ever read. Does this man know anything about computers?

Also I'm glad this will be a subscription service so I can refuse to pay for it.

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos

Re: Wish I knew what kind....

I learned to use a mouse with my Spectrum (yes, really) and had no preconcieved notion of which hand to use so I used my left despite being right handed. Later when mice were setup on the right of PC keyboards I learned to use my right. So I can use either.

It is very funny seeing the looks on people's faces if you use a mouse in your left hand in front of them and then when asked tell them you're right handed. It's like black magic or something.

Mars may have vast underground oceans and enough H₂O to make it a water world

InSight itself attempted to drill into Mars. It got.... 0 cm into Mars crust.

Turns out the surface of Mars is harder than we thought.

Attackers pwn charter airline helping Trump's deportation campaign

Assuming he's a Yank anything more than 50 years ago is ancient history to him.

DOGE worker's old creds found exposed in infostealer malware dumps

Re: Just a side note

That Adobe 2013 breach is 12 years ago now. Given the age of most DOGE staffers it must have been junior's first password back when he was still in single digits.

51 entries in 12 years... over 4 entries per year on average and likely all before he's 25.

US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check

Re: Press release from US Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy

With a side order of Fujitsu to handle the mail room.

VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters

Re: Hard Science is not a MAGA thing

I'm sure they said the same things about that upstart currency the US Dollar back when Pounds, Shillings and Pence were the global trade currency.

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

Especially when it comes from a company notorious for cancelling everything and changing APIs.

This is also a story about an idiot who put their faith in Google not arbitrarily shutting down products and services that people rely on.

FTFY. Anyone who has ever developed using Google services or Android knows that you do not rely on that service or API continuing to work.

Fedora 42 now an official Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 distro

Re: way out of line here, but...

I use WSL regularly for several use cases. Using VirtualBox instead would make these tasks harder, increase friction and take longer.

Why would I want to do that when WSL fits all my use cases better than "just use a VM."

I suggest next time you want to do a complex calculation you try just using an abacus and see how you get on.

Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search

Re: Wrong assumption.

The best way to use Googel Search is to search for "DuckDuckGo."

> Just take a picture of their homework and ChatGPT solves the problems step by step.

The point of homework is for the child to do it themself so that they learn something. Well done, your kids learned nothing.

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

Re: Settings

95% of users should never be allowed to touch a keyboard and the other 5% should be tested first.

Do Not Want

That is all.

Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support

Re: "anyone still making new"

Because variety is the spice of life and it helps prevent a monoculture which would be just as bad if it were Linux or any other OS as a Windows monoculture.

Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning

Evil begets evil and Mr Karp is clearly as evil as his boss Thiel.

Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet

Hideous

And it sounds even worse than the screenshots show.

Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess

Re: A quote from Forrest Gump comes to mind.

> There couldn't be more corrupt and useless organisation than UN!

The Republican Party.

Whatever Trump's business operations are called.

Palantir.

There's three off the top of my head and I've not finished my coffee yet.

Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush

Re: FFS

Rubber tarrifs gonna really eat into that 10 billion. lol

Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race

Re: Why is that "unfortunate"?

One authoritarian regime with an appalling record on human rights vs another authoritarian regime with an appalling record on human rights.

Personally I'll take the one with thousands of years of history, invention and civilisation.

For American readers, that would be China.