Posts by Derezed

Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset'

Re: so much fun ahead 2

Yeah but the canals were actually useful at a point in time…

Saying that were driven rail freight into the ground in this country in favour of…er…HGVs. So you pays your money you takes your chance.

'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people

Re: correct horse battery staple

Every month.and you’ll need to make them special characters.

Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP

Re: ERP!

On the other side of the equation you have skinflint clients with no ideas, no requirements and completely unrealistic expectations about how easy this all is.

Not a match made in heaven.

These kinds of implementations are marathons not sprints…sadly the projects start too ambitious, turn nasty in the middle when reality sets in and either fizzle out or just limp over the line with an MVP that needs hundreds of changes and enhancements to meet the original lofty ambition.

Fucking projects.

Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back

. "The impacted content would have been data associated with a customer's expired M365 Business Premium subscription."

At least it’s a premium fuck up as opposed to a basic one. Silver lining there.

Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI

Old jokes revisited

The graduate with a science degree asks, 'Do you want fries with that?'

The graduate with an engineering degree asks, 'Do you want fries with that?'

The graduate with an accounting degree asks, 'Do you want fries with that?'

The graduate with a liberal arts degree asks, 'Which one of you nerds is going to actually get those fries? CompSci take your break now”

KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting

Really?

Every place I have worked at they has shafted its employees has been statutory. I never understand articles where people complain if they get more than this bare minimum. Where does this level of entitlement come from?

Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel

My policy is to only hire blind cleaners so the idea that a human would see inside my house is anathema. No deal big hoover!

Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again

Re: Doing journalism…

It makes me pleased that customers are coming back to use the real deal. Hollowing out arts/languages/humanities and entrusting it to corporations whose only desire is monopoly and profit is something we're sleepwalking into. Translation is the thin end of the wedge, and as we can see, the result isn't pretty...always promising it will get better. Thanks for the detailed response anyway, food for thought.

Re: Doing journalism…

“ What do you suggest they do instead? Hire a translation firm, even though many of them have also been using AI translation tools because it's cheaper?”

Evidence please.

On your main point, I concede. Obviously in a bad mood.

Doing journalism…

“according to Google Translate”

Wow.

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

Excel is not a data modelling tool. Excel is a single user application with many, many flaws. Extremely useful tool by itself, anything shared or team based is an abomination. I build data models to serve excel users…as soon as Excel IS the model, you’re screwed.

The users are now shifting to using Power BI for their point data modelling… work to unwind and structure that should keep me busy until I die.

User tools != corporate data models. If they do, you’re doing systems and data wrong.

Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project

“Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Martijn Dekker justified the attack by saying datacenters and the AI they power are exacerbating the climate crisis, as well as playing a role in the killing of Palestinians by Israel. “

What the actual fuck? What in lord Jesus H Christ in heaven has Israel/palestine got to do with it? Absolute nut jobs.

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

Re: Ah, Sony

I’ve been watching my dvds recently.

You wouldn’t steal a car…

Best adverts ever.

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'

Curious: what tasks?

Re: The 'digital' sector now appears to be worth avoiding.

Nah. Supply will go up, price will go down.

Hilarious that the fifties imagined robots replacing manual work.

Re: Slot machine

Would you like some toast?

Apple's Orwellian device controls for tots also mean more work for parents

Re: "if parents wanted to spend more time on their kids"

Biology says different, unless you mean no man under 40.

I’m one of the oldest at my school gate and I wasn’t 40 at the birth. Not sure how much things changed in the decade since I guess.

Re: As long as it is optional

16 to 18 is definitely edge cases and like you say if they’re old enough to bypass stuff they’re old enough to own the consequences.

This kind of stuff is useful for 5 - 14 year olds maybe? On the premise of what is seen cannot be unseen.

Re: Good, about time.

Not old fashioned at all. TTRS is used by schools for times table drills, In addition to the teaching. Useful tool.

Good, about time.

I don’t think it’s Orwellian, it’s about giving a bit of independence without allowing the sewer of the internet on a device accessible to a child. Options.

Example: my child needs to use TimesTable rockstars or wants to create something on Scratch. If I know when I provide my device (loaded gun) I can ensure it always has the safety on, it gives peace of mind while I cook and clean…or continue working.

It’s only Orwellian if Apple stops adults sending and receiving dick picks. The horror…whatever will people do of an evening?

Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic

You know you’ve won capitalism when you get an enormous tax payer funded subsidy. Who needs roads anyway?

London cops post £300M tech shopping list after Palantir contract blocked

Re: I really need to get into the hay business.

Arse To Mouth?

Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows

Choice

I am not sure we have a choice. We have the internet as we find it, not the way we might want it to be.

Looking at Windows’ market share is proof there is no god. Going to have to wait for the music to stop before I stop dancing with the devil.

HP investigating BIOS updates that leave premium laptop users in boot loop limbo

I think I missed a decade. What has windows got to do with BIOS? What business does Windows have with BIOS?

Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

Re: Or Anthropic

You mean over the table. Under is so 2000s

Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

Any tips on the pope’s religion or where bears like to shit?

Who saw this coming? Needs a super. National spy agency to work this out.

Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest

Re: We fed the data monster. Its appetite only grew.

How many had an actual choice?

Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

Given that governments are promoting jobs like plumber and electrician you can guess which bits AI will pretend to replace…they’ll always be a job for the kid who runs to the shop to buy a latte…or any job that needs physical impact on the planet…hoisting a light…lugging something from A to B…brave new world!

Loving this innovation. Cinematography is so overrated. This slop will improve shareholder returns in the short term and make the service shit forever so I’m all in.

AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring

Stop talking…

Are you being sarcastic and/or abusive?

EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach

Who?

“ Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front”

…so an emennet front? It’s a put on…

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

RIP Scott Adams.

Musk makes the Macrohard joke again

On the list of things he hasn’t delivered you forgot the rescue sub that heroic diver (or that pedo guy as the CSAM tycoon called him) didn’t need to rescue those kids.

I wonder how much of his pay packet will come out of US tax payer subsidies he scrounges for his “private” enterprises.

UK copper fired after faking keyboard taps using photo frame

King Size Homer called, he’d like to sell the seargent a pecking bird tool.

Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive

Re: unsure whether she would be able to return to the UK

I’m confused. If you’re a dual national (oz/brit) you have every right to work don’t you? You’re a British citizen ?

I guess this £500 piece of paper is to prove that inside your Oz passport: this passport belongs to a person who is a dual citizen. I dont understand why it is so bloody expensive though.

Presumably you have to buy a new one if you change passports too. Seems like you’d want to get a British passport for 75 quid instead.

Punishing people who actually decided to go for citizenship after BREXIT. I guess they juiced them for their bullshit tea drinking exam so the poor saps are being juiced again.

Papers please.

Meanwhile my non dual national permanent right to remain partner gets to travel without paying half a grand to the state for…er…nothing?

Until Farage gets in and deports my wife I guess.

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

Using those arts and humanities degrees people are so down on in this place I guess.

But we all know that this chat bot has no intelligence and certainly has no consciousness.

Oh for fuck’s sake. Another one.

It’s not just these fucking chat bots that hallucinate.

Neuroscience. Please.

PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions

I ditched this site after they fucked something up and I tried to contact them. It was impossible to do so so I shut my account.

Enshittified wank.

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

It’s why you contain it in a concrete pot. I dug out a bamboo once. Took ages.

Too soon?

Far too soon to enshittify.

Wait until all the white collar workers are gone (18 months wasn’t it?), then start pulling this shit and jacking up the price for this dogshit.

GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down

Re: Next two experiments:

Aye he’s called Herr Farage. Sadly not a hallucination.

Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder

Re: BMJ - ICE

Or more because they fear what the data collected will be used for. Note they will use their product where there is a clinical need.

Payroll pirates are conning help desks to steal workers' identities and redirect paychecks

Translation

Blagging v

Social engineering.

“I wanna know who socially engineered Brick Top’s bookies” - Vinne Jones esq

Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security

Re: App signing

Corporation leopards ate my face. I guess this was always going to happen...enshittification and monopoly. Not great for humanity....good for shareholders though.

Re: Crawl

Don't forget it will definitely need one of those AI chips so Recall works properly.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

I give you “BREXIT means BREXIT”.

Once murdoch and the other billionaires get their wish they’ll be nothing left for you to consider buying.

Or the BBC is serving a community that isn’t worth a private sector operator bothering with. There is competition…it’s welcome …but where the “choice” is BBC or nothing…

Re: Does everything have to be "monetisable"?

Just as we can’t trust politicians with the NHS and Bank of England, we definitely can’t trust them with the BBC. We are not a Nordic country and it’s all very well until they start electing nutters from both ends of the spectrum (Girt Wilders was only next door!)

To be fair I have both a TV license and a Netflix subscription. I never watch anything on Netflix and constantly consume BBC radio, web and TV content.

As soon as you introduce market forces into the BBC it will turn into the same dog shit as everything else.

Can we just have this one nice thing? A broadcaster owned by us for us. Not by some white supremacist cum rag or some shrivelled billionaire and his odious family…us…British people.