Posts by m4r35n357

Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more

OK you have raised in my head the possibility of an entity being intelligent without being aware of it, and as I am not a philosopher any more than a mathematician I'll just have to bail.

BTW your description of an ML system (training and tuning, or lack of, by humans) does little to alter my opinion of "LLMs" as overblown "Bayesian" spam filters that for some reason seem to require power inputs that threaten the environment itself.

I am angry at Google (et.al.) because of their unrelenting encroachment on our very existence, but angrier at those who wilfully refuse to accept that it is a problem (i.e. the general public, not even the governments, as that is what governments do and is a separate issue!) and just keep lapping up the crap.

Hence my Lovecraft reference earlier . . . I should have just left it at that!

OK my first bit was OTT, what you are doing/have done is clearly stratospherically beyond the ML crap. I still don't get the impression that any models exist for what we call intelligence (if only because that needs to include consciousness, IMO), so my genuine apologies to you for that, all this ML "fawnery" (including calling it AI) on here gets on my nerves and I over-reacted to that part.

As for the second bit, it was not the comment itself that I was calling vague, it was the faint criticism of something that is so clearly out of order as to warrant something beyond swearing and more towards rage (again IMO.)

I hope you will now be aggrieved at the appropriate part of my post!

PhD in "AI", really?

Your vague, considered & measured doubt will almost certainly make Google think twice!

Re: Spot the problem

Nyarlathotep meets the blind idiot technophiles!

Microsoft worker accidentally exposes 38TB of sensitive data in GitHub blunder

As long as their customers are happy to channel Homer Simpson, it will not be a problem for them! I will be Nelson Muntz ;)

"D'oh!" - "Ha-Ha!"

"D'oh!" - "Ha-Ha!"

"D'oh!" - "Ha-Ha!"

...

ad infinitum, it would seem.

Oh noes

My public SSH key was up there ;)

Desktop AI isn’t happening, says AMD, and might not for quite a while

Quite the understatement!

s/Desktop //

Not that it will stop them selling "it" to you . . .

Scientists spot startlingly close black holes in Hyades star cluster

Re: "we'd probably already be dead"

Pedantry ahoy! Relativistic jets are sprayed from the poles. Accretion discs are equatorial (and gravitationally bound to the black hole).

Re: The Asylum has shown the way

Go Space Force!

Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972

My gas meter isn't . . .

Anyway, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#History_of_definition

Kyndryl bags short-lived HMRC mainframe contract

Love letter

Hi America, enjoy our data!!!

The British taxpayer

XXX

Intel NUCs find fresh life in Asus, but rights are 'non-exclusive'

Re: Noisy fans

Well I'm guessing here, but if the water is not circulating then you will probably need to replace it periodically. With the right workload you might get a cup of tea out of it ;)

Re: Noisy fans

Unnecessary and unpleasant militaristic analogy, particularly since I keep my Pis well away from water.

Noisy fans

These things are great in principle, but are massively let down by the need for fans. I have an i5 NUC that is about 10 years old now, but if I play YT videos it turns into a hairdryer. Same with browsing many sites (BBC), javascript easily sets the fans off. It gets up to 80 degrees C easily.

I do all that stuff on a Raspberry Pi 4 nowadays, it handles it all, and never goes above 60 degrees C (heatsink case). Smaller than an NUC, power consumption < (5V x 3.1A), easily swappable storage. And it is still made in the UK for the time being.

No real point in the NUC any more from my perspective, but I might consider a fanless one at the right price (unlikely!).

Newport Wafer Fab blames UK government over 100 redundancies plan

The workers are British, so they are to be _axed_.

Anyhow, one more item to add to the list of Tory "services" to UK engineering. Idiots.

Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt's £12B shopping spree

South Park

. . . and it's gone!

Version 5 of systemd-free Debian remix Devuan is here

Re: Your correct.

Whoosh!

Also, downvoted for dropping the W-bomb.

Re: Being based off ...

How about "based of"? [ducks]

Perhaps we are making too big of a fuss, we could of just ignored it . . . ;)

Not call: Open source gurus urge you to dump Zoom

Re: GitHub is easy to not use

So satisfying to be judged by a peer. And no, he did not.

Don't bother trying to read minds BTW, CVS is still shit.

Re: GitHub is easy to not use

That was just making a point - use that machine that you need. The point is choosing to depend on all this ""CI web stuff" is _your problem_. If git with email and patches is "too hard" for your devs & organization to use that is not my fault or my problem! It seems to work well enough to develop that Linux kernel, but perhaps your software is more sophisticated than that, and your dev team larger?

Re: GitHub is easy to not use

If you don't _want_ to pay for a Raspberry Pi and get an admin to pipe traffic to port 22 and sort out public keys for devs, that is your call of course. The again, cloud make nasty problems scurry far away, so there is that.

Re: GitHub is easy to not use

What a load of cloudy nonsense!

Re: GitHub is easy to not use

Git & SSH on your own machines can do everything you need - GitHub is not bad as a free backup & distribution service though.

“Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.” - Linus Torvalds

You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak

Captain paranoid

Certain actors attempting to discredit FOI?

Most distant observed star is blue – and it isn't alone

Re: Éalá Éarendel Engla Beorhtast

Just the Walls of Night ;)

Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch

Re: this shoggoth of a startup daemon

Systemd - the giant, bloated, blind penguin.

Shoggoth

+1 for the Lovecraft reference!

World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems

Apparently nobody likes the taste of dog food!

After Meta hands over DMs, mom pleads guilty to giving daughter abortion pills

Re: It's all fscking insanity - I'm embarrassed for my country

Unborn foetuses seem to have more protection than adults in the USA.

US unhappy about China's tech pushback, rules out decoupling

Nah.

Intel details coral-shaped immersion cooler that bubbles like Mentos in Coke

Re: No elegance, no class

Obviously not. But I do have engineering experience of distributed circuit effects (including GaAs MMICs) at high frequencies, parasitic resistance etc. Perhaps treat it as a real constraint and not come over all "King Canute" when faced with the uncomfortable realities. Some genius is bound to try Peltier cooling these chips at some point . . . !

No elegance, no class

Ludicrous "engineering" in the face of a hard physical limit. Yeah, just turn it up to 11 . . .

UK government prays that size doesn't matter as it chips in £1B for semiconductor sector

Re: Hmm.

Silly! Bribing voters with tax cuts is far more important than semiconductors.

Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in

Tha American Dream

Wage Slavery

LattePanda's Sigma crams a 12-core Intel Raptor Lake CPU into an itty-bitty SBC

Is anyone but journalists interested in these pointless antics?

Europe finalizes €43B Chips Act it hopes will help free it from foreign fabs

Re: another bite in the buttocks

Well we kicked out Inmos & ARM, I'm not sure there is much else we _could_ have done.

More ads in Windows 11 Start Menu could be last straw for some

Dammit! ;)

Hehe, you can tell them to "fuck off" with impunity, but just try calling them M$ and watch the downvotes come in ;)

Fancy trying the granddaddy of Windows NT for free? Now's your chance

Locked down, 1980s style!

Only telnet & ftp running ;)

UK govt wants standalone 5G by 2030 but won't shell out to help hit target

I agree 100%. However . . .

The real problem is that the British public themselves disagree with the idea of a "loss leader". Current British culture is to buy everything at lowest cost, regardless of quality. That is why the Tories keep getting away with this. Remember, quality is just another word for inefficiency ;)

Microsoft stumps loyal fans by making OneDrive handle Outlook attachments

Re: This is like blackmail. MS is forcing us to buy a subscription

The "pragmatists" will pretend to be shocked, but somehow will _still_ recommend M$ the next time . . . the cycle never ends.

Germany sours on Microsoft again, launches antitrust review

They will get let off again

As the apologists are fond of reminding us (each time), M$ are no longer the bad boys they used to be.

RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94

Re: I am not fan of corporate cultures...

To be downvoted by those who appreciate the simple elegance of the modern web browser.

Re: I am not fan of corporate cultures...

Point taken, but even so, his so-called "law" was in reality just used as a "licence to bloat" by his company, Micro$oft(sic) and the General Public(sic).

Elon Musk yearns for AI devs to build 'anti-woke' rival ChatGPT bot

Re: Meaning of "woke"

Easy - it means "not right-wing". If you are _not_ right-wing, and call people "woke", you have been compromised.

If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

Re: Just set the entire moon to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC +0) ...

Without a convenient molten iron core to moderate the "daylight", most people will be living permanently underground anyway. Remember that, galactic "colonists" and terraformers!