Posts by m4r35n357

Euro allies aiming to rapidly build low-cost air defense weapons

Single launch only, unfortunately.

The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense

Re: "weapons of mass stupidity" ✓

Well now I have some concrete data points (the "valid use cases" I have seen till now HAVE been zilllions of browser tabs, or LLMs, so that is why I brought it up, I don't go overboard on them myself).

Nothing wrong with "small & cheap" IMO, "power users" already have many more options.

Re: "weapons of mass stupidity" ✓

And yet I can do internet (two browsers simultaneously), multimedia, and software development in under 4GB, so my 8GB machines are future-proof.

What are people actually _doing_ with16GB Pis? Honest question.

I wish they would just cap the thing at 8GB (they probably have no choice these days), even that amount tempted some brave fools to try running Windoze . . . there is nothing but that and a1 as far as I can tell. The thing is just too underpowered to do "big stuff".

Re: "shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demand"

At least two related problems I can see:

Foundation spouting platitudes about "teaching" whilst shilling a1 at every opportunity, with no regard for the increasing the price of Pi hardware.

Manufacturer is a modern and strategically significant national engineering resource (in people, processes and plant), and we don't have too many of those these days.

Eben Upton is in charge of both. Why not get off the fence Eben, you will hurt your knackers straddling it?

(of course, there will be plenty of "foreign investors" ready in the wings . . .)

UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

There seems to be a lot of resistance to taking stuff down on this topic. I can only speculate why.

IMMEDIATELY means "AS SOON AS YOU ARE INFORMED," not "AS SOON AS THE IMAGE IS POSTED" !!!

Jesus H Christ.

Are you from the US by any chance? Here in the UK it is not optional to cooperate with law enforcement.

You get the thing taken down first, THEN track down the poster with the cooperation of the platform/ISP.

It is called "police work", not "state/legislative intervention".

These images are at least potentially illegal. Would you expect 48 hrs notice if they were posted to a site that you hosted? Do you think the police would "understand" your workflow?

Update - turns out I DIDN'T downvote you. I wasn't actually sure, so I looked at the post and it looked "unvoted-on". So I tested it by clicking, and now I can only remove the downvote by upvoting (nice web design there!). C'est la vie!

I do not, normally. I will happily argue with people here without downvoting them, I guess today is an angry day!

In this case, I do not see why you would object to immediate takedown. It is trivial to restore data AFTER review if appropriate.

How long would you take, personally, to "review" these images before doing something about it?

Re: Why not, why not, why not...

48 hrs is ample time to "enjoy" and disseminate the image. That is why.

"there there sweety, it will be gone in another 16 hours, I'm sure of it"

SICK

Yeah poor innocent "social media". How about IMMEDIATELY?

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

Re: Wow, the comments...

"Yes, AI is a bit crap at the moment"

"AI has improved over the last 3 years"

Stunning endorsement.

Keep the downvotes coming: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/openclaw-security-fears-lead-meta-other-ai-firms-to-restrict-its-use/

They know how to avoid eating their own dogshit.

At least on a Pi you can sacrifice an SD card for the purpose.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-an-ai-agent-with-openclaw/

DIsgusting

Horrible article.

AI agents can't teach themselves new tricks – only people can

Re: Researchers

Oh you are soooo polite ;)

Re: Researchers

Has anyone told The Register?

Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better

Re: But this is how it works

Your post is more nuanced than I gave it credit for, I agree on second reading, BUT . . .

I think it is down to your parting shot: "The question for me is: for anything important, why wouldn’t *everyone* use an LLM to challenge human intelligence?"

I translate that as: "The question for me is: for anything important, why wouldn’t *everyone* use a magic 8-ball to challenge human intelligence?"

Re: But this is how it works

Because we do not share your crazy delusion?

Evolution is driven by _reproduction_ (not "learning"). Bad designs (essentially) die out before reproducing, leaving the "better" ones. This takes billions of years, and is most definitely NOT guaranteed to give the "best" outcomes for intelligence or anything else.

None of these things is anything whatever to do with circuit boards, how did you manage to get confused about that?

Re: I don't see what the problem is

These are two entirely DIFFERENT problems. You are intentionally conflating them to defend "a1".

Deal with your "wife's doctor" in your own time.

Yes, I think you might be right. Although I was suspicious that this post had been singled out for criticism, possibly by the hard of reading. The downvotes are not consistent with comments & votes on other threads in this topic.

Also, "bollocks" is pretty mild for these parts.

Upvoted. Are Reg employees responsible for the downvotes? ;)

Re: Humans

So speaks a cynical manipulator.

Re: Just LLMs doin' LLM things

suicidin', brainwashin', sexin', advertisin', cheatin'

Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way

Re: pwgen (1) ?

Definitely +1

It has no concept of ANYTHING.

Re: why ... would anyone ask an LLM to create a password

If you are (still) using this shit you deserve everything you get.

Fucking hilarious.

What part of "technical dead-end" is so hard to get?

Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions

Text for ebook ;)

1. Create account on CB

2. copy your public SSH key to CB

3. create project on CB

4. set CB project as a remote to the project on one of your machines

5 git push CB

6. Done

Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session

Re: A great example

Are you getting paid to discredit GNU?

Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds

Re: "Then Helen of Troy arrived, naked, oiled-up, and carrying the Dummies Guide to Coding"

I love that film. B&B are underrated by many who cannot understand sarcasm.

KoTH is also extremely sly.

So Judge makes Idiocracy, and still it is taken as unnecessary crudity, and the satire is missed (by the majority).

Pardon the rant, not aimed at you, I just like B&B ;)

BTW, just searched for one of my favourite lines of theirs, and got this utter shite a1: https://www.acibademhealthpoint.com/diarrhea-cha-cha-cha-causes-relief/

WTF is wrong with people?

Yay!

168 hour working weeks are coming . . .

European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools

Re: I guess they will be fine...

At least if the _intent_ is made clear, they will find it easier to do more later.

People will talk about it.

Have no fear . . .

Brexit will save us from this sanity.

Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware

Re: Maybe the Register could run an article on GitHub alternatives

Well I stumbled on them accidentally recently - didn't even know they existed! Looked just now & can't even find them any more! WTF?

Link please?

[UPDATE] - Ah yes, "USER TOPICS" - WTF again?

Perhaps they all even have RSS feeds, impossible to tell.

Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress

Re: "fashion-victim" softwarenevitable?

Void is pretty tricky with a Pi - I tried it. x86-64 has a live edition with installer so you can see if you like it first. On ARM there is not, so it is rather fiddly.

Re: Inevitable?

Well I gave FOUR specific examples in the OP, not sure what more I can do . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_victim

Re: Inevitable?

If you don't understand the point why are you arguing?

Re: "fashion-victim" softwarenevitable?

There is - Alpine - that is what I run on my Pis.

It takes some fiddling to get it running well though. I with the Pi folks would realize it is a much better fit for their hardware than Debian. They would make it usable rather quickly.

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

Re: Am I the only one ...

Vanity

UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open

Re: Platitudes

I find UK roads are INCREDIBLY safe. Are you saying we shouldn't waste the money on training & testing?

Re: Platitudes

The government should be doing this certification.

We "certify" drivers, right?

Platitudes

For all the expense of creating & running these "campaigns", they could be actively pen-testing & giving USEFUL information to those charities, instead of box-ticking & saying "told you so".

CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

WTF is a CIO anyway?

To put it another way - what are they paid to do?

"three-quarters of CIOs admit to not having full real-time visibility into AI agents running in production systems"

GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept

Roll up suckers

Now with even more added fuckery, so give us even more cash!