Posts by Mayday

Judge sides with Meta and Google, puts California child privacy law on hold

Fuck me

"NetChoice, an internet trade association whose members include Amazon, Google, Meta, TikTok and Twitter,"

There's an Unholy Trinity (Quinternity?) If I ever saw one.

Cisco dumps its Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure

Hyperfux

I've been working with Cisco for years. I have never even had a customer ask me about Hyperflex, what it does, or even have a use case for which I could suggest it to them. Truth be told I totally forgot about the platform until I saw this article.

Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard

Not sure I'd do this

I understand it's with permission, but I'd prefer my battery be up when I charge it. Even if they dont chew to empty (what is the lower limit?) what if I have a 300km drive to do and I hop in the car and there's only a "standard commute" plus a few km in the tank? Plus I'm consuming charge cycles and wearing out my battery to benefit someone else.

Maybe I'm greedy. Then again its my car and my battery which I payed for.

As VMware says goodbye, leadership thinks Broadcom buy is a win

News just in

Chap who just sold the many shares they had for lots of $€£ is chuffed and tells everyone else that they should be too.

I’m off in my new yacht to the Bahamas thanks.

Australian Senate committee recommends bans on Chinese social media apps

Nah

I think everyone should just blindly sign up to and agree to all the terms, conditions and privacy policies without actually reading them and then wonder why they have been hacked or been a scam victim later.

ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks

Don’t let anyone on LinkedIn see this.

You’ll break their like-seeking hearts

Network died, hard, during company Christmas party, leaving lone techie to fix it

Re: Cisco survival

Reload in 10 won’t save a VTP fuckup.

Vlan database stuff is independent on the running/startup configs.

Now that you've all tried it ... ChatGPT web traffic falls 10%

If only..

… all the mindless LinkedIn posts about this topic would also decline.

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

Awesome

Some other shit service I don’t need to and won’t sign up to.

The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111

Re: Why the down vote?

I’m a comms guy. We call this phenomenon “Backhoe Attenuation”. The maritime/submarine cable versions is called “Anchor Attenuation”

Want to feel old? Ethernet just celebrated its 50th birthday

Re: Commodore Pet

SYS 64738

Don’t ask me how/why I remember that one

No-no cop: Illinois bans drones from using facial recognition or weapons

Re: Can armed drones shoot straight?

“ Seems like they would be have to weight several hundreds of pounds to shoot straight while flying”

Not necessarily. I have a consumer grade drone (DJI Mavic 3) which has. “Cine” mode which enables super stable and slow flying. It’s compensates for strong, gusty winds to keep the subject in frame. Presumably a Police grade drone costing 20x as much could be more stable, more accurate and could use the compensating software to calculate windage, drop and other ballistic info required to put just about any sort of projectile you want onto a target.

Microsoft keeps quiet amid talk of possible DDoS attack against Azure

Could be why

LinkedIn is being shitter than normal today. I'm missing all the sanctimony by the minute.

Lawyers who cited fake legal cases generated by ChatGPT blame the software

Re: Overestimated the technology's abilities

Indeed. You don’t need to be a lawyer to be able understand that the “tool” isn’t always accurate.

Hang on - maybe you _need_ to not be a lawyer.

Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear

Re: And. ….

Looks like we can do both now, on one platform at least. Haven’t been bothered to see if this is a general release across all hardware platforms or not. Could be hardware/ASIC dependant.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/ncs4200/configuration/guide/ce/17-1-1/b-layer-2-xe-17-1-1-ncs4200/m_lan_macsec_mka_support.html

HTH

Re: And. ….

Funny you should mention that. Some line cards (real Cisco, not fake) can't do full line-rate unless you effectively disable a number of ports on the card.

About ducking time: Apple fixes up autocorrect in iOS 17

Fuck a duck.

About ducking time.

Salesforce lures staff with $10 donation to charity for each day they're in the office

How about this?

Let me account for my commute as “time in office” and pay for my lunch. Then it might be worth my while to go to the office.

Cisco promises to unify its net management silos in the next three to five years

Best thing about fabric is…

CCIE here, been working with Cisco for 25 years.

… you have so many fabrics to choose from. One for access (SDA) one for data centre (ACI), one for compute access (UCS/fabric interconnect). Not to mention the licence minefield which is Cisco, and having to buy DNA for three years even if you never use those features.

It’s a proper nightmare. Cisco GUIs have always been disasters, separate incursions into disasters at that, so it looks like we can look forward to one unified disaster sometime in the next decade.

Personally I miss typing “show ip ospf” or “show ip BGP” etc when I want to know what my routing protocols are thinking.

I need a coffee. It’s too early.

Cry-pto: Feds bury Bitcoin exchange giant Binance in 13-count fraud lawsuit

I *think*

I sold all my fake money ages ago - used it go on a holiday to Fiji. Better login and see if I missed any before this place also goes tits up and it all goes AWOL like everywhere else has.

Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse

Use Case

Not entirely sure what that is. You can get a hell of a lot of computer (yes, whatever your preference is here applies) for that kind of $£¥€. I think it "looks cool" and I'm sure I'd like one for novelty value. But not for north of $5k aussie worth of novelty. Sure looks like it would be a ripper when it comes to porn though.

Meta tells staff to return to office three days a week

Re: Hypocrites!

Indeed.

Makes me wonder what this “metaverse” products(s) is actually for. Now - I am actually wondering but not enough to cause me any real concern or lack of sleep.

Laid-off 60-year-old Kyndryl exec says he was told IT giant wanted 'new blood'

Re: I wonder how old the executives are, how expensive they are, and how many are being let go.

Of course not. They need to be around to make these “difficult decisions”

Texas judge demands lawyers declare AI-generated docs

What we have here

Is a glorified predictive text generator. That is all.

The first time we saw the new logo we had a lot more of it and we had a little more than that and it is now the same.

The preceding sentence was brought to you by my iPad’s text predictor. Doesn’t look too much different from what this lawyer used tbh.

Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams

Chrome

You said you wanted to use Chrome? Oh, I thought you meant our Chromium-based product.

Brit fusion magnets set for US gamma ray bombardment test

Bloody hell I want this to work.

Sick of needing to dig holes in the ground, hope intermittent resources work and everything else that’s wrong with just about every other source of energy production.

Military helicopter crash blamed on failure to apply software patch

Re: The Capital?

It’s not near Canberra, but is administered as if it’s part of the ACT. By definition it’s the the Jervis Bay Territory. AFP are the cops and cars have ACT rego. Politics provided by ACT senators and are a part of one of the ACT’s lower house seats.

Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight, 45 more than NASA planned

Built properly

Well done on that one.

Guessing we'll run out of usage when the battery capacity becomes too low on the thing (post number of charge cycles).

Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid

Automation is great, however

Shit in (ie the meatbag input) = shit out.

Theranos founder Holmes ordered to jail after appeal snub

Aren't the yanks nice?

They let people chill for a bit before they have to voluntarily turn up at the joint and start their sentence. Here (in Aussie) you get sentenced and they take you from the court down to the van in the basement which takes you straight there. Too bad if you have affairs such as a house/family etc to deal with. Granted you might know it's coming before the actual sentencing, but once the sentence is passed, or if bail is revoked sooner, you're gone. None of this "I have to sign into the clink in a few weeks, gives me time get my shit sorted, possibly including a one way ticket to Antiextraditionistan".

I know this isnt blanket, but I know myself a few people who have had to get locked up in USA for minor offences (drink driving etc) and they were allowed to make their own way there pretty much as they saw fit. I'm guessing violent crimes wouldn't get this luxury.

Thieves smash hole in wall to nab $500K in Apple iKit

Process

Guessing we’ll see this process:

Store owners block IMEIs of all stolen devices (probably other Apple specific/proprietary blocking methods too) through carriers

Crooks post to Craiglist or similar lots of phones for only $500 or more/less

People buy “cheap phones”, because of course everyone verifies the source before purchase when too good to be true

Crooks keep cash

Buyers have a $500 brick

Insurers pay store whatever the retail price is

Intel ships multi-die chips ahead of schedule – to the US military

Can it…

… run Crysis?

Cisco Moscow trashed offices as it quit Putin's putrid pariah state

Re: Scorched earth, not a step back etc

“Leaving behind loads of unsupported kit”

So what is it? Six months old or something?

Scorched earth, not a step back etc

Not the first time that’s happened in Russia.

Ukrainian cops nab suspects accused of stealing $4.3m from victims across Europe

Re: Hope they weren't too gentle with them

Based on how they opened the door, and the reputation for Eastern European hospitality, I’m guessing there’s some parts which were not recorded on the video which we won’t see.

Italy bans ChatGPT for 'unlawful collection of personal data'

RTFC - as in Terms and Conditions

"The allegation here is that users aren't being given the information to allow them to make an informed decision“

This actually implies that users actually read (and understand) the conditions prior to clicking the “I have read and agree to the terms and conditions” checkbox.

Activist investor Elliott holds off board-level influence at Salesforce

Negative

It should be “cuntivist cuntvestor”

Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes

121.5 and 123.45

The international distress frequency (normally on listening watch in oceanic regions because VHF is out of range and the radios are set to this because there’s nothing else of value to listen to, plus someone might need a hand) and 123.45 is inter pilot comms (proper usage of this one is a little more ambiguous). Now realistically these two are the only VHF frequencies in any sort of use over the oceans (which is probably why they’re being messed with).

Either way it’s a shit act.

Re: Good Old Propaganda

“ GPS is useful but no aircraft relies on this exclusively because there are places where its unreliable”

Bulldust. I’m an IFR pilot and I use GNSS all the bloody time. There are error checking systems which kick in automatically if the system isn’t working for whatever reason. It’s also a requirement to do a manual GNSS RAIM during certain flight phases (including approaches which require RNP). Other approaches and ground based navigation systems are available, but discussions of when you would use these in preference to GNSS or when you’d use GNSS in preference to them are outside the scope of this post.

GNSS -Global navigation satellite system, IFR - Instrument Flight Rules, RAIM - Receiver autonomous integrity monitoring, RNP - Required navigation performance

France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices

Re: The words stable, door and bolted immediately sprang to mind.

You reckon? Twitter was the best platform for the 45th US President. Particularly for communications and Covfefe.

Alarming: Tesla lawsuit claims collision monitoring system is faulty

Re: What do you expect?

Lane keeping, and all sorts of other robot shit, _is_ on by default in my 2023 model Mazda. I can enter a cruise control speed, and the thing will almost drive itself along the road, including negotiating bends and braking if a car is in front. It will read a stop sign and show it on the HUD but won’t stop at one - that’s one thing it graciously allows me to manage. It doesn’t (as far as I know anyway) claim to be “self driving”. Unlike other marques.

Re: What do you expect?

“Who gets the blame”

It’s always the driver. Regardless of what “driver aids/inhibitors/distractions are in the car. It’s the individual in charge of driving it.

I’m taking about “blame” - maybe it’s a legal concept. Not the merit or shortcomings of in-vehicle systems. Icon for half the sci-fi shit that’s in my Mazda that I wish would STFU and leave me alone so I could actually drive the bloody car.

Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla

Call me old fashioned, but

I’d like my key to be able to open my car. I’d also like it to be _only_ my key which can open my car. Not someone else’s key. I also have little interest in opening someone elses car.

This is unless you drive a HQ Holden which had 7 different keys for the entire production run. A mate locked his keys in the car at a large even one day and was a little lost as a result. A fellow HQ owner walked past and thought he’d talk this other HQ owner having a concern with his car. Explaining that he locked the keys inside, the other bloke said, “I’ve got a HQ too, let’s see if the 1 in 7 chance of us having the same key is in effect here.” Sure enough, the key worked and my mate was able to get inside without having to break in.

Electronic keys

I presume you’ve never used a proximity card to enter an office building, data centre or some other facility then?

Re: It's a feature

Works for Formula 1.

Meta winds down NFTs but will continue token efforts

Re: News just in:

“ Sorry, are you talking about NFTs, Instagram, or Facebook?”

True. Good point. I don’t have any of the above.

*not entirely true. I won an NFT in some online poker tournament once and I have NFI what it looks like or even where it is now. For all I know it might be worth as much as all the other NFTs - $0.00

News just in:

Vendor of product which has no intrinsic value realises it has no intrinsic value and stops supporting it.

Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery

Re: Net Send was disgusting.

Telnet to 139, send an RUTHERE.

Re: Net Send was disgusting.

No way - Net Send was my favourite way to annoy as many people as I could all at once with so little effort.