Posts by SundogUK

Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

Re: we are too tied into M$

"And makes you look like a Reform voter."

This is exactly why we despise the civil service.

Re: CLOUD Act

How is it unlawful? I'm not aware of any law that bans US tech being used by government...

OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT

Rubbish. You make it absolutely clear from day one that they will be graded on work produced under exam conditions written on paper, with pens and no electronic devices in the room. After that, it's up to them.

The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet

Re: Bah

Re-write history why don't you. The crash of 2008 was caused by the US government forcing mortgage lenders to lend to people who weren't going to pay it back. Remember the term 'sub-prime mortgages'? Everything else followed from that.

Way to early to be making that comparison.

Re: The AI bubble is already popping

Er... California alone would be the fourth largest economy in the world...

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

Re: Privacy at a public gathering?

DefCon isn't a public gathering. You have to buy a ticket and agree to their terms and conditions. Walking down a high street is public and there is bugger all you can do about being filmed there.

Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else

Re: Where's the beef?

Dammit! Someone let the communist out.

Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions

Re: Disappointing

Environmental protection lawyers will have their piece of flesh first.

Re: Singapore

The health system isn't expensive for locals and has better outcomes than the NHS;

Cars are unnecessary and are a pure status symbol.

The real issue in Singapore is housing costs.

Re: But think of the shareholders

"That means profits will be prioritised over investments."

Investments drive profits, as any dumbass C-suiter knows. The real problems are government interference - as is pointed out in the article. Data centre water use is specifically excluded from planning by government diktak. Building reservoirs takes years because of the environmental impact studies required, etc. These are not simple problems to solve but simply blaming it all on the C-suite is retarded.

While all UK parties are jumping on the AI bandwagon, Labour are far more invested than Reform are.

Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic

Chinese researchers, or paid by PRC.

Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow

Re: The word you are looking for

Badly? That's an odd way of spelling 'better than any nation in the history of the human race.'

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Re: Total C-Suite fail

"Yes it's possible to opt out of all this stuff, but it's incredibly difficult to do."

Piece of piss for me. Don't watch TV, don't own a TV.

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

Re: adults have learned critical thinking?

Capable? Your world is weird.

Re: adults have learned critical thinking?

Really? Then explain the 2020 US elections.

Re: Verification

You miss the point. The correct response is to say 'I don't know, what does AI think?'

Re: the algorithms are guiding their subscribers to content that reinforces ... opinions

All newspapers have always done this.

Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project

Cosplayers

These people are cosplaying revolution. They will have zero actual effect on policy or businesses but cause lots of real harm and frustration to normal people. Utter scum, the lot of them.

Europe's new import rules are coming for your bargains

Re: Hopefully this excludes collectibles.

It's called Brexit. Or Polexit. Ot Hunexit. Or...

Re: I'd

Why the objection?

This. Why on earth would this change the demand in the UK?

Re: Uk is Temu EU

"vastly poorer"

I am glad I don't live in your reality.

Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters

Re: The first but not the last

I have been in Tesco's three times now when some shit-wit did a grab and scram. If security were allowed to intervene physically, we wouldn't have this problem.

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

Re: Hiding behind morals

So you think 'anti-immigration nonsense' should be censored? Do you not believe in democracy then?

Brits still reckon Big Tech isn't paying enough tax

Re: Cottage industry of tax justice advocacy

Corporations do not pay tax. It's just a cost of business that is passed on to the consumer. All these idiots are saying is: we want to pay more tax.

Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records

Re: Civil Service

Nope. The civil service are just fucking incompetent.

"The private sector just see the public sector as a cash cow to be stripped of as much money as posisble.

The problem is that many of these outfits have very deep pockets."

This makes no sense.

LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way

Re: "young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old."

Why is it that almost all the worst (pseudo)religious whackjobbery originates in the US, and mostly a small subset of states at that ?

You have a very short memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

Re: "young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old."

Not really.

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

Re: Fostering friendship

And if you disagree, we'll cut your head off.

Re: Fostering friendship

"First for people to be nice to each other"

Is this actually what they teach in schools today? You poor, deluded fools.

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

Re: Mixed feelings

"I don't know what motivates major editors"

Those that control the past, control the future.

23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach

Do ou have any evidence of this?

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

Re: Value

Adverts? What adverts?

Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage

Re: always amuses me…

You understand that by forcing you to use AI, they are testing whether they can get rid of you completely?

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

If you think the internet is just a "big advertising machine and/or spy tool" and "political hate bating and celebrity/streamer style drama ragging", you're doing it wrong.

UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a 'fiasco' after botched launch

Re: Simple solution.

English Common vs The Code Napoleon. Again.

Re: Simple solution.

English Common Law vs The Code Napoleon.

Burnham backlash: UK Digital ID plans in peril if Manchester mayor succeeds Starmer

Re: Where's the Popcorn?

"...Reform are now campaigning to ‘keep Starmer in’."

and

"...he is so utterly hated by the general public as to be utterly toxic."

I see no contradiction here.

Re: Burnham would come to dunce inane

"So, given the demographics, with "natural wastage" - leave may become less popular."

Or, as people get older, they get more conservative in their beliefs and are less inclined to hand over absolute executive power to a bunch of unelected Belgian bureaucrats.

Re: Burnham would come to dunce inane

The Mayor of London actually has very little power outside of transport and Police. Pretty much everything else is controlled by the boroughs. His competency where he actually has executive power isn't great.

'Big AI' is subverting regulations just like tobacco and oil firms

Whatever.

Oh my god! Some one we don't like is doing something we don't like and they're using a completely legal method to get around our objections!

Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter

Not following...

"Gallup points out the contradiction: for AI usage to expand in the US, facilities that can handle the necessary computing power will have to be built."

Where is the contradiction? This implies people opposed to AI bit-barns still want an expansion of AI usage which simply ain't the case.

"People don't make a connection between the digital services they depend on every minute of every day of their lives and the fact that providing them every minute of every day of their lives requires industrial-scale infrastructure."

And this is conflating two different things. I do NOT depend on AI every minute of every day of my life, and likely never will. So you can take your 'industrial-scale infrastructure' and shove it.

SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade?

Re: Maybe "move fast and break things" isn't the right method...

You think you know better than SpaceX? The SpaceX which is about three months away from having launched more satellites than everybody else combined, ever? I think they know what they're doing.

Royal Household seeks £3M finance system fit for a King

Re: £86.3 million

It's a drop in the ocean of UK government spending and the royal family bring in far more to the UK economy. Cheap at twice the price.

Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift

Re: "My enemies are bad people"

This works both ways, of course.

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

How to tell me you're a communist without admitting you're a communist.

If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Re: Analyzing for control

But when a Democrat owned Dominion it wasn't a problem? Hypocrite.