Posts by Fruit and Nutcase

South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact

Re: Search

perhaps a mirror would help?

Elon's ejecta

free to any woman of child-bearing age, who meets certain selection criteria

Send up a couple of litter wardens from Richmond or Westminster council (other councils are available) - they'll soon pounce to slap SpaceX/Musk with a multi-million pound/dollar fine - reduced to half if paid within 14 days

Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia

where you concentrate on placing a probe and your hand accidentally touched a high‑side power component

Been there, still here. I was about 13 or 14 at the time, and it was when probing a transformer.

Got thrown/I just stayed on the floor recovering. A bit like one of those looney tunes cartoon characters after getting knocked on the head and getting dizzy/swirling stars effect

Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

Wot no

Baps or Crumpets?

NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover

Cybertruck

Cheap, off the shelf.

one good thing is that there is no rain in the moon, so, the body won't get marked by raindrops

Refurbish and reuse LRV

Produce a kit of parts to replace parts of the LRV - land near one of the abandoned LRVs, fit update kit (e.g. lithium batteries).

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

Re: They're joking, right?

Cos I’ve got a brand new combine harvester

I've got a brandnew work laptop: i7-1185G7 with 32GB RAM

MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future

The Sound of Music

How do you solve a problem like Maria[DB]?

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

Nuke codes?

Would these AI tech bros, sitting in their remote lair set their AI to go and get the US nuke launch codes as a game of one-upmanship?

May be the codes will be beyond reach if they are stored safely in a box at the pool house at Mar-a-lago

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

Re: I’d choose Elon Musk to walk the runway … would redefine the show

"down the catwalk in heels"

That's a bit of a dangerous activity. He could trip and fall head first down and do himself an injury

Re: Even my smoke Alarm

You probably should stick to the non-baked goods type, as the baked goods type is bad for you

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/health/news/a48390/crumpets-are-actually-alarmingly-bad-for-you/

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours

Re: Noise cancelling headphones

"My perfect long haul flight would be to be sedated, boxed, and loaded as cargo"

I wouldn't be surprised if that's an idea that has crossed the mind of, or been contemplated by Micheal O'Leary of Ryanair for whenever they introduce long haul flights.

Probably the lost opportunity to sell food and water will prevent that idea getting traction

Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor

Eleanor Rigby

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

Elon Musk

All the jealous people

Where do they all come from?

All the poor people

Where do they all belong?

_{With apologies and thanks to Paul McCartney for the original lyrics}

Re: "manually powered"?

The Tesla Model F

Re: "manually powered"?

I'm pretty sure this bike is powered by feet.

if this bike is a success, the next Tesla will be a car, with the same powertrain.

Volksfahrrad

Would cyclists on a future Tesla bike bust into flame after a crash?

Note: I meant the rider, not the bike!

Re: Godwin's Law

The angle of the "cross beam" is a bit suspect

No Autopilot

To blame when the kid on the balance bike rides into the back of a parked emergency response vehicle parked near home

Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory

Audiophiles might...

hanker after the "non-oxygen free copper speaker cable" filter so that they can relive the memories of days gone by before they could afford/saved up/took out 2nd mortgage to buy the aforementioned cables for distortion free perfect sound reproduction

British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes

Watchkeeper - Kamikaze

Rather than dismantling the Watchkeeper fleet, they should be donated to the Ukrainians where they could be converted into Kamikaze drones.

Launch them close to the frontline, then it doesn't matter much if it makes ground earlier than intended

ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

Re: Evolution

The AI's better get physical very soon...

One of the AI companies can buy a company like this...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/new-york-humanoid-robot-teachers-school

If the medical robots don't work out, they can always pivot back to the sexbots

Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots

Tesla has a truly independent board of directors?

Terafab?

Obviously Musk didn't get the memo about infrastructure naming

TerafabTrumpFab

Just wait no more than 10 years when money will become meaningless...

"Within 10 years, robots in the workplace will help usher in an era of such “amazing abundance” that money will become meaningless."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/23/elon-musk-regret-trump-doge-ai

Tesla flattening a cat?

I think Mrs Slocombe's Pussy would not be amused, and would applaud this:

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/crushing-tesla-with-wwii-us-tank

Though, the basic idea isn't new...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgjp0w?start=159

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

I see, it's a Friday

Re: The merest sniff of one of these in your area...

It's a DC or a SF says the local council!

Sewage Farm

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Re: Skynet here we come!

The bot hacks into the West Wing network and hacks the Diet Coke ordering button to order 47,000 Diet Cokes

US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns

SWAT

Wait until local law enforcement get their hands on these, as they already do with certain kinds of (military) weapons and vehicles.

Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party

SEK 5 million

They could buy a Ferarri for the leader of the party

Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing

Re: To gooble gobble or not to gooble gobble?

If you put a quota on tokens,vexpect a trading scheme to start, like the carbon credits

Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade

Re: Problem

Nailed it

UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

"collecting more air miles"

I expect some greenwashing announcement about carbon offsetting/tree plantation will be on the FCO tweeter feed to accompany his flights

The £45 saved will almost certainly be swallowed up by price rises on the supply side in the next few months, especially if Trump continues his middle east adventure. It's a very small sum when you compare it to the price of fuel. I doubt you can fill up the tank of a small car for that amount

Money from thin air

The BBC reports...

"The government's decision to cut VAT from household electricity bills will be funded by the cancellation of the digital ID programme"

The rate will go down from 5% to 0% in October.

Note that they have not said it's being abolished. Which means the original legislation/regulation for VAT on electricity will stay in place and they can reintroduce it just as easily.

The other interesting thing is the £1.8billion for ID cards is money that was supposed to come from savings made across various departments, not money that has already been realised.

Re: Yay

I expect Blair will also have a word or two with Burnham

Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge

A refreshing change

To see a UK government IT project having problems without any help from Capita. Though I do see at least one of the parties having prior form in being unable to arrange a pissup in a brewery

Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas

PII

Pentium II

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

Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project

Chips

Chips+Vinegar

Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility

Notepad

Would be interesting to see if it can "fix" Notepad after Microsoft did what it does best these days by clobbering the keyboard navigation that was possible with Notepad

Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists

Re: If AI could actually reason…

I should have added...

Bing is a niche search engine

Re: If AI could actually reason…

Hope and Miranda... I am guessing they are now either very niche or extinct.

Bob Hope has an uncredited appearance in the film "Scared Stiff (1953)" died in 2003, aged 100.

Carmen Miranda appears as "Carmelita Castinha", was aged 46 when she died in 1955

Bing Crosby is also uncredited, died in 1977, aged 74. "Bing" lives on in the guise of a search engine https://www.bing.com

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

Goldenpass Express

Dual Gauge automatic adjustable bogies. They are also height adustable to allow for different platform heights...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJLRo4ao33k

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

A similar system is used in Spain, albeit without the height adjustment

If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic

South Asian English?

A frequent term that I come across is "revert" - as used by offshore Indian colleagues to mean "will get back to you with an answer", whereas in everyday UK/US use, it means to "return to an earlier state".

And then there's the mixing up of present/past tense

Re: speak Dutch if you want .... an honest appraisal of potential shortcomings

Would there be a noticable difference in the way Grok responds to Afrikaans, compared to other languages?

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

Succession

Will Linus be replaced one day by an AI "Linus" agent trained on his posts to the LKML and commits to the kernal repo? And will it be able to raise a virtual finger?

How do you solve a problem like Capita?

Re: How do you solve a problem like Capita?

Cockroaches and Capita survive...

Simple

Hand over the management of the MPs pension scheme to Crapita. Though, in their ineptitude, they'll make the already generous scheme even more by paying the retired MPs more than they are entitled to, thereby ensuring they continue to get government contracts