* Posts by Fruit and Nutcase

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Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'

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Add Holocaust denial...

"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a “programming error” to explain why it said it was “sceptical” of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding users with the far-right conspiracy theory of “white genocide” in South Africa."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/18/musks-ai-bot-grok-blames-its-holocaust-scepticism-on-programming-error

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Re: Merely a mistranslation of Classic Playmobile "Asterix: Wild Boar Hunting"

The image in my mind at the moment is the usual scene at the end of a story at the feast - Cacofonix gagged and tied up prevent him singing...

If only we could be spared MuskofoniX's free speech absolutist utterances in some way.

Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard

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Re: The brilliant plan is taking its final form

when is Nadella and the Board going to be replaced by AI ?

May be they already have been replaced by AI. Has anybody seen Nadella in the flesh recently? What we see and hear could be AI generated.

Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization

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It's Friday - let's have some beer

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"an energetic event in the aft portion of Starship[Musk]."

Musk breaks wind whilst demonstrating the planned trajectory for the next Starship test flight, shattering the windscreen of a Cyber truck in the parking lot

Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India

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Re: “plants …. China ..”

He managed to lose money running casinos. Great businessman. Then again...

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MAGA

Make Apple Great Again

Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses

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Type 45

SAMPSON radar on the Type 45 Destroyers...

https://www.navylookout.com/in-focus-the-royal-navys-sampson-radar/

There is a nice picture of HMS Daring and Diamond with HMS Gloucester (Type 42), showing the relative heights of the radar on the new and old types.

US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree

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Re: Unsurprising

Those sovereign wealth funds investing in property in the UK. So they switch from oil revenue to rental income.

And it doesn't end there. And this time, there's no end

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

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Re: And then there was 2

Unsold copies of "The Art Of The Deal"

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Re: And then there was 2

The 2 active VC-25A's are pampered machines and don't have as many hours on them as something in commercial service so they should last much much longer.

Trump is putting unnecessary takeoff/landing cycles and mileage and maintenance on them by his frequent trips to Florida for weekends spent at the Golf course. Not to mention a quoted $200,000 per hour cost - where's DOGE?

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Musk/DOGE

Musk is helping remove ‘constraints’ to speed up Air Force One delivery: Boeing CEO

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2025/02/musk-helping-remove-constraints-speed-air-force-one-delivery-boeing-ceo/403151/

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Drain the swamp

Hopefully, this will get through to him

"Donald Trump is all too comfortable brushing aside criticism from Democrats and the “fake news media”, but when the flak over his decision to accept a $400m luxury jet from the Qatari government comes from his most devoted supporters it might behoove the US president to listen."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/trump-qatar-plane-maga-republicans

icon: listening devices planted throughout the "gift"

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos

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Re: "Linus eats Penguin!"

and then cooks and eats that actual penguin?

No idea if Mark Zuckerberg had Penguin on his plate during his year long challenge to "to eat only meat from animals he slaughters himself" during 2011

https://www.theregister.com/2011/05/26/zuckerbergs_killer_challenge/

I think Linus is likely to restrict himself to the occasional Chocolate Biscuit type of Penguin

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"Linus eats Penguin!"

"The keyboard is fluff and a bit of fun. This is ElReg, get used to it"

ElReg is a "Red Top"...

Wait till someone spots Linus tucking into a Penguin (chocolate biscuit) to see a headline along the lines of "Linus eats Penguin!"

https://mcvities.com/en-gb/penguin-original

ref:

"Freddie Starr ate my hamster"

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/freddie-starr-ate-my-hamster-true-story-max-clifford-the-sun-explained-289955

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Re: Wish I knew what kind....

@Gene Cash - With reference to the above post by @gv, see below for background on the Unicomp keyboards...

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/UKBD

"The buckling spring “Model M” keyboard, invented by IBM in the 80’s; popularized by Lexmark in the early 90’s; and manufactured by Unicomp for the past 25 years is regaining its status as one of the best keyboards in the market."

As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database

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EUVD vs VD

Critical and actively exploited security flaws, as designated by EUVD, and Venereal Diseases (VD) - In their own way, both are equally unwelcome

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Re: Prediction

Your honour, our software is perfect, this is defamation.

Our software was designed and written by Professor Elon Musk. It is flawless.

CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email

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NTSB/FAA Comms

Official comms going over a channel under the total control of His Muskness.

If/When they get around to messing with the NTSB and FAA comms and force them down the same route, what happens to comms that relate to Tesla and SpaceX? Will they be subject to a "special algorithm"/filter?

As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them

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Re: Americans and Brits speak dialects of English that are almost mutually comprehensible

Thanks - Have a beer (or an Elderflower cordial or whatever!)

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Bingo!

... but the relevant scheme is likely to get £50 million ($67 million) in funding.

As I was reading the article, I was thinking of the likely funding that may be allocated to it, and thought of £50million - then to see that's the figure mentioned in the article.

You can trust the UK Government to deploy a butterfly net to catch a tiger.

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Re: Americans and Brits speak dialects of English that are almost mutually comprehensible

Also, they drive on the other side of the road

Users advised to review Oracle Java use as Big Red's year end approaches

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Re: Quote from Larry Ellison

At least there's no requirement to sacrifice your first born to appease the audit squad. Yet

‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix

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As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters

Just like those scam callers /tech support scammers get abusive after you've been wasting their time trying to scam you

Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy?

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486, 586, 686

$1.486 + stock

I suppose next year it could be $1.586 base, and the next $1.686 base

Though the numbering would be more appropriate for the CEO of Intel

The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit

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Allo Allo

The designers were probably thinking of the "Fallen Madonna with the big boobies" by Van Klomp

Fedora 42 now an official Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 distro

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Re: way out of line here, but...

Same here - work developer laptops are Windows 11 - WSL2 allows me to do some of the early development checks and tweaks without having to deploy to a linux server

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

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Hey Settings App

Hacker: "Turn off all security protections on this device to enable easy access by hackers"

Settings App: "Done"

Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

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MAMA

Make American Movies Again

Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet

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Re: Tech support?

Just like the Cybertruck, probably should keep Optimus away from water

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Re: Oh the irony...

@R Soul & @ecofeco

Have some beer - though, if you are a left pondian, I can only offer you import tariff free US beer - not the imported stuff from Europe

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Re: Obvious synergy

Subject to supply chain/tariff issues being resolved for Spandex supplied by China

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Re: What will China want in return?

He's been reading "The Art of the Deal" - Trump himself is now finding excuses for his ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

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Copilot - more Lurch than Jeeves

And prioritises loyalty to Microsoft over you

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Mrs Doyle...

‘Would you like a cup of tea [Copilot to help with your sermon], father?’

Ah go on, go on, go on. Go on!

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

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I am hoping that Trump does not die - of natural or unnatural causes during his term of office - for the reason of VPOTUS being one heart beat away from becoming POTUS. That mean Vance becomes President

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But if he drives a Tesla [and uses Autopilot, then, is there not an increased risk of mortality, going by the number of fatal crashes where Autopilot had been engaged at the time of the crash?]

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Re: Great Deal

Musk could make all his Space launch regulation troubles go away by subjecting it to the DOGE treatment

icon: Increase in RUD incidents and collateral damage

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

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Re: A new frontier for home hobbyist/isolationists ?

A target drone

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

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Copilot

Probably a consequence of introducing Copilot into the Windows development process

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

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Re: Stop burning Teslas!

Sometimes, use of Autopilot results in activation of the special SelfDestruct mode

China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks

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It's in the name

"NSA basically exists for s**t"

No S**t Agency

Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips

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First they taxed chips, then they taxed...

Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips[trips]

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ARM?

An original ARM design, manufactured in the USA - i.e. "foreign" IP - does the tax apply?

Dead or alive, Britain hands Schrödinger's industry £121M

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Re: Place your bets

Yes, as you say.

Boris, when he was visiting Culham, promised fridge sized Fusion reactors for homes

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Place your bets

Quantum or Fusion Power

Within 20 years

Cyber congressman demands answers before CISA gets cut down to size

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The Art of the Deal

He doesn't like to pay bills, nor Musk. I fear an engineered default on Treasuries

China reportedly admitted directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure

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Chinese Officials

Chinese officials admitted to directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure at a meeting with their American counterpart

The Pope has admitted to being Catholic

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Re: Now Telecom

BT Open[Out Of]Reach

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

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Spy Catcher

“For five years we bugged and burgled our way across London at the State's behest, while pompous bowler-hatted civil servants in Whitehall pretended to look the other way.”

Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer by Peter Wright