Posts by elDog 1326 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2013
Probably sung to the Yellow Submarine tune by some garage band.
Reminds me of the joke (?) from years ago:
This is your pilot speaking.Now that we are safely in the air, you will be pleased to know that this is the first commercial aircraft totally controlled by robots, totally controlled by robots, totally controlled by ...
Thinking primarily of what has happened in the US but seems to affect many other countries.
Pink Slime news sites are also great purveyors of poison.
"Study: People Often Trust Fake Local News Sites More Than Real Ones; Yale Political Scientist Warns of Growing Influence of AI-Driven ‘Pink-Slime’ News "
https://isps.yale.edu/news/blog/2025/09/study-people-often-trust-fake-local-news-sites-more-than-real-ones-yale-political
Chromium is obviously very capable in its own right without the constant proprietary nudges toward using their opinionated search results.
For me, I'll gladly pay for a decent search engine. Kagi.com.
(Looking for the sarcasm thingee.)
I see dystopian pictures of tumbleweeds rolling by huge rusting/decaying building in the middle of nowhere. I also see a lot of governments (small and large) being left with huge holes in their budgets and nobody can find the original investors or their attorneys.
I think I remember intentionally removing it since it made me look old (which wasn't really necessary), and since hiring types would get a befuddled look on their faces when encountering that word.
Never really got to use Ada in a real production environment. Some difficult coding exercises around handling communication buffers, etc. Gov't mandated Ada for new IT projects but it really wasn't ready at the time. One fall-back was to use JOVIAL (which also doesn't show up on my resume.)
Yet another fault dealing with those pesky .LNK files. I think they were invented because Unix (pre Linux) had soft links and the Gates crew came up with a seat-o-the-pants solution. They ended up being excellent ways for creatives to trick the unsuspecting into clicking/executing.
Perhaps these companies are frequent targets and want to in-house their defenses?
A bit of the correlation != causation argument.
Still, I do think complacency creeps in when a vendor installs a bit of new shiny and says "there, all's good!"
Why go to all these silly rigamaroles when you can just adopt the financial wizardry of the trump world and put your scams out into the open?
I mean, since there are no regulatory restrictions in the US anymore (and who cares about the rest of the world?), a couple of handshakes and several trillion of worthless crypto-currencies, and all's right.
SEC filings? As Emil Bove said "f em."
(Apologies for the us-centric view. I'm sure the same shit-craft is happening elsewhere.)
You get a simple truck that is loaded a bit in the back (trash run, perhaps a trailer) and the angle of the beams (driving, high, etc.) are all pointing too high.
Lowering the dimness would help but if that LED beam is coming at your face while you're trying to stay in your lane and wondering if you'll swerve just right.
Now, i'm not suggesting that Tesla add a new gadget to their line of frivolities, but how about a beam angle adjuster with a joystick toggle? I'm sure people that buy Tesla stuff are responsible and won't use it for duels...
Just let all of their hosted AI systems look at Amazon's web services - performance, network diagrams, outages, etc. and I'm sure they'll come up with some fixes. If all the circuits are software patchable then no need for techies plugging/unplugging.
Then throw in the Amazon financials and personnel organization plans and see if Bezos and every other human can't be sent packing.
Tragic ending for those poor souls laboring under a dictatorial regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot
An adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, the film is set during World War II and follows the German submarine U-96 and her crew, as they set out on a hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt, and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals with a desire to do their best for their comrades and their country.
This is not just a new AI phenom. How many sensitive user data items have been copied from an on-screen form to a local spreadsheet, or in the other direction? One or the other (or neither) covered by some privacy restrictions?
So cramming a patient's full medical record into the non-certified-compliant maul of an AI vendor is not much different.
HIPAA is a label only. Governance is a buzzword. Privacy is a joke.
The only real thing is profits (but not for you.)
"Microsoft is trying this out because, while text-based prompts are the norm, many users prefer talking to their bot instead of typing, according to Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI"
Sure sounds a lot like another bubble-wrapped person: "A lot of people are coming up to me, and saying 'Sir, we really love how you are screwing the others'".
and have oddly westernized names, AI-generated profiles, prefer payment in crypto, and can't travel for corporate meetings.
For Accenture and all the rest of those rent-a-body companies, it's not about quality - it's about contracted labor rates * administrative fees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Gun_%E2%80%93_Will_Travel
Paladin gives out a business card imprinted with "Have Gun Will Travel" and an engraving of a white knight chess piece, which evokes the proverbial white knight and the knight in shining armor. Underneath the chess piece is the wording "Wire Paladin", and under that, "San Francisco". A closeup of this card is used as a title card between scenes in the program.
Now it will be known for another energy-sucking hub that is used to steal whatever human intelligence it can, empty the wonderful lakes and aquifers, pollute the air so the cows and nice people can't live there anymore.
All this chasing that 'AI' buzzword that makes the corporate C-suite and shareholders rich while the rest of us ask WTF?
This followed a few paragraphs talking about Change Healthcare, part of the UnitedHealth conglomerate which was rightly labeled for its ""egregious negligence" toward cybersecurity".
This made total sense to me, both in the 0.25 second visual/neural processing, as well as deep contemplation of UH's contempt for security, customers, healthcare, etc.
I guess the malware perps feel the same way also. Crims all the way.
I might have been involved in a few of these daring escapades. Escaped with just a noticeable narrowing of the old cranium.
We'd ask new hires if they were brave enough to stand in the way of the elevator doors as they were closing. The sensible ones told us to fuck off.
But the real test was to substitute just the head (the bit on top of the neck) in the way of the door transit. Of course I had to show the younger fools what I meant.
Next time I think I'll use a watermelon.
Every time some innocent user uses a product that has CoPilot embedded in it, then M$ can treat that as another satisfied customer.
I have a Lenovo Yoga (or whatever it's called nowadays) that has that dratted CoPilot key in place of my beloved right Ctrl key. The way that M$ forced the manufacturer to generate the key codes when this key is pressed makes it damn hard to reprogram (Linux Mint).
I think this is just the proverbial shot across the bow - just before they go in with the torpedoes to kill the relatively open internet.
Since most of the large backbone communications companies have already puckered their lips around the proffered toadstool it won't be a stretch to start limiting information flows.
Maybe he'll finally get his "wall".
and we've got a guaranteed path to the paper mills.
Apologies for sounding a bit negative.
I think all rules regarding reversing entropy would be broken while trying to put the individual eggs back together from the scramble.
"Source free unlearning", "single-step Newton update", and a dash of random noise will do the trick. I'm off to the pub for my hallucinations.
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