Re: Would it not be cheaper for Google, AWS, Alibaba
The thing the board needs to consider is what happens if it has a cash flow problem; the business will have replaced capex by opex and now has to meet those bill on schedule or go under.
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The thing with this sort of situation is that the spreadsheet was the wrong platform to start with. LO Calc would be equally wrong. MS Access would have been better than Excel (and probably better than LO Base; any time I've looked at that I've just shaken my head at it and I was an RDBMS specialist back in the day).
But will this voice commanded stuff obey?
"And those tools are: voice-controlled functionality in Windows 11; the updated Bing search engine with its interactive chat-based interface for looking up info; all that Copilot stuff in Microsoft 365, allowing users to create and edit documents among other things using natural-language instructions"
What happens when it's volubly cursed for yet again getting it wrong? Will it swear back? Will it do what it's told such as Bing finally return only what it was asked for and nothing else? Will it cower in a corner or hide by uninstalling itself?
"We know that this change may affect some of the ways you work in Windows,"...
and what's more, we don't care.
It's amazing the way those wedded to the Microsoft way will accept this kind of abuse and yet resist the one change that would get them out of it. Stockholm syndrome fails in comparison.
Back before my time, so it must have been the '60s, a filling station on the outskirts of small toen out in Co Tyrone kept getting done over. It was just nicely positioned for lads who'd been out on the booze to help themselves to a few ciggies & some cash on their way home.
Solution: alarm sensor in the filling station, bell in the local police house and a few quid to the local GPO linesman to run a length of twin core between them.
The way i heard it, at one point there were 3 lads doing time in Crumlin Rd., all nabbed separately.
This is the DWP. I take it you've never worked with them. They've always been like that under one name or another and quite immune to changes in government..
I remember helping one of my clients trying to sort out their (DWP's) self-billing system, that was the best part of 20 years ago. The colleague I was working with described them as "not the sharpest knives in the box". More than 50 years ago when I had to make use of a labour exchange (Job Centre) I formed the opinion that at least some of the staff were on the wrong side of the counter. Both those were when Labour were in power.
A few years ago you might have found a vendor-specific driver provided as a separate disk or maybe included with the pre-installed OS. It would have filled the same role but a little more overtly, Why do they do things differently now? Because they can. Back then the BIOS was a relatively simple (less so than back in 8-bit days) that did a few things and (hopefully) did them well. Now it's an OS running under the user's choice of OS with greatly enhanced powers including greatly enhanced powers of doing things badly or doing bad things. And we're told it can do things such as "secure boot" and provide a "trusted platform module". In whose view is the boot secure and who trusts it. Not the user, that's for sure.
"the land-sharks"
That's the problem. They're likely to be the ones who get "compensated" (in that strange US-ese way where "compensation" actually means "ordinary payment for the job"). But the FTC has identified the accounts. They've also identified the more egregious cases. How about the FTC and victims get together, agree a meaningfu*l tariff and send an enforceable bill to Amazon .
And no, the bill can't be paid by vouchers only redeemable at Amazon. We'll have no truck with that sort of thing.
* Meaning big enough to require an explanation in the annual accounts.
So this solid state cooling system is, in fact, an air-cooled system with a solid but essentially mechanical heat pump. I was expecting some sort of Peltier effect device such as those I used in the '70s & '80s. Even though they were solid state devices they were only heat pumps and they still needed water cooling to back them up.
"That means, we're told, these LLMs have been built on data that Red Hat knows is correct."
There might be a touch of hubris in there.
What, I wonder, happens when something they "knew" to be correct turns out not to have been? Does being "curated" mean they can simply remove the bits which are now known to be incorrect? Or tell it to disregard that bit of training? Or do they have to go through the entire training with corrected data.
It's getting crowded in here.
I don't know about the rest but Signal is peer to peer. I believe the others use the same protocol. It's true there is a core, although absolutely minimal, directory function in Signal (maybe not so minimal elsewhere). But there will always be a core directory system somewhere - DNS.
If you're advocating home grown encryption algorithms - well the Fort Meade/Cheltenham crowd will love that.
Sometimes you wonder how manglement gets to that position with those mental limitations. I know I sometimes say that when you find someone on top of a hierarchy the only talent you can be sure they have is climbing hierarchies* but you'd expect that somewhere in the process reality would have intruded itself enough for them to be aware it exists.
* Unless they inherited the family firm.
It depends. Root is always there. On annoying systems such as Ubuntu access to root is guarded only by a repetition of the user's regular password combined with the user's name being in the sudoers list. It is perfectly possible to use sudo to add a root password. That doesn't help shut the door although it does give the illusion of having returned sanity to the command line. It was a major reason why i migrated from Ubuntu to Debian and one of two major reasons why I now now use Devuan.