Posts by Locomotion69

HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin

There is an opportunity here

If HP would add a braille bar on the bottom, this would make an excellent PC for the visual impaired.

IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power

Some customers are, one day later, still having issues as their systems are offline.

Others fear that the Black Cloud over Almere is where their data went....

Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway

Re: "orbital AI datacenters"

Next level: Oort cloud computing.

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor

Understandable but absurd

The MSM companies are more and more forced by legal cases to check their user's ages, which in practice means to identify the user. In essence their is nothing wrong with that.

The problem is with where this verification is done. This is more of a lobby to have verification at OS system level, so MSM falls back to the OS for this purpose.

As might anybody else.... This is a security nightmare.

Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan

Why is this (not) a surprise?

Changes to the subscriptions a.k.a. price hike:

Copilot (Microsoft) did this yesterday

Claude Code (Antropic) today

<fill in your agent><company>tomorrow

These companies seem to understand the AI business model very well:

1. Provide AI

2. Profit

Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise

it looks more like spaghetti if you ask me....

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

Lack of contrast? Copilot hasn't complained, Copilot is our main programmer, so there is no issue.

/Manager mode off

Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket

Having tried New Outlook for two months on my company LT I reverted to Old Outlook - to never (Out)look back.

New Outlook is a proper piece of <censored>

Attention, gamers: The FAA wants YOU to be an air traffic controller

which is why there is a 20% salary bonus if you stay even you could retire ?

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers

Re: jailbreak old devices…

Just checked the Rakuten Kobo site - those devices drop out of support just like the Kindles.

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

Re: What did they expect?

It is called the World wide web for a reason....

Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed

Obligatory xkcd

xkcd

Contracts are in C++26 despite disagreement over their value

Contracts, as used in Eiffel, or D, or Ada.

I cannot see how an attempt to have a formal approach to be specific on behavior for pieces of code can be a "bad thing".

You do not have to use it - but I can see some fields in where contracts are welcome!

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

Into the third dimension!

180 vs 360 is regarded in the flat plane - Github should apply the z-dimension and disappear into the negative Z-axis until it is out of sight.

Yes to Git - No to GitHub

AI will write code, but prepare to babysit it – and be sure you speak its language

Re: Of course I want to fire all of the developer!

The (former) employees wrote shitty software, now AI is writing shitty software.

Conclusion: same quality but at lower expenses!

/manager mode off

Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants

AI would prove the world is flat only to please its stakeholder.

Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access

If an open source tool is of so much value to a company, they should actively contribute - assign some staff and start contributing/correcting. But no. "Competitors may benefit".

If a company is not willing to contribute to a valuable asset, they should go for something else.

Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds

I hope they do not upset the naive users who bought the AI-type of PC recently to be ready for AI - now to learn that MS is scaling it down.

From having paid too much for something that does not work to having paid too much for something that is not used.....

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots

The main question now is...

... can it be expanded by, say, another 300 GB?

So we can add features to the car (for a premium) so it can act as a spare home battery system, have a climate controlled boot (as extra fridge), security camera, ....

Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying

100K should be enough to create a github account, make the mess open source and see what happens.

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise

I recently bought a new laptop, 32 GB, 1T, Ryzen 7, for the same amount of money.

Curious how long 8G will suffice in daily practice though - even for an Apple.

For an Apple, the price is low - beats the iPhone....

And it comes with no charger.

Microsoft gives Windows laggards the 'gift of time' wrapped in licensing fees

They have to finance their AI enterprise and this is one of the best hidden ways to do that.

Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped

I wish

it could handle Jira properly.

Microsoft declares 'reliability' a priority for Visual Studio AI

That was easy.

Having the unreliable AI declare itself unreliable automatically makes it proven reliable (MS-style).

Problem solved.

Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes

It was AI that did it.

This particular RPi noticed itself being too close to MS so it decided by some AI algorithm that the only way to escape was to selfdestruct.

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Now here is one cybersecurity challenge.

As the outside world is one big interface for the selfdriving vehicle, let's redesign it completely to make sure this kind of sabotage is made impossible.

Re: Fake Road Signs

Had some confusing experience in Italy as well. Follow the signs toward the village of "Greve in Chianti", and the more we followed the signs, the greater the distance towards this town got given those same signs.

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

If somebody says "It almost works." I knod and sympathise and I recall the quote I once saw on a tile

"If you see light at the end of the tunnel ...... you are facing the wrong direction!"

Although I very very much love to see someone succeed in the attempt to have a workable C/C++ solution for the memory management stuff.

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

Re: Answers on a postcard to,...

NoPath

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte

Primary objective failed

AI does not generate money now - how much more to spend before it does - if ever ?

Enter the arena: secondary objective! Which is ..... ehhhh.....

Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble

You will find it easier to visit the one in Sinsheim, Germany. There is a Concorde on display as well.

Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure

As long as you don't tell the shareholders....

Safe CEO: AI is an assistant, not a replacement

AI has its merits as it is quite capable in processing vast quantities of data and finding patterns inside them. Not something a human being cannot do, but AI comes up with results much faster - leaving the human to check if the outcome of the AI is plausible. I have seen very good use of processing medical scan data, AI could spot the out of the ordinary which many doctors would overlook. This is a huge benefit - saving time, money and occasionally a life.

But the fields of application are different - software engineering being no exception. These jobs will be different in the future - but senior and junior levels will be there as they are today.

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

Re: “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”

It is not just Windows, it is the complete codebase - it is hundreds of products, some not even designed by themselves but acquired in a merger/takeover.

Not even considering used libraries, which may be statically linked, so different versions from the same lib are used and updates are not compatible, etc.

It should be called Project Snakepit

AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first

and the winner is...

Nvidia.

As prices of hardware go up due to the DC hunger, you can get less hardware for your $/£/€, let alone make a viable business case.

Nvidia gets its money, the others sort of .... don't.

The solution? Force your clientele into AI and charge them accordingly.

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

Dear Gartner,

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future

FTFY

And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is...

It is a terrible thought.....

"Welcome to the world kid. Meet Clippy".

The horror.

'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole

No panic!

If your application uses external libraries, plugins, etc, this is inevitable. It is not a question if you will get hit by such threats, it is about when and how often.

Yesterday Log4j, React today, and another yet-unknown one tomorrow.

Be prepared and patch when signalled to do so. Period. No excuses. The security of your application is your responsibility alone.

AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em

Where is the Colonel when you need him?

Three more AI tools to correct one AI tool ? This is getting too silly - please make it stop!

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty

The RCMP got it wrong to start with.

They should have asked the French police to take over the request for data within the investigation, the French police could acquire such information in a legal matter. That is how this is supposed to work anyway, crime does not stop at the borders and neither does criminal investigation.

I do not think there is any legilation on either side of the Atlantic that states that the government can force anyone to break the law.

AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market

US companies only

Some governments are looking to cloud solutions that do not depend on an US based provider - for good reasons.

So there may be some providers not listed here that may get (some) market share, although it will not be too significant on a world wide top 3 scale - but significant enough to be noted.

Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch

|Obviously

Microsoft failed to properly test the enrollment system

So business as usual - nothing to see here!

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

As in "we don't trust our customers and therefore they do not get any transparancy".

In one year time this "Family classic" option is discontinued, all $$$ on AI !!

'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

Microsoft AI stands for...

... Microsoft Apocalypse Imminent.

AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession

The question is wrong because there is no question where AI is the answer. If it would exist, the "killer app" would exist by now.

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia

Your next CS threat

This particular individual appears to be bought to commit crimes.

But as cyber security awareness increases, security gets better, the weakest link in here is the human.

One can think of the situation where an individual of company "X" can be bribed or -worse- blackmailed to commit these crimes. It is easy enough for these criminals to look at MSM at find everything about you. Such inside jobs have the danger of going to be big.

In order to minimise the risk of this happening, companies shall appoint at least two pairs of eyes to any one job, and preferably different eyes each time - amongst other measures.

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

I would go for option 1 if you have to.

Yet another option would be to relocate Houston instead.

Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem

Pushing these AI "solutions" to customers...

... is the only way left to "make" money out of AI.

The investment in AI is so huge that companies desperatly do whatever they can to get money out of it.

This is one example - the others will follow, or already have similar strategies.

The only way to avoid this is to find a non-AI infested alternative.

Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge

Trust the AI - you can just as well stop thinking and abandon common sense.

And I always question advise from someone to use products/services/whatever from that same individual.

Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode

Instruction:

"Press F2 to continue"