* Posts by Locomotion69

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Nvidia hits the gas on autonomous vehicle software

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Autonamous cars work great in a homogenous environment with only other self driving cars, going the same direction. For example, one lane on a motorway.

All other environments are too dynamic to be reasonable safe. I mean, we know how to drive for decades and still people die on the roads, by unfortunate accidents or by misbehavior. And from this data, they teach their AI.

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

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Re: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right

As they if know who is who in this setting ....

American science put on starvation diet

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There is actually some logic behind this - from the point of view of Mr. President:

1. Knowledge is dangerous once in the hand of the enemy (especially if it is a personal or political enemy, or can become one)

2. The USA needs minions to populate the returning factories (cheap labour).

Me, sinical?

China approves rules for national ‘online number’ ID scheme

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Re: Can ? Come on, this is China.

and soon to be deployed at a service near you. With kind regards, your government.

This is the end of anonymous internet.

How Java changed the development landscape entirely as code turns 30

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How it changed the world...

and since, the world has changed again.

Congratulations Java, you've reached the age at which you are called a "niche".

I did do my share of Java in the past, but never really liked it or found it well suited for the purpose we were using it for. But in those days, it was "fashionable" and "easy to get experienced developers".

Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'

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If Apple would transfer (significant) volume to be manufactured in the U.S. of A, would it make it a cheaper product for the American Citizen?

Would an imported iPhone / iPad with 25% Donald Tariff be more expensive? I cannot tell.

And how long does it take/how much does it cost to implement local manufacturing and supporting logistics?

All I can see is that the label "made in the U.S. of A." does not necessarily make it a cheaper or better product.

Mr. President is a real estate entrepeneur witth no/limited experience in manufacturing or supply chain management. For once, I believe mr. Cook is right and buying time is the best way out for now. In less then 4 years time there is another Mr(s) President, with different views and dito politics.

Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’

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Re: Leading from the rear

My dishwasher has WiFi, so I can remotely start it (never used, I fill it and press "Start" before closure) or have it alert me when the dishes are ready (not interested)

Disabled it instead.

AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming

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AI has is merits in code generation - but to an extent. Knowing its power and therefore its weakness is key in a development project. That is what today's AI specialist should be accounted for.

You can do with less coders in the end - they are swapped with more "system integrators", busy to glue all these AI fragments into one coherent product that ultimately does compile and run. Understanding code remains necessary to be succesfull at the job, and understanding any piece of code these days is often a challenge on its own - with or without AI.

Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

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Downgrade indeed

Currently I have a license for an ancient version of Elements & Premiere - suits me for years.

Yet, with the new plan, I can get Elements & Premiere, with a 3 year license, not renewable, nothing. So I pay for software that stops working in three years to come.

Sorry Adobe, but this is b***s**t. I know: Your product, your terms, but my money, so no new Adobe products for me. I keep my current old software until the hardware on which it runs fails.

Thank you & Goodbye

AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics

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And not to forget

Understanding the difference in what has been told to you and understanding the actual needs, which are two different things.

In automation, coding should be the least of your worries.

AI skills shortage more than doubles for UK tech leaders

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No - it is the ability to ask ChatGPT to do exactly that....

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Re: Cognitive dissonance here

This would make a nice new episode of Dragon's Den, with a little twist.

Have the "entrepeneurs" come to the Den, which is chaired by real engineers.

Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations

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Typical

This is what happens at the interface of two worlds: the responsibility lies with the other party....

Seen it before.

Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies

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Re: "single-factor analysis of conditions known to be complex and multifactorial as a "red flag""

Sure, but someone has to read the paper to recognise that's what it's doing which appears to be one of the current use cases for AI in the first place.

So, we need to apply AI to determine IF some input is trustworthy/reliable/correct/real science/...<your criterion goes here>, THEN we take that to train the LLM.

Let's make a LLM for that analysis...... OK, I get my coat -->

Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows

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Only if

'sudo' is a symlink to sudo-rs, so the former sudo with said vulnerabilities is not used - not even by accident or on purpose.

Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source

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And not forget

that apart from the pro-Trump purity test, you will have to pass EMO (Elon Musk Obsolesence) without being made redudant in the process.

IT pros are caught between an AI rock and an economic hard place

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Depends on the industry

Given several existing standards for software development (I am not talking about coding standards but more generic development standards like CENELEC 50716, IEC 61508-3 or DO-178C), there is more to do than just "generate the code" using AI. You might want to use AI, but the design in front, and the checks afterwards cannot be assigned to AI in its current state and trust.

There are opportunities left, although this kind of software engineering may not appeal to everybody.

Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush

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From one dead horse to another

The new name is Metareverse then.

And the industry fails to understand that its existence is based on them providing solutions to the needs of the people. And yet, they keep introducing solutions to a problem nobody has.

Neither the metaverse nor AI offer solutions to real-life problems to the extend that their cost outweight the savings.

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

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Tempting....

Now is the perfect time to decide which future will keep you happiest and most productive, a choice as much psychological and technological, and find a way to have fun as you take your chosen path. It's that or going to eBay for that Commodore 64.

Which is actually a nice thought - if happiness and fun are to prevail, a Commodore 64 perfectly fits.

Boeing offloads some software businesses to private equiteer Thoma Bravo

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Boeing needs the cash

and private equity is the only option left to go for.

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

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Meaning that their AI is trained with stuff like rants, advertisements, false facts and (unsupported) opinions by individuals pretending to be adults?

Or as we say in NL: Ai. (Eng: Ouch. No joke...)

Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

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So the bottom line is: nobody has a clue anymore?

The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

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Does the library feature

the Nokia ringtone already ?

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

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The AI killer app has been found!

It is called "Advertising".

What else would those podcasts be all about then?

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

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Re: Nothing interesting to sell

Software? Software? Is that it?

And I do not want that either.

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

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Ursula said it

"Safety is one of the key prerequisites for open, vibrant societies and a flourishing economy,"

Which we why we value our encrypted communication so much, Ursula...

Keep your hands off.

AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday

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Do not scrap obsolete nuclear submarines anymore...

... turn them into a datacenter.

Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare

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Interesting piece of kit. Although I would say this is not an AI PC. This is an AI platform, to be deployed next to your regular PC.

These platforms look promising in R&D environments.

Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid

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There is no such thing as off-grid nowadays

There are a lot of organisations having your data with no means to escape: government (both local and country-wide), insurance companies, health services to name a few.

All of these are "on grid" to some extend - and can "leak information", or be hacked.

Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn't a sign the AI bubble is bursting

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Obvious problem.

They can get the rack space.

They can get the servers.

They can get the AI processors and memory in those servers.

But they can't get the required energy to run them 24/7

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

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The only "good" thing here is that nothing really bad happened to the soldiers out there in the field because of this cock-up.

And what other "mistakes" have been made that we are not aware about (yet) ?

Imagine what it is going to look like if you are out there, serving your country, and be massacred because your upper commanders are too incompetent to give a sh*t about operation security.

(Me glad not being in the US military)

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Re: They're already

The real Trumpian approach is to apply yet another tariff.

Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'

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Big Brother

So Google actually is capable in deleting your data without recovery.

Good to know! They will not use this data to train there AI, or any data harvesting for your convenience for commercial purpose.

Just tell us simple beings how to do this: delete and be sure it is gone....

Accenture: DOGE's federal procurement review is hurting our sales

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A challange!

There is, however, an "opportunity" to help consolidate, modernize, and reinvent the federal government to drive a whole new level of "efficiency,"

I hope Mrs. Sweet is not referring to this in the meaning of "making our own services obsolete". Accenture's shareholders will not be happy about that...

Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip

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Too little, and way too late

If there were a viable economical and commercially attractive alternative to these US services, it would have been available by now, wouldn't it?

The point is that the investment required to achieve the level of flexibility and functionality provided by US companies is way too high to ever become profitable.

Calling for the government to support funding is too easy in this regard. If dependency of US-controlled companies is regarded a risk, you have to act as company.

So if being independent from the US is now important, let them start a cloud/service business themselves as an alternative to the US controlled companies. Do neither count nor wait on the governments for action.

OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini?

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a new experience, powered by Gemini, to home devices like speakers, displays and TVs

Each time I run into communication babbling about "new experience" it results in the experience being worse than it was before.

Did I mention that there is no way back to the old experience either ?

AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing

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There is no killer app. All these companies are so desperate on deploying AI on ...whatever... that the actual problem to be solved appears to be lost.

So the obvious AI response must be 42. Now let us aim for the question.

iRobot may be iDead in iYear

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With the possibility that soon Roomba's will not suck anymore, I guess this was not the solution they were looking for....

Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms

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Re: Regulator knows best?

Apart from having FRMCS right or wrong, this is about the assignment of the frequency bands over different applications.

If you want trains crossing borders, they have to comply to the basic parameters - like using the frequency bands for the correct reasons and under correct conditions.

The UK has cross-border rail connections to the EU: the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, and not to forget Newry - Dundalk.

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Re: Problem

This is interference, and that is not so uncommon as you would believe. Almost all higher-frequency electronic equipment emits and is receptible to some electromagnetic radiation.

EMC conformity can be a pain...

In practice, it makes sense not to put different electronic (transmission) equipment close to eachother, especially when you are not providing decent shielding, hence the "open case".

Trump tariffs forcing rethink of PC purchases stateside

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FAIL

Buy today!

There will be more tariffs applicable tomorrow...

Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel

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Two bad examples

Email cannot be considered an "app" as such, in fact I believe it is one of the most productivity-killing tools in the world.

About Excel: I noticed quite a lot of people using Excel as a word processor or database system, "because it can do it". But a "killer app"?

So Nadella is looking for the "one-app-fits-all-purposes" app?

Microsoft's updated Windows battery indicator rollout runs out of juice

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Facepalm

I guess they recalled it because the calculation of the remaining charge (all done by CoPilot based on Recall-generated screendumps) did not match the actual value.

Then people were surprised by a sudden shutdown while still "in the green".

No really, how hard can this feature be? It is not that laptops are new to the market, are they?

London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world

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This is not a surprise

As Chinese tech is forbidden in these networks, it has to be bought elsewhere, meaning bigger lead times, less competetion and therefore higher prices.

We will get 5G much later than others, for more money and less coverage.

Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say

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The value is not so much the data itself

The value is in owning the data - it is yours, and yours only.

There is an anology in owning huge masses of land. You can use it for farming, housing, explore the soil, do some mining for rare earth materials, whatever you like to see if there is any added value to the data. But you don't have to. And if others want to do something with it, they need your approval (and give you money).

Doing data analysis this way is like determining what to do with the land - giving the risks and opportunities (return on investment) with all options you have, you decide to do a little more research... (repeat).

As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick

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Live and A.I.

A billionaire with too much spare time has invented some sort of A.I. that is capable to install itself in the human brain.

As this billionaire is involved in the election campaign of one of the worlds largest nations, he is able to install the A.I. in the brain of a president candidate by means of a murder attempt.

The candidate happens to win the election and comes to power. The A.I. immediately activates and decisions are dicated by the billionaire.

MI 5 detects weird radiation coming out of the president's head, which after examination appears to be an encryption communication channel using 7000+ low earth satellites connecting the president to the villains HQ.

Bond has a double mission: disturb the up- and downlink to the president and trace the villain to destroy the villains empire.

To escape, the villain puts on a spacesuit and launches himself into space, sitting in a convertible car.

Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy

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Definitely not!

It will fast forward to 100%, and remain there for hours. As usual.

Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze

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Obligatory xkcd

Obviously

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

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Joke

Suggestion for Larry

Rebrand your products. Some suggestions:

OrAIcle dAItabase

MAISql

You're welcome.

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

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Re: AI…. To do what???

I know exactly where AI will be used for: more data harvesting (on you) so that AI customers (not you) can be informed (about you), and they will be able to target (you) with adds and "exclusive offers", a.k.a. going after (your) money.

That is why "everybody" should have an AI-enabled PC - to do your own harvesting on their behalf.

Maybe I am too pessimistic.

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