Posts by BiffoTheBorg

Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost

If projects get the funding, far side lunar observatories sound far more interesting than propping up this 40 year old tech.

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

Haha, in joke, this article was written by ChatGPT.

OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much

C? Compiler?

AI prompt straight to machine language is wot the kool kids are aiming for, man.

Re: Should have been xAI

Reusable rockets say hi!

Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues

Clawdbot->Moltbot->OpenClaw

Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity

Re: people power

That would make a great film.

Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers

Impressive but do the McD's have 80 superchargers and 2 giant cinema screens?

Ah, the LA diner has been in development for 2 years?

Not a pivot or indeed any sort of reaction to "struggling to sell EVs" then?

So just another clickbait MDS headline then? Yawn.

Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls

I agree, I also had a Made in Fremont 2019 Tesla Model 3 and the build quality was unimpressive.

However, in 2022 I traded it for a Made in China Model Y and the car is much better built, it is widely reported that 2025 Made in Germany Juniper Model Y is even better, so I may trade up to that.

Prior to 2019 I owned a number of BMWs and spent plenty of time and money at the dealers whereas aside from tyres and screen wash the Teslas have cost nothing to maintain or service.

TSLA is up 25.38% on this time last year.

Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork

Should be easy enough to delegate the assisted dying duties to one of the bots.

Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess

Copilot and ChatGPT got schooled by an Atari 2600’s Video Chess, proving their “grandmaster” swagger is just a 128-byte bluff! These LLMs played like pawns drunk on pixelated wine, blundering into checkmate faster than you can say “insert cartridge.” Stick to crosswords, boys—your chess game’s so weak, it’s practically a knight-mare!

Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE

There was never any creditable justification for all this "Elon Musk is literally Hitler" drivel and it is getting so tired and boring now, please can we go back to "Biden is as sharp as a tack"?

Elon Musk was always going to gradually reduce time at DOGE, all Special Government Employees are permitted to work 130 days per year. Elon Musk worked 94 in the first quarter, so has to reduce to 1 or 2 days a week for the remainder of the year.

Tesla cars built at Fremont in the early days continuing up to 2019 had significant quality issues, mostly cosmetic relating to panel gaps and light housing leaks, and some early Model S batteries were below standard. From about 2020 onwards quality was much improved in the USA and Tesla cars built in Shanghai and Berlin have been of good quality from the start of production.

The new version of Tesla Model Y is a significant improvement on what was the world's best selling car in 2023.

People that ordered Roadster and those hoping for a cheaper low end vehicle are very disappointed and frustrated at the delays and Cybertruck, although very ambitious and different failed to deliver the range and price points that were promised and continues to have manufacturing issues due to the uncompromising design.

This year will be critical for Tesla, it will be significant if Cybercab trials in Austin start on schedule in June and are successful and more countries get supervised FSD trials as well as those in USA and China.

Currently, Tesla's share price is $284.95, more than 50% higher than 12 months ago.

Re: Doesn't matter

List them.

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

So Google is the effing Pope now?

Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

All fascists start by limiting the reach of government and reducing waste in government spending, it's literally on page one of Mein Kampf.

Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off

Pale Moon?

Tesla shareholders agree to pay Musk staggering sum of $48B

Pay the man

When the deal was made it seemed almost impossible, but Elon Musk succeeded.

A majority of the owners of the business have voted in favour of the package.

Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme

Missing a trick here

Surely given that the Chinese are global leaders in tracking people, they should be the main contractors, would probably be the cheapest and ByteDance has demonstrated the ability to build world class systems.

When life gives you Lemon, sack him

The Musk Derangement Syndrome here is at critical levels.

Calling people names that liken them to historical fascists is puerile and weak minded, how disappointing.

Lemon strikes me as a typical media midwit, surprised that there is so much support for him here.

Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs

Legacy media always quoting X

Calls it "hellsite" and uses it as a source of news. ROFL.

Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion

Re: Re:Musk being on the left?

He has publicly stated that he has always voted Democrat and still considers himself left of center (sic) but does not feel inclined to support Biden 2024, however, he said that does not mean that he would vote Trump.

Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges

Re: One problem

If it is not illegal it is free speech.

Tesla to remote patch 2M vehicles after damning Autopilot safety probe

Re: Autopilot may undermine the effectiveness of the driver's supervision

Recent What Car? group test of Tesla Model 3, BYD Seal, and VW ID.7 awarded the Tesla top place and said that the stalkless indicators took a few days to get used to.

"In certain circumstances when Autosteer is engaged, and the driver does not maintain responsibility for vehicle operation and is unprepared to intervene as necessary or fails to recognize when Autosteer is canceled or not engaged, there may be an increased risk of a crash,"

Sounds like the sort of ruling that got us the stern warning on McDonalds coffee, Caution: Contents hot.

Instead of these stupid restrictions couldn't we just stop, um, less capable folk from going out without supervision?

Bing AI feels like ChatGPT stuffed into a suit – not the future

One Bing to rule them all

I’m sorry to hear that. I understand that it can be frustrating when you can’t verify the information you receive. I would like to assure you that I always try to provide accurate and up-to-date information. I also provide references to the sources I use to generate my responses. If you ever have any doubts about the information I provide, please feel free to ask me for the sources. I’m here to help you with any questions you may have.

Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you

One Bing to rule them all

So far I have found ChatGPT to be really useful, I have even swapped to Edge rather than Firefox, Bing with Chat makes Google seem rather basic.

People still seem to think their fancy cars are fully self-driving

Re: Tesla doesn't advertise

I have my second Tesla and I am pretty pleased with it, however, I doubt that my next car will be a Tesla, other manufacturers are catching up and the charging network is improving. The Xpeng P5 with lidar, radar, cameras, and USS seems to be in the lead when it comes to cost effective "self driving" meanwhile Tesla thinks it can do it all just using cameras, bonkers.

Tesla has a lot of work to do on its Optimus robot

Re: What's the point of a humanoid robot?

Clearly, any robot approaching human functionality will be able to maintain and upgrade itself.

Could BYOB (Bring Your Own Battery) offer a solution for charging electric vehicles? Microlino seems to think so

One can imagine a very pleasant environment in a city that permitted only the likes of Zoox Robotaxis, Zoox Robovans for deliveries, Microlinos, and Microlettas.

A logical development of ULEZ.

Amazon tells folks it will stop accepting UK Visa credit cards via weird empty email

Re: My email wasn't blank...

For Amazon prime users the Amazon card gives effectively 1.5% discount on every Amazon purchase, also there is a £40 gift card when you sign up. We use different cards for purchases elsewhere.

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

Maybe Microsoft is right, Edge has a great logo, why do I want to use Firefox anyway, I mean no one else does, right?

The rest of humankind uses Chrome haha and that isn't Microsoft at all.

Intel's €80bn European chip plant investment plan not bound for UK because Brexit

Attractive German subsidies enticed Tesla to Berlin and then Tesla got tied up in red tape and lost about a year of production, hopefully it will go better for Intel.

Re: What a surprise @Geez Money

I have always found that anyone that has a different opinion to me is an idiot, presumably because I am superior.

Trial of Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes begins: She plans to say her boyfriend and COO Balwani abused her

Re: I just don't buy it.

I read the book and I agree, I think that for some time at least she really believed that she could make things happen by the force of her belief and personality and simply refusing to accept failure whereas all along Sunny was simply a crook and a bully.

Full Stream ahead: Microsoft will end 'classic' method of recording Teams meetings despite transcription concerns

Microsoft 365 Family starts to look attractive at £79.99 per year, 6TB cloud + latest Office.

What has happened to me, somebody put me back on the straight and narrow.

We're on our way already: Astroboffins find 5 potentially habitable Tatooine-like systems from Kepler 'scope

Space is big

If we could complete the journey at an average 1% of the speed of light, which we can't, it would take 400,000 years to get there, so probably it doesn't matter much.

Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December?

The peak time for Sea Freight is August/September/October and for Air Freight October/November/December so it will all be over by Christmas, i.e. before the deadline.

Ebuygumm doesn't break t' Nominet rules, eBay and Gumtree told

Clearly a coincidence

Apparently ebuygumm called Mike Rowe as an expert witness.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin. Hang on, the PDP 11/70 has dropped offline

I recall a similar datacentre from those times

Reed Group Aylesford had PDP 11/70, Primes, and IBM 360, don't remember any Petes though, but I do recall a Mike.

Before then in the 70's when I was a shift leader at a datacentre in Beckenham the Director responsible for IT used to pay social visits to the computer room whilst puffing away on his pipe. Of course, smoking in the computer room was forbidden but no one ever said as much to the big boss. I always hoped that one day his cloud of smoke would set off the fire alarm, it never did, but one day I had finally had enough and quietly triggered the alarm myself. Profuse apologies from puffing billy and there was no more pipe in the computer room.

Thanks, Brexit. Tesla boss Elon Musk reveals Berlin as location for Euro Gigafactory

Reuters headline yesterday "German automation talent powers Musk's battery move to Europe". Model 3 production last year was saved by 6 plane loads of German robots and "Made in Germany" Teslas is viewed as a big plus. Also Germany has announced huge subsidies for battery development in Germany.

So you're 'agile', huh? I do not think it means what you think it means

In my experience some folk are much better, one or two orders of magnitude better, at software development than others. Nowadays they get promoted to some role where they don't actually do anything useful. I can't remember now why the IBM Chief Programmer Team system was discarded, I'm sure someone will remind me. However, it seems to me that one good developer with a strong support group can be much more productive than a group following a set of rules, Agifail or whatever, designed primarily to check up on the performance of generally poor team members.

Virgin Media cuts 250 jobs amid £3bn Project Lightning cockup fallout

Re: Oh Good grief!

I have 100mb VM and Speedtest.net tells me I am getting 108/6.26 which is nice, but I'm not sure how to measure QOS, do I need a high spec router or network diagnostic software?

Free Windows 10 could mean the END for Microsoft and the PC biz

Re: Free OS upgrades - Yawn.

"I use LibreOffice even at work, because it actually works."

Yeah, somewhat obstinately I used OpenOffice and LibreOffice for some years and then recently when I got a new Windows PC I installed ye olde MS Office 2002 and frankly it is better.

I'm running W10 on my PC and I think it is fab.

Can't wait for Cortana with voice in the UK.

Looking forward to W10 on my phone too.

Google unveils Windows 8.1 zero-day vuln – complete with exploit code

Is Google my friend?

Not sure, usually I'm not that keen on self aggrandising megalomaniac advertising companies.

Perhaps, this time they really do have my best interests at heart.

Sonic BOOM: 10 blast-tastic soundbars

Not sure if the devices reviewed are dedicated to use with the TV or can be used as more general purpose sound delivery devices.

I use a SONOS Playbar, SUB, and a pair of Play 3s and I am very happy with the sound for films and general TV. Very immersive for watching football. Also, jolly handy for playing music and listening to the radio when the TV is off. I used to have big speakers but my wife didn't like the "clutter".

Many of us these days seem content to trade a bit of quality for a lot of convenience.