Posts by Grunchy

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

These hackers are not “engineers”

One distinction of so-called “professional” engineers is the requirement to learn and to observe some basic ethics. Including some fundamentals like “telling the truth” and “protecting the public safety” such as life & limb, health, property, etc.

These concepts are detrimental to the efforts of the “upwardly mobile”: those seeking influence and working on their persuasion skills. Inevitably you sabotage your career if you find yourself shackled with ethical principles. You can’t propel your own self upwards without exerting an equal/opposite influence on your immediate environment (which you are leaving imminently with your freshly-gained momentum). The trick is to step hard on solid footing, if the structure is too rickety or rotten you’ll crash right through!

(Actual engineers get trapped by ethics into building solid and sturdy infrastructure, which then gets scavenged and looted by hackers who just want to grab & steal & don’t care much about some place they were gonna run away from anyway.)

Hint: Agile has absolutely nothing to say about protecting life & limb, health and welfare, or preserving or securing property. Agile is “hacker” crap, just slap something together quick and cheap, cash the cheque, and get off that rickety platform as fast as humanly possible!

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

Re: He Doesn't Expect Any Response

I saw on the news that Donald Plump tried to tell the judge to overturn his conviction, because Harris said that she’s the prosecutor and he’s the felon, and he doesn’t like that, he wants to be the prosecutor and Harris is the felon, and I think the judge didn’t agree with the proposal (for whatever reason, who knows).

I told my NAS to go fsck

Yeah the RAID is like 80% full and my poor little NAS brain took nearly a week to juggle all that content before concluding, “file system check seems ok.”

Moral: if your equipment is a dumb fsck-er, expect dumb fsck-ups!

Hello? Emergency services? I'd like to report a wrong number

$500 in Canada

We have the socialized medicine but that’s just the medical, not the emergency transport. If you call an ambulance that’s a $500 bill (but if you have extended health, like with an employment plan, I think it might be covered — maybe).

I forget what the fire truck cost, for a while the emergency alarm was getting false triggers & not only was it a nuisance to the whole facility (because everybody had to evacuate & then appear at muster to attend the roll call) but the cost was not insubstantial.

I heard that you could turn on any deactivated cell phone in Canada, with no sim whatsoever, and they are all able to connect to 911. It’s like some parents would relent to providing their kids a cellular “for emergency purposes,” and that’s how they did it. You couldn’t use the phone for NOTHING, except the emergency. And then, you can use public wi-fi and free VOIP (Fongo) and free SMS (TextNow), not to mention the likes of Blackberry Messaging and iPhone messaging: all of a sudden paid cellular isn’t particularly relevant anymore.

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

Still got my C128, still never ran CP/M

I still never even booted up the Z80 processor onboard, although I'm told that every power-on causes the Z80 to check something & then transfer control to the 8502. I been running it since 1985!

(I saw on youtube somebody logging their C128 into CP/M and even with a hardware-emulated disk, it's ponderously slow. Plus, what could you run on it? Furthermore, you know what, I never had the 80-col capable monitor anyway!)

Nobody can deny Kildall's triumphs, contributions, and unwarranted downfall.

Nevertheless today I am far more impressed by KolibriOS: really amazing stuff!

How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business

Re: Dotcom boom n bust all over again

AI is older than the current hype phase, and has already earned billion$ for plenty of very wealthy companies.

For example, and let’s suppose you were to play any kind of race driving game. Most of those games, by-and-large, are played as single-player experiences, and yet are contests among other “participants” (who are actually computer-controlled rivals following some kind of pre-programmed algorithm).

Even though the strategies are rudimentary at best, yeah, the ghosts in pac-man are an early form of artificial intelligence— that paid off hugely for the inventors!

Video gaming is one example of extremely lucrative returns on artificial intelligence (it’s just that nobody calls it that, even though that’s exactly what it is).

Nothing like taking down some Spaceward Ho! algorithms, particularly because they are so diabolically savage, it’s like ohmigod stop wasting my settlements ya cold calculating bastard, here’s my invading fleet on your homeworld you scummy cylon slime-suckin griblets. Eat laser blast!

Fantastic Movie

There’s a fantastic movie about artificial intelligence called “Computer Chess” that I can certainly recommend!

Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK

Re: You can increase fees only when you increase value

This is a “dead cat” bounce. The manager in charge, faced with simultaneous need for revenue and dwindling customers, decides the 50% remaining customers will have to pay 2x the cost to maintain the original cash flow. The dead cat only has enough momentum for one bounce.

(The vendor can also use pricing to push customers to one preferred product, eg. when DOS came out IBM sold that for $40 while charging $240 for CP/M. Why did they do that, well, must have been because they preferred vending DOS.)

The months and days before and after CrowdStrike's fatal Friday

…I always assumed “Crowdstrike” was some kind of regrettable catastrophe involving George Russel and a Mercedes.

Beijing's attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China

I bet CIA can’t “hack” Kolibri

Furthermore, nobody can hack my “Ghost Spectre” windows install.

Well, there’s two reasons.

1. I keep my Windows VM isolated away from the internet.

2. It’s kinda hard to hack my Windows VM if I barely ever log into it!

… because what’s the point of running windows anymore ?!

Guy puts 1990s MacOS 7 on an Apple Watch – without jailbreaking it

9 years later…

I’m curious, what would it take to run System 7 on an Apple TV gen 1/2/3? I picked up a few of them and they are all useless now (as per Apple’s intention.)

AMD predicts future AI PCs will run 30B parameter models at 100 tokens per second

Personal AI cloud server

I bought some cheep old servers and scientific computation GPUs, I suppose I could send them an AI query off my 1st gen iPhone SE and have it deliver results fast enough.

This is speculative of course, first of all I’d require some need or interest compelling me to seek such technology.

(I don’t see any such personal need or interest developing… ever.)

FBI gains access to Trump rally shooter's phone

Ramblin Man

I was curious about what Trump was rambling about right when the bullets started to fly. Well, because they easily could have been “last words.”

What was it about? The interesting thing is that nobody cared about whatever he was speaking of.

I have an inkling that everybody knows it’s all phoney baloney and therefore completely immaterial to every conceivable purpose. …which explains why nobody knows what he was talking about. Nor cares.

With users mostly happy to keep older kit, Macs just ain't selling like they used to

Bought 1800X in 2017

I’ve done 3 upgrades since 2017. #1 bought a 4TB NVME when they got real cheap, #2 I built a 5900X system for a relative and the X570 motherboard absolutely needed a 3800X to do the BIOS update, so I bought a used 3800X cheap, which I subbed back into my B350 system, and #3 DDR4 ram got so cheap I maxed out to 128GB. Supposedly it is easy to spin up a Monterey VM, and I even did it one time, but I really have zero use for a Mac.

(I stick with my B350 motherboard because it still has a single PCI slot, which I think I populated with something but I literally have no recollection of what that was. None of the modern devices suit my needs because they all lack PCI. My “update” regimen is that I forget all the stuff I packed in there, so I pull off the cover to take stock, then I notice the dust accumulation, after which I pull all the cords & redo the heat sink compound, etc. I see zero reason to do any actual “upgrade,” not in the next decade or ever again.)

PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11

Re: Fun tweaks and Windows :o

“Preparing to configure Windows. Do not turn off your computer”. Any solutions would be appreciated.

Sure, I have a solution! Reconfigure your PC as a Linux appliance and load in the virt-manager. Set up a new “Windows” VM but make sure to install “Ghost Spectre” instead. Turn off all updates, and also kill the network connection. Take a snapshot just in case you ever do get infected.

It’s lovely. Microsoft is banished from meddling with the system and you are free to run whatever legacy software that doesn’t have a Linux version. I’d banished the scourge of Microsoft updates for many years already, it’s great.

I’m a Mac Emigrant

LOVED the SE/30 and NCSA Mosaic, and its cheerful “quack” sound effects.

… ever since then, no.

(I still utilize Win10 as a VM, from within Ubuntu, with a dedicated Vega56. I suppose I could set up a OS-X VM, but the hill of “don’t care” has proven a bit too steep. I still occasionally fire up Win for CAD and Office 2007 Professional. What for, OS-X? The only things I ever used it for were #1 Bolo, #2 Spaceward Ho, #3 Aldus Pagemaker, and #4 Mosaic.)

Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy

Throw me a bone here

I don’t understand what this article is about.

WHAT software?

I’m trying to read “between the lines,” is this about Microsoft Flight Simulator? Or, what.

Users rage as Microsoft announces retirement of Office 365 connectors within Teams

Such B.S.

Teams - Slack - Discord - ICQ and countless others are clunky distractions, because they demand constant monitoring.

It’s far more effective to just talk to the person face-to-face, or call them if they’re not nearby, or send a text/photo if they’re not available, or send an email if they don’t have the cellular, or leave a note, or send a letter.

(I don’t approve of these gimmicky “fad apps,” they come and go, they’re unnecessarily complicated, they’re inherently insecure, and they are nothing but glorified Usenet / RSS aggregators.)

Breaking the rules is in Big Tech's blood – now it's time to break the habit

Learning should be outlawed

If you read anything and learn from it (or even better: make some kind of profit from it) then you should have all your "earnings" (stealings) taken away from you, by force.

There is no justification for anybody to "steal" knowledge from somebody else (who had published it "for entertainment purposes") and then derive some kind of ill-gotten income from that stolen insight, it's just common sense people!

American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years

Re: Why make it personal?

“What really strikes me about Teslas is that they're cars designed and made by a technology company which refuses to copy solutions developed by established car companies…”

Did you know Tesla scalped most of the Lotus design team for the original roadster?

Teslas are practically off-brand Lotus, mechanically-speaking. Of ~2010 vintage. The control scheme is pure garbage. I am bothered by the “steer by wire” insanely stupid scheme, I might be wrong about this, but it seems to me the steering is literally disconnected from the front wheels, all so a little boy ceo can play video games on the dash panel of the Tesla.

(I am not sure about how factual that is, seems bizarre such a scheme would be allowed on the roads, but it is something I heard about somewhere.)

I’m buying Aptera

I’m an engineer so naturally I’m a fan of the Aptera trike.

I think it’s super-wizard!

(It would be better with “Freegen” intelligent braking system, but that tech is only brand-new, needs some testing etc.)

https://youtu.be/bLu6H-K4L2Y

Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs

We insist you copy all your files to Microsoft Corporation

It seems slightly suspicious that they want a copy of everybody’s data.

Sure, the data, once it is copied over, is safely secured behind impervious encryption.

What if they figured out a way to make a “summary” of the data in the few microseconds between when the data is transmitted and when it is encrypted. Maybe the encryption algorithm takes one input stream and creates two outputs: one is the encrypted data, and the other is a “bias” data. The bias stream can’t be used to recreate the original copy, but it might carry the “gist” of it.

Then, you feed all these bias streams from all of Microsoft’s “valued” customers to one big whopper of an AI processor, which, inexplicably, can suddenly make surprisingly accurate predictions about such things as the stock markets, consumer trends, voter preferences, etc.

I have long suspected Google of doing something similar with its “gmail“ service. Everybody in the world gets free email, and Google gets an opportunity to monitor all of the communications between everybody. Perhaps not a perfect copy, perhaps a “bias” stream is enough to suddenly be able to make remarkably accurate predictions about the future.

Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US

Re: Embassy

“No innocent until proven guilty then?”

I do believe that once someone pleads guilty, nobody has to prove anything.

Keep in mind he has to plead in front of an American judge. Certainly the prosecution has asked for time already served but the judge is never obliged to do anything anybody asks.

I have said before, it would serve the whiney, GUILTY little bitch right to finally face justice and be told to get his ass out of there, all the years he spent blubbering and sniveling to actual journalists were wasted for nothing.

Biden bans Kaspersky: No more sales, updates in US

No antivirus

I gave up on Microsoft a year ago, though I still fire up “ghost spectre” once in awhile for legacy applications. Never online, though. That’s the nice thing about virt-manager, I only let Win10 online the one time, and then only to register my official “gray market” license. As far as Windows knows, there is no internet (and therefore, no virus). Even if I infected my installation somehow, I can revert any pre-infection snapshot. Far superior to Microsoft’s garbage recovery scheme that never worked right.

Honestly I could not care less about Russia, the whole country has been a disaster ever since Lenin. I know plenty of ex-Russians, guess what, they don’t like Russia, either. That’s why they emigrated the heck outta there!

Musk ropes Dell, Supermicro into xAI supercomputer project

AI is latest "tech hoax" pump & dump. Musk is a scam artist 10x worse than Enron.

https://youtu.be/pOuBCk8XMC8

"Tech is a sector unlike any other - it’s an industry where individuals can turn into billionaires overnight, ideas supersede fundamentals, and leaders are rewarded for showmanship. In today’s Silicon Valley, innovation is crowned and not earned. Venture capitalists and founders are symbiotic. Unprofitable companies are kept alive with injections of capital, gamed valuations, and manufactured hype with the goal of surviving long enough to IPO.

Starting in the early 2010s, Silicon Valley had championed big data as a revolutionary technology that could unearth deep insights, hidden patterns, and innovation from massive amounts of data. Yet the market started to question in the early 2020s if any of these promises had even been real as nearly all consumer and SaaS startups were still bleeding nearly a decade later.

Out of nowhere, ChatGPT was released and AI became Silicon Valley’s next big thing. Every tech company is now an “AI company”, every Fortune 500 needs an “AI strategy”, VCs are only investing in AI startups, and every product is an “AI” product. This is a deep dive into how artificial intelligence is just the latest tale spun by Silicon Valley to sweep prior failed trends under the rug, keep valuations high, and outlook positive.

Before AI, there was crypto, web3, blockchain, virtual reality, big data, IoT, and wearables - all supposedly revolutionary technologies that have never lived up to the hype. In this episode, we’ll dive into the market dynamics that push companies and individuals to jump headfirst into tech trends, how this all started with big data, and why AI is ultimately just another pump-and-dump."

GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know

Works marvelous! A little shrill, perhaps..

Craft computing on YouTube has several “how to do it” videos for setting up a multi-user gaming server with outdated server cards and Parsec and/or Sunshine/Moonlight remote desktop.

I got a 2nd hand Datto NAS equipped with a Celeron including onboard GPU, I was able to enable virtualization, install the Proxmox, install a butt-load of servers, and also an Ubuntu container running “eye spy” agent freeware monitoring several network security cameras strategically placed around the compound with full hardware accelerated encoding. The only hiccough arose because I decided to enable NFS for one of the ZFS volumes & apparmor started howling about unprivileged containers. Funny thing, up until that moment everything inexplicably “just works,” so you press your luck “just one more time” and now apparmor howls at me every single login, it really is very shrill. Wish it weren’t such a banshee but I suppose it’s only expressing its true nature.

From RAGs to riches: A practical guide to making your local AI chatbot smarter

I haven’t even read any Big Data books yet!

I’m way behind on this. I ordered some crappy images from Dall-E and asked Chat GPT something or other one time, but that’s as far as I got so far.

Meanwhile I never even cracked any of my Big Data resources yet, let alone explored any Machine Learning concepts.

The problem with “fuzzy logic” is that the computer is incapable of giving you a definite result in response to a general query. You can ask for something to be generated, even with a fair degree of specificity; but the result is always a surprise. Most of the time, when I’m doing something on the computer, I have a specific end goal in mind. Admittedly, it’s rare and wonderful when the computer works as expected. But whenever the result is indefinite, it’s up to the operator, the human, to evaluate and vet the result before you let a computer “commit.” Recently I did my taxes, on the computer, but I had to triple check the accuracy of everything before I would let it Netfile the result. I don’t like artificial intelligence. You have to watch like a hawk every decision it tries to make. AI is liable to drive your expensive Tesla car underneath a tractor trailer because it doesn’t “recognize” the obstacle. Even worse, the AI has zero recognition of how dire a situation it is when the human operator’s CPU gets chopped off; doesn’t that just plug back in again? NO?

Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

VPN, censor tracker, and tor browser

I don’t use any of these extensions. I got the one that injects dark background CSS so I could play NY Times sudoku without having to discern faint grey numbers against “glare white” (official CSS color name).

(I don’t think the privacy extensions are of much use anyway, presumably the FSB can access the same resources & easily infiltrate the group, identify all the participants, and move them all to Siberia for Xmas!)

Elon Musk ends OpenAI lawsuit without explaining why

The whole story

https://youtu.be/4y40RU5Nx6U

“This fuckin guy” series, Hysteria channel, re: Elon Musk: Everything you didn’t know about his shitty past.

The ladies are downright profane in this one!

Fragile Agile development model is a symptom, not a source, of project failure

How about standups

Over on PMI somebody proposed the idea of daily “standups” where the whole gang comes together in a circle and each participant intones 1-what they did yesterday 2-what’s their roadblock and 3-what’s happening tomorrow. “Nobody owns it,” sez the PMP, “it’s great, you blow 15 minutes but now everybody knows the score.”

Harrumph. I worked in that environment and it’s a sweatshop tactic. The supervisor owns the standup, matter-of-fact, and scheduled it every single morning at 7 sharp (so nobody’s ever tardy, you see). If you’re the buddy of the supervisor you get lots of easy tasks that all take moments to do, so every standup you can rattle off a dozen accomplishments, no roadblocks, nothing but win. If you’re not the buddy of the supervisor, you get long difficult tasks that each take several days to do and have substantial roadblocks, sometimes (shocker!) not even being possible to achieve at all. When you mention the roadblocks then it’s public humiliation time, did I mention the supervisor is a psychopathic task-master? If you got too many troubles he’s liable to pile on a whole lot more & now everything is due tomorrow at 7 am, how do you like that. Can’t cut it, you’re fired (leastwise, that was my personal experience).

Anyway, then if you share this feedback on PMI, you know, “criticize” this extraordinarily lazy presentation this PMP slapped together, it’s “very concerning” to PMI “and how soon can we schedule a telephone conversation so we can discuss” your membership in our privately owned cult organization which firmly worships all agile methodology (and kinda doesn’t tolerate any “conflicting evidence”).

I do have half a mind to take them up on their friendly little offer.. !

At Apple, AI stands for 'Apple Intelligence' – and it's coming to everything

Who cares

I went to Granny’s house, she says the iPad is locked, I say what’s the password, she says she doesn’t remember anymore try “something,” but that didn’t work, the iPad says go do something else for the next 7 minutes, I check her Mac Mini, it says there’s an Apple ID issue, I ask Granny what’s the password, she says “who knows anymore?”, I do a “forgot password,” I go back to the iPad and try “nothing,” the iPad says go do something else for the next hour, I ask Granny where’s the cell phone, she says ask Grampa, I ask Grampa “what’s the 6-digit security code that Apple just sent,” he says “I thought it was a scam so I deleted it!”, so I try the recovery questions, I ask Grampa “what street did you grow up on,” he says it’s Ziprick, I ask “what was your first car,” he says it was a Dodge 4-door sedan, no wait it was a Plymouth, I ask “where did you go on your first flight,” he says, are you kidding?? Maybe Victoria or maybe Vancouver, I don’t remember, so I manage to reset Grampa’s Apple ID, but the iPad isn’t registered as one of his devices, and we can’t break into Granny’s account, so Apple says “Lookit we’ll get back to you June 15.”

Now you know why I could care less about Apple’s artificial intelligence balogna.

Our vulture survived Computex – now he just needs to tell us the highs and lows

Computex more AI tedium

You can “read all about it” here.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-best-of-computex-2024

YAWNERS! “In the aftermath of Computex 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan, we described what felt like an inescapable “AI wave.” Following our time on the ground at this year’s event, that wave has grown into a rip current…”

HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic

“Subscription,” that’s funny

I receive a lot of printed material each month, usually hordes of investors desperate to buy my house direct (minus realtor fee) and turn me into a “living space subscriber.”

Meanwhile, the Brother DCP-7065DN that I bought more than a decade ago for under $100 and spits out perfect laser pages without issue is still plugging away. Sadly, the Linux drivers already work just fine and cannot be remotely sabotaged by the manufacturer so as to hasten its demise and compel me to buy something modern: something predicated on a “subscription” model, or equipped with cloud control by the OEM !

(I have zero intention of allowing myself to be victimized by HP ever again, they may as well cease to exist as far as I am concerned.)

Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall

Doesn’t matter to me

No more microsoft products for me, thanks.

Forever!

Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall

I don’t use the work computer anymore

I got notified that “work” claims ownership of everything I do or create or access on the work computer.

That’s fine, as far as that goes.

Then I found out I can get a 2nd hand iphone of my own for one-time purchase of $50, plus network access.

Now I don’t use the work computer practically at all anymore!

I don’t know how they intend to steal all my ideas contacts correspondence and information anymore. As a matter of fact the cellphone kinda serves as a fairly decent spy camera which I can use to steal work information, if I so chose.

Windows 11 24H2 might call time on that old NAS under the stairs

No Problem

I updated my PC to Ubuntu and that’s all it needed! The problem with old NAS equipment is that it doesn’t have the performance necessary to hold all the surveillance information that spyware from Microsoft Apple Google are collecting on you without your knowledge or consent.

Just move on from these obsolete corporations, they don’t even pretend to try to improve their products for your benefit, not for years now.

Dell predicts 20 percent jump in memory and SSD prices later this year

I predict I’m not buying any Dell memory, well then again, I have NEVER bought Dell memory (or anything from Dell for that matter. Not even a newspaper subscription!)

Will Windows drive a PC refresh? Everyone's talking about AI

Ah Rats

I never even read any of my “big data” books, or even the “fuzzy logic” stuff. Am I falling behind or is this stuff popping in and out of existence faster than I can pay attention to it?!

(I don’t think I’m buying any AI computer, or any Microsoft Apple Google computer anymore. I’ve had it, I’ve gone the Ubuntu way.)

Amazon to ditch WorkDocs sharing service, support countdown begins

Has zero effect on me

I don’t rent space on some guy’s computer somewhere that may or may not burn down or get hijacked or dubbed off by a disgruntled gruntler at any second.

What do you take me for, some kind of stupid idiot or something?!

(I bought my own obsolete servers, 100% down and $0 a month. “Obsolete,” but still vastly more powerful than I will ever need.)

BOFH: Come on down to the dunge– erm … basement

Predicted by Turing

Virtualization and emulation are essentially practical implementations of “Turing machines.” So emulated environments are perfect, as far as I care. Yes, I’ve got the old C64 & C128, some DL380Ps and IBM x3850s. Yet pretty much everything I’ve got is running virtualized: Proxmox, Qemu, Linux containers, Android. FPGAs. MAME collections, exoDOS, Wine.

Beyond hoardinium, though, is the amount of irony I’ve also collected. You see, virtualization was originally invented so as to make possible “time sharing” schemes, in which multiple users can simultaneously access virtual “slices” of the same, single, computing resource. What happened is the complete opposite!! Now I’ve got dozens of computing devices ganged together into Proxmox clusters, and all serving one single user: myself. Not to mention hyperthreading, multiple cores, and multiple sockets, oy vey.

Do not all of our cups run over excessively?

Julian Assange can appeal extradition to the US, London High Court rules

The court case is interesting in that the UK government is seeking assurance from the USA that its constitutional rights that are unconditionally guaranteed to everyone in the USA are especially unconditionally guaranteed to Julian Assange. This seems a bit ridiculous, but whatever: sure, the USA unconditionally guarantees that universal constitutional rights that apply to everyone unconditionally will also apply to Julian Assange, too, even though nowhere therein is he (or anyone) excluded by name or by any distinguishing feature whatever. The unlimited universally guaranteed basic rights that are granted to everyone in the USA are hereby extended specifically to include Julian Assange also, even though nobody (not even he) were ever excluded at any time or in any manner.

As for his reluctance to face trial I suspect that Julian Assange has strong reason to assume the evidence will unequivocally show that he’s guilty as charged and has effectively zero chance of succeeding at trial. So he’s been evading justice for the last 15 years or so, and there just seems like there’s no way he can keep evading justice except so long as he waits it out in some jail or other. But eventually he’s going to get put on trial and possibly (definitely?) face his consequences.

I personally think it’s hilarious, here this overblown coward shrieks and screams at the prospect of having to be judged by a jury of his peers, because he knows in his innermost self, he has no defence for what he done.

Toshiba to shed 4,000 jobs as part of revitalization plan

Good Riddance

My T1600 is completely and utterly dead, there's no fixing this damn thing. There's like ONE GUY who dares to deal with this crap.

https://youtu.be/WVX_wsD75kw

I don't care anymore, I'm ripping out all the Tosh guts & updating with touchscreen, lithium battery, and motherboard or whatever.

Any help from Toshiba? Are you joking me? NO!

Hugging Face to make $10M worth of old Nvidia GPUs freely available to AI devs

P100 = $199

According to Craft Computing anyways.

https://youtu.be/xUDAFySY6KQ

For example heres 50 of em.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/404453313559

Leasing North American datacenters before they're finished is so hot right now

Enshittification of the social media

Many of these data centres are doing brisk business piling onto the scambot bandwagon. Here, this guy claims x-titter is now 75% scambots!

https://youtu.be/P4Z3UXLZMDo?t=1361

(When you surf to social media, take a glimpse to left & right: of you and any two neighbouring participants, at most only one of you is human.)

Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world'

Re: Thin pagan religion

I think he means that everything would work a lot more smoothly if everybody does (and thinks) as they’re told.

When they tell you to jump your correct response is to ask, “how high?”, etc.

What is “woke”

That sounds like a word you’d call somebody who suddenly realizes they have a certain amount of political and financial power that’s independent of the incumbent ruling elite (that’s accustomed to making all the decisions and ignoring everybody who doesn’t like it).

Why, it almost seems like “woke” is a good thing?!

Bad news for CEOs though. Shazbat.

VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers

ACTION NEEDED: Migrate your VMware Support Account to Broadcom

Dear Valued VMware Customer,

Broadcom Inc. recently acquired VMware (Press Release) and as a result of the acquisition, all VMware support accounts (ie. VMware Customer Connect) are being migrated to Broadcom's support accounts. Your VMware support account will stop working on May 6, 2024.

Please take action now. You must activate your Broadcom support account and update your profile information before you can access the Broadcom Support Portal.

To activate your Broadcom account, click your unique link here and follow the prompts that begin with resetting your password from the Broadcom screen. You can refer to this article for detailed instructions.

Once you activate your account successfully, you will be directed to the Broadcom Support Portal, where it will show you as logged in, with your name appearing in the upper right of your screen. Please note that your active VMware product entitlements will not be made available in the Broadcom Support Portal until May 6, 2024.

If you experience any issues, please first try and resolve your issue by using Broadcom's Self Service Bot, located on this page: https://support.broadcom.com/. If the problem persists, please contact Broadcom Customer Care.

Thank you,

Broadcom Support

Elon Musk's latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels

What the hell?

I upgraded my ‘87 Dodge with transistorized ignition + computer throttle body injector, I wager that Betsy’s probably sporting about 12% more raw compute power than NASA sent with Apollo moon missions!

If Tesla refuses to include Betsy in their stupid compute farm, I humbly suggest they can go suck an egg !

Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher

Re: A Fool And Their Money

“Fool and his money,” nothing.

Back in 2020 Trump cannily realized that Democrat voters could be reliably identified, and segregated, by manipulating them into demanding the Covid vaccine while simultaneously leading millions of Maga voters to throw away masks and refuse vaccines. The goal of this, by the way, was nothing more than making it easy to distinguish Democrat mail-in votes and thereby steal the election. One million Maga Americans threw away their lives, and died of suffocation, to give Trump a slight chance of stealing the 2020 election, and it didn’t even work!

“A fool and his money are soon separated,” nothing. More accurately, “a fool and his life are soon separated” is what actually happened…

Re: "and people can add their private Teslas to the available pool"

Oh… automated robotic mechanisms have been indiscriminately killing and maiming people all over the entire globe for decades if not centuries, by now.

“Robo Taxis” is nothing more than deliberately and maliciously fulfilling the prophecy of “Maximum Overdrive” Stephen King schlock movie.