Posts by JoeCool

Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge

A niave person might read this and think

That AI is nothing more than a cynical attempt to sell "compute as a service"

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Re: Comparing fruits

I came to the same opinion. I fully agree with the points in the article.

But playboy isn't a good illustration of the inappropriate access. The far better illustration is from the concluding paragraph:

"PornHub, DraftKings Sportsbook & Casino, or Twitter. "

The fact is that there are things that kids 6, 10, 12 should not be exposed to. But the answer isn't to keep them off the internet (impossible, regressive and short sighted) the answer is that those harmful platforms have to be responsible for the harms they can and do cause.

Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh

Re: Old

"People" or "AI Data center corporations" ?

Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers

Now combine this with the CEOs relying on AI story

and Microsoft has a whole new sales and access channel to the C-suite.

Re: In other news

Who else in government / industry is calling this out ?

Could end up

"are"

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Re: AI Copyright Truth

That's pretty slick for a 1-day effort. What did you use to create the website ?

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

Re: Make Everything Totally Awful

I'd be nice if government would step in and do something to protect people.

was that on the wrapper ?

"spy glasses hooked up to (fucking) Skynet"

obviously, that wasn't quitre the pitch, or understanding.

Was that on the wrapper ?

designed to record every waking moment.

The recording isn't the issue. It's the sharing.

Denizens of DEF CON are 'fed up with government'

Re: Blaming the wrong people

"Stupid" is a perfectly good word.

What's you're objection, is it too "woke" to say that ?

In a democracy, the buck stops with the voter.

What word would you use ? Who do you say is to blame ?

Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians

Re: Seeking a seat at the table

Microsoft licenses are full of use restrictions, as are licenses for virtuall all software.

Thanks for making the point while totally missing it.

Re: American civilians and warfighters

Yep, it's just another friendly fire incident. Almost like it's a special skill of US forces.

Disagree. The classic capitalist response in a situation like this is : Take the money and run.

ALL AIs will be able to do this, because the data is out on the web. I expect Palantir to be sniffing around this contract next.

Re: So they really want autonomous AI-controlled weapons?

Well don't forget that so many of these leaders are CEO wannabees that couldn't make it in the corporate world.

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

single main contributor risk is solved!

Now I don't have to worry about bcachefs ongoing development being beholden to a single irreplaceable developer.

KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on

Re: Precisely the Problem

Are you suggesting one of von Hammerstein-Equord's quadrants ?

Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty

Re: But....

Never mind the billionaires, think of Jeff's orange bff

From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

Re: Who likes writing tests?

Agile is for project and delivery managment. Vibe coding is an excuse for being lazy or incompetent.

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

Re: Linux with btrfs subvolumes for root and home

Are you stating that those 4 showstopper issues have been resolved ?

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

Re: "That don't impress me much"

Sometimes loud words are needed to get through the shite some people have stuffed in their ears.

If you ask a question of a human, you can't demand the answer to be in the narrow range of responses that you're expecting.

Re: Github issue section is today's entertainment

Wow, nice work! The random case label is such a corner case, I wondered if k&r would flinch.

I never considered that GCC would have a language level for this.

Re: Github issue section is today's entertainment

Oh yeah, the pointer conversion is hardly in doubt - in the bad old days that was a "lint problem".

So many memories using k&r as my primer/tutorial. So many of those memories being bad.

Re: "That don't impress me much"

Any productivity tool NOT made out of hype and greed.

Re: Github issue section is today's entertainment

Is that legal k&r ?

Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave

Let's count the red flags

1. "reviewing its accounting practices"

2. late filing

3. CFO resigns

4. General counsell resigns

5. Controller resigns

6. "We are cooperating with the SEC"

7. Growth pegged to "Investments in AI"

8. Growth pegged to Cloud

9. Growth pegged to acquisitions

My God. It's like the hayday of F*cked Company.

How is it the stock only lost 55% ?

How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

Re: Optimizers optimize

Exactly what I was going to say about optimizations, Thanks.

Looks like not every FOSDEM presentation is worth a Reg writeup.

"The Clippy of cryptography" I don't actually understand what's being implied, but I suspect that's a problem with the developer, not the compiler / language.

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

restful web apps

Not the original architecture, which was well reasoned, and seems fit for purpose,

But the cult of brain damaged zombies who reasoned that because they couldn't figure out soap, and because their server used http for client connections, they should adopt a website schema intended to address massive scalebility of global, multi region hosted sites.

Re: C language & security

It was called Ada, and it took over the world. How did you miss it?

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

Re: It's all down to politics

That sounds like fact-free speculation.

And the O-rings are the victim here. The ranked list of contributing faults contains many items before "O-ring performance at out of spec temps"

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

C void type abuse ?

"TrapC is fundamentally different because it actually remembers what that void pointer actually is."

That pointer is "void type" and it's declared - what is there to remember ?

Is TrapC supporting some sort of illegitimate casting scenario ?

Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings

O.M.G

This is beyond drinking the coolaid. This is inhaling your own Carbon Monoxide farts.

Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach

That's the beauty of this write up!

It mirrored the lack of transparency shown by Westbury, and how they avoided flat out saying something like:

"We'd like to repsond with details of the Surgery case, but the PR staff is fielding questions about the chief's use of Bullshit Copilot AI reports to ban people from a public event"

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Re: Why would China upset the apple cart?

Crimea is the better compareable.

Pearl Harbour didn't work to the advantage of the Japanese, because they failed to target strategic infrastructure.

I suspect present day China is better at strategy then 1930's Imperial Japan.

Re: Why would China upset the apple cart?

China would upset the apple cart because:

They are authoritarian

They are expansionist

They could actually get away with it

They care about apples, not carts and have learned that the capitalists will still sell them anything, including apples spilled on the ground, regardless of who turned the cart over.

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind

I wouldn't say fence sitting.

Sounds to me like something triggered King Penguin into a rant on a related tangental topic, instead of directly addressing the initial assertion 'AI slop is a problem for the docs". Saying what NOT to do isn't providing direction, exactly.

Re: Winging should not be in the Documentation

My brain rewrote it as whinging, but upvote for seeing the alternative.

Nope

Linus is arguing that the Horse+Cart owners should not discuss how the new charriots could make horse leg breaking road ruts.

Drawn in ?

Didn't Linus choose to insert himself in the discussion ?

What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32

You would own your computer. What you would not own is the cloud services (Office 365).

But at least you have obliterated the integration between the two, which is a victory.

Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results

Re: We had to destroy the village...

Remember when "data wants to be free" ? Looks like AI has changed that.

Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

The software equivalent of cheap energy dependency

Just like the oil companies and their drones that refuse to consider any future beyond one quarter,

Modern tech management is incapable of changing the culture built around cheap labour, frameworks/jvms/platforms and limitless Moore's law improvements.

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

Re: One more thing

Nice bit of alliteration there.

Roadmap clarity

I really do appreciate MS putting transparency on their future directions.

That certainly does help buttress technology decisions currently being mulled ...

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Yes and no.

Posix did provide core services APIs. But the Unix implementations varied enough to make source level compatibility problematic.

Posix compliance wasn't overnight - parts showed up at different times.

There were still quirks of usage between OSes.

OS specific services offered more functionality and better performance in some cases.

I meant Process control, IPC, threads, that sort of stuff. By definition 1 Linux ==> 1 System Interface.

Re: Most important use case.

Shouldn't that be "which is most easy to watch porn on, without leaking traceable private data" ?

Yes, unless you were writing a program that used the OS services. A different lib for every Unix, with different apis and functionality.

That's the problem that Linux solved.

Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here’s how to try it

Confused ...

Adding pixels to a drop down box is a insider release highlight feature?

Is there more going on .. inside the "OS" ?

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Re: "as someone who lives in Silicon Valley"

SV has a class structure that nullifies your sweeping generalization.

And, it's the VCs that are doing the capturing.