Posts by JoeCool

Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back

Re: Letter of marque

Dead on, except it wont be the Trump government ... I'd guess a superpac.

OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack

Re: Somewhere, a biologist is cackling

You seem to be suggesting evolution. This is not comforting.

Re: Being able to make the Distinction

There's the story of a GPT (?) model trained on 4chan.

Re: Holy shit agent is BORG?

I don't know how they weren't exchanging compression dictionaries. And from there the next step is ...

I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it

Re: Outages, or break time?

But not the gateway to the future either

Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests

Barely science

As an exercise to demonstrate that the specified ops model is broken, I guess it makes a point.

But that point is that humans are necessary, and that the entire loop has to be designed to produce quality results.

The "as fast as possible" part is especially significant in producing bad processes.

Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

I see you don't waste your day readong past the headline, so that you have more time to post your baseless opinions.

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

And some additional data entry would have been performed.

FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another

Re: Becoming irrelevant

Confluence has 1% of the useability of word (and this is from a wordperfect fan).

It's the minimum effort they had to put in to avoid word attachements in their db.

Although the potential to migrate away from word is there, trading off word for another non-portable and functionally crippled embedded doc utility isn't going to cut it.

It's monday

because we don't have the attention span to read both halves of sentence ?

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

Re: Good!

What about paintballs ? Or are the guns classified as firearms ?

Re: Good!

Someone with no sense of the absurd. "Read the room" lol.

Re: Good!

Please describe what you would qualify as "the best way" .

IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them

Deception by omission

"The majority of what didn't happen in the second quarter was large capex deals at large clients,"

IBM doesn't have anythinh except

Large clients with

large

Capex deals

I'm pretty sure they've outsourced most of their "services" business, leaving them reliant on customer Capex projects.

Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month

"The move should not come as a surprise"

Only because M$ has no demonstrated ability to architect a remote API and service that's not highly dependent on the client OS level.

"leaving users without client updates, fixes, or technical assistance"

This has been onedrive experience since Win 10 was new.

Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due

17% ... We have achieved herd immunity.

I wonder why there isn't a business case for reverse engineering Win 11 patches into Win 10 patches, for non-criminal purposes.

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

Re: Tin men vs GPL

Compare and contrast with OpenZFS

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

Or, a usefull distinction

to point out there are multiple definitons od success.

'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes

Factual accuracy ?

Really, who cares about the headline. I read the article.

Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling

Re: The conclusion is spot on

I don't know. What's the tie-in ? Maybe a few details would be helpful.

The conclusion is spot on

AI is a tool with the inherent intent to strip property rights from IP, and monitize that IP.

Micro$oft is surely in a quandry, trying to determine which path to monetize.

Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams

Predicition or snark ?

"Microsoft's other less-than-popular platforms "

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/06/24/windows-11-turns-five-leaving-some-important-lessons-for-microsoft/5261603

Well played !

Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows

My initial configuration for WSL

was to install a supported linux, then distrobox, then the container Linux of choice, and operate out of that.

I did this specifically to avoid relying on windows specific VM management.

This windows API is interesting, but I'm inclined to avoid the MS devstack like I would a vaccine truther.

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Re: Bah!

That's normal driver error, it's endemic to driving regardless of brake pedal configuration/operation/manifestation.

And I'd think it plausible that "AI braking" that doesn't adhere to human norms will be a bigger cause of accidents.

Re: Bah!

And the dire consequences of your scenarios are ... the car comes to a stop.

Dear god, how can a so called civilized society permit such a tragedy ?

This approach is exactly how Stockton Rush ran OceanGate

Design safety interferes with "innovation" like using a bluetooth game controller and an iPad to operate a passenger vehicle.

The Titan's autopsy is freshly released and already forgotten. Geniuses.

What are you doing ?

"It absolutely won't if the drive isn't also disconnected or the throttle closed, neither of which a conventional mechanical brake will do."

This is a flat out lie that contradicts not only decades of global auto design regulation, but decades of people stopping cars on their own, and your own internal logic.

Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day

Fabricating a point?!

Unfair?!

Appears no where in the story.

Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance

this idiot is describing an organization problem

And attributing it to people.

There are processes to correct that drift.

It's called the audit function. It uses people who haven't drifted to correct the ones that have.

Perhaps because it's also people based, he ignores it.

Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let's play Truth Or Consequences

That is gold Jerry

"lie ability trumps liability."

Rupert, you can take the rest of the day off.

Steam Deck prices go through the roof as Valve blames component shortages

If you have some spare AI tokens, you might ask it to produce a report using the new analytics concept of "percentage increase".

Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation

Re: FFS

Any facts supporting that ? Any previous political statements showing unthiking allegiance to the orange moron ?

She was nominated to the job threee times, by democats and republicans.

She has publically advocated for better air safety.

Frustrated franchisee sues Pizza Hut over crappy kitchen AI

it's a good news story for the drivers

They get to maximize their profits, like God and the constitution intended.

Grafana Labs admits all its codebase are belong to someone who popped its GitHub account

there’s little reason for Grafana to pay a ransom ...

but there could be a reason for misdirection on that issue ?

Doozy of a Patch Tuesday includes 30 critical Microsoft CVEs

I'm having trouble coming up with an acronym for CEO

that includes "clueless", "moronic", "psychotic" and "asshole".

Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming

Re: revenge tour

Think of it as a way for sophisticated end-users to fix group policy mistakes that overburdened IT staff make, and that M$ has not spent any effort on making manageable in a corporate environment.

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

Eh ?

" Arranging content in columns on a desktop browser makes little sense. "

It makes a lot of sense. The old square grid layout from maybe 5+ years ago was the best for visual scanning.

The first, single page was the stories for that day.

The next page was historical, and IIRC both pages were presented in columns sorted horizontally by recency.

I no like.

Even harder to scan than the uneven-verticals grid format that was instituted a few years ago.

I mostly scan to see the new stories, and I have had no problem finding thematically linked articles from the links in the story (Authors, related stories, related topics, recent stories).

Moving all of that up to the main page is not helping with navigation or readability.

What'r the layout principles and goals with this design ?

Re: Glad I read the archive link

Bookmarked site url now updated! thank you sir.

Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos

Re: As a last resort,

No it's not a kill switch, it's a frontal cortex snip.

And it's far far below the sysadmin level. Show me the reverse dependency graph showing how kernel api X is propogated up through Libraries Y1 and Y2 to applications Z1 and Z2 which are running as daemons for app Z3.

Since all core functionality is protected by root, tell me again why we need a kernal api kill switch ?

As a last resort,

I guess this could have some uses, but there are signficant manageability problems.

It's not really enough to just kill some apis. You need to know how system behaviour is changed, as well as capability. Otherwise you don't know what you're providing or supporting.

Is the kernel team going to be issuing security advisories with impact statements ?

If it was Windows, you'd simply expect more BSODs. Easy to detect and communicate to end users.

But there's a good chance that Linux will log some complaints somewhere and soldier on in a fashion.

And how do you secure that killswitch against abuse ?

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

I wonder if the smarter play isn't a portable monitor

Most workers can use a second screen, and you can build it as an autonomous tablet for video conferencing.

And, a more portable/carryable format factor than a kb, especially if it's 3:2

Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

Re: "and a ping to home worked... but nothing outside the box itself was reachable."

"Confirmation Bias"

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense

Re: "deeply deceptive and unethical"

NO No no no

You're confusing that with the corporate mission statement.

Their middle name is "quality is a defect"

You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too

Re: "Not only does that mean security issues may result"

It's Microsoft, there is no security!

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Re: Keyloggers???!!!

No, swapping Employer snooping for non-employer snooping

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver

Re: What is this for?

that strong, sharp, hook thing with leverage is so awesome i actively look for reasons to use it.

fine slot head screws

Tin can opening

Staple remover

Surface etching

Foam and drywall scoring

Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus

Re: Incompetence is more likely

That's not consistent with what was reported at the time.

Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers

Re: Who named this?

ThundAIrbolt ?