Posts by TheGriz

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

Re: 24/7/365 automated harassment and bullying

This simply enforces the fact that if the LLM (I REFUSE to call them A.I. Because they are NOT INTELLIGENT) did make this spelling mistake, they simply are NOT very good and should not be trusted in the first place. AT BEST, they are VERY EXPENSIVE tools to divert people from their REAL WORK. Yes I'm looking at all of you people using LLM's do to mundane things at work like write your email responses for you. (This just means you are TOO LAZY to type, or perhaps worse yet, TOO STUPID to make up your own reply)

A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'

Nothing else to say but, WOW!!!!

AWS should send these guys on a 2 week long "Vacation Cruise" somewhere tropical, at their (AWS's) expense. For saving their butts BIG TIME!!!

Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever

Windows 7 Hands Down

Microsoft clearly reached it's zenith with Windows 7. They still showed they could LEARN from their own mistakes with the unmitigated disaster that was Windows Vista, and went back to the drawing board and released Windows 7, which was the darling of their OS's. Now they have their own heads so far up their own arses, with A.I. <cough>, they can't see where they came from, much less where they are GOING. Suffice to say, the Microsoft of TODAY is a wretched wraith of what it once was. I want the ICON sweater if I win. :D

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

THREE!!!

3 for sure!!!!

Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen

CoPilot and CoPilot for O365

Everytime I setup a PC, the FIRST thing I do after getting to the UI, is uninstall this shite.

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

Re: Bitlocker

Just TURN OFF Bitlocker even if it DOES encrypt the drive. Then you don't have to worry about needing a KEY to decrypt the local drive Windows11 is installed on.

It's the final countdown: Windows 10 hits end of support in less than 30 days

Re: This will, for many users still running Windows 10, require a hardware purchase.

Have you looked at FLYBY11 yet? I found out about it right here on TheReg, and it works amazingly to upgrade a "Microsoft Says No To Upgrade" PC to Windows 11, as long as the PC isn't ancient and has both CPU POPCNT, and SSE4.2 hardware requirements. Without these to CPU technologies, even FlyBy11 cannot upgrade it to Windows 11, due to MS making those two FIRM must have to install 11.

One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave

LLMs are basically just a Magic 8 Ball

Large Language Models, are just a Magic 8 Ball, but instead of having only 20 different answers, they can have Trillions of answers on their dice.

Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need

How about a Effing Start Menu that isn't the crappy version it is currently...

How about a Effing Start Menu that isn't the crappy version it is currently, and more like it was in Renaissance of Windows 7

and how many coders has it taken to allow Microsoft to INTENTIONALLY make the Start Menu WORSE over the years. What a waste of time and resources! UGH!!!

MS confidence in Windows 11: Pay us to host VMs for when your desktop inevitably dies

If it sounds sketchy" then it clearly is...

That sounds "sketchy". LOL

If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake – forever

Once and for all, LLMs are NOT "Artificial Intellegence"

The current HYPE about A.I. is "just that", nothing but "Hype". Used to trick corporations out of more money. And computer OEMs are behind these shenanigans. They knew that personal computers were reaching a zenith, and then the only outcome was people holding onto their hard earned cash, and deciding to keep using their existing PCs instead of buying something NEW, just because it was NEW, not BETTER, not FASTER. So faced with a downward decline in PC sales, they came up with pushing that the new PCs have A.I. enabled to try and induce people to buy newer (not better) computers. Microsoft is in on the farce to, they are now pushing Copilot on to brand new installs of Windows 11, when there really is nothing that it can reliably do for the end user. It's all a bunch of smoke and mirrors, and I liken it to the "Snake Oil Salesmen" of yore.

Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed

A "reality TV star" and I use that word STAR very loosely, is our new NASA leader. THIS is the main point about Trump, he's installing a bunch of CLOWNS or worse CROOKS, and that's because he's the BIGGEST CLOWN/CROOK at the top. The guy has an IQ score of about 70. And why so many regular people CAN'T see through this guy is a great mystery to me. Maybe he's the Anti-Christ. LOL even the devil wouldn't want him leading the apocalypse, so there's no way he's the Anti-Christ.

Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles

Re: oddly

So, let's for arguments sake, you have two stars in a binary relationship, i.e. the two stars are "gravitationally" bound to each and and orbit each other. They are born as two separate stars, but from a statistical point of view, they simply cannot be EXACTLY the same size. In other words one of the stars is bigger than it's companion star. They go through their billions of years, and eventually they shed their outer layers after becoming red giants (like our own star The Sun will do in about 5-6 billion years from now) and they both end up turning into neutron stars. Now they are still orbiting each other, and orbits can decay, and at some point in their futures, they get close enough so that the ONE of them starts to WIN the tug of war, we call Gravity, and the bigger of the two neutron stars starts to siphon material off the other smaller neutron star. And that is how that would work.

Microsoft broke DHCP for Windows Server last Patch Tuesday

Micro$oft, because that is all they care about these days.

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates

It's CLEAR that when they let the DEVs egos get in the way, the end user's get the shaft

I remember the days when software devs LISTENED to feedback and changed their course of thinking and coding. Now days, it seems like MS Devs have these HUGE Egos, and when they come up with something, even if thousands and thousands of end user's respond negatively to the change, they batten down their hatches and refuse to redo it or revert changes. And it's not funny, it's pathetic.

Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options

TEXT EDITOR Microsoft, TEXT EDITOR, don't you guys GET IT?!?!

It's ree damn diculous, it's like Microsoft FORGOT what a "TEXT Editor" IS. Nothing but a bunch of buffoons! Their STUPIDITY will never cease to amaze me.

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond

A.I. is so over-hyped it is dang ridiculous.

Had to upgrade to Windows 11, found that Notepad.exe was not the same ol' friend I've used for over 30yrs, so I REMOVED it, and now it went back to the older Non-AI version, but that wasn't enough for me, so to punish Microsoft for their lunacy, I downloaded and installed Notepad ++

Microsoft mystery folder fix might need a fix of its own

Inetpub Folder

Heck, I've been seeing this popup and I have been DELETING the dang thing.

Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole

Re: start ms-cxh:localonly

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-eliminates-workaround-that-circumvents-microsoft-account-requirement-during-windows-11-installation

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

It's STUPENDOUS how short sighted they are.

Ok, just for a brief moment, LET US PRETEND, that the now being worked on / developed LLMs, (I refuse to call it A.I. because it most definitely is NOT Artificial INTELLIGENCE) actually do surprise everyone and EASE the "work" of all of today's "my job is not to MAKE anything, my job is to sit on conference calls, or Teams, or Zoom meetings, and I really don't "do work" people, and you really THINK they will take that extra time allotted to them to ummm, do more "work"??? These are human beings, and we as a race are flawed with being "lazy", not all, but there are a significant amount out there today, trust me. They will only use that EXTRA TIME to do things like surf Facebook, The Net, or other things that fall under TIME WASTING bullcrap, and NOT DO MORE "work". So you are spending billions to make people WORK LESS. Goodluck with that!!!

Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google

Don't Act Shocked - This is basic Microsoft at it's core

If they can't BEAT it, or BUY it, they will imitate it. Classic Microsoft.

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

Co-Pilot for CMD.EXE

Let Co-Pilot type your "predicted" command line actions for you. What could possibly go wrong? LOL

Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find

Ice Station Zebra!

My personal favorite Rock Hudson movie!

Microsoft still not said anything about unexpected Windows Server 2025 installs

Re: Ransomware

LOL, your comment is more true than you anticipated. Microsoft these days ARE CROOKS!!!

Microsoft was too busy flogging the "Dead Donkey" that is AI, to notice this huge mistake

Title says it all . . .

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

Re: Simplest solution

WERE using it, heck this is the only MP3 Player I've ever used and I'm STILL USING it to this day. And I'm 60 yrs old BTW. :)

Consultant charged over $1.5M extortion scheme against IT giant

You Can't Parlay with CRAZY!!!

At this rate, as crazy as this guy SOUNDS, they have almost GUARANTEED that he will he will divulge everything he stole before being incarcerated. So it's a no win scenario no matter which way you twist this. YIKES!

Microsoft prices new Copilots for individuals and small biz vastly higher than M365 alone

ID 10 T Input

Let us all keep THIS fact in mind. If there is an IDIOT trying to use ANY type of technology, they are going to only get as much out of it, as they themselves (the idiot) puts into it. So suffice to say, A.I. will simply most of the time regurgitate "idiot answers" back at the idiot trying to use it.

I don't like the odds. And for the record I'm an IT Professional, so I know how idiotic "end users" can be.

1Password confirms attacker tried to pull list of admin users after Okta intrusion

Cloud Schmoud, most end users if pressed for an answer, can't even tell you what "THE CLOUD" is.

It's basically a MADE UP noun. I'd like to know who was the first person to USE this made up word, and learn how it gained so much traction to become what it is today, mainly a noun for the ignorant, so they don't know that Google, Amazon, and Microsoft don't have to explain that it means, hey come use "OUR SERVERS" instead of running your own server infrastructure, and the best part? We get to charge you out the arse for it.

Microsoft Cortana's farewell tour comes to the Windows Insider program

Cortana, PUH-lease!!!

I never used Cortana, and since I'm in IT, at my work place, when first setting up new Windows 10 PCs, our ultimate work competition, was to see how FAST we could shut her up during the Win10 OOBE setup, because Microsoft at first was so hell bent on making you listen to her SPEAK about how to setup the PC. What a terrible idea Microsoft had with that technology. I don't think I ever met anyone who actually USED it to be honest.

Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more

Re: Where to turn this off?

Experiment updates

2023.09.19

Introducing Bard’s most capable model yet

Bard can now access helpful information from Google apps

What: Bard can now retrieve and help you work with real time info from Maps, YouTube, Hotels and Flights. You can pull together what you need across information sources and bring ideas to life easier and faster. These extensions are enabled by default, and you can disable them any time.

Why: Just about everything we do in life involves a bit of gathering information and planning. Bard makes it easy to work together across even more sources, so you can keep your ideas moving forward.

What: You can enable Bard to interact with information from your Gmail, Docs and Drive so you can find, summarize and answer questions across your personal content. Your Google Workspace data won’t be used to train Bard’s public model and you can disable at any time.

Why: Now, you can collaborate not only with the world’s information, but also with your own, all in one place, with Bard as your creative partner.

Original Poster Note:

Anyone who would WILLING allow Google to do this by NOT going and turning this off, is quite insane in my personal opinion. Bad enough that Google enables it automatically, jeezus.

Where to turn this off?

Anyone got specific information on WHERE exactly to look for this setting and then turn it off. NO WAY I'm letting Google turn this AI monster loose on my email.

Over 100,000 compromised ChatGPT accounts found for sale on dark web

Re: Is this worse that other products?

LOL, it's worse simply because IT IS an LLM driven bot. There is NOTHING "intelligent" about these things. They don't "think" any more than a toaster really. Imagine a tech toaster, that has a base of data about what kind of bread is toasted, how dark or light it's being toasted, and oh that data comes from other people's toasters all around the world. So that makes it a BETTER toaster? Not really. (think about it)

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

De-classifying the Docs prior to leaving office, Cheeto in Charge

I see a lot of "why didn't he simply declassify the documents he wanted to keep", and here it the crux of WHY he took what he took AND the WAY in which he did it and another reason of WHY he didn't want to return them when asked.

In order to "de-classify" TOP SECRET stuff, it has to be HEAVILY "REDACTED", meaning that the documents basically lose their importance, and VALUE, because those things would look like a practically a SOLID PAGE OF BLACK "fused toner" after they were declassified.

So A) Cheeto in Charge, wanted them because he felt they held VALUE to his own narcissistic means. Redacted documents would be practically worthless, except to BRAG about having a copy.

B) The fact that he had is "crony" Nauta moving them around prior to his own lawyers trying to comply with the DOJ's wishes, AND hiding them from the FBI itself, is practically screaming "I'm guilty".

And now he actually KNOWS he's in very deep shite, and his second presidential bid, is now nothing more than the act of a criminal acting to save his own ass, because he is hell bent on winning a re-election so he can just PARDON himself.

Everyone in the USA, get out on election day and vote this sucker into infamy for eternity.

Microsoft's new AI BingBot berates users and can't get its facts straight

Re: Sydney fell in love with a NY Times reporter

I read the entire posted and UN-EDITED chat transcript between the BingBot and the NY Times reporter. And it was absolutely CREEEPY!!! If you've not read it at this point, it is a MUST read, but be warned it does creep you out. Now, I'm a veteran IT "adult", and it creeped me out, I don't even want to imagine what this thing might do to an adolescent teenager, or God forbid a younger child. I'm old enough to have grand children, and I can tell you now, I don't want them EVER using something like this in the future.

US Cyber Command, DARPA ink cyberwar R&D pact

Who cares about DARPA. Jessica is a major cute-y. :)

Don't say Pentium or Celeron anymore, it's just Processor now, says Intel

Monumentally STUPID IDEA

Title says it all.

Voyager 1 data corrupted by onboard computer that 'stopped working years ago'

Vger

And lets not forget, that 200-300 years from now, Vger will return as a fully autonomous, AI intelligent explorer, wanting to offload all of it's data to "the creator". :)

Any volunteers to "merge" with the probe when that happens? LOL

Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits

Does a Bear crap in the woods? (excluding Polar Bears, naturally)

You know they are going to be looking up his customers whereabouts.

Problems for the Linux kernel NTFS driver as author goes silent

Drop in the bucket for Elon Musk

If Elon would lay out just a 10th of a percent of what he's spending to buy Twitter, this driver would have tons of people working on maintaining it.

C'mon Elon, your money is better spent on this project anyways.

Happy birthday Windows 3.1, aka 'the one that Visual Basic kept crashing on'

"Support for Window 3.1 ended more than 20 years ago, but its influence continues to be felt today, even if the stacks of floppy disks used to install it are long gone."

I actually still have a set of the 13 1.44mb original Microsoft Windows 3.11 installation diskettes. So hate to correct you, but they are NOT "long gone". LOL

Europe's largest nuclear plant on fire after Russian attack

Video in the post, shows FLARES being utilized, not MUNITIONS.

I'd like to point out, that the "bright lights" you are seeing in the accompanying video, are FLARES and not a slowed down video of explosive munitions being lobbed into the reactor complex. And I'm not sympathizing with the Russians, I'm totally against this aggressive INVASION being carried out by the Russian military at the behest of Putin. But this video is not showing the Russians "SHELLING" the complex with munitions.

Journalist won't be prosecuted for pressing 'view source'

Re: Politicians and "computers"

LOL I remember that, I even made a meme of the guy's picture and made him look like the CLOWN he is.

Stupid Is, As Stupid Does

I'm "from Missouri" and with regards to Governor Parsons, well let's just say the word STUPID isn't strong enough.

Windows boss Panos Panay talks up 'new era of the PC' – translation: An era of new PCs

Twice. LOL right!

For the sake of the argument, when their speaking engagement is "word smithed" with terms like "Twice the uptake of Windows 10", well if only 5% of users took to Windows 10, then only 10% are taking up Windows 11. (Making these numbers up, of course) Still it's not really something to brag about now is it?

If they came out and said, well it's like getting a highly curable version of cancer. Screw that you still have cancer, not something to hang your hat on, morons.

Confirmed: James Webb Space Telescope team plans launch for this Xmas Eve after data cable fix

Spoiled Non-Techies

Personally, I'm thinking most of the "non-technical" world population are going to be in for a shock, when the first pictures come back from JWST. Hubble has spoiled the masses with spectacular full COLOR photos of distant galaxies, nebula's, etc, etc. Since JWST is an INFRA-RED telescope, the general public might be quite under-whelmed by what they are shown.

As for myself, I can't wait to see the first JWST "Deep Field View", no telling what will show up, but it'll be spectacular, and jaw dropping most likely.

God's Speed JWST, a successful deployment will push our knowledge and understanding of the Universe itself spectacularly past our current knowledge base.

Hubble Space Telescope restored to service: No repeat of those missing messages, but here's a software patch anyway

3 cheers for the Hubble Team, you people are without a doubt some of the most dedicated, smartest and hard working people on the entire planet.

Zuck didn't invent the metaverse, but he's started a fight to control it

The artist formerly known as Facebook, would have gotten a lot more PR bang for their buck, if they HAD NAMED themselves. . . SKYNET. LOL can you imagine?

No one would have scoffed as badly as we all did when they introduced the name META, FFS, I could have given them a more imaginative name, and for a lot less than they paid some PR firm a HUGE amount of wasted cash to do for them.

New year, new OS: OneDrive support axed for old versions of Windows from 1 Jan 2022

Re: OneDrive

Which one of you wants to volunteer to take OneDrive to the Mountain of Doom and throw it in the caldera, and free everyone from Microsoft's cloud based dictatorship?

I vote we nominate Bill Gates' ex-wife, I bet she has the will AND the resources to get it done.

Hibernating instrument on Hubble roused as engineers ponder message problem

Re: Use the backup

i SERIOUSLY doubt the museum "look a like" actually even HAS a mirror inside it. This is simply a "mock up" for people to VIEW in a museum, not like it actually has working instrumentation inside it.