Posts by spireite

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

Only a matter of time before he makes the ships steam driven, and then uses ICE to find illegals to stoke the boilers.

Five years after quitting a job, developer’s former boss asked for rapid tech support

Re: Well done

How many ports were used?

Presumably, the fee charged amounted to picking th ex-boss' pocket

Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

Re: Uptime targets

Which is how many times it takes to get it to do what you want

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks

Hacking?

Susceptible to packet flooding.

Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar

Losing Teams mobile?

Surely, that's for celebration.......

You mean it's only older versions.... bugger.

NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck

|Cybertruck Starman....

Surely, we can fill/convert Starship to fling loads of them into space? They'll be more use up there.

Speaking of which, where is the Roadster these days?

Instead of V'ger arriving, are we going to get T'la ?

Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges

Ouch, that'll leave a mark!

When it eventually goes tits-up, there will be a lot of corporations and investors in it getting substantial monetary shocks.

Some will not recover from it....

Now, where's my popcorn?

Doom rack....

You will however be abl;e to get a large screen in there, a powerful minipc, leubopard/mouse/joystick and stull be able to stand in it...

A doom capsule if you will.

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

Sooner rather than later?

We can only hope.

What I suspect is that the crash will occur when least expected, and there will be blood on the SSDs, the DRAM, and the boardrooms.

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

The church has failed penetration testing for years with their flocks, so why should their website be any different?

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

Complainants backgrounds......

I always wonder how may of them actually work in IT, and use the cloud..... yet don;'t want the resource they need on their doorstep.

Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days

Isn't here potential that some bugs are actually a cascade?

For example f1() has a buffer overflow vulnerability.

f2() does a load of stuff and calls f1()

f3() does a load of stuff and calls f2()

Is that counted as one vulnerability ( f1 ) or 3? (which would all be fixed by patching f1)

Genuine question..... though I assume they'd only count f1 and not the callers

OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'

Deleted files?

Can it not delete itself, and allow us to work properly again?

Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update

Broadcom has fixed the flaws ???

The buggest flaw is not the product, it is Broadcom.

Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert

What they said on discovery of being hacked?

I imagine the security people exclaimed 'Jesus Christ!'

At that point, a tall bloke apprehended them and put them in a corner office to be stoned.

Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble

don't want to sound like Donald...

... but I cannot wait for the 'big beautiful implosion'

T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out

'waited many months?

What does that mean? If my current support contracted expired on the 31st July @ 23:59, then I can renew on the 31st July.

Indeed, I have worked at places that left it to the last day.

If I was to renew support AFTER the existing one expired, then that would be a different kettle of fish,

AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them

Re: The Problem here is ...

We, the users, cannot possibly predict the spend because the same prompt will give you a different token usage.

I liken this to cloud costing. It's impossible to price I would argue.

The AI vendors I would suggest are still runng at a loss, and they themselves have no real idea where break-even actually is.

2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud

Google Folds?

Some benefits there then. The cluster will be half the size.

Also, must be a nervous time powering on - you'll need to tensor muscles.

'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says

...or 'we can't afford to run more future infrastructure because we have squeaked the pips past their tolerance'

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Re: Welcome to the real* cost of "AI"

Plenty of pips left to squeak....

AI is like getting married

You start with something/someone new....

Each token/date is cheap

You subscribe/get married

with each upgrade/anniversary. you get less for your money

Eventually, you realise that the life subscription has decimated your account.

Proving....

IT IS THE SAME THING!

Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

Deliberate wasting?

My interpretation is that the AI floggers are delibertaely adding overhead is ensure we spend more? Am I right?

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

Criticise Musk but....

his guys know what they do, and they are a long way ahead of Jeffs Joyrides...

Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage

Needs a change

Time they shunted to a different platform.

When the system identifies a difference in the code, does it identify it as a Deltic?

Re: In-house

Roundhouse

Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028

China controllable

I'd say that while China was allowed western tech - for example Nvidia - to be in their market, they were actually controllable.

What has happened is that by the West effectively withdrawing western tech from the market, Chinaa has been forced to develop their own inhouse tech, dropping their own reliance on Nvidia and the like.

Now they are in that situation, they are outside of any sphere of outside influence techwise

Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess

Re: vote reform

Given NIgel Farcical has , if I remember, said people should return to the office then I fully expect him tom enforce a VPN ban to force the homeworkers back to office.

I'd like to think that he's got no hope in a national election of getting his foot into 192.168.1.10

VPN control? Yeah right.

Given the UK is now very service orientated and tech heavy, VPNs are a necessity, and I'd see quite a few companies upping sticks to another country if a ban went in place.

AI-generated code is 'pain waiting to happen'

Re: Do we need a stronger word?

In many places, the company knows their technical debt along with where it is and what it is.

With the pressure to leverage AI, what we are beginning to see is AI generated code shoved in to the codebase with little to no validation or review.

That is practically tech debt immediately, but the company doesn't know it yet.

Re: "the AI model didn't remember"

This!

Yhe other week, I was doing some stuff in db land, I asked a question, and it gave me the right response. I'd asked a few questions prior marginally, but unintended, related db stuff.

Come to this week, and I asked the same question straight off the bat, and got a garbage answer...

I visited my dementia-ridden aunt this weekend. I can see the similarity now.

dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years

dBase compatible.....

I never worked with Clipper, or dBase - I cut my teeth with Foxpro.

I miss those days, Death was delcared when MS took it over....

It wouldn't suprise me if there were loads of systems still in place in small enterprises

TomTom’s route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion

TomTom is still a thing?

I migrated away from them years ago when the company appeared to lose direction.

Waze has been great for me ever since.

Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?

Windows VIsta boot screen?

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami

Re: Did King Charles get any gadgets from Q to take with him?

NOm, but he smuggled Jonny English in

Re: Waaah tariffs, waaah taxes,

We should revoke access to any land we own......

In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis

We are the Bork....

"You will be assimilated"...

...sudo shutdown

"oh shit"

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger

Re: "one of misinformation and hype."

I can honestly say that I hate using AI.

I can honestly say that I've never hated drinking alcohol.

Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan

Re: Nope

The problem is that AI has made many people think they are developers.

When the pips squeak, and the bean counters cut back there will be a global army of developers who are utterly clueless about coding the traditional/old fashioned way.

Re: In the words of Yoda

Large, my bill is.

Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus

Add AI, and print money.....

I'm waiting for Starmer AI......

... because any trust in him is Artificial, and he isn't Intelligent.

Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal

Implosion soon?

Like junkies on crack, the junkies (companies) using will find that the expense of addiction will become too much.

The problem will be that by the time they see this, they'll have dumbed down everything to a prompt, and the real technical knowledge willl have kliterally walked out the door - never to be seen again.

Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure

Obviously used a poxy epoxy

Gym giant Basic-Fit confirms data on a million members stolen in cyberattack

Security ???

I guess, just like the company name.... is Basic.

Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement

Only 99m ? That's cheap, not Deere.

I assume that is all costs combined. Trouble, is - it the lawyers.... they are all making hay.

Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do

There techies have feelings..

I guess when they saw the failure, they felt a bit sourdough..... so they went to Warburton with the system.

Thankfully, there was a verry Hovisous solution, and when they fixed it they felt very Sunblest.

It's good they take Mothers Pride in their work.

*do I get a medal for use of archaic UK brands?

The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

Re: I dont doubt the story...

Just needs one of those Amazon drones/trucks to get it to your desk

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

Should anybody be surprised???

I guess not.....

Would the use of local LLM (LM Studio)? mitigate this?

Microsoft reaches for yet another out-of-band patch to deal with latest update issue

This tanker....

...has been holesld below the water line for many years.