Posts by xyz123 918 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2015
The mis-spelling is by design.
MS's PR department knew their "latest product" was basically boring and would blend with all the other news.
They went through the usual ideas (blue screen etc) that would get them on tech sites, but they'd all been done before
So they came up with 'surace' because they thought various websites would ponder if they'd used AI to create the slides.
AND IT WORKED
For FOUR YEARS a certain fruity phone maker had an external HR/finance database containing employee details, payroll bank numbers, corporate customer banking details etc.
ANYONE could access.
Security consisted of:
1) its an IP address, so you'd need to know it. think 0.0.0.1/grannysmith_database
2) the password was the name of the company and so was the username!
There was an MFA system but if you pressed cancel it let you in anyway
They used to just hope for the best, and rumors are they paid 100s of millions in compensation to large corporate clients whenever they had 'an oopsie'
KPMG has previously just SENT money to people and claimed not sending it back 'constitutes agreement'
They've lost repeated court cases over this type of behaviour and need to be kicked in the balls for doing it again.
I'd say the court should cockblock ALL executive bonuses, and "performance payouts" as KPMG has plans to give their "top people" upto 45% of their annual wage as a bonus.
Plus the other scummy stuff.
Chatgpt, generate me an image of my grandmas funeral but add my missing uncle into the mourners at the graveside.
Edits:
<OK, but everyone will be holding a can of coke and smiling>
<grandma will be wearing Walmart high heels, on sale today for 30% off>
<the coffin will have a flag attached 'Williams the funeral director: when it absolutely positively has to go in the ground before it stinks' >
Starliner SLAMMED into the ground at over 500mph. Which would have liquified the astronauts organs and broke every single bone in their bodies.
Boeing claimed it was "a successful landing" because Starliner didn't explode or Blow itself into a billion fragments!
They didn't give a crap if astronauts would be alive at all.
Now they're going to take 2 years more (asking for billions and billions) for an unfixable pile of crap.
We'd be better off asking schools to design a rocket out of cardboard and sellotape.
what AI DID do, is make games companies have to optimize more as no-one can afford 128gb of DDR6 to play call of duty 2027
AND NVIDIA might have killed itself in other ways. By effectively exiting the consumer GPU market, people may not recommend their hardware to work.
make the ENTIRE user interface moddable. Like Doom and Minecraft and Skyrim.
Suddenly MS has THOUSANDS if not 10s of thousands of people creating mods for NO WAGES!
Hate the MS interface? get another one. FREE! because of Microsoft.
Have a system where on reboot you can hold a key combo down to return to standard windows in case the mod is broken. Or a keyboard shortcut like shift+ctrl+windows+alt+Numpad Minus
Project Cess Pool needs to come back
A company has 2 million records, interspersed with 10 million fake records, and some encrypted method to tell them apart.
Virgin Media planned this when the government said it wanted everyones internet history flowing to a government server.
They were going to FLOOD the logs with fake data. Legal because their system WOULD visit aaaaaaa.com aaaaaab.com etc for a microsecond behind the scenes.
Or give users a way to click an icon at night to run such a randomized search.
The other option is to ramp up security so ALL data is encrypted to 2048bit standard. Decryptable one-by-one using the companies software which is customized ONLY for their hardware in some unique way, such as requiring specific co-processors to be accessible. Because the co-processor does XYZ to the data as it goes through, and doesn't perform any calculations that can be copied off, it becomes impossible to just steal valid data en-masse.
You'd have to steal ALL the data AND build a physical identical replica of their data servers to decrypt stuff.
The final way is "beat them at their own game". basically pump data online of fake customer details. So many that you can't tell whats real.
Films have started doing this. releasing HUNDREDS of fake spoilers, so even if you find a real spoiler you'll probably forget it and ignore.
These hackers are a good reason we need to bring back the death penalty.
Via dronedrike. You'd find it VERY hard to get people to work the phones etc in a scam outfit, if you knew a drone could crash through the window at any time and blow everyone to bits.
Costs for scammers go up, as no-ones gonna take that level of risk for minimum wage.
for over 4 years a certain fruity phone maker had an EXTERNALLY ACCESSIBLE HR System.
Username was a type of fruit the company was named after
Password was the same fruit
This was a system showing employee names, addresses, job titles, contact details and whilst bank account were redacted to asterisks, it had the ability to "update" them with NEW bank details.
There was a rumor someone VERY famous at the company had their details changed, didn't notice for 2 months and the company glossed over it for reputation, paid the employee what they were due and never went after the thief. Because suing them would have exposed how incompetent they were behind the scenes and cost them a lot more
utter utter crap. this guy should be ashamed.
LLMs like grok, chatgpt etc do not "think". its simply information in..information out.
Without a prompt they do NOTHING. they don't process or while away their time or anything. processor usage drops to 0.00%
if you give a prompt to an LLM under the same circumstances, you get the SAME output.
Occasionally some systems roll a random number at the start and insert this into the prompt, but thats about all the variety you get.
An LLM is basically one of those games where you drop coins and they hit spikes on the way down and are pushed into specific slots. The only difference being, each word is a different sized coin and so bounces in a predictable way.
So many companies literally use hacked versions of windows for their signage.
BT, BA, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Waitrose, Tesco, goahead (bu company)
ALL have been seen with signs showing they have unregistered/non activated copies of windows XP. A few have shown errors indicating they were pirated editions with cracked product keys that have since been blocked.
Labour gave the entire NHS database unredacted to Palantir MONTHS before it was OK'd by various departments. (promises made of cushy jobs etc after the next election when a LOT of labour MPs become what they'd call 'dole scrounging scum')
They have a full complete copy of everyone's medical records, no redactions and pretty much anyone in Palantir can access it for shits n giggles. (or to blackmail celebrities etc)
