Posts by AnAnonymousCanuck 43 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Mar 2016
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My main house computer is a 10 year old fanless Intel i3 running kalliope, a Voice Assistant. This attaches to all my media/email/web as well as a Home Assistant server for all the IOT hardware. All 100% open source.
Both my TTS (text-to-speech) and STT (guess:) are now offering ONNX or tflite enhanced models. The accuracy is double that of the old matching engine. However, it takes 2 seconds for a response vs 0.4 for the old engine. This makes it currently unusable. I am CPU bound. :( Furthermore, I am dependent on one of the big corporates for my speech recognition. There have not really been functional local solutions. The ability to run LLMs and pattern recognition processes locally is vital. They are my only processes dependent on the Cloud. Not only that I currently have a very restricted list of words/phrases for orders. The ability to have an LLM handle verbal input will make pattern matching much easier. Speech output.also improves immensely.
I am looking at renovating one of my towers and have been researching what the motherboard looks like. First iteration looks like a mass produced NPU solution, then when NVidia prices collapse, get a top notch card. I have been following the "Build Your Own AI" series here on The Reg, this article fills in some of the mid-level hardware options
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AAC
Ahhh, the joys of JCL. The most powerful and most unreadable language EVER. And, I include assembler, as some of us can (or used to be able to) read hexadecimal.
Thank you for the story and the memories. Ex-data entry clerk who "learned" JCL from "examples" and production code in the system.
Another Anonymous Canuck
I'm not even an accountant and I can make the books look good for 1 quarter for ANY company.
I was able to make the books for my company look bad for over 20 years, lol. It took government Covid support for us to turn a profit.
Please Simon, skepticism is a useful skill for a journalist. Time will tell, This time next year?
AAC
> Being a price-sensitive buyer with little use for secrecy, encryption and so on,
If you have no need for privacy then those sensitive prices are going to be very sensitive to the condition of your wallet, and will adjust appropriately, for the seller at least
Apple users have had to deal with this issue for a long time.
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AAC
> Being a price-sensitive buyer with little use for secrecy, encryption and so on,
If you have no need for privacy then those sensitive prices are going to be very sensitive to the condition of your wallet, and will adjust appropriately, for the seller at least
Apple users have had to deal with it for a long time.
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AAC
It will work, but there is nowhere that can service the phone if there is a problem. It is a pity, Huawei phones are wonderful, you actually control them, unlike the Android or Apple products. Unfortunately I broke the screen on mine and I don't know enough to repair it myself :(
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AAC
So, as long as Starlink keeps working I could not care about all the rest of the babble. E. Musk is the perfect example of a sociopath, someone who cannot relate to others, but he has done more to change the world than any other person in the last 50 years.
Just saying.
Another Anonymous Canuck
See the title. 3 times I have been left without a place to stay despite having a confirmed and paid for reservation. Airbnb's response: "Here is a 10% credit for a place of EQUAL or MORE VALUE."
I no longer use AirBnB, I will no longer use AirBnB and if I was younger I would take them to small claims court for breach of contract.
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Another Anonymous Canuck
Access to the summarized data will be a standard SOX/ISO process. Everyone: government, businesses, individuals will have access to this
Access to the dataset with the individual records will be ISO/SOX and then re-requested, re-authorized, AUTHORIZED BY A SENIOR someone, re-documented, re-executed, re-logged, multiple times. These people are bureaucrats, secure behinds are the primary requirement.
Other than the security services and criminals, I don't see any other group that would even try for the detailed dataset. And, like many others, I am sure the security services already have a copy of it.
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Just An Anonymous Canuck
This is not true, at least not within the past 2 years. Shaw cable modems are controlled by Shaw, however, you control the wifi router and you can connect any wifi router to the modem. Shaw does offer a wide area wifi network for all it's subscribers that it supplies through it's business customers. That service is opt-in for the business. The wide area wifi was extremely useful 5-10 years ago when there was very little publicaly available wifi, it is still useful occasionally.
As to reselling internet access, the users are just running a server on their machine. Unless their contract with the ISP prohibits servers I cannot see why it should not be allowed.
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AAC
We have had reliable platforms to run software since the mainframe days of the 1960's. What is still missing is the reliable software to run on any platform. While there are a few programming shops that turn out top quality code, 90% of the software I have to operate for the business that pays me is absolute crap and often does not perform the function it is supposed to. It does not matter if it is custom in-house work or million dollar commercial sftware, 90% of it is crap. Containers = a way for developers to deliver worse crap quicker.
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AAC
The entire article is BS!
> Going after Linux servers also has the added benefit of yielding massive caches of data when an attack is successful.
Really, any evidence to back that statement? Or any other statement in the article?
Not even close to El Reg's usual carrion quality.
A very disappointed AAC
I on the other hand, applaud IA. Human culture should never be restricted. Copyright is an 18th century solution that is already dead. Get Over It! Copyright lawyers are the latest buggy whip makers, and they have realized it. Why do you think they are fighting so hard?
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Just Another Anonymous Canuck
Last time I paid Google was just after they charged me clicks for ads that led to 4 pages that had not been viewed in over 3 months.
My complaint was rejected with "My logs were wrong". There is no way to appeal.
My action was to terminate the credit card.
"Do No Evil" However, they define evil such that it does not include theft or fraud
AAC
"Windows 3.x won not because it was better, or because anyone particularly liked it, but because it looked inevitable."
IIRC the reason Windows 3.X won:
MSDOS + Windows = $160
Apple = $750
MS-DOS compiler = $100
Apple compiler = $500
The biggest business mistake Apple ever made was the pricing for the basic OS and tools in the mid to late 80's. They lost the PC war because of it.
AAC
$948 operational expense/year? That's less than a phone/year.
No capital expense for hardware? Okay, not none, but 1,000 BYOD is a million bucks saved
I could make this work at lots of clients who operate in the Windows environment.
And I prefer real Unixes. Especially since systemd sucks, based on my dealings with it in the past 2-3 years.
Need a money icon
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AAC
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