Posts by Sudosu

If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue

There is Definatly someone to sue

Unfortunately it is the business that was using AI by those who were impacted by its errors.

Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus

Re: Boeing Disease?

My guess for the cause is three letters - MBA.

Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons

I have a prob...Have you tried turning it off and on again? No but I can't...Goodbye! Click

We can do this with an AI help desk now.

ServiceNow allegedly says salesman 'overachieved' and is not entitled to comp

Re: The Oracle gambit

Are they easier to tip than cows?

PS- I had to look up what a fly tipping site was

Starlink sprays debris into orbit following another satellite 'anomaly'

We need a Harry Broderick

...and apparently a cement mixer.

"Salvage 1" tagline from IMDB "Harry runs a salvage operation, in which he and his partners reclaim trash and junk and sell it as scrap (or as other things). Harry also has a home-made spaceship which he sometimes uses to reclaim junk satellites."

PS - Oh wow, this show actually made it into a second season.

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

Re: Yup....This root user was born on 1-Jan-1906!!!!

Apparently I was seeing from a China perspective :(

Re: Yup....This root user was born on 1-Jan-1906!!!!

How about August 6 1984. To tell them to "86" their 1984 attitude toward freedom.

NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle'

Re: You keep using that word…

I think I pasted this before, but they "drove" Endeavour through part of LA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdqZyACCYZc

Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns

I sometimes watch Scammer Payback on YouTube to see some Karma for these people.

The guy trolls the scammers, breaks into their systems and cameras so you can see them reacting.

He then gathers information, reports them to their government....and then shows the takedown through their web or office cameras.

Unfortunately by then the money is usually gone, though sometimes he tricks them into transferring it out so it can be returned.

Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI

Move fast, break everything, leave, repeat.

Re: 62 percent of bosses rely on LLMs

"It's easy to see why so many UK leaders are leaning on AI when making high-pressure decisions. When the stakes are high, AI can feel like a neutral voice that processes information quickly and offers clear recommendations."

Faster, wronger...

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it

Re: fortunately my system has plenty

Not exactly related to the compression discussion, but is for the RAM savings one :)

I've got an ancient HP Z800 circa 2011, with an SSD, an NVMe (I always call these "ENVY ME!" drives, is that right?) plugged into the PCIe slot on a card, 100GB of blazing 1333MHz DDR3 and dual X5675 CPU's.

It cost me 90 dollars 5 years ago, which translates into less than 8GB of DDR4/5 RAM today I think.

I originally bought it to run Proxmox, but will run just about anything I toss at it.

It can even run modest LLM's (under Ollama) on just the CPU's, though somewhat slowly...saving up for an RTX3060 for it to help with that.

The power supplies are the greatest weakness, once it dies you toss the computer generally, so mine sips, or maybe gulps, filtered power.

AI?

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

Call it the papers please bill.

Re: IS_ADULT value

Ok, now we need your age group, photo ID and your political affiliation to protect the children....by reeducating you.

Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town

Re: Bad Business Practice

Yeah, that extra zero, can really cause an impact...been through that once and have to always reiterate the cause of why they don't have any payment type on file when I contact them.

NEVER AGAIN.

Yours Truly,

Harry Buttle

ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets

Re: What do the users think?

When creating prompts I have a catch all that picks upon the user being "angry or frustrated" at which point it will forward to a human.

Hello, I----Have you tried turning it off and on again? I have a proble----Great, ticket resolved, goodbye!

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Next..

...there will be a teleprompter on the till, or an AI voiced headset.

I just had a flash to the attempted arrest scene at the ATM from Demonltion Man.

That movie is unnervingly accurate on many things.

Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'

The integrity of the writes in a rdbms, however, is orders of magnitude higher than a stand alone spreadsheet and can include logging and error capture.

This is like the old, I can buy a 1TB (or whatever size of the era) hard drive at "choose your retailer" for far less than you enterprise guys are charging me for that storage. That holds true until the click click click noise starts, then the real cost of losing your data comes into play.

I find AI is like the old school forums; they seem to start out fairly intelligent, but after about the tenth post that intelligence drops off a cliff.

Re: Sloppy

All we are going to get is a Talkie Toaster...

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

My friend had a job wrap up and after sending in resumes to many jobs he asked his recruiter buddy what he could change to help things.

The recruiter reviewed his resume and told him to not show any more than the last 5 years experience on the resume unless they were specifically asking for proof of longer experience.

He told him it flagged him as old...

Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees

Re: Interesting approach

It's professors all the way down.

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

Re: 20 files?

Just Store a couple DVD ISO or Blu-Ray files in OneDrive before you put anything else in there and it will never finish the sync.

Re: Microsoft is speed running towards Orwell

So can you call the FBI when we can't find your keys?

Re: Who watches the watchers?

Artificial Intern may be a more apt term for the output.

Re: Who watches the watchers?

...and now that song is in my head for the day, I guess it could be worse haha.

Re: Windows' Search

Oh, how many times I had to kill that damned indexing service to make things work over the years...grrrr.

Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details

Re: Tired

Windows Landfi11 edition.

I prefer Copylot.

Re: Tired

Bazzite for six months on my main desktop and its less scary than I thought it would be so far.

A lot of stuff is mostly on the web these days and that helps.

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

Re: Missing one aspect, the customer

....or, from another perspective, let him stay so he can keep doing the good work until it is done.

Re: In 2026? Five years late...

I did!

My bad.

Can't edit the old post so I withdrew it

ServiceNow boasts about years of sweat equity that went into making its AI agents smarter

Re: 80 billion workflows

That was my first thought when I read it.

We are using your workflows which we stole to help your competitors.

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

Re: Diskpart to delete the recovery partition

Minitool is a great free product for playing with partitions.

Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud

A nice bundle

I actually stood this up many years ago to play with, but I ran it as a VM on top of Proxmox so that I could back it up and restore it PDQ.

It is a nice bundle of tools for sure especially since you can get a decently old office desktop cheap or even free if it is your old "unupgradable" Windows machine.

Glad to see it updates itself. That is always a concern with a set it and forget it type of deployment.

Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

They hired Talkie the Toaster and reprogrammed him to get you to use OneDrive.

Would you like to move your data to the OneDrive?

Re: Suggestions?

A small data center I inherited support for had one of those and it worked perfectly when the delivery guy bumped into it.

I made them splurge for a protective cove for it after that.

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue

Re: BS

Ages ago I had done some installs in those areas at plants and coal mines and had to use explosion rated (essentially dust proof) cabinets and explosion proof the conduit.

The conduit we had to pack and seal at the joints to prevent dust migration in and spark migration out.

Motors used in those plants had to be explosion rated as well, usually TE (totally enclosed).

Dust explosions are freaky scary stuff.

Re: BS

I still have a big rock divot in mine, right between my eyes.

It felt like someone punched me in the face when it struck.

Re: BS

I've done maintenance on air systems in many large industrial shops where there were several v8 engine sized compressors.

I've also maintained HVAC systems that used pneumatic controls (a lost art in many places)

They all had refrigeration based air dryers and purpose drain pipes with auto drains on them.

Water and air operated items do not get along well (especially in paint shops)

PS - I air blast my PC's with 100+ PSI air from my garage every spring and fall and have never had an issue as I keep my machines for well over a decade generally. I do run a drain on my tank every couple days when in use as I don't have a fancy air dryer.

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

Re: Mine updated yesterday

Why do I find the name of that game so intriguing?

Re: Gaming is the Key

I swapped over maybe six months ago to Bazzite.

I haven't run into any Steam games that have outright failed yet...but to be fair I have not gone through my whole library to test each. Some are pretty intensive and work just like they did on Windows 10 (or better as I used to have to shut of real time scanning from Defender to prevent stuttering)

I run Heroic for my Epic games library and all of those work so far but once again I have not ground through the library to check them all.

I run the EA App through Bottles and it works fine for the old games I actually own on there including an old BF game.

Blizzard is supposed to work in Bottles but I have not had luck with that, so I installed their app under Steam and it works great for all my games.

If your game runs Vulkan I find it will run way better than DX11 or 12.

Kernel level anti-cheat has no place on any computer I own, though others don't care so that is definitely a nope for functionality on Linux.

Office productivity etc. is still a gap for sure.

I don't run MS Office anymore and have lived with the online versions for my customers which is navigable but not as full featured as local clients like you mentioned. I would hazard they should work under Bottles or one of the other translators?

DaVinci Resolve is one I hear mentioned a lot, they had a Linux version but there are issues with the licensed formats, encoders etc. and the Windows version will not emulate yet.

Adobe has a quite a few products are also problematic (at least from what I hear)

The only current workarounds for those is a VM or moving to a similarish Linux based app. which means re-learning from scratch something you have been doing your whole career in some cases.

Anyway, for me its fine but there are definitely a lot of gaps from just walking away from your Windows install.

In my experience: Windows chews RAM, Linux chews CPU.

I honestly thought I would miss Windows a lot more since I have been using it for a very very long time.

In fact I still have my Windows 10 partition "just in case", but I have resisted so far and will for a while since I don't want to spend half my day patching it haha.

TLDR - Works for a lot of games barring ones with kernel anti-cheat. Works ok for basic office productivity, with MS Office online being a work around. Works not so well for big vendor creative applications. Its not as bad as I thought it would be.

Lego crams an ASIC in a brick to keep kids interested

Re: So much for pure imagination...

The only reason, as a kid, that I liked Lego for over Mecchano was that Lego creations could be more rapidly disassembled in mock battle conditions.

This was mostly accomplished by dropping or throwing them into each other while making explosion sounds (which can now be done by ASIC apparently)

Re: Proof reading?

Do the ASIC's run LegOS?

Re: Repeat after me...

Not to be confused with the poor Elf who has no Lego (there I took the "s" off) Legoless.

COOOOL!

I would have loved these when I was a kid!

Had the mixed multi-color bin of Legos as a hand me down, but I also got some space Lego as a kid which I actually reassembled last year from instructions I found online (and after fishing out all the fancy grey, blue and transparent pieces from said bin)

When we were 10 or so we bought LED's, resistors, switches and some wire from Radio Shack and built all kinds of battery operated lighting solutions for our creations.

Space Lego Hack - We used sharpies to color the backs of the space figurine's heads so you could rotate them and have a full tint visor in their helmets.

Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks

Re: screen breakage

I took a spill in an icy parking lot and used my issued HP laptop in a thin shoulder bag to help break my fall.

It never quite sat level on tables after that but it worked fine until it was replaced during the next refresh.