Posts by steviebuk 2876 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
All Chinese phones spy for the CCP, its the law.
Its why they loved Covid so they could lock everyone into having to use the app to take a train, go in a shop etc.
Xi is loving the thought they'd use Chinese phones. He'll probably provide them for free. So then China has full access inside the Russian government.
What Windows laptops are you looking at? There are a tone of them that don't have the SSD soldered on. And then we have Framework. If I could, I'd buy one, I really want one. A modular laptop were everything is replaceable. The really stupid thing is, if Apple did such a thing and at a decent price, they'd probably get people like me actually buy some of their kit. But we know they are never going to do that.
But how its that for upgrading? I still have my old Lenovo from about 2012, W530. Still going fine. The A is popping off the keyboard but its easy to open the laptop to replace the keyboard. I've replaced the HDD with an SSD that didn't cost a fortune and I've put in loads of RAM. Switch to my partners Apple Macbook Pro that she doesn't use much now, and trying to get a new HDD for it and it costs a bomb. Unfortunately she's locked into everything Apple so won't break away.
....when managers who have enough money they never have to work again say "This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week"
Easy to say when you can afford fuel, afford someone to drive you in, won't get fired for being late or put on report like you're back at fucking school and don't have a 2hr commute every day.
Upvoted and agree, however, like with all these social media services we can choose to just not use it and let others use it if they wish because there are some uses to it for those that aren't just narcissistic. Our old manager used to use it just to share photos with her relatives in Australia. Her account was private and only they could see it.
But when sites insist the only way to sign up to their site is using a "facebook login", then it becomes a problem.
YouTube in its state, yes, but YouTube is a very good source of learning for a lot of people. The amount of free guides people put up gives so many disadvantaged people access to education and knowledge they normally wouldn't have. There are other companies like Odysee but unfortunately the likes of Odysee aren't anywhere near as big yet.
I don't think it would even be a good idea for it to remember output already gave to someone else. As I'm thinking someone or a "group" of people coughcountrycough, would use that fact to try and poison its data.
We also have the concern of censorship as Midjourney have already rolled over to the CCP and censor what they tell them to.
We have Teams at work and the "Auto suggest" is fucking annoying as I've mentioned before. I'm tempted to turn it off for everyone but guess I should actually ask the business if it wants it on or not. I've turned it off for myself.
The other day I said to my work mate "I don't do breakfast. I need to go on a diet". She had left her desk when she got back and unlocked the auto suggests had come up and she's accidently clicked one (I hadn't seen this, she told me after as she'd deleted it before I read it). She said the auto suggest she clicked was "Yes, you do" :) Nice of Microsoft and Teams.
The chatbots will be having endless meetings with each other. To make them feel more real, some will turn up late.
They'll start spouting "I'll circle back on that. We need to touch base and meet this head on. We can meet for coffee to discuss". Another will reply "We can't, we're just bots. We can't meet for coffee". The other bots in the meeting will be playing buzz word bingo. One chatbot in the corner will be struggling having been told they're all just bots as it didn't realise.
The meeting will end, it will be seen by the real humans as "A success. Fuck all got done like all our normal human meetings but the beauty is, we didn't have to pay anyone".
"I'm sorry, you haven't paid for your subscription this month so I can't start the car"
"I'm sorry, I can't connect to the internet right now, I can't start the car"
"I'm sorry there was an error."
Computers in cars was always a fucking mistake. Our Polo VW currently is showing a stop start error, so it can no longer do the auto turn off and auto start when touching the clutch. I think its a sensor error and probably too fucking costly to fix.
Been using it on and off since the Backtrack days. I'm not an expert, not even an amateur, I just fiddle now and then. I remember back in 2008 I was interested in it for WIFI sniffing and pointed out to the NHS trust I was working at, to the 3rd line engineers "Why are we using WEP still on the corporate WIFI. Its really easy to crack the password? There are flats over the road, I wonder how many of them are using it in the evenings". The reply was "But we're using 128bit WEP, its fine". I gave up reporting issues, being the temp engineer I was frequently ignored. Much like pointing out the flaw in Safeboot where I kept a laptop back that had me logged in just fine, past Safeboot. If I ever ran into a laptop that locked my Safeboot account, I'd boot up the spare which would unlock my account, instead of waiting ages for them to unlock me (as we weren't given permissions to do it ourselves but could be trusted to install machines in hospitals and GP surgeries. The reason I can't stand the IT culture in the NHS). Reported this, was told "Its fine the way it is". When I eventually left an engineer who stayed said "They finally admitted you were right with the Safeboot setup. They'd incorrectly set it so the laptop won over the server, they've now switched it, closing the flaw you pointed out".
This is going to end badly. As the AI decided to train itself on the data in a tenant. Computerphile have already done a video on the issue of the likes of ChatGPT and its training data. That ChatGPT is the most powerful AI we currently have but no one really knows how it works. Then it spitting out random words. More investigation found out those words were Reddit user names as appears the whole of Reddit is part of the training data.
True and, although its not rational at all, I can't help but fell sorry for them. Its like when they were testing the Boston Dynamics "dog". They'd kick it to show it won't fall over. As an animal lover, it was very weird. You know its not really a dog, but kept feeling sorry for it. Its an odd feeling as you know its just a computer.
But the
"The humanoid machine labored under the guidance of a human worker, so no jobs were harmed in the making of the moment, and robot-wrangling roles, born from venture capital, were sustained."
Yeah but with the idea that at some point it WILL replace the human. Much like the annoying self service tills and the "Everyone is a thief unless you prove you're not, that is why we have cameras on every till".
I used to use their backup software way back in 2010. Did a video on an issue with the schedule that they never fixed in all the versions I used. Where when setting it up you'd put in the credentials for you network NAS, it would say they are fine and you browse just fine. Then the job runs and fails due to credentials being wrong, which they weren't.
Not a defender of Elon, I think he's a cunt but
"because there is no reason to send humans to an irradiated, dry, boring, frozen, toxic wasteland filled with rocks and abrasive dust."
Because unfortunately we are killing Earth and as far as I'm aware Mars is the only other safest place for us to move to if needed.
Wow, a massive wumao.
Lets be clear, when we criticize China, its the government we are talking about, NOT the people of China. Its the CCP that are the issue. The CCP are a brutal, oppressive regime. Go into London now and protest, you may get arrested but then you'll go home. Do the same in China and then you're disappeared. Why do you think there was the "A4 protest"? This was because anyone that criticized Xi's piss poor handling of Covid was made to disappear, so the protestors changed their approach. If you're going to censor us and stop us speaking our mines then we'll just hold up blank A4 bits of paper. To show we're being censored. It worked, it got people talking, then most of those got arrested and haven't been seen since. The protests started because Xi decided it was a good idea to weld people into their apartments to stop Covid. Then a fire happened and killed those inside.
There isn't "entrepreneurial" ideas from the Chinese people, because Xi won't allow it. We have the "civilian" weather balloon that came over from China, that "Isn't military" but "You're not allowed to shoot it down". And then we have TikTok that "isn't linked with the CCP" yet the CCP says "You're not allowed to ban our apps from your government phones" and how many American apps are on Chinese phones? None, because the CCP doesn't allow it.
Jack Ma poked Xi then disappeared for quite a while. Peng Shuai disappeared for a while because she made comments about the CCP.
And then we have Huawei and their very funny "Sara AI" (look it up), that is actually a Unity Engine app.
Its clear you are either blind to these facts or a massive wumao, I suspect the latter.
But as we all say, don't take our word for it, do you're own unbiased research from decent, honest outlets.
You get a downvote, not because you are wrong about the CCP and we know Serpentza and Laowhy86 are good but because you've accused El Reg for being a CCP shill. They are far from it, they are just reporting and we are able to say its bollocks in the comments. If they were a CCP shill your comment would of been deleted ages and ago and we wouldn't be able to call Xi, Winnie the Pooh.
...all the fake/scam YouTube adverts. Would be nice for The Register to do an investigation into that. YouTube constantly blame AdSense for it, ignoring they own AdSense. Its as if YouTube don't give a shit, as long as they pay them for the adverts they seem to stay up for ages. And then you sometimes get hit with, not had one for ages, an advert that is over an hour long. They do it because they know you can't skip them on TVs etc.
1990 I believe it was, I went to a BT warehouse for my work experience at school as my dad worked at BT office in Greenford.
While I was there they said I was a jinx as they got a visit telling them the place would be closed and they'd either be made redundant or voluntary redundancy was available.
Then I believe it was a couple of years after my dads site closed and he got made redundant. Sadly, just being over 50 and despite having been a manager there. No one elsewhere was willing to hire him or the same wage so he never worked full time again. Has had to survive on his pension and the shares they gave him since.
They're business practices in the warehouse saw so much waste. I did different departments and one was people ordering new phones. Then there was a skip full of them. Brand new phones, some used but most new. I said "Can't these be resold, surely?" They said no, once opened we aren't allowed to resell them if returned so we have to skip them. Ridiculous, they could of sold them as opened with a discount.
"and the IT titan hopes to inject this kind of machine learning into everything from Teams and Skype to Excel."
We already have auto.suggest replies in Teams. Its fucking rude, anyone that uses those is fucking rude. Just type thank you instead of auto completing it because you can't be arsed to type it. If you can't be arsed to type it, don't fucking reply.
No excuse but I believe one of the other reasons it was done was to stop the spam bots. However, he doesn't live in the real world to know that the scammers will use stolen money to pay for the API. Not that he gives a fuck where the money comes from just as long as he gets it.
Bang go all those Python tutorials that get you to create a Twitter bot.
Is the option to fucking avoid Windows 11, easily. We are with an MSP who helps out when we hit an area we don't understand. Unfortunately they convinced us to take over the Windows update duties. They use n-able. They "accidentally" pushed out Windows 11 to a few machines and when I questioned it they asked if I wanted it stopped. It was too late, to many machines had been hit so let them carry on. "its been fine in our office" it doesn't matter, we're not your office and have old shit software that doesn't like it.
When all calmed down I asked for isolation for my IT machine. Did not want it. Was told because of the way Microsoft have been pushing out Windows 11 its not possible to isolate it. As people were blocking the term Windows 11 so MS changed the update name so it would get pushed out anyway. A few poor excuses of why they won't put a filter in and what was essentially a threat to remove our access to n-able (wouldn't be a bad thing) I've taken my own steps. Having to turn off encryption so I can turn off the TPM 2 chip so I don't get the weekly Windows shitty 11 update.
ChatGPT is good for quick code though. Yes, you need to check it before using it but at least it doesn't give sarcastic replies like Stack Overflow. However it does lie. It told me to use a powershell script but I told it the commandlet doesn't exist anymore it said "Yes you're right it doesn't try this instead" that 2nd one also didn't. It then gave up giving powershell commands and gave me older inbuilt commands that did work but I asked specifically for powershell.
But its still useful. Got it to give me one quick line of Powershell I needed, that was a beginner question that would of have a ton of sarcastic replies from Stack Overflow.
Glad someone else sees it. Saw a British couple a while ago doing their vlog (hate that term) who were going to go camping "We have this amazing solar panel that can be used for camping. Its great and does blah blah blah. Oh and thats to CampingCompanyNameHere for the panel. We haven't actually tried it yet". So how can you say its fucking great? Is it because you got it free and want more free stuff from people so will just so something is great before you've even fucking tried it?
They annoy the shit out of me. Granted, I'd love the money and free items but just can't bring myself to sell out. Really liked Britec's videos but then he started to "review" more and more IT stuff clearly sent to him for free buy Chinese sellers. Never declared this and the "reviews" were never reviewed just unboxings.
"Google builds music-making AI, but won't release it due to copyright
Researchers at Google have trained a new AI model, MusicLM, that can create audio samples based on text descriptions, according to a research paper on arXiv.
The first sample, for example, is generated with the prompt: "The main soundtrack of an arcade game. It is fast-paced and upbeat, with a catchy electric guitar riff. The music is repetitive and easy to remember, but with unexpected sounds, like cymbal crashes or drum rolls." You can listen to it here."
And because if they released it, YouTube would then probably flag everyone's song ever made as Googles AI copyright. That's how broken the detection system is on YouTube. For years my Disneyland Paris parade footage was being flagged by some Chinese account claiming copyright on the Disney sound tracks. Only recently have all those claims been removed.
The Aussie satire magazine (can't remember its name) has stuck itself behind a paywall now as it no longer wants these AI models like ChatGPT from sucking up and exploiting their free info.
Unfortunately the likes on Microsoft and Google will buy into this so the little people that have their images robbed will be able to do nothing about it, but the big corps will continue to profit off everyone elses work.
Exactly, but unfortunately so many hedge funds are tied to the companies, like the knob that owns lots of Google shares so told them they needed to fire more people. Doesn't matter that he's already making a shit ton off them, he just wants to make more. And that is the issue, the investors.
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