Posts by steviebuk 2859 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
It keeps going. 14mins in "Can create products with Spark AI" your AI (not AI just an algorithm is already shit), if you look at true AI its fucking hard. Just look at Robert Miles YouTube channel on AI Safety, especially the latest one and how unpredictable AI is. But anyway, you'd have to scrap copyright otherwise no doubt someone will create a virtual toaster for the metaverse that becomes popular until a big company comes along and sues because your toaster looks a lot like theirs.
He's fucking deluded. Its comedy gold.
I carried on watching. The investors will fall for it and he says its a long way off, they'll want to be in on it in case it takes off so their family can enjoy the riches. But watching it he just doesn't seem to get it. All the ISPs will be pissed on data usage, they are already moaning about Netflix. People out in the sticks won't have speeds high enough for this. And little things like "You're friend is at a concert, they can invite you as a hologram" yeah but surely that person needs to then pay for a ticket, surely?
Had that discussion in a jossing way about Latest Richard Herring RHLSTP series. He's not putting it out for free after having done for years, because this run is for charity. £50 for the whole series for virtual tickets (you can go to the theatre instead if you want) so you can stream it from home, which I've done as I can't be arsed to go to London. I've said "What if I have others sitting on the sofa with me watching, should they also not pay for a ticket like they would have to if they went to the physical theatre?"
Appears he doesn't give a shit what people think of him I'm guessing. When one was dressed as the robot and he said "I thought I was supposed to be the robot".
This idea is shit as we are nowhere near having the tech to make it happen. One thing I would like and want however IS a holodeck from Star Trek. Nothing wrong with that idea. Especially if you can use it to take old memories to revisit. I have been looking on and off for years of photos of Sandown on the Isle of Wight, specifically the Browns area where the lake is (was a boating lake) and the old Browns arcade but haven't found any. If the holodeck could recreate that from my memory it would be great :)
I don't like Elon much but understand the need to have the ability to leave the planet quickly if all goes to shit. However all the others, although he could do the same, should think about the current issues of Earth as well and how all their money, pool, could help out so much.
Not only this but they could also use that good bit of PR for advertising. People may dislike Microsoft and although no longer there, Bill Gates has at least created his foundation to try and eradicate the likes of polio. Why don't Bezo, Branson, Elon and Zuck do something similar with other fields?
We have a massive issue with plastics at the moment, Coke Cola being one. Not paying enough to recycle their bottles, places like Maui not having recycling centres so its too expensive to export the bottles, Coke Cola only donate 40k for their project/charity that tries to recycle. Bezo and the like are missing a trick. Donate machines with all your Amazon labels on them or Facebook labels etc. I really don't understand why they don't do any of this.
Clearly missing a trick and it might be something that people then won't ridicule them for. Cause this metaverse idea is a stupid fucking one.
I get people suffer from anxiety, I do, but he clearly doesn't understand people at all, maybe he suffers from it. The simple remark of boardgames being virtual, does he not understand people like to collect boardgames, they like physical objects take Warhammer for example.
He's clearly out of touch and every person in that video was a yes person as they clearly just want to keep a job.
And if its the NHS with large big roll outs they either employee underpaid beginner engineers who don't care as they aren't being paid enough too, or they'll under pay a good engineer (who is desperate for a job) to install along side the ones that don't care. But despite the good engineer being very knowledgeable, limit his/her access on what they can do. Wasting everyone's time because the perm engineers have god complexes. This then makes the good engineer decide to not give a fuck after a while.
May or may not be speaking from experience.
The Chinese people are fine, its the CCP that aren't. They have gotten worse over the past year. They're own anti-foreigner campaigns you appear to have ignored. Attempt to stay in a lot of hotels in certain parts of China and you'll be denied as they don't allow "Foreigners", nothing against the Chinese people, most of them are nice, its the CCP that are doing it and the populous have to tow the bullshit line.
The CCP come up with stupid rules like tea pot petrol fills for motorbikes. At some point there must of been a story of a bike catching fire at petrol station. So the CCP in its stupid "wisdom" (Its members have probably never had to fill their own petrol) decided to make a spot a few yards away for bikes to fill up. However, you have to take, what is essentially a metal OPEN watering can and fill it with petrol, then carry that open can to your bike and fill it up. Do the CCP not understand how petrol works.
to China
Trump also wanted to change section 230 so he could sue anyone that was mean to him. This will be the same. Not only that we have the idiot that is Mark Francois (oh, is that illegal now? I've called an MP an idiot) said that "David's Law" should be introduced, then it we see old footage surface of him being technically "aggressive" himself when he said "We are signing your death warrant" he it is in context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uZFGM2W8ao
Boring bit of info but I lived in a house 3 doors away from a Hawkwind member. We grew up on that street in the late 70s to early 00s before we moved out of London for good. They were still there when left or at least the mum was. His son Sam would come down their drive and sell his toys at the end of it (this was in the 80s). Went round their house a few times growing up. He played drums. They had a big tree in the middle of the garden with, what I remember to be a sort of treehouse wrapped round the bottom of it.
"Nor does the ad giant discuss whether or not it made any money when channel owners lost access and the crooks took over."
Lots I suspect. Just like it does with all the scam adverts that appear, before, during or after a video. The ones for fake products or services. I've finally found the option to report these. I know it's on the mobile app and PC, not sure about TV app. Seeing so many of them, surely they have a team that could remove these instead of leaving it up to the viewer to have to constantly pissing report. Its under the "Why am I seeing this advert" option.
Its shocking how many of these exist. Knowing they'll have paid for the time and Google makes money whether its a scam or not. I'm pretty sure Google never returns any of the money it makes from these adverts, so for them its a win win. Having looked into this before they also constantly blame AdSense for the problem, ignoring the fact they fucking own AdSense.
The whole reporting system is a mess. I've mentioned before about the copyright strike I got hit with (now finally removed) by a bocus report. Then I spot the other day, whole channels by the traveller community threatening violence to other travellers and some of their channels just showing the fights they have. Both breaking the T&C of YouTube yet those accounts still exist. I went on a reporting spree but I bet if I check in a months time, those accounts will still exist, along with the videos and the adverts that are on them. Googles AI will seemingly ignore them while they still make lots of money from the adverts until it becomes big news and you get another ad-apocalypse.
It seems to be the only time when Google/YouTube take action is when they themselves are indanger of lossing money when advertisers pull out of the platform.
...I was recently told by a software vendor (in their T&C) when testing their new AV to "Not upload their installer to VirusTotal". I thought that was suspicious so asked why not. Turns out, which I never knew and then confirmed when I looked it up (and mentioned in this article). Anyone with a specific subscription and varified by VirusTotal, can download anything that is submitted to VirusTotal. The AV vendor doesn't want the software contained in the installer getting into the hands of competitors (probably still a poor argument as if their competitor wanted to do that. They'd just pretend to be a fake customer).
Its funny as I assume outlook.com is supported by the Office team. Not sure what its like now but all the time Mark Russinovich would do his case of the unexplained talks, he'd poke fun at some point about the Office team. One talk he even found a bug and reported it. Assuming he'd get special treatment now (at that time) being a "Technical Fellow" he found he didn't and his report got stuck to the bottom of the list like other reports for Office fixes.
....is this like Facebook's bullshit "AI" filter (algorithm but managers love the term AI)? When a colleague told us at work "I've been suspended from Facebook for a few days. Because I said I had some lovely faggots the other day". The "AI" thought he was using a homosexual slur as clearly America doesn't eat faggots and clearly because American is the only language Facebook's "AI" understands.
DAB signal is pretty shit in most places, get rid of that then no one will be able to listen to the radio anymore. Not everyone is into computers, lots of old folks still love their "wireless" and make use of FM where DAB isn't available. Its shocking how poor DAB is for signal, granted it sounds nicer than FM but not when your in a town that is big, supposed to have good signal yet there are still spots, largely populated spots that I drive through when the signal just goes dead.
More reason the copyright system on YouTube is ridiculous. Which is why more people should move to lbry.
I did a video showing the security issues of a private parking enforcement company's website. Hadn't warned them as they gave no address to contact (part of the issues as that was a breach of GDPR) was up for over a year. All my own work. Until one day got a notice that I had a copyright strike on my channel. It was the parking company claiming the video was theirs. It got removed and I couldn't fight it as my objections kept getting rejected by their bots. Gave up and waited for the strike to be removed. Wrote a blog post about it and put the same video on lbry instead. I'm too small for anyone to notice but made me feel better :)
Ironically their site still suffers from security issues.
I thought the same. I still feel China are banging on about it like a bully but not planning to go ahead. Mainly because they realise their economy exists because of the rest of the world and selling shit on Amazon. Take that away and they'll end up tanking and loosing tons of money.
So much is made in China. Take for example the quality model maker Sideshow Collectibles. They looked amazing when I saw them on Tested (on YouTube with Adam Savage from mythbusters. A maker, his one day builds are a must watch) but then you look into it and they are pretty much made in China. They make the first mold in the US which we see in all their marketing bollocks. Then they ship it to China for the factories and painters their to do the runs. So no longer special yet still a mass markup price.
Small example but hopefully makes my point.
As much as I hate Facebook (I don't have an account), people do find it useful. My old manager would purely use it to share photos with her relatives in Australia. There is a model maker on YouTube who's really good who uses it as I assume its just so much easier than doing a website. I almost used it for my brother in laws small business as it was just going to be easier for them to manage. I'd setup a Wordpress site but trying to show them how to upload images to it, it just got too complicated.
The main problem is the algorithms I think as the whistleblower said. I'm no expert and I dislike the platform but from what she said, instead of letting AI (not really AI just an algorithm) from deciding content, they should let users decide the content. But they let AI do it as its cheaper and allows them to sell more shit.
What needs to be done however is news papers, online news sites etc, should be told to NOT rely on just one vendor for their logins. The amount of sites that only allow you to login with Facebook just get avoided. They then also have the issue when the site is down, so our their logins.
I'll also add they do, occasionally have interesting info on Facebook that is behind the wall that I can see over, which is annoying. However, since searching for this info again, for some reason I could see what was over the wall without logging in. That info is just history of where I was born and grew up. No longer live in the area but its interesting seeing the past history of it.
Is good though. Remember, it was never owned by Facebook until they bought it. I have been using it since it was a paid yearly thing. Saved me £100s in txt messages.
Facebook though, although I hate it others find it useful. I see the news moaning how big a reach they have with services that require an account being unable to use, but that is the fault of those sites like plenty of news sites that only allow you to login with Facebook instead of having multiple options for logins.
I was gonna say how much that will piss people off. I like Office but MS are becoming worse and worse. I see another anti-trust suite coming their way again if not careful.
I even remember back in the 90s going round to a friends who showed us Office and "it does this in Word if you've spelt something wrong" the squiggle underline. Then years later I remember when the ribbon came out and hated it until I watch Microsoft's presentation on how it worked and I started to like it.
But this sign in for an offline line app is just bollocks.
"BBC R&D discovered it too didn't much like the way personal data was in the hands of the wrong people. That got in the way of creating better public value from the internet, and the BBC worries about these things."
So why did the BBC start requiring us to sign into iPlayer? "So we can recommend shows etc" so abusing data? "We won't use it to see if you have a license or not". So then why do one of you say (I now can't find the article) that you might use it to check up if a person is licensed or not. Really so will you checkup the account I use, the account called "Fuck Off" based in London (I'm not in London).
And why in the privacy section do you have Share Statistics ticked by default which is against GDPR.
I'm not objecting to the license. I like a lot of BBC shows and thankful for no shitty adverts, I grew up with Star Trek Next Generation being on BBC 2 and find it weird seeing adverts on it on cable. But I object to having to sign into iPlayer now. And I really dislike the TV License website that incorrectly claims you need a license for watching DVDs etc. Then once you've paid actually tells you, you don't.
Same but had the issue if you were last in office and, due to the location of the sensor, were still enough all the lights would go out. Then you'd have to fumble about to get to the sensor to make it turn the lights back on.
They attempted to install power saving bricks that had the power switch on them. The ones from dragons den. But they ended up being fucking awful and not to mention an electrical hazard.
Unless the government demand it
"In July, ICO officers raided two homes in Southern England after pictures of former health secretary Matt Hancock kissing a colleague appeared in British newspaper The Sun."
Yet that IKEA site had cameras up since 2015 "No one has officially complained so we won't take action".
How many other IKEA sites has this been going on at? Who will no doubt have quickly removed the cameras once this story broke.
Hopefully there is a lawsuit and IKEA lose. They're can't be any reason why they won't lose.
Yep although they did look at his Internet searches. The problem with those records however are, you could always deny knowledge. "Sorry but I know it's against IT's policy but I did, quite frequently leave my desk with the machine unlocked. Its very possible someone else did those searches from my logon".
(spoiler alert)
Who got charged with blackmail. Was stupid enough to actually do searches on his PC with his account "Crimes to make easy money"
What a fucking idiot. And he was supposed to be a Detective constable, I suspect he was probably shit at that also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFTJTDlsibQ
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