Posts by steviebuk 2630 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
I've said this with a lot of data with AI. To fight against it, people need to just do massive dumps of bad data for them to slurp to poison their training. Apparently people are doing it with their art. Doing something specific to it so it looks fine but it then screws up AI's attempt to train or copy from that image.
Alan Sugar will probably like it. He's gotten all bent out of shape due to people working from home, and why? Because his money is in office space. He maybe a billionaire but he made cheap products with cheap parts just at the right time.
Most of his kit was shit and many moons ago he was on Jon Ross touting the animatronic of his face, like the singing fish. Really shitty devices.
https://youtu.be/Tnh9VNVdVyI?si=iLNfAP9QO1u-H_aX
He even admitted once, not to long ago, don't start up a business, just buy property. Mainly because all his money now is in those properties. And with everyone working from home, he won't be able to sell his office space. And as always, fuck whit managers either don't see this or want to kiss his arse, despite never meeting him.
My long winded point. Alan could stop moaning about people working from home and instead change some of his buildings into data centres.
Getting more and more annoyed with Cloud bollocks and companies bate and switch. Pulling people into services they like they deciding to can them. At least when you bought the software on CD/DVD you could use it years after its out of support.
Problem is businesses just accept it and we're told to fix it but clueless management.
Little Xi Winnie the Pooh man. Go fuck a duck. You ban all Western app and the West just says "Fine", the West attempts to do the same to you and you go nuts. Just look at TikTok, very odd that you are getting involved with that if you have nothing to do with ByteDance.
Don't like the West's policies? Then don't fucking trade with it, simple. Don't keep crying about it moaning its unfair when you do the exact same to everyone else. You buy up land in foreign countries but any foreigner who even attempted to buy up Chinese land would get told to "fuck off" by the CCPCPPCPPCPPC.
I was going to say that. DAB is fing annoying. Driving round and hit dead spots so it just goes silent. At least with FM you can make a crystal radio set, never going to happen with DAB or DAB+.
I thought they were turning off FM in the UK but hopefully that's out the window considering DAB signal wise ain't great.
They weren't his. He was requested to give them back, he didn't and choose to hide them. Not only is Cannon clearly delaying for him, now so are the Supreme and massively bent court judges (not all of them as 3 voted against the immunity case) with their bullshit ruling on the immunity case.
So now, Biden should send out seal team 6 to end Trump, simple and then say "Well Trump did say a president should have total immunity, even for killing their political rival. And because the Supreme Court appeared to agree with him, depsite us not having a King/Queen or this ever being a problem before in US history. I just did what Trump said I could do, so I took him out. Quite good really because now we don't have to listen to anymore of his grifting bollocks".
Yep, with MSPs they end up always being more expensive, you never have the same, regular engineer as they support loads of different companies, their 1st line always ends up with a high turn over as they appear to run that line like a sweat shop. And you'll be hit with extra charges when a site visit is required because the user doesn't know how to turn a monitor on.
The designers get the praise and money, fuck the engineers. Much like MikesElectricStuff. He did a very nice display many years ago now (on his YouTube channel I believe) but when you went to the official "designers" site, no mention of the engineer that designed the electronics (Mike) and made sure it all worked. No, them being poncy designers, everything was done by them. I don't think Mike cared, he got a nice pay out for it being freelance but still. Wouldn't take much to at least acknowledge your art design wouldn't of been pulled off without the engineers behind it.
Not when you're on a warship and where using such a system could very well give away your location. Much like Fitbit and Strava giving away secret military locations. Why that story has not made it so these companies should be FORCED to give the option that NO DATA is to leave a device and should be able to work fully without talking to a server is anyone's guess.
Yep, otherwise you'll get it back to base with a fault and find it states "Needs to be returned to the manufacturer for repairs. Warranty void if opened". Much like a lot of the gear that was used in Afgan. Which is more reason why Right to Repair needs to be sorted.
"Excuse me, can we have a cease fire for a month. We have to send our kit back to be repaired as we're not allowed to repair it in the field. And they don't supply parts."
When a war starts, certain countries you know will ignore treaties. China is one of them. Much like Japan in WW2 ignored the Geneva Convention. This will happen again no doubt. I don't ever expect the Taliban would ever honour the Geneva Convention.
No they didn't. China stole would be more like it.
The ironic thing here, as with their other LLMs, you can tell they've stolen them from the west. The image AI creation tools. Because its western, attempting to do Chinese, it doesn't understand local colloquialism. So when asked to draw "Duck soup", it draws a duck swimming in soup.
No, not porn. The crappy reality show that my partner loves to watch. I got ChatGPT to write 10 quiz questions on it to see if she could answer them as she knows the show so much.
About 4 of them were questions about only one person in the show so the answer was the same 4 times, another 2 were about another person in the show so again, same answer for those 2 questions and about 3 of them the answer was wrong and one of them wasn't really a proper question.
True, unless they did what Facebook did where Zuckerberg, who I dislike, has the controlling voting shares so no one can kick him out and he's free to piss away billions on the pet project that was the Metaverse.
But I doubt they are doing that here so the largest share holding will get to decide what happens. And that looks like it might be ARM who, as we know, are now owned by Softbank. Would not suprise me if we, at some point, see Raspberry Pi sold off to Softbank.
Vision Express in town still has their monitors by the window. Was hanging outside once and noticed the user had got up to sort out a customer but left the PC wide open. You could see all the users data so I took a photo. Sadly it was on my old Nokia E71 so it was shitty but still, it was to prove a point. I mentioned it to their head office, they said thanks and I heard no more about it.
About a year later I visit another one of their branches to get new glasses with my partner. The woman serving us said "Sorry, I just have to unlock the screen as we've had new system implemented for security and we're still getting used to it. Always happens when we leave the desk". My partner and I smiled, pretty sure that was because of my "shoulder surfing" incident and the report to head office.
Despite suggesting the other branch that is surrounded by big windows might want to angle their screens away from the window, they never did. Can still see them to this day. Speaking of that, I need to get another photo now I have a good camera phone.
"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to the stand in 2023 to testify in the US government's antitrust trial against Google." will they hit Microsoft with one with the way they are handling and forcing people onto Windows 11 and, what with the bollocks TPM2 requirement, putting lots of machines into landfill.
"businesses should ditch Exchange and OneDrive for Gmail and Google Drive"
Gsuite or whatever they are calling it now is truly awful. Maybe of use if you're a small company but even then.
Its the pot calling the kettle.
Used to have to use GAM. I mentioned this has/had a massive flaw in it but it still had to be used as there is no other option to manage Google Drive. You setup your GAM connection and its not on your laptop just in a folder. If someone can access that folder to copy, they can now run GAM as you on their laptop with no credentials requiring input. So you can now rob loads of documents or screw up files as daveadmin and Dave gets the blame.
There was also the issue of syncing to Google Drive with only basic audit. However, you could then install Google Drive for Desktop on your own personal PC and sync that to your work account. You can now sync all your documents to your personal device and as Google Drive for Desktop points out "We keep no audits for this app".
The CCP aren't exactly the brightest. Even if this company has nothing to do with the CCP (doubt it, as become big over there, even if you're a national company and the CCP wants its bit of your pie), at some point the CCP goons will role in and tell them they need access to their business.
Much like a lot of the Chinese restaurants either just agreed or were forced to house the secret police stations so they could tell escaped Chinese to "Go back to the motherland. We have you're family".
Its all ironic. Attempt to buy land in China and you'll be told to jog on "We don't allow foreigners to buy our land", yet a large abandon shopping mall was looking to be redeveloped in the US, so a Chinese company bought all the land and claimed they'd develop it but didn't. Just sat on the land for years until forced to sell it as the city had had enough.
Similar to this tiktok ban (Its not a ban its just a forced sale). Tiktok IS an issue (and yes we know Facebook etc are just as shit but at least we can talk about this without being made to "disappear"). Bytedance is an indepentant company as the CCP would have you believe, but then why are the CCP so bent out of shape over the sale? If the CCP disagree with this, then just move out of the US market and keep the app. Oh thats right, Tiktok itself is banned in China.
The CCP as they do, are also crying racism, but how many Western apps are allowed in China? Oh that's right, none. So if the app is totally innocent, why does it need so many permissions on devices, why does it have so much tracking and why are the CCP so upset? Could it possibly be its their own siop app and they are upset that they won't be able to spy anymore? Maybe.
Its annoying as China is a nice country and has a rich history. Its just sadly, the CCP have ruined it, actively destroyed its history by smashing monuments up, allowed local villagers to use the brick from the Great Wall of China (until recently, realised their mistake so stopped this, but not before a local villager had plowed a whole in the wall so they didn't have to go round the long way). And actively silence anyone over there that critises the government. The "tank man" was never seen again. The recent man on the bridge protesting was never seen again. The videos that do escape the country, you can even see its own people are getting fed up but can't do anything to resolve it.
I've rambled on now.
Because Musk is a fuckwhit. He's a shill for so many, especially the CCP. He needs China for his factories so on a video the other day, praised China for its history. Yet totally ignores the fact the CCP destroy Chinese history by actively smashing it all up. Praised its ancient language and ignored that the CCP wanted to get rid of the Chinese language.
But without it, middle managers won't be able to micro manage and won't be able to pretend they are required.
We were glad we had a manage who was really good, let us work from home as much as we wanted as he knew the work would get done. Also helped he preferred working at home as he got more done.
The worst companies are the ones that require you have a camera set up so they can make sure you're in your chair a certain percentage of the day.
The CCP shills are downvoting.
Also the country that was sending over folks to create "Police stations to help citizens sort out their driving license" and not to threaten Chinese citizens that have managed to escape the shitness of the CCP and disguising these police stations.
physical security business' are pony (excluding close protection as most are ex SAS)
Its probably because I thinking of G4S. They are truely awful.
Slightly related are the folks that go repair the cash machines. Knew a guy that was doing it and got told to drive miles right near end of shift . Then one he had to call back to base that "I'm at that cash machine but I can't repair it the police are here". He got told "We don't care just get in there and repair it". He replied "I can't its just been robbed so its a crime scene". Jobs worth managers, back at based micromanaging because "we have to hit targets" mainly so they get the bonus that they won't share with their team.
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