Posts by iron

I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable

Re: What ever happened to the future where we pick items off of shelf ...

Amazon closed them when the fancy AI tech turned out to be Actually Indians watching lots of cameras.

Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers

Re: Incomprehensible

One man's signal jammer is another man's BBC Radio 1.

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

Re: I have said for 20 years

Or the concept of people having anything and perhaps being happy.

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up

> "Users do not want disconnected tools," OpenAI said

Clearly they have never heard of the Unix philosophy.

I realise I'm a non-standard user but I want good tools that do their job well, not a Frankenstein Swiss Army Knife that does everything badly.

> The world doesn't just want to build things. It demonstrably also wants to blow them up. OpenAI's long list of investors and cloud providers might now wonder if they are standing in the blast zone.

Not to worry, Jensen Huang supports war. He thinks we should have bombed Iran years ago and there's money to be made selling AI to the Iranians once the US bombs them back to the stone age.

UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev

Re: Cost

> The watchdog said ADI used a UK bank to make two payments in 2022, totaling £635,618.75, to Okko LLC, a Russian app developer linked to a sanctioned party.

Second paragraph of the article. RTFA

Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

Re: Gamers say pull the other one

Mobile GPUs such as that 5090 do not have the same silicon as their desktop parts and have far fewer cores, RoPs, etc.

It should be a crime (false advertising) for them to be labelled with the same name as the desktop parts.

Bullshit

My personally built desktop with discrete GPU dances rings round any SoC with integrated graphics. As my little used Steam Deck so obviously demonstrates.

SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site

> 10-gigawatt (GW) server farm.

> SB Energy will also build 10 GW of new generation capacity... feeding both the local grid and the datacenter.

Except the entire 10 GW will be needed by the 10 GW datacenter so the local grid gets 0 GW, at best, when all the turbines are turning.

GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center

Re: Yup......Zero Backward Compatibility At GNOME.....

> GNOME 50 itself still contains the XWayland X server, so you can still start and use X11 apps, the same as ever.

Sounds like backwards compatibility to me and in just the second paragraph so you didn't have to read far. Also later on the paragraph about old Nvidia cards.

Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to

> And then they need to wait one day.

What a load of bullshit. No-one wants to wait a day to be able to install an app, this still kills independent developers and FDroid.

Try again Google.

Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan

Re: Depends

> a scientific endeavor without any commercial aspect

Many companies have sent experiments to the ISS, I don't know if NASA charged them but there is nothing stopping a commercial research station from doing so.

Ex-NASA chief gives Isaacman's Moon reboot a thumbs up, stays schtum on the awkward bits

Jim Bridenstine, Chief Lobbyist for ULA

Bridenstine's consulting firm, The Artemis Group, netted $990,000 from United Launch Alliance in 2025, roughly a third of all revenue.

The article really should mention this.

Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government

Re: Can someone please ask

Elon has already said Grok will do whatever the warmongers want.

And OpenAI signed a contract with the Pentagon on Friday.

I read that this whole debacle was sparked because someone from Palantir told someone at the Pentagon that they overheard an Anthropic staffer complain that Claude was used in the illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan President. So why do Palantir want Anthropic out of the US government? Could it be because they have invested in OpenAI? Or maybe they just think Anthropic will get in the way of their whole "let's be evil" plan?

Re: Sugardaddy

HBM is useless to consumers. It is a totally different tech to DRAM and usually built into the SoC so you couldn't make DIMMs out of it even if you tried.

Similarly how much use do you have for a GPU with no video out?

All this AI datacenter hardware is useless for anything else.

Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere

Also Intel

> Most of Nvidia's GPUs are made in Taiwan, as are AMD's processors and Qualcomm's smartphone chips.

And Intel. In some cases parts of and in other cases the entire silicon for their recent generations of chips are manufactured by TSMC.

AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen

I'm a developer, I deploy code in 2026 and I very much do care where it is deployed. I need to ensure it will run on that architecture securely for a start.

Netlify or Vercel? Did you sneeze? Do whatever the LLM tells you? Are you a slave to OpenAI, Anthropic, etc or did LLM use rot your brain?

This article is bollocks if you know and care what you are doing.

US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day

Such a great advert

for Oracle, their cloud, their "unbreakable" Linux and their eponymous database (which I assume this is all running on).

AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them

> machine intelligence is a threat to the human species," the site explains. "In response to this threat we want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems."

If a machine intelligence existed, sure, but LLMs are not intelligent.

> "Poisoning attacks compromise the cognitive integrity of the model," our source said.

No they don't. Cognition requires understanding and LLMs do not understand anything.

Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer

> Intel will also be able to build x86 systems-on-chips (SOCs) that integrate Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets.

I guess Arc is dead then.

From video games to cyber defense: If you don't think like a hacker, you won't win

Nope. That will not protect you from a hacker with a copy of your corporate ID cards doing a 'USB Audit' in person. See many Defcon, etc talks by Jayson E Street.

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement

Re: Ahaha, no

No need to use an LLM for OCR, ML has been doing it for years and is cheaper in terms of cost, energy, time and every other metric.

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

Re: Gold rush

In the dotcom era the shovels were sold by Sun, IBM & Cisco.

So how's that going?

Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth

If you are still trying to determine the root cause then what the hell are you "already in the process of deploying"? And did you think we wouldn't spot this blatant lie?

Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here’s how to try it

So no Browse button or drop down list? What is it with the current crop of big tech devs that they always replace a working feature with a new, less capable and not fit for purpose version?

I'd have given this such a scathing code review that the incompetant snowflake responsible would need therapy!

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Alexa-enabled cookers, fridges and washing machines don't exist because no matter how much you shout at them they can't make dinner, put away shopping or wash your clothes without manual human intervention. Unlike light bulbs which only need to turn on/off and dim.

Smartphones face a memory cost crunch – and buyers aren't in the mood

Re: There's already heavy discounts in 2025

Which would not have been affected by memory prices rising in the last two or three months since they were built earlier in the year.

DRAM prices have more than doubled. The Steam Machine is going to be affected.

Intel hires ex-Trump fixer as Washington whisperer

Does this person know what an Integrated Circuit is? Or do they think Intel makes chips like Pringles?

Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it

“For whatever reason, because we had certain people in our company, we won't go into the names, who didn't want to build it and that building that database that drives it, well, already we're selling product and really doing a phenomenal job there,”

Is it just me or does Benioff sound like Trump? Maybe they both have the same brain disease?

Whatever, I wouldn't trust any product from this security nightmare of a company and its terrible CEO.

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

Re: silly statement old chap

> They're on a mission, defending free speech

They are on a mmissioin all right but it is definitly not not defending free speech. Elon bans anyone who disagrees with him and amplifies only facist views which is the exact opposite of free speech.

US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats

Re: You know what they really need...

They should also be 3D printed with the design, by AI of course, stored on the blockchain!

Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw

Re: Excellent Work

Imagine not knowing people used to request to be ex-directory. Laughter and finger pointing.

Re: Wait, what?

Good for you. Do your partner, parents and kids do the same? I doubt it.

And, can you be sure they haven't uploaded a pic of you anywhere? No.

Re: University of Vain-a

So good ethics would be to do no security research and let Meta continue to shit all over their users and crooks make off with their data?

Downloading one or two records would not convince Meta, they didn't even speak to the researchers till informed they were about to publish. The data was deleted afterwards - that is ethics.

Execs make rules that control AI usage, then break them for their own work

C-Suite Delusions

It must be a day ending in Y.

Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out

I'd recommend searching for just "browser.ml" and then changing the full page of settings to false, 0 or an empty string depending on the data type.

Take off and nuke all the settings from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft

Perhaps Mr AltMan is using AltMaths dreamt up by his hallucinating parrot when he quotes figures.

Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope

Musk might leave

Bullshit.

Most of Musk's wealth is in Tesla shares. If Musk leaves Tesla the meme stock will crash making Musk poorer so there is no way he will leave.

Paradox: Agentic AI dev roles are less in demand as agents take over

humanoid robots can inject fun into the workplace

In much the same way as an annoying boss injects fun into the BOFH's workplace.

Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu

general purpose operating system?

> no such thing as an immutable general purpose operating system

I'd love to hear what he considers a general purpose OS. SteamOS, for example, might be designed for gaming but it is perfectly capable of school work, office work or running the lights for a concert.

How more general purpose can an OS be?

Fortytwo's decentralized AI has the answer to life, the universe, and everything

Re: I figured it was only a matter of time

Sam Alternative Man already went there a few years ago with his World Con, sorry World Coin.

He even added retina scanning and human verification (Voight-Kampff test?) for extra dystopian points.

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

Re: Microsoft is getting desperate

Ways to turn it off that stay off would be nice. I've removed the CoPilot toolbar thingy from Visual Studio at least three times now and every update it turns back on!

Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts

Supply chain secured! Unfortunately there will be no new features or bug fixes because you alienated all the devs.

Well done, your platform is now on deathwatch.

ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

The city of Inverness would be a damn site closer, especially for essential services.

Walmart's bet on AI depends on getting employees to use it

I got about 1/3 through the article and all I can think is...

OH JUST FUCK OFF

Glad I've never wanted to work for Walmart.

Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger

Re: Here we go again

> I was already hearing talks about "browser as an OS" many (10+) years ago

Only 10 years ago? Sun were saying this shite in the 90s. It worked really well for them.

AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

> I’d bet on 0. or more likely 5

Lol, I'd bet on numbers 1 - 3. Most likely no 3.

Apple goes glass whole as it pours new UI everywhere

Re: "a fluidity that only Apple can achieve."

Sounds more like Vista to me.

Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

The French would disagree. It is not a protest until at least 3 cars are torched and the ports blocked by farmers.

Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again'

Excellent, the UK and France will be quids in then. No?

Virgin Atlantic is piloting an OpenAI agent in to help with the 'customer journey'

Optimising for an LLM

Is not the same thing as optimising your website for human customers.

You might as well be optimising for dogs.