Posts by iron

159 Automattic staff take severance offer and walk out over WP Engine feud

Pocket Casts

Damn this twat owns Pocket Casts? Time to find a new podcast app, I don't want to fund his bullshit.

OpenAI reportedly considering for-profit plans, but what would that be good for?

Altman's "few thousand days" prediction

One thousand days is approximately 2.7 years. A "few" means three, or thereabouts. Three thousand days is roughly 8.2 years.

Or in other words Mr AltMan is telling us AI is 5 - 10 years away. Just like the flying car, cold fusion and many other science fiction pipe dreams.

I was surprised he was so honest in that essay.

Starlink-branded hardware reportedly found amid wreckage of downed Russian drone

Re: What usage ?

> the idea that someone would go to the trouble of putting something into space for it to be "semi-disposable" demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of where the costs are in an orbital launch

In the 50s & 60s both the USA and USSR used spy satellites which contained film that needed to be recovered and processede, making them very much disposable.

I think you lack a fundamental understanding of the willingness to pay any costs at a time of war, even a Cold War.

US may exempt latest chip fabs from eco red-tape, but power is still a trip

Your household electronics are designed to work over a range of voltages, frequencies, noise and general crap that comes out of the socket. Your supply is not the 110V / 220V / 240V at 50 / 60 Hz that you think it is. PSUs are good enough for your HiFi and computer but the DC they produce still contains ripple, noise and other artifacts.

When you need 18-angstrom accurcy that is just not going to cut it.

Re: but the laws of physics still apply

Alternatively Astralia would be a good location since they already repealed the laws of mathematics so the laws of physics should be maleable just by changing the maths behind them.

Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite

Re: So how does one turn it off?

Settings, Privacy + scroll down a bit to the Web Site Advertising Preferences section, on Windows at least.

Easily discoverable in the most obvious place imo.

I had already turned it off when the feature launched.

Begun, the open source AI wars have

Re: MOOT.....interesting word....look it up!!

> Do they not realise that training data "IS REQUIRED for actually USING an AI system"?

So how much training data did you need to download in order to use GhatGPT?

I see no signs of intelligence in an LLM but even I know you don't need the training data to use an LLM.

EU OKs $1.9B aid for Intel Polish plant, assuming x86 giant doesn't end up cutting it

So to construct a $4.6 billion assembly and testing facility Intel requires government aid of $6.47 billion?

That does not sound like a good deal for Poland to me. GREAT deal for Intel though.

Dow-ward spiral: Intel share price drop could see it delisted from blue-chip index

Re: So it's delisted ?

> The rest of the world is interested in its products.

Badly manufactured products with degrading performance even when run at stock settings.

Starliner's not-so-grand finale is a thump in the desert next week

Re: It's more than hoses

Those 63 years include less than 400 flights. At the equivalent point in automotive transport we had a man walking in front with a red flag.

We're still toddlers when it comes to spaceflight.

Re: NASA wastes so much money

NASA is wasting no money on this contract. Commercial Crew is a fixed price contract. Every delay, extra test flight and cost for rework comes out of Boeing's pocket, not NASAs.

Boeing has lost over a billion dollars on Starliner and they are set to lose more.

Blue Origin sets October 13 for first New Glenn EscaPADE to Mars

> We are ramping our production efforts up across the board and look forward to even more flights next year."

Even more flights than the ZERO flights to space Jeff's BO has managed so far? Say it isn't so. How can you manage more than no flights at all?

Jeff's BO, making Boeing look successful at space. (At least they have sent a capsule to space - getting it back is a problem but it went, unlike Jeff's BO.)

The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty

> Googling the question "How much has Google invested in AI?" that same AI, now baked into the search engine, reports that "In April 2024, Google CEO Demis Hassabis...

Acually it doesn't. It shows a Bloomberg article that says Deep Mind CEO Demis Hassabis said those things.

NASA will fly Boeing Starliner crew home with SpaceX, Calamity Capsule deemed too risky

This decision was made on Saturday.

So unless they have a time machine the markets were reacting to nothing.

Ok, maybe the good news that the bad news would be delivered on a Saturday so no-one noticed.

Boeing can't complete the contract

The problem now is that Boeing will be unable to complete their Commercial Crew contract.

Starliner flies on an Atlas V. Atlas V has been replaced by Vulcan. Boeing has purchased six Atlas V rockets for its six contracted missions to the ISS but there are no more Atlas V rockets available to fly another test or certification flight. Putting Starliner on a Vulcan roket would require modifications to the capsule which would need more test and certification flights and the rocket would need to be human rated, which it is not.

Boeing will not successfully complete all six contracted missions unless NASA certify Starliner without another test flight.

NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August

Re: Get Suited

If this were NASA transportation, sure. But it isn't.

Starliner is owned and operated by Boeing, Dragon is owned and operated by SpaceX. Even the launch pads are leased by their respective companies from NASA or Space Force, depending on the pad.

NASA merely provide the human cargo.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Re: Who, me?

You're being anti red people, you racist.

(I think you mean rogue engineer.)

Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs

Re: Can't help feeling

The enthusiast mobos with no power limits are a red herring, these issues also affect Supermicro servers using W-series chipsets with very conservative settings.

Beijing wants more outfits like Temu teeming around the world

What's a Temu?

Never heard of it.

FTX's $24B tax bill written down to just $200M

Re: Got to hand it to the IRS

What anonymous finance? Crypto is not anonymous, it is all published publicly on a blockchain. It is the very opposite of anonymous.

Windows 11 tries to escape Windows 10's shadow with AI muscle

Re: For what stats are worth...

My desktop has met the hardware requirements for Win11 since day 1. If you have a PC built in the last 5 years they should not be an impediment.

I have used Win11 on work laptops and don't like it. It improves nothing and gets in the way more than Win10 even after tweaking various settings. Add to that the only feature that interested me - Android apps - was US only and is (has?) now been removed then what would be the point?

My SteamDeck is showing me I don't need Windows for games. The writing may be on the wall for MS and I've used every version of Windows since 2.0.

Boeing's Starliner finds yet another way to not reach space

Starliner?

More like bin liner.

Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women

Re: Oh Auntie

I don't. My only surviving Aunt is in her late 90s and doesn't read the news.

Evidence mounts that Venus has multiple active volcanoes

> NASA tries to find the budget

Stop paying Boeing and maybe ye can be going (to Venus).

OpenAI tells employees it won't claw back their vested equity

Rogue HR Employee

So those clauses in their contracts were added by a rogue HR employee?

It makes a change from all those rogue engineers who steal our private data without Google's knowledge.

US corporations really need to do a better job weeding out these rogue employees during recruitment.

'Little weirdo' shoulder surfer teaches UK cabinet minister a lesson in cybersecurity

> more popular members of the Conservative party, such as Kemi Badenoch and Penny Mordaunt

Who?

Mind you I've never heard of this Tory plonker either.

Reddit goes AI agnostic, signs data training deal with OpenAI

Re: Reddit ChatBOT™

ChatGPT has allegedly been trained on 4chan, it can't get any worse from Reddit.

Dublin debauchery derails Portal to NYC in six days flat

Re: 6 whole DAYS? For shame, Dublin.

Some enterprising ned would just steal it to watch the footie on.

The end is nigh for Windows 10 21H2

> users with hardware that meets Microsoft's demands have likely already made the jump to Windows 11

Hardware meets the Win 11 requirements.

Win 11 does not meet my requirements.

A functioning clock that includes seconds when I click on it rather than displaying a notifications panel (why?) would be nice for a start.

Tesla layoff circus runs into fourth week with another round of cuts

> this time engineers are caught up in the mix.

Surely the "entire Supercharger team" included at least one electrical engineer and maybe a few civil engineers? Or did they design and build a charging network out of nothing but incense & whale song?

Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off

Re: the same is true with modern smartphones

My S22 lasts 3 days on a charge, with use.

My network provider keeps telling me I can have a replacement battery for free and I keep telling them I don't need it.

Watchdog reveals lingering Google Privacy Sandbox worries

Dear Google, I dropped 3rd party cookies in the 90s. It isn't hard or time consuming, just install a decent browser like Firefox and disable them. :D

Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City

Re: We want to be a part of a community where our people want to live

If you'd bothered to read the third paragraph you'd know they're moving from Texas, not California, and wouldn't look so stupid.

Or maybe you still would.

Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests

Re: > punishing people for their political beliefs

I'd fire you for your incorrect English.

Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs

Re: China will soon match the west

Don't worry, they will never have as much Freedumb as the USA.

That is why they will beat you.

Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans

> unavailability to attend drug tests or in-person meetings

Oh no, I'm a North Korean dev.

/s

AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware

I prefer the term LIE.

'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw

Re: AI is "working"

I've never seen anything in the AI world that sees "accurate results" as significant.

Far better to halucinate some less truthy facts than bother with all that annoying correctness stuff.

In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem

Re: Pope catholic?

> it's usually a quick-and-dirty piece of borrowed code thrown in to make the app a "whole experience"

No it isn't. It is always an OS provided web view of some form. If that code is borrowed or shoddy your complaint is with Apple or Google.

After threatening to block Binance for months, Philippines does the deed

No, just another cryptoscam company ignoring an inconvenient law.

SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success

Re: are there legal invasions ?

Consider D-Day... the allies invaded France to free Europe from the tyranny of Hitler.

You wouldn't call that an illegal invasion would you?

Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence

"CEO Dave Calhoun will be stepping down from his role at the end of this year"

So good old dave gets another 9 months of his no doubt mind boggling salary. He should be fired immediately with no renumeration along with the rest of the C suite.

The way Apple, Alphabet implemented DMA rules 'seems to be at odds' with law

I don't know what AI chatbot powers Paul Kunert but its English sucks. There is nothing correct about this single sentence paragrah:

"Apple is also being probed about measures to lets customers uninstall any software application on iOS, change the default settings on the operating systems, and make it easier to users to use third party browsers."

Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD

Re: The Financial Times piece put the deadline at 2027.

Yes, it really only affects governement systems. Consumers are not affected.

Gamers Nexus can get this right so why can't El Reg?

Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare

"If a report of an air accident investigation revealed anything like the scope and systemic misadventure of the British Library report, it would shake up the aviation world so hard its rivets would pop."

Nice sentence but Boeing's refusal to identify who replaced some door bolts or even if they were replaced at all would disagree.

Exposed: Chinese smartphone farms that run thousands of barebones mobes to do crime

Re: 1,000 smartphones all hard at work

> cheap Android TV sticks

Even an expensive Android TV can't run all the apps an Android phone can run. By using stacked phone motherboards they can run any Android app. Since they don't need case, screen, etc and are probably buying from the back door at the OEM they are probably just as cheap.

How to improve Chinese TV? Better censorship, says top tellie-maker

Are these light sensors, heat sensors, oh maybe touch sensors? Or just maybe you meant censors?

IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing

Re: Xitter indeed

Your infosec people are all on Mastodon now.

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

Evil twat lies. News at 11.

Apple Vision Pro rentals take China by storm ahead of official release

Probably with a huge crack that appeared out of nowhere down the middle of the front screen.

A crack that requires an expensive screen replacement to fix and is not covered by warranty or Applecare.