* Posts by stiine

2118 publicly visible posts • joined 9 May 2018

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests

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Holmes

Is there any I in AI?

I suggest that the answer is no. I would also suggest that it doesn't matter because there is absolutely no "I" in the current implementations claiming to be AI. If there was any "I" in AI it wouldn't make any difference what data was fed into the system because of the "I" of the system itself. On the other hand, I don't understand calculus, French, or women.

Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done

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Re: Nice idea

If you execute an habitual thief, he'll stop.

As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths

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Unhappy

No, 'c' in the terrible hopes that you don't type 'cc'. Single letter commands are a disaster waiting to happen.

BOFH: Rerouting responsibility via firewall configs

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Re: The BOFH is back to his true form

Missing or simply terribly disheartened.

Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

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Re: Stupid proprietary garbage

And 48VDC...

Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options

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Re: Smart Quotes

Only if they're important for commands. Otherwise, no.

Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box

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Meh

Re: I thought...

A deep dive, with recursion...I love it.

AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads

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Re: News to you Andreas..

Its a gift, isn't it.

Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn

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Re: Critical speech

Why? That's the funniest thing I've seen this year.

If you'd like to post any images that you think I'll find offensive...welll....good luck with that, even if its my amateur pornography from 1987. I'd love a good laugh.

Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy

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Re: Can't see the difference?

If you're going to learn to touch type, using an unlit keyboard in the dark is the only way to fly.

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Re: Pondering..

Because he's not royalty.

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so you say...

" This is not an opinion, it is fact."

I disagree. Anyone with fine tactile sense can type on any keyboard if the keys are in the correct locations. Even if they aren't, those of us who learned to touch-type in the dark in the past when it was still possible to have a modem generate an XOFF, or fill a standard keyboard buffer and make the keyboard beep at us, can switch from keyboard to keyboard to keyboard (say from a Smith Corona to a Compaq M100 to a Logi MX Keys S) and still type with speed and precision. If you need the clickety clack, install an app and wear headphones.

Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload

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Re: Do they really spell archaeology like that over there?

Bosphorus, perhaps?.

Eeek! p0wned Alabama hit by unspecified 'cybersecurity event'

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Re: Compromised Product

They're Germans. Be grateful that its not one long word.

Defamation case against DEF CON terminated with prejudice

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Re: Social Engineer?

Suprise, or foregone conclusion?

After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over

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Re: Splashing harmlessly in the ocean

Stack? them all up, perhaps. Or are you really into primary school dodge-ball.

OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release

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Re: AI integration side effects

Considering their immediate action, I'd bet they left it out instead.

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Welcome back to the 1970's?

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

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Re: I'll move to Windows 11....

Don't move to Windows 11 Home, even if your life depends on it. Its everything you would expect, but with more stupidity.

Ex-NSA cyber-boss: AI will soon be a great exploit coder

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Coffee/keyboard

Isn't this piece a repeat?

Didn't El Reg already report that Microsoft had used AI to write Windows code?

Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025

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Re: Move fast and break things

We already do this, but it takes weeks or months under normal circumstances.

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Re: “and you may finally get to see your family on the weekends.”...

They don't have to say it, I will.

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

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That can't be true because the compiler must know how to find the end of a comment, whether its the end of a line or an end-comment character string.

Comments slow down all interpreted languages. By all means, don't delete comments, but don't tell me that your computer spends 0ms skipping comments in your code.

4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum

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sh*t

Where am I going to find complete image collections of locomotives and military jets now?

New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029

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Re: Oh, fuck off

You are a fool. Please arrange a fitting for your new long-sleeved, buckle-up canvas jacket.

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Re: we all know that DNS is the way to go

I run my own DNS and I have the appropriate TXT records to restrict which CAs can be used to sign certificates for the domains I support.

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Re: Yeah but most of that is trivial.

And some aren't. APC PDUs used to require pkcs15 certs. Some HP arrays require a very long list of subjectAltName entries for controller clusters' certificates. Graylog requires pkcs7 certs. Some systems are smart enough to contruct their certificate chain from CA, sub-CA, sub-CA, and device certificates. Others require the full chain in a single file. Some require the certificates to be copied to the device blind, and to followed by a reboot.

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Re: hoping this is only external certs

Group Policy is your friend there. Its more difficult on macOS, but you only have to do it once or twice per computer,

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Re: hoping this is only external certs

15 hours? You weenie. You aren't a serious IT person until you've put a mark in every 15 minute box for a whole day on a timesheet...and then had to have your manager explain to Payroll and Accounting that yes, you did, in fact, work from 00:00 Thursday until 23:59:59 Thursday, in addition to 16 hours on Wednesday and 7 hours on Friday.

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thats just fucking wonderful.

I bet the next rule change they make is that no entity will be permitted to renew a certificate if its been hacked, and doesn't have a clean statement of health from Mandiant.

I'm going to reconfigure my internal sub-CA to start giving out certificates that expire in 2030 (which is when my sub-CA cert expires.) Between now and 2030, I'll generate a new root CA and give it a 50 year lifetime and my new sub-CA will get a 25 year lifetime and just one more round of certificates and i'll be retired before they expire again.

The browser/CA forum are solving the wrong problem. We all know this, but it doesn't help that they don't have the power or ability to solve the underlying problem.

p.s. Are they going to shorten the CA certificate lifetimes as well? What about the DNSSEC root key lifetimes?

It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter

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Re: Ghibli

Bacon sandwich w/ brown sauce.

BOFH: There's a fatal error in the blinkenlights

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As i read the passage

'... a maze of twisting corridors, all alike.' I couldn't help but wonder, and fear, if this was a suicide mission.

I'm so happy that it wasn't.

Dev loudly complained about older colleague, who retired not long after

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Re: Inverse problem, kinda ...

Even working after hours terminating cables in a customer showcase under construction requried work dress, I don't remember if I was ever able to get the sweat stains out of that shirt.

After three weeks of night shifts, very tired techie broke the UK’s phone network

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Happy

you didn't mention the elephant in the room...

You forgot to mention the sun.

BOFH: Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

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Coffee/keyboard

And boiling polymers.

Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites

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Re: is there no GPS in space?

So what you are really saying is that they've developed a satellite-based, amazingly precise, anemometer. Amazing! I wonder if https://earth.nullschool.net/ will add this?

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Re: Relative to what?

In what plane*?

* - I'll let you define 'plane.'

Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied

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Re: They want a video?

I'm not epileptic. I find those extremely funny if they have a good soundtrack, like Napoleon XIV's Split-level head.

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Re: File too big

change your screen to dark mode and record at 600x400...

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No, use the red and white checkerboard bouncing ball.

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Re: They want a video?

I'm typing this before I watch that video i just clicked on because this El Reg... talk to you again in a minute or so....

I'm back.

I'm not sure I get your point...

Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

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Re: Bearing in mind how shoddy the Calculator app is now

What about wordpad? Notepad? F Microsoft project managers.

Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel

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Re: No header files?

Yes, but they would conceivably increase your compile time to weeks.

Cheap 'n' simple sign trickery will bamboozle self-driving cars, fresh research claims

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Re: Spatial memorization and "appearing" signs

Ever been past a terrible accident where the 4-lane has been chopped to a 1-lane? They'll station two guys with stop/go signs on poles at either side to continue at least some traffic passing.

This reminds me of the scene in the museum attic in Thief of Time (Pratchett) with the sign that said keep right over an arrow pointing left (or vice versa).

I suggest putting a 1 in front or a 0 after the printed numbers on speed limit signs.

Google teases AI Mode for search, giving Gemini total control over your results

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Re: Just swear

That kills lookahead also, and is typically ignored in the actual query. If you type the word 'fuck' before your query, you'll get the results you were (hopefully) looking for without the second guessing that google search typically does.

Still can't get to your Outlook mailbox? You aren't alone

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FAIL

is 2145 here and i can still sign in

But I'm getting a red "This message can't be saved right now. Please try again later." message when I try to reply to a message. I was receiving this same message yesterday before they announced the problem...

Maybe cancel that ChatGPT therapy session – doesn't respond well to tales of trauma

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Holmes

At least they don't pretend to be listening, or concerned, or anything at all, really.

One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee

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Re: FORMATS

I believe that zwei is low german and zwo is high germin, but I'm relying on my memory of a brief conversation during a late 1987 german language class.

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

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Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

Would that colorful graph in the article change much if you added another 50 years? so it went back to 1880?

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

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Re: Chatbot from Hell

That's funny, I've found that they usually respond the first time by repeating the choices, and the second time by saying goodbye and ending the call.