Posts by SuperGeek

Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects

Kumma...

There's a red flag. A sexual sounding name for a kids toy. Without the rest of the AI stuff.

The world is officially bonkers. Pull the plug I wanna get off this giant marble!

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

You can't blame Linux for that. Try getting an Intel I219-V Ethernet controller to work under Server 2025. Yep, you have to edit the driver! Even Intel's own Server 2025 driver doesn't work as the V series isn't listed in the INF!

And the I219-V is a server controller :(

Turns out the end of Windows 10 is good for something: The PC refresh cycle

Re: Amazing, really...

"I have never paid for Windows, not even as included in a PC purchase."

The cost of the license is part of the computer price. LoL!

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Napping AGAIN?

When did they ever STOP napping?

OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it

Re: If it worked I'd pay!

It isn't the word "Supergirl" that causes it as I can use it in a quick prompt and it works fine, it's GPT's elongated description somehow.

If it worked I'd pay!

I love Supergirl she's my fave superheroine. If I give ChatGPT a harmless image of her, say her walking past the Daily Planet, and ask it to describe it, if I then ask it for a generation using *its own description*, unaltered, it fails because it 'violates content policy'.

So its description engine violates its own policies?

This is why I won't pay. It's shit and getting worse.

800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics a little more expensive

Brings new meaning

To the term 'tough mudder' ;)

BOFH: HR discovers the limits of vertical mobility

Re: Very nearly coffee > Keyboard time there!!

OH&S = Overblown Health & Safety?

Heh, they are soft these days ;P

Trump's gold-plated smartphone can't seem to decide which design to copy

Re: Surprised?

Looking forward to the SMOOREZ YouTube review on that one! WELCOME have released some TERRIBLE clones, but the videos are funny. Not a sponsor, by the way!

OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations

80% less hallucinations really?

But does it still get the number of "r"'s in "raspberry" wrong?

:)

Another one bites the dust as KubeSphere kills open source edition

Translation

"The open source version has turned out more popular and isn't making us money, so tough titty we're stopping it. Pay us!"

This has happened with many things. Subsonic here's looking at you! They close source and then ABANDON the project in some cases. Grrrr!

Servers hated Mondays until techie quit quaffing coffee in their company

Re: Disks

2 metres tall for 50MB? Wow! And here I am with a newish Creative MP3 player that has a 4GB HDD that is smaller than a CompactFlash card! It is adorable!

Progress, huh? ;)

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

Good they were caught....

Otherwise their Coldplay would have turned into Hotplay? ;)

British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network

Re: What about a new job?

The book, "5 types of people that can ruin your life" is a really good read. I read it after dating a narcissistic Borderline. I just wish I'd read it beforehand hehe!

What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer

Re: "reshapes GNOME in the image of Windows 11"

I wonder if that's why Microsoft haven't gone after the Wubuntu project? I noticed just now they've rebranded it to Winux, or is it me?

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

Re: TODO

I'm a millennial, I use Linux since early 2000's. I can write scripts (not BIND, mind) and I'm not scared of CLI.I will give stuff a big go on my own if I get stuck rather than ask for help first.

I pulled my stereo system apart at age 6 and started soldering at 8. Love tech to bits, and I'm an introvert :)

Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg

Re: Used

I remember when keyboards were just a plastic trim, two screws and a ribbon cable. Now the entire palmrest needs replacing along with a strip down and rebuild grrr

Apple slams door on Fortnite's stateside iOS comeback

Easy

Just stop using Apple. Arrogant control freak arsehole of a company.

Techie solved supposed software problem by waving his arms in the air

Re: I was called in ...

I learned about ground loops back in the Xbox 360 days. I used to mod the DVD drive firmware through the SATA of a Shuttle PC. When you did this you had to ground the 360's metal chassis to the PC case (in my case using a metal coathanger) as the Xbox used a floating ground inside its PSU, there was no ground pin on the kettle lead to the mains socket. The DVD drives had to be powered from the console as they used a proprietary connector for power. One day I hadn't realised the coat hanger had slipped out. The SATA ports on the Shuttle I used for modding stopped working permanently, only the IDE worked from then on!

The Shuttle soldiered on for a good 6 years after that, even without working SATA!

Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh

Heh

Sterling work there me old chap! :)

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

Re: the army of millions of human beings screwing in little screws is going to come to America

They can use AI for that! It'll be a parody of the old, "There's an app for that!", now it's, "There's an AI for that!"

UK's attempt to keep details of Apple 'backdoor' case secret… denied

Re: Yvette loves to do things behind closed doors...

"So the british government doesnt give free healthcare and other social programs ?

THe British gov "gives" far more to its people than the American gov."

It isn't "free". It's paid for by TAXES, lol. There's no such thing as a free lunch, it is paid for by someone down the line!

Now Windows Longhorn is long gone, witness reflects on Microsoft's OS belly-flop

Hmmmm.....

"For Longhorn, dog fooding was tough. Builds were often too unstable to run for very long."

Like Windows ME, then? The amount of times I had to run re-imaging on my parent's old Packard Bell i-Media PC using its floppy disk, if I'd had a quid for every time, I'd be a millionaire!

Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims

Hang on!

Hasn't crApple's marketing ALWAYS been a hallucination?

AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that

Re: On anthropomorphization

"So you are one of those rare wonderful humans who have not cursed and yelled at their computer. Or their car."

If YOU don't START, I'm going to give you a DAMN good THRASHING!!!!

No, me neither! Oh, maybe a bit ;)

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

Hostages? How about sausages? Mind you then Two Tier Kier Starmer the Farner Harmer would sue!

Non-biz Skype kicks the bucket on May 5

Re: Alternatives

How does Bob Marley make internet calls?

Wi' Jami! ;)

Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims

I wonder

If someone has taken some apart and found datasheets for the screen panel? Hisense don't make their own panels so they'd have to be Samsung, LG, etc... I have quite a collection being in TV repair.

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

Re: Irate customers

Is that the hole truth, the Polo truth and nothing but the truth?

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

HP now stands for....

Have Patience! As in, "We will answer your call as soon a.....*CLICK!*

Well, it's their own coffin they're banging nails in!

They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file

Just because you can.....

Doesn't mean you should.

Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI

Re: “listen, learn, and improve”

(Don't) Listen, Learn (but) Leech?

Creativity

"creative tools like Clipchamp"

Clipchamp is garbage. Openshot is better, runs on multiple platforms, and if you come from a Linux environment and don't mind a learning curve, Kdenlive, is another option which runs on Windows too.

Both free!

Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did

Re: Wit For A Limited Audience??

"who would challenge the suggestion that there is ANYTHING AT ALL wrong with phrases like "military intelligence" or "Microsoft Works"."

Or how about Norton Systemworks? No it bloody doesn't!!

Microsoft dusts off ancient MS-DOS 4.0 code for release on GitHub

Re: Dos Versions that were significant or useful

Those were the days! Now most switches are all software controlled!

The Automattic vs WP Engine WordPress wars are getting really annoying

WordSquish?

Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention

Re: Do they even know what users do or how

There's a little thing that sits between Windows and your screens called a display driver. They store profiles and settings too, so maybe blame your graphics manufacturer?

Keyboard

"Keyboard gate A20 failure"

"Press F1 to continue"

On a laptop.....

Raspberry Pi 500 and monitor arrive in time for Christmas

Strange....

How the monitor is red and white, yet they made the Pi500 all white. I like the red/white look!

Might get one as a mini Linux tinkerbox: )

Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11

Re: Ten years ago

Linux Mint is also SO LIGHT on resources that my ASUS TUF FA507UV's fans never come on in balanced power mode, unless I start using CPU threads running several torrents or video editing in OpenShot. In Windows the fans seem to never stop, or the SSD activity light stop blinking at idle!

Linux is awesome. Been using Mint since v2.2 (Bianca) as a second OS. Now at v22 it's going to be my daily driver come next year!

Re: Full screen ads for Win11?

£1,119 for the base spec with 16Gb RAM and integrated Radeon graphics? Are they Apple??

Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware

"The letters look official with the correct logo and thus trustworthy. In addition, the fraudsters build up pressure in the letter to tempt people into rash actions."

Sounds a lot like TV Licensing and their threatening (begging) letters for their "enforcement officers" (salespeople) to visit!

Watchdog finds AI tools can be used unlawfully to filter candidates by race, gender

Re: "he was turned down for every single one of the more than 100 jobs he applied for"

Hehe, Biden, is that you? He got his dates waaaay out!

If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap

Unacceptable price levels?

"Paying an American worker as opposed to a Chinese one would jack up the price of handsets to unacceptable levels - both for the company and consumers."

Apple's pricing is already unacceptable! The end of Apple? One can only hope!

Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks

The turbo button that made it slower! Ironic as a turbo in a car looks like a snail but makes it faster!

Valve powers up Arch Linux – because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck?

Re: Woa - desktops = production??

Laptops are worthless for gaming too. Too thin, too powerful. When pushed too hard too long they blow MOSFETS, which usually damages the chipset and CPU (usually just out of warranty), which are soldered, rendering them scrap.

Intel thinks it's got a final microcode fix for recalcitrant Raptor Lake processors

It's like the car industry

Trying to push small engines too hard to meet performance AND emissions. You can't have your cake AND eat it. Modern laptops are another example. Thin, light, too powerful, with sub par cooling. Even Alienware's new m18 R2 machine has 4 fans, and STILL idles at 60 deg C!

Google sued for using trademarked Gemini name for AI service

They could call it "The ministry of silly outputs"!

Of course the Internet Archive’s digital lending broke the law, appeals court says

Not just their book lending breaching copyright!

Their arrogant stance on Archive.org pisses me off. They are allowed to scrape and save whatever sites they want from the Internet, but users are not allowed to download content from Archive.org? F*** off, twats! I add them to robots.txt every site I build, fecking hypocrites.

What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked'

Re: More than just Driver Car Issues and Harassments, Driver Social Problems abound.

Preach it Gene! The world expects everyone to be extroverted, but we're all not. I don't always like striking up convos with randoms, as being an introvert I've been sucked in to narcissistic relationships with damaging manipulation. If I'm stuck in a taxi with someone who creeps me out, I'm looking for an escape. This is why I learnt to drive instead of relying on public transport/taxis. If I give people rides, it's ones I know and trust and WANT to socialise with. And I'm a guy, not a woman.