* Posts by SuperGeek

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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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

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

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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'

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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.

Apple accused of hoodwinking UK antitrust cops

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Classic narcissism!

DARVO: Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim and Offender.

Once Steve Jobs, always Steve Jobs.

Intel tacks two years onto Raptor Lake CPU warranty after voltage crash fiasco

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Oxidisation

"defects with early Raptor Lake batches, which stems from oxidized vias."

Reminds me of the issues with WD hard drives and oxidised pads for the headstack contacts on their PCB's. Drives would fail to initialize, and appear to have surface or head failure. However, cleaning the headstack contacts with vinegar or an eraser would fire them straight into life. This would have to be repeated every so often. They didn't tin or plate contacts back then, now they do, they no longer suffer.

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

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Re: "working on the multiplayer dinosaur survival game Path of Titans"

Whooooosh! The joke went right over your head. Dinosaurs? Meteors? The dinosaurs were made extinct by meteors? Ah, never mind. It isn't funny when you have to explain it!

Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

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Re: Actually the most inappropriate applications

A bowl of porridge? I thought you were going to say a bowl of goldfish. At least they remember stuff for a second or two ;) And they're nice to look at!

Screwdrivers: is there anything they can't do badly? Maybe not

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That sounds like

A small battery in a UPS if it goes flying that easily. Even the battery in my small UPS at home for my NAS is heavy, an alarm box style one (and I've replaced tons of those as an alarm guy)

A thump with the pointy end of a screwdriver will fix this server! What could possibly go wrong?

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What do we want?

Autocorrect to NOT suck!

When do we want it?

COW!!

FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison

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Re: A message--the absolutely wrong one--has just been sent to all the sociopaths in the US...

I don't like in this day and age how people with autism and ADHD etc are being branded as having "superpowers" to make them feel special. It's an illness that hinders their development, not something to be celebrated. A superhero wouldn't constantly be late, forget things, misplace things, or have massive anxiety, that is, if they were real anyway, which they're not.

Sega grabs tech layoff baton and dumps couple hundred Euro staff

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Not surprising...

The games industry of late seems to be all about remasters and remakes. It's boring, it has lost its imagination, catering to the people that just can't let go of retro stuff.

Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments

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nowt wrong with Greggs!

Remember, "We built this city! We built this city on sausage roll!!" It' was no ordinary sausage roll, it was a Greggs sausage roll!

BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment

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Cover your arse...

After checking your poo? I hear smooth and banana shaped is ideal!

You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse

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This sounds familiar...

"many of the USB sticks actually contained microSD cards that had been mounted onto the circuit board and were being managed by an external controller chip."

This sounds like the way those scammy drives are built on WISH and AliExpress that YouTuber SMOOREZ regularly buys to alert people!

Microsoft's vision for the future of work is you trusting Redmond to get AI right

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Re: There are alternatives to Co-Pilot

The thing that annoys me with Edge is that annoying blue band round the browser view area. It's like the whole app isn't maximized and it irritates me!

The literal Rolls-Royce of EVs is recalled over fire risk

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Glue?

Why is glue being used on ground lugs? Surely they should be a metal to metal crimp?

The Post Office systems scandal demands a critical response

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Simple sentence could have avoided this

Instead of being like Donald Trump and denying everything, if Fujitsu and the Post Office would have worked together properly, swallowed their pride, and said, "We are aware of a number of issues. We will look into them, and work with you".

None of this would have happened.

WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager

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Impossible you say? Maybe unsinkable, huh?

"And he made sure the test tool included an especially foul message for an error considered impossible to trigger."

"Impossible" to trigger? Yeah, and the Titanic was "unsinkable!". Fujitsu's Horizon system was "reliable"!

Hehe. I didn't even finish reading and I knew where it was going!

Microsoft calls time on Windows Insider MVP program

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"The Windows Insider MVPs are usually enthusiasts of Microsoft's wares"

"Enthusiasts" being a new buzzword for "drooling fanboys" that think their opinion matters?

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

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Re: No corruption here.

The only good thing I see out of the whole fiasco is that you don't have to do manual meter readings, or have a bloke knocking on your door every so often for access if your meter cabinet is behind a locked gate, as ours was to stop vandals. Everything else, from the failed over budget rollout, to the proprietary smart meters that don't work with all providers, is shite...

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

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I knew this would backfire!

BMW are like Apple. Over-engineered, overpriced garbage, rather similar to the subscription idea!

PEBCAK problem transformed young techie into grizzled cynical sysadmin

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Re: Plausible...

Talented Witty Appreciative Thoughtful? :)

Decades-old Home Office asylum system misses EOL deadline, no new timetable in place

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what a surprise....not!

The UK Gov are a laughing stock.

Smart Meter deadline: Overzealous, missed and over budget.

Grenfell cladding fiasco: Still a joke and not corrected across the UK.

Electric Cars and Heat Pumps: Way overzealous and probably going to be out by 20 years!!

This isn't mentioning all the other crap they have denied/missed. And now we have the school roof nonsense. They'll narcissist their way out of that too!!

AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian

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Sounds like an orange lump

"The Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."

I think they meant The Trump, because that description fitted him perfectly, albeit without the word "narcissist".

Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

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Re: Scraping

And FarceBook, and TikToxic! Down with them into the crusher! Make paperclips and tincans with them!

Asus blames 'thermal stress' for fried SD card readers in Ally handhelds

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The SD card reader on my Latitude 7390 gets quite hot under sustained write and it's nowhere near the heatsink. I use an Endurance grade card as a kind of HDD in this machine, as it's a minimalist ultrabook style. The SD reader on this is wired to the PCIe bus, so is quite fast, and gets warm under heavy write load like torrenting. It hasn't crapped out yet.

I wonder if the heat from the Ally is melting solder somehow.....

Musk's X tries to win advertisers back with discounts

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Re: Watching Musk run this into the ground...

Now all we need is for Musk to do the same for FarceBook, and then TikToxic!

Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

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Re: Chromium 86 based browser for XP

An old Norton joke between me and my business partner. "Norton Systemworks? No it bloody doesn't!"

Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform

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Could be worse....

They could be on a FLOP list (F*cking Large Online Platform) Count yourself lucky, smiley box bazaar!

BOFH: Cough up half a grand and we'll protect you from AI

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AI. Making pointless lives better.

That's going on a T shirt!! ;)

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

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Gen Z

In the future will tell you that you did a good job by saying, You did "lit af" today!!

Apparently lit af means "good as f**k". Kids, Sheesh! Hella nonsense!

BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business

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Heh

Always make sure when buying a sausage factory that you do your due diligence and "case" the joint first otherwise the result will be "Offal"

OK, OK. I'll get my coat. The ones with the packet of beef and pork Richmonds in. Sausage and mash at my place anyone? :)

Meta tells staff to return to office three days a week

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Re: Zuck admits Metaverse is dead

"So Zuck is admitting the metaverse is dead". A narcissist NEVER admits fault. Only someone else's.

Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

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Re: Static

"There was enough ventilation that the smell of un-shod feet wasn't oppressive...."

A cheesy joke here would be a Brie-liant idea! I'll get my coat!

Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug

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Re: See also Metadata

Downvoted you because that's not fair. How are everyday users supposed to know what the hell Metadata, or EXIF actually is?

Thanks to generative AI, catching fraud science is going to be this much harder

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Re: Goodhart's Law

Fake it till you make it.....or not!

OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence

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Re: Hmm, great!

I tried signing up last night, upon entering phone number for verification code, it said, "We are experiencing a high volume of suspicious activity from phone numbers like yours. Please contact OpenAI support"

Screw that!

Midjourney, DeviantArt face lawsuit over AI-made art

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DeviantArt are bad for deepfake

I've had some of my work defaced by people using FaceApp to change faces and backgrounds on my work then reuploading as their own. DeviantArt don't care, maybe this will change it!

Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway

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Display cable?

That looks more like heat damage due to the machine heat being ejected towards the screen. Apple for some reason put the heatsink/fan between the base and screen. DELL copied that with my G3 3779. It causes the plastic layers (refractors, deflectors, etc) in the screen to warp. A display cable too short would flex and break, causing coloured lines, and other symptoms. I've had laptops that have pulled the LVDS socket off the back of the screen due to a manufacturing defect, or it having been previously fiddled with and put back wrongly.

FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall

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Hold up....

Is this a VERY late April Fools joke, or has Apple secretly bought BMW?

I guess top brass at BMW really are Billionaire Moronic W*nkers!

Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout

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Re: Cruel parents

Phyllis Sophical? Heh.

Meetings in the metaverse: Are your Mikes on?

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Mikes!

Which one of you is Mike Hunt?

Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll get my coat....

BOFH: The evil guide to upgrading switches

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Mental health!

Nice bit of gaslighting at the end! "It says 2022!" "Oh, that's for the beans!" I feel sorry for the Boss. He gets gaslit so much I'm surprised he doesn't spontaneously internally combust!

Bank had no firewall license, intrusion or phishing protection – guess the rest

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Re: Without reading the article

"They realised their mistake, paid their licence arrears, put in place a system to prevent recurrence, extensively audited their systems to ensure no intrusion had occurred, write a grovelling apology to their customers and by their quick corrective action managed to avoid being exploited?"

Does Hell freeze over once a blue moon?

Review: ASUS dual-screen laptop may warm your heart, will definitely warm your lap

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Any heat...

Can be bad news. Repeated on/off cycles cause heating/cooling thermal cycling of solder joints, which recently killed my Dell G3 3779 gaming machine, even run on a cooling pad and undervolted! And on modern single board machines it gets expensive, as I can guarantee it'll happen out of warranty!

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