Posts by hittitezombie

Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount

Re: Haven't these 'experts' ever heard of...

Oh that's simple, feed the output into another instance of LLM. /s

No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue

Re: Nothing to lose?

Swift itself has huge wheels itself, to point itself to any point in the sky at a short notice. If they could manage a docking very likely that would have sorted itself out. This means they can't dock, no one should care about the safety of the sats so low in orbit. Any piece won't stay up there for long even if they smash into each other.

Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says

Singularity or bust

Altmann claimed they've got singularity sorted.

If any of this "AI" crap was any good, why can't they devise a way into profitability out of thin air?

Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?

I would like to see some stats on the chances they will actually pull this off.

At this rate, not very high.

BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book

Once upon a time, we replaced our rental printers with some unit from another provider.

The old provider didn't pick up their printers on time.

We left them out in the rain.

It was a sad sight, but then, they were multifunctional printers. Fuck them.

OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own

Re: [OpenAI] bought someone else's with other people's money

You are ignoring the amount of monies being milked out of companies, ahem, sorry, generated by creating intelligent automation agents that can reduce your headcount and make you respond to market demands significantly quicker! No training required! Our Forward Deployed Monkey will do it for you!

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing

Re: robots

We have been sending robots to space for more than half a century now, they are just not humanoid and in any case humanoid isn't the best form-factor.

Just look at the Mars rovers. We've had a continuous on-the-surface-of-Mars presence for a whole two decades now.

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in

This is already here. It's depressing to work in a software house right now.

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

Of course Github is disabling forks as fast as possible. Arses.

Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying

That will keep the bread on the table

But nothing else. Sligtly above min wage.

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Re: He is in a uniquely powerful position, akin, yes, to a Roman emperor.

They are already running the show. Trump has severe dementia at this stage. He can't even get the Iran war story right.

Re: America's reputational loss will be long lasting

Arms Control Wonk Blog/Podcast contributor Dr Jeffrey Lewis wrote a book called "The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States" which fictionalized a nuclear excange between the US and DRNK. In that book, Trump tries to use the button, and the soldier protecting the 'football' punches him. Fun chapter.

The rest of the book was very depressing.

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

Re: Good news everyone!

Well, it's good news for Mr Reiser!

So sad to see such a decline in mental capacity in such a short time.

Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip

Artemis? Naaah

Good luck with that. The way that project is going, it's still very surprising it's not cancelled yet.

IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast

Re: COBOL is easy...

Oh simples, get the LLM write your test cases as well, and ensure the instructions say 'this test must pass', and it will fabricate convincing test results just to keep you happy!

Stash or splash? Lawmakers ask NASA to find alternatives for International Space Station

Re: The real question.

Easy, Musk's spare bedroom.

SpaceX Dragon huffs, puffs... and fizzles out as NASA aborts ISS boost

Re: SpaceX?

Hahaha, good joke.

More NASA spacecraft give controllers the silent treatment

My guess is the launcher damaged both. Definitely a Musk problem.

Legendary OpenPrinting architect looking for new role

Re: Oh really?

CUPS just works for decades now, especially for no-nonsense laser printers.

Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore

Re: "There is no way to enforce a code freeze in vibe coding apps like Replit!!!"

Let there be light!

British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network

Re: Idiot

Simply installing Oracle Java JDK onto a couple of computers is enough these days, no need to waste time with installing VMWare.

UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers

We've had catapults before nuclear ones came on board. UK operated F-4s out of its carriers, do you think it was launched by a jump path?

Catapults and F-35C would be better, more capable, better range and overall the better aircraft. RAF's insistence of VTOL to replace Harriers was an extremely costly mistake.

Re: "In an era of radical uncertainty"

Q. Why can’t the F35A be fitted with the F35B refuelling option that already exists ?

A. Because the US uses the same refuelling tech Marines/NAVY uses, and F-35B is a Marines plane. USAF, on the other hand, is special, and requires booms. Why? Inter-service rivalry which we inherit by using US weapons.

That's ok, the range will be fine to bomb our traditional enemy - the French.

Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator!

Would you like to add wounded by police but not dead to the stats? The numbers are just nuts when compared to anywhere civilized.

More likely, once a cop starts killing and gets away with it, he will continue doing so.

Re: Land of the Free - to be shot

Of course it's the US.

Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests

> only one in ten was likely to continue to stay with Oracle Java,

We found the brain-damaged control group.

Mysteries in polar orbit – space's oldest working hardware still keeps its secrets

My record is around 3200km on VHF, 6m from IO91 to KM64.

Re: pissing contest

FT8/FT4 are digital modes.

1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet

A torrent would be nice.

Re: COMMUNISM!

As soon as Trump hears about this, he will demand his cut of the money.

NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts

Re: Flat Earthers vote MAGA too

It's the difference between me thinking you are a fucking idiot, and you demonstrating it by writing this post.

Vandals

Wayne Hale blogs are essential reading about risk and management of it, leave alone nuggets of details about the Shuttle era.

Deleting them is simply mindless destruction.

Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info

Re: This is not just a breach, it's an M&S breach...

As for Harrods, if you ask about it, you cannot afford it.

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

Re: Fixed your headline for you

The main problem is the corporate and schools addictiion. Once that's broken things would be easier but no CTO will spend money to ditch Microsoft - it's iterally the IBM of our ages.

Re: I'e already said this

Not sure, at least it's got a less chance of corrupting a Powerpoint or Excel file being shared via Sharepoint.

Oh I really hate O365 framework.

Disclaimer: I am a Linux on Desktop guy since late 90s, and have been using Linux/UNIX since early 90s. Current work device is a Mac book. Everything else in the house is Linux.

Re: I'e already said this

Reading, cycling and other hobbies are available.

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

I wish good luck to the hackers

The problem with hacking 4chan is, invariably the data you downloaded off them will have child porn.

Now you have a copy of it on your disk. Congratulations, you just violated pretty much any child porn law out there.

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

Re: Fascinating

We can pay the Penny Mordaunt to have a little accident with the sharp sword...

Nothing interesting to sell

The problem is, what do I want to buy from the US?

Computers? Nope.

Phones? Nada.

Petrol cars? Abso-fucking-lutely not.

Harleys? Do I look like a dentist?

What do you have to sell to us, apart from your companies, we should be interested in buying?

Software? Software? Is that it?

He's off his frog pills again

NURSE! NURSE!

European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill

Quoting Holly: Holly: I'm trying to navigate at faster than the speed of light, which means that before you see something, you've already passed through it. Even with an IQ of 6000, it's still brown-trousers time.

ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch

Was Boeing involved at any point?

Surely it wasn't caused by DOGE firing capable 'heavy vehicle operators'?

Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash

Good riddance

I didn't knew about his Nazi background. Good riddance.

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

Knew it.

Embrace, Extend, Estinguish.

Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors

Re: Good start

She was elected a VP. Any problems with that?

President Trump indicated he hopes his orders will return Uncle Sam to "merit-based" hiring.

If that's the case, he would not even be trusted with a box of matches.

The idiot went bankrupt how many times?