Posts by IGotOut

Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics

Profit?

Please point to anyone other than hardware component manufacturers involved in this AI bullshit any show me the profit.

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

@distortedreality

You know that Louisiana was the first US state to require age verification? And that state is, checks notes..... Republican

UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps

Re: The drones never existed

"The whole caper at Gatwick was part of an orchestrated campaign to demonise drone "flyers and other model aircraft hobbyists"

If you're flying drones or model aircraft near a major international airport, then you should be hung by your thumbs and forced to eat every damn component of the kit, including the box it came in.

Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway

I'm confused...

...this story is about them working with the NutJobs...but yet the Nutjobs say that that Snake oil peddlers are banned.

Which one is it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5g3z3xe65o

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

"No, you don't have any right to not be filmed when you are out in public. The key word that should give you a hint is "public"

Correct, but equally you DO have a right on how data is processed and how a 3rd party processes that data.

There have been legal precedents (in the US at least) where the Police argued that storing and using number plate images from Flock cameras didn't require a warrant, claiming that it's in public view.

The judge counted that individual images didn't violate laws and didn't require warrants, the combining of that data and building a profile from it did.

So in the case of Meta, if they aggregate facial scans from potentially thousands of images, they can build a profile of a person, or person....and that IS illegal.

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise

Re: Down with the cool kids

"Flares haven't been cool for a long, long time"

You clearly don't get to go out much with women under the age of 30.

Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US

So from all this...

...we can take that the Chinese are better at cloud services than the USA.

Apologies for reminding some of you that rely on MS359 that it has been up for a several days now, so the NT4 servers it runs on need a reboot.

Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage'

Re: Ip address blocking

Well I think I've found the issue. We seem to have the same IP address

Re: Unfortunately

@mishak

I've helped plenty of people sort out credit.

1st up, is she on the electoral roll?

Does she have a mobile phone contract in her name? That counts.

Sign up with someone like credit kama and it will give you a list of ways to improve your score.

Barclays as mentioned before will usually offer cards with lower limits.

If she gets a card, just spend day £10 a month on it, and pay it if each month (set an auto pay direct debit to ensure no missed payments)

Re: OVH

First rule in my Cloudflare protection is drop all from OVH

The attacks on my site dropped about 75% from then onwards.

Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace

Re: Missed a trick

You're presuming Microslop can keep the service running for much more than a week at a time.

UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working - fixes flow far faster

Re: ".....enforcement director George Lusty......"

Have you met his American counterpart, Randy Mann?

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download

Nice idea...

...I totally support this, but I'd fire a warning shot first and not just throttle them, but out right ban them, for say for initial 4 hrs, then 8, then 24, then 48 etc.

Think as these billionaire scum as the spoilt brats they are. Keep making them sit in the corner until they learn behave.

Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government

Anthropic must be terrified...

...of losing an extra $1 a year on top of the billions they've already lost.

Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims

OK two things have pissed me off with this article.

1. Lovable knew there were security issues, but were "Meh fuck the end user"

2. The security researcher didn't name the app. WTF? You've blatantly stated that this app is leaking thousands of peoples personal data and they are like "Meh, fuck the end user"

GCHQ dangles up to £130K for a CISO to fight the world's most capable adversaries

"government benefits approx 29% pension contribution,"

Best hope Reform don't get in, they want to cut the pension scheme, making pretty much every Public Sector even less attractive.

All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic

Give us what we want or else....

...and Don't Forget To Say Thankyou

HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent

Re: RAM Shortage? So where's the delays?

@Apro

The issue is the silicon, the production lines, the logistics, the man power is all being shifted to high margin DC products.

That leaves little to no capacity to make "consumer" products. As for server products, who do you sell to? The company that places an order of 5000 a year, or that order for 5 million over 3 years?

AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement

But ...

...as with Nvidia who have been back peddling hard, is it a legally binding contract, or just a MOU?

Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day

Another reason......

AI is possibly the worst thing to happen to the IT industry.... except for a few snake oil salesmen

Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is

Correlation etc etc...

As pointed out these are often on Fridays.

Therefore I delacre that Scandinavians are more likely to crash on a Friday, not due to new releases, but due to Taco's.

Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty

But....

...if you run it locally, how will you participate in the biggest surveillance on the plant? How will you send all those facial scans to anyone who wants them?

Think of the poor billionaires your depriving of all that lovely data.

SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping

Re: Lets face it people

That's the Apple that Google pays billions of Dollars in order to make it's default search engine?

From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

Please No!

AI and Agile.

It's like a marriage made in hell.

Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine

It was 2017, all those cards have likely expired.

If they'd done it at the time the lawyers would of gone "Don't do that, it's like admitting liability"

US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians

Re: The worst part is

But how do they know if they're in disguise?

DOGE bites taxman

Well Durr...

...if the computers are broken, it's harder to investigate the rich for dodgy tax dealing, often working with arms dealers living on an island with a bunch of trafficked teenagers.

UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

"You get the thing taken down first, THEN track down the poster with the cooperation of the platform/ISP."

And if the person is using a VPN, or is based in another country where it isn't a crime?

It's called reality

Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases

Re: If some genius hadn't decided that all cars had to be connected

. It might be traffic alerts, accident monitoring, tracking a loved one (one hopes with their permission), music streaming....

All of which can be done with my 5 year android phone connected to my 10 year old Hyundai.

"or a work (fleet) vehicle with telematics"

Because that hasn't been around for almost 2 decades now.

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

Re: Why?

"Most emails are only a few lines long anyway"

Once you remove the 10,000 word footers when it's the reply, to a reply, from a forward, copied in via a cc to a reply to....

Notepad++ declares hardened update process 'effectively unexploitable'

So why not send him a few thousand quid so he can pay for thing like certs and robust testing?

Money, mouth and all that.

Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle

Re: *tox

You can have any protocol you want, but if there isn't the software you need using it, it's irrelevant.

CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

Oh dear...

"CIOs are worried their careers are on the line if the tech's effectiveness falls short of expectations."

Oh dear, what a shame. Time to update that vomit inducing LinkedIn profile....maybe switch back to Quantum Thought Leader again?

MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

Re: "...Time and again, leaders have looked the other way....."

Before you slag off the UK arms procurement to much, you may want to go and check out some of the kit supplied by the UK to Ukraine. Some of it didn't exist 2 years ago and now in action.

I recommend Wes O'Donnels account on YouTube.

Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch

Throw in the fact...

CEX offer a longer "warranty" than brand new, why buy new?

The last thing I bought was a 2012 Mac Mini, 5 year warranty. I just added a SSD and changed the spinning rust to a data drive, and it's absolutely fine for my needs.

X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load

Maybe its a test.

...to see how the world would be devastated by Twitter going down. The reason for the silence is Man Child is upset no one cared and he wants to pretend it never happened.

AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds

Came to say the same thing.

Although I read an internal email from our....not sure what they do....some marketing stuff I think...and boy, within 10 seconds I'd gone "This was created by ChatGPT, because no one actually talks or writes like that.

Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely

Threads?

Oh I remember that. It's a post apocalyptic TV movie, about the collapse of society in Britain, while those in charge desperately try to cling onto power.

Sounds pretty apt

(BTW, bloody good film for 1984 if you get chance to see it)

GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

@john

Chill dude. I'm pretty sure it's a joke and if you don't get at least one downvote, it means no one's reading your posts

Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave

Re: Let's count the red flags

Or....

Line didn't go up.

Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter

Closer to 100 to 150?

Not according to Microsoft.

Working at a datacenter

How many people will work at the datacenter?

Microsoft datacenters represent a capital-intensive investment and long-term commitment to the community. Typically, when the first building is operational, we hire about 50 full-time employees and vendors. As we build out the subsequent buildings, additional staff is hired and generally we employ 50 full time and vendors per building.

And MS DC's are way, way bigger than this one.

More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

Bind to a different address?

You think 99.999% of people using this actual know how to do that?

AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble

Nice...

the good news is that a typo a teeny bit to the right and some bot is going to order you a nice new fridge, rather than fetch the code you want.

Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters

Oh dear

$3.6 million pay off for a couple of years work aligned with falling revenue.

Not sure how they will cope, poor lil thing.

I must fail at my job harder.

Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates

Would it be easier...

...to report when MicroSlop has a full days uptime?

Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development

Re: This is actually sensible and useful

That's why they were careful to use ML rather than AI. They don't want to be associated with slop.

UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat

"Personally I would stop paying to house illegal immigrants in hotels,"

Yes because all our problems are because of immigrants, otherwise we'd happily spend 10x the budget on IT fuck ups keeping billionaires in yachts.

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

Re: OR

They probably do have those people, just like games Devs want to make a brilliant gaming experience.

The issue is not the software people, it's the board room no having a fucking clue about anything other than "Line must go up"

AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking

Re: H264 is 22 years old

You may want to check...

Sorry to shit in your sandwich, but which revision are you using?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Versions

Lego shrinks NASA's biggest rocket – accuracy sold separately

Re: Let's not forget..

I'll take your LEGO and Sticklebrick and raise you Barbie Hair clips.....that's after you've spent an hour undoing the 200 cable ties holding that bastard love child of a Nazi fever dream.