Posts by IGotOut

Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades

Crazy idea.

Instead of giving billions of Dollars in tax breaks to build the data centres how about, wait for it.....tax them and build out the electric (and water) grids with them.

Ah yeah, free market.

AI and automation could erase 10.4 million US roles by 2030

No it won't

It's just more AI hype, this time disguised as the apocalypse.

Two sides of the same coin.

Move along, nothing to see.

Dutch cops cuff alleged AVCheck malware kingpin in Amsterdam

Re: Pot and kettle

Yeah, they normally personally attack Jessica, whining "What about....." And yet here is a story and his pathetic little self still has to tatrum like a 2 year old.

Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data

Affordable housing.

Yeah right

If they were REALLY serious, they would bring back council houses and stop overseas residents / businesses buying up property.

But they won't, because, well money.

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Re: Not at the moment

" And yes she was shot dead for using her car as a deadly weapon. "

Have you actually watched the fucking video? Or just the government press releases have put out?

Let's run over a few things.

1. The officer pulled his gun out whilst she was pretty much stationary after reversing and pointing her wheels away from him.

2. He was so terrified of being run over, he kept his mobile phone in his had, which he had previously been filming her with.

3. He just stepped out of the way.

4. He shot her through the side window. I've yet to see a car able to drive sideways at such a low speed.

5. She wasn't in anyway aggressive, footage shows her taking the piss out of him filming stating that unlike him, she has the same registration plate everyday.

The only aggressive acts carried out were by ICE and the murderer involved.

But you're to fucking brainwashed to actually think for yourself.

Re: Chicken

"Taiwan should threaten to declare independence if China.."

Errrrrmmmm. You may want to go check your history books.

You really are a fucking idiot.

If you think kidnapping a tin pot dictator like Maduro would be similar to kidnapping a leader of China with it's huge military and decently advanced weapons, then you really have no concept of reality, let alone the basics. Even Russia still has the Nuclear option.

Federal agencies told to fix or ditch Gogs as exploited zero-day lands on CISA hit list

No update at time of writing.

Never heard of it (not what I'd use) but after a bit of digging, it looks like the same old story.

"Q: What kind of support is available for Gogs?

A: Gogs relies on community support through its GitHub repository and forums. Since it has a single maintainer, updates and responses may be slower compared to projects with larger teams or more active communities."

And there we have it. Another popular Open Source project run by a (probably overworked) single maintainer, most likely doing it in their spare time after working a full time job.

Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back

Before we all slag off the UK....

You may want to check out Wes O'Donnell on YouTube to see all the equipment the UK has delivered and developed already. Some old, some so new even the UK forces don't have them yet. Some highlights.

Terrahawk Palidin

Brake stop

Rattler Sea Drones (developed with Ukraine)

AS90 Artillery

Storm Shadow (new ones are free of US tech)

Martlett missile

And then there is the brand new French missile defence system, Norwegian missiles, German SkyNex, Canadian targeting systems, Czech Artillery.

Europe and its real allies has been supplying brand new cutting edge tech, free from US constraints for some time now.

PC shipments set to hit the buffers as AI guzzles memory

So...

....let them crash and burn.

The same companies whining about the "shortages" (it's just reallocation) are the same ones pushing the AI hype train by constantly trying to flog us "AI powered PC's".

So fuck em.

Keep your old stuff or buy second hand (although that market is now price gouging).

Let them feel the pain.

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech

Re: Has the NHS thought of this?

Chicken and Egg.

The software is likely Windows only. Therefore you need to software companies to support Linux. They won't support Linux until there is enough demand, but there isn't the demand because the software.......

Re: Why don't they...

So retails would be forced to make a loss?

PC margins are wafer thin, so how is any company going to survive being forced to take a hit?

Hint: You can already buy PC's without an OS but often cost the same due to be low volume production.

What you *could* say is all PCs do not come with a pre installed OS, but then you have the issue of driver complexity.

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

Came to say the same thing. I think they get the "Most honest company in show award".

Beats "We take the security of your personal information seriously and are offering you a years worth of credit monitoring. This will be with an agency that will also leak your information

The data loss was due to a sophisticated breach of our unsecured AWS bucket which contained all your details in plain text. "

Putinswap: France trades alleged ransomware crook for conflict researcher

To be fair France has a history of telling the US to do one.

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Well of course it's stopped...

....they are just about to release MediaPilot365 with extra AI. It will get 53% of the tracks right, apologise when it plays a track from a completely different CD 13 times over and consume the power of a small nation state. All for £/$199 per year*

*Price based on first 30 day period. Increases of 50% per month after initial 30 day trial period. You can opt out at any time by following this link [404 Page Note Found]

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind

"The way I see it, the main cost of AI is the expense of the electricity to run the inference. "

Errmmmm if energy is the main cost, please explain why Nvidia's income is through the roof and memory producers are raking it in?

And these will only last a few years before they need replacing all over again.

Don't point the finger to far, many of us in Europe could be facing similar scenarios soon enough. For now we just have to endure the incompetent rather than the downright immoral.

Re: Cost

"AI investment is propping up the economy because it's currently profitable"

I presume you mean trading in-stock is currently profitable. AI companies are the complete opposite. Probably in the history of mankind has there been such a huge disparity between expenditure and income.

UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos

Re: I don't approve of xAI allowing this to happen

@ac

"Equating AI generated images with the production of child pornography is both absolutely ridiculous and deeply offensive to the real victims of the latter crime."

Go look up UK law, then report back. If you think it's right or wrong makes no fucking difference. It's the law.

Re: I don't approve of xAI allowing this to happen

We having existing laws against CSAM in the UK. No need to single out poor old AI as a victim. If X is hosting it, X should be blocked. No if's, no but's.

Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off

Hands up who didn't see this coming?

Anyone?

Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025

I'm sure it's worth it.

I'm sure the tax returns from the few hundred employees at those data centres will cover it in a few thousand years.

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go

I imagine it now...

"You need to go online, create an account and verify your identity"

And if that fails?

"You need to go online, create an account, verify your ID and create child pron whilst eating pizza with glue on it you stupid fucking transgender immigrant".

"Was this answer helpful?"

UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow

Sure...but never going to happen.

Unless we ban MPs and Lords from working for foreign owned companies whilst working as an MP / Peer and then for 5 years after leaving their post, this just isn't going to happen. It's bad enough when your other half owns huge outsourcing companies.

They take bribes (sorry lobbying) knowing full well there will be a nice cushy job after.

Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks

Flop.

So you'll need a special case for it to carry it around as its going to get battered otherwise (carry a standard keyboard round with you in a month and see how that goes)

You'll need a power supply at all times unless 100% of the screens have USB power. Oh and a bunch of cables.

You'll need a screen otherwise that unused empty desk....yeah that's a no go.

And as for "Where we could see the G1a taking off is in call centers ". That's not how call centres operate. You have hundreds, if not thousands of generic PC's attached to generic monitors and the operator just logs into the pc (and phone if not using a soft phone) and done. No pissing about plugging in cables, waiting for it to boot, update, reboot, update crash, reboot.

Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble

Looks like Jake's made a new account.

Qualcomm is determined to cut a slice out of Intel's PC pie with latest Snapdragon chips

Pricing?

You could sell the processor for a quid.

Makes fuck all difference when memory, storage and GPU prices have (or will soon), gone through the roof.

AI, the gift that keeps on taking.

Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer

Checks day...

Yup it's got a Y in it, so the worlds biggest attention whore needed to say something otherwise his ego will implode.

Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it

Did you even think about that post for even a nano second.

1. Spend thousands suing them for......

2. What are you ACTUALLY going to sue them over?

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

Is this the same Microsoft...

...that is FORCING its staff to use AI?

Yes, yes it is.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-internal-memo-using-ai-no-longer-optional-github-copilot-2025-6

New York’s incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party

Re: Brands...

May as well. They claim the humble British apple pie as being American, so why not co-opt the Raspberry Pi as well.

Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed

Jesus fucking christ

"Cordeiro says that Intel sees Wi-Fi 8 as the "connective technology for the AI era,"

Just stop.

Even better, stop, put down the computer, walk out the nearest exit and just keep going until you reach the sea or desert, then when you get there just keep going. Humanity really doesn't need people like you to exist in society.

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

Re: DuckDuckGo

Startpage appears not to have any, and I've found their results far more relevant than DDG, which tends to have very US centric results.

Plus it's European, so there's that as a bonus as well.

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

Re: Pointless

I haven't down voted you as I can see your reasoning and in the logic, but AI can not replace real people.

Take Thai. You are presuming that AI has the "intelligence" to distinguish between contextual and tonal usages, but as we see so often, it can't. It has no concept of right or wrong, just mathematical probability.

Even with British English it will struggle with context.

Guy turns up to a pub in his slippers. His best mate points at him across the room and shouts "Dave you fucking idiot, what are you wearing? Come over here you useless bellend"

AI has no idea wether that's a threat or a small bit of harmless banter between good friends. It's more likely to see it as an aggressive threat due to the wording.

Or "God I'm a moron. I only went to work today only to realise it's Sunday. I'm such a idiot".

AI is likely to presume the person IS an moron (yes, yes I know).

So I agree it can help, but it's certainly no substitute.

Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year

Can't wait for it to get to Brum...

...and attempt to navigate the absolute cluster fuck that is Digbeth's road system mainly thanks to the bigger cluster fuck of the building of HS2, the Metro extension and the "bus gates", all under the "expertise" of BCC's transport department.

Re: bringing another safe and reliable travel option to Londoners

So the DLR is out then?

Robotaxis are not the answer

Imagine a family of four. A one car family belonging to Daddy.

Its Saturday.

Daddy drops Kourtney off at ballet, before dropping Brooklyn off at the football, then drops Britney at the nail bar before he heads off to pick up a Mullfjället from IKEA, then proceeds to pick them up up after enjoying a Matcha Green Tea Cream Frappuccino.

Hectic.

But now you can book a Robotaxi for Kourtney, one for Brooklyn, one for Kourtney and go grab what you need in a more more leisurely pace.

Phew, so glad of the 4 cars on the road, rather than the one.

Nu nu Labour....

Supporting the hard working billionaires.

US punishes China’s ‘dominance’ of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs

How appropriate

that it gets announced on a TACO Tuesday

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

Re: Epoxy?

A large group of us picked up the English teachers Mini (the proper one), carried about 50m and plonked it into one the Fives Courts*. We then kindly left a trail of A4 paper with arrows guiding him from his parking spot to his car.

When he arrived he saw a bunch of deathly silent teenagers, the his mouth moved several times with no sound, shook his head and burst out laughing. He was a fantastic teacher, and if course we all helped get it back out, with him sat at the steering wheel.

*Fives is the same as squash, just played with your hands on a mini squash court.

Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits

Yes. If you're trying to find anything these day, pretty sure stress levels go up, along trying to find "best xyz of 2025" you just get paid for content and article after article that's disguised as information, bit is just click bait revenue generating slop.

Is that what it said? Pretty sure it said "A section of the research....".

They also stated the younger generation turn off notifications and turn on DND, so that could be from games, email, banking & shopping apps and on and on.

And only a idiot (or tech bro) doesn't now think that search is completely broken with it either being unrelated paid for promotions or AI slop.

GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens

Hi.

Can you tell me why it took 6 months to transfer the Child Benefit from one parent to another or why my daughter's DBS still hasn't turned up after 4 months?

UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires

Soooo...

Does this mean when I have a full 5G signal in a busy area, it will finally become usable?

I won't hold my breath.

China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET

I think you'll find 71 of the 72 is facial scans proving they are over 18.

Hold on....is this China, the UK or parts of the US we're on about, I've lost track.

Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin

Hands up....

Who actually uses the browser on any of these devices?

Anyone?

FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation

Re: Oh no

And the supporters will keep saying "It's all part of the grand plan, we'll be better off soon, just you wait"

Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon

Meh.

I've broken ground on an AI nuclear fusion bitcoin DC.

All it took was 5 minutes with a spade.

Now can the UAE and Saudi governments give me $1billion? They love funding failed fantasy projects.

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

Re: Trademarks

"Each day, more than four million users access the X platform through the TWITTER.com domain; "

If four million a day us not classed as still in use, I'm not sure what is.