Posts by IGotOut

Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

Before everyone blames the user.

This is 100% the fault of Google, advertising agencies and the clueless ass kissing press.

For close on 2 years all we've heard day in, day out is AI is amazing, AI will change the world, AI is empowering everyone, look what AI can do.

So if a non technical user is told by the one of the worlds largest tech companies, useless fucking "journalists" and endless commercials that vibe coding is everything you need to get the job done, don't blame the user when it goes wrong, blame the lying sacks of shit constantly pushing the narrative.

It's their fault.

UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server

Really?

"for many years, noted that WordPress can be onerous to configure"

No it's not.

It's pretty fucking simple. The issue is adding 500 plugins you probably don't need, with half of them not seen a update in 3 years and then not bothering to check what they actually do.

Dutch study finds teen cybercrime is mostly just a phase

So you know what we should do?

Build more gaols. Lock them up with hardened criminals so they can move onto different, more violent crimes.

None of this namby pampy "education" or "opportunities to reform" or "chances to change their ways"

Lock em up I say.

GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are

Re: Pricing per gram please

"They describe height in feet, weight in stone and pounds (and hence ounces), volume in pints (and also ounces, but different ones), and distances in miles. "

Nah, it's a generational thing.

I was bor and decimalisation came in so I'm

5"10, weigh 67kg, measure short distances in mm, cm and m, but drive miles to work, but I did used to run a 5k most mornings. Couldn't tell you the MPG of my car but I know the price of petrol by me is £134.9 a litre.

I drink pints in a pub, but do like the odd 500ml can of beer from time to time.

Then you could buy a litre, a 2 pint or 2 litre bottle of milk at the same time as buying your 500g of cheese to put on your 1/4lb burger.

Ask my kids and they'll tell you their height and weight i metric, They measure all distances and weights in metric and will do the mental gymnastics to convert long distances to Km

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Re: Well

Have you got shares in a "particle beam accelerator" company? You keep banging on about them like you gave a fucking clue what your on about, but you may of noticed all the down votes by people who DO know what they are talking about.

Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records

A Leopard 1 or 2 in the server is God tier BOFH

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

Ahh "the good old days"

First up in impressed they were so advanced using TCP/IP rather than IPX/SPX .

But boy do I remember those days. My first IT job was desktop support and what an utter mishmash of systems that was.

It was the "switch over" days, so the estate consisted of Novell servers running IPX/SPX, NT servers using TCP/IP and IPX, desktops running Win 3.11 and 95, Wyse terminals, 10base2, 10baseT and 100baseT, Token ring 16/4, Baystack switches, ShivaRas servers and not to mention Compaq desktops that would happily slice a finger off if you dared try to remove a network card.

Those couple of years probably taught me more about trouble shooting than the other 20 odd years, not just in IT, but life in general.

Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks

Re: Ratners

You may want to research a bit more on Råtner.

It was a complete witch hunt by the media and the established elite jewelry trade.

They all looked down on him as he was a genuine self made millionaire who completely obliterated every other high street jewellers out there. People knew their products were cheap tat, but they gave the illusion of being expensive, which is what most people were happy with.

US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats

Re: Another MAGA decision....

No silly, the C90 IS the armoured version, they just needed to give it a camo paint job and add a few 0's to the price tag.

You know what they really need...

... modularity!

Have one hull with loads of swappable containerised components that they can quickly swap out. Use untested advanced propulsion units and untested hull designs.

Then lay down billions of dollars for a shit load of these before even the first sea trials.

Maybe call them the Littoral Combat Ships.

Sure they'll be a roaring success.

Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later

In no way...

..does this sound a little suspicious. No sirrrreee

FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover

It's lucky it was so benign...

If it's a potty mouth tirade, then most people would go WTF? Then move on.

If it had alarms going then a convincing voice had said "China has just launched several hundred missiles bound for the USA. They are due to arrive in the next 26 minutes. Please take shelter and await further instructions" I'd say all hell would have broken lose.

Apple’s lousy AI didn’t stop it beating Samsung’s smartphone sales for the first time since 2011

You sure on that

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/

Gainsight CEO downplays breach, says only a 'handful' of customers had data stolen

Bullshit figures

It's like saying "Only one customer had their devices compromised", to only find the one customer is the NHS and a million or so people are affected.

HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting

Re: Right, so…

We're in a post profit world. All that now matters is stock market valuation.

Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move

Pffffttt...

400 days? Bloody amateur computer users. Us (ex) telecoms guys laugh in your face.

Try a Nortel Meridian Option 81 with over 5 1/2 years, and that includes removal of melted cards after a lightning strike on the lines. Or an option 61 that was shut down after four years, only because we moved offices. Heck even the baby 11s only got a reboot when the power died for so long that the UPS's ran out.

As for Baystack routers and switches, you NEVER rebooted them unless you fancied a complete rebuild and restore.

Microsoft's fix for slow File Explorer: load it before you need it

("cheaper" I think management calls it).

Fiscally Efficient I'll think you'll find.

Trump wants to turn it on again with 'Genesis Mission' for AI in science

Re: Trump IQ versus AI IQ?

@codejunky

I knew you were a rightwing nut job, but if your idea of ending the war is "Give Russia huge chunks of Ukraine, disarm the country and leave them wide open to further attack whilst Ukraine gets nothing in return" then your spot on.

Of course Russia can be trusted. After all they kept their agreement not to invade Ukraine if they handed of their nuclear weapons after the time of the Soviet collapse.

Ukraine first country in Europe to get Starlink satellite phone service

Re: Ukraine to get first...

@a/c So what are the alternatives?

Just no...

"Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) recently confirmed it will offer a satellite service for UK customers"

Trying to get those useless script readers in India to actually listen to your issue is a harsh lesson in futility as it stands now.

"You need to turn the satellite off, wait thirty 30, then turn it back on"

Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain

It's alright having enough fuel..

....but if you don't use / swap out that fuel, it's going to go bad. Ask any classic car owner or restorer.

I'd expect them to fire up those generators for a least a few hours every 6 months, if not every 3.

Fresh ClickFix attacks use Windows Update trick-pics to steal credentials

Thought you'd been chucked out of a window Puppy666 for not meeting your propaganda targets.

Welcome back comrade.

X's location tags remind users of the internet's oldest rule: Trust nothing

Re: The internet

.....There are no girls on the internet

70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

Re: "after his family agreed to let him do so"

"and yet our government has no problem giving this idiot money and sending our jobs over to india."

Well yeah how else do the politicians stay in power? Offshore as many jobs as possible, suppress wages, make huge amounts of money through consultancies and then blame immigrants for all the countries problems.

AI nudification site fined £55K for skipping age checks

"VPN usage with children was estimated to be about 8% last time I looked"

Where's that survey?

I only ask if it includes the ages 0 - 18 it's going to have very, very different results to 13 -18.

Also how do they actually know? Ask 10 children if they use a VPN and extrapolate from that?

My teenage kids freely admit they use VPNs to bypass school internet restrictions, along with geoblockiing.

Never trust kids to give the truth to surveys. As I've spoken to both my kids, if you believe the school ground talk, every teenage boy has had sex with at least 10 girls, yet every girl is a virgin.

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

"I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone!"

That'll be the same Nokia brand Microsoft bought and killed wouldn't it?

Google and Westinghouse lean on AI to speed US nuclear plant builds

Grok, tell us how to safely build a nuclear reactor

Sure, what a great question, the sort only a white man could come up with.

Well Chernobyl was caused by the glorious Russians being attack by a slany eyed wave from Japan. This in turn caused a radioactive cloud of zeta rays to leak into the North Sea, thus contaminating 3 mile island in the beautiful USA.

Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw

Re: Excellent Work

"Imagine telling someone in the 90s that their number is in phone book. Shock and horror."

Imagine that person having enough books to contain 3.5 billion numbers, then the ability to reverse lookup all those numbers in the time it took him to get past aardvark.

It's a good time to be the arms dealer for the AI boom

It's only the boosters

that say there is no bubble. He's hardly likely to say "Yeah come 12 months time we're fucked" is he?

Given Google have called the investments in AI irrational, and multiple financial investment companies are saying it's over valued, who should we believe? Hmmmm

Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

Re: Gen Z

"A Deloitte survey published earlier this year found that over half of gen Z employees reported using AI regularly in their work"

Well if you're getting shit pay, shit conditions,working for.a shit boss, with little prospects of getting better, I'd do as little work as possible as well.

The illusion of work hard and get rewarded has long gone

GenZ seem to be the ones who have finally realised that breaking your back to make some rich asshole richer just isn't worth it.

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

Microsoft:

Guys we've took 10s of millions of users of far to many times this year, we must be the most unreliable out there!

Cloudflare:

Hold my beer!

Ford rolls into the Xen Project as hypervisor gears up for autos

Re: Coming soon to your car

With Leyland / BL /Rover the rot was setting in before the paint job

US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI datacenters fed

Loan Programs Office would lower electricity costs and strengthen grid reliability.

For the AI data centres.

Fuck the poor people.

San Jose's 'warrantless' license plate queries land cops in court

Re: I'll bet a lot of that

These days, it's less girlfriends, more like those that look a little foreign or those that look a little bit effeminate or butch (which is odd given that the current US government wear more makeup that an assistant at a Boots cosmetics counter)

Re: Well, duh

But the point is no safeguards are in place.

And who decides what the safe guards are? Those who benefit most from having as few as possible.

Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos

<Checks who owns social media companies>

Ha, ha, ha, ha ha.

Is it April fools already?

Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for physical military strikes

Meanwhile....

we at Amazon, Google et al will flog your data to whoever wants it

We also will supply equipment that will stop supporting when we get bored and leave them wide open to attack

We allow people to use our infrastructure to launch these attacks

We only care if they don't give us money.

Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market

AI the gift that keeps on taking.

Tftfy

Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says

Let's face it..

..with Pete "I'm a trans and homophobic racist asshole" Hegseth setting a blinding example of complete incompetence, is it any suprise?

Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability

Re: The Masses Will Get An Agentic OS And Will Not Complain

You're optimistic about 14 years.

Given the disillusionment with government, were ripe for more extreme parties to come in.

History doesn't repeat itself etc, etc....

Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica

Re: I predict ...

Comes with a free tiny solar panel backed up by a massive diesel powered generator to put in the room, to give you that authentic greenwashing feeling whilst destroying the environment at the same time.

For the true experience, you can have a subscription model where somewhere comes and turns off your water on a regular basis

Re: woke detector

@charlieboywolf.

Again, another imbecile that needs an education. Let's talk about one of the songs from one of the most famous Christmas films of all time.

Yes it's jarring to hear "Happy Holidays", but there is fuck all woke about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Holiday_(song)

Re: Humbug

"If downloading and setting up a copy of WinUAE is challenging then you probably shouldn't be buying shoes with shoelaces"

Likewise if you've never repaired washing machines, dishwashers, built your own car, completely refurbished a Victorian house, built a huge desk / TV / storage unit from pieces of wood....Or maybe be like my youngest teen daughter, who can crochet a bag in an afternoon, plays bass guitar and violin and is learning 5 languages?

What you can't do all those? After all, you just have to follow instructions, so not hard.

And of course being the genius that you are, you learnt to tie your shoe laces in less than 5 minutes, with no help at all.

Aviation watchdog says organized drone attacks will shut UK airports 'sooner or later'

Did you actually read the article before mashing the keyboard?

Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase

Re: Didn't work for SBF

@anon

Oh yes it did

https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/sam-bankman-fried-pardoned-by-donald-trump-who-he-is-and-what-did-he-do/3920828/

Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’

So all the more reason...

...to get off US kit ASAP then

Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry

See kids

"Even 40 to 50 percent tax credit for US manufactured systems".

That's why Daddy died of diabetes, because we couldn't afford the medication.

Still, at least that nice man will get a $10 million pay rise this year.

Now run off and eat your gruel.

US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies

Remind me the US stance...

..on government subsidies again?

Ah yeah, foreign countries = Evil

USA = It not what you think, honest, it's completely different, because, er USA USA USA!

UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing

@AC.

I take it you know what a clinical trial is? Nah thought not.

Intel CTO and AI boss quits to join OpenAI after just six months in the job

Re: OpenAI [is] losing billions each quarter

It's all fake money. None of these companies actually have the cash, it's all legal accounting fraud.