Posts by IGotOut 5319 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2019
The rating is not only how bad it is, but also how hard it is to pull off.
Si a flaw that allows someone to send an email.and take over a machine, without even opening the message will get very high
Having to have physical access and then manually having to run the software locally will get a lower score.
"You may think the rules are wrong. (And they may well be.) But they are the rules, and you can't complain about people preventing you evading them. "
Ask Margret Thatcher how the Poll Tax rules went for her.
Ask why so many countries are legalising drugs.
Ask the Nepalese government how well the social media rules worked out for them.
You may want to be someone's little bitch, but me, I have a life
..this is not a FU were going closed source / kicking out Devs / bitching over ownership.
This is a guy, probably fed up doing much of the work, going, "I've had enough of this project, time to for me to move on". The codes still there, it's still freely available, it's just up to someone else to take on all the associated work.
If there is actually someone willing to do it is another matter entirely.
Even if you had a valid result in those 30 seconds, then what? It's now no longer valid,
And if like me, you have 6 codes visible (Aegis rather than Google), plus all the information, such as the website it applies to and user name, it's going to be very hard to get any info
Plus if my authenticator app suddenly fired up for no reason, I'd be extremely suspicious.
. Both AMD and Nvidia have given "money" on condition they spend the a lot of that "money" buy their stock.
All the likes of OpenAI have to do is spend billions of Dollars they don't actually have building bit barns. Those same bit barn builders equally don't have any money to build them, so have taken on massive debts to finance those same projects.
Oh and did I forget to mention OpenAI has less than 3 months to go public (a thing it's unlikely to manage), before a huge chunk of SoftBank's "money" disappears? BTW, this is the same SoftBank that doesn't actually have the funds to pay OpenAI all the money it's promised?
It's just a massive Ponzi scheme built on a mud mountain of lies and debt.
Because in the good old days if a kid had an allergic reaction to something, they'd probably end up very ill of dead because they didn't know what was wrong.
In the good old days, if the school coach / bus broke down, no one would know what the fuck was going on.
In the good old days, random people could walk off the street and do what the fuck they wanted.
1. USA House are made of matchsticks, that's why they burst into flames a lot, especially in areas that have forest fires, after all makes sense to have combustible buildings in high risk areas.
2. A pressure container, built in a factory that is designed to have easy access to and from the road network, idles not the same as getting it out of a museum.
If someone calls you from India, it is probably a scam. We at Virgin media would never call you, ever, even if you're expecting us to
Step Two
If they have a strong Indian accent that you struggle to understand. It's a scam....no wait, it could be us. Ignore step Two.
Step Three
If they say they are trying to fix your problem, it's a scam. We at Virgin Media would never try and fix your problem.
Step Four.
If they are keeping you on the call, seemingly to fix your Tech Support question, it's a scam. We at Virgin Media will try and get you off the phone as fast as possible.
Final Step
If they connect to your pc, it's a scam. We at Virgin Media will only ever ask you to reboot the device several times before handing you over to another support person who will repeat all the same steps again.
...I'm not a Linux person by default, my main laptop is still Windows 10*, but I just converted a 2012 Mac Mini to Mint and its perfect for my needs. Swapped the 4gb for 16gb for £30 (most Kingston memory on eBay is clearly fake as it looks completely different to the genuine item) and swapped the 1tb HDD with a 512gb SSD I had laying around as a backup, with the old 1tb drive becoming the new backup disk.
* Still have Windows 10 to run Affinity, but something suspicious is going on with them at the moment, so that may soon change.
....lies with the C Suite.
You hear of so many people being told "You must use AI or else", Microsoft being a prime example.
So people are probably going "Ah fuck em, if I've GOT to use it, may as well use it to do this shitty little job"
Don't blame the plebs, blame those forcing this dogshit on them.
I did a quick search at work today as I needed to quickly find the calendar week.
Copilot in Bing (it's work so don't judge me) right at the top of the results page declared in big letter.
40
The current week number is 40, which runs from September 29 2025 to October 5 2025.
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Checks date.....October 7th.
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Sigh...
Look at how creative Ukraine has gotten with drones after being denied the "best" US weapons.
The Ukrainians are now selling that tech back to European countries as it's tried and tested in battle, something that a lot of US isn't.
Countries are waking up to the fact a lot of cheap weapons are better than a few very expensive ones, especially in a war of attrition.
"It's a diverse world out there. If you want to entirely isolate yourself from people who don't think the way you do, you are going to have a weird life"
Indeed, but equally people are free to have nothing to do with someone they disagree with. I've personally disowned a long time friend that was racist and homophobic. I'd rather lose someone like that, than just put up with him.
"It is a problem that just 1/3 of the population of London are native Brits."
Care to prove that? Thought not.
Even if it's true, which it's not, let take some fine "British" institutions.
Marks and Spencers. Shit Marks was Polish....
Tesco..bloody Polish again
Odeon Cinemas...agggh Oscar Deutsch, son of immigrants.
Rimmel, you know "Rimmel London"...ahhh a Frenchie
Topshop? Nope, Lithuanian immigrant.
easyJet....nope
Selfridges...damn
I know Deliveroo....oopsie
Still could always drive an original mini, made in England by a British company....except it was designed by a Greek...
Still gotta keep those immigrants out, so the rich can keep distracting us.
This "we've got AI so we don't need low level jobs), is the equivalent of China's one child policy, it's great at "solving" the problem now, but in a generations time, the.IT industry will be fucked.
No jobs for junior roles, less will take the university courses, as there are no jobs to be filled and then people starting retiring, moving. Who's going to fill those senior roles, if there are no one below them?
Let me guess, the predictive text machine will be so good, those roles will be gone as well, so life on the beach for everyone , just like the powered loom stopped people having to work so hard and how computers would free us from the monotony of office work.
...another billionaire completely detached from reality, yet idiots that equate money with intelligence will go "Oh your so smart. You're rich, so we must listen to what you say".
As I heard just the other day (may of been Ed Zirtron, or Tech Won't Save Us), if it was a homeless going saying this we'd think he was a lunatic, but because he's got money, we should listen to him.
"but everything in the house that sticks out would grab the cord"
Protip: run the cord inside your tee, hoodie, dress, whatever. Added bonus, if you pop them out to talk to someone (because you're not a self absorbed twat*), then you can just let them dangle.
*Two places I go will not serve anyone on their phone or wearing headphones in / over their ears.
