Posts by IGotOut

Engineers successfully reboost International Space Station after early Dragon abort

Re: Bad move?

When it was launched, it looked like Russia may have gotten away from it's imperialistic days.But it wasn't to be.

Even afterwards counties actually got along when it came to a lot of science projects.

Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions

Re: "upgrades from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 did not carry such limitations"

Looks like Teams needs making more power and memory hungry, and it'll require TPM 2 for "security" then you'll HAVE to upgrade to a new pc with Windows 11 and Microsoft will be happy.

UK and US security agencies order urgent fixes as Cisco firewall bugs exploited in wild

Re: Hmmm...

The difference was was Huawei was very capable kit at a "low" made by the Chinese that had piss poor security, whereas Cisco is fairy capable kit, at a high price, made in the USA that has piss poor security.

UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029

Awesome...

Well given somehow I have two government ID's, which one does nothing and the other I can't use because I only have half the information required to use it. But that's OK because I can revalidate it online. Oh wait, the system is so fucked it constantly falls over or just fails to work.

Still at least I can use one of my two NHS numbers to book an appointment online....ah shit no, still have to go in person to book in.

And then there's the elderly, you know, one of the biggest users of government services. Both my parents have smart phones. My dad constantly hangs up by accident when trying to answer the phone and my mum has finally got the hang of WhatsApp.

Going by the flags I see, half the people will have the flag tattooed upside down.

Yes, the people putting them up are so "patriotic" they don't even know how to fly the flag (and I'm constantly confused why most are flown at half mast).

Still, better than them flying the Georgia flag, because its the Ingerland flag x5

AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42

To be fair...

...it's a perfect match for the current dictatorship.

Grok -Write me a resume to work for the current government adminstration

Sure:

"I'm a white male that hates everyone that isn't"

EU probes SAP over alleged software support stranglehold

So the answer to being shafted by US companies is to be shafted by an EU one?

Re: Industry Standards

Yes, to fuck their users over as much as they can get away with.

Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts

What a suprise.

Big business freeloads off volunteers then once they have what they want, take ownership.

Licence changes in 3...2...

A as side note, I looked at shopify's pricing structure and it's a rip off for most businesses, especially smaller ones.

EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners

Re: Another brexit benefit

Ahh the "Elites"...like the multi-millionares such as Dyson, Farage, Rees-Mogg and Tim Martin?

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we’re not going to do it

Re: I completely get why...

@CorwinX

When I worked on a big IT project (£10 million spend) we worked with people from several parts of the UK, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Romania, Spain and the USA.

Pretty sure we didn't all commute to the same office 4 days a week. In fact I never even met the Italians and Spanish once

Yet, despite it being a horrendously complex project taking 3 years from start to finish, there wasn't a single time we felt that everyone had to be in the same place.

Japanese city passes two-hours-a-day smartphone usage ordinance

Re: punishable with extremely severe sanctions.

Yeah we had the same. The Norman's would just kill the peasants because....well they were bored and it was a Tuesday.

Oh happy days.

Campaigners urge UK PM Starmer to dump digital ID wheeze before it's announced

I'm sure it will be fine...

...they'll get TCS to run the systems. What could go wrong?

Re: Paying

Guess what.

If idiots hadn't voted Brexit to "secure our borders", it would be easier to return the to EU countries

But people fell for the lies.

Look up the Dublin agreement on asylum seekers for a little education.

But im sure the right wing knuckle draggers will come out and admit that voting Brexit was a fucking stupid idea and made it worse.

Politicos: 'There is a good strong case for government intervention' on JLR cyberattack

So what about the suppliers and staff to the thousands of other companies?

Where are the cries of support for Body care that folded this week?

What about when Wilko went under?

Claire's?

Debenhams?

Oak Furnitureland?

Eve sleep?

Shall I go on?

Guess those people weren't important enough ...

India’s IT minister moves to Zoho’s spreadsheet and word processor, urges 1.4 billion people to do likewise

So trump....

What with Europe being told it should stand on it's on feet, thus sending European military stock prices through the roof while the US industrial military complex has taken a battering.

Canada dumping US goods and arms contracts and forming stronger relationships with Europe, Australia and Mexico.

China banning Nvidia chips and restricting rare earth exports as well as a fall in US food imports.

Now Indian politicians urging a huge population to switch from US software.

Throw in a 14% drop in tourism, resulting in a $12.5 billion loss in income....

How are these bully boy tactics working for you?

OpenAI's Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations

More lies

"While OpenAI claims the new sites will create 25,000 onsite jobs,"

And how many once construction is finished?

What you think all of us are as stupid as politicians and much of the press?

Here's a thought. For every job short of that target, someone gets to kick the CEO's in the balls.

Nvidia adds more air to the AI bubble with vague $100B OpenAI deal

So let me get this right....

Nvidia is paying OpenAI to buy Nvidia chips?

That sounds like a whole lot of share manipulation to me

AI gone rogue: Models may try to stop people from shutting them down, Google warns

Here we go again...

This is just more marketing bullshit.

Oooo look how powerful AI is, it could doom us all....look at how powerful AI is, better be careful, because look how amazing AI is

Meanwhile in the real world it can't even read out a recipe correctly to a trained chef.

NASA panel fears a Starship lunar touchdown is more fantasy than flight plan

No. I'm hoping Musk's trip to Mars is one way.

What has everyone forgot that lie? I guess with so many out of his mouth, we tend to forget a lot of them.

Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won’t bother Beijing

Easier to tap into I guess.

Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

Re: This is what happens

MLK was trying to get equal rights.

The other two pricks you mentioned are actively trying to remove them.

Think about it.

Re: Preference some groups at the expense of others

Well Sickle Cell mainly affects black people so funding cuts will be ok. Breast cancer mainly affects women, so again fine.

So that just leave prostate cancer, which tends to affect older men, so that will get extra funding.

No sarcasm tag as that's the way it's going.

Bob you're back!

I MISSED your RANDOM capitalised sentences. Remind me again, is the national debt actually going DOWN?

statistics/273294/public-debt-of-the-united-states-by

Trump is a genius!

No he is...think about it.

While China ploughs 10s if not 100s of Billions into STEM education and research, the USA cuts the funding.

That way, the USA will be so backwards, that China won't want to hack systems.and steal IP.

See clever!

Not only that, he will put a 500% tariff on intelligence! That'll show them.

MAGA

Make America Gormless Again.

Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery

Re: This is akin to...

Stop drinking at Wetherspoons and got to a proper pub and you'll be ok

ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

No a suprise.

Given that captcha's were, and still are, an AI training tool.

Article from 2018

news/captcha-if-you-can-how-youve-been-training-ai-for-years-without-realising

Trust me, even non-autistic people have no idea have the time.

"Chose the square with traffic signals".

Do I include the posts?

"Choose the one with shops"

Well that looks possibly like a cafe, does that count?

"Choose the squares with busses"

Well that looks like a coach, soooo none?

Slack threatened to delete nonprofit coding club’s data if it didn’t pay $50k in a week

Let me guess....

... it's because they could now use "AI".

You may not want it, but we're sure as hell gonna charge you for it.

Re: Slack should ..

"Good advice - if you have the know how to do so."

This is a teen hacking club. I'd hope they'd have a least a few people that knew how to do this.

Microsoft boasts about humongous datacenter on abandoned Foxconn site in Wisconsin

Less than that.

I can't find the article but a typical MS one has about 50.

Found this from a DC provider which would match up that figure

https://optrium.co.uk/how-many-people-are-needed-to-run-a-data-centre/

Green washing

"Microsoft is currently building a 250 MW solar farm so that it can match every kilowatt hour it uses from fossil fuels with a matching quantity of renewable energy"

So the Vampire Business will also be using a 250MW fossil fuelled plant then?

Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns

Don't want to alarm you, but the new pricing is closer to normal.

Pretty much every AI company is making a loss, so prices HAVE to increase.

Don't expect it to be the last either.

Re: The next turn of the enshittification screw

It already happened.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/cursor-apologizes-for-unclear-pricing-changes-that-upset-users/

UEFI Secure Boot for Linux Arm64 – where do we stand?

Or you could, you know, disable secure boot if you wanted to run another OS.

Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached

Bollocks...again!

A £20billion investment.

What a fucking lie but another lying scumbag.

Where will most of the "investment" be spent.

Oh yes, US chip companies and server makers.

Apart from the building of the DC, which will then be over in 6 months, and about 40 - 50 jobs. That's it.

So for 40 or 50 jobs, there will be a huge drain on electricity and water supplies impacting the entire region.

But governments (all sides) are to fucking stupid / corrupt to notice.

Re: Fixing AI with local resources.

You've just described a Facebook group.

It's the final countdown: Windows 10 hits end of support in less than 30 days

Yes, that's why they introduced Win 11. Otherwise why get a newer version?

Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf

Fuck off

"For example, a music fan could tell an agent to buy concert tickets that go on sale at midnight and then go to sleep, knowing that the agent would buy the number and location of tickets they had asked for (presumably with a price limit)."

So every concert will now be sold out in 1 nanosecond by touts running bot farms (it's bad enough now).

Then your AI agent will pay £1million because it thought you really wanted it.

Oh yeah also I ALWAYS search for "A pair of white trainers"

These people really should get out into the real world occasionally.

Google is just another scummy corporation that needs to die.

Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

"Microsoft simply exits the EU market completely and refuses to do further business with EU member states"

How many times do we hear these old trope pushed out?

Did MS exit the EU when forced to unbundle IE?

Did Apple exit the EU when forced to adopt USB C?

Did software companies leave the EU when forced to comply with GDPR?

No

Reason?

The EU is one of the largest markets in the world. Try telling the shareholders "Oh we're, just going to kill 30-50% of our profits because we don't want to spend a few million maintaining it"

ChatGPT: Why do most of your users ask for help writing – prose, not code?

Did the research....

...show the amount of money they lost on each search?

Thought not.

Dems wave hands, stomp feet about ICE using mobile face recognition app

Yeah, good luck.

Now that Trumps private political army (along with the National Guard), have the power to any dammed thing they want, without consequence, do you think they will take any notice?

UK Lords take aim at Ofcom's 'child-protection' upgrades to Online Safety Act

So banning suicide and self harm content.

....so that'll be the Samaritans taken down.

Before anyone goes...but..but..but...

There already have been collateral damage for sexual health and advice sites.

Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA

Hey...

Jean-cluade, Dolph....someone's been watching reruns of your movies.

Dirac audio glitch finally silenced in Windows 11 24H2

Fixed one issue....

And probably created another hundred more.

'Powerful but dangerous' full MCP support beta for ChatGPT arrives

What a suprise.

The AI hype train....again.

"Oh look how powerful and dangerous this is!"

"It's a game changer!"

""It's going to revolutionise the world".

Just fuck off and do something useful....like die....or at least become a hermit.

I've seen "AI" do a couple of cool things, but that is massively outweighed by the daily slop it churns out.

Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union

So going by this....

What about the suppliers to the 198,046 businesses that went bankrupt in 2024?

New Really Simple Licensing spec wants AI crawlers to show a license - or a credit card

Re: Turnstiles and toll booths

Captchas were just a way of Google training it's AI with a veil of security.

So close, but then....

" it negotiates on behalf of its members, but the definition of 'fair' will be determined by an open, transparent process that needs to be approved by members,"

And it all falls apart here. Why should "members" decide how much I charge? A huge site might go, sure 10c a item is fine, knowing they will get 10s of thousands in revenue. But what about a small artist, that gets their designs ripped off, all for 50c, probably costing more in bandwidth than they make

Nope.

It should be the site owner that gets to choose, end of.

1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines

Can't afford to offer it for free...

We payed for these ourselves! Think of the poor shareholders.

If it's like UK student accommodation it's an absolute fucking rip off.

One near where I used to live was close on a grand a month for a one room + shower room "studio'.

For the same price a few miles down the the road, I rented a two bed, one bathroom, one shower room, lounge and kitchen in a beautiful grade 2 listed building!