Posts by IGotOut

Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register

And this at the same time..

...the Chief Fascist announced tariffs on any country trying to reign them in.

Coincidence or corruption? You decide.

xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok

Nah, the prick is trying to worm his way into the UK energy market. Musk being the pathetic piece of lowlife scum he is, will claim the UK is run by the loony far left if he gets denied.

UK patches air defense with 6 extra Land Ceptor missile launchers

Re: Russia, Russia, Russia

@Gordon10

Thats, as far as I can see, just numbers

Take tanks. It's pretty well established now that Russia's tank supplies are massively depleted, and their so so called Next gen Armata T-14 is in limited supply, and like a lot of Russian "high tech" kit is just all bluster.

The Black sea fleet has been rendered unusable by Ukraine and Turkey.

The SU-57 stealth fighter is as stealthy as a flying Transit van.

Where they do well at is throwing victims, I mean service personnel, into combat with no regard to casualties (which can actually be a benefit for them) and artillery.

This doesn't mean they are not a major force, but, let's face it, it helps the US Industrial Military Complex, to make out they are more of a threat than they are.

Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'

No they don't.

They could set an example and use Bluesky instead. The world can live without Twitter

It's really that simple.

Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links

Good news...

Vivaldi is what Firefox was, before it went shit.

Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two

Re: DDoS attacks are not always what they seem...

@TeeCee

Unfortunately, the pedant after you is the one I agree with.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fine-tooth%20comb

DDoS attacks are not always what they seem...

Quite often they are a cover. Launch an attack and while everyone is distracted, perform your main objective.

Once it's over, I'd be checking absolutely everything with a fine tooth comb. In fact if I was them, I'd block any changes made for the last couple of weeks until they are fully vetted.

US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B

Reminds me, I need to get some Taco's.

"I negotiated this Deal with Lip-Bu Tan, the Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company"

The same highly respected CEO you were trying to get fired just a few weeks ago?

And the right said Biden had memory issues.

Transatlantic chip war fizzles as EU and US framework confirms 15% tariff cap

@JudeK

It's not abuse, he's just a Russian bot. He contributes nothing and just trolls.

There are plenty of people here criticising the EU and plenty of people I disagree with, but this bot is the only one I and many others want removed.

FFS reg will you ban this prick

Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms

Against censorship?

The country that has a meltdown if "a wardrobe malfunction" happens?

The country that has effectively banned all references to LGBTQ people in schools and other public institutions?

The country that has removed references to black and female achievements in NASA?

The country that doesn't want gay people in the military?

The county that places sanctions on Judges investigating war crimes?

These assholes wouldn't know free speech if it hit them with a 9mm in the ear.

AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

Re: one site I frequent

Depends on your site size, but the free tier is good enough for most.

Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason

Nice

"Anthropic says its nuclear threat classifier achieved a 94.8 percent detection rate for questions about nuclear weapons,"

So roughly 3% of the time it failed to detect "how do I make a nuclear bomb?" That's 3 in a hundred times the predictive text machine misread it.

Google's $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations

Well done Google...

A disgusting amount of cash and resources burnt, to allow me unable to book a table a my favourite places to eat as they don't take internet bookings.

The likes of Google and their moronic CC-suite staff are so fucking detached from reality it is unbelievable

Google yet to take down 'screenshot-grabbing' Chrome VPN extension

Is this the same Google....

...that just this week rolled out the old "We still have concerns that these changes could expose Android users to harmful content and make the app experience worse." when trying to block outside payments.

Yes, yes it is.

Microsoft stays mum about M365 Copilot on-demand security bypass

Suprise!

AI leaks data.

Company covers up issue in hope line still goes up.

Can we bring neutron bombs back? That we can at least house the homeless when we nuke these companies.

Google tries to trump iPhone launch with AI-powered Pixel 10 range

Sooo

I have the Pixel 7 Pro (would've of gone Huawei but xenophobia got in the way).

I'm struggling to see anything that I'd what to upgrade to to, but plenty of stuff I want to avoid.

IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4

Re: No mention of NAT, then?

This article is all about DNS, because it's about DNS resolvers.

Pretty simple really.

Re: ISP Hubs

PlusNet does. Only noticed yesterday as I was messing about in the config.

Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

Re: The patch is optional – users who haven't encountered the issue don't need to install it.

Welcome to late stage capitalism at its finest.

Latest Windows 11 insider builds hide secret File Explorer dark mode

Well...

....30 years since you could create your own "Dark mode" on Windows 95.

I preferred my pink and purple mode though.

To heck with export controls! Nvidia reportedly plotting cut-down B300 for Chinese market

Re: 15% Export Tariff Based On Revenue

And being unconstitutional has stopped how many of his activities?

End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs

They haven't thought this through.

They are going to give 16 & 17 year olds the right to vote.

They will vote for the party that says they will remove these bans i.e. Reform.

Nice one dickheads.

Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells

Good

When it completely fucks up a Fortune 100 company by leaking their shit all over the internet, then maybe they will stop with this madness.

Until then, there's always LibreOffice

AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy'

I'm confused.

Being a coder, why is he having to spend so much money getting AI to do his work for him?

That's like paying a professional artist to paint your portrait and then the artist getting AI to create the image for you.

GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire

Wow...

...C-Suite get sold shit that doesn't work by snake oil salesmen, because they saw everyone else is doing it.

I'm shocked, this never normally happens.

Sit down Gartner, you'll give the "how we decide what to buy" game away.

UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy

A quick example of Government incompetence.

I have two Government ID's somehow.

One apparently I can use for "stuff" but I can't use it for Tax purposes, I need to use the second, but the password doesn't work. Both are registered to the same email account according to the information it gives out.

However I can't reset the password on the second account because.....you guessed it, it says a different Government ID is registered to that email address.

Don't even start me on NHS services online.

Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need

Re: My top 10

"3. Make every key have an AltGr and add a compose key."

MS is a US company, they barely know AltGr exists.

Re: Obey the user's AI

ChatGPT thinks I'm a graphic designer for Sony Entertainment, Pixar and Apple, so yeah, I really want AI to run my system for me.

So keep your brain rot predictive text generator away from my OS.

Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline

Re: My favourite speed-camera story...

Shame about click bait title. Article states he "hopes" it will clear the database.

Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable

I have seen this, so, do many times.

Working in Telecoms on a Meridian Option 81 with several thousand lines this was really common and also may explain this situation.

When doing office moves, the box shifters, sorry desktop guys, and the planners forgot to inform telecoms that their help was needed. This meant it was not uncommon for them to use the patch panels to jump between cabinets and even floors.

I think my record to find inter-patching was 6 cabinets. So it may of been the case that the workstation was in a different location before and was a single hop. It then moved and rather than doing a rip and replace some bridge spark went I'll just inter-patch.

AHH but I can't get from A2 to C1 directly, so I'll go A1 to A25, A25 to B1, B1 to B25 and B25 to C1

'MadeYouReset' HTTP/2 flaw lets attackers DoS servers

Re: Newer is always better

If hardly call over a decade old "newer".

Does v3 have this issue? Looks not.

Amazon's $100B DC spend similar to entire Costa Rica GDP

Re: Good

Amazon and proving tax tax in the same sentence?

Nice one.

Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek's next-gen R2 model

Well many are worried about your boss throwing them out of a window.

DARPA’s Cylon raider autonomous fighter jet advances to next phase

Can't wait..

then it will be 99.9999% civilians being killed rather than the 99% we currently have.

Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS

This just shows ...

...how completely out of touch they are.

Can we get all the tech bros and most of the world leaders together in Davos and then just nuke the place? Several times, just in case.

BtcTurk suspends operations amid alleged $49M hot wallet heist

Stop me if you've heard this before....

Oh wait, you have....many, many times

Alexa hits snooze on basic functions as alarms and timers KO'd in UK outage

Most knocker uppers were women. The men went to the factories, so we're the ones being woken up.

They also used pea shooters.

OpenAI's GPT-5 looks less like AI evolution and more like cost cutting

So Sam...

You lying sack of shit....how is this "super intelligence" going to happen if your latest multi-billion dollar model is only fractionally better than the last?

Oh wait it can't, because your a insipid snake oil salesman.

Desktops and printers in coffee shops? Starbucks Korea tells customers to 그만 해

Now I understand

"Starbucks remains committed to being a welcoming third place for coffee and connection, and where community thrives in every cup, every conversation, and every visit."

I've always wondered how they can make coffee so badly. It's from the staff throwing up in your cup after reading this kind of stuff from corp HQ.

Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don't have to dash to the printer to grab the 'Fire everyone' memo

Re: Er, hasn't this been a feature of grown up printers

@kmorwarh

I'm literally set next to a printer that does this already (a Sharp).

You just send the print of to your follow me printer, then just collect it from wherever. Ours currently uses a fob, but can be a pin.

My last company introduced this well over a decade ago. So much so I sent all the printed documents off I needed for a particular job, then printed them out...in a different country!.

CoreWeave CFO: $25B raised in debt and equity in 18 months

You really...

... couldn't make this shit up

OK the tech bro's can, but most people couldn't.

Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc

Re: Sad times

You complain about the Frazier group crusing competition, but I don't really see that.

Most of the brands they bought were bankrupt or close to it.

They bought Umbro when they were struggling,

Evans cycles, bankrupt

House of Fraser, bankrupt.

Sofa.com, bankrupt

Jack Willis, bankrupt.

Republic, bankrupt

JJB, bankrupt

Misguided, bankrupt

Then they did part buys of other brands.

So far from killing competition, they have kept many afloat.

Suetopia: Generative AI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business

Wring analogy.

If someone sent you a painting by numbers kit with a copyrighted image, which the producer had no authority to sell, and told you because you choose the colour scheme it's fine as it's a derivative work, then that's a whole different thing.

Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion

Ahhh modern economics

"three-year-old startup, with an estimated value of $18 billion"

And actual profit? Hon on, give us a clue .. Any? Not even 1¢?

I wonder if I walk into a Ferrari dealership and say "I'll take that one, as I'm worth £1billion" they'll go. Sure, here you go. Pay us back when you get chance".

Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That'll be £49, please

Re: Riff raff discouragement fee

"You are going to the wrong pubs if £49 only gets a couple of rounds in :)"

Probably London. That's about two rounds for two people....and it will still taste like piss.

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

I'll also add...

...to an earlier post.

Many of my LGBTQ+ friends have some of the most "offensive" t-shirts and outfits you are likely to see, and then there is the music made by some of these artists....makes "controversial" artists like Eminem look rather tame.

It's shit like this...

...that sets progress back, not forward.

It gives the haters just more ammunition, not less.

I've never heard a single black, trans, gay, lesbian in fact the whole fucking Progress pride flag group EVER go, "I wish they didn't use these words".

Nah, from my very long experience of mixing with pretty much every colour, gender and sexuality, all they want is to be treated equally and without the fear of being attacked.

UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly'

Re: Industrial-Educational Policy Needed

Odd.

We make parts for the military, aviation, race car teams and most of the world hyper / super cars. We have close on 50 CNC machines along with all the CMM, X-ray, CT scanners etc required.

One of our contracts involves machining parts that both ourselves and the Chinese make. Our parts run at about a 10% scrap rate (this is not unusual due to the specification required). The Chinese? 80%.

It's tolerated by the customer because the parts are so cheap.

The dumb thing is, we make more money off the Chinese part of the contract, because machining the parts is where the money is. We get paid per part even if there was a 100% failure rate.

'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman

Re: AI sceptic/conservative

"No-one can read and digest the sum total of all human knowledge, but LLMs more or less already have."

I could read a book written in Spanish, but I would have a clue what it was about.

It's one thing gathering all the written works in the world, but it's another thing understanding it. The latter is were "AI" always fails.