Posts by IGotOut

CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost

Re: Odd how what was "nonsense" is now fact.

"Wasn't that "ether" and proposed in the 1800s ?"

No.

Attackers pwn charter airline helping Trump's deportation campaign

" I can guarantee that also happened under Obama. I'm not convinced by all the whataboutism."

If you can point to cases where he ignored court orders or deported people to 3rd countries without due process, feel free to post them.

LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true

Lego didn't comment...

... because the lawyers are writing the cease and desist.

They VERY fiercely defend their trademark (as they are required to do so).

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

This is a story about a developer making money selling a "solution" to a real world problem, using data and systems they have zero control over.

Do not conflate the two

OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies

Lies

"the outfit is reportedly targeting revenues of $12.7 billion.

How Sam, how?

And revenue...profit? You know that thing that used to be important in the olden days.

Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus

Re: Meanwhile

Only if you get to the airport via a leaf blower powered go-kart.

Re: Manufactured Histeria

If it's so clean, I suggest wrapping your mouth around the exhaust pipe. Not too long, just enough time to make you feel all warm and fuzzy, followed by a nice long nap.

Arista cats purr over $2B quarter while tariff time bomb ticks

What a strange world..

...the stock market is.

Profitable company says margins may be lower next quarter, shares drop.

AI company says it's going to hemorrhage even more cash this year, with no road map to profitability other than "it's going to be even better AI", shares go up.

What a time to be alive.

After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – job cuts, leaning on AI

On the plus side...

...when Delta get sued into oblivion (in progress), they then can reclaim a chunk back of these guys, which means they'll have to fire the AI. What you think the C-Suite will take a hit?

Makes sense...

...after all it wasn't like it was the "move faster" that caused the fuck up in the first place.

Oh hold on.

NASA JPL boss bails for 'personal reasons' as budget cuts bite

"Personal Reasons"

"I don't want to be around when the shit hits the fan and be made a scapegoat"

Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy?

Yes but 10% of his wage are a metric fuck tonne more that 10% of a minimum wage in China.

If they could they would take 0.1% (then the rest in stock) and give the workers the same raise, then go " See, I got the same raise as you!"

If anyone wonders about stock....

... just remember they incur far less tax than regular pay.

And then they can take a loan against the stock, effectively becoming a debt and then pay 0% tax.

Welcome to tax avoidance at its best.

PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied

Now children...

...hands up anyone that didn't think this might happen?

Anyone?

So just those in charge then. Thought so.

Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess

More corporate weasel words.

"Upon detection, we acted quickly to contain it "

Detection?

You "detected" fuck all.

You were told of the breach and even given information on how it was done.

Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search

Wrong assumption.

This is not an endorsement of AI as a search tool.

It's a condemnation of how utterly shit Google search has become, since that asshole Prabhakar Raghavan took control and repeatedly made it worse, year on year, in order to make number go up.

Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

Re: Well, you shouldn't really be using this tool

Feel free to write something better.

Must be

Simple

Reliable

Low resource consumption

Cross platform compatible.

Off you go.

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

Re: I still hate Micro$oft

^ ^ ^ ^ °

The above post is why some techies are not allowed to talk to the general public.

90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control

Good job...

...that the nutjobs in power made it an even less attractive job to be in.

Maybe the person that had tears was close to breaking point and the thought that potentially they could watch hundreds of people die in front of them was the part that pushed them over the edge.

Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you

Tldr

English to American translation tool.

FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL

1 in 4

That high?

Or are 1 in 4 lying to save face?

Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower

Re: any security? ?

Ethics? Banks?

Nope lost me there.

China's Loongson gets OpenStack boost from Inspur on its MIPS-y silicon

Re: I only sort of agree

I run a 10 year old i7 laptop. Never really gave to wait for anything, apart from the new selection tool in Affinity.

Then again, I'm not overly fussed if it takes 10 seconds to open a program, rather than 5.

Microsoft burnishes green cred by paying Swedes to burn biomass and bury CO₂

Green washing at its finest...

Shall we just ignore this eh?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/16/microsoft_co2_emissions/

EU tells US scientists to dump Trump for a lab in Europe

Re: I think you’ll find…

"It’s a world leading CENTRE for research"

Or Centro

Or Senter

Or Center

Or.....

Re: Universal Healthcare

Three downvotes is the norm now. You could always count on one, but three is the new standard.

India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease

Re: Call me an old reactionary

Because it's India?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/india-damning-new-forensic-investigation-reveals-repeated-use-of-pegasus-spyware-to-target-high-profile-journalists/

Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

Re: Censorship on foreign produced movies

And then China bans US films and Hollywood goes bankrupt.

Hollywood has been kissing China's ass for well over a decade and it's it's largest market by far.

Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills

Re: why not just build a foundry in the USA and sell chips?

Wow bob, you've really outdone your own level of ignorance this time.

Given how long it takes to build a fab, then look how you're going to run those plants.

Hint look at TSMC plant in the USA that had to employ many Taiwanese workers, because the USA doesn't have the people capable of performing the job.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/50-percent-of-tsmcs-arizona-employees-are-from-taiwan-despite-recent-controversies-company-plans-to-hire-more-us-workers-over-time

Cook'd: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges

Re: Car loans

@PCscreenOnly

You're missing a few details.

1. It's not a loan, it's a lease. So pretty much the only place you could get it from was the car dealership. My APR was lower than the banks and also meant I got 3 years servicing, including parts.

2. It's a requirement of anyone selling financial products in the UK to CLEARLY state any fees or commission. Many did not do this.

Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

Well,

NASA best cancel any contracts with Musk and Boeing you know, to save money.

Just keep building any kit, just not launch it until the the browns get back into power (to be fair, that could be a very long time in the USA)

TikTok fined €530M after EU user data ends up on servers in China

See the Chinese do copy the US!

"We disagree with the findings as that was like 2 years ago dude, so no need to fine us."

I'm going to go on a bank robbery spree, hide for a couple of years then go "Your honour, that was then. I'm so much better now, so just let me off, yeah?"

Dems look to close the barn door after top DOGE dog has bolted

A simple question to which we know the answer to.

What if they Just Say No?

(Zammo, you should've listened).

How Amazon red-teamed Alexa+ to keep your kids from ordering 50 pizzas

Four sides

"the product engineer thinks about making the intended thing work, and the security engineer thinks about all the ways that you can game that system"

The CEO "how much can I ignore the security team so I can sell more shit and make number go up?"

The intelligent home user "Why the fuck would I want this spyware in my house?"

Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush

FFS

"Meta has made demonstrable progress with AI and it's benefiting people now," Proulx continued"

How?

Give me one fucking good example of how it's benefitting people, you arse kissing fuckwitt. All you cretinous type of people do is spout whatever bullshit the Tech bros and marketing divisions throw at you, without question, without any critical thinking. Just to get your pathetic voice out there.

No doubt they're the sort of prick that vomits up motivational quotes on LinkedIn.

Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot

Of course they will...

...Word will come preloaded with "AI". By launching it then pausing it, they can say "AI" number go up.

Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race

By lead...

....do they mean the companies hemorrhaging money at the fastest rate?

AI infrastructure investment may be $8T shot in the dark

Re: Shovels

"If the UK won't invest in home grown GPU that could compete with nVidia"

Well given the two largest players in the game (AMD and Intel) can't compete, any investment made "by the UK" would be just pissing money down the drain. Better to invest in stuff we can compete in.

X marks the drop for European users

Keep it up...

What really need is our politicians to grow some.

If every single European politician, government department and public funded body moved to Blue sky, dumping Twitter, that would send a huge message.

Microsoft tries to kill the 'pausing datacenter builds must be bad news for AI' trope

It means I'm a glorified management consultant with zero ability to say anything meaningful. Unfortunately, everyone is to pathetic and scared to say, "Fantastic, now can you actually say it in English"

...

"Nope, you're still talking absolute bollocks. I can only presume you don't have a clue what you're talking about, so your just making shit up"

I think the tech press should band together and every time they spout this shit, just completely refuse to acknowledge them.

But they won't.

Chris Krebs loses Global Entry membership amid Trump feud

This is why..

everyone should boycott visiting the USA (yes I know).

It's a hostile nation and should be avoided at all costs, along with other authoritarian states such as North Korea, Russia and Iran. Visit Canada, it's a much nicer place...or Cuba, where you'll have less issues with customs.

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

Same here.

Live near a full on tourist town (great for tourists, shit for locals).

There has to be a least 10 very good coffee shops and 5 fantastic ones.

All are either less expensive or around the same price.

Better atmosphere, better staff, cleaner and less corporate.

And yet people still go to bloody Costa.

McDonald's and Greggs coffee I get, it's cheap and half decent and does the job, but Costa and Starbucks?

Re: Automated or not...

It's way below average.

It's something when you can get better coffee from Greg's for a third the price.

Fooled me.

My £50 second hand Breville coffee machine makes a better coffee than anything the sludge factory can churn out.

The best thing I heard about Starbucks was , They don't do coffee, only coffee based liquids.

OpenAI pulls plug on ChatGPT smarmbot that praised user for ditching psychiatric meds

What do you expect?

This is forced onto society by Tech Bros with zero social skills and normal human interaction.

99.99% of the press articles just suck up to these parasites and go "Oh Mr Altman, you're so wonderful. AI is going to make everything better"

When in the real real world people are going. Sam, you and your kind are just a bunch of insidious assholes. Please just fuck off and die.

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

Microsoft panicking?

The EU must be doing something right. Keep it up.

Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill

I've never got...

...the mindset of monthly updates.

99.9% seem to be "updates" for the sake of updates.

Can't wait until I can choose the shade of yellow on my smiley emoji.

FBI steps in amid rash of politically charged swattings

Really?

"It's a similar story in the UK, which also lacks a specific swatting law, "

Maybe because we tend not to send a couple of armoured personal carriers, full of heavily armed jocks in full military gear to an address when there are reports of someone downloading a Disney movie torrent.

Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors

Re: This time

"AI: make a video of human saying $PHRASE. Repeat for spreadsheet of $PHRASE in 50 languages"

Good luck with any language where the phrase you say is completely dependent on the situation and who you are speaking to, or even worse, tonal languages such as Thai.