Posts by IGotOut

The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match

Am I only the only one....

...that don't understand some of the comments on here?

"For this price you can get a second hand completely different type of kit".

Guess what

For the price of a cheap new car, I can buy a dozen second hand motorbikes.

Re: Just sayin' 'no'

Errrmmm

"I've switched to 8 core, dual thread AMD Ryzen-based NUCs. 550$US/unit"

I don't know how Hyundai can sell an i20 when a Porsche 911 is faster and handles better. Good luck Hyundai!

Some people just don't get maths.

AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won't last

Great news...

...the destruction of the planet's resources are going to be very slightly slower.

I'm sure those potentially facing water shortages and blackouts will devastated to hear it's slowing down.

Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025

If we are living in the Matrix...

...the overlords have really fucked up. I now longer believe this simulation is real and I want out.

Microsoft trims jobs as new year begins

Re: "At Microsoft, we focus on high-performance talent"

Marketing and Legal don't write code and they are bar far the number 1 performers.

Garmin Connect outage leaves folks unable to share their fitness virtue signaling

Americans panic ..

...as the Health Insurance Overloads have them down as not running on the 8th of Jan, so now are facing having insurance declined for any issues for the next 15 years.

I tried hard, but didn't fix all of cybersecurity, admits outgoing US National Cyber Director

I know...

"President-elect Trump is yet to name the next ONCD Director"

That highly qualified cyber security expert, Kate. You know, the girl that does his spray tan. She gonna be so super good at it, because you know, well let me talk about North Korea, good leader Kimmy, that's what I call him, Kimbo. Gonna make him join back up with South Vietnam and then we'll make it part of America, just like we did back in the 60s. They were great times weren't they? The Beatles, great band, they made America great.

We did warn you – 2025 may be the year AI bots take over Meta's 'verse

Could 2025...

...be the turning point?

Meta collapses under AI creations no one wants (Instagram now is about 25% AI slop) along with advertisers pulling out once it, just like Twitter, starts sticking their adverts next to pure hate posts.

Google gets broken up by the courts, not just in search but in advertising.

OpenAI collapses once the Venture vultures start wanting cash back on their investments and stop keeping it going like some sick crack addict going back for another hit.

They'll be still lots of scummy companies still going such as Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft....

But hopefully by the end of the year a few getting a severe kicking will make those assholes take a step back.

DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research

Shocking news...

...my 10 year old pc probably has the same issue.

Think I'll do a tear down and then I'll let HP know, so they can update the BIOS. The last one was about 7 years ago.

Re: And no mention of what OS those things where running...

@ AC You still have to get the malware on there in the first place

Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia

Usual propaganda...

...look we're investing $X Billion in <insert location>

No you're fucking not you bullshiting scumbags.

You're buying $ X billion worth of foreign made hardware, most likely assembled by an out of area team, put in a warehouse that may or may not use short term contractors to build it and then finally operated by 3 minimum wage security guards called Dave.

Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed

Re: Don't get it

That's you, not a 10,000 device network.

Uncle Sam now targets six landlord giants in war on alleged algorithmic rent fixing

Re: Few landlords benefit enormously, while the rest suffer

Without money printing and inflation, the US would have no option other than to default on it's impossible to repay deficit.

If you issue bonds in year X at a low rate of interest, when they mature in say 20 years, and there has been a modest amount of inflation, when it come to pay out for those bonds, the effect is far lower.

John Deere boasts driverless fleet - who needs operators, anyway?

I'm sorry.

You are only licensed to use wheat with this device.

We have detected 3 seeds of Maize in the hopper. This system will now shut down, until the appropriate license is purchased and repair is carried out to remove the unlicensed produce

Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to 'further clarify' AI content

Re: AI Bullshit Generator

Damm. I was hoping a least one or two of those were true.

Re: The BBC - hardly a paragon of virtue

Why AC?

Because you are one in the same person?

Re: Bah!

Problem with that is they are not an aggregater, but a content creator.

First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10

Re: Expected delivery date Jan 10

When it lands they'll spend half a day looking for it, only to be told to give it a few more days before raising a complaint.

He prefer if it had "Bear" in the titl, bit more along his paymasters thinking.

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

Re: Why hate free speech?

The free speech where he's banned & demoted loads of MAGA supporters that are pissed off that he wants to bring in immigrants to staff his companies?

Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July

Wow...

...they must be bad if Netflix are complaining that they are raising prices whilst delivering a worse service.

3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error

There are more and more of shit like this

I wish I could find the video, but it goes into depth how you can easily take down legitimate music streams.

In short, you create AI slop music and set it to be monitised. You then can get bots to scan for similar sound pieces, issue an automated strike down. You then get a share of the "infringing" works revenue.

Then there are other YouTubers complaining they are getting takedowns for no real reason except a bot has created a copyright complaint and forced their video offline (even some of the biggest streamers have had this).

Then finally you have the scumbags like Teenage Engineering that issue copyright infringment for criticising their overpriced tat, just because you played a note from one of the instruments (yes read their T&C's, it's really scummy).

Copyright is a joke on YouTube, and they just don't give a shit.

New Orleans attacker used Meta smart glasses to plan New Year's Day massacre

Re: So much more evil than a Go-Pro

Yeah bit of a non story other than these are usually used by people you don't want to have anything to do with

Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit

And I've...

...a swimming pool of snake oil to sell you.

FireScam infostealer poses as Telegram Premium app to surveil Android devices

Re: Why does this sound like

Well given that say a simple txt editor needs permission to access and modify storage, how do you tell?

Something a little more complex like an email client may need way more.

Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disaster

Who knew....

.that Apple made satellites.

Re: You would think....

How to say you're from the US without saying you're from the US.

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%'

Are these the same politicians...

...that repeatedly bang in about individual rights and overbearing government interference?

Yes, yes they are.

Trump's tariff threats could bump PC prices by almost half

Re: Don't worry USA

Because of this.

Authorised Representatives

Authorised Representatives are individuals or businesses based in the EU that are appointed by manufacturers to perform certain tasks that are normally the manufacturers’ responsibility. Authorised Representatives must be able to provide the technical documentation that demonstrates compliance with the applicable regulations and directives as well as liaise with market surveillance authorities on issues that may arise such as product recalls or safety issues.

If you live in the EU, you are the contact. If you live outside the EU, you have to pay someone or a company to act on your behalf. They will ask for payment for pretty much every tiny difference in product design.

Don't worry USA

You're only fucked for four or five years

Due our racist pricks, the UK is fucked for generations

Before the pro-brexit assholes jump in, go find a small craftsperson / artist / business and ask they are coping with the new GPSR.

I know creatives that have just lost 25 to 50% of their business because the costs involved are more than any profit than they used to make. Some are looking at having to close up completely

Nice job guys.

We’re paying for what we don’t get: East D.C. neighbors frustrated with Amazon’s Prime delivery exclusions

It's not just rough areas...

...before ditching Prime, when I lived in a town most would be next day.

10 miles up the road, it was lucky if it was two days. And when it was next day, it was amazing how many times it was "Delivered", but when you found it wasn't and complained, you just got an automated "Give it a few days".

How the fuck can it have been delivered, but give it a few more days to arrive?

Stupid thing is, because the delivery is so shit, there is no point actually using Amazon anymore.

LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs

Think the issue was there was no-one responsible for the system

FCC net neutrality rules dead again as appeals court sides with Big Telco

Yes.

Second Jeju Air 737-800 experiences mechanical issues following deadly crash

Re: all airports will need to rethink their design

"build a brand new hub airport somewhere along HS2."

Anyone with half a brain knows the whole point of HS2 was to get people to fly in and out of Birmingham. Basically a London extension.

It certainly wasn't for the benefit of anyone else.

OpenAI plans to ring in the New Year with a for-profit push

For Profit..

...nice one.

I also got terrible jokes in my Christmas Crackers as well.

Re: :-) Whenever neither blah blah

Your new here aren't you?

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

"investments that create jobs and spread wealth around?"

Approx $200 BILLION has been spent on this bollocks.

As for jobs....do you mean the 10's of thousands of people laid off by EXTREMELY profitable tech companies as they pivot to this?

Please, show how this "investment" is helping the non-existent trickle down economy.

Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain

Re: Small thinking

"Modern luddism"

Another badly educated person not understanding what the Luddites were all about.

Burn Alexandria's Library, burn!

You may want to look into that after educating yourself about the luddites

The Automattic vs WP Engine WordPress wars are getting really annoying

Re: An honest question

To be fair, it does take effort to take someone else's plugin and then absorb it into the main code.

SpaceX rocketeers get fresh FAA license for next Starship launch

Re: "The FAA continues to increase efficiencies"

So if I decided to knock out some sort of aircraft in my back garden in a few hours, I should get my permits by close of business the same day?

US reportedly mulls TP-Link router ban over national security risk

So...

They have 65% of the home and small office, + 300 partners AND many government agencies.

MS say the majority of attacks come from TP-Link.

So in summary, the supplier with the largest market share also has the largest amount of attacks coming from them.

Sound familiar Microsoft?

Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate

Well it's obvious...

They clearly thought they were paying for X simultaneous connections, but really there were ACTUALLY only paying for for X connections from the very same building.

If they wanted X connections, they would need to buy a load of Y connections, from multiple locations, for double the cost,

Yes I cancelled my for that very reason....and the fact its pretty much the same shitty content, just with a different name

Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom

Re: Well, at least there's a silver lining

Unfortunately, the 30% are the ones running this shit show we call life.

I've seen so.many adverts banded about...

...AI PC's, Apple AI, CoPilot and all of them seem to be the same.

Summarise this text for me.

That's it.

$200 billion, planet destroying emissions and the destruction of the tech industry, just to write a fucking summary?

Critical security hole in Apache Struts under exploit

Re: Deja vu all over again.

And the C-Suite will go "And what happened to them? Ooo a fine, how scary. We'll let accounts know to put a fraction of a percentage of or profits to one side, you know, just in case"

The sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity

Re: Cheap

I've a 512 GB SSD hooked up.to my P3 that I got for £10. Hooked up to a TV when I need to actually look at it's display.

So less than £40 spent, given it's a brand new SSD Takes up less room, uses less power and just works.

So please bang on about your thinkpad. But then again, when I listen to someone that has to use A/C "to protect their son's" identity". I know it's the sort of person that phones IT to clear a paper jam.

Europe signs off on €10.6B IRIS² satellite broadband deal

Re: €6.5 billion coming from public funding

The"commercially" viable with massive tax breaks and huge military spending?

I'd add in any US military equipment, as seen by the US crippling the help Europe wanted to send to Ukraine.

Trump wants European NATO countries to spend more. No problem, France, Finland, Sweden, Poland and South Korea all make very good kit that we could by and use as and when we see fit, not when daddy says we can.

I'm came to say the comrade will say the EU is no good, but he beat me to it

I'm surprised he has time, as I thought he'd be to busy sending NK troops to be slaughtered.

Take a closer look at Nvidia's buy of Run.ai, European Commission told

So Nvidia are under the microscope..

...already for potential monopoly practices. So they go "Let's create another""