Posts by IGotOut

Philadelphia tree trimmers fail to nip FTC noncompete ban in the bud

Introspection required...

If you're so worried about your team of twelve leaving if you don't make it really hard for them to quit, speaks more of you as a company being shit to work for, rather than dodgy employees.

Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC

Affinity

are giving a free 6 month trial on their entire suite. So if you want to slowly get clean, nows your chance.

Failure to follow proper procedures caused US-wide AT&T outage, FCC says

Re: No fine?

Go back. Read Article.

LA County Superior Court closes doors to reboot justice after ransomware attack

Re: "unprecedented" ransomware attack

Came to say the same thing.

Guess it sounds better than "There are thousands of these types of attacks every day, but we didn't think it would happen to us"

Websites clamp down as creepy AI crawlers sneak around for snippets

Thanks for the reminder....

....must turn on Cloudflares AI bot blocker.

HCL's back-to-office plan: Come in three days a week, or forget about holidays

Re: Landlords

But even a half decent fund will have divested away, into something more long term and reliable, such as AI.

Sigh...

UK comms watchdog banning inflation-linked mid-contract price rises

Not quite accurate article.

It was way more insidious than this.

It was rarely "Price will increase by inflation", but rather "Price will increase by inflation PLUS 3.5%"

So potentially anywhere say between 5% and 12%. That's a much bigger increase than just inflation.

Sam Altman sues builder over $27M flooded, sewage-hit 'lemon' of a mega-mansion

The builders were the perfect capitalists.

"....while doing stuff on the cheap to maximize profits. "

Can't see what they did wrong apart from made a ton of money at everyone else's expense. I think these guys need to head up a conglomerate, not go to jail.

Tesla sales, market share dip in EU while other EV makers grow

No new Euro models...

...you mentioned the Cybertruck as a new model, but that ugly piece junk will never get sold in the EU unless it gets sold as some agricultural machine,as the EU has rules about selling death traps.

Semiconductor shares slump – possibly thanks to Biden and Trump

Re: My PCs

I guess you've never had an issue with an ASUS. They are notorious for appalling customer service.

Don’t blame AI for rise in carbon emissions, says Google exec

Green washing?

"because its approach to renewable energy matching differs from the way Scope 2 emissions are calculated in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol"

That'll be Carbon Credits and paying for "green energy", even if it actually comes from a coal fired power station.

Windows NT on a whole new platform: PowerMac

Rose tinted glasses?

Solid and fast?

Fast for the time, but boy oh boy do I remember having to reboot the NT4 server boxes on a very regular basis. Pretty sure it was every 40 or 50 days because if they ran 24/7 they would just go "Nope" and just refuse any more connections after a pretty regular set time.

If you think AI labs wouldn't stoop to using scraped YouTube subtitles for training, think again

It would be funny if Google..

...kicked off about content being scraped given their entire business model is based on using other people work to make money.

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'

How?

How does a work place have such a bad safety record and get away with it?

Oh yeah, money.

UK antitrust cops thrust probe into Microsoft, Inflection AI merger

Have you heard of OpenAI by any chance?

If not you may be shocked to find they have a teenty weeny investment in it.

Southwest latest to aim at electric air taxi dream with Archer partnership

"I say old bean...

...why are we going East out of the airport when I need to go North"

"Ah you see gov', all the poor people live East, so what wiv the 130db of noise from this old bird, we're not allowed to go directly Norff, rarver we 'as to ga rand first innit"

If you don't think this is the case, just see how often US (and often UK) freeways were diverted to plough through poor neighbourhoods, rather than more wealthy one.

ZDI shames Microsoft for – yet another – coordinated vulnerability disclosure snafu

I can disable a car by pulling the HT leads off. If someone pops open the bonnet and sticks them back on in the correct order, then it can fire it up.

I didn't lie saying I disabled it.

Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack

Re: terrible news, but can it understand the off-side rule

Just point out the last time England won the World Cup will soon be closer to Queen Victoria's reign than current times.

EU officials say X’s paid-for blue check deceives users and breaks law

Re: The EU will eventually decide every major/US internet service is breaking EU law.

The thing is, the EU has some data and personal protections.

The US is just money, money, money.

Intuit decimates staff, hopes to hire same number in AI refocus

Good old LinkedIn fodder...

"to get rid of around 1,050 people "who are not meeting expectations"

Yeah, those pesky resources who didn't want to be paid the same wages as someone in Bangalore.

Tesla parental controls keep teenage lead feet in check

Actually this is a decent idea ..

...having driven like a complete twat when I was 17 - 19, I'm lucky to still be alive.

I'd like this for my kids, but it's more likely to be a 150,000 mile fiesta than a Tesla

Avast secretly gave DoNex ransomware decryptors to victims before crims vanished

@ beast666.

Citation required comrade.

For a Russian shill, you're not very subtle. Try nudge theory, you'll get better results.

Meta training AI models on citizen data gets a hard não from Brazil

Re: Not a new problem

Great story, but what has that got to do with this article?

EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials

Re: Another attempt at monoploy.

Do you honestly think that outside of the "West" people giving a flying fuck about "world" bans.

China, Africa, South America will happily buy them.

Supreme Court orders rethink on Texas, Florida laws banning web moderation

Got to love the mess that is USA free speech....

"God dag it, I want free speech"

"Cool, I'll tell that 13 year old abuse victim where she can get an abortion"

"You do that and I'll send your sorry ass to jail!"

Sigh....

At least in the UK we only pretend have free speech, when most of us know we don't"

Elon Musk to destroy the International Space Station – with NASA's approval, for a fee

I imagine the board meeting.

"Right we need someone that has rockets but is also able to destroy something really big"

"Musk"

"Yes he has rockets but what big thing has he......oooooohhh yeeaaah".

"I'll call him now"

How many Microsoft missteps were forks that were just a bit of fun?

Re: Now we know why

"Wacky ideas" have no place in the development of an effectively monopolist tool relied on by businesses throughout the World"

You do know this is pretty much how that tiny company called Google does a lot of it's new Dev work. Heck they even have it a name and publish some of it... I.e. Google labs, although most of it is AI crap these days.

Americans abroad cut off as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US suffer roaming outages

Re: BGP?

Or these days "AI"

US lawmakers wave red flags over Chinese drone dominance

Pathetic.

China saw a market, built up a solid reputation through incremental and progressive design improvements.

DJI are not cheap.

FFS Birmingham has a DJI & Hasselblad shop so not exactly aiming for the budget market.

USA stop fucking whining about getting your asses kicked and try investing in the long term, rather than worrying about next quarters stock price.

AI's appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030

It was supposed to say 20-30 months.

Re: Could?

"They produce the most wind and solar power in the US. That totally failed when they had a bad snow storm and losing that much of the grid production caused death and massive damage. They learned and have diversified."

Partly true, but a very misleading statement trotted out by the usual crowd.. The BIGGEST issue by far was the failure of the GAS supply.

"Data showed that failure to winterize power sources, principally natural gas infrastructure but also to a lesser extent wind turbines, had caused the grid failure with a drop in power production from natural gas more than five times greater than that from wind turbines"

The issue was not the source (plenty of other colder countries use solar and wind just fine), but a lack of investment and preparation.

Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050

"that many cars fail due to corrosion long before they fail due to drive-train wear"

The last car I had that was written off due to corrosion was a 1980s Rover, which was probably rusty before they painted it

So unless you live by the sea, I think you need to switch brands.

Glastonbury to turn festivalgoer pee into eco-friendly fertilizer

Re: "As normies arrive at the world's most middle-of-the-road festival today"

""Glasto" is now just an opportunity for middle aged metropolitan types to take some selfies and pretend they're roughing it on the edge,"

You missed out "whilst staying in their £40,000 custom camper"

Re: Bring back the long drop

I could've married a hippy dippy girl outside the long drop having fallen in love with her with a single act of kindness and pure genius. She was going around sticking incense sticks in the doors, she was everyone's hero at that point.

Luckily she did light them BEFORE entering the potential fireball of shit.

Record labels gang up to sue AI music generator duo into utter oblivion

Remember....

...in the USA these record companies sue you if you have the same sound or style as an existing artist, even if you didn't copy them.

Hope they all go bankrupt....every single last one if them.

Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice'

Spotted the issue straight away..

...when you see "Modular" in any military procurement, expect a overpriced piece of crap that is bad at everything.

Littoral Combat Ship anyone?

NASA ought to pay up after space debris punched a hole in my roof, homeowner says

Who's willing to bet....

...they didn't even bother to approach NASA before throwing the sueball?

Y Combinator, startups funnily enough aren't fans of draft California AI safety law

The next industrial revolution?

Great example of an unregulated scenario.

Drop in life expectancy, young girls getting their scalps ripped out by looms, people dropping dead before they reached 30 due to dust inhalation, profits before safety, a decrease in wages for most of the people, increase in disease.

Yup, best follow those pioneers.

Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky's top bosses – but not Mr K himself

Something is missing

.. I get the feeling we're not being told the whole story.

First they sanction the company, long after pt2 of the Ukraine invasion occured. And normally they tell people why they have hit the individuals.

Even for the US it seems odd to sanction them because "they MAY do something"

BOFH: Why's the network so slow?

Chatting to a bunch of women I met after a gig in Brixton and we had a competition of who got the most f**ked up on a night out.

One woman from Swansea recalled how after a particularly hedonistic night out in London, she woke up dazed and confused, couldn't work out where she was, couldn't understand the locals so called her mate from a phone box (remember those). Her friend asked for her to get someone on the phone and after a brief conversation was put back on the phone to her friend. "Alice you stupid b*tch, you're in Edinburgh!"

How Europe can force Apple to support competition

Poor Apple...

... finally finding out that the EU doesn't like to have the piss taken out of it by large corporations.

X boss Elon Musk tries to make nice with world at ad biz conference

Ahhh Musk's freedom of speech

...where advertisers are not allowed to be free choose where they want their adverts to be seen.

systemd 256.1: Now slightly less likely to delete /home

Re: Redmond crisis meeting

Sir Paul

Not Sir McCartney

Australian billionaire wins right to sue Facebook in the US over scam ads

It's one thing to say...

..."we can't be held liable for users postings", but it's a completely different thing to say "we can't be held responsible for adverts that we run and receive cash for"

Hong Kong authorities halt alleged smuggler shifting 596 'high-end' CPUs to China

Re: CPUS

You do know you can often buy customs seizures unless illegal?

No need for cloak and dagger conspiracy shit.

Re: Thanks for the memories

What?

GenAI more buzz than biz as tech barely dents jobs, says survey

Re: "speeding up the creation of [...] marketing literature"

Yup. Even I use it for my marketing bullshit.

I'm way to straight talking to hit the buzz word bingo so a quick "I need a brief summary of ABC for the XYZ market along with some of the most useful hashtags for the target audience"

5 seconds later I'm a marketing guru.

If musicians and artists lose work it annoys me, but advertising agencies? Nah.

Microsoft admits to problems upgrading Windows 11 Pro to Enterprise

Re: Cannot upgrade windows

Upgrading from Pro to Enterprise gets rid of much of the spyware, ad slingring and lack of control, so yes, its an upgrade

Footage of Nigel Farage blowing up Rishi Sunak's Minecraft mansion 'not real'

Honestly...

....I'd have more respect for the utter assholes that we have to choose from if they DID actually blow each others Minecraft houses up. I guess they'll all be pleading they are all to poor to afford Minecraft whilst trying to prove they understand "the common person" by drinking beer from a wine glass.

Tesla shareholders agree to pay Musk staggering sum of $48B

Only in the modern world...

...are rewards given for how much shares are worth and not how much profit was made.

You can make bigger all money, but so long as you can be the master of bullshit, all is good.

I predict a massive crash in the next 12 - 18 months.