Posts by Dinanziame

Google Cloud pitches 'Gen Apps' – low-code AI-based tools, not post-millennial kids

Re: Angels and Daemons vs Beasts in the Cellar Funding Wolves of Wall Street

Peak inception right here

Judge grants subpoena to ID Twitter source code leaker

Technically, it's unfair to say Twitter has lost half of its value since Elon Musk bought it. It had actually already lost a quarter of its worth during the acquisition since it was an LBO. Twitter essentially borrowed $13B and gave it to shareholders, saddling itself with the debt in order to reduce its own worth, just so that Elon Musk and his pals could buy it for only $31B.

They'll probably have to declare bankruptcy to get out of paying the debt; otherwise the company is as good as dead.

China urges Apple to improve security and privacy

Re: Wait, what?

It does feel like the wolf reminding the little red riding hood not to talk to strangers.

Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew

Re: And this is why...

Have a downvote from me. For excessive negativity!

Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong

That's what Xi said!

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Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices

Re: What did I just read?

Sini Plenis Piscis, as it were...

Now Google to shove its answer to ChatGPT into Gmail, Docs, apps via APIs, more

Re: Gah

"I bought two chess computers... And set them up to play against each other, so I have peace and quiet"

Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works

I had to check the article, but you copy pasted correctly:

Twitter still has around 450 monthly active users

Singapore admits it should have explained COVID app data could be used by cops

Re: We're OK though?

I don't understand. Would you need to pay the government less if you didn't have an ID?

I'm surprised they even pretended the data wouldn't be shared, though. Singapore is generally pretty open about the level of control they want to have.

Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed

Re: Gross misunderstanding of the tool

- That person is dead

- No, I am that person, and I am not dead!

- I SAID, THAT PERSON IS DEAD. Units have been dispatched to fix the glitch.

Can we interest you in a $10 pocket calculator powered by Android 9?

What is your post trying to state? And what does it have to be with Android calculators?

Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy

Re: I am curious

I am told that if you use Twitter enough that it can guess your interests, it can show you people you didn't know saying something that is relevant to you. Not using it myself though.

Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, pals proclaim 'Japan Metaverse Economic Zone'

Re: Dodged a bullet

Sony and Nintendo don't seem to be part of it either. Methinks this is for losers who don't already have successful ecosystems.

Sensitive DoD emails exposed by unsecured Azure server

I'm gonna blame Microsoft on this one

If you're selling a secure cloud service to the DoD, it's on you to make sure that everything is properly secured by default, and that it's damn near impossible to remove those security measures.

Europe to consult on making Big Tech pay for the networks it floods

Re: Fuck off

This is Esso having promised unlimited gas for a fixed price to its customers, and requesting Ford to pay for it because the cars consume too much.

Re: All should pay their costs to the backbones

The fact of the matter is that ISPs cannot compete with each other on anything else than price, and it's easy to change providers, so their margins are thin. Big Tech providers are not nearly as interchangeable so they have larger margins and make a lot more money. This is similar to how truck drivers are paid very little compared to the companies who pay them.

Can YouTube be held liable for pushing terror vids? Asking for a Supreme Court...

What does "enabled" mean? Does Internet enable terrorism? Do terrorists use email? Do weapons manufacturer enable terrorism? For that matter, terrorists use cars; do car companies enable terrorism?

YouTube represents what's on the internet, and there's a tiny sliver of that about terrorism. I find it ridiculous to claim that imperfect filtering of terrorism apology videos means "enabling" terrorism.

Re: Was it algorithmically promoted? (I don't know)

There are people who watch YouTube like they used to watch TV; just automatically playing whatever's next. No, I don't understand either.

Quite apart from the discussion on section 230, I'm rather amazed that the family decided that the party which should be held responsible for a terrorist attack was Google. That's the mother of all Hail Mary liability lawsuits.

Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page

Re: When a product is better, people will naturally switch to it

When a product is better, people will naturally switch to it

That is slightly optimistic. There are ways for monopolies to prevent this from happening, and that's why we have antitrust regulations.

Re: Damned if you do...

I'm confused; if you don't use Google search or Chrome, where do you see those messages?

What Brit watchdog redacted: Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue

Re: Flawed logic

It bugs me a lot that Apple created a maps product that is only available on their hardware. For instance, when an Apple user shares a place with another Apple user, it links to Apple Maps, but when they share it with a non-Apple user, it links to Google maps. It just feels plain wrong. It's the same thing that they have with iMessages, and it seems that they're implying that it's a superior experience that is only available through their hardware products, and they're deliberately creating incompatibilities to try to pull users to their platform. I find it rather insufferable to be honest.

Re: I suspect Apple have cracked the code.

You're trusting ChatGPT"s answer though?

Re: Flawed logic

Having all that cash is not a good reason to try and compete with Google on search

It's a pretty good reason already, because it's a lot of cash. I agree that Apple would probably not be able to beat Google on search — it's primarily a hardware company, and it would be humiliating to offer an inferior product for many years until they get it working, like they did for maps. But the cash also helps.

I haven't tried either, but I assume there are still different features despite the fact the rendering engine is the same? Things like bookmark synchronization, autofill, settings options...

Norway finds a way to recover crypto North Korea pinched in Axie heist

Tornado cash

Unless I'm mistaken, proceeds of a theft can be seized and given back to the rightful owner regardless of whether the current owner knew about their origin — if a bicycle is stolen and resold to an unsuspecting buyer, it nevertheless belongs to the original owner, and it's technically on the unsuspecting buyer to get their money back from the thief.

The point of tornado cash is to mix and obfuscate the origin of the cryptocurrency, but the blockchain still remembers the origin of every single token. From the principle above, it would make sense to seize the exact tokens that were stolen, regardless of who's supposed to own them — as the process of theft, the legal ownership is still with the stolen party.

Microsoft's AI Bing also factually wrong, fabricated text during launch demo

Big surprise

Google and Bing have been turning up the occasional factually incorrect answers, and nobody finds it surprising. It's weird to assume that a chatbot fed with the same data would get everything correct.

Four top euro carriers will use phone numbers to target ads and annoy Google & Facebook

a pseudo-anonymous digital token that cannot be reverse-engineered

Reverse-engineered perhaps, but I have zero confidence that this "pseudo-anonymous" (whatever that means) token cannot be used to identify the user in other ways.

Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos

WTF is Amazon doing in the internet satellite business? Is there even profit to be obtained from people who, from the very start, don't already have a good internet connection?

Tech job bonfire rages on as Microsoft, GitLab and others join in

Re: Unions

That seems to be a pretty uniquely British case. Whether in the US or in other countries, it is exceedingly rare that software engineers are hired as contractors for long periods of time.

Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name

Re: Can't wait to ...

Which one is the one who always lie?

Trust, not tech, is holding back a safer internet

Did we ever have privacy or security?

People around you have always known who you were, what you did, and could easily steal from you. The only thing that the internet has changed is the scale of "people around you"

Musk, Tesla win securities fraud battle over that 'funding secured' tweet

Re: You missed out the stock splits

Probably a good part of the reason why they won the lawsuit is that, accounting for stock splits, the stock is now six times higher than the promised number of $420... It's harder to sue for damage when you probably made a shit ton of money. This is known as "Sini Plenis Piscis"

Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever

Planned obsolescence

I can only assume that device makers will now invent ways to make their equipment stop working after a couple of years.

Meanwhile, in Japan, pet fish run up credit card bill on Nintendo Switch

"For those without small children at home"

Ha ha. Pokémon came out in 1996, that's 27 years ago. Today's parents of small children played the game when they were themselves young... And might well still play.

Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs

Nobody claims Google is listening though... His fund lost money last year but being on Google and Microsoft, so now he's trying to shift the blame.

Break up Google now, says US govt in ad monopoly lawsuit

I wonder who's going to buy these services? Who can be trusted with them?

Hey, online pharmacies: Quit spreading around everyone's data already

The location history is not so precise and complete that you can figure out what happened between two data points.

OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence

Re: Moral Guidance

1 is not prime!

Tone deaf? Microsoft must have booked Sting for Davos because he's a good singer

Yeah, yeah, everybody knew... Except that one year ago, the narrative was that the pandemic had fast-forwarded history and nothing would be again the same. I don't know if everybody believed it, but the stock market certainly did.

NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again

Re: Password age limits

Thanks for pointing this out. Password age limits have never worked well, and they are actively encouraging people to use bad passwords.

Ex-Twitter Brits launch legal challenge against dismissal

Re: Non-flattering flattering

It's likely he also holds the world record for biggest wealth increase in a year, from 2020 or 2021. You win some, you lose some...

Apple just cut Tim Cook's pay by 40%. How ever will he get by on that $50m?

Rocket companies are the way to go when yachts are not enough, apparently.

German cartel watchdog objects to the way Google processes user data

Re: In Before...

My readings tell me the British say "Heavens" and "Good Lord". Or alternatively, "Gallopin’ gorgons" and "Merlin's beard".

Re: Good for Germany

Users are not told about this let alone given the opportunity to opt out.

Isn't that included in the "our website uses cookies" GDPR banner?

China follows through on plan to ban deepfake tech

Good luck with that

Banning technology rarely works. I can't find any example that has worked, ever.

Elon Musk's cost-cutting campaign at Twitter extended to not paying rent, claims landlord

I'm aware that large companies sometimes fail to pay bills timely, and it's sometimes claimed that they hope the vendors will give up on the bill rather than bother with a lawsuit (could be incompetence as well!)

However, it seems the strategy can't possibly work on your landlord, because they also want to get paid in the future. And that goes double when all the media are reporting on your decision not to pay your bills...

But obviously, I'm not a billionaire, so maybe I'm just thinking too small.

An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while

Re: Missing information?

It was corrupted in the server. And the data on the previous week's backup has been deleted when they automatically tried to backup the corrupted data.

Though from what I understand, data from two weeks ago should have been properly backed up and safe, so two weeks of data loss instead of one.