Posts by Will Godfrey

Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

Obvious is obvious.

Who knew?

Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace

The elephant in the room.

The greatest risk of AI is that by presenting complete answers, people are not thinking and learning. If you don't learn, you eventually lose the ability to learn - and won't realise it till it's too late.

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

Strange

What happened to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"?

EU and UK officially blame Russian spies for cyberattack on Poland's power grid

Open networks are a bad idea

Who knew?

OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up

Re: Davide Beatrici

Indeed. (S)HE has permanently dissed their gruntle.

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Lemmings

Is everyone trying to jump off then (energy) cliff

Joined up thinking

They've heard of it but don't think it will catch on.

Utter lunacy

See title!

This is insanity!

See title

Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk

I would like to say I was surprised (again)

but this was completely predictable and obviously totally the wrong way to go.

KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives

It also doesn't allow the window manager to position popup message windows. It seems to be the complete antithesis of user friendly.

I need to have multiple windows open at positions and dimensions of my choosing, so I'll stick to X11. It's not without faults, but it's vastly better than wayland.

MPs tell NHS to start packing Palantir's bags ahead of 2027 contract break

Horse - Barn Door

It's too late. They will already have parsed the data for all the juicy bits and moved it somewhere out of sight.

Still, I suppose it's small comfort they won't get any updates.

Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble

Can't come soon enough

It's already cost the world far too much... in just about every respect.

Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows

No Thanks

Embrace

Exetend

Encapsulate

Extinguish

Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number

Hmm

Shouldn't they wait until wayland - and all the graphics libraries that try to run on it - are actually fit for purpose (if ever) before foisting it on world + dog?

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands

None so blind...

Most people only look ahead a very short time - considerably less than their own expected lifetime, so the ignorance of the current regime 'over there' is unsurprising, even though it's also regrettably stupid.

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

Not a problem

From the point of view of the rest of the world, the level of security around pres. Fart is just fine.

US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses

Why?

... do these people keep coming out with such childish, comic book names for this stuff?

Novo Nordisk reports cyberattack as UK gives Wegovy pill the nod

O really?

pseudonymized probably was ROT13

And to be doubly sure they applied it twice!

Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

Microsoft screwed up?

This is not news.

News would be that it had gone an entire year with completely smooth updates and services at a reasonable price.

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

Re: Take a memo

I'm not convinced that it ever was !

KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

That's a perfect report.

It revealed exactly how crap AI is.

BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder

No Need

There was an inexplicable power cut for an hour or two that only seemed to affect the security system

UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy

We're toast!

If someone from mumsnet is involved, be ready for your new millstone hanging from your neck.

Linux Lite 8.0 sheds Chrome, slims down, and finds its name fits better than ever

Re: X11?

Yet Another Oldie - No title bar is a killer for me.

Some of the programs I run use these to tell your exactly where you are in the program. i.e. which instance, which 'channel', the name of the currently loaded file - etc.

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'

On the other hand, I'd like to say how surprised I am

...

...

but I prefer to tell the truth.

Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

No Thanks

If the government can snoop on my devices, so can just about every other country... and most of the world's criminals.

Re: Zombie Starmer's Victorian internet: An Internet without Things.

No. He was the 'tool' that his father made!

LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy

Re: or

In the Acorn world you could drag and drop almost anything from one program to another.

Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic

DOH!

Against man's investor's stupidity, the gods themselves contest in vain.

Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security

Re: I wonder if he's ever seen a windmill,

Exactly!

Wind turbines are not milling anything... unless the bearings are failing.

Re: Could someone...

I wonder if he's ever seen a windmill, or even knows what they are - there are quite a few still working in the UK.

Re: Scargill for the win

I understand he likes to, ummm, physically support them {gag}

Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k

Re: Offence

Well, after my experience last year it seems the RAC are not even that.

Middle of the night on the edge of London they refused to come out, claiming my car was not taxed (although I wasn't asking them to drive it anywhere). It was taxed of course. I'd bought it that day and had all the documentation with me. I ended up having to find a breakdown truck to transport the car and me home.

Oh, and then when I sent a written complaint to them, after one standard boilerplate reply I heard nothing, not even after two written reminders.

Needless to say I will not be using them again - now will my family and friends.

Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships

Hmmm

This could be a nightmare. Both in implementation and in oversight.

Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records

Oh For Fuck Sake

Just when you think it couldn't get any worse

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

Re: Resistance is our duty

Pretty much what I was thinking. Give them so much rubbish they choke on it.

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

On the other hand...

I know of an open source Linux project that contained nothing but entirely factual information with links to the project itself, and also to a number of conferences where it was presented over the years.

Wikipedia removed it for lack of independent verification!

AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims

Interesting

Very many moons ago I was actually shocked when getting the typical parental lecture on good behaviour, dad paused then added "Of course you can be as rude and insulting as you like to Jehovah Witness fools that knock on the door."

Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine

Nail meet hammer

I don't often have time for religious leaders, but the Pope is absolutely correct. The most succinct statement I've seen on the subject.

Experts pour cold borscht on Farage's Russian hack claim

Re: Pointing to Russia

I never get these. What am I doing wrong?

Re: Blatant attempt to distract from the fact that...

Not forgetting multi story buildings with windows that open.

Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows

Educate the public

(if that's actually possible).

Here, everything that doesn't have a reasonably accessible switch off button gets killed.

America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

Re: Yahoo?

Nope. Never had Yahoo. First personal one was with demon.. Interestingly I can't remember it, and can't find it anywhere in ancient history files.

Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage

Re: Needs a change

Thanks for that. I knew of it in general terms, but not in detail - nor what the name was.

So you're just a sleeper then?

Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped

Re: M/S

Co-conspirator maybe?

Should I be concerned?

I tried Fedora a couple times in the dim and distant past, but didn't like it at all on either occasion. I switched to Mandrake (yes, that long ago) then eventually settled on debian, and derivatives. If I had even briefly thought about trying it again, this would make sure I killed the thought immediately.