Posts by ComputerSays_noAbsolutelyNo

Attention, gamers: The FAA wants YOU to be an air traffic controller

I guess the key strenghts is the ability/willingness to sit for hours in a chair and stare at a computer screen.

-> where's my rulebook

Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do

Re: The psychology of rapid misreads

I call this a Freudian slip of the eye, when you "read" what you expect rather than reading what is actually written.

Bun intented

Re: Windows 11 toaster

... and it will ask the toast question, regardless of them actually selling toast.

Coz Microsoft knows best

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up

A unified AI superapp

So, Elon's Everything App 2.0 AI Edition?

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

AI

Affirmative

Imbecile

Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

Gone is the era of expandable kit,

with planned obsolescence baked in,

we're in the era of expendable kit.

Forget drones – the US Army just took delivery of a self-flying Black Hawk helicopter

Now you don't risk loosing a pilot when heli-lifting a squad of expendables into a suicide mission.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites

Maybe they think, if we can get the computers to run any faster, make the computers move faster.

Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes

Re: Opportunity

... breaking roughly 99% of all apps, as they expevt a single letter to be the drive designator

GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan

Re: Economics lesson for life

Wouldn't it be funny if they advertised coding agents the same as viagra ...

Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power

Does it Windscale?

Let's hope we never find out.

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Comparing fruits

I am ambivalent. While studying the anatomy of thr opposite sex is laudable from an educational standpoint, I think it is not the proper analogy to use.

Modern online platforms, like social media, is like hard alcohol; both have addiction and potential cognitive damage as known side effects.

Thus, when thinking of TikTok et al. age verification can be justified.

On the OS level though, that is clearly "throwing out bady, bath and the rest of the furniture"-level bonkers.

If one is sufficiently old, one was blessed by one's early birth. Modern social media is first and foremost designed to make addicted. This is a far cry from the early stuff the parent-generation experienced.

The internet will be to future generations what "medicine of the olden time" is to us: what were they thinking?!

Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 – even the Professional edition

Is this another aspect of enshittification?

The Pro version becomes the new consumer version

If you need to work with it, use the Enterprise version

The Home version is the default installation in Hell

Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study shows

Maybe the age of Agentic AI brings some improvement

User: how can I punish my insurance company for their bad service?

AI: you have several options: a strongly worded email, arson or physical violence.

User: nah, there's something on the telly I want to see. I've got no time

AI: I could do some cyber nasties to them

User: yeah, that would be nice

... the AI launches DDoS and other attacks

Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack

Re: Another day...

The magic of the EULA, where the producer declares that the sold or rented-our product may or may not be fit for purpose.

Unthinkable, so far, in the car or many other businesses.

Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is

Re: Time

Don't get upset, when day are rude to you.

Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers

The researchers shoe-d be awarded more money for further research.

PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought

Silver lining?

With memory now becoming an increasingly rare commodity on-device, will we see a reduction in bloat- and crapware?

Will memory scarcity lead to less AI being shoved down our device's virtual throats?

Nah, of course not.

Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ with added AI

Valuable path length ...

How about using less crappy file systems?

Never mind.

PS: if I change my paths to something really short, can I trade the gained valuable extra path length?

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

CoPilot is microsoft at following rules

Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way

why ... would anyone ask an LLM to create a password

yeah, never mind.

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

"JPEG of thought"

This is well put.

I might use this analogy occasionally.

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

Re: WinBloat

Freudian slip of the eye

Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that?

... plus Windows enforced fake news.

I don't know who curates the "news sources" for the News widget, but I have never observed any incarnation of the News widget which contained reputable news.

It is tabloid at best, fake news slingers at worst.

So, your choice is on the spectrum between plague and cholera.

GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down

How long, til the first unfortunate is sent to the clink 'cos of some AI hallucination?

If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?

None

What car manufacturer declares in its fine print, thar the car they sold you may or may not be fit for driving?

The EULA essentially does this.

Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

I was thinking less in terms of the hormones kicking off the reproduction cycle, and more in terms of survival of the offspring.

In my youth, on my parent's farm, there was the generally accepted truth, that kittens born in the spring are much much more likely to make it than kittens born in the fall. The smaller fall-kittens were less likely to survive a harsh winter as farm cats generally have a tougher life than house cats. They were regularly fed and somewhat taken care of, however, they lived in the farm buildings and not in the heated living space.

So, what I was thinking when I posted my comment was: well, they (the hybrid swine) may have more reproduction cycles than the wild boar, however, does that translate into higher reproductive outcome, i.e., surviving offspring.

Anyway: if someone manages to make Fukushima Pork as prominent and sought-after as Kobe Beef, then I highly recommend that person for the Nobel Price in Marketing.

I wonder how the year-round reproduction cycle works in the wild. Wild boar breeds once a year for a reason, and there is no shelter from the winter in the wild.

Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt

If, this only worked the other way

"Ok CoPilot, provide me with the source code of a Windows that is not shitty and does not contain any AI crap!"

Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay

Re: I thought Switzerland was a perfect country inhabited by beings of pure energy

The irony (or something else) is big in this one

SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city

Wouldn't it be fun ...

if NASA achieved Boots On The Moon without any SpaceX involvement.

Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar

Cable theft 2.0

I wonder when some workplaces experience a subtle drain in installed memory.

AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs

Buy our Warez, it will make you jobless

True marketing genius

Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services

Clowns

I was reviewing the EWS usage at my employer's, and guess what: who does still use EWS?

It's Microsoft Office

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/activity-reports/ews-usage?view=o365-worldwide

SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites

Kardashev nonsense

Shouldn't Musk pay Roddenbery, or whoever created the Kardashev typology, royalties?

Most SAP migrations bust budgets and project timelines, research finds

Is this a case of vendor lock-in biting the vendor?

Are SAP customers so locker into their current SAP that they can not even upgrade to the newer SAP product?

If so, then SAP deserves the business Oscar for shooting themselves in the foot.

Microsoft's 'atypical' emergency Windows patches are becoming awfully typical

Re: " the [..] administrators' already shaky faith in the company"

... and on their personal devices, the IT guys run anything but Windows. Because they know the quality of micros~1's warez.

Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year

Future archaeologists will be puzzled by the Teslabotta Army

Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted

Anti Microsoft

"Every system starts in a verified state and stays trusted over time."

This sounds like a working definition of 'not Microsoft '

Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure

No worries

micros~1 can simply raise the tax on businesses worldwide, i.e., price-hike Microsoft365 licences.

Microsoft: putting the cost into doing business.

'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour

Re: The road to maintainability hell?

Well, that's planned software obsolescence for you.

It is created in a way, such that it can not be maintained or repaired.

Re: So...

The same as happens when you google Google

Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued

Furthermore, and importantly, they applied their own intelligence in the setup.

So, the polar opposite of some vibey prompt "hey AI, do that", and hoping for the best

Microsoft 365 outage drags on for nearly 10 hours during bad night for North American infra

Re: Microsoft 365 needs a re-brand :-)

Lets hope they manage that, not that they need to rebrand even further to Office 2XX-ish

Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop

Tragedy of the commons

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue

Re: BS

Not always: there are special types of oilers for compressed air in workshops, which provide lubrication for impact drivers and other pneumatic power tools.

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind

Re: paraphrase

Playing LLM whispers: now feed it into all the other LLMs and let's find out what AI treatment does to the statement.

There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM

Post Identity

It is only fitting, that in the post truth age, we lose the ability to establish identity, which is a form of truth or fact as well.

"Hi, I am John"

"That's your opinion!"

"No really, I my name is John"

"I feel you're more a Peter than a John. Hi Pete"

Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul

So ... the market for dynamic RAM ... is dynamic?

-> I'll see myself out