* Posts by elsergiovolador

5147 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2020

CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost

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I know someone who can turn Kale into such gases.

Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software

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Re: Shock capitalism strikes again

Defender has nothing to do with "fulfilling a need", it's free. That's why people use it. It's shite too.

Dunno, always had a virus when used anti virus software, that stopped when just gone with Defender.

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Re: Grift

If You Love What You Do, You’ll Never Work A Day In Your Life.

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Re: Grift

Not always viable if job has to be done quietly.

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Re: Grift

Do lock makers state what vulnerabilities are?

Go get any "high security" lock from your hardware store and then go on YouTube to see how dead easy it is to pick.

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Grift

This is such a grift using tax payers money, isn't it?

Why are they not holding to account companies making door locks? Some can be picked with a tooth pick. How much police time does it cost to follow up all the burglaries (or reputational cost for not following up)?

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

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They would invade Mexico any time, but those cartels are very mean.

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Nice things

Elon> Nice things you have created here! Lemme just take it, you peasant!

UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans

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British

Is it because it is harder to trace multinational deals for any hmm hmm eee... hmm. wink wink?

MoD should be banned from doing deals with foreign corporations until it is proven that domestic tech doesn't exist and any deal should include transfer of technology to the UK.

US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check

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Check

Has anyone shown Sean a plane?

BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts

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Gamification

Imagine an idea where the more you work, the more money you get paid. That would be neat!

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

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Don't be eval.

OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies

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Re: Lies

Don't say profit, tax man could be listening!

Profit is bad for big business. The point is to burn VC money alone, not share it with government to burn it as well!

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Re: OpenAI is a joke

No, you don't understand. People feel like they gained a superpower. Suddenly they are brilliant and can be experts at anything they want. They can write amazing emails, play out arguments with the manager, strategise getting a pay rise, get a refund from a stubborn company refusing to give one or figure out how to do something in Word without having to watch million tutorials that say everything except what you want to do.

People actually don't like to think and this is where AI comes in. It's like a car for the brain.

This is also where people who actually enjoy thinking get their edge.

Can imagine all those little shops will one day have a prompt specialist, where ordinary people will come for help instead of doctor, lawyer etc.

Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy?

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AI CEO

The irony will be when he will be replaced by AI CEO.

Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus

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Missed opportunity

Missed opportunity to help the guy and mention that he is totally not a Nazi, he just happens to like Roman salutes.

Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search

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Huxley

People expected Orwell, got Huxley.

Welcome to Brave New World.

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

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Final

Didn't Microsoft say a while back that Windows 10 is the final version and there will be no more?

If so, can we just ignore 11 and 12?

Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess

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Re: A quote from Forrest Gump comes to mind.

Ok, you win.

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Re: A quote from Forrest Gump comes to mind.

Why so many downvotes? There couldn't be more corrupt and useless organisation than UN!

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Re: A quote from Forrest Gump comes to mind.

UN is like Alcoholics Anonymous where everyone gets paid to drink.

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Re: Signal has encrypted backups

He probably planned to use defence of being a clinical imbecile.

IT pros are caught between an AI rock and an economic hard place

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Bounce back

IT pros are leaving the field because money is not there.

In the UK you can make substantially more money by fixing roofs or leaky sinks than as a senior developer. It is also less stressful and you don't have to be on top of what new sinks came out this week and whether they have any security holes.

That said I predict there might be a bounce back, once companies figure out they painted themselves into a corner by adding AI mess into their code stack with a heap of outsourced manure on top.

corporation> can we book you for a month to fix our payments processor? We need to add time limited payment links and this seems impossible!

senior developer/roofer> can't do. I have my whole month already booked!

corporation> we will pay double!

senior developer/roofer> *laughing* I almost fell off the roof! Nah I am good, but thanks!

corporation> ok how much you want?

senior developer/roofer> how much revenue this functionality will generate for you in the next 12 months assuming it will be working?

corporation> I cannot give you such details, but management is all over it!

senior developer/roofer> Ok, 40 grand cash upfront and 5% of revenue generated by the feature in 12 months' time. Any extension negotiated separately.

*click*

Three Brits charged over 'active shooter threats' swattings in US, Canada

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Re: US police

In the UK that would be other way around.

caller> There is active shooter in my area!

police> Did he shot you?

caller> No

police> Then why do you call?

caller> I am in danger!

police> But you have time for a chat?

Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025

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It's actually Communist Party of China (CPC)

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The best time to start a new suicide cult in the campus is now. The magic seed from space is coming.

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The Terminal

I can imagine it being stuck for the rest of days in bureaucratic limbo given the country it comes from no longer exists.

UK's smaller broadband operators face tough road ahead, consolidation possible

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with other services like TV

Why would you do that?

Is there anything on TV that is worth paying for?

TV is owned by rich people who have agenda to ensure you will never become rich like them.

Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush

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Re: Roadkill

It's all about surviving to the next bonus round and then moving onto the next company!

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Roadkill

Once upon a fiscal quarter, Meta fancied itself the architect of our digital Eden. A world beyond screens, beyond flesh, where we’d all sit in sterile conference rooms without legs, drifting through Zuckerberg’s cartoon dreamscape in Ray-Bans and spiritual despair. It was a vision so grand, so utterly disconnected from human desire, it burned $60 billion trying to convince us we wanted it.

The Metaverse is roadkill under the AI bandwagon.

The endgame? Meta makes ads with AI, targets you with AI, responds with AI, and soon - just wait - lets bots read the ads, click the links, and buy the products. A perfect closed loop. No humans required. Just algorithms whispering sweet nothings to each other over sponsored content.

Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands

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£3 million

Good to know SFO focuses on chump change cases.

Obviously things like PPE are too big to tackle.

AI infrastructure investment may be $8T shot in the dark

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Re: Shovels

With that kind of thinking we will never get anything nice.

AMD does compete with nVidia quite well, but Intel is more focused on improving room heaters disguised as CPUs.

You also have to take into account the impact of late stage capitalism where all those three corporations might be owned by the same funds that can put pressure to ensure these entities don't compete too aggressively with each other (burning R&D money instead of paying dividends etc.).

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Shovels

In the AI rush, those who sell shovels will win.

If the UK won't invest in home grown GPU that could compete with nVidia, then it's very much pointless. We will never be able to compete.

Best we can do is using foreign APIs and compute power we manage to snatch from someone else's jaws.

X marks the drop for European users

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Online Safety Bill

This is prime example why this bill is a nothing burger.

Xitter openly spreads disinformation, terrorist content and other carp.

UK government> We have the strongest bill in the world, protecting British people from miscreants!!!

People> Use it then!

UK government> Ah not like that!

People> Like what then?

UK government> Did your aunt say something hurty? We are on it!

Linux in Excel? Sure, why not ruin both

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NeXT STep

Next step is to run Wine on that Linux and run Excel from within it.

HMRC's Making Tax Digital scheme also made tax more expensive – by £300M

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Re: Small business VAT

"You guys keep changing and we keep charging!"

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Re: Small business VAT

Just sew in Amazon logo or similar big corporation near the pocket. The little tax man will look away.

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Maybe small business could create gofund me page for concert tickets, designer clothes, holidays with access to dj booths and appoint a rep to give out these freebies?

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Re: Ridiculous Complexity

There is idea behind it, why it stays like this.

Complex legislation is perfect for tax avoidance and keeping small players at bay.

Big corporations can easily absorb compliance costs and given the complexity they often can just pay tax that makes tax man happy, but not necessarily correct.

Whereas if small business done the same, they could be easily destroyed.

So I suppose whenever idea of simplification rises in the air, a magical invitation to an expensive banquet arrives, where such idea suddenly disappears.

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Re: Small business VAT

From accountancy software providers there is nothing wrong with the new systems.

HMRC loves brown envelopes.

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Competent

No competent IT person is ever going to work for HMRC for what they have done to the industry.

AI software development: Productivity revolution or fraught with risk?

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Itself

Given the AI revolution, most likely copilot already writes itself.

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

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So like most IT peeps. Just pushing the buttons.

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Re: Humans

Then work it in the hair. The look and scent makes it easier to catch a bird.

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Humans

Designers of coffee vending machines forget one crucial detail: the average user is basically a raccoon in business casual.

This means things will be misplaced, touched inappropriately with dirty hands, and stuffed with things they couldn’t find a bin for.

Has the loo run out of bog roll? What better way to give your fingers a smell-makeover than by ramming them into the coffee-vending spout?

Too many receipts in the pockets? Those slots look exactly like they were designed for caked-in till slips.

Nowhere to put that chewed-for-too-long gum? The coin return’s basically a donation tray.

Spilled some ketchup on your hand? Why not wipe it on the cup chute - nobody’s looking.

Empty sugar sachet? Just cram it in the card reader, maybe it’ll sweeten the transaction.

And there’s always one: stirring their coffee with a chewed stir stick, then thoughtfully returning it to the communal pot like they’re doing the planet a favour.

'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore'

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НАСА

More of levelling down exercises from Krasnov.

Roscosmos approves

OpenAI pulls plug on ChatGPT smarmbot that praised user for ditching psychiatric meds

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and nowadays? That's rare! Keep up, you got this!

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Cancer

I don't know but this whole article feels like an evidence of cancer slowly gnawing the society.

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

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Re: Or...

Or dismiss this whole NK thing as a hoax, show the board optimised costs not affecting delivery, collect the bonus, move onto the next company.

Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends

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Re: Feel good

When measuring a policy it is good to look at it through the lens of not what current government is going to do with it, but what the next evil government can do with it.

Surely this can be used to do many nefarious things if PM of the day likes to leave a moustache patch and pretends he wants to order five beers with his right hand stretched out during his morning bathroom routine.