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Posts by elsergiovolador
5147 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2020
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CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost
Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software
US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired
UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans
US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check
BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts
Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors
OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies
Friday 9th May 2025 00:59 GMT 
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?
Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus
Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search
Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?
Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess
IT pros are caught between an AI rock and an economic hard place
Monday 5th May 2025 22:38 GMT
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
Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025
UK's smaller broadband operators face tough road ahead, consolidation possible
Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush
Friday 2nd May 2025 00:07 GMT
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
AI infrastructure investment may be $8T shot in the dark
Thursday 1st May 2025 22:52 GMT
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.).
X marks the drop for European users
Thursday 1st May 2025 15:52 GMT
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
HMRC's Making Tax Digital scheme also made tax more expensive – by £300M
Thursday 1st May 2025 10:04 GMT
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.
AI software development: Productivity revolution or fraught with risk?
Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds
Wednesday 30th April 2025 21:00 GMT
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'
OpenAI pulls plug on ChatGPT smarmbot that praised user for ditching psychiatric meds
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends
Wednesday 30th April 2025 12:09 GMT
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.
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