Posts by GraXXoR

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts

Re: So close

contact your care supervisor straight away. You appear to be having an episode.

Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast

Been running Haiku since Beta 3 and as of Beta 4 have had it running on bare metal on half a dozen old machines from Atoms through Celerons to my old gaming PC 4770K that I actually now use on a daily basis with Calligra Suite and IceWeasel.. (now Firefox).

It's fantastic at revitalizing old machines that would even struggle with a basic Linux install and is pretty stable currently.

Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal

Re: Where do the (fixed) bugs come from?

This comment has “I thought we’d mostly eradicated measles, why do our children still need the MMR shot,” energy.

It’s stable because we keep it maintained as new functions and features are added.

‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

Re: Humans will be a rounding error on the internet

Excellent memorable monologue. And what did Neo get to say?

"There is no spoon."

AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning

Re: Well that explains it

I can answer a couple of the points you raised.

I have a client who is in a senior position at one of the few remaining HDD providing companies that have facilities here in Japan.

He said that while they are already pushing for helium and soon hydrogen filled devices with up to 50TB on them they have several production lines that are amazingly still churning out low-power ultra reliable 1, 2 and 4TB single and dual platter enterprise drives for thousands of companies that need enterprise grade drives for CADCAM machines, high reliability security camera systems, industrial monitoring stations, remote monitoring etc. Those customers are on REALLY long term contracts and these production lines will have to continue until at least 2030 and likely well beyond to continue fulfill client obligations to supply replacement and preventative maintenance (prefailure rotation) parts for at least 15 years after installation.

Apparently larger multi platter drives and higher arial density drives just do not have the required MTBF figures or vibrational stability, and SSD which are prone to complete failure are often unable to have any data restored whereas low density HDDs are "relatively trivial" to recover the majority of the data off even after critical failure.

AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can’t currently buy

In the post-consumer world we will own nothing...

I think this is a glimpse of the future where all the top end gear goes to the hyperscalers and they just rent it out to us plebs on an hourly basis... To be delivered to our rented handheld or desktop devices through a router rented from our ISP.

... and we will apparently be happy... ?

Apple hopes to save Siri from laughingstock status with infusion of Google Gemini

Need that meme GIF with the guy that’s initially nodding and then suddenly pivots to shaking his head vigourously, saying “nope… nuh-uh…” when he real realizes what the guy actually means.

No fire sale for firewalls as memory shortages could push prices higher

To be honest. Right now I’d be hard-pressed to find an aspect of my life that isn’t facing noticeable and in some cases egregious price rises.

Rent, utility bills, food prices and rampant almost monthly shrinkflation, entertainment, tax, (and in my case, even Visa fees have the possibility of increasing tenfold this year.)

It’s a constant assault on the senses and the wallet - and I fear that the rampocalypse is just another symptom of a world truly losing control of its now global oligarchs.

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book

Re: Can it improve the Harry Potter books?

The Harry Potter series were the first full length English language books my Japanese gf at the time ever read. She was obsessed. The first book took her about a month to get through with each. Hook taking progressively less time.

Her reading comprehension skills improved markedly over the course of reading them and those books were her gateway drug that lead her into a whole bunch of sci-fi and fantasy classics… Lord of the Rings, Thomas Covenant Unbeliever, Riverworld, Rice’s Vampire and Banks’ Culture…

Whatever one is personal opinions, I give more praise to a series of books than one that awakens in someone a love for literature in a foreign langue.

New carbon capture tech could save us from datacenter doom

The US has said that they are leaving a whole bunch of UN treaties today including the UNFCCC which means that they’re certainly not going to spend money on stuff like this and will leave it to the rest of the world to struggle with the climate…

Without the US being involved it seems there’s little point since China will likely just point to the US as an example and follow suit.

2026 is already fucked and it’s just the 8th of Jan.

Claude devs complain about surprise usage limits, Anthropic blames expiring bonus

I’m not an expert and I’m just talking out of my arse here, however I seem to remember that the latest figures regarding ROI for AI companies are still less than 10% (and significantly so in some cases) right now. Which means that prices are going to have to increase by at least a factor of 10 in order to create some resemblance of sustainability.

sure, right now most of the profits are coming from share price increases, the promise of government backstops, and several dozen gigawatts of “trust me, bro”, but the businesses themselves are going have to start actually making money at some point in order to continue the circlejerk.

The question is, is the market there and is there an unbridled willingness to pay for a service that seems to know no bounds when it comes to energy consumption and resource use?

Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

Re: Lovely idea - no chance of it ever happening

Software bloat is real. Before I quit Microsoft 365 I used to run word on a Mac. at the same time. I had an old windows XP install in VMWare with office 2003 or something.

Windows XP boots in about five seconds and word appears instantly upon clicking.

It’s ridiculous that you can boot an entire OS and a software suite from cold in a cirtualized environment quicker than you can run a modern version of a single application natively these days.

Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling

Re: Yeah, right

Oh you sweet traditionalist, you!

Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof

Re: But just think

Yeah, but that's assuming we'll still have jobs and enough residual wealth to buy anything beyond subsistence.

Re: Ouch

Mainstream branded DDR5 RAM prices have exploded... Take this 32 GIG of Corsair PC5-44800 (16x2) just reached 100,000 yen in Akihabara's Yodobashi Camera, the largest electronics and appliance store in Japan. I purchased that in September for 22,000.. That's close to 500% what my school purchased it for 3 months ago.

That's $US 640 for 32GB which it $US 20 per GB...

The last time RAM was this expensive was around 2003.

AI has literally set RAM prices back 22 years.

Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos

Re: Welcome to the digital petri dish: where childhood goes to Mutate

mentioning mushroom... ladies in the White House shuffle nervously.

Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance

"Flagship" operating system...

I believe the whippersnappers would say "flagship" is doing some heavy lifting here.

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

Re: Let me guess ... DNS

more like Clownflare at this point.

GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast

Idle cycles are burning cash? Yeah but not burning cash nearly as fast as active cycles used to generate titty pics.

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Re: What's next?

And that's not even taking into account that BYD are eating their lunch.

Re: Insulting half of humanity

I clearly remember seeing the photo of a woman holding that sign up giving Trump a warm welcome to Scotland.

Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60%

Re: I lucked out

That would cost anywhere up to $400 from a major electronics retailer (Yodobashi Camera, BIC Canera, Sofmap) in Japan at the moment!

Funny how a 60% price rise ends up nearly tripling the cost of "premium" RAM in Japan.

Here is an entry from kakaku.com link, a popular tech price tracker in Japan for the most popular RAM tracked at the top 50 local retailers on and offline.

Shows price of 2 x 16GB crucial PC5-44800 sticks has gone from 15,000 Yen ($100) to 45,000 Yen $300 in the space of 6 weeks.

https://kakaku.com/item/K0001540697/pricehistory/

$300 for 32Gb is hitting $10 per GB again... Like backin 2005, around the time when I first saw RAM fall below $10 per GB!

Ubuntu Unity hanging by a thread as wunderkind maintainer gets busy with life

Re: Forced Child Labor in the Linux Mines

THAT was your takeaway? Welp, we found the Edgelord.

I'm actually kinda worried what will happen to the Linux kernel when Torvalds steps down/dies.

AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession

Re: They have a Plan B.

Hi there, I’ve been reading in the local newspapers (I live in Japan) that this weekend just gone, new Japanese Prime Minister has backtracked along with her finance minister saying that it was only a proposition rather than a binding contract, and that the 500 billion would not be under Trump‘s control as to where it is invested after all, or whether it would actually be invested. Even if it is invested, they say that it would take a decade or so to disburse the investments.

This comment came out soon after Trump boasted about the US keeping 90% of the profits from all investments to themselves while only returning 10% to Japan.

Korea on Sunday also got on board and basically use the same playbook to backtrack their $350 billion proposed investment in the US also. They have a stronger case though since the debacle with 300 odd Korean workers being imprisoned and deported..

I’ve been saying that about bitcoin for years, but it just keeps going up and up.

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Reminds me of an episode of Fringe where Walter attempts to lobotomise himself.

Re: Of course we all know the permanent fix

I love Notepad++.

It’s somehow both “no nonsense” and “do anything” at the same time.

Re: Of course we all know the permanent fix

Quite different to my experience.

I installed Linux and it immediately recognized :

Gfx card

Sound card

USB AUDIO DAC.

Roland Keyboard

Gamepad

Analogue joystick

And what blew me away was it recognized

Epson B500D network printer circa 2008

And

2 x 8000U 8” USB-Mini (not even micro) displays from the same year.

Which not even Windows or MacOS recognizes without proprietary drivers.

These last two devices were the final reason I was holding on to a Windows 11 install.

I guess you were trying to build an Arch install or Gentoo or something.

Re: Of course we all know the permanent fix

I reread that but can’t put my finger on what point youre trying to make.

Leak suggests US government is fibbing over FEMA security failings

Props at least for not using the grossly overused “gaslighting”

Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find

Re: RE: I'm just trying to imagine the mess

It’s like you met my wife…

Windows 11 update leaves Blu-ray and TV apps stuttering

Re: There is a workaround

The retarded, less efficient cousin of Bin Laden.

US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts

Re: China is cheering... every day

While cutting space x is obviously a bad move. The US could avert money by. Oh I don’t n ow, actually generating taxes from their rapidly growing numbers of deci-triillionaires, their billionaire partners and their companies.

Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers

That interesting. I’m daily driving Haiku on my 4770 based Thinkcentre Micro M93 (?) with 16GB RAM and an SSD replacement for the HDD and it has been fine for what I use it for. It runs EDSM star map and EDAstro web apps while I play Elite Dangerous and plays my network shared music.

It’s fine for casual use.

It’s have also installed it on

Atom 160. Atom 330(?) thin clients with built in touch monitors.

Ion graphics based AMD thin client

Dell based SIS chipset (!!!) Celeron thin client.

Intel 3770 based Thinkcentre micro

4970k Intel X97 chipset(?) mobo PC from 2012.

8th gen intel Thinkcentre micro.

Fujitsu i3 9th gen laptop.

I love the UI because it’s perfect for mini monitors such as 800x640 and 1200x1024… and low power machines.

Only bug I notice with mine that iceweasel has a distracting square around the cursor when you move it.

Haiku Beta 5 has really started to push the stability and usability as well as decent improvements in network speed over Beta 4.

I really hope Haiku dev work continues!

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

Re: A colleague of mine uses Delphi/Lazarus

IIRC that was called single pass compiling and was one reason why my pascal compiled so much quicker than C back in the day.

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

And when they focus on specific regions, you people then say "But you're disregarding the rest of the data" or "You're just cherry picking the hottest places."

There's no way to have an actual scientific discussion with people who abandon science the first moment they see Trump's glistening rod.

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

He literally (in a non Gen-Z sense) said "Drill baby Drill!"

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

And yet somehow drilling for oil and fracking making a whole group of influential billionaires much wealthier as an impetus for saying climate change being fake is somehow a non issue..

but no, it's the scientists who'll apprently lose their jobs just because... or if they somehow disagree with.... who exactly.... that are the real liars.

Pretty pathetic argument...

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

jesus, you sound like my wife...

You lost any shred of respect with "Pandemic".. You probably use words like MSM, too.

Next you'll be saying vaccines have microchips in them.. and Adrenochrome exists... and the world is 6000 years old.

National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future

Re: Relax already

34% ... ketchup?

Re: Bad for the US I suppose

Wow... talk about uninformed.. Bernie has literally (and in a non Gen-Z sense) been pushing for workers rights for decades.

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

I have had it running on my old 4770k ex gaming rig as a side monitor to my main gaming rig for viewing web pages etc. since B5 came out.

I also have a copy running on an old i3 8th gen intel CPU laptop with a SSD and it’s startlingly fast to boot up and get to the desktop. Like really, really fast.

I finally also have an 8 inch Atom based industrial touch screen AIO pc with an 8GB Compact Flash card and 1GB of RAM from a lab where it used to be an autoclave control panel which is actually finally usable. And it’s also really funny to see just how little system resources it uses in the background.

Haiku is now properly in use daily by me at least and I can’t wait for at least intel drivers for video playback or 3D

Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list

Popped another issue in the sock.

Wifey got annoyed at me last time I popped an issue in a sock.

Also, your nasty AI thumbnails with janky hands should be on the naughty list.

AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

I still remember my university days when the photographer was trying to make the new website images of our lab and told us in no uncertain terms that we had to hire several people of colour (he did not use this as words exactly), two wheelchairs (“for a couple of actors”) and a “bunch of girls” from the art department to wear white coats and try not to look like a fool holding random pieces of equipment and wearing safety goggles.

Back in the early 90s our undergrad engineering department almost entirely comprised white males.

Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

I don’t usually like car analogies, but this one is 100% spot-on.

Fedora 41: A vast assortment, but there's something for everyone

Re: Fedora here

Yeah. I’m the same. I’m pretty agnostic when it comes to distribution. But I assume it’s because I’m one of those more casual users who doesn’t know enough about Linux to really appreciate the subtleties and has to do a “google +reddit” search for most solutions anyway.

I currently have Linux on a dozen bare metal machines (from two full workstations to half a dozen thinkstation Tinys to brace of RPis in a mix of Mint, Debian, ELive and Suse Tumbleweed) but still know very little about, say, the difference between snap and flatpak.

Re: If I ruled the world...

Was that 49” a Samsung “Oddity” G9 by any chance?

Mine’s been generally a good boy over the past two years apart from 1px checkboard grids occasionally triggering the display to dim noticeably.

But online Reddit post horror stories tell many sordid tales of light leaks, dot marching, dead backlight zones and signal compatibility problems and bad firmware updates.

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin

Re: Sold out

If you read the comments on any of the tech tubers review videos, that is pretty much the gist of it. Many said “waiting for X3D”.