Posts by Ace2

Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin

To fix up your production workflow, just replace COPILOT() with RANDOM().

Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice

Wire as in wire transfer - sending money between bank accounts

Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages

Does he have a GoFundMe? Or a Patreon?

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

Re: that rogue programmer

Doesn’t that imply that someone has a geolocated database of SSIDs? Wasn’t that the whole google network mapping scandal?

Re: that rogue programmer

Sidenote: Does anybody know why Mac location services doesn’t work if WiFi is disabled?

Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing

So… run this command, and see if the output is useful, and we’ll let you know what it cost afterwards either way?

What a stupid system.

Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told

Re: We need to treat it

Well put

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

Douglas Adams, long dead. It bothers me constantly that Tom Petty, Terry Pratchett, Jimmy Buffett, Greg Allman, and a million others are gone, and yet That Fuckin’ Guy, the Orange Turd, is somehow still here.

EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought

Bacon Egg & Cheese?

Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen

The people who haven’t hit major issues actually haven’t hit major issues YET.

Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows

Are we just rewriting and reposting everything Dave Plummer and Raymond Chen post now?

Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft

Stay the fuck off of my phone, Microslop

Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet

Thank you, I stand corrected

This is how Amazon works now.

They have something called IIRC a single-stream system. For a given item number, they have one box, and all of the third-party seller stock of that item mixes together. When you order that item, you get whatever’s on top of the box.

It doesn’t matter how carefully you vet your supplier. The listing promises genuine items, sure. That seller probably did provide genuine items! But you get whatever cheap knockoff shit some other seller is trying to unload.

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

There’s your problem - “effective guardrails” are an impossibility. They’d require real natural language processing, and if you can do that, why are you mucking about with an LLM?

Microsoft has mostly repaired a flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet

Rust ain’t gonna do your user input validation for ya, homie

Ivanti tells Sentry customers to patch now as critical bugs hit 10.0 and 9.9

“An attacker could feed the API a specially crafted message, which is parsed as a MICS configuration command and executed by the backend handler with root privileges.”

Security software! They sell this shit as SECURITY software!

Apple courts developers with privacy and context in AI comeback bid

As of today there’s a single toggle that turns all this shit off. I really hope it’s still there in the upcoming releases!

Remote work – not AI – is killing job prospects for the youth

Re: Too many variables.

Upvoted for correct use of “battening”

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

“Gone. For basically nothing.”

AI in a nutshell.

$WORK is pounding us hard to use as much as possible… I’m eagerly awaiting someone to notice the bill.

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

I signed up for an account once when I noticed an error. (Possessive its.) A bot instantly reverted my change as “suspected vandalism.” I’m never bothering to touch that ducker ever again.

Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust

Of course you would post this radicalism anonymously!

FAA grounds SpaceX’s Starship after another launch mishap

Demolishing our climate, one “mishap” at a time

OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge

Storage arrays switched over to doing it that way years ago. Rather than trying to ride out power outages in hibernation mode, they reboot into a special mode that commits all dirty data to an NV device.

Liam, isn’t a journaling filesystem table stakes at this point? We can’t have crashes or power blips causing FS corruption.

Microsoft says cu l8r to text message security

Re: They're pushing MS Authenticator, aren't they?

It is perfectly fine and normal to have only a single device. Hundreds of millions around the world have only 1. What are you supposed to do when your only device gets broken?

Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug

I miss Eudora.

Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

Re: Huh

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/commandments/

First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed

Wow, when I checked just now, my low-rent hosting provider had already upgraded to a fixed version. I wasn’t expecting that!

Notepad sheds Copilot from toolbar as Microsoft gives subtlety a try

“For entertainment purposes only”… just like Windows

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

People just liked it better that way.

'Uncle Larry’s biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree

I’ve just started to receive pull requests generated by BGs. It’s absolutely astounding how good the tools have become.

Also, the PRs were trash, 100% wrong. I’m not worried at all about being replaced.

It is going to get worse before it gets better, though.

ServiceNow allegedly says salesman 'overachieved' and is not entitled to comp

Re: The Oracle gambit

THIS

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

Re: Gamers say pull the other one

Just because someone would buy it doesn’t mean there’s a market. Somebody out there wants to pay $1500 extra so that the reflections in the blood puddles are hyper-realistic. Most people don’t care though.

Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for

Re: Quornell

Can I… steal this?

Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns

Re: Ah

Yeah, I mentioned that thing about how Hindi and Urdu are actually the same language to an Indian acquaintance. Won’t make THAT mistake again.

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Re: America's reputational loss will be long lasting

The duckfucking Trumpers have accomplished something at least - they got my trans kid banned from swim team. This is very, very personal for me. You can please take that both-sides-ism, engrave it on a rock, and then [edited out because you’re not worth it]. Thanks!

So much winning!

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

Re: Don't worry, Kent – these kindly big gentlemen in white coats

A wizard’s staff has a knob on the end…

(Why do you limey bastards get all the good slang terms?)

KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on

“…the init wars refuse to die…”

They’d just get relaunched anyway.

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

Re: "I did a spot of Artexing"

Removing that stuff is big business around here.

Those are great for when you want 3 people to stand and look at a grid-out or something on a large monitor. I do seem them being used fairly frequently.

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

Re: Didn't Bill Gates profess to being this?

I would “Report abuse” but in this case it’s abuse of a company that richly deserves it

Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin

Nah, man. Those Republicans have shown us who they are, and I believe them.

Yeah, and FUCKING WIND TURBINES are too dangerous to build offshore, but we’re gonna fasttrack experimental reactors.

I hate Republicans.

DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire'

Re: Use case?

Milkmen had other possible use-cases as well

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

It warms my heart to know that there is no afterlife, and even if there was, Twitler wouldn’t be able to take it with him.

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

Re: It's All Down To The Romans or What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

In letters twelve feet high… all across the front of the palace…

Re: It's All Down To The Romans or What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

You quoted from a passage they’re critiquing, not from their analysis of it.