Posts by Ace2

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

Re: BS

I just finished Monstrous Regiment the other night. “Everywhere she worked burned down…”

I will always, always be indebted to the commentards here who wouldn’t shut up about Sir Terry and finally drove me to read his books myself.

Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure

Re: So basically....

“As though their current operation doesn't have people who do just that.”

Those people can be trained or replaced. (SWMBO recently got a huge boost when the coworker who was causing all the paperwork problems left for greener pastures.)

What are you supposed to do with an AI, shake the 8-ball again and repeat until the answer’s correct?

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

"It encapsulates a paucity of imagination and self-awareness that goes beyond the risible and the banal into the truly horrific."

Truly a pearl of wit that applies in so many situations.

Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment

Lemme guess… if the BG prices things too high, tough. But if the BG prices things too low, the vendor gets to cancel the sale.

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

Re: "all this is old news"

My Insignia FireTV is larded down with all sorts of Amazon crap, but it has always worked perfectly without an internet connection - and the crap seems to hide itself when it’s not connected.

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

Re: IMAP4 Was Originally Published in Dec 1994.

Obsolete? No way. I don’t want to go view my email as stored on the server; I want to download it to MY system where I can keep control of it.

The Y2K bug delayed my honeymoon … by 17 years!

Did you read any of the comments above yours? Or maybe you’re drunk or something. One can hope.

An early end to the holidays: 'Heartbleed of MongoDB' is now under active exploit

It was just a small random number

Same question I had with the original Heartbleed… so you send these malformed requests and trick the server into sending you 187B of uninitialized buffer. Repeat a million times, and you get megabytes of data, cut into 3 inch lengths. How is it possible to reconstruct that into meaningful data?

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

Yeah, no, “long distance running” is not where Americans encounter pasties.

Mostly they’re a sign you cheaped out when picking which club to visit.

Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit

Insufficient authorization checks in a Secure Mobile Access appliance. Really? Couldn’t afford developers who know what they’re doing, I guess?

Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists

Normal, healthy humans struggle to withstand the trauma of 2-3 years working at Amazon. I shudder to imagine the psyche of someone who’s still there after 27 years.

React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines

Crypto is truly the bad idea that keeps on giving.

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

Re: Better mockup needed...

Woke-pronouned?

What the fuck is the matter with you?

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report

Re: Good grief!

Let us know when you identity a workable alternative

NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data

Re: Employment

“Weaponised?” Is there literally anything you don’t think he should have been able to do?

The rules are different (or at least should be) at the C-suite level. He knew that what he was doing was illegal/unethical.

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

Fuck him and all of his money.

Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs

Re: What downsides to Rockstar?

Of course. I’ve enjoyed playing it. Just not the most… not sure what to call it… game.

Re: What downsides to Rockstar?

The company that lets you run over the hooker afterwards to get your money back? Not that much of a reputation to begin with.

Re: Labour

According to ‘Highly Irregular’ by Arika Okrent, ‘labor’/‘labour’ were both accepted spellings on both sides of the pond until the Americans standardized (ha!) on ‘labor’ which prompted the Brits to standardize on ‘labour’ to be petulant.

Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware

Re: Non-Profit

Because it doesn’t make any money. All of the profits are earned by the teams themselves. The league is just a pass-through entity.

(My understanding anyway - happy to be corrected)

AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse

Is there a snake in here?

Why do I hear hissing?

Has something sprung a leak?

Senate says Nvidia chips are for America first as China tightens import controls

I see the subhed writer has already been to the pub and back.

SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams

Industrial automation for AI… so instead of the robot doing a programmed series of movements, it just makes it up as it goes along? Good luck with the QC on that one.

Bcachefs goes DKMS after Torvalds' kernel banishment

Yay more kcompat

Re: "would remove support for the write_cache_pages API"

Great, so they just need to add yet another pointless kcompat entry to replace the missing helper function.

The kernel devs do this every damn release. Sometimes a single function changes 3 or 4 releases in a row!

Christoph has form on removing things in an attempt to make life difficult for out-of-tree modules.

Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do

“We feel good about it”

Well that’s a relief

SK Hynix cranks up the HBM4 assembly line to prep for next-gen GPUs

“While the DRAM typically in servers isn’t usually a major energy consumer, HBM is. With the shift from 24 GB on AMD's MI300X to the 36 GB modules found on the MI325, power consumption jumped from 250 W to roughly a kilowatt per GPU.”

This paragraph might need some fact-checking. Is the claim that the HBM is responsible for the quadrupling of the power consumption of the accelerator?

No more waiting for lines: New Windows keyboard shortcuts output em and en dashes with ease

Let’s eat Grandma!

Let’s eat, Grandma!

FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons

This is great! Places like where I live will continue to be nice, and places where Trumpsucker voters live will continue to rot. What’s not to like?

US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid

Keeping in mind that these are the people who are going to use “you got arrested!” against you the next time you apply for a visa…

“An official said some of those detained were in the US on valid visas.”

Probably 395 of them.

Like that matters to the MAGAts. Headlines generated, rednecks fired up, billionaire knobs polished… mission accomplished.

White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty

Re: Vision ?

What horseshit is this? All of those dastardly Democrats that are secretly cheering for Trump? What the fuck are you on about?

Re: I'm not a Yank but...

Yeah right, the Democrats would have rolled over and approved the $1.1B cut to PBS.

Fool.

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

Re: Cloudflare FTW

But then ChatGPT won’t be able to completely misunderstand your content!

FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam

Somebody signed me up for the MyPillow marketing list. At first I was annoyed, but after some reflection I’ve decided it was actually brilliant.

RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house

“we counted 37 others…”

We need to make one, super-duper version that’s powerful enough and configurable enough to work for everyone’s use case.

ESA engineers trace anomaly in silent Juice spacecraft to a bug in the code

"We might require a spacecraft software change (which is a complex activity)“

Understatement of the year

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

Re: Dot Dumb

Of course Nvidia will still be rich. They’ve made buckets of cash, and they aren’t stupid.

What will change is that their *future* profitability will drop off a cliff. No way they continue making $10B/qtr selling video cards and Mellanox NICs.

It will still be a business - but a much smaller one.

Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two

Re: ELI 5

For two weeks though? The type of subhuman that goes in for this sort of thing doesn’t usually have that much of an attention span.

Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'

I mean, don’t let me tell you what to do from over here in Leftpondia, but my advice would be keep that duckfucker far away from your critical infrastructure.

Uncle Sam eyes slice of Intel in return for CHIPS Act cash

Re: Hostile to Business

Export tariffs… explicitly forbidden by the Constitution. Not that that bothers the MAGAts.

Re: Not Unprecedented

Which the fucking Republicans have been raging against ever since.

AI skeptics zone out when chatbots get preachy

What in the actual fuck?

“… [P]eople are likely to believe that machines (such as AI-enabled chatbots) are not capable of judging what is moral and immoral.”

Belief don’t enter into it, supergenius.

Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results

Re: Blame the dates

A best-by date also functions as a manufactured-on date, which could potentially be useful in the case of recalls.

Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030

Re: Reliable sources?

Renewables are risky, but letting Microsoft fire up Three Mile Island again is somehow peachy.

How about you go choke on a 9V battery? It would do wonders for the comment section here.

Boy riding bubble realizes what he's on, asks for more air

Re: I have a question

I’ll believe you give a shit about birds and aren’t just a fossil fuel shill when I see a pig get butchered by a wind turbine.

Re: People Do Love Bullshit

Can we hold off on the popping thing until another round of my stock vests? Thanks!

Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'

There is a world of difference between “this is garbage code” and “you’re a garbage coder.” One is defensible - the other is not. New Linus seems to be staying very much on the correct side of that line.