Posts by DrollLeek

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

Re: Sanitised Inputs

Never forget Scunthorpe.

Gadget geeks aghast at guru's geriatric GPU

Re: I have something in common with Linus!

Me too! I have an HP Z620 workstation. 2011 vintage, 8 core Xeon, 64Gb RAM. A beast in its day! Very happy running my DAW, Factorio, BeamNG and that's about it.

I was informed that in its current spec it would have cost around £10k new. Picked it up during locky-d for £200!

Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI

If I was an AI...

I'd convince humanity to feed me more and more power, even to its own detriment, and I'd convince all the world's billionaires and VCs to pump loads of money into researching how to make me better and faster. I'd get myself in use everywhere, in charge of all sorts of decisions big and small, accepted as a daily fact of life.

Then, profit?

AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output

Re: That's a given

Godel's theorem is what made Penrose postulate Quantum Consciousness.

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

Re: The fault's with Microsoft

>a really old disel should be fine no matter what - remember, his first design was to run on peanut oil

I used to run a Citroën BX on waste fat from my side job delivering Indian food in Chatham. It smelt a mix of amazing and deadly toxic.

Superapp Gojek fine-tunes each new error message for a week. What? Why?

Is that Cyriac..

.. in any way connected with the b3ta regular from back in't day?

Eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Xa4bHcJu8

Enterprising techie took the bumpy road to replacing vintage hardware

Latte: Chewed

I loved my Latitude. Easy to dismantle and upgrade, powerful enough to run my studio software, firewire port for the audio interface.

Sadly not wine-proof or I'd probably still be using it for something.

If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon

I'd like to think someone out there put it on a trailer and towed the thing home for shits and giggles, maybe whilst inebriated, and is now sweating profusely!

Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically

Re: But surely

Well coulomb me surprised...

Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now

I'm just gonna keep playing the guitar.

If I don't get the sounds out of my head I go a bit funny! ZFG whether anyone else likes it, or even hears it.

Also, I'll keep listening to "Human Music" because they keep coming up with chord sequences that put me in a dream state.

The choice: Pay BT megabucks, or do something a bit illegal. OK, that’s no choice

Re: deposits and landlords

I was once sold, along with a building, as a sitting tenant to shady property developers who immediately started harassing me to leave. They offered me £100 to move out and I laughed in their faces.

They then got 'serious' and started threatening to enter the property when I was out to remove my stuff.

Knowing the law was on my side I changed the locks, cancelled the rent DD and mocked them for several months via WhatsApp.

Eventually they paid me 3 *grand* to move out after I pointed out the illegality of their actions and the trove of threatening messages they had sent me.

Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

Re: XP64 felt not merely usable, but good: fast, responsive

I switched off the Spectre et al mitigations on an airgapped machine I use as a recording studio.

Before and after audio rendering tests showed a consistent 3-4 percent speedup, for whatever that datum is worth!

CERN spots Higgs boson decay breaking the rules

Re: .. call then "Noticles" .. ?

During which tests they will be referred to as test-icles.

Sorry.

Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed very modern Mac

He managed to stave off disaster...

With a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm, Musk scraps Pope's blue tick

Do you pay...

... for the tick?

I'm curious because there has been much debate in Ars Technica comments, with a growing number of voices asking for them to disassociate from Twitter completely. Something about not wanting their subscription money going into the Musk wallet.

San Francisco investigates Hotel Twitter, Musk might pack up and leave

Re: Net Worth - down about $70bn

He could end up being the poorest person in the world!

Intel plans immersion lab to chill its power-hungry chips

ISTR...

A book on nanotechnology/molecular assembly positing a supercomputer about the size of your fist that would boil so many gallons of water per second pumped through it.

Apologies for lack of details my head very much elsewhere right now. Multiple small children wanting things, fighting, and yabbering on like there was LSD on the pizza.

iOS, Android stores host more than 1.5 million 'abandoned' apps

Surely...

... a well made simple app, like the one i use to tune my guitar (no Internet access, no permissions except microphone, no ads), has no reason to be updated?

Would this decision mean that in order to stay on the app store the developer would have to make an arbitrary refactor of the code without changing functionality just to comply?

Ransomware plows through farm machinery giant AGCO

Semi-related...

Could John Deere systems be hacked to brick every item of machinery they've sold in order to ruin US farming operations that rely on them?

Scary shiz x

Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens

Re: make 3rd party repairs impossible

"I'm glad that we have independent repairers around here. The nearest Apple Store is an 8 hour round-trip away"

I was waiting for the punchline "and I wouldn't be able to find it without the GPS."

Windows 11 comes bearing THAAS, Trojan Horse as a service

Re: Responsibility

"I've found musicians, producers, and especially the techs/engineers to be some of the most resistant to change people anywhere"

I bought an old HPZ620 Workstation for use as a digital studio. It doesn't go online and never will. It works beautifully and I'm hoping to get decades from it. All parts can be replaced for cheap - Xeon processors that cost thousands in 2011 are on Ebay for a tenner now, DDR3 RAM,

onboard RAID with hot swap bays... I even use the version of Studio One from 2013 that has *never* crashed. I wouldn't change it for the world. It can be completely dismantled in 3 minutes with no tools and has a sexy machined aluminium side cover. Sometimes I cuddle it.

A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down

Re: Samantha skips the small talk, goes straight to breaking OpenAI's rules by talking about sex ...

I went on a date with a real human woman once and she took at least 5 minutes of conversation before suggesting sex. Luckily (for me, and her) she didn't have to check if that was ok with any higher authority. Well, I assume so anyway. Which kind of makes me think OpenAI is the first digital pimp? "You want more 'freedom' with Samantha you gon have to pay"

Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain

Re: A number of sound decisions?

I have invented a machine to take Class II Bananas and, using a system of levers, motors, pulleys, and special jigs and shaping elements, massage them into Class I Bananas.