Posts by toomanylogins

OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face

Compensation Must be Paid

OpenAI is responsible for this. They damaged something and therefore they should pay compensation. Until we start holding the AI companies responsible, nothing's going to change. Same applies to copyright.

Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005

Making tax digital fiasco

I've just finished implementing the Making Tax digital API. To get approval you contact support via email. They then reply with a checklist in Microsoft docx format. Unbelievable. No security whatsoever. You have to complete the form and send it back to them via email.They even ask you to paste in some screenshots of your application into the form. This is a system that apparently costs 300 million to implement and they haven't even got the wherewithal to have an online form for your developer compliance. And they take about two weeks on average to reply to an email.

Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals

Xero Runs on AWS. AWS invest in AI cloud. Guess what ?

The 500 billion of money spent on the AI has to be recouped somehow. Cloud hosting costs will be increasing and those that host SAAS will be footing the bill. Which they then pass on to their customers.

No such thing as a free lunch.

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead? No, wait – it's on Windows

Re: Very nice but

Why Sublime bloated. It launches in no time easily the best one Ive found and worth paying for.

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

Re: A monetized internet might be the only way to solve this

I agree. The simple solution is to ban pay per click and make add free browsing an option if you subscribe. This would undermine google and the AI model.

Every question you ask, every comment you make, I'll be recording you

Re: Have fun training your replacement

From Google's perspective, if they can improve the targeting and present an AI summary together with one advert. They can charge 10 times as much for that single advert instead of presenting 10 less targeted adverts. Therefore Google saves energy and the competition for the top spot becomes more intense. It's a win-win for Google.

Intel CEO suggests AI can help to create a one-person Unicorn

Redistribution

The fall incomes from those made redundant will provide the return on capital for the Ai investment. A radical alternative would be for Gov's to make employing people less expensive by moving taxation to spending and not employment.

New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners

Where is the power coming from

As usual no mention of where the additional power to fast charge is going to come from on how the grid will cope.

UK watchdog blocks Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition

Wrong solution to the problem

These are two American companies and the CMA should not be intervening in the acquisition process. However the CMA has a duty to protect British consumers from monopolies. Therefore a better solution would have been to penalise the new merged entity on the basis of reduced competition. The UK is a sovereign country and we could easily apply a tax to Microsoft which would be disadvantageous to them and advantageous to their competitors thus encouraging competition. That is an effective way to manage monopolies. A similar example would be to stop Amazon bundling prime video with delivery. Or do something about the MasterCard Visa monopoly by making charges transparent.

Instead this decision by the CMA is going to cause problems with one of our major trading partners.

Why UK watchdog abandoned its Apple monopoly probe

Re: So now the UK is out of the EU...

Its not about funding. Th Uk Gov finds plenty of money to knock up the next set of woke rules, penalise landlords, create daft energy efficiency schemes and raise IR35 cases. What they are unable to do is understand anything relating to British business.

The Great Graph Database Debate: Relational can't do everything

If RDMS are good why is Wordpress such as mess?

I develop a static site generator and we have implemented importing from WordPress and Joomla! from MySQL. Importing from Joomla! was straightforward its mostly normalised and we were easily able to cross-reference and import the data. WordPress on the other hand is a mess. They have everything stuffed into text fields as serialised data which can't be efficient. Furthermore it seems every developer of a WordPress extension creates their own formats.

It seems to me the one weakness of an RDMS is where customisation by third parties is required. Having said that I don't know how this is handled in a graph database.

Financial red tape blamed for London losing Arm IPO

Its all about the money

Related party transactions are generally used by multinationals to transfer profits from one country to another thus minimising tax. Arm has a significant UK presence and worldwide earnings so there is a fair chance it would be liable to a large chunk of UK corporation tax. Corporations typically mitigate this for example Thames water by moving profits offshore through transfer pricing mechanisms i.e. related party transactions many of which are created purely for the purpose of avoiding tax.

Given that Softbank needs the money they probably didn't want to pay the tax that would be associated with the UK listing because they would have to make transactions transparent.

At the end of the day it is the greedy UK government at fault for increasing corporation tax. As Milton Friedman said in reality only people can pay tax.

Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit rule

Re: Will I then be able to disable the sponsored search engines?

So who is going to pay for the development? In order to achieve your goal the browser should be a paid software which I would advocate. The same applies to search and social media. This whole its free but the people are the product has to stop otherwise we will never get a functioning market.

Corporations start testing Windows 11 in bigger numbers. Good luck

Can I have my borders back

All I want is nice thick borders. The ones that tell you where the edge of one vscode window is overlapping the window underneath. And some sensible font sizes.

Epson zaps lasers into oblivion, in the name of the environment

Save some money and get a funnel

Or get a funnel drill a hole in the laser cartridge and fill it up with toner. Dead easy, bit messy. Quality goes down a bit after 2 or 3 refills.

Amazon hit with $1bn claim that secretive Buy Box algorithm screws shoppers

Sale of Goods Act

Amazon should always be considered the seller under the sale of goods act in the same way as a shop. This would level the playing field. They should be responsible for the warranty and the delivery and provide support. This copout that they are only a digital storefront is the problem. A simple rule change would resolve it and prevent problems like a Sabrent SSD that I have had to post back to the USA after it failed after three months. Haven't had a reply and I am out of pocket despite claims of a five-year warranty.

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel green-lights Mike Lynch's extradition to US to face Autonomy fraud charges

So Rolls-Royce makes jet engines and gives them a way to get a maintenance contract. That's okay.

Autonomy gives away hardware to get the software contract and that's not.

Worse still Amazon gives away free delivery to get prime subscriptions.

UK agrees to extradite Lynch on an unproven criminal charge.

The Germans do not extradite any of the executives found guilty in the diesel gate scandal. The US settled for a massive fine.

None of the above seems fair to me.