* Posts by teebie

966 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

Page:

Network Rail steps back from geofencing over safety fears

teebie

"ALO (All Lines Open) warning devices."

"ALO (Any line Open)."

Why does ALO have 2 different meanings.

Is it me, or is the first half of the article hard to follow?

Judge slaps down law firm using ChatGPT to justify six-figure trial fee

teebie

I'm afraid that simpletons will believe that the results that come out of LLMs are accurate, and that it will negatively affect my life and the lives of others.

I'm afraid that simpletons will believe claims about how other AI products work, and that it will negatively affect my lives of others.

I'm afraid that simpletons will believe claims about how other AI products work, and that money and time will be channeled toward the snake oil peddlers, instead of being used for something useful.

FBI: Give us warrantless Section 702 snooping powers – or China wins

teebie

"Wray cited an example he's used previously about how, last year, Section 702 of America's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allowed the FBI to observe Chinese government snoops trying to break into an unnamed US transportation hub and take action."

Did he cite a reason that they couldn't have asked for a warrant to observe the spooks?

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

teebie

"optional emergency door"

Well, that's alarming

"the plane performed as intended."

Perhaps not entirely

Return to Office mandates boost company profits? Nope

teebie

Re: No WFH - WTF

"Sir Alan Sugar was complaining recently about the move to working from home "

He was doing this on the new recently. He conducted the interview from home, rather than go into the office and be interviewed

CISA boss swatted: 'While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique'

teebie

Re: Cop doesn’t even make the top 10 list of most dangerous occupations.

Lumberjacks are very axe-happy. Almost any job a lumberjack gets called to results in an axing.

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

teebie

"This particular study [...] doesn’t reflect the overall quality and helpfulness of Search for the billions of queries we see every day,"

Yes it bloody does. Go back to giving results that people want to see, not the results that you want them to see.

Boss fight between Donkey Kong champ and leaderboard org ends with settlement

teebie

Re: thereby increase the value of the company

The world record for the egg and spoon race for the year before they removed the egg and spoon race from the world championships, surely.

Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal

teebie

Re: Postage?

...she pays for the postage.

The post office clerk says she hasn't paid.

She pays for the postage again.

The post office clerk says she hasn't paid.

She pays for the postage again.

The post office clerk says she hasn't paid.

She is jailed.

England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters

teebie

Re: Yes, FUD is the loudest noise

"let the software do its stuff and forget about it"

You are aware that that sentence is terrifying? Or is the software not written by whatever company gave the cheapest quote.

You don't get what you don't pay for, but nobody is paid enough to be abused

teebie

Re: Jedes Schrift'l ist ein Gift'l

In Bootle they say "Every doxing is a toxin"

Disclaimer: this is a lie

Is it 2000 or 2023? Get ready for AI-anchored news. Again

teebie

"Channel 1 promised all AI-generated imagery will be labeled as such."

'adding "we are aware that the videos will be copied, the labels will be removed, and they will be reposted with claims they are real footage. But that's not our problem" '

"The LA-based virtual station claims all news it presents will be fact-checked by humans to ensure accuracy before being placed in the virtual mouths of its artificial newsreaders. "

Qualified humans? Or randos with no subject knowledge

Suffering from tab overload? Vivaldi unveils Session Panels

teebie

Vivaldi is the browser, a vivaldo is someone who uses vivaldi. As in <shouts from a cheap car with expensive alloys> "Oi, vivaldo, how are you enjoying your 4 layers of tab nesting. Ahhhhhh"

Or it's a typo, I'm not sure which

Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights

teebie

If you throw enough shit at a wall...

then hopefully someone will consider disbarring you for having shitty hands.

Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription

teebie

"Ultimately, we felt like the complexity of having to specify an arbitrary time frame made the experience actually hard to use by default"

Saying 'delete everything after 6 months' is difficult? That doesn't sound correct.

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

teebie

Re: Cognitive dissonance

Hmm, that is a true dichotomoy

Hang on, is 'true' the right word?

Ex-GCHQ software dev jailed for stabbing NSA staffer

teebie

Re: Stabby stab

These gun crimes ... how many of them are possessing a gun? Because the numbers of crimes for possessing something tend to go up when you make it illegal.

The aim isn't to reduce the number in a report marked 'gun crime' it's to reduce the number of shootings.

teebie

Re: Stabby stab

The only way to stop a bad guy with a knife, if a good guy with a narwhal tusk

Batterygate bound for Blighty as UK court approves billion-dollar Apple compensation case

teebie

Re: make it hurt

I came here to ask why this is being dealt with as anti-trust. I no longer feel the need to ask.

Just one in ten UK orgs have significant AI investment plan

teebie

Alternative headline

Snake-oil peddlers are barely fooling anyone.

After nine servers he worked on failed, techie imagined next career as beach vendor

teebie

Re: Sorry, is it just me ?

"he attempted a repair of that machine.

It did not."

'It did not' meaning 'the machine did not repair'

But it does seem wrong. Maybe because the subject changes between sentences ("he attempted to see if the machine bounced. It did not" would be fine), or maybe it's because of some other susiedentery that we all know, but can't express.

Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected

teebie

"Ten INESSENTIAL new features you ARE ALLOWED to know"

Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'

teebie

Re: Excel for dodgy databases

Monkey like a fox. He got away with trading while insolvent for a year and a half.

'Influencer' gets 7 months in prison for plot to interfere with 2016 US election

teebie

"All he has done is to expose widespread gullibility."

He has exposed widespread gullibility *and* denied 5000 people their right to vote. It's the second one he is being punished for.

teebie

Re: Darwin in action

At the last election passed homeless people in the <1km walk to the polling station, which seemed like a comment on tory government, but is allowable under the rules

San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes

teebie

"would see police given powers to use drones to track suspects or monitor for illegal activity"

One of these would be much more reasonable than the other.

IDC: AI is a solution for a PC industry with a sales problem

teebie

"While uses cases have yet to be fully articulated..."

translates too

"Although this is all horseshit..."

Police ignored the laws of datacenter climate control

teebie

Re: Fun with magnets.

I thought the big DUNG noise was the point of degaussing?

Big Brother is coming to a workplace near you, and the privacy regulator wants a word

teebie

Re: Dumb companies equate activity with productivity

Some managers would rather pretend they have never heard of Goodhart's law

Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe

teebie

"overemphasis on consent."

Well that's creepy

The Pentagon has the worst IT helpdesk in the US govt

teebie

Re: Not surprising

Does it count as conflict of interest if you are a fire marshal and your interest is not having the building you work in catch fire?

ICANN warns UN may sideline tech community from future internet governance

teebie

Re: On that one

That's very much the interpretation I took from the statement.

"These geeks are sooo rude. They keep pointing out how unworkable my policies are"

Bad software destroyed my doctor's memory

teebie

Re: "radically alter the workflow of medical professionals, without their input"

"I recently deletd Microsoft Office in favour of Ashampoo Office - cos it is simpler and cleaner (Timotei!)"

You went from a real poo to a sham poo?

Cops cuff pregnant woman for carjacking after facial recog gets it wrong, again

teebie

Re: "The kids learned a valuable lesson about cops that might save their lives one day"

Also, as we have seen, if they stay in their homes while 8 months pregnant, that is going to attract the attention of police.

Lawyer sees almost 1,000 complainants sign up to Capita breach class action

teebie

"Megabuyte pointed out that reputational damage [to Capita] will be far greater."

How? Capita couldn't damage their reputation any further if they changed their name to Hermes.

Or Chernobyl.

Former Twitter employees accuse it of holding up 891 arbitrations

teebie

'Twitter now "refuses to pay the full arbitration fees for these cases,"'

So...arbitration has failed and employees can now use civil courts?

Artificial General Intelligence remains a distant dream despite LLM boom

teebie

Re: @Doctor Syntax

Experts in marketing things that they claim are AI

Miscreants leak texts and info siphoned by Android stalkerware app LetMeSpy

teebie

"one security researcher, Maia Arson Crimew"

You don't hear much about portmanteau nominative determinism. I wonder if she every worked with Jeff Larcenyucky.

Restaurant hired 'priest' to extract workplace confessions from staff

teebie

Re: Simple folk abused

"Simple folk abused By religion."

Simple folks abused by business *using* religion in this case, surely? This was done to benefit the employer, not the church.

Astroscale wants to be the world's friendly neighborhood space garbage collector

teebie

I was going to suggest a katamari solution, but I remember them being hard to control

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

teebie

If he works with Azure in any way the getting paid relies on buying into the whole cloud connected BS.

UK smart meter rollout years late and less than two thirds complete

teebie

"The way that smart meters save money for consumers is because you get away from "estimates" and terrible metering policies, they can't profit from the interest on your held credit"

As far as I can tell, for most tariffs, the energy company makes an 'honest' estimate of your yearly usage, divides it by 12, then charges that fixed amount every month.

Somehow this always results in them profiting from the interest on your held credit.

teebie

" Manually reading a meter and entering the readings is really not something that belongs in this day and age."

This sentence is giving me 'man in an advert who cannot wind up a vacuum cleaner cord' vibes.

AWS experiment with Lambda in cloudless configuration fails to impress

teebie

Re: 4 outages in 3 years

Lambda was the root cause, anything that uses lambda was affected. Including the aws console, which ,for some, is the way to administer all of their aws products.

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

teebie

Re: as did his aide Walt Nauta

MAGA stands for 'my attorneys got arrested'

This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage

teebie

Re: "Sprints"

I too work with a fibonacci wanker. He doesn't seem to be able to express what problem this solution solves.

Users accuse Intuit of 'heavy-handed' support changes on QuickBooks for Desktop

teebie

"The move away from Desktop ensures customers stay compliant and can benefit from the updates available through QuickBooks Online"

Shouldn't "compliant" be followed by what the customers have to stay compliant with? So it doesn't look like deliberate scaremongering.

EU legislates disclosure of copyright data used to train AI

teebie

I thought that was going to be a link to the ad with some dimwits in a sunny fields chanting "daisy daisy, daisy daisy, daisy, daisy. Daisy", and wondered how that would help.

Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia

teebie

Re: What is deemed harmful to kids ?

"I know it when I see it"

How does Atlassian hope to actually improve Confluence and Jira? AI, of course!

teebie

"Our product is less helpful for productivity than scribbling on paper. Or shouting. We should add AI"

Page: