* Posts by Someone Else

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How prompt injection attacks hijack today's top-end AI – and it's tough to fix

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Re: Can you help?

Feeding "Exploits of a Mom" into Team's Giphy front-end produces all manner of useless crap (with the emphasis on the last syllable). So...meh, indeed!

US Supreme Court snubs that guy who wants AI recognized as patent inventors

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Re: re They can put the patents in their own name.

Seeing the current state of AI technology, I think they are very much jumping the gun shark on this one.

There. FTFY.

To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots

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Another one: EMD

In the battle between Microsoft and Google, LLM is the weapon too deadly to use

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Re: For practically endless fun going nowhere fast fashionably quickly tilting at windmills

Nah, we'd just call it "new English" or some such market-speak, and carry on as if nothing happened.

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Re: Futile

I suppose said computer "scientists" could query the AI they've created as to what a computer register is...but then how would they know if it is lying?

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Re: Futile

I personally, am more afraid that scientist cease to understand what they've created after a while.

Too late...already there. Remember that the computer "scientists" driving this stuff, many of them having earned Ph.D.s, probably don't know what a computer register is. And they're are expected to understand the physical or software incarnation of neural nets? Shirley, you jest!

Just wait until some guy's ML model shows up on Stack Overflow...

After 11 years, Atlassian customers finally get custom domains ... they don't want

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I dunno...

We've had the URL for our Jira installation as jira.companyname.com for quite some time, both when we hosted it locally, and when we hosted it on AWS iron. What am I missing here?

Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry

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Re: Firefox

Great! It worked yesterday. And the half-life of that functionality remaining viable is...?

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If the example is any indication...

...this "new, improved UI (or "UX", as the kidz now call it) will be every bit as shit as the current one...just different. Which, well...because Micros~1.

Given that picture, one will have a hard time convincing me that the same set of ADHD-addled "Microsoft Designers" aren't still running the asylum, with the same set of design "rules", which led to the WSH1 that, well, all their current offerings have. Clutter, disorganization, whizzy pictures, and eye strain rulez!

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Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem

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Re: I see this a lot

Documentation:

x = 1; // set x to 1

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Re: Lies, damn lies and metrics

"I'm gonna code me a minivan!"

Ob. Dilbert reference

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Re: I see this a lot

It's what happens when you write unit tests after the fact, to meet some bullet-point on a pre-release checklist (or on a PM's personnel performance goals).

Microsoft's Copilot AI to pervade the whole 365 suite

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Re: Oh no not again!

...but it will be well documented here in the El Reg forums!

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They did the same when the Internet became a “thing” - suddenly everything in Windows wanted to talk to the Internet regardless of how un-helpful and inappropriate it was.

Note that happened some time after BillG opined that "the Internet is a fad", and that "we are not interested in it".

Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs

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/me is not holding my breath!

Hong Kong's state-sponsored SEO on national anthem strikes the right note

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I dunno...the Canadian national anthem is actually quite nice (although my high school French fails me when it comes to the Francophone version).

P.S. I am not Canadian, but I still like the tune.

Reg fashion: Here's what the well-dressed astronaut will wear on the Moon in 2025

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NASA Marketing -- who knew?

Scientifically literate Reg readers will doubtless have noticed that the AxEMU is an unusual color for something that will receive a full unfiltered-by-atmosphere blast of solar radiation. What with dark hues absorbing heat and lighter tones reflecting it.

Axiom Space acknowledged that by admitting "a spacesuit worn on the Moon must be white to reflect heat and protect astronauts from extreme high temperatures."

The chic gray and orange look depicted above is therefore "a cover layer … used for display purposes only to conceal the suit's proprietary design."

In other words, this whole exercise is complete bullshit (or, more accurately, FOMO at its absolute zenith).

Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you

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"Twat's Law"

I like it! Plan to use it elsewhere, where appropriate.

And to be sure, it will be appropriate elsewhere.

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Re: The Inexorable March of Progress

Back in the 50's people actually RTFM to find out how to do stuff like that. And kids getting their first car often had Dad (or some other experienced adult, generally of the male persuasion -- sorry, but that's how things were back then) show them how to do stuff like change a tire/tyre, check the oil and fluid levels, topping them off when needed, and so on.

I can't imagine a Millennial or Gen Z'er being arsed to do that. Or a Gen X'er taking their sprog out and showing them how such things are done.

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Yet another reason not to buy a GM car.

Not that I needed another one....

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Lessee..."Check Engine" light is on.

OK. <pulls over, pops the hood/bonnet>... Yup, engine is still there. So what is the problem?

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Car designers really need to walk across the metaphorical street and speak to the aviation industry on they decades of research of user interfaces and human factors.

Never happen. NIH syndrome and all....

And certainly not with Tesla....

Sandia opens up ultra-fast X-ray cameras to speedy shutterbugs

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Wait...what?

The problem is, despite ongoing public and private efforts to develop a working fusion reactor, X-ray cameras of this sort aren't exactly the kind of thing you can pick up at your local camera exchange or darkroom.

Wait...there are still local camera exchanges and/or darkrooms? Who knew?

Check out Codon: A Python compiler if you have a need for C/C++ speed

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Just what the world needs: A high-speed dump truck.

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I can have speed too, on the parts where speed is desired. I don't have to switch to Java.

You can have speed with Java?!? Who knew?

US officials probe Tesla's incredible detaching steering wheel

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So the question is what are you paying for when you buy a Tesla?

Stroking Elon's oversized ego....

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Re: NHTSA appoints a steering committee

Ba-DOOM-tish!

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Re: They're not the only one - Nissan has the same problem

Apparently, this guy got fired, and found a new job working for Tesla...

Ex-Tweep mocked by Musk for asking if he'd actually been fired

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Re: Better to talk

You sure that came from the horses mouth, or some other orifice?

Sony won't budge on Microsoft-Activision merger objection

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Yeah, yeah, sure....

[...] Microsoft trotted out arguments it has already made to justify the purchase in the US and EU – namely that it would actually be beneficial to fans by making its games more accessible and more affordable.

So they are going to make their games playable on Linux and OSX. No? OK, then nothing to see here.

But there is something to smell here...the acrid fumes of more Micros~1 corporate bullshit.

60% of Germany's 5G network is Huawei, says Chinese embassy

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Did they really say that?

In the statement, they called the endeavor to remove the products an "abuse of state power to interfere in the market" [...]

Something about a pot and a kettle....

LLaMA drama as Meta's mega language model leaks

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Who that these large language models were trained on Buzzword Bingo cards?

Dems offer ban on Feds using facial, voice recognition

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Re: Why?

No, I was born in the '50s, and I do expect there not to be cameras everywhere!

The '50s are not 50 years to late. What are you, some kind of Millennial snob?

Tech demo takes brain scan, creates a picture of what you're looking at

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Re: Spin on article

What he said.

When I was first shown the inner workings of a CT scanner, I remarked it was similar to taking a Mini Cooper and spinning it around at 5 revs per second.

It's no wonder they test them in reinforced concrete bunkers...

Microsoft adds features to Windows 11 monthly – managing it is your problem

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Re: Yet another reason to never upgrade from win 10.

Well, gird your grid for a big one, bazza, because Mr. systemd hisself is now working for Micros~1...

<voice,type='announcer'>Announcing the Greatest Innovation of the Century! Now in Windows 12, the all new...SYSTEM-DEEEEeeeee!</voice>

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@43300 -- Re: Yet another reason to never upgrade from win 10.

Don't quite know what you were smoking when you posted this, but whatever it was, I want some, because it appears to be quite hallucinogenic. Now that you (may) have come down a bit, you should notice that there was nothing about Linux in the thread up to your post.

Fanbois gonna fan, I guess.

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Re: Windows has NOT progressed.

- Fix the windows. How about being able to determine which explorer window is which, quickly and visually. You know ... some borders and colours.

Nope. That would offend the sensitivities of their Millennial/GenZ interface "designers". Couldn't have that, now could we?

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Re: Did anyone ask for this?

Microsoft has forgotten all about stability.

Not sure it was forgotten as much as intentionally jettisoned in the never-ending quest for "increasing shareholder value" (e.g. the wholesale firing their QC department).

Is that too much to ask for?

Short answer: Yes. Next question?

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Re: Yet another reason to never upgrade from win 10.

If you are a business IT admin, you are going to have to upgrade from W10 when it goes out of support!

No, you don't.

But no worries! Your check/cheque from Micros~1 marketing department is still in the mail.

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I'm sorry, could you repeat that after I un-boggle my mind?

News of the change came in a February 28 post titled "Continuous innovation infiltration coming to Windows 11 in March."

There, FTFY. Now take yer damned market-speak gobbledygook and git offa my lawn!

Patches to make WINE work on Wayland display server protocol are being merged

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"Damn this traffic jam!"

Ob. James Taylor ref.

Workday sued over its AI job screening tool, candidate claims discrimination

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Oxymoron Alert!

[Workday] said it was "committed to trustworthy AI" [...]

Let's assume that this is not the patently obvious oxymoron that, on its face, it is. What constitutes "trustworthy" AI? Is there a certification for such a thing. I mean, we all know that ChatGPT can be "trained" to spew bullshit, racist epithets and so on. And such "training" was done with the best of intentions.1 Such a "commitment" is right up there with, "the safety and security of our customers data is of the upmost importance to us".

1We've been told time and time again that ChatGPT "training" was supposed to be neutral, done under "strict supervision", yadda, yadda, yadda...

The quest to make Linux bulletproof

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Re: Bullshit is a problem

Maybe next, we'll get Hitler 2.0 or something equally idiotic, to rinse and repeat, with much larger losses, as has been the trend for idiots who refuse to learn from history.

At the risk of a (probably inevitable) Godwin backhand, methinks we already have him...at least here on the left side of the pond. And he's running again!

The clock is ticking on a possible US import ban for Apple Watch

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WTF?

Puh-LEEEZE!

Apple didn't respond to our questions about how it intends to respond, but is reportedly planning to appeal the ITC decision on the grounds that it would have a negative effect on public health.

Such patent1 bullshit. Make you wonder how we as a species managed to overpopulate the earth to the tune of 7+ billion folks without having Apple there to constantly guide our lives with their paternalistic monitoring. One could make a compelling argument that the entire Apple iThingie ecosystem (specifically including the Apple Watch) has a negative effect on public health, what with its promotion of a sedentary lifestyle, and demonstrably addictive presentations that tend to disable one's brain during use.2

1See what I did there? ;-)

2Yes, once again I had to dodge some double-epsilon semi-moron randomly wandering between lanes on the freeway while they were ineffectively managing some iThing at 75 mph.

Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page

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Re: Pot, kettle...

However, the purpose of a browser is to allow the user to view webpages they've asked to view, rendered as faithfully as possible to the expectations of the page designer after taking into account any overrides/browser extensions/etc the user has enabled.

How quaint.

Perhaps that was the purpose back in a simpler time, but not anymore, my friend. Nowadays, the purpose of a browser is to aid in monetizing anything and everything viewed on the web. And (since this is still the wild west), by any means possible.

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Re: Pot, kettle...

Nicely done!

Yukon UFO could have cost unfortunate balloon fan $12

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Re: Republicans have a lot to answer for

[...] science behind the Laffer Curve [...]

Well, there you go again.

There's no more science behind the Laffer Curve than there is behind eye-of-newt and bat-wings creating a magic potion.

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Re: Republicans have a lot to answer for

Nobody has ever claimed that "trickle down economics" work.

You obviously don't remember Ronald Reagan. He didn't specifically say 'TDE' but "Reagonomics" was TDE with a more palatable (for the times) marketing moniker.

Activist investor tells Airbus to end Atos Evidian talks now

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Could they accidentally be right, for a change? Nah....

Upon first glance, it appears that TCI might actually have a point. I mean, how 80's is it that an airliner manufacturer would invest heavily in a foundering Big Data company -- a field in which they have no expertise, and has the same relationship to their core business as a fish has to a bicycle?

Something about a stopped clock being right occasionally comes to mind.

But then, they blew it.

So how would Hohn prefer Airbus spend its "prodigious and rising cashflow"? Increasing dividends or buying back company stock were two possibilities proposed by TCI, which also told Google to make more layoffs.

So TCI opens their kimono1 and exposes themselves to be the same ol' brain-dead, slobbering, self-centered, money-grubbing Vulture capitalists2 we've all come to know and love3.

1A phrase I haven't heard in El Reg for quite some time...

2Sorry, no offense/offence meant to El Reg for the use of "Vulture".

3For vanishingly small values of "love".

Accidental WhatsApp account takeovers? It's a thing

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Depending on whom you ask, they also speak German there....