Posts by cyberdemon

Re: ... and ...

You can run it on a CPU with your system RAM I believe, but it may spend a bit more time pulling answers out of its digital arse

> It started as purely CRM but now you can do ERP and other business process automation.

Hmm, sounds like a good candidate for whatever "software update" it was that recently borked Maccie D's, Sainsburys and Tescos then!

The competition sucks, but

How is poor Microsoft supposed to completely monopolise the market while there is competition at All, eh?

They must be allowed to gobble up ALL of the minnows, before one of those minnows invents something better than their paper tiger duopolist Google (or Hell Forbid, better than OpenAI), because then there would be actual competition and we can't have That, can we!

Re: I refuse to use those touch screen thingies

And quite often, they will have a camera inside. Shortly they'll be reading your facial expressions and decide what you want before you've even poked your finger at it.

Re: Checking it twice

For a complaints logging database? Nah, just use the lowest-bid contractor for that system that we've been forced to implement but don't actually want ...

We used to have a paper-based system called the cylindrical receptacle, but those scrotes in Whitehall said it wasn't sufficient

Isn't it ironic

That a company calling itself "Open" AI, should be so concerned about the black box around their disruptive-yet-useless product

Re: It doesn’t test CPU JS execution?

It should.. The article's point is that this is a circle-jerk benchmark that only tests Chromium against itself. It is deliberately agnostic of hardware and conveniently not applicable to any non-Chromium browser..

TikTok

Promote videos of thugs pouring petrol into service ducts to other thugs likely to do the same

???

Profit

Can I ask for that data to be removed too?

Not if it's already been subsumed into GPT model weights. Then I believe it's impossible to remove without re-training the model from scratch.

The best they could do would be to add another 'guardrail' to prevent questions or outputs specifically about you, but those are easily bypassed by anyone determined or privileged enough, and having too many of those makes their system shitter and slower, so they are unlikely to do it unless forced to by a court

Re: It's all downhill once the bankers turn up

How exactly does Telegram fund its operations, never mind turn a profit?

I assume by selling data out of both ends of its end-to-end encrypted app

Simple scumbag target priority formula

(number_of_customers x vulnerability_of_customers) / competence_of_it_staff

Attacks are becoming about increasing the search space for further victims of scams, and councils will be a prime target because so many people depend on them.

I am unfortunately a southern water hostag^Wcustomer and since their cyber-leak i have started getting many scam calls e.g. "calling about your housing problem"

These appear to be automated with an AI voice calling itself Sarah. I haven't been far enough down the scam but I assume it wants to collect info about any issues you do have which it will use to sell you a discount home improvement survey which doesn't exist

I dread to think how much misery they could cause if they obtained a list of phone numbers of vulnerable people who are in debt to their council / housing association / etc. It's pretty worrying

Re: Been done before

I don't think so, no?

Tap water is treated reservoir water, which is supposed to be rainwater

Treated sewage (and in 'exceptional' cases that are slowly becoming the norm) is allowed to flow into rivers, but NOT reservoirs, afaik. There would be too much microplastics and the aforementioned pharmaceutical chemicals in it, even after treatment.

This is apparently planned to change by 2030, but is unpopular for obvious reasons: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62708413

Video unavailable in your country (UK) Would you like to Buy it?

WTF? Is slurping my data, manipulative recommendations and a pile of ads not good enough for you, YouTube?

Re: Great Idea!

CPM? I had to look up that piece of marketing BS-Bingo

I don't really give a toss about their costs. What irks me is that different people see different versions of webpages and search results depending on who some data-broker thinks they are. That's what enables social manipulation.

Of course, social manipulation is ultimately what all Advertising boils down to, but at least with untargeted advertising it has to be done in the clear, where people can call out propaganda and abuse. Whereas targeted advertising allows abusive marketing practices to be done surreptitiously.

Security by Obscurity

I once had someone tell me that we couldn't POSSIBLY use Linux on a particular product - "because Linux is Open Source - That means Anybody can get in!"

Windows 2000 had been mandated by higher-ups, for a government type-approved embedded system. Each unit required three separate Intel Atom PC/104 boards each running win2k for the system to operate. Usually one of them was borked, so it usually didn't.

Of course, in this case, that was fine, because the product in question was the speed cameras on the M25 and M40 (ducks)

Borked cameras often required lane closures and someone to go up on a gantry to reset it.. In the end, they made most of their money selling dummy cameras

Re: The wheels are coming off at Boeing

How often to wheels fall off planes in general? Whatever is going on, it is most certainly odd.

There seems to be a lot of media interest in -any- Boeing failure right now, and they also seem to be more frequent than normal. Something odd is going on. Either the Media have it in for Boeing, or somebody is sabotaging planes.. Or both. (or neither, it could be an emergent social-media phenomenon that after the door blowout everyone is on the lookout for more Boeing failures). Maybe the WEF-types are trying to reduce air travel ahead of WWIII while shorting Boeing stock? :P

coloured pencil bridage

Is this the same brigade who like to mandate non-reflowable webpages, even on desktop browsers?

Welcome to Google Health

No need for doctors anymore, our systems have profiled every person on the planet and determined exactly which ailments they will have before they have them, and exactly which medication they will need, with the magic of AI.

We've determined that you will soon be suffering from depression. Here's your advance prescription for antidepressants. Feel free to reach out to us if you would prefer to exchange it for a 10% discount voucher at Dignitas

Please note, this service may be terminated without notice when we get bored of it

Re: A lack of cheer(s)

To be fair, in 1871 they were only brewing enough for a few monks and the local townsfolk. To scale up an operation to brew beer at an affordable price for millions of people at home and abroad does require a certain degree of automation..

Re: Pendantic

You forgot your coat.

It's only a plateau if it has levelled off.. If it is still rising then it's still a spike, and is (for now) persistent?

I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with oncoming elections in the US and UK ...

There's KDE Plasma Mobile.. There's Sailfish

Unfortunately the biggest hurdle to both of these is that the hardware vendors have control via secure boot and e-fuses on the CPU itself, which will be blown by the bootloader if incorrect software is loaded, rendering the device hard-bricked. These mechanisms are mandated by Google in order to run Android OS, and also prevent downgrading to an earlier version of Android, so pretty much every device has them. Even Fairphone (the one device you would hope would not be able to deliberately self-brick) has them.

And obviously Crapple is as Crapple does - Tim Cook will be ice-skating in Hell with Steve before they allow third-party OSes onto IPhones.

Re: Maths

Or a "one percentage point" increase, if you're a politician trying to downplay a statistic.

Re: Take your pick

> My own favourite password is "michealgoveforPMand#10"

Is that because nobody would ever think that a plausible password, or because even if they knew your password, anyone would have a guttural reaction against typing it in on a keyboard?

Re: It is not left wing extremists

One could argue that he started off far left, then moved left, and ended up on the extreme right, such is the circular nature of the left/right political simplification ..