* Posts by Munchausen's proxy

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How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes

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Devil

Re: curl -fsSL someurl | sh

You know, you could inspect someurl

That's what the AI is for!

Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble

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Pint

Re: Just a thought

You know there’s at least one nutbag with the tools to sniff the traffic who will try to run Doom on V’ger

Carmack probably could

But does he have the dosh to rent a dish?

And probably does.

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Pint

Re: If ever there was a use case for LLM

You know that all such "AI" just collapses into a heap of nonsense the second it has to think for itself, receives unexpected data or strays outside its training boundaries, right?

Well, sure, just AI alone won't do the job. You need to add some quantum.

Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway

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Pint

Does Sendmail inlcude calendars, contact lists or tasklists? And communicate with other devices to share those things?

Do I want it to?

YouTube workers laid off mid-plea at city hall meeting

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Unhappy

Re: These were CONTRACTORS on the Day their Contracts Expired.

So they should have got standard sick/vacation pay from Cognizant, notice period, etc.

In the U.S., "Your position is terminated. Get off the property." IS the standard sick/vacation pay and notice period..

Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is

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Pint

Re: Heading off after completion of a task

I learned that you should always check the problem is solved >before< going off for a beer!

Yes, you never fix THE bug, the best you can do is fix A bug (repeat as necessary).

Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top

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Pint

Re: A wasted trip

And that reminds me of the magic switch:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1232

And for more Zen, it was installed by a person named Knight.

CLIs are simply wizard at character building. Let’s not keep them to ourselves

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Pint

Re: Intuitive GUI? My arse.

Let's see if anyone hardcode vi fan manages to come up with an explanation why <ESC>:q! is intuitive and straight forward ;)

I was going to make a TECO joke, comparing that to 'ex$$' but I suddenly realized to my horror that TECO really is more intuitive. (at least to exit)

Edit: ( I guess I should add that the '$' is what TECO displays for '<ESC>' )

Arm IPO kicks off today with CPU slinger valued at $54.5B

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Unhappy

Re: British chip designer to trade on Nasdaq only

While we will of course "lose" those businesses to the US stock exchanges in the short term, when the bubble bursts on the hugely overvalued tech companies in the US then presumably there will be screamed questions at the regulators that enabled losing hundreds of billions.

No, here in the US we've been pretty thoroughly conditioned to believe that any corporate regulation is pure evil, and any consequences to our personal financial status should be blamed on whichever politician of the other party has had his name in the news most recently.

Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan

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Facepalm

From part of that description, it sounded like they might have had Prod and Backup on two separate VMs on the same host, maybe with guest storage limits calculated a little too precisely?

From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?

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Flame

Re: Utterly Pointless

Its doomed because the browser is a an hoc architecture, its primarily a display mechanism used to interact with human users

I'd argue the browser is primarily a data collection mechanism used to impose advertising (and other propaganda) on human users.

University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu

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Boffin

Re: MTS

They’d have been fine if they’d still been running MTS.

Which Host?

USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

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Pint

Re: _Bottom_ posted?

"BTW: Green Card Lottery was not the first SPAM I encountered on UseNet, "

Dave Rhodes -- 'Bizman Dave, the modem slave' -- predated C & S by a considerable amount, in my fallible memory. I vaguely think that Rhodes may have started out on Fidonet, but I'm certain he was shitting on Usenet before the lawyers.

Want tech cred? Learn how to email like a pro

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Pint

Re: Wrapping at column 78

I've only recently switched from Opera v 12, because my workplace moved almost entirely to Microsoft for email, and I can't get Opera to talk successfully to Microsoft's smtp server. (Evolution does, with a plugin). It's painful. I still keep Opera running on one screen for the excellent search capability, and automatic sorting intelligently by date (on disk).

Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them

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Re: Data

" (But no more than a few. 3 seconds is plenty to total a CD/DVD via an impressive lightning show. So not much more than this to avoid a conflagration.)"

So, you're saying that shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three?

I suppose five is right out.

Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch

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Pint

Re: Bit of a gimmicky letdown with squandered potential

Am I the only person who was completely underwhelmed? I was expecting something like a more affordable version of the Optimus Maximus keyboard from fifteen years(!) ago with individual OLEDs in the keycaps, letting you dynamically update and indicate their functionality. That idea had a lot of potential, regardless of how it was implemented. (*)

Interestingly, YouTube gave me a suggestion after I watched the finalmouse thing, and showed me this: Flux Keyboard - The Keyboard Reinvented -- which looks to be exactly a relatively inexpensive implementation of the best ideas of the Optimus and the finalmouse Enterprise. (Pre orders from their website show $450 USD). Do a search on YouTube for "flux keyboard" and they have a direct comparison with the Enterprise keyboard as well. I really really want one; maybe even enough to pre-order.

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

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Pint

Re: What About The Current Resident?

So that means you need to know things even when you don't need to know them. You need to know them not because you need to know them but because you need to know whether or not you need to know. If you don't need to know, you still need to know so that you know that there is no need to know.

You are Kurt Gödel, and I claim my five pounds.

Sysadmin and IT ops jobs to slump, says IDC

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Pint

Re: A generous helping of crispy crunchy word salad

"Or is ChatGPT writing their material these days?"

May as well -- it's going to be writing all that software they claim sysadmins are going to be producing.

Microsoft's big bet on helium-3 fusion explained

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Pint

"So they need to produce a fusion reactor to produce fuel for the fusion reactor. If they have the first one working why would they need the second?"

The first reaction doesn't need to produce net energy, just He-3. The pair of them need to be net positive for energy, though.

One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned

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Re: Blockchain not at fault

You might own the artwork, but the ownership class owns the law. Good luck.

Your security failure was so bad we have to close the company … NOT!

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Pint

IHTFP

This was done to the President of MIT, although not quite so firmly as drywall:

http://hacks.mit.edu/by_year/1990/vest_bboard/

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

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Pint

Re: This article pins the tail to the AI balloon

"This column is an expansive exercise in rephrasing "garbage in; garbage out"."

I think of the chatbots as being 'Electric Wikipedia'. (with all that implies). Maybe we really should feed a couple of them into each other, and let them dissolve into a singularity of editor wars, while the rest of us move on to the next shiny. Quantum, I guess.

Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss

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Megaphone

Re: Well that was unfortunate.

"Who, on their right mind, would take offense of a nickname from a time before they appeared, therefore, obviously not aimed at them ?"

Maybe a woman who doesn't like the implication that a random woman can be blamed for any and every problem, and people accept that as a good tech support response?

Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites

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Re: Depressing news

"Can they make up for it with gun sales?"

No, it's a pharmacy so it will be fentanyl and oxycontin.

Petaflops help scientists understand why some COVID-19 variants are more contagious

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Re: Seems familiar

"Sounds like night clubbing on the weekend to me"

Over a large population, the math is probably pretty similar.

Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge

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Re: whither all the Google real estate?

Maybe they plan to convert it all to condos. Sell at ridiculous prices to the currently wealthy and desperate to live in Silicon Valley, soak them for monthly fees as well, and hit them up for insane assessments when the buildings need maintenance. Then when the inevitable crash comes, spin off the Residential Group into a strategic bankruptcy and walk away.

Ain't that America?

White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake

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Pint

Full steam ahead

Brilliant piece of word-slinging. My compliments to the author.

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

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We can hope, but

"Fintech, you're better than this."

Are they, though? Are they?

FTX disarray declared 'unprecedented' by exec who cleaned up after Enron

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Re: Next chapter

"(a) The whole bitcon scam is exposed for what it is, politicians now call for its abolition, banks refuse to touch it, and "

Bank banks might refuse to touch it. Investment banks love that shit.

Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home

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Re: The Twitterverse will soon be silent

When does their domain name expire? Because I bet the guy whose job it was to remember to renew it is gone.

Musk tells of risk of Twitter bankruptcy as tweeters trash brands

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More and more

More and more I get the feeling that yes, indeed, he is deliberately trying to completely destroy Twitter - nothing else makes sense to explain his behavior. The only thing I can think of as a reason is if he expects to sue the previous directors by claiming that they sold him a broken company that couldn't survive.

For that to make sense though, he must not realize he's doing it all in public and we can see it.

Mysteries of the rich and their assholery, I guess.

Nvidia RTX 4090: So hot they're melting power cables

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Pint

Can I just say

"assemblies have demonstrated thermal variance,"

Is a top-notch way to say "caught fire"

Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security

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Re: Meh

"Possibly a difference between some of us whose first meeting with a computer was a terminal at university"

Terminal?

029 (when you weren't stuck with an 026)

Open-source leaders' reputations as jerks is undeserved

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Pint

Re: Offensive and poorlt thought through

"Putting people in the right shaped hole is the key to success. Forcing them into a wrong shaped hole is utterly disastrous for everyone. As this tale perfectly shows."

And as metrics-based management will never understand.

Linux luminaries discuss efforts to bring Rust to the kernel

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Mushroom

Re: All of that effort

"If you don't like it, go back to C, because its going to be a while before they let you write Perl in the kernel. ;)"

systemd-cpan

Don't say Pentium or Celeron anymore, it's just Processor now, says Intel

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Pint

Re: “It’s got an Intel Processor”

"Darn it! There goes my bet that it'd be called the Intel Sexolicious Bootytron."

That does sound like a great EDM band name.

Lenovo launches face-mounted monitor

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Pint

I think I like it, but ...

Probably dumb question, but how do you see the keyboard to type, if you're using a laptop? Presumably you could make it semi-transparent for an on-screen keyboard in a touch environment, but I'm not certain you want that much transparency for general use.

Nice to see this old idea implemented, though, and I'll be interested to see if it works out.

Linux may soon lose support for the DECnet protocol

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Pint

" Why I do it this way is left as an exercise for the reader. "

You are Ned Ludd and I claim my 5 pounds.

Last week Intel killed Optane. Today, Kioxia and Everspin announced comparable tech

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Boffin

Re: Changing everything, or not

" this should be great but it requires a whole new operating system design."

Multics did it 50 years ago. It's a different way of looking at things, but very workable.

Multics and an emulator to run it are freely available, for anyone interested:

https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page

Russian ChessBot breaks child opponent's finger

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Pint

Let the Wookie win.

America's chip land has another potential shortage: Electronics engineers

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Pint

Re: EEeek! vs CSfreak: Et tu ISA?

"Here I learned to wonder if said EE uglyness could be out marketed by ANYONE with a sense of orthogonal design in order to lower the suicide threshold of poor assembler coders, like me."

Tip a glass for our late, lamented, friend the PDP-11.

Linus Torvalds says Rust is coming to the Linux kernel 'real soon now'

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Re: People

"People don't understand the VM subsystem, even when it's written in C,"...

Then you need new people.

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Or a new VM subsystem. Overcommitment is an abomination whose only purpose is to allow bad code to run (for a while, anyway).

First steps into the world of thought leadership: What could go wrong?

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Pint

Re: I Used To Hate That!

"CV: I'm really good working with others."

"Interview: According to your record (created by us), you are a sociopath"

"With others, on others, whatever works."

"Have you considered a move to management?"

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1 percent inspiration, 99 percent plagiarism – that's my motto.

Thats gold, Jerry! Gold!

Record players make comeback with Ikea, others pitching tricked-out turntables

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Time to skate away from this thread.

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Flame

Re: Digital transmission?

"to be fair: my re-release of some Yehudi Menhuin playing the Bach Partitas sounds... well... not that great either."

Well, of course. To my ears, all violin partitas are the elevator music of a particularly noxious Hell.

And the elevator gets stuck between floors.

I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well

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Pint

Re: Computing smarts in the cloud

"And you think the hardware manufacturers will be OK with this?"

What are they going to do about it? Sell Linux computers?

Elon Musk orders Tesla execs back to the office

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Pint

Re: Prediction

"Am I right?"

Well, maybe, other than the part about 'regrets' and 'learned'. I really don't think those things are happening.

When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer

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Damn. I wish I had ever worked for her.

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