Posts by TeeCee

Let's parler Franglais!

Ne place pas tout votres oeufs dans une basket.

(Avec excuses au Kilometres Kington en retard)

Seems to be the way.

1) Take product.

2) Sprinkle magic AI pixie dust.

3) Price goes through roof.

4) Profit?

...exposed the details of 72.7 million Under Armour accounts...

Time for new Under Pants.

These Grok-generated Category C images are then fed into different AI tools to create the most serious Category A videos.

Sounds to me like there are other AIs that are actually responsible for the bit that really breaks the rules and thus should be the primary targets of any action. Probably out of jurisdiction though, hence the focus on grok.

Had the opposite problem once.

Cabled a place that had a very fussy and self-important manager who had one of those "fishbowl" offices with blinds built into the glazed units.

On completion, he pointed out that there was supposed to be a network port in his office, despite his not having a machine.

"Yes. There it is." says I, pointing at it.

"Don't give me that, it's not connected."

"Yes it is. If you like we can get something to plug in to prove it!".

"Look, I can clearly see that there's no cable running to it. I'm not being taken in by any tricks like that.".

"Ah, right. If you look at your glazed wall units here, you can see a recessed joint between each. This one appears is flush instead, which is where the mini trunking runs down from the ceiling with the cable in it.".

He studied this for a minute: "Yeees, I see now. That's invisible, unless you know what you're looking for. Right then, that's everything.".

With the benefit of hindsight, we should have asked for more money for "invisible" installations.

Hmm, there's a saying about eggs and baskets.

Worth considering that, in the event of a war, your data centres and "cloud" will almost certainly be hors de combat within hours of it all kicking off.

Also, one lesson coming out of Ukraine is that if you're reliant on comms for anything, that thing won't work as jamming is all pervasive on a modern battlefield.

"Hang on a minute, I'll just ask."

That's a massive improvement on the old middle-management way of doing things: pull an answer out of their arseholes and then blame their subordinates for not working hard enough to make that answer correct.

Hmm. Looking at that..

Rocket Lab's boss, Peter Beck...

You are Hugo Drax in disguise and ICMFP!

...as Google asked him to provide information that was only accessible if he logged in...

All too common these days. When MFA is involved, trying to get back in when locked out ranges from "shitshow" to "fucking impossible".

My all time favourite example was attempting to use Google's own service to find where I'd mislaid my phone when away from home.

1) Find another computer - check

2) Get the owner to allow me to use it - check

3) Log into Google while thanking Fuck, Shit and all their little pixies that I had stuck with a password than I can actually remember rather than allowing some POS that I now cannot use to generate one.

4) Great. now I just need to enter a 2FA authentication code.... Ah.... Right... That'll be on the phone that I'm trying to find... feeling less smug about the password...

5) 2hr Drive home.

6) Find device using another machine that I own and which is thus already set up and previously thumped in the "don't give me that 2FA shit" button.

7) Find device.

8) 2hr drive back to get it.

This does not seem like a practical way of doing things to me..

the company claims is "nutritious, vegan, and caters to every diet"

TL;DR - tastes like chicken

Saving the planet, one falsified metric at a time

Isn't that Ed Milliband's job description?

It's very, very simple.

If you want to hire cheap, off-the-peg eejits to run your shit, then it must be simple, utterly standard and well-documented.

If, on the other hand, you want to lead the market with bleedin' edge rocket science shit, then you need to pay bleedin' edge rocket scientists whatever the fuck they want to look after it.

.. working on multiple parallel paths to speed recovery.

Aka: Running around like headless chickens.

Today we've seen it in action, holding platforms to account...

They really are utterly deluded, aren't they?

As 4chan's lawyers have already pointed out in a legal response (TL;DR - "Fuck Off"), 4chan has no assets in the UK and the chances of anyone getting a confiscation order by stomping all over their First Amendment rights in the US is about 0% of the square root of bugger-all.

So all this is actually meaningless.