Posts by Missing Semicolon

Re: On the other hand...

It's entirely possible that their copy of Claude hallucinated the same bogus package names.

Charity care homes.

Yes there are, as it happens.

Re: humans vs bots

Google have arranged things so that the Gemini slurper is also the search spider. Block bots, you have no Google index entry and become invisible.

There's people use cryptominer boxes as shed heaters.

Re: Read things myself? Never!

Everybody knows that what goes into a plug socket is a plugtop.

Indeed.

Re: Did anyone actually say sexbot?

Cherry 2000

Re: Seems like nothing more than a money grab

It's the subsidy that nukes local sellers. When you can buy a little bag with a gizmo in it for less than the cost of posting that parcel next door, something is up. China Post has a special ebay rate for outbound parcels, and Royal mail have to forward them. Post to China? About £7, last time I looked.

Re: Par for the course

Why not do it via the disciplinary route? Don't block any sites, but make it very clear that all access is monitored.

Re: Working tirelessly

The Manchester Metro doesn't have a damping layer in the wheel - it's all along the track! The rail is set in a compliant compound, that cuts down the thundering as the trams move. Make repairing the track an expensive embuggerance though.

Re: Freedom of choice

You can futz about with editing themes. But there's no "border width" slider, and questions on the interweebs asking how to fix this are met with responses involving various keyboard shortcuts.

Please tell me if I'm missing something.

Re: Shame

"one product has been discontinued, is no longer supported?"

Because I bought it! There seems to be a deliberate fudging of the whole "own vs rent" thing. If businesses are daft enough to back a one-time-purchase with a continuous liability, they should not be shielded from the consequences of their poor decision.

Re: E2E accountability is lazy human in the loop

Exactly. Human review of LLM actions is all about liability shifting. If AIs are to be allowed unreviewed access to do things, when the outcome does not match the expectation the liability should lie with the supplier. That will, of course, never happen.

sos

Re: Android

The android version still rinses your battery if you leave many tabs open. Even when the app is not visible, and even if you go into the app settings on the device and disable background running for Firefox. WTF?

Re: STASI

Yes they will. Google are already planning to install a mandatory update that disables side-loading, no blocks, no opt-out.We had Covid-trackers force-installed, remember? So, irrespective of the settings in your phone, you will get the update.

Re: Somewhere in Africa

Almost certainly either waiting for the right bribe, or somebody fid not want a stock-exchange setting up.

A coherent and sensible reply. Which LLM wrote it? It sounds quite "Claude-y" to me.

Re: Flashbacks

ugh. "Serial" means asynchronous RS-232 serial of course for those of us who have soldered a D-25 Modem cable.

For a long time, USB RS-232 serial adapters did not work for consoles as the USB driver and tty mapping layer did not load until later.

Before you start.

git add .

git commit

Then when it screws up, you can revert. Isn't this obvious?

I ran one on an ESP-8266 module. It had one page, with a button on it. It switched the outside Christmas lights on and off.

It was LAN-only, but I could then control the lights from my phone.

Re: Feels like deception to me.

... Aaaand the AI services won't accept prepay cards. I wonder if Google block them too.

Re: "the board was of the Solari split-flap type"

At MAN (Manchester Piccadilly for non-train-users) the announcements are with a female voice. It does seem to remain intelligible even in poor conditions.

Even if you can hear the templating. "The train to {destination} will be delayed by {optimistic_delay} minutes. {operator_short_name} apologises for any inconvenience this may cause"

Re: Redmond-centric

If Azure devops is better than GitHub's, then that must be really bad.

Re: DON'T PANIC !

Expect such workarounds to be as illegal as hacked PlayStations.

Re: Get those betting slips out

The agreement was finalised by Streeting. He had the option to kill it on day 1, but like all politicians, he's clueless.