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Comment Re:Sounds like it's time to invoke defamation laws (Score 2) 73

They're literally using false accusations as a basis to deprive a customer of something that has been paid for.

How would the court calculate the financial loss you have suffered as a result of the public hit to your reputation from this?

Kinda feels like unless your a big streamer or whatever your suing for a zero dollar payout.

Comment Re:Where i live... (Score 1) 110

Im not seeing it mentioned, but that light also affects mental health and sleep cycles. Its pretty well documented how blue light helps the brain work out what time it is in the day and year. Theres strong evidence to suggest that bluer lights (for instance white leds) can assist with seasonal depression, whilst conversely warmer less-blue lights can help with insomnia (As someone who is basically an insomniac with seasonal affective disorder, I use color change leds to cycle between them with bright white in the day and redder lights at night to help me wind down. I cant help but think that bright white lights at night is basically the worst of all possible worlds.

Comment Re:Give grandma a room in your home (Score 1) 188

Its not a universal solution, just an underused one. Especially given that today's 60-year olds are in better shape than in past generations.

And so are todays grandpas. Which means grandma aint moving in with you when she's only just 10 years out of her youngest moving out of home when she can live with grandpa whos still got a job and has boomer cash to throw about.

Comment Re:Give grandma a room in your home (Score 1) 188

Half the kids would be happy to be able to afford a house with just a room. When the most you can expect is a studio appartment where you sleep next to the toilet and the rent is 60% of your wage, grandma aint getting the spare room.

Also grandpas live to 80 now. When grandpas died at 60, chances where better that you'd have a spare grandma to move into one of your 4 bedrooms.

Comment Re:Uh oh! (Score 3, Interesting) 66

I think its implausible that it'd be for sale. The thing would be worth multiple tens of billions at the bare minimum because of all the game studios it owns AND a hardware division. Theres a LOT of IP in there.

But actually recoupinng any of that? Doubt it.

The XBox business just doesnt make a lot of sense.

Comment Re:Artificial President (Score 1) 260

The models are not good at math. They use external planning tool calls and separate calculation engines that are good at math but are not AI.

Sort of like mathematicians then. Because most mathematicians are pretty damn dependent on external tools. My old housemate was a PhD pure mathematics researcher. He couldn't multiply to save his arse.

Though he was a borderline alcoholic and seemingly perpetually drunk, so theres that.

Comment Re:Eve moving goalpost at Linux Stadium. (Score 2) 85

Now we have AI scanning the Linux source code and showing that it's vaunted security has been through obscurity for far too long,

Either you don't understand what security through obscurity is, or your being incredibly disengenous. Linux's source has been on public display since the outset. Windows has never been on display (except for the occasional leak). Automatically and by definition Linuxes security has been less "by obscurity" than it would ever be possible for windows to have been, short of a full sourcecode release by microsoft.

Security by Obscurity does not refer to "nobody has found the bug yet", it refers to an intentional policy of hiding design features to try and slow down an attacker. Which rarely is a useful tool. And sometimes actively harmful, particularly if its stopping security researchers finding holes to patch.

Because at the moment , the current large amount of holes being found is literally proof that Linux's model of NOT obscuring security works as we get to find those bugs and patch them. In other words whats happening now is proof that Linux's model works.

Comment Re: Which is it? (Score 1) 128

I just wanted to let you know that you have successfully driven me off of /., after some 25 years.

Not just you, obviously, the site has been in steep decline for a long time, but you were such a huge asshole that you managed to be the last straw. So, congrats for that. I won't be back.

Comment Re: Good riddance (Score 5, Insightful) 151

The AI coding assistants can then be used where appropriate and with greater review by the more talented. Reducing the "slop."

So heres the thing. I've had a bunch of my work as the senior dev move from "Work on coding challenges with the younger devs and help them code high quality reliable software" to "code review this AI slop and tell me why it doesnt work" , and its fucking miserable work.

Theres a lot more of it, and its batshit code for the most part. Just illogical choices and no craftmanship (Though I'll give claude one thing;- It comments its code, something I've been yelling at junior coders to do for the better part of my career. Lets the greybeard know what the hell they are trying to achieve so I can look at their code and fix it so it actually achieves it.

Comment Re:So we all know they are lying (Score 2) 286

Its really weird. If you look at where the school, and neighboring barracks are. The line between the school and the barracks directly lines up to where the carrier is parked in the strait of hormuz. Ok. So that lines up with the possibility that the missile overshot the target. That happens from time to time, even the best weapons systems have targetting whoopsies.

The problem is the school was hit Twice with a "double tap" kill-the-survivors hit. That meant it overshot twice? Less likely.

The bit that weirds me out, is that any reasonable intelligence analysis , on account of being a reasonable human being , would go. "OK we see the target. Problem is its next to a school full of children" (The school is marked on google maps, it wasnt a secret). So the logical solution is you hit it at night when all them kids are at home. No dead children to mess up the narrative or give the missile loaders PTSD.

So yeah, definite incompetence SOMEWHERE. It is plausible indeed that the AI chose the target and it wasn't bright enough to go "Ok, theres kids in danger with this strike, escalate this to a human with some suggested actions to minimize civilian lifes. Even worse is the possibility that it did, and Captain fuck-face said "I dont care, fire anyway".

Comment Only bug left. (Score 2) 75

Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony.

And he knows this is the "only hypervisor bug left" because...he hasn't been able to find another one yet?

This smells like some dude saying "AI is better than me at my hobby, so I'm taking my ball and going home!"

Comment Re: I'm still wondering (Score 1) 224

This is why I still like the (very) old fashion tape backupp systems. Just backup to tape every day (And preferably a copy kept in a bank safe or whatever. In case your office literally burns down or whatever) and if you get ransomware, just send "Fuck you" to the attacker, go to the safe, restore, be done with it.

Granted the cloud... not so easy. But I always prefer old school on-premise servers so whatever.

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