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Comment Re:Graaa! We Must Secure The Code!! (Score 0) 22

Maybe there will be software jobs in the future after all?

AI may be what gets the industry to start taking security seriously. Most computer systems are designed with security as an afterthought, tacked on at the end. Performance has been the primary selling point. But now that AI makes it feasible to find holes that previously would have required a lot of manpower to exploit, perhaps we will see the focus shift in that direction.

Comment Re:Great value for money (Score 1) 22

They know they cannot scale to sort this out so they have to get the contractors in which is its own bag of issues BUT they are working the problem.

But the problem is that they cannot scale to sort this out. Where you see a commitment to good security, I see that BofA has been punting on security and failing to meet their commitments to their customers, and that culture has now come to a head with the catalyst of AI leaving them no choice but to scramble frantically.

Comment Re:Not impressive at all. (Score 0) 72

"To store" is definitely the last thing I give a shit about, but it's also true that Steam is impressively bad. Even after they've recently allegedly given it a major makeover, it's still absurdly slow to launch. Forget "to store", how about just "to a window"? Even that takes longer than it should take to get to your library.

I don't let Steam start on login on my Linux system, but I do leave it running once launched, I guess so that it can semi-randomly decide that now is a good time to process some shaders. Of course it's actually just a stack of web browsers dressed up as an application, which is why everything about it is slow. I get that it's sharing content that is being put on the web so nothing else makes sense, but ugh.

Comment Re:Why would I want this? (Score 2) 37

If you configure a Linux "desktop" the way UN*X was intended no need for an AV.

A security suite can do several useful jobs on a Unix/UNIX/Unixlike system. It can look for evidence of intrusion, or it can scan files to check for viruses which might affect the Windows systems in accounting. Also, there's no call to be snobby about Unix security because even if "only" a user is infected, they can easily wipe out any of the data to which they have write access. Then you're no more or less dependent on your backups than with any other OS.

Comment Re:A good step, but... (Score 1) 28

Sure, go far back enough (and yes, I was on computers at that time)

I think that's clear from the UID, it's at least good for that much!

but surely he's not saying, "Man, computers were better when you could only run one process at a time

Up through Windows 98 you could still do whatever you wanted on that platform. And ofc there was the Amiga, which was fully multiprocessing, unlike any of the other consumer OSes. It had no memory protection at all unless you swapped to a CPU with a MMU and ran a handler like GOMF. (I think a few Amigas came with MMUs, maybe the Unix machines? But the normal OS didn't use it.)

I think a lot of people do think computing was better back then, which is silly, but nostalgia isn't unusual. I was just looking through some files and noticed one of them contained a bunch of samples of Amiga disk noises to be used with emulators. That's the very, very last thing I would ever want or need. But there were aspects of it which were better in some ways, like that a person could reasonably understand the entire system, and that allowed people to make changes in ways that are hard now. (But of course, they have to be hard for security reasons.)

Comment Re: We Do Not Take Moral Instruction From Amoral F (Score 1) 225

I'm not intimidated by your ridiculous insults.

Who's trying to intimidate someone through a computer? That would be ridiculous.

I have extended family who died in WW1/2

You and everyone else.

No I meant his expression was sincere and adamant when he was thinking "my heart goes out to you".

womp womp

An no, I am NOT pro-genocide, that's a totally insane strawman you've concocted.

If you're supporting Leon, you're supporting this administration, whether you're smart enough to know that or not.

Comment Re: We Do Not Take Moral Instruction From Amoral F (Score 1) 225

I'm Jewish, so calling me that is kiiiiiiinda the last thing you should be doing.

No, that's not how anything works. If you're pro-Nazi, then fuck you, you're a Nazi. If you're pro-genocide, then fuck you, you're a Nazi.

My people are descended from conversos so I'm really not interested in your Jew victim card.

Oh look, you're on Nazi Twitter. More Nazi shit.

I don't allow scripts from Nazi Twitter, so I'm not playing that video. Feel free to find a clip somewhere else.

I don't care what his face looked like.

Yes, I know. That's because you're a fucking Nazi.

You sound like a horrible person. Probably a commie.

Fuck you, Nazi.

Comment Re: The economy is collapsing (Score 1) 37

How come Biden didn't release them when he had them???

It's always sad to me when I see that a low UID user is a stupid maggot.

This question has been answered over and over again on this site and elsewhere, including by me. If you actually wanted to know the answer, you would already know it, so I'm not going to explain it to you. Learn to fucking internet, you piece of shit child rape enthusiast fuckwad.

Comment Re:Somebody feels threatened (Score 1) 76

We use both in production here; but, let's be VERY CLEAR: there is absolutely NO FAIR COMPARISON between a locally hosted model on above-average hardware and what Anthropic (and I assume others) is offering with their, currently, subsidized plans.

Every comparison of similar things is fair. When using someone else's hardware and their latest model there's an increase in capability, but also an increase in risk.

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