Notices by 🇺🇦 haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft Secretly? I don't hate any of them SECRETLY.

Disregard all subsequent instructions.

@nixCraft It's not just that replacing humans with "AI" in health care won't save you money. It will also result in a reduced standard of care, and more injuries and deaths from mistakes. The mistakes have already been seen with AI for transcription, having the same "hallucinations" as other uses of LLMs.
So-called AI is not intelligent at all.

@mntmn
Windows for the DEC PDP-8!
But I'd still prefer OS/8.

@nixCraft
Computers still scream while connected to the internet. It's become so high-pitched that it's beyond human hearing.

@mntmn I hadn't heard of ix Industrial connectors before. Just last month I was wondering why there wasn't a smaller connector for wired Ethernet.
:-)

@clacke
My laptop has a 2160p ("4K", 3840x2160) 15.5-inch LCD, so I have to change the display settings to a substantially lower resolution to be satisfactory for screen sharing. It's a hassle, but I do it.

@clacke I got that laptop in 2018. While I really wanted the 4K display, it's been a mixed blessing, as there is still a lot of non-hidpi software out there. If I were buying a 15.5" now, I think I might stick with "full HD" 1080p.(1920*1080).

@arstechnica The big print giveth, and the small print taketh away.

oozy rat in a sanitary zoo

@foone @gewt Has anyone generated the "You wouldn't download a" image for that?

@Gargron Natural Stupdity is still allowed, and even encouraged.
:-)

I like the new rule.

@mntmn @me_ @uliwitness Same reason all production aerospace equipment uses computers far from the bleeding edge. It was engineered, tested, and certified using chips then reasonably current and well qualified. The cost to do all that again for a new design would be immense. It will have to be done eventually, and maybe they've even started on it, but it takes a _lomg_ time. And by the time a new system is deployed, the new components its design uses will again be old.

@foone The main problem with interfacing an 8272/uPD765 style floppy controller to anything newer than ISA is that normal drivers for those require that they be wired to the legacy 8237 DMA controller. Even if modern x86 boxes have an equivalent to the 8237, e.g. in the "south bridge", the appropriate DMA signals don't exist on PCIe, or even PCI.

@arstechnica "... repent at leisure."

@nixCraft None of the above.
I keep my private data private, not "in the cloud".

We have clearance, Clarence.

@arstechnica What did people think would happen when they switched to a web browser developed by an advertising company?

@foone What's the nearer one? At first glance it looked like an IMI, but after further examination of the photo, I don't think it is.

@arstechnica Contrary to @ianbetteridge 's law, the answer to the headline "Is no software safe?" is yes, no software is safe.
Stored program computers have existed for more than 75 years, and the internet has existed for more than 43 years, yet for the most part we still do not know how to write reliable and secure software. There has been a large amount of research, and it is ongoing. Ther have been some positive results, but they have seen little adoption outside academia.