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bysg_oneill
2026 @03:35AM
(#65962114)
Attached to: Apple Switches to Build-to-Order Systems on Its Web Site
I think the real story buried in the lead was that apple have significantly changed its notorious "marketing ladder" (You start with an affordable mac at the top of the ladder, then go down the ladder each time thinking "Hmm , only 300 to double the ram size, I think its worth it" , then at the next rung "Hmm only 200 to double the ssd space" and so on, and after 6 or 7 rungs your mac has doubled in price but you now feel committed to it, because by chosing it, you made yourself want it. It was shockingly effective.
The fact they've changed it, is....... interesting? Maybe folks had wisened up to it?
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bysg_oneill
1, 2026 @09:33AM
(#65960792)
Attached to: Videogame Stocks Slide On Google's AI Model That Turns Prompts Into Playable Worlds
No, but at least its got persistence of vision, something these models have yet to acquire.
180705284
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bysg_oneill
2026 @09:25PM
(#65960326)
Attached to: Google Discover Replaces News Headlines With Sometimes Inaccurate AI-Generated Alternatives
Much more useful than whatever you were blathering about.
Hurray, your the sucker that falls for it. Have a medal.
But heres the reality. If you do a search for the term in quotes, and do it on googles web-only search, there are no instances of that term ever being used before on the net except in my post.
It literally made up that explanation, and for some reason your feeling smug because ......... well you might wanna educate me on that one....
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bysg_oneill
2026 @08:46PM
(#65960278)
Attached to: Oracle May Slash Up To 30,000 Jobs
Couldnt happen to a nicer company.
But its not lost on me that we're at a point in society that to build these infernally stupid AI rollouts people are finding savings by slashing health tech infrstructure*
"But AI will save us all".
*Oracle is everywhere in hospitals. They do a lot of stuff with hospital infrastructure software. And yeah, its the usual Oracle fare, overly expensive, underpowered, and if you try and replace it, they'll sue.
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bysg_oneill
2026 @08:38PM
(#65960270)
Attached to: White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules
The thing with security is that its hard, and its annoying, and it grates on bosses who want to "move fast and break things".
Proper institutional IT security is less about keeping on top of the latest way to manipulate a malloc() to generate a buffer overflow, although thats ALSO important, and more about the procedures and practices in an organization. You got virus checkers and software solutions to handle the technical stuff, the hard part is to convince the damn receptionist to stop buying from spam mails, because THATS where most of the damage comes from.
And in an organization with thousands of people, thats going to mean procedures procedures and more procedures. You need regular audits to quantify what the risks are, what the vunerabilities are, and what is to be done to patch up those holes. You need training to teach people not to open unverified atttachments. You need up to date inventories on computers as well as a regulated and planned approach to keeping up to date with software patches, and making sure all of your software is licensed (The whole thing falls apart when ted from marketing is using a pirated version of photoshop). All of this is a lot of work, and its all essential if you dont want the chinese running rampage through your network.
But so many bosses I've had , have hated this stuff. Its not how they operated when the company was 5 guys in an industrial unit. Well, Mo' Money, Mo' Problems, what works for 5 guys will not work for 500 guys because everythings exponentially more complex now, and so are the stakes. And heres the thing, when you got a government stuffed with startup-guy posers who think they know how to run a business, they'll start thinking government departments with 20,000 employees should be run like a 5 guy start-up where the weekly payroll is paid off the bosses credit card.
You saw the height of this hubris with DOGE when they actually thought they could get 6-7 guys working for a couple of months to replace giant mainframe systems that had literal decades worth of code cruft. Yeah no, big-boy world doesnt work like that.
And you can't do security by just keeping Norton up to date, not when China is literally hiring hundreds of top tier hackers to break in and steal anything not nailed down.
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bysg_oneill
9, 2026 @06:16PM
(#65957770)
Attached to: Nothing CEO Says Company Won't Launch New Flagship Smartphone Every Year 'For the Sake of It'
I have such atrocious grammar and spelling when I'm still waking up and squinting into a telephone with my trash 50yo eyes.... Never mind me....
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bysg_oneill
9, 2026 @06:14PM
(#65957760)
Attached to: Nothing CEO Says Company Won't Launch New Flagship Smartphone Every Year 'For the Sake of It'
Not fcking really. In fact the whole segments kind of gone a bit stale since other than banal AI shit nobody wants , its just slightly upgraded cameras, very marginally better battery lives and a faster CPU that almost makes no different becuase current CPUs are fast enough.
I have an iPhone 12, and have no real inclination to move to a 17, partly because I have zero interest in yet another device being infested with AI shit, and partly because it feels as responsive with the latest IOS as an iPhone 17. I mean, maybe a *little* less responsive, but not enough to mean anything significant.
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bysg_oneill
9, 2026 @05:03AM
(#65956176)
Attached to: Brandon Sanderson's Literary Fantasy Universe 'Cosmere' Picked Up by Apple TV
On the other hand you can see what happened when they got the Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (who write under the name James SA Corey) to supervise the writers room for The Expanse. They ended up with one of the greatest TV Space-Operas of all time. The Expanse was phenomenal.
However the duo already had TV writing experience beforehand so they knew how to adapt. But the end result was a series that was faithful enough to the books but excellent for the screen. There where changes, characters merged, parts missed, parts added, but pretty much everyone agrees they got the essence of the books right.
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bysg_oneill
2026 @12:32PM
(#65950390)
Attached to: Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers
Its not even about skilled users.
ANY 3D print job will often involve a little bit of setup in a solid modelling program, just to arrange the printed pieces on the bed, and set up the supports and infill for the printout. This isn't like forbiden images where you can check against a hash of an identical file.
I'll never understand the obsession the americans have with guns, and I support gun control. But this aint gonna work and is purely old grey haired men legislating about shit the dont understand AGAIN.
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bysg_oneill
2026 @02:34AM
(#65949318)
Attached to: Google Discover Replaces News Headlines With Sometimes Inaccurate AI-Generated Alternatives
In fairness your negative impression of Mongo DB is not wrong. Its a terrible product that confused a generation of web designers into thinking that relational DBs do not scale and only unstructured DBs can do "Big Data".
For reference the maximum record , er, "document", size in mongoDB is 16 megabytes. Its 20mb for couch.
A Postgres JSON field by comparirison can hold a gigabyte, and if you are an insane person you can hold 1.6TB per *row*.
Of course something terrible has happened with your DB education if you think any of this is sane, but fortunately relational DB theory has endless ways around this, none of which you'd know if your a believer in the NoSQL marketing hype.
Theres a reason we abandoned unstructured databases in the 1980s.
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bysg_oneill
2026 @02:25AM
(#65949302)
Attached to: Google Discover Replaces News Headlines With Sometimes Inaccurate AI-Generated Alternatives
Theres some real brainrot happening in Google senior management about this. Fucking *everybody* has been complaining about the AI summaries being not just fundamentally useless and wrong, but actually time wasting. You can do an experiment with this and search for a made up but plausible sounding nonsense word like "elbow coupled hose" and it'll give you a page long confident description of an "elbow coupled hose". Seemingly it used to say "Im not sure what that is, but I think it means...." which was just as annoying but at least it would flag it as a *guess*. But now. Nope its just confident bullshit. And lately we've been hearing about it doing this with medical information just making shit up, which could have a price paid in bodies.
This isn't even touching on the carnage this is causing websites with lost clicks due to simple minded people accepting the AI summary instead of clicking search results.
Google URGENTLY needs to remove these summaries, and honestly fire whoever was responsible for it not happening earlier. Other than the Grok mass sexual harassment tech, it is the most harmful and misaligned manifestation of AI so far, and Google steadfastly refuses to acknowledge it has a problem to the point they will just deny misinformation is misinformation when confronted despite being clearly untrue.
This sort of inability to function within reality will doom google if they are not careful. Delusions are company killers.
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bysg_oneill
4, 2026 @09:15AM
(#65946430)
Attached to: Intel Struggles To Meet AI Data Center Demand
Theres a spiralling list of datacenter cancellations going on right now. Some 25 at last count. Not a lot in the scheme of things, but the number keeps growing. I'd say the opening motions of this little symphony of ruination have already started.
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bysg_oneill
4, 2026 @05:03AM
(#65946288)
Attached to: New Jersey Law Requires E-Bike Drivers To Have License, Insurance
Ahahaha that article is a classic.
Yes, as a teenager in the 1980s we did *very stupid shit*. Drunken parties, blowing up rubbish bins with chlorine bombs, invading backyards to skate in swimming pools, actually lots of stupid skateboard shit, frigging nangs, you name it, I was one out of control teenager. And many times that resulted in the local copper giving me a smack and taking me back to my parents who ..... well they never hit me , but I sure as hell didn't enjoy it.
And I regret NOTHING. I had the time of my life and almost feel sad that kids of today just seem to be lacking the instinct for pure juvenile chaos we had as Gen Xers teens.
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bysg_oneill
4, 2026 @04:00AM
(#65946238)
Attached to: White House Labels Altered Photo of Arrested Minnesota Protester a 'Meme'
What I dont get about this kinda propaganda op is just how fucking weird it is to be making propaganda to make one self seem *more* cruel.
Don't Trumps supporters just stop for a second and think "This isn't normal? Adults are not supposed to behave like this, and especially not politicians and bureaucrats"
Well, we have seem performative cruelty before in certain political movements, and it wasn't a very fun regime to live under.....
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bysg_oneill
4, 2026 @03:53AM
(#65946234)
Attached to: California Becomes First State To Join WHO Disease Network After US Exit
Its a recurring theme actually.
Antivaxers have had a real weird tendency to be very agressive about it, so a lot of folks got their shots and kept their mouths shut to avoid the harassment and bullying from the daft uncles and idiot son youtube-believers.
Ask any doc, they got a *tonne* of these quiet vaxxer "Dont tell my husband" type requests.
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