Thursday, December 05
Daily News Stuff 5 December 2025
Annual Eaten By Mouse Edition
Annual Eaten By Mouse Edition
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- Had to renew the server's SSL certificate. It was actually easier than usual, except for the part where I forgot to do it until after it expired, which wasn't so good.
- Sam Altman has done the 100% expected and redefined AGI (artificial general intelligence) into uselessness. (The Verge)
Sam Altman recently said that AGI was coming within "thousands of days".
He now says it will likely arrive next year, but they'll be simulating the typical leftist who already responds like a low-grade LLM in any case, so you won't notice any difference.
Well, he didn't say that part out loud. He said this:"My guess is we will hit AGI sooner than most people in the world think and it matter much less," he said during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. "And a lot of the safety concerns that we and others expressed actually don't come at the AGI moment. AGI can get built, the world mostly goes on in mostly the same way, things grow faster, but then there is a long continuation from what we call AGI to what we call super intelligence."
Translation: AI is useless, and your job is safe unless you are useless, like the quote design team unquote working at Jaguar in which case you are totally fucked.
Tech News
- If you have an older computer without a TPM 2.0 module, you can't use Windows 11, says Microsoft. (Bleeping Computer)
The TPM 2.0 module is absolutely essential to Windows 11's functioning even though it does exactly nothing and was not needed at all by Windows 10.
Also, support for Windows 10 will end nextweekyear.
Joy.
- Solana's web3 library for JavaScript - which is downloaded 50,000 times per day - got hacked. (Bleeping Computer)
It gets downloaded 50,000 times per day because JavaScript has no place on the server and everyone who works with it either started out or ended up insane.
Anyway, if you have versions 1.95.6 or 1.95.7 your private keys are gone and your security is toast. Since this is the blockchain your private keys can never be changed or revoked either.
- How can Enron be real if our birds aren't real? (CNN)
It's a joke.
Disclaimer: Probably.
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'Things grow faster' is probably incorrect, and is perhaps a damned lie.
Why?
If he is trying for a soft landing on deliverables, that means his tech has limited direct applications. The spending he promoted and secured would have failed to push out profitable investments only if it were small.
As large as that spending seems to have been, as much as the noise pushed out potentially meaningful communication, there have probably been some missed investment opportunities that will be important.
Certainly, the robot prosperity insanity of the communists seems to have been a partial inspiration for the lockdown, which in economy, and manufacturing was a catastrophe.
As aside, the US House has released a Covid-19 report. Which is admitting some of the cack fingered stupidity. Arguably, it is a political document, that white washes Trump, and makes a point of implicating a good chunk of the Democrat wrong doers.
Why?
If he is trying for a soft landing on deliverables, that means his tech has limited direct applications. The spending he promoted and secured would have failed to push out profitable investments only if it were small.
As large as that spending seems to have been, as much as the noise pushed out potentially meaningful communication, there have probably been some missed investment opportunities that will be important.
Certainly, the robot prosperity insanity of the communists seems to have been a partial inspiration for the lockdown, which in economy, and manufacturing was a catastrophe.
As aside, the US House has released a Covid-19 report. Which is admitting some of the cack fingered stupidity. Arguably, it is a political document, that white washes Trump, and makes a point of implicating a good chunk of the Democrat wrong doers.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, December 06 2024 08:12 AM (rcPLc)
Posted by: Zendo Deb at Friday, December 06 2024 01:38 PM (rWD0v)
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I've been using Windows 11 since 2022 because I wanted a thread scheduler that worked properly with my Alder Lake CPU, and I haven't seen any sign of Copilot yet.
I'm still sort of very gradually moving to Linux--been using that on my mini PC for a couple months, and that's about 50% of my daily driver usage at home.
I'm still sort of very gradually moving to Linux--been using that on my mini PC for a couple months, and that's about 50% of my daily driver usage at home.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, December 06 2024 10:19 PM (NEIix)
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That CNN article is a treat: "Akansas" is a place I've been to, yes. And the free-floating paragraph "Which brings us back to the Enron gambit." is nearly perfect.
Posted by: normal at Friday, December 06 2024 10:24 PM (bg2DR)
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Seems to me that every Windows version change tries to cajole you into buying a new computer rather than installing on an older one.
Posted by: Mauser at Saturday, December 07 2024 12:21 PM (nk1Z+)
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