Dave.

All I want is a lemmy Privacy post that doesn’t use negatives in its description to prove its worthiness.

My company manages all driver and system updates via Intune (or whatever in-house Windows Update is called these days).

These apps all still lurk in the system tray and - because updates are centrally managed - only offer some options to tinker with some minor device settings directly that I don’t really need to tinker with. So I’d really like that RAM back that they’re parked on

“Copilot, please review and do the needful”.

One of the very, very first things I do when receiving a new PC for work is to turn off every single fucking “utility” that wants to auto start and lurk in the system tray.

No, I don’t need “Intel Wireless Utility”.

No, I don’t need “Intel integrated graphics utility”.

No, I don’t need “Synaptic touchpad utility”.

No, I don’t need “Dell system monitor”.

No, I don’t need “Adobe EasyStart™”.

No, I don’t need Edge to preload itself.

No, I don’t need “HP Printer Utility”.

No, I don’t need Microsoft Teams.

No, I don’t need OneDrive.

No, I don’t want the Chrome update utility.

I will keep an eye on things myself, thanks.

Well, its $18 for a hot dog and a drink, and also the cost of labour and transport to get them to your door, and little bit for admin costs.

So if, say, the delivery person can do one every 20 minutes, that’s $54 of revenue an hour for the company, minus, say, $10 for the actual food/drink items, $20/hr to employ the person, plus 3 x trips at, say, 5 miles per trip at like, 25 cents/mile for fuel and maintenance, so $3.75 for that… so about a 80-100% markup on cost for basic labour and expenses, which is where businesses generally need to be on markup to keep afloat.

The other option is to go get one yourself I guess, but if you value your time the costs end up being approximately the same.

Working in IT/OT, It’s a neverending battle:

OT wants to open things up. A huge amount of utility is gained when things can be monitored and operated remotely.

IT wants to lock things down. Access to systems should be reduced to the minimum amount possible to lower the risk of Bad Things happening.

bzZzzzZzt!

Damn these electric trousers!

All current datacentre hardware is being run at power and density levels that hover somewhere between “operational” and “pile of glowing silicon slag”.

I’m sure some enterprising Chinese companies will take all the surplus hardware and create underclocked “consumer-capable” versions for inference. I’d happily pick up a couple of cards that are 75% of cutting edge performance if they’re a hundred bucks a pop.

I posted this the first time around:

Looking after your fridge is not a problem when you just have one fridge. You open it one day, oh shit it’s not working, you get it fixed. Done.

Companies have hundreds of stores each with 10 or more fridges in them. Nobody in the store is keeping tabs on whether the temperature is set correctly to meet food standards, or whether the condenser is blocking up and full of fluff, or a bunch of other maintenance and administrative stuff associated with owning a bunch of fridges.

Solution? Remote reporting and management. You can keep an eye on all 5000 of them 24/7, alert the store if there’s an alarm, call maintenance when there’s a failure , etc etc etc.

The only mistakes made here is that they didn’t put their fridges on a secured internal network, and they didn’t update the software when Danfoss said they should .

I work with embedded devices that use canbus. Last week it was happy to read the manufacturer’s published .DCF files for a couple of joystick panel interface boards. Not anymore, conversation flagged and halted any time I get near them.

Claude. You can download these files from the manufacturer’s website. They only describe how analog and digital inputs get converted into canbus packets. I am not trying to hack Adobe here. Nope.

Oh well, DeepSeek, Mistral, GLM, Beam et. al. are all happy to read these files and continue work on the project. Anthropic’s usefulness to me has ended, it was nice while it lasted.

But yeah for early game, it seems like a simple solution, and the answer is proper delegation instead of a free-for-all.

That’s the problem. Humans would each gravitate to what they do best and organise themselves into a structure relatively quickly.

LLMs get stuck in circular patterns because they don’t have the ability to do that. They can’t think outside the box. None of them arbitrarily becomes the boss to take charge. They’re all yes men stuck in endless board meetings where even just flipping a coin would break the deadlock. But they are incapable of realising that, because they are just statistical regurgitation machines flavoured with a bit of randomness on the most probable outputs.

I feel there has to be a “tinkering factor” in there, so that if that non-RF link is something constructed from spare parts and curious fingers it still counts to some extent depending on the home-brew component of the construction.

Also distances over the internet are immaterial. Perhaps shifting to a module/component count would be better. For example, 2 radios on each end 100%. A radio, a self-built software modem, ((the internet)) , another self-built modem, a radio is still 80% HAM.

haven’t gone through the trouble of registering copyrights with the government or with copyright policing services,"

This is country specific, of course. For example, in Australia the act of committing a work to media of any form is enough to register and assert copyright for that work.

So as an Australian resident I am quite within my rights to assert the following immediately, with the legal backing of the Commonwealth of Australia:

This post is copyright ©️ dgriffith. I grant the Fediverse and its users/instances permission to duplicate as necessary as part of the normal mechanisms of participation, all other rights are reserved.

Especially not with Finns. They like their forest, about 3/4 of the population goes and disappears into the forest during summer holidays.

And then, they are also quite strict on The Rules Being Followed To Maintain Polite Society, so a corporation both destroying forest and breaking The Rules, well, that’s not gonna end well.

I would encourage you to try get others in on the reviewing effort.

Mostly so future me doesn’t undo something I already argued with myself about. They’re in docs/adr if you’re curious.

Mostly so future LLMs don’t undo something they already argued with themselves about.

One way, I set the numbers local, can’t be changed otherwise.

Its simple (as am I), why does it need to be on the “cloud”???

That’s fine when you have one fridge.

Then you need to look after four thousand of them.

Oh, it’ll be fine, we’ll just set things once while installing them.

Oh look! New food, or efficiency, or store standards have dropped, now you need to update those settings in those 4 thousand fridges spread across the whole country. Well, we can do a couple of stores a day, I guess it’ll only take a month of a service tech’s time and travel costs to do it.

Orrrrrrr… we could hook these fridges up to the Internet and do it remotely, and update the settings on those 4000 fridges before lunch.

That’s the draw, convenient mass update. The main issue here is that they put the fridges on an unsecured network, and then on device auth was laughable, allowing any bored teenager with time on their hands to tinker with things.

Just because we stumbled through a whole bunch of world-ending things in the past mostly unscathed doesn’t mean we’ll continue to do so.

It seems that after the initial AI-generated patches there’s been good discussion amongst the kernel devs about sorting out the issues, and a few revisions already that have tidied things up a bit.

So if after all that there ends up being a good performance improvement directly from a revised AI-created patch, what do I do with my pitchfork? Still raised angrily? Half-mast? Do I just let the torch smoulder?

Nice! Although I do wish everyone would get with IPV6 at some stage. But it seems everyone is OK with the current coping mechanisms in IPV4, so maybe I should pin my hopes on IPV7 or 8.