Comment lie cheat steal (Score 0) 42

by noshellswill on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:44PM (#66376134) Attached to: US Tech Giants Warn Europe That Data Sovereignty Requirements Could Cost $128 Billion

They promised what ? Large American data-wranglers < any of the top 50 > lie, cheat and steal. Their mindset is some neo-Satanic anti-Enlightenment poison reaching even beyond digital-Feudalism. I would not believe a word they say , even if promised their 1st-born as collateral.

Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 61

by noshellswill on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:03AM (#66375492) Attached to: Kroger to Lay Off 3,000 Corporate Employees In AI Restructuring

Those check-out lines were purely management & store-dependent. If you shopped at the old BOYS grocery store in LA. or PUBLICS in JAX you never waited a line. If two customers got "stacked" another check-out line was started. Immediately. Of-course given all the "hotties" that shopped those markets who minded chatting-up your line-neighbor? Granted A&P & Wynn Dixie not so much. Shop with the peasants, wait in the peon line.

Comment nol soul no dole (Score 1) 218

by noshellswill on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:14AM (#66375408) Attached to: Anthropic Bans Cruelty Toward Claude

I didn't think one can be :cruel" w.r.t. a machine; they have no moral status. Further , a purchased machine is treated as-per the owners desire. Self-repair includes self-destruction. Finally, corporate shills desiring a forced change-in-meaning of common language often suffer from "smashed nee" syndrome; walkways become as slippery as their ego-driven pretensions. .

Comment Re:If I wanted a smart home controller... (Score 1) 55

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:58PM (#66374298) Attached to: Apple Launches HomeView, Its First Smart Display For the Home

I thought a prudent and peaceful mans wife had his smart home under control. Something in this thread ... seems to be missing.

Comment C02 (Score 1) 55

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:55AM (#66373914) Attached to: A New 'Super Ice' Is 10 Times Stronger, Bringing It Close to The Strength of Concrete

As the blurb implies, analogues are not hard to imagine. For example, "colloidalized" carbon dioxide comes to mind as "insulating" material for high-temp super-conductors.

Comment Re:prices vs volume (Score 1) 53

by noshellswill on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:55PM (#66372720) Attached to: Q3 2026 Was Historically Bad For PC Shipments

< RAM> prices are going to drop ... unless big-data ( AI / LLM / data-center ) is hell-bent on removing personal computers from almost everyone. Like the early Mafia removed Italian crushed tomatoes and olive oil from Irish-owned markets. Early computer executives ( IBM / Dec etc ) thought the idea of widespread computer ownership was ridiculous ... not because relevant tasks didn't exist ... but because they were certain large companies could keep the PCs out of the retail market. For 30 years THEIR monopoly succeed ... then they failed for 40 years ... now again compute power is retreating to the "cathedrals" of BIG DATA . Welcome to the Feudalistic compute age.

Comment Re:Don't forget their product keeps trying to esca (Score 1) 81

by noshellswill on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:17AM (#66371672) Attached to: Research Firm Calls Anthropic's Upcoming IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'

Your so right. The fear-mongering by AI /LLM vendors < this escape .... that attack ... another danger ... > is almost comic, and has zero sense of embarrassment. AI will find a nitch(s) at 5% of market projected by its /devs & evangelists. Shame on them, but good for tfor us. But, did the tek really require the ( near fraudulent ) massive over-reach in financials, effort and propaganda ? Kinda like M-Theory with semi-colons.

Comment maybe (Score 2) 130

by noshellswill on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:33AM (#66370796) Attached to: UK Vegetables 20-50% Less Nutritious Than In the 1960s

Check the paper: < https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889157516302113 > .... the decrease in vegetable nutrition may be small, while availability vastly increases. Maybe it balances out. Of-course "food store" fruits and veggies taste like shite, compared to what you could pick yourself.

Comment Re:Canonical's expertise is not anti-DDOS (Score 1) 12

by noshellswill on Sunday October 11, 2026 @09:51AM (#66370762) Attached to: Ubuntu Confirms Thursday's Distributed Denial of Service Attack Against Its Web Infrastructure

After update-induced crashes, just switched my systems from Ubuntu to Debian-13. I will not get fooled again.

Comment Re:The obsession with DNS is stupid (Score 1) 61

by noshellswill on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:16PM (#66369608) Attached to: Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties In France

I believe the point is ... Euro-elites reject peasants owning either horse or "car". Self-chosen travel for work or play or ... betterment? Beyond the kin of Franco-Italian-German warrlords ... and heresy to The Church. "Know your place -- peon".

Comment just no (Score 1) 135

by noshellswill on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:13PM (#66367896) Attached to: OpenAI Unleashes Hundreds More Math Results Upon a Field Already In Shock

Retired now, but this simplicity sticks in my craw and deserves to be called-out . Read the "anti-solutions" paper on Navier-Stokes . They have chosen a special case of a special case namely : d<rho> = 0 ( incomprehensible ) is NEVER perfectly true ... and over any range of shear-gradients the viscous force is NEVER linear. ... usually wildly so. So they say a non-existant fluid disobeys Navier Stokes. An "exact" mathematical result that assumes an inexact parameter choice is no proof to me. Reminds me of anti-DeSitter space calculations / predictions pretending to be "physics" ; instead it was a fairy-tail.

Comment Re:Risk reward and perverse incentives (Score 2) 48

by noshellswill on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:48PM (#66366624) Attached to: Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy

All you constraints you advise are reasonable. I have no problem with "socialization of risk" ... as there IS nothing else, but social wants/needs. i would of-course strongly limit :"privatization of benefits". Wealthy workers can with great effort reclaim enshitified land. Citizens of my home-town of Scranton Pa got screwed-over by the mining interests, who took their profits from raping the beautiful valley ... ditched the miners ... and left town. Scranton never recovered, and I suspect the same will be true for those providing energy/land for the LLM-farms.

Comment Re:Efficent code (Score 1) 66

by noshellswill on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:30AM (#66366414) Attached to: Micron Projects Tightening RAM Shortages Through 2028 As It Generates Record Profit

Home and hobby users already have such an "efficient" system. My Debian-13 / MATE / Librewolf system running on 10 Y/O XEON-1240 / GF 3050 and 24-Gig DDR3 barely uses 15% of RAM during active surfing. Eight-cores are mostly asleep. I'd guess many of us non-gamers have skipped the "RAMpocalypse". Granted , I'm on a slow WiFi network.

Comment Re:Risk reward and perverse incentives (Score 1) 48

by noshellswill on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:55AM (#66366354) Attached to: Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy

A well-spoken argument ... and to be balanced against the human desire for warmth in icy winter and coolness in roasting summer. Those are health, productivity & agency issues, crucial to risk/reward judgement, and even more basic than toxic radiation. Stated crudely ... live like a savage or < threat of > die by radiation poisoning ... or coal-smoke ... of frack-contaminated water ... or three weeks of no sun & no wind ... or a huge solar-flare that takes out all common energy-producing electronics. Indeed: the only case worth considering is the "worst case" ... because that's the one that kills you. Thus ... those few who live unaccustomed to physical risk are poor judges of energy sourcing options.

Comment POS (Score -1) 165

by noshellswill on Monday October 05, 2026 @01:09PM (#66364002) Attached to: Sam Altman: 'The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening' For the Benefits of AI

Altman really is a sociopathic piece of shite; toxic as lead-sweetened wine. Probably thinks HE is in good company. As a deep red social conservative, I can see -- thru Altmans' et. al. behavior -- the triggers for rational "progressive" social views & actions. Damnable person.