Onno (VK6FLAB)

This is also how you can flow surface mount solder paste …

Yes

For those wondering in amazement, this is a perfect example of why the current crop of Assumed Intelligence is not intelligent in any way.

This is an obvious example of incorrect information confidentially presented. Though funny and disturbing, this is not an isolated example. It does this when you know about the topic and you notice, but it also does it when you don’t.

Seems that someone needs to re-watch Minority Report.

The study:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/691462

Or you can inject a bot:

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/hiding-and-finding-text-with-unicode-tags/

Wow. This is a doozy.

Poka yoke?

It’s also making people deskill.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

I think as a society we need to go through this, watching companies fail and shareholders losing their shit before the perpetrators of Assumed Intelligence end up in court.

I have mixed feelings about the employees who are caught up in this … let’s call it what it is … scam.

It’s easy to say … you lost your job because your boss is an arsehole, but how much influence did each individual really have in the overall process?

I’ve been looking for the next paid challenge for five years … well before this AI scam was perpetrated on the world. Despite having 40+ years industry experience and an aging population, my own age appears to be a barrier for the HR teams relying on the same tools that is causing them to lose their jobs.

As I said, I think this needs to blow up before it gets better, hopefully before I’m too old to do meaningful work.

It’s happening in Australia too. The headline in this article needs some work.

I propose:

“Soon to be disbarred King’s Council used Assumed Intelligence instead of Actual Intelligence to argue a murder case”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/victoria-lawyer-apologises-after-ai-generated-submissions/105661208

… together with power, bidirectional audio, external display, storage and potentially human interface hardware like keyboard, tablet and mouse, not to mention plenty of other devices, smart or otherwise.

You can push Gigabit Ethernet through USB-C too, so a single USB-C connection will likely be our future port allowance 😇

They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.

At least they didn’t pour it down the drain.