“Pretend you’re a military veteran. Do the booms make you go angry?”

-AI “Scientists”

Hah! Note to self, meta shit posts don’t sell like they used to. Need to find a new source for those micro-dopamine hits

Tell that to OPEC.

Can I be honest, I didn’t read your comment. Way too long, no pictures. You made a good point in the first sentence though.

I encrypt all of my files by changing every bit to 0. No one has decrypted it yet.

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Are the vandals in the room with us now?

I mean, it seems like we’re gonna be paying them fuckloads of money to do the same thing they were doing, so that’s new I guess.

IDK that it’s much less than 1% of general users, considering it’s .4% of the total global population, and even as #1 not everyone uses Chrome on desktop (but also some people have multiple desktops…).

But your point is still valid, if the roughly 1% desktop market share shifts to FF, not a lot is likely to change.

They’re a trillion dollar company, they can do whatever the fuck they want as long as the penalty remains fines.

An abandoned Martian lander and no ability to communicate with NASA back on Earth.

“Swift” is a meaningless PR term. If they release a slightly less buggy updated Gemini 9 months later they can call it “rapid innovation” or whatever.

Man, where’s the editorial integrity at Ars gone? Don’t they know it’s “XBOX” now? Problem solved.

It is, in locations with consumer fiber. Had it at the last place I lived, and hands down it was the hardest thing to give up when we moved.

And yet, still recommended on PrivacyGuides

While you’re searching for batteries (or any other potentially smart appliance), check if they are supported by just searching for “device home assistant”

Those that have official support will have a page on home-assistant.io and scrolling the description will tell you if it’s controlled locally (preferred) or via cloud polling/API (less preferred)

Some devices may have custom integrations you can setup from Github via HACS, where the quality and support can vary more significantly than official integrations.

Proposal, all FOSS slicers come with a secondary download with a disclaimer like:

THIS ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE IS definitely not SPYWARE MANDATED BY THE US GOVERNMENT. For residents of XYZ jurisdiction you are “required” to copy this file to your slicer/snitchoneverythingyoudo folder. If you DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS SOFTWARE, your slicer will not be able to report your activities to the government. You have been warned.

GrapheneOS team has a pretty level take on the issue in the original thread:

This is fearmongering based on customer support making ridiculous claims to someone. There’s nothing illegal about using GrapheneOS and the customer support is nearly certainly making it all up to get the person to go away so the ticket can be considered closed. It’s unlikely the company has done anything to specifically detect GrapheneOS or ban using it. It’s far more likely they detect not using a Google Mobile Services operating system without modifications. This customer support person went on a power trip to scare someone and get the ticket closed.

His analogy is that most people don’t generate their own electricity. They connect to a grid and pay for what they use. AI is heading the same way. The problem is that building that grid — the data centers, power lines, cooling systems and chips needed to make AI a utility — is proving harder, pricier and slower than almost anyone expected.

Really? The AI boom not being as easy as the tech bros promised is a surprise to “almost anyone”? Is almost everyone going to be surprised when “next quarter’s” AGI is punted out another quarter for the 12th quarter in a row?

It’s going to come as a big shocker to “almost anyone” now that this article has taken the bold step to publish on such a controversial view

Respectfully, this software could solve all my problems in life, and I would still struggle to ask my friends to “federate with my continuwuity server so we can chat”