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It only takes a single visit to an old house built around the turn of century to realize that the artistry, craftsmanship, and all of the other skills needed to make such a thing today are incredibly rare.
Everyone seems to think and say that they want some for of AI to arrive and free us from all that grind that is beneath us.
I am just reminded of this TNG episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA9fcTJGXf0
the SLTs of all major tech companies and software companies are absolutely hyping AI. these people are have compensation packages with significant ties to stock prices and those go up with hype and inflated expectations.
as fun as it would be for redditors to now go and burn down any/all content that would feed this bot, you have to believe that this announcement is more of an after-the-fact notification vs a we-are-about-to-do-this piece of information.
either way. there has never been a better time to abandon reddit so ... see you all on Lemmy and here.
This. I invite everyone to go and look at the amount settings that must be turned OFF in Windows 10/11, Firefox, Chrome, whatever app from companies that claim to respect user privacy. For Windows it is literally dozens of toggles, and unsoliticed apps. Then there are the so called security features like malware scanning of URLs/file downloads, etc. Then the DNS replacements which, ya know, still see the URLs that you are asking for.
Every company that claims to respect your privacy is full of shit. There is too much money to made in not respecting it and this is the sole reason that they exist.
"Once the Guardia Civil obtained the iCloud email address, the documents show that it requested information from Apple, which in turn provided a full name, two home addresses and a linked Gmail account."
Basically everything but their favorite colors, TV shows and emojis.
If anyone is dumb enough to trust Microsoft after all the shit they've pulled over the last 30+ years, including the most recent collection of large-scale security fuckups, they deserve what they get.
Until we sort out the whole idea that it is OK for the US intelligence communitity to use Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, N-other big tech companies to act as their data collection services. They will all continue to basically do whatever they want including jeopardizing our national security with their plainly stated profit motives.
It isn't that Microsoft does not care at all about security it is just that they see it as some business that they can/must make 40-50% margin on like the rest of their operations.[aka outsource it all to countries where folks have fake credentials]
Evolution seems to work fine for me.
Notice how little scrutiny Microsoft has been getting by Congress, DOJ, FTC, etc. despite these many huge security blunders and whatever is going on between them and OpenAI.
This might be because it is almost impossible to tell where Microsoft starts and the government ends these days. Also remember that Microsoft was basically the pilot program for Prism.
offshoring is a big part no doubt. another big part is that almost no one's comp structure includes things like bugfixes, quality or perf work. people only get credit for shipping new features, etc. this is why everything is basically just hollow chocolate rabbits.
Some things to think about.
- Tesla's charging network is opening up. I think this used to be the single biggest selling point.
- Tesla's repairability is not great, neither are the insurance rates.
- The 4680's have not exactly changed the world... might have made things cheaper for Tesla but that is about it.
- Some folks might think that Teslas aversion to buttons has reached peak dumb. Latest model 3 has even ditched the turn signals and drive-selector stalks...
- Requiring FSD demos prior to sales? GTFO.
- Musk is officially more of a liability than an asset.
I work for a large closed-source software company and I can tell you with 100% that it is full of domestic and foreign agents. Being open source means that more eyes can and will look at something. That only increases the chance of malicious actions being found out ... just like this supply-chain attack.
the special firmware that microsoft uses in these machines breaks network, USB, anything that you attach to it. it just can't get power management right. I've been saddled with one of these for 5+ years and it just never got better.
As does Microsoft, Apple, AT&T and every other company involved in the PRISM program. The issue is that people just do not seem to care.
Mini-splits seem like they are the future for the value conscious and light-weight DIY crowd.
These systems are quite simple in design and implementation while also offering a pretty effective way to control temperature in a zoned way in various parts of the house. They also can be had in 120V sizes making them far easier to accomidate for solar-powered households, etc.
This does not strike me as a productivity device. I doubt many of the target demographic will actually notice this issue.
CEO's are driven by compensation packages that are heavily dependant on stock prices and peer pressure. Retaining and retraining good people are just not a factor in their decision making process, neither is social responsibility.
These mega tech companies are now so big and so few that a cartel-effect has definitely emerged and it is resulting in this collective push towards the AI hype train and ofcourse layoffs. Most of this AI training data was scraped surreptitiously, labelled by the poorest of the poor, and then sold as original art which is just not in any meaningful way.
It might be time for us as a society to stop arguing over gender/race/socio-economic/gun politics, or being distracted by AI psuedo prophets saying that AI has some mighty power that we must regulate(to lock-in their 1st mover advantage) and other topics loudly shouted at us by large media companies(which are frequently owned by wealthy interests) and start thinking about how we can reclaim our privacy, freedoms and agency in the halls of our capitals and courts.
Microsoft Teams already generates a ton of data(down to reactions on messages) that you can see in the Entra activity log. I guess this is aimed more at Slack, etc. which I am sure already has plenty of logs somewhere.
This does nothing to address the out-of-band channels. Most of my working peers will use Signal or other applications to communicate off the record so this is mostly window dressing.
Depending on your distro, the Firefox package you see in the official repo is ... well packaged by the repo maintianers and some distros will include customizations like adding in bookmarks to the distro's welcome/docs/pages/etc. Sometimes even more things like feature settings are changed. It is usually not anything major and usually things that you might prefer like disabling pocket, etc.
What Mozilla is calling out here is a seperate, Mozilla-direct repo. This means you skip the official repos.
Everyone should think carefully about what this means.
If you care about privacy at all Tesla is not the brand for you.
The truck seems to be more or less what was promised. I think it is the new batteries that are not necessarily living up to the hype.
Just not sure that I am ready to trust my driving safety to 100% Chinese automobiles.
It is just not wise to allow some random application to MiTM your SSL traffic.
biggest issue is not allowing for remote, not the clearance.