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He believes a heavily embedded AI integration on iOS with a 3rd party is a violation of security and privacy... because its not his 3rd party being integrated with.

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No... we're good...

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"It works fine if you follow a 10 stage guide filled with terminal commands to configure it properly, which describes commands that are different in your distro."

Cool.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

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If someone wants to use a vibrator that consumes an entire city's worth of yearly energy consumption each day then I'd say that they shouldn't be allowed to do that. Making excessive energy consumption prohibitively expensive goes some way towards discouraging this at least.

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Right, so the imperative to consume less power inspired the innovation needed to make it ultimately viable in the long term. Rather than people being left to consume infinite resources without a care in the world. Let's hope that the imperative to be efficient and not use all resources all the time inspires this to also becoming viably efficient rather than regulators/officials just allowing it to spin out of control.

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Did I say at some stage that I just want a flat, nuanceless ban on industries? I answered a hypothetical posed about individual's personal consumption.

AI needs reigning in for so many different reasons, energy consumption or otherwise. Its utility to society is more than counterbalanced by the dangers that it and its unregulated expansion poses to that same society. If nothing else, government and industry bodies to catch up with it and impose appropriate standards.

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Oh good... janky oversold systems that do a lot of automation on a very shaky basis are also having high impacts when screwing up.

Facewatch is such an awful sounding company.

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Who the fuck wants this...? Besides the company raking in venture capital money.

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If that's what you're trying to express then I kind of feel like you miswrote your comment. You want them to focus on browser features but not continue to add features? You don't feel like there's any room for confusion there?

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It's not you. It's ridiculous that they're this indignant.

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"We need you to reconsider... because we already did it and we're just looking for your stamp of approval after the fact."

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The implication being that this is the deal that the AI boom is offering, it's not necessarily an endorsement of that philosophy by the writer.

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Okay.

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Corporations are as callous and mechanical as they have always been, with an ever expanding range of tools to exploit. They will do anything and everything they can unless it is less profitable to do it.

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If by "forgiveness" you mean an avoidance of legal liability, sure. :P

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What an amazing feature!

For Microsoft...

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We're free to do all the great, innovative things we could want! But mostly the sneakiest, underhanded, previously illegal shit we want...

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Did you think some else's nudes might have resurfaced there...?

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You can quit Facebook, just not Meta as an entity.

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Neuralink reportedly floated the idea of removing his implant

This immediately sank when someone pointed out that it would be a PR nightmare, which naturally was more important than patient safety.

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How many trees does a person need to make one coffin...

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It may not have been a wholly serious question.

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Thank you for your diligence.

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You wound me.

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I guess you never want to be buried in your first attempt.

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This isn't the second time, Proton complies with Swiss law regularly.

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Proton is a service provider, not your confederate.

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It remains standard operating procedure for any law abiding company, and it benefits no one to pretend that it isn't.

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I want to just convert to using my Fedora 40 KDE install, but there are just too many blockers for me, both hardware and software.

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"It's called whatever will make the stock price go up."

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I would highlight that not all Teslas will be being driven in this mode on a regular basis, if ever.

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Sooo... shop around? Existing customers who show no indication that they will leave are prime candidates for reaming.

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most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search

Yeah, the average redditor won't throw abuse at you for suggesting they use google to find out what something is.

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As if an American company wouldn't just pick up where they left off... have you seen Meta? The system needs regulation, not a change in ownership to preferred snoopers.

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Everyone holding shares has a pretty vested interest in believing the bullshit, because it impacts all of their bottom lines. The truth loses them money, so they'd much prefer a semi-plausible lie.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

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You can use the official WinGet package manager for Windows pretty easily.

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It's frustrating that the answer to any of the questions/issues I have are generally reams of commands and walls of text that I only partially understand. If I find answers at all now that all discourse is being sectioned in to walled gardens like Discord. 😬

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How long until we get to the default "I don't get paid to ask questions" mentality of ad services.

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If I could get easy to access, judgement free tech support for Linux then I'd be fine (outside of walled gardens like Discord). I just don't know how to solve my problems in Linux especially considering there are so many additional variables and often you either don't get answers, are asking in the wrong place, or are asking in the wrong way. A lot of the time you just get scorn for not being born a Linux power user.

I do feel like I have basically no choice but to switch once W10 runs its course. I've got a dual boot of Fedora 40 KDE that I'm toying with.

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I mean... Windows is bad in many respects, but that respect isn't necessarily one of them.

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As opposed to having a bajillion specific distros, repos, and sources flying around...?

Obviously I'd never touch the Microsoft store though.

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My current woes relate to choosing a distro (Fedora 40 KDE) that is compatible with secure boot, for simplicity of dual booting, only to find that the DisplayLink driver that I need to run my screens is not signed. Therefore I either have to switch off Secure Boot anyway, or manually re-sign it after every kernal update with some convoluted series of terminal commands... which I will not be doing.

That and there not being an equivalent of the CRU configuration tool that lets me tweak my Freesync monitor's ranges to stop intolerable brightness flickering.

Finding that none of the useful AMD Software settings like Fluid Motion Frames or Anti-Lag are supported is also a random pain.

Every attempt I go for, I generally find roadblock after roadblock until I give up because I have too limited a lifespan to spend it bouncing between forum pages tangentially related to my issue.

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At last, a way to commit genocide without dirtying your hands. Combine that with their AI modelling of attack vict... targets, and they'll just have a 24/7 roaming robot kill squad.

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Well that's certainly one way for your brand to lose a lot of respect once it becomes apparent. Much like I when want to lose respect for myself, I use Chum brand dog food. Chum, it's still food, alright?

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Because what you really want is a car that specifically depends on long term software updates, and is frequently the target of product recalls, from a company in financial freefall.

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Booze cruise control.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

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If you have to ask, you're already pretty skeevy.

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Mhmm. Cool.

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