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A huge amount of products are just generic Chinese products that have a brand slapped on it. If you've ever bought a random small USB device (i.e USB hubs, etc) from a major brand like LogiTech and others, if you crack it open it is just the same device as cheap resellers with a branded coating. It's not worth it to many companies to bother manufacturing their own small tat so they just sub-contract out.

And sure, it likely works, but it's the exact same hardware with the same capabilities as a product a 10th of the price.

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Yeah, the small tat items and accessories, as I said.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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Can confirm. ^^'

Though I am just going to resign on Monday and give myself the push.

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That would be the dream, but it hasn't panned out, and my long notice period is hampering me. I'm not going to continue slogging it out here indefinitely, and I don't need to.

I don't need any additional anxiety to discourage me from getting out of this before I just burn out and am in a worse position.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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I went from doer to manager, even though I'm now expected to do and manage... it isn't enjoyable.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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It's contractual, I'm going to serve my notice period.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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Thanks, it's the culmination of a lot of thought and a previous attempt by my manager and I to rework things to make it better but hasn't really worked out. Onwards and upwards, I'd still intend to find a job during the 3 months notice period before I'm set loose so ideally I won't lose the "tempt me away" factor before I get a new gig.

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-terrible-things-hes-said-and-done (it's 2022, but you can find more up to date summations if you care to look)

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I was thinking they might have meant SvD (Svenska Dagbladet), who are a news organisation, though I didn't see any corresponding articles.

Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...

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Great... so we're reaffirming that society's various structures exist purely for the benefit of monied interests, as ever. Any benefit the regular person sees from arrangements is purely coincidental, your rights stop at the point at which a corporation needs them to.

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"We listened."

ChaoticEntropy ,
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Did MS derive any particular benefit from Timeline? It was a lot more localised as far as I recall. Recall seems geared to give them a lot more data that they could monetise.

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be "more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence."...

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That is basically the biggest fuck up you could make as a government contracted technology provider. They even let it happen and hid it deliberately.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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"More than a dozen employees" for Wells Fargo is basically no one.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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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.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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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."

ChaoticEntropy ,
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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.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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Okay.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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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.

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

ChaoticEntropy ,
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What an amazing feature!

For Microsoft...

ChaoticEntropy ,
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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...

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

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

ChaoticEntropy ,
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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.

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

ChaoticEntropy ,
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It may not have been a wholly serious question.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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Thank you for your diligence.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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You wound me.

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

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

ChaoticEntropy ,
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Proton is a service provider, not your confederate.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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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.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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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.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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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.

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

ChaoticEntropy ,
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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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