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Well actually,
You can heat things up to a temperature where they do sublimate, without there being an ignition source.

“No smoke without fire” is a misnomer.

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The bottom has dropped out of the OEM software licence market. Microsoft have to find a different way of making money.
Their loss-leading hardware sales have not borne fruit so they are getting desperate.

All they have left is services, which means that the only way the can actually make money is selling out their customers private information.

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I used Linux back in the 90s as my primary OS. They were simpler times. Since then I have used BeOS, various versions of Windows and (primarily) MacOS.

I am seriously thinking of going over to Linux as my primary OS because of all the TechBro “AI” bullshit that Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and Google are trying to ram down our throats.

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This is one of the things I love about the Lemmy community.
No one wants to argue, every one can be passionate about their opinions, but still respect other people’s passion.

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The problem is that they are not actively asking permission.

They are technically legally asking permission through the EULA, but nobody reads these.

Apple do this differently, they require the user to opt in for each of their services, and except for a pitiful amount of storage, the user has to pay for a useful amount of storage. This makes the user the customer, instead of the product.
They could make it easier to roll-your-own “cloud” storage by NAS, but I assume that it isn’t worth their effort.

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Considering that Ethnic Palestinians are the original Semites, and most of the Zionist are “repatriated” jewish people from all around the world, I find it ironic that they claim any sleight against them to be antisemitic.

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I think you a both right.
Historically, Semites referred to a large cultural group.

Over time, it has become a nonsense word because those cultural groups have become so dilute and diverse that you can’t point at someone and say they are part of that group.

More recently, the label has become misappropriated by some sort of whacky religious nutbaggery so they can oppress other people.

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There are legitimate uses for vehicle telemetry being stored by the vehicle and uploaded to the manufacturer.

Identifying unexpected behaviour under certain driving conditions and being able to contact emergency services in an accident are two important examples. Remote diagnosis in the case of a breakdown is another.

None of these uses include selling the data to third parties or using the data to create a profile of the vehicle owner.

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There is a difference between destroying looms, corrupting LLMs by feeding bad data and causing an uprising like the Butlerian Jihad of Dune or the Second Renaissance of The Matrix.

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What needs to happen is that they need to cop it on the chin and do better with their security.

These companies need to tell the scammers to bugger off. If they keep capitulating, the scammers will keep on doing it.

There have already been several cases of scammers continuing to threaten companies, even after the first ransom has been paid.

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Please don’t call them AI. They are “Language Learning Models” (or “Spicy Autocorrect” if you want to be cheeky).

Copilot is no more “intelligent” than Clippy from Microsoft Bob in 1995. It just appears to be to people who also have low intelligence.

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‘Data Detectors’ in MacOS are just as bad. Just like how sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes a string of numerals is just a string of numerals.

It is not a phone number or a flight number or a ticket number, it is just a string of text that happen to all be numerals.

I asked Apple Support how to disable data detectors in Preview (MacOS’s native PDF and image viewer) so I could highlight some part numbers without MacOS trying to make a FaceTime call and they told me to use Adobe Acrobat instead! The problem is that Acrobat is worse.

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This is why they are doing it.
They fear that Linux/MacOS/ChromeOS is eating their lunch. The problem is that their approach to preventing anyone else from eating their lunch is to make Shit Sandwiches.

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Step one: start Chroming.
Eventually you get so high (kill enough brain cells) that you chrome with blue paint instead. That is called Edging.

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https://mastodon.social/@sdw/112203918268779518

Actually Indians.

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They all do.
Google search is one big primitive Digital Assistant.
Apple’s Siri is less functional than its predecessor Voice Control.
Amazon’s product recommendation algorithm and Alexa are also successful digital assistants.

Meanwhile the YouTube algorithm, Netflix, and Metas recommendations are notoriously frustrating, pumping out irrelevant recommendations and obfuscating constant that you actually want to consume.

Microsoft haven’t had any effective Digital Assistants to date and must they feel like they are being left behind. Their attempts to emulate successful product from other companies are either unnoticeably irrelevant or laughably bad. Even the terrible content recommendations of Netflix and YouTube keep people hooked.

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    Salvo ,
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    We ArE sUiNg YoU uNdEr RoBbEr-BaRoN lAwS bEcAuSe YoU aRe ThE oNlY mAnUfAcTuReR wHo MaKe DeCeNt PhOnEs ThAt PeOpLe WaNt!!?!

    Sounds like someone is upset that they can’t get their citizen monitoring software on the majority of citizens phones.

    Salvo ,
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    Some sponges reproduce asexually.
    Others are hermaphrodites.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge

    Scrub Mommy either has lots of little Scrub Daughters or Scrub Mommy is also Scrub Daddy and is “special friends” with another Scrub Mommy/Daddy.

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    @comicstrips "The Came as Decorative Pillows!"

    Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling for February 20, 2024 https://www.gocomics.com/super-fun-pak-comix/2024/02/20

    Salvo ,
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    Fortunately, in our household, the decorative pillows have been held at bay by the couch blankets.

    Their horrible stench of wet dog, cat urine and teenage girl menses is enough to keep the invading pillows at bay.

    Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... (www.theverge.com)

    Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu...::Parisians have voted to increase parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the city’s efforts to address road...

    Salvo ,
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    Oversized vehicles are just as destructive to the environment, regardless of whether they are EV or not.
    In order to move that much mass, they require exponentially more electricity, which results in increased battery size and therefore more mass.

    This isn’t a flaw EVs per se, it is a flaw of obnoxiously obese vehicles.

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