Paying protection money not to get broken up for being monopolies. No amount of money will protect them from the whims of a mad king.

Bootlickers. At least this makes it easy to know what companies not to support

The solution is quite simple: don’t voluntarily give any private information to chatbots. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy when using chatGPT or any LLM hosted online.

I have relatives with aspergers and none of them are facist assholes

I wouldn’t expect a person peddling snake oil to understand or care that autism is a spectrum

So glad I’m not in the market for a new TV

Good thing I don’t use Windows Hello on my machine.

It’s more like security theater if the phone doesn’t have the latest OS and doesn’t have the necessary hardware to block cellbrite in the BFU state

The LLM told me that control rods were not necessary, so it must be true

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He’s 84 and not dead yet. Why doesn’t somebody ask him?

Lots of talk about replacing things with AI, but very little about who’s accountable when things go wrong.

Edit: I’d feel much more comfortable with something with lower stakes, like fully automated high-speed rail networks.

Free-to-play is just a ploy for future value extraction.

I typically go out of my way to avoid F2P games. I’d rather pay once for a game, rather than be stuck with a live service that constantly nags about subscriptions or microtransactions.

Neither is putting random system files/folders in the C: drive outside of where they need to be, like in the Windows folder

Another possible explanation from Hanlon’s razor: MS is going all-in on vibe coding

Sounds like the OS is put together with duct tape if deleting an empty folder can break things so easily

Call it what you will, but all signs seem to indicate that generative AI is simply not as profitable as the evangelists want it to be.

Dang, I forgot all about the Internet Hippo since leaving X for Mastodon

Dang. I forgot all about the internet hippo since moving from X to Mastodon

Physical keys and what looks like a headphone jack? Seems like an upgrade