2018 makes more sense, that’s when backup cameras were mandatory so since they were putting in a screen manufacturers made every car have an ‘infotainment’ center and with all of that processing power comes logging and other privacy invading features.
It’s local right until the law enforcement gets into Bluetooth range with the right encryption keys to download all of the data for the past year.
Modern technology is great. It’s massively cheaper and more performant for orders of magnitude less money.
Consumer technology on the other hand, is cursed.
The problem is that nobody needs to know how to use technology anymore. Every piece of consumer hardware and software is designed so that the company does all of the work for you and then rents you the fruits of the technology. Now you’re eternally dependent on someone else to operate your technology for you because you’re constantly paying the people that are ensuring your technological ignorance.
Don’t worry about learning how to store mp3s or manage your music Library! Just pay Spotify, YouTube Premium, or Apple Music $10/mo!
Don’t worry about needing to learn how to backup your data or to store you photos, just give Apple $29.99/mo! Shopping for hardware is hard, learning the difference between a Megapixel and a Megabyte is for nerds! Just buy the iPad, iLaptop, iCamera, iEarbuds, it only costs 50% more than it should!
Dealing with .mp4 and .mkv files, too complicated! Don’t worry about needing to learn anything about movies, Netflix/Hulu/Disney/Paramount/Amazon/AppleTV/etc will gladly take your $20/mo and do everything for you!
Don’t like your computer’s OS being filled with advertising, spyware and AI? Too bad! Your only options are 1. Live in Apple’s Walled Garden, 2. Put your entire life’s worth of private data on the auction block for the lowest bidding advertiser for the benefit of Microsoft’s shareholders or 3. Give your cellphone provider and Google root access to your entire life!
Yes, this is a ‘Just use Linux’ comment.
I’ve worked around an ancient (32nm) lithography machine, it may as well be alien technology as far as maintenance is concerned.
It’s very much a ‘the light is on, something broke. call the machine priests’ kind of situation.
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I can’t think of a reading that would be misleading. It’s common knowledge (among the people who would care about such an article) that TSMC uses ASML machines, as ASML has a near monopoly on EUV litography machines.
‘Pricey new tool from ASML’ can only mean the high NA EUV machines as ASML really only makes one kind of pricey tool.
Don’t worry, they’ll let us eat cake
We can already see how this will work out. They get you trapped in their walled garden kingdom.
If you get banned from their services and you can’t access your files, make payments, login to your phone or computer, start your car, etcetcetc.
On one hand, I can enjoy the schadenfreude.
On the other hand, this kind of thing helps to create and maintain the alt-right alternate universe mediasphere. I remember a story coming out of Ukraine where a bunch of guys were making fake ‘news’ sites loaded with advertising to spam ragebait articles for cash. They said that they made way more money by posting right wing content so that’s what they focused on.
Multiply that by a bunch of people and add in adversarial nation’s influence campaigns and you get Donald Trump.
I guess it’s not technically a standard but Steam VR runs on every client OS and streams to any VR headset money can buy over USB or network.
And, to add to this, Valve is about to launch their next gen VR headset.
VR’s major barrier is that to do good, AAA game level, VR you need a pretty beefy PC on top of an expensive headset AND a large enough room to take advantage of the roomscale stuff. That isn’t to say that there isn’t fun games that have low requirements, like Beat Saber and Superhot but for games like Half Life: Alyx you’re looking at several thousand USD in hardware.
I think VR will eventually get there, it offers experiences that you can’t get from a monitor, but right now it’s a niche hobby with a pretty limited library of good titles.
Earn $10B doing illegal stuff, settle with the FTC for a $10 million dollar fine and don’t have to admit wrongdoing and/or a deferred prosecution agreement with no teeth or oversight.
Skim the comments in Female Dating Strategy on Reddit and you’ll find a lot of them.
The users using terms like ‘pickme’ for women and ‘scrotes’ for men. Misandry in various forms. Often you’ll see a lot of TERF language or open transphobia and disdain for people who are in relationships, etc.
Like with incels there’s the ‘high value man/woman’ fantasy that’s an amalgamation of perfect traits that the various people in their life have failed to meet and the ‘It’s other people’s fault for not meeting my standards that’s why I’m single and not my own toxic behavior and actions’ coping mechanism.
They have their own private forums and communities which are a bit more out there if you can get past the gatekeepers and mods.
They want to do this kind of stuff with your head tracking data.
The newer headsets can do eye tracking/gaze estimation. Useful for some VR things (foveated rendering) but I wouldn’t trust Meta to leave the data on the headset.
What’s ole Whiskey Leaks trying to accomplish here? A creation of bio warfare soldiers?
Burning operational readiness to placate conspiracy theory nutjobs.
The SecDef position must be taking applications.
I’d challenge the author to attempt to discuss topics related to toxic female radicalization on mainstream social media to see the reason.
I can see, in programming, how the current AI trend is displacing a lot of junior programmers who will not be senior programmers in 10 years due to the inability to obtain experience.
AI hasn’t come for DevOps or SysAdmins jobs either, but it’s ‘good enough’ to do help-desk/tier 1-type tasks. That limits the job pool for new IT workers and will create a future shortage of experienced workers.
I’m not worried about MY job, I’ve already accumulated the experience. It’s the new guys who are trying to get into support positions, where they are glorified knowledge base/Google searchers, who are having the hard time because AI CAN do search and summarization/RAG pretty effectively.
A home lab with more functionality and power than was even available 20 years ago.
Things such as:
Cheap mass storage and a home network connection with upload speeds that make hosting media streaming and ‘cloud’ storage out of your closet an affordable possibility.
Access to large, quality, high resolution displays that don’t cost multiple thousands of dollars.
High performance portable computers that draw significantly less power.
Cheap, high capacity, battery technology to power said devices.
Mobile data networks with orders of magnitude more data bandwidth.
All of this is to say: The ability to own and control all of the technology that you depend on without needing to rent services from a corporation.
I don’t need iCloud, when I have a 2Gb connection attached to a 24TB storage array. I can do better than Spotify, play the music that I want to listen to without serving me ads or providing my private data to be used by some profit-seeking company. I don’t have to give away my privacy to Microsoft just to be able to have a functioning desktop PC. I don’t require Amazon’s storage and processing to have smart security cameras. Google isn’t required for my smartphone to work, my cellular provider doesn’t get to dictate which apps are permanently installed.
All of this is possible now for orders of magnitude less capital and operating expenses than it was 20 years ago.
I don’t need to throw away my computer because Microsoft has decided that it’s much easier to enforce control over their operating system if your hardware prevents you from modifying the software running on your machine. I don’t have a drawer full of old Apple cables which were only created in order to sell you a $2 piece of copper for $39.99. My movie streaming service doesn’t randomly decide that I need to pay another $5/mo or insert advertisements into my TV shows and I am not at risk of having access to my cloud storage permanently revoked because of some clause in a 700 page Terms of Service that changes every other week.
Technology is so much better, more private, safer and more affordable now. As long as you’re willing to learn how to use it.
Unfortunately, the profit is almost entirely in fostering the world’s population into a state of technological dependence on these proprietary services and devices. It’s hard to convince someone to overcome their fear of a terminal when they can pay a monthly fee for the rest of their life in order to avoid it.