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.

Vendor reliance is dangerous.

1000% this.

It’s a Faustian bargain, a company gives up all of their internal IT staff and hardware and becomes completely dependent on a vendor for critical business processes. It’s like the opposite of insurance, they’re saving some money by risking a total loss of their ability to do business should the vendor pull support.

This is one of those cases that will be loudly announced to grab some news cycles and then quietly dropped. It’ll never get to discovery.

“some would call a legal lay up.”

The trick here is that you can literally use ‘some would say’ to say literally anything.

Some would say that leprechauns hide in ATMs on the east side of NYC.

Some would say that geese have 3 wings.

Some would say that the Earth is flat.

It’s a non-statement that is used everywhere. It sounds like they’re saying something, but they’re really not.

Fuck you, Popie, and the millions of pedos you’re hiding under that dress.

They seem confident enough to sell merch with the brand’s name:

If the CEOs Masters of the Universe can’t figure out how to use AI in 3 years then it is impossible and a waste of time, okay.

I’ve been saying that since the 80s, just wait, this Internet thing is doomed to failure as prophesied by the CEO-class of yesteryear.

Now we just need 3D printers which can print N and P-doped silicon so we can have the first Turing-complete Benchy.

Exactly, as with many problems in our societies, the answer isn’t to be angry on the Internet until it’s gotten so bad that you contemplate firebombing warehouses.

The answer is to participate in the political processes that were created to govern your area/country. The reason that these datacenter projects are being pushed through is because it’s just city council members in a public meeting where 2 citizens and 12 industry lawyers show up to voice their position.

Pay attention to local matters, vote, show up to public meetings, state your opinion. That doesn’t happen online.