Incredble! A glimmer of hope.

Extremely lame work by Google. Infeasible? Why? This is absolutely a security vulnerability. Any ad SDK on any app on your phone can use it to associate your VPN activity.

Retaliating against journalists is not a good sign.

A HUGE number of Americans are functionally illiterate.

I shed no tears.

It’s a grift. You bribe me to get an exception. That’s how they get so rich so fast.

Don’t look at me. I have nothing to do with AI.

Ubuntu just added that feature. Not my distro of choice, but it’s coming up.

The problem is fossil fuels have way deeper pockets to pay bribes, and generally speaking, bribery is legal in the US.

Oh god I’m old.

It’s, it’s basically a forum. A Bulletin Board System. Back from the days where you measured your bandwidth in baud.

I really hope you’re right. My employer is using it as a crutch. I don’t think they can stop using AI because they just don’t have enough skilled employees to deliver on their commitments. They would pay nearly any price, and I’m sure they’re not alone.

This is fallout of the broader problem of ultra-extreme centralization and shortsightedness in pursuit of line go up. We eagerly run into a climate catastrophe for the same underlying reason. It’s not a matter of understanding the problem, but a matter of willingness to solve it.

Collectively, we are not willing to solve problems that might require a measure of compromise today.

Tale as old as time. Corpos try to get you dependent and then give your business an atomic wedgie.

That’s because they were in fact trying to kill all of you so no one would be left to tell their side of the story.

Oh yes! This actually happened to me multiple times. Typically it was something about how unions result in lower pay or would not represent my interests.

Of course that’s all BS! You only have to use your brain a little. For example, even if they’re not perfect representatives, who else then is going to represent you? Yourself? You don’t stand a chance against a large business.

The costs of union fees was a sticking point, and it’s easy to waive that in front of somebody’s face when it’s harder to measure the impact of your union fighting for fair pay and blocking exploitation. The counter argument is that not all benefits are easily quantifiable. Negotiated raises are just part of the total compensation, and the stated pay numbers you’d get without unions in the world are made up because you can claim whatever you want about something that is not the case.

For me, it was that protesting was only ever discussed as peaceful, civil activity, as was a way of communicating demands outside of the voting cycle.

Unionization and workers rights were never discussed. I didn’t learn about unions as a concept until nearly graduation when my first job had so much required training about how dangerous they were, and of course I assumed they were full of it and did my own investigation.

It’s useful because that word means the corruption will be accepted and nothing will be done.

Russia and China watch US pull a Ukraine and now have an extremely cost-effective way of harming or outright destroying US assets similar to US dumping its spare power into the Ukraine conflict.

They’d be fools not to take advantage of the opportunity, but not nearly as foolish as we were for entering this pointless war in the first place.

I would definitely trust this person with the nuclear launch codes.

It’s an accurate name. The company has explicitly told us that they are a slop-first cloud company.