You’re right, Susan Collins is definitely going to do something about it.

Leftists being pragmatic challenge: Impossible

Dang, was just seeing a bunch of YT vids popping up about this, how it was going to be big if true.

If they are really a fraud, how did they think they wouldn’t get caught??

If they don’t invent excuses to take tech away from people, for scanning everything , to force us using AIs which tell us the stories they want told, how will they retain power and hide their crimes?

This is the logical endpoint of technology capitalism. Even authority figures have so many constant draws on their attention? And so many suffer from un-or-under-diagnosed attention issues, coupled with constant and unrelenting anxiety about performance and about the world around them collapsing, that “outsource thinking so that I have less of it to do” is the hot new commodity

The amount of electricity we will be able to extract from nuclear fusion, while using an extremely small amount of fuel, means that solar panels may cease to be practical in the first place.

Is that the one where he goes crazy and like hijacks the moving truck with his stuff in it?

Yeah, it won’t.

ICE engines also need oil changes, transmission fluid, headgaskets,belts.

I agree that modern “it’ll spy on you” car software sucks ass. The actual battery and charging tech is way way better than 2018 though. No one has to stop for 45 minutes.

It’s real fucked up that they just went “you will lose all your jobs, computing, and savings to us”

Maybe we should fucking do something about it.

The AI bubble was the excuse to prevent the market from acting out when they started building.

“Look at our work-saving mechanical Turk! It even does CODING so you don’t have to pay those NERDS anymore!”

Other than a re-arrangement of the fields, what is the big difference? Harder for awk to work with?

Yeah, it’s never fun having both a legacy and a new system at the same time

Same with sysv and systemd job files. That seems to be mostly cleaned up now but for a while it was a PITA.

Isn’t this guy trying to make Microsoft look bad?

But if poor people were smart, how could we continue to fleece them? It’s no longer profitable if even a fraction of them wise up!!

/s

They tech doesn’t have to do what they say it will, they just have to convince enough middle managers to make enough graphs to get the c-levels to sign off on the huge cost savings that will never materialize.

WiFi is not a utility. Perhaps cellular service and fiber to the home should be, though.

WiFi is just the radio that gets you from your device to your router. It’s not the internet. Yes it’s an important distinction. Words have meanings. No, YOU’RE not being pedantic enough! 😤

The sad part is

LLMs have niche use cases. They are great at summarizing text (“hallucinations” are a problem with an engineering fix). Other models are great at stuff like image recognition, pattern matching, optimization of data structures or the like. There are real, useful applications for this technology that could save actual humans actual time and effort.

But there’s no money in that; so instead they market their mechanical Turk, built with stolen source material, as a replacement for things people do. every middle manger thinks they’re going to save the company and get promoted to CEO for optimizing the workforce out of the job, and the demand allows big tech to finally steal personal computing from society as a whole by buying up literally all the components for decades. Building and using a personal computer is going to become lost knowledge by the time the supply settles from this heist; there won’t BE a market for PCs by then.

Seriously you cannot go to a conference about enterprise software in 2026 without every talk being something AI related. It’s honestly bonkers anyone would put this much trust in another company to essentially run their business. It’s like the WORLD is hallucinating.

You’ve seen what connectivity has already done to some people…imagine what it’ll be like when there is ENTIRELY no control…

No open source, no piracy, no porn, no freedom to discuss anything even slightly taboo on message boards, no safe spaces for LGBTQIA+, or bloc; no criticizing the government, and you pay &59.99 per month or you lose all your pictures of your kid, your loan paperwork, and your tax documents, since local storage just isn’t sold anymore. Hard drives? You mean like a record player? Only hipsters have those! No one who’s serious stores things locally! We’re too busy to deal with the hassle of plugging in devices or making backups, that’s for luddites.

God help you if they decide to exclude you from the banking system.

Every motherfucker who went “what am I ever gonna USE this for?!” in computer classes in school are the same ones who like this magic man’s funny words and “save so much time writing emails” and say shit like “Yeah but what are we gonna do? That’s progress!”

I have lost respect for so many people.

The AP is what does the tracking. If you build your own, and only you can access it, then it can’t watch you. VPNs don’t solve any of this, it’s not about a device being encrypted or not.

WiFi calling will make a direct beacon to follow, as any other WiFi use would. Faraday cages would block WiFi calling, as with any other signal.

I think these techniques can use the reflection of the signal from the AP’s own transmissions, no additional devices needed.

It’s good to be suspicious, a healthy dose of critical thinking is well warranted.

But I would advice you consider that everyone and their mother was encouraged to “become the next Bill gates” if they’d showed any acumen in computers at all since about 1985. Also consider that working on a piece of software or infrastructure is often that piece; you don’t always get to see the big picture.

Overall I think this is a good thing; I guess it really matters how this union is controlled. Will it really be in the hands of the majority, etc