Fairly not super experienced on things. but how viable is a layered system, does it just prohibitively slow or storage consuming or is it moderately feasible to say double encapsulate everything.

I mean it’s worth saying that the new bots are kind of a different league to the old bots.

eventually I’m sure it will. at least within windows I think it’s safe to assume if it’s on the screen, it’s a candidate for AI control.

Doubly so factoring in it’s right now at a time when, hardware costs are skyrocketing. Getting a PC with the same specs as the one I bought in 2023, is almost double the price today. Even steam machines and consoles are delaying themselves because they can’t find a way to release at a reasonable price point.

Everyone has basically been told “3 months ago was the last time to buy a computer for a while until either the AI bubble pops, or some magical huge increase in manufacturing happens to keep up with demand”. Point is this is literally the worse time in history to tell people to go buy a new PC.

They’re working their way towards being as bad as we are! and they aren’t as good at marketing to try to convince people it’s to find lost dogs.

Too inaccurate, Toddler throws a tantrum because someone wouldn’t give him a toy. Anthropic started the contract with the rules in place to begin with.

No not really, they are cutting the lesser evil so they can go with the greater evil. In short, Claude won’t fire their weapons for them, so mechahitler gets the trigger.

I fricking hate that that’s the sounds of things though… the mainstream hardware becomes just enough to run remote desktop consumer hardware will no longer be produced at scale… meaning not only won’t we be able to upgrade or get new hardware… but the old hardware will constantly go up in price as it becomes more scarce harder to find. We’ll own nothing and pay through the nose to continue to access everything.

The point is whether or not it happens, as a parable it’s validity is sound. Point is, if even if the current government has nothing but good intentions and would never use the information to do anything you don’t agree with, and you are in perfect agreement with the current government. There is always the risk of either the government changing or someone stealing the information from the government that could weaponize it in ways you would never want.

what’s crazy to me is the people who defend this type of stuff, are the ones that are also terrified of gun registration… because you know if one day a gun ban were put in place, having a list of where all the guns are would make confiscation easy and legal. But they don’t realize that it’s just as likely for them to hunt people who spoke out against the government, or were the wrong race… or hell, just possibly see that you have a gun because you took it home on a ring cam.

I can’t think of anything, that’s kind of the options isn’t it? Buy your neighbors switchbots or reolink cameras as a gift? Them switching by choice is persuasion… forcing them to switch without giving them a choice is vandalism. I can’t fathom a 3rd category, unless you can like… sue the hell out of amazon and force a recall, but pretty sure the legal system doesn’t work that way.

you can use voice and video rooms to my understanding of it, and yeah it can do calls. I haven’t really tested it much as my matrix server is just me and my wife, and neither of us are often out of eachothers sites very long.

Did they actually honor it? I recall quite a few people tricking AIs into like, saying they will sell a car for $1, but the company not honoring it.

Or is it likely just car salesman negotiation tactics… IE the matress is actually inflated 75%, AI is given a hard minimum of how low it actually can go, but obviously instructed to do everything possible to close the sale but at the highest price the user will be willing to pay.

Holy frick, actually that sounds like the real hell now that I think of it. Will AI bring haggle pricing to online stores. We have to spend 20 minutes trying to give a story to an AI to get the best price on, something… which of course will then lead to someone developing an AI for shoppers trained to haggle with these for them. End result we burn up an ocean, with 2 AI’s making up bogus stories about how badly they are suffering.

You know, in IT security, the weakest link will always be the users… they are easy to fool, they just blindly trust whatever you tell them.

But now, thanks to AI, computers will finally catch up to humans in their ability to be tricked. No longer will you need human users to set their password to easy things to remember. Our new AIs will actually be capable of shortening their encryption key to a common name, and leaving them on post it notes on their desks.

For me it’s kind of an honesty thing. The biggest thing is if they are lying to their customers there… also apparently lying about where it’s based (They are in Lithuania, which has manditory data retention laws), only using panama as a tax haven.

Bottom line is, it’s about trust… They have a history of lying about a lot of small things, which then makes me think twice before trusting them with bigger things.

I mean to me one of their huge red flags is their advertising. IE my big never using nord, was one of their commercials where basically it was voicing a guys vacuume, smart TV and Alexa, and vacume etc… talking about him behind his back. Which then the narrator is “Your devices are all talking about you behind your back, get nordvpn to protect yourself”.

That and many more were just blatent misrepresentation of what a VPN can and can’t do. (point being, in the real world… everythings running https or some level of encryption. If your devices are compiling information, it’s via their connection to their services. Of which a vpn isn’t going to do jack to protect you from.

Also a lot of shady things still within there, 2019 they had a major data breach, Many complaints on their service auto renewing.

you can get a summary of a lot of parts of it with https://windscribe.com/vpnmap

(site catalogs data breaches, complaints etc… with VPN services).

Yeah sorry I phrased that bad, I meant to be listing smaller browsers that are also chromium. Point I was going at was most all the niche browsers are also chromium based.

Big mystery to me, where the hell is opera getting so much money to shove in front of every youtube channel out there. It seems to be one of those things that every creator starts recomending at the same time… which automatically makes me cringe because, well obviously almost everything that has a huge influencer push, is complete garbage (air up, honey. nordvpn etc…)

I feel like googles just used it’s monopoly so strongly to make everything be chromium.

Looking at stats counter.

Chrome - 75.45, edge 9.55, safari 5.37, firefox 4.32, opera 2.13, brave 1.17.

so… in short of their listings, 88.9% are chrome based… safari being the largest non chrome based browser. Firefox being the only other one with enough userbase to even get on the list.

My only guess is that google’s made their services a big enough pain or enough favoratism that even microsoft decided they didn’t want to try and work around it.

To which I also have to note, how few browsers aren’t chromium… IE Brave, Vivaldi etc…

I’ve started using zen browser myself, but I find it kind of odd that there’s so few firefox based browsers… which is something that I’ve found kind of baffling… considering I haven’t really found any negatives in using zen for about a year… Google’s always been, a huge threat to preventing adblockers etc… for years, is it just a lack of ideas of what to add to firefox.

Based on the looks of it… a forbes article rewritten in AI to be an affiliate link to be reused as an ad link for proton mail.

I believe a company that tried that… would be a pile of flames, rubble and pitchforks in minutes.

You want to get some computer experts to agree on the best language, and IDE to start with, or do we need to include every one… then deciding the order.