You're right: the cloud isn't going away.
What should go away is for-hire cloud services from monopolistic and abusive vendors. My hope is that people will eventually be able to deploy and manage their own clouds without paying a fortune to, or having your data pilfered by Big Data giants, thereby giving the Microsofts, Amazons and other Googles the middle finger they so richly deserve.
Maybe, just maybe, just like in the 80s when the personal computer finally broke the mainframe monopolies and freed us from insufferable BOFHs on power trips and insane pricings, someone or something will come along to break the cloud monopolies.
And then we'll be free again, until the next bunch of suckers lets history repeat itself once more. But I'll be long dead by then.
Yeah true. Minnesota never gets that hot.
Even Ford manages to make EVs that survive Minnesota winters for a few weeks.
Within months, Google rolled out YouTube Shorts and Instagram pushed out its Reels feature. Both mimicked the short-form video creation that TikTok had excelled at. "And they ended up capturing most of the market that TikTok had vacated,"
And that's better... how?
India simply traded Chinese social media mediocrity and corporate surveillance with American equivalents. But America isn't the enemy, so it's okay I guess...
I am disabled too but I still go out. It's strange but... I'm missing a few body parts, and the small degree of functional augmentation my implants provide my partially-failed biological body feels like fighting back disability through technology, if that makes sense.
It's hard to explain and most people don't understand, but my implants give me a degree of feeling like I can do something more than just endure the loss of amputation. It's entirely psycholofical, I know, but if you're disabled too, you understand.
I'm not either, but it wounds like you are a somewhat extreme case. Do you have ADHD by any chance?
Haha no. But I don't shy away from going all the way on solutions that I deem worth it to improve my quality of life.
Implants aren't fun to put in, they're not cheap, and the devices you use them with - like RFID or NFC locks and such - aren't cheap either. But if you have the money and you're willing to grit your teeth for a few minutes, they're totally worth it. At least that's my opinion.
there are no good RFID bike lock
There is, again if you have the money. I use this stupidly expensive padlock with an equally thick chain.
But also I guess I've just never felt bad about having stuff in my pockets
I hate having stuff on me. Worse: I hate having to remember that I need to take stuff with me, and then realize I need something and I forgot it. To each his own I guess.
I've been through a 2T MRI machine twice and have had numerous X-rays taken, no problem.
Is that something that happens often?
I can't count the number of times I've misplaced my keys or cards, or left them at home. Some people are good at never losing those things. I'm not.
But even if you never forget anything, there's nothing like going about your life without ever carrying anything in your pockets. It's truly liberating.
There is no inconvenience: The card is in my hand, and when I'm not using it to pay for something - which is like 99.99% of the time - it's like if it wasn't there. The only inconvenience is getting sliced open to insert it. But that's a 10-minute affair, then 5 minutes to get the stitch out 10 days later.
And no, sadly the card is not truly tokenized. So it has an expiry date. Mine expires in 2029, after which I'll have to have it replaced. But once every 9 years is acceptable for the convenience (I've had mine installed in 2020).
A smartphone made by Huawei was the only device where no such security vulnerability was found.
Wasn't Huawei on the US administration's radar for being a PRC spyware distributor?
If that doesn't convince you the US spews out just as much propaganda as China does, I don't know what does.
I'm gen-X and I don't do phone payments either. Not that I don't want to, it's just not part of my groove.
I have many implants to do many things. Paying for stuff is just one of them. But I also open doors, share my contact information, log into my computers, do 2FA...
It's hard to explain to those who don't wear implants, but once you get used to never needing keys, access cards or payment cards, it's hard to get back. I seriously couldn't live without them. Like popping into any store to do the groceries and simply waving my hand to pay instead of fumbling in my pocket, only to realize I left my wallet at home or something. It really does grow on you.
As for nudity, you jest, but my local swimming pool has NFC lockers and I can enroll one of my implants when I close my locker, so I don't have to wear a bracelet while I swim. It's little things like that...
The problem is that the Western world continues to force its values and morals on everyone else
It's not "the Western world" so much as the US. I'm pretty sure Spain or Germany have no problem with hentai.
Case in point: I have a payment implant in my hand. What that is essentially is a contactless Mastercard payment chip from a keychain wearable that's been extracted from the wearable and embedded in bio-compatible goop.
Well, if the payment processor or Mastercard ever learn that my wearable is in fact under your skin, Mastercard will strike it off their network. It's happened to others who didn't keep their mouth shut and got checked out by the payment processor: they were asked to produce a selfie of them holding the wearable, and of course they couldn't.
Why you ask? Because after all, what does Mastercard care where people put their wearables provided they're valid, right?
Because of the religious right in the US spewing off nonsense about the "mark of the beast". Mastercard wants nothing to do with implants to appease the religious nutters and avoid bad publicity. It's the ONLY F*ING REASON. And that forces implantees in all the other reasonable countries in the world that don't have ridiculous religious groups to play hide-and-seek with Mastercard.
...will be translated into "The suspect was resisting arrest and the officer had no choice".
Each. And. Every. Time.
This is just going to be automated whitewashing. Because why would Axon antagonize their customers by making an impartial AI bot that transcribes the truth eh? They clearly have a conflict of interest here.
Since Reddit announced it was going to sell "its" data (i.e. the data it was given for free by all the redditors), I've been busy deleting most of my posting history, and pumping old posts I left there full of technical idiocies and fake facts,
Why you ask?
Because 1/ it hurts Reddit and 2/ it trains AI on bad data.
I have no intention of helping business models based on mooching off people's contributions.
Cobol programmers are down in the dumps.
