"Inclusive language" doesn't help anybody, except those who feel better by berating others. The ministers of susceptibility could very well write their own books, better than Dahl's, using all the words they like, and this way they would give their contribution to mankind; but no: all they can do is telling those who actually managed to write something that they are "wrong" and need to be corrected. And if you don't agree with them, it doesn't matter, they know better and everyone else needs to have his books remotely censored.

Google, for example, has highlighted the efficiency gains from AI that autocompletes code, as it lays off thousands of workers

Are we talking about Copilot here? Because I can't understand how it could have caused the layoff of thousands of workers judging by what it does. Maybe they write a lot of boilerplate code?

It's the second time in two days that I hear, from different spyware companies, that trafficking user data is "modern". It's their strategy: if all of them abuse the customer in the same way, then when caught they can say "eh, it's just what everyone does these days". I only wish there were more people in the tech press calling bullshit on claims such as "we need to sell your data to Steam in order to keep your PC secure".

It doesn't matter, many companies have a strict "no GPL" stance, will avoid GPLv3 no matter what, and some of them actively promote the rewriting of GPL software only to have a non-GPL alternative. E.g. busybox which clearly noone links to.

People at Google have become so used at enriching themselves by spying on every aspect of people's life, that now they genuinely feel that they are entitled to others' data, that it's something that justly belongs to them, for them to do anything that they fancy.

That's the only explanation I can give for seeing them *getting offended* at people requesting not to be spied without consent.

They will go the way of the Hyperloop.

No, mine was a provocation. Teaching is about enabling students to think by themselves and communicate effectively. Having a third party do the reasoning for them is the opposite of that. If we can do without the learning, by delegating to ChatGPT, then we can do without the teaching as well.

Replace teachers with ChatGPT.

We know UV light to be carcinogenic. As are eating basil, drinking a single glass of wine, or having a walk in the sunshine. What we really need is a measure of how big the risk of getting cancer from these activities in real life is. Since a lot of women use these devices more or less regularly, I think we would be seeing an increase in occurrence of skin cancer in the hands if they were significatively dangerous.

I find fonts with serifs easier to read, except at low resolutions. Maybe it's one more sign that I'm getting old.

I'm not offended, my post was sarcastic.

Don't say "Italians" to begin with. You have to use people-first language. You must say "Italian people", otherwise you're already being offensive.
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the former is just a popular designation that mainly exists because "spaghetti" is a cultural icon that italy has never had a problem with being associated with

Bullshit, it's a derogatory term that was used to distinguish "real" western movies from what were considered cheap and over-the-top imitations.

but taking offense in that is really superficial, or intentionally seeking attention.

Exactly, this is the point.

Calling Italian people "spaghetti" is as ignorant as it is offensive.

They had already rewritten it. And they managed to break text selection and keyboard navigation in menus; and the title bar is displayed with a black font, which makes the title unreadable over dark colors. We're talking Windows 2.0-era features.

I think we're starting to see the results of AI applied to software development.