I do not think "productivity" is what is driving this. I think it is intelligence agencies using AI to go through half a century of collected data to determine who will be the winners and losers in society. "Society" itself is 'Fascist' and wants every social interaction to happen in an expected order.

I do not know how to explain this idea without writing an entire book... but, ignoring Reality will end in Reality reminding 'you' that it can not be ignored. This 'ignorance of Reality' frequently ends up in death, but always provides misery to most people most of the time.

It is too late. Even HIPAA won't help here. The data is not being stored in a directly human retrievable method, so you can not PROVE in an unassailable manner that they are hoovering your data. I am dealing with this a lot right now with companies using AI products and insisting that the data is not used for training. If data is going out of my enclave, then it absolutely is being used for further training.

On the bright side, at least they have the training to properly evaluate the information presented. You, likely, do not.

The reasons those standards existed is because it absolutely *IS* distracting. The reasons those standards are not used in this situation is that the car company gets more money for showing you those ads. Everything is for sale, including your life.

You are correct that they have been collecting the data for decades. AI is what is enabling them to actually go through all of the data. THAT is why there such a rush to power AI. Previously, your data would only be analyzed as part of an investigation; now, everything will be analyzed. Every single post on Slashdot is being fed through AI to target any/all of us. But Slashdot is nothing compared to the rest of the Internet, which is receiving the same treatment... as is your phone calls and shopping habits. There WILL be a New World Order and the majority of people on the planet will be its victim. A thousand points of light... a thousand families. This shit has been planned for decades.

The exec that needs to hear it will never hear it. Information travels FROM the "most important" person TO the least important person. If you are not the most important person, you are utterly useless and have no input.

The market disruption that would happen would cause tens of thousands of families to have to seek jobs in order to support themselves. It will never happen.

Bet

Ok, I'll byte: Like letting people make their own choices? How is letting someone choose to sell or smoke meth immoral?

So then, why do we make selling or smoking meth illegal? Is it because of *shock* the costs to society?

Essentially, if you are against meth being legal, then you should equally be against 'ultraprocessed' foods being legal. The real bitch is defining what 'ultraprocessed' REALLY means.

Stability is relative. Compared to reinstalling Win9X so often I only recently forgot my most-used 98SE product key, Win2K was a breath of fresh air, especially for dual CPU rigs formerly afflicted with NT 4.0.

There may be a silver lining.

Desperation will ensure sales to the only customers (PC building enthusiasts) who will still care about traditional removable RAM.

Normals never install an OS, never open their computers, and never install internal hardware upgrades. People who do are "techno-divergent".

Apple demonstrates soldered RAM and storage are no barriers to consumer sales with zero need for a hobbyist market.

Ancient Slashdotters remember COAST (Cache On A STick) and why it went away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Today we have ROAST (RAM On A STick) which only exists for customers who cannot afford to max out RAM on computer purchase, there being no (conventional user to whom computers are magic) downside to max RAM.

Being able to buy a PC with a cheap spinning rust hard drive and the least offered amount of RAM then binning those and maxing out with aftermarket parts (mostly Crucial RAM in my and many others case) was great while it lasted but the vast majority of PCs go from womb to tomb without upgrades and will in future.

Close to 50% of the folks on this planet are smarter than "most" of the population. Just the fact that you are here at Slashdot implies that you are in that "smarter" than most group; however, being smarter than most doesn't prevent you from acting dumb from time to time. Humility is ALWAYS necessary.

The nice thing about SSH is that the server does not need to be on port 22. Unless they are blocking the protocol itself, there will be no denying of SSH. If they are blocking the protocol... well, LOL.

Why be so negative? Some people might have been motivated by seeing an example of altruism in front of them. Despite how I personally feel, not everything is negative. That is also true regardless of how you personally feel.