They'll learn all about Patreon just as soon as they discover this hidden gem of user-recorded videos called "YouTube".

Just the thing to erode public perception of the security of open source operating systems that also don't fit into a master plan of making everyone register themselves for remote identification in some way to "protect young people from harmful content".

Nah, this is more like working at a company that measures your productivity in LoC typed. People making shit long-winded just to game the numbers.

Can't wait to hear about some big incident because someone automated something unnecessarily to increase their token usage. It will be literally the fault of these policies regarding AI adoption.

Doesn't matter if AI would do a better job replacing the people at the top when the decisions about who gets replaced by AI are made at the top.

The AI will have to look at your screen to see what you are pointing at. So pretty much user-triggered Microsoft Recall that is automatically shipped off your machine to Google.

Funny enough, I saw an article not that long ago saying that America's interest in pizza was falling, because of how tough things had been for the pizzeria business.
No, America still loves pizza. What happened is all restaurants have been ratcheting up their prices the last 20 years while the quality of frozen pizza has been improving. Combine that with current economic issues and more people are choosing a frozen pie they bake at home over going out now.

So, why was the AI necessary here (besides to hype up potential investors)? The smoke detection or thermal sensors can locate a specific zone the fire is in and turn on the countermeasure directly. Is there a reason we can't just dumb-flood the whole room with the sound suppression (the same way the sprinklers we're trying to replace would)?

Most people don't want to live in a house made of dirt. Besides perceived concerns about the durability of the structure itself, it's just a matter of public perception. Living in a house made of earthen materials brings to mind settlers in mud-brick homesteads. That's not the modern living folks want. Many people buy homes with the idea of it being an investment they will resell in the future. If people don't find your home desirable you'll have a harder time selling down the line and wont get as much in return. Same reason people don't paint their house exterior hot pink.

I have a book somewhere around here from the '70s about building your own home by building into a hillside essentially (so the majority of the structure is semi underground). This style of building has obvious benefits when it comes to weather resistance and climate control. But the home you end up with is somewhat a cave with little natural light. The couple in the photograph on the cover could pass for many a neckbeard of today and his wife was shown sewing like some survivalist bride trying to maintain a home where commercial electricity isn't a thing. This is not the image people want emulate.

I'm curious how the 2016 platform managed to get it so right but everything since then has failed. Would be amusing if models are actually getting worse as they are hyped more in business.

Lots of sellers on eBay are operating storefronts for the same merchandise on Amazon and selling on Walmart and NewEgg's sites as third-parties, too.
Sellers go where the people are and the products are the same even if the prices are varied according to platform fees. Most "unique" content on eBay is individuals selling single items and not running a small business, just like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace.

Nuclear power stations take decades to build. The customer base knows this whole AI thing isn't going to really pan out even as they sell it. They need to make their money as soon as possible before the curtain falls, and that will be much sooner than this power solution will be ready.

Did you miss that lousy feature-length film they paid $40 million in distribution rights for, and almost as much again in marketing?

They'll have sand trucked in from other states to make up their shortfall, and then complain when free sand is supplied to kids' sandboxes.

That's just a way of opening the door for the developers to bribe the select people who get to decide instead of the citizens.

I might check my custom filters, as I had a few set up for Slashdot to remove the ads that were still there even after normal uBO went over it, and maybe they have changed the layout code in some way where the story is in the same element as an ad section I'd removed.