Oh, you want profit? This is a surveillance spyware wrapper around the entire MacOS user experience - so if you thought Microsoft's Copilot Recall was invasive monitoring, you haven't seen anything yet.

If Apple won't monetize a user panopticon and partner with governments to do it, OpenAI will be right there, to take the cash.

I don't know that MS has been caught doing data transfers specifically(though they'd have to screw it up or have it leaked at a fairly high level to get caught; 'cloud' is basically always opaque on the back end as far as the customer can see); but there have been a couple of instances recently of service getting cancelled. When Trump got into a snit with the ICC cut their chief prosecutor off(Brad Smith mollified more or less nobody with the claim that they didn't cancel service to the ICC, just to the senior official that the feds were upset with, which is probably technically true in the sense of account GUIDs but not usefully true); and the also kicked Unit 8200 out of their cozy custom Azure environment; though apparently with enough notice that they were able to move the data somewhere else.

It seems likely that random European corporations see themselves as lower profile and less vulnerable than the ICC or Israeli military intelligence; but if anyone doing risk assessment for them hasn't at least considered the fact that basically a belligerent old man would just have to decide that they are 'very unfair' tomorrow; or that someone other than greenland needs to be brought into the homeland, and that would potentially be all it takes for your MS EA to just stop talking to you then they aren't doing their jobs very thoroughly.

Is it, though? Yes I do blame voters for the destruction of the United States, but outside of the MAGA true believers, I don't think voters intended for Trump to do whatever the hell he wants. They expected, naively, the constitution to still be upheld and decent people in the administration to put the brakes on the unamerican things Trump is wont to do. That's what happened last time. Of course most of the rest of us saw all this rubbish coming like train wreck. Obviously Trump voters did not, unfortunately. And many of them are in denial, and will be until they die, even as the nation crumbles around them.

And even Republicans very upset with Trump are in complete denial. I talked with a relative who's a life-long republican a few days ago. Although he occasionally votes Democrat as a protest, he would never join that party, even though I try to tell him from an outsider's point of view the two parties are more similar than different on various economic issues. He thinks that in another three years the election will replace Trump and someone else will get in and things will go back to normal. But they won't! The republic has been irreversibly damaged by Trump supporters, and with guys like Vance waiting in the wings, the devastation will just continue. I'm not fatalist, nor someone that wishes for everything to collapse, but my breath is taken away by the speed at which Trump has torn down the constitution and the institutions of US democracy, and altered the entire the entire federal government which used to honor tradition by maintaining separations from the president. The fact he's been able to do that so quickly, and without even a peep of protest from the GOP indicates that a significant number of people in DC were already rotten, but held back by patriotic fellow civil servants who upheld the constitution (I'm sure they were evil democrats). I know how this is going to end but I'm still sad about it, and a bit angry because it's going to bring down my own country in a similar way---already politicians here are modeling themselves after trump and beginning the process of dismantling democracy a little at a time, starting with making voting more difficult.

I will argue against strict adherence to this statement. Gnome applications written to the project guidelines have become very fine, since the introduction of GTK-4 and libadwaita. I prefer many of these to their equivalents on MacOS.

It's true that most of these fall into a general category of "utilities", and that Windows enjoys a broader ecosystem driven by commercial incentive. But Windows programs are hardly "better' for this, and the widely varied usability is generally sub-par compared to level that's become norm for Gnome/Adwaita software.

Irrelevant to what I replied to, which was about Clippy.

Try to participate in the same conversation as the grownups.

Always have. That's generally the source of most of the modern worlds problems lol

Also laws in the USA apparently don't matter anymore. Don't forget no need to pay speeding fines, there's no identifiable victim so you shouldn't be punished anymore.

Absolutely wrong. What actually happens is that laws are strictly enforced, just not against the president and his friends, and those that curry favor with the president king. But you as a mere subject, if you do something wrong, expect the full force of the law to be used against you. This is how it works also in Russia or China, and all the corrupt countries on earth.

Clippy was trivial to kill. You just had to know how (to use a search engine).

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone trying to use the waste heat that all this computer power is generating? I realize that would impact cooling a little, but surely SOME of this can be recovered efficiently? Steam turbines are the usual way to turn heat into electrical power. Is there no way to do it for data centers?

For example, use a heat pump to concentrate the heat to above boiling temperature then use that to boil water to run a steam turbine. The heat pump would require some power to run, but I think you could run that at a net-positive for power?

that pardon cost? Trump doesn't strike me as the type to do anything like that for free.

"Generative" they said...

All stop signs with white borders are optional.

The old AI group leaders probably didn't get along with the shiny, new Wang, and so they had to go. When Wang stops being able to sucker Zuckerborg on the whole superintelligence thing, he'll get replaced too. He'll be extremely rich by then so good for him.

There was a time when banks' purpose was to safeguard depositors money and invest it carefully so it would grow, and then share those profits with the depositors. Interest was essentially payment for the money we loaned them. Now banks want to take my money for nearly free and then charge me for the privilege. All the while using my money to make tremendous profits, which they keep to themselves (and stock holders).

That said, there are serious issues with the whole ideal of infinite growth which is what everything is based on. Hey at least we can all go to the people's house in Washington DC and enjoy the new gilded ballroom and forget our troubles.