Oh cool. Now its not just chat bots, but chat clients can take our jobs too.

What a world to live in.

Yeah the prices have gone up. But thats due to input tarifs. The thing thats squeezing US farmers, other than losing all their export markets, is that all their machinery and fertilizer costs have skyrocketed. A combine harvester is a huge investment, not just in initial outlay but continued maintainence. Couple that with fertilizer costs soaring (some of that is due to the ukraine invasion but most of its tarifs) and the loss of an affordable workforce due to ICEs rampage, and its really bad days for farmers.

I'd say don't give him any ideas, but republicans have already suggested it, and after demolishing the east wing, all bets are off. He's just meglomanical enough to try.

Israel should be able to do war crimes because america does war crimes is lizard brain logic. both countries need to cut it out.

Maybe I'm just a weirdo but I am very annoyed at them for trying to take away the option of local-only accounts. Why do I need to let them be a third party to everything I do starting with logging in? Nobody asked for this.

At this stage, the best way forward is to apply the "Debian" patch to your system to restore local accounts, and strip out the all the daft AI guff

I saw an interview with Linus Torvalds the other day, and he seems to think Nvidias getting better behaved with its drivers now (although my understanding is he's not as fussed by closed source drivers as others are in the industry).

Nvidia are shits though. I know they used to maintain a CUDA implementation for macs. Now? Nope...

As are the GPUs on both the mainstream major gaming consoles (PS5 and Xbox). AMD GPUs arent going anywhere, especially now that their AI picture is starting to come a bit more into focus

Eh. To some value of yes and some value of no.

The library aint nearly as large, but surprisingly a lot of it is there. But don't expect it to be equivelent to a frebreathing 64 core Ryzen 9 with 5090 GPU. Obviously.

If Googles teeth-grindingly stupid AI is what it takes to kill this stupid bubble, well I'll grit my teeth and go along with it.

Because I really feel like I'm in the stupidest industry right now. And thats not what I signed up for 30 years ago.

In a foreign country, you have to follow their laws, just as foreign businesses must do in the US.

I generally agree with this. But I dont think apple is saying they will break the law, but rather that they'd just wIthdraw from the market if forced, which has been their approach in the past.

Plus, while india is a big market, apples 10% of it probably isnt a huge segment of apples revenue, and they have the warchest to just sit it out until Gen Zs flip out hard enough to force the govt to back off.

Yeah I wanna know this too. This is pretty alarming.

Guess thats what happens when you trust a google project.....

No, actually theres plenty of studies. You have to look first if you want to know!

Look up "watching eye effect supermarket" in google scholar or your academic search engine of choice. Theres literally hundreds of studies.

Too bad Australia's court hold zero sway over these social media companies and their fines mean nothing.

If they do business here, they have an office here, servers here and have legal liabilities here. Just like any business.

All the major social media companies dont just have offices here, they have datacenters, or major presences in data centers, here. More than that, they have clients here, and like any company that gets fined, if they dont pay those fines, the courts just *take* the money.

Don't be naive.

You speak with the bias of a person who has experienced a life of multiple hobbies and multiple possibilities and dismiss very legitimate concerns. For people who are actually addicted to shit like social media things can get very nasty indeed.

Thats who the legislation is for. Break the damn screen addiction.

As whacky as the research sounds, theres precedents, albeit less funny ones.

Back in the 1980s where I lived, supermarkets used to always stick cardboard cutouts of policemen around the shop, cross-armed and staring. Apparently those where really effective.

Nobody actually thought it was a real policeman staring, but the psychological effect was enough that people felt too *observed* to actually go and do the crimes. I can only assume what this shows is it doesnt really matter what the authoritarian figure is , be he commissioner gordon, or batman, its enough to make people feel anxious about wanting to do good, or rather to be SEEN as doing good.

As the philosopher foucault observed, panopticon doesnt work by the prison guards doing the discipline, but the discontinuous sense of being observed made the prisoners discipline themselves.