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Comment Re:Enshitification (Score 1) 37

Why the hell can't they just build TVs that do what the customer wants for the price they need to ask for profitability without pushing a load of shit into them?

Because they won't be able to sell hardware at a loss, making up on selling your data..

I don't know if there is a market for privacy-respecting TVs, at least nobody attempted to capitalize on that yet.

Submission + - Popular Tech Site Caves to AI $, Starts Serving AI Popups (slashdot.org) 2

An anonymous reader writes: Popular but greying tech site Slashdot succumbs to commercial pressure, allowing AI-serving popups "Create AI Apps with Mongo DB!"

Long held to be a bastion of 'old tech' linux advocates and crusty DOS command-line devotees, they were widely representative of the cutting edge of the golden age of desktops and still regarded highly for their knowledge of kernel lore and deep protocols fundamental to modern computing. Fading in relevance since its heyday of the 1990s and 2000s, conventional wisdom would still have suggested this should have been the last bastion to fall to the idea of letting LLMs "do the coding for you", but Slashdot admins, alert for commercial opportunities (on a site that remains relatively ad free), clearly have a different opinion. "Our users need to understand what an opportunity this was for us" they are imagined to have said, "there's a TON of cash sloshing around the gigantic shamconomy of OpenAI, NVidia, and ChatGPT — why can't some of it splash our way? As they say: 'carpe pecuniam'!."

Comment Re: Zoning permits to homeschool? (Score 1) 139

Public school is the primary means which the government uses to ensure the safety of kids from their parents.

This authoritarian view is right out of 1984. Removing parental rights in ineffective attempt to prevent potential abuse is right out there with thoughcrime.

Comment Re: Zoning permits to homeschool? (Score 0) 139

Having to ask permission to do normal things exemplifies everything that is wrong with California. If he were running a business of educating other children (i.e., charging money) then I can see having to get permits and registration. In this case, it is California encroaching on parent's rights. Zuck (and everyone else) ought to move and leave that nanny state hellhole.

Comment Translation (Score 0) 75

What he meant by "will win AI race" is as follows:

a. Automation of jobs resulting in decrease of living standards for the middle class.
b. Implementing systemic surveillance undermining citizen's rights to privacy, to dissent politically, and expose corporate wrongdoing.
c. Implementing 'social score' system that encompasses all aspects of individual activities that traditionally were off limits, finding further ways to penalize dissent.

Why would anyone want to win these stupdi prizes?

"[The Japanese people] are so crafty in their hearts that nobody can understand them. Whence it is said that they have three hearts: a false one in their mouths for all the world to see, another within their breasts only for their friends, and the third in the depths of their hearts, reserved for themselves alone and never manifested to anybody."

Unfortunately, this quote that describes medieval Japan will soon have to be applicable to everyone under AI yoke. Only, there won't be private conversations in the kitchen with your family, because microphones are everywhere in every device.

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