More virtue signalling and white saviorism poisoning the African continent and compromising African sovereignty and self-sufficiency, all so more American tax dollars can get funneled to multinational conglomerates and self-serving "non-profits".

How about we take that money and instead hand it out as annual bonuses to the top 100 teachers in the US?

Someone pasted a sharepoint link into chat during a meeting yesterday, and it must have been 500 characters long. Sharepoint is a write-only system. The search is awful, and it's impossible to navigate by modifying the URLs, which is sometimes a shortcut for navigating other poorly-designed web-based systems.

Like so much that has been done in Windows in the last 10 years, this primarily serves Microsoft. Users be damned. There is nothing more sure to compromise users' security than a company like Microsoft promising that it won't compromise users' security. Given that they have been in quality free fall for some years now, there is no scenario where this Recall feature is not a disaster for users.

Irrelevant. He could draw minors in Photoshop all day long. We're talking about the most disgusting use of free expression here. And the DOJ is trying to criminalize it. I sincerely doubt it's going to fly given the broad, terrifying constitutional implications.

However, when it comes to distributing the materials to a minor, attempting to lure a minor, really everything relating to his actual contact and conduct with minors, dude ought to burn. But the creation and possession of artificial representations of imagined persons and situations? That simply cannot be criminalized in the United States of America. It is plainly, clearly, entirely protected conduct, regardless of how disgusting and terrible it is.

There is nothing that guarantees privacy will be violated more than a company like Microsoft promising they won't violate privacy.

Both these companies are racing to see who can hit rock-bottom in terms of quality first.

I'm using the Android app. It asks for permissions for notifications, microphone (to engage in voice conversations with it), calendar, contacts, and location.

I've allowed notifications, require it to ask every time about the microphone, and deny access to calendar, contacts, and location and the app works just fine for me. I haven't seen any evidence that it's gained any access to any personal data. Android should generally be preventing that anyway, and the responses I get certainly don't indicate that it's scraping anything to provide a personalized experience. But anything you type in or say to the app in voice chat is definitely fair game for it.

So Intel is inventing new definitions of flops? How about bitcoin flops ?

ChatGPT4 has also been getting steadily dumber and the reason is depressing: it's the users.

Everything people type into ChatGPT is added to its training data. The theory is that it will learn to adapt and respond more intelligently, but the opposite has happened. The people using it have made it dumber, lazier, and overall less useful. I can type the exact same prompt to output DIY construction plans or building perl scripts or whatever other complex task I've done before and the results are strikingly worse.

But even in its reduced capacity, ChatGPT helps me too much in my daily tasks to stop paying for it; let alone stop using it.

It wouldn't be oversaturation if any of the stuff they were putting out was any good.

As someone who's been a fan of Peter Parker for 50+ years, I loved what they did with Miles Morales as Spider-Man in the Spider-verse movies. He's a great character, and had a great supporting cast... especially his parents.

While the Spider-verse movies were more cartoony, they were very well-written and incredibly well produced. I'll take more of that over the live action nonsense any day.

When the MCU movies were good, there were at most 3 movies a year, and very few TV shows. But most of the movies were consistently good and a few were amazing. Now it's all bland crap, except for the movies post-"Endgame" that were shielded or mostly shielded from Disney interference: "No Way Home", "Guardians, volume 3" and the Spider-verse movies.

Has Microsoft ever done anything "responsible" in almost 50 years?

I find this headline amusing, given that Microsoft has never done anything responsibly in the almost 50 years it's been around.