Remind me how your whataboutism changes any damn thing ever?

${PAST_PERSON} did a thing in the past I don't like, so therefore ${PRESENT_PERSON} can do even worse shit, right?

This makes you unbelievably stupid. Stop making excuses for bad behavior, just because ${PRESENT_PERSON} is in your political tribe.

Thanks for proving my point with your goalpost move.

You cannot point to a single elected person who has the ability to do what you are spreading FUD about. You cannot point to a single person who is even advocating for what you are spreading FUD about.

All you have is bad faith arguments and stupid shit. Stop.

They didn't restrict commands at all. THEY WERE DOING RESEARCH, YOU GIT.

You can actively tell an LLM's framework tool what it is and isn't allowed to do. If you are running with no permissions checks, you get what you get.

Learn how it works before you opine.

This is what appeasement of a strong-man douchebag dictator gets you. They will always come back looking for more - that's how extortion works. They know you're willing to kick up, so kick up you will.

Seems their new encryption only limits what they can give law enforcement, until they are motivated to do otherwise.

It's not like they can't push an update to the device to have it dump it's encryption key back to the mothership.

If you don't want other people looking at it, get it off the cloud. Period.

Oh, you're still expecting a Slashdot "editor" to do something besides mash the "accept" button to user submitted stories.

Good luck with that.

Gee, you don't think that was the plan all along, do you? Imagine a billionaire doing things that only billionaires would benefit from. Nobody could have seen that coming!

Facebook 2026Q2 earnings:
Revenue: $60.80 billion, marking a 28% increase year-over-year.
Net Income: $15.85 billion.
Diluted EPS: $6.18, compared to analyst expectations of around $7.14.
Total Costs and Expenses: $42.03 billion, which included legal charges and severance costs.
Capital Expenditures: Projected to be between $130 billion and $145 billion for the full year 2026, driven heavily by infrastructure and data center investments for AI.

This settlement is a little over 10% of what they are spending on datacenter builds, and a tiny bit more than 3 months of profit. Ripoff confirmed.

Spare me the "red scare" bullshit.

Show one serious person who has an actual avenue to do any of this bullshit and I'll believe you. No, talking about some dipshit streamer on Twitch isn't getting there. Show an elected politician in the US, or one that is currently running as a major party candidate that advocates "outright Communism" or praises Chairman Mao.

Prove your bullshit claim.

This is the same scare tactics bullshit as the "sharia law" dogwhistle. The only elected in office right now that is increasing the creep of socialism and communism is President Trump with his government price controls on hundreds of thousands of tons of imported mystery meat that he won't tell us where it's actually coming from ("most transparent administration in history"), heavy-handed central economic planning through tariffs and trying to fire FED governors that don't do what he wants, and seizing the means of production through the Treasury buying equity stakes in private business.

Not even close.

Elon is actively reposting white nationalist horseshit. That's a pretty big source of angst.
The "For You" tab is a firehose of propaganda shitposts that you probably never asked for, targeted to piss you off and keep you hate-posting. That's a pretty big source of angst.
They still "label" accounts that say things they don't like to shadowban, with no recourse or even any human review / audit / appeal. That causes angst, and it's also the censorship you are screaming about.

X is run by the biggest shitposting troll on the planet, and it shows.

It's mandatory if you want to use the service today. Otherwise you are "waitlisted" to use it for free.

Seems scammy, but I get that they want early adopters to help offset operational cost.

So don't allow your model a tool to do that?

Do you even know how any of this works? Because it seems you don't know how any of this works. You can restrict what commands a model can run, so give it a setup that denies any access to `ip` or `networkmanager` or whatever.

Try not being a paranoid ignorant.

Your excuses are tired and stupid. 10 years and 15 days was the difference between no human flying farther than velocity and height would bring, and commercial air travel. HTH.

It's very mixed up, which as an analogue electronics designer I find very annoying, but in this faulty newspeak digital is often used to mean: intangible data inside a computer of sorts, and analog(ue) as a counterpart to that, as something tangible, physical, instead of the original meaning, where analog refers to a representation of some value in the real world.

Most cringey is when things like digital detox are worded like "being in the analog world" for a while. They just mean: real world. And abuse and twist a technical term to sound smarter, I guess.

The real world is real, not analogue. It's not actually an analogy for something else.

Which means that it's basically a non-event. Why deal with this vendor-locked garbage when it's trivial to set up the toolchain and buy one of those Nvidia boxes? Or one of those AMD Ryzen AI Halo things?

Yeah, it's still Nvidia, but if you're going to spend thousands on hardware, they've always been a good bet for still being around in a few years, and still giving a shit about you after a few years.

They're still making Shield TV Pro software updates like 7 years later. Buying into some locked up piece of shit when the bubble is about to burst might be the icing on the stupidity cake.