Comment Re:Good luck when it breaks (Score 1) 167
Unlike Chromebooks?
Comment Re:Suckers (Score 1) 160
Comment Re:Was the evil sociopath problem solved? (Score 1) 35
I'm anticipating the first time I see the word roboticide
I bought a can of this about a year ago, it works pretty well. I sprayed it all around the outside perimeter of the house, and a few choice inside spots. You have to re-apply it every 6 months or so, but worth it.
Comment Re:Suckers (Score 2) 160
You have to physically disable the modem to avoid that.
And nobody knows how to do that, and if they did there's no guarantee the car would keep working. I bring this up to prevent the quoted statement from making someone think that "disabling your car modem is a thing" people do... it isn't, despite many -- like myself -- very much wanting to do so.
Comment Re:What, me worry? (Score 1) 17
"I'm sorry. I seem to have burned down your house, despite your clear instructions not to do so. I'm very, very, terribly sorry."
Comment Re: Is it April again already? (Score 4, Funny) 157
They could easily have it back if they ran their own local offline model....
I wonder what the ven overlap would be of the categories "capable of running offline model" and "likely to fall in love with chatbot".
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Comment But who's gonna drive Teslas now? (Score 1) 10
I guess Tesla will have to hire their own remote drivers now, in order to continue the FSD charade. Hopefully they'll be better trained and remember my preferred routes for once.
Comment Oddly misleading headline (Score 2) 74
"macOS 27 Beta Boots Asahi Linux Off Apple Silicon "
I initially thought the above headline meant "MacOS capable of running Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon"... where as it appears the article is instead about almost the opposite, an incompatibility with a recent Apple change hampering its ability to run Asahi linux.
Comment Re:Every single movement you make will be tracked (Score 4, Insightful) 166
Most people simply don't care because they feel no need to hide anything.
I'd rephrase that as: Most people don't understand how much they have to hide, and -- because it's daunting for them to create an alternate tech ecosystem for themselves -- they psychologically push aside whatever nagging worries they have about what they might indeed want to hide.
Put another way: people are addicted to the current status quo, and trapped by their lack of tech expertise. Which is not the same as objectively self-assessing that they have nothing to hide.
Comment The worst part is... (Score 1) 164
Comment Re:PSA (Score 1) 132
Comment Re:Funny but serious (Score 2) 44
an amusing example of how training can go wrong
My understanding is that this isn't a consequence of a flawed training algorithm or process; it's instead a consequence of the limitations of LLMs, emergent from their training materials. It closely parallels another example I've seen around the net, that of asking an LLM about getting a car to the mechanic, noting it's a sunny day and the mechanic is just a block away, and having the LLM suggest walking... which is a consequence of the bias in training materials toward walking because lots of people make visible posts about their having done so (because it's looked on favorably), whereas people who drive short distances (of which there are many, probably outnumbering walkers) don't trumpet having done so online, leading LLMs to emit advice about walking when possible (and in the case of the mechanic example, having a lack of comprehension of the pivotal aspect of having the car make it with you to the mechanic's shop).
Comment April Foos! (Score 1) 69
Anybody else around here long enough to remember the good ol' days when Slashdot would post (exclusively?) fake articles on April Fool's Day every year?