I got to listen to programmers laugh at the auto industry. They talked about how American cars sucked because of Unions, they didn't give a shit about whiny American union workers, etc. etc.

Now they are realizing what happens when a job gets commoditized. They are realizing that once a industry matures, things change. I SO SO want to say "Yeah? Fuck you. I hope your sorry ass gets fired". But instead, I'll just shake my head and watch the journey to reasonable collective-bargaining and wonder how many more times this needs to play out before people realize how critical unions are.

Fuck the US.

So you're telling me that the US military hasn't banned ALL personal compute devices from being on bases, and instead handed out secured devices that don't allow installation or tracking?

But we give politicians devices that do exactly those things?

Yeah. Honor our servicemen indeed.

That's a pretty nice strawman you made there. I wonder if you actually think it was a good argument.

And now it's time to get rid of the builders and only keep the maintainers so we can turn a short term profit. Woooooo Investors.

I work for a *major* manufacturer with operations in numerous countries.

There is not one, single PLC connected through a wireless modem to the internet. That's stupidity. Absolute stupidity.

Our PLC software is hardlocked and unable to be changed without rebooting into a special password protected mode. It is set up in a data-send-only configuration where it can send the server production metrics, but will not accept *any* incoming connections. It is virus-protected, checked nightly against off-site backups, and buried behind so many firewalls it would make your head spin.

These fuckers are making gradeschool mistakes with critical infrastructure.

Immense vertical integration. China's industrial base. Huge support by the Chinese government. Low cost manufacturing, with a low paid work force. Subsidized pricing to get market share. Stolen intellectual property. Yeah - China's going to win every time with that recipe.

Make a good system that's free. Let it become the standard. Then start charging for it. Boy.... it's exactly the same way a lot of companies in the US work. I'm surprised we can still even view PDF files for free.

We're gonna ban drones. No we aren't. We're gonna tariff drones. No we aren't. We're going to restrict AI chips. No we aren't. We're gonna stop immigration. No we aren't. Now Russia is hitting Ukraine with cruise missles that have Nvidia chips in them, drone companies from China can buy a 'license' to get around the import restrictions on drones, and as long as you have $5,000,000 you can buy an instant immigration card regardless of what country you hail from. Fuck Trump. And fuck ANYONE who still supports him.

Ah, I found someone who hasn't used AI extensively. AI's are utterly unpredictable. "Guiderails" continue to be attempted, and routinely fail. As evidenced by the trivial task of jailbreaking even the 'best' AI's to act in opposition to what their creators want.

AI prompt crafting is difficult. Especially for a task as complex as "go on the web and register me for X as soon as possible". It could be as simple as the AI registering you for X in another state, because you didn't specify it. Or it could be the AI making an unauthorized payment because doing so would jump you in the queue and you didn't specify it. Or it could be the AI 'hacking' then website to achieve what you told it to. In EVERY case - it's because you did a shit job of prompting AI's.

These are NOT to the point where they can act as a general assistant. Using them as one invites these problems. And my point remains. This is a clickbait title that caters to people who don't understand the current state of AI (obviously, as evidenced by your response).

This wasn't a hack. This was the AI doing *exactly* what it was told to do. It wasn't told not to circumvent normal practices. It wasn't told to *only* use the only sign up form. It wasn't told to NOT investigate their code and seek avenues around it. So, as usual, this entire article is over-hyped clickbait.

For anyone who hasn't already used the T-Mobile / "T-Life" App, it is the biggest piece of steaming shit created. They moved their gateway management features to the app and neutered them in the process. So much so that other people found a way to right another management app to handle your home network settings. It's truly a piece of shit - bloated, littered with advertisements, and horrid to navigate. I have T-Mobile because I use Boost mobile. It's hard to beat $25 a line for unlimited everything.

They want to stop Google from scraping and presenting Reddit posts as results. But turning off google scraping makes it impossible to search for your content for 90% of the web users, who all use google.

At the same time, you've enshittified Reddit to the point where you *block* people on mobile from viewing posts in an attempt to force the use of your horrible app, driving away potential users.

This isn't a real business model. Reddit tried to monetize themselves and didn't have any idea how to do it. They continue to shoot themselves in the foot. Their single STRENGTH, the long-term searchable content viewable by users, has been shot in the foot by restricting mobile viewing while the google scrapers have no such limitation. This literally drives people to simply stop at the google AI summary and not even bother with the reddit site.

I mean..... it's no surprise since Trump probably has his fingers all through the prediction markets. We know how he's been manipulating the stock markets for gain already.

Instead of trying to deliver a product under the price point, they start adding things that require external licensing and ongoing costs. Then they try to hide the price by charging exorbitant fees like 'delivery'.