Whoever gets up to get coffee leaked the story it was decided. So the rest of the wink-wink-elbow jab meeting didn't get anywhere, of course

People want helpful AI that doesn't hallucinate, code crap code, tell you to eat glue or commit suicide.

So this is Geniza from between the First and Second Temple? Sorry, just had to ask. :)

Correction: We've got our A.I. on you!

Not an anthropologist, but reading the news makes it appear that either psychopathic, obsessive minds with self-serving morality flourish in contemporary society, that and/or there are extremely powerful, cynical people who find and use them. Whether tech entrepreneurs have ever learned how to analyze literary works as opposed to just consuming them for entertainment is another good question. Likely it is a lack of imagination.. like an LLM what people ingest ends up percolating to the top of the mind. And, the dystopian solutions are the easiest. Contemporary tech and the money that builds it up seems to favor hierarchical structures that accumulate power to a central authority and so long as the people running it don't care about privacy or human dignity, anything goes. Tech is not yet advanced or altruistic enough to allow more people's ideas of what is moral to compete with that.

We don't want to be associated with a fascist regime when the wind changes.

I trust Windows Server 2003 more than I trust Windows 11. It's less stable, but Microsoft isn't in control of your machine.

The man bought a vacuum cleaner that required an internet connection, and that didn't make him suspicious?

Not so clever I reckon...

The pigs using ubiquitous street camera surveillance to accuse the woman, or the woman using ubiquitous in-vehicle camera surveillance to prove her innocence.

No part of this story makes me warm or fuzzy.

and the ubiquitous surveillance of large swathes of the internet as well. Woohoo!

Note to self: stick to Debian and don't touch Ubuntu or Mint for a few versions until the kinks have been worked out.

As holder of the domain aardvark.co.nz I can already feel the benefit.

Shut down all sensors that have nothing to do with navigation, that Google uses to put people under surveillance, stop the data collection and stop sending data to the mothership all the damn time. I guarantee you power usage will go down significantly.

How do I know that? because my Fairphone 4 running CalyxOS gets a few more hours of battery life than the same Fairphone 4 running vanilla Android, and my Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch also does better battery-wise than the same phone running Google's surveillance platform.

Poetic justice.

the first hit is free.