There are dumb TVs still being made.

That you don't even know that shows you are not a serious customer for such a product.

You can just click "Skip" when it asks you to connect to the Internet.

You can stop it, but most people can't or won't.

They don't need to block 100% of debloating.

99.9% is good enough.

The only ads I see are for video content like new movies or TV shows, and I don't mind those.

PG&E in California incentivizes me to reduce my power consumption from 2 to 7 pm, and gives me cheap off-peak electricity from 2 to 4 am, when I charge my EV.

I've been on this program for 11 years. It works well for me.

It's also a little telling though. Presumably these same employees were okay with (otherwise they would have quit, no) a lot of the scummy or deplorable things Google has been doing over the years. Perhaps this was the proverbial back-breaking straw, but I'd not automatically hold these employees up as models of morality. I'd wager that if anyone really did I to their reasoning that it comes down to the U.S. military having ties with Israel. I could be completely wrong on that, but I think the odds I'd get on such a wager would be closer to even than some would be comfortable admitting.

I'm surprised that the human editors haven't been replaced with an AI bot already. An LLM can certainly spit out summaries that few will read just as well as a human editor. It could probably do a good enough job pulling stories from user submissions or other big tech stories. I'll bet it could even do a better job negotiating rates for Slashvertisement and could even be cajoled into finding non-paywalled links. If the AI editors posted and interacted with the posters it would probably increase user engagement as well.

You can still browse them, but a few of them may be defaced for a while.

Also, rewrites are expensive and often introduce a new set of bugs in the process. They usually break a lot of third party add-ons or other custom modules as well. There's nothing stopping anyone from writing a new CMS in a more modern language (I'm surprised the rust cult hasn't pounced all over this to be honest) but most people are happy using what they already have because it's easier or less expensive to continue using it. There are plenty of systems still running ancient COBOL code and will probably still be doing so long after we're all gone.

They're probably laughing at the same people who said that the constitution was just a piece of paper when it came to their second amendment rights trying to argue that any of the other amendments have any more power now that they find themselves beneath the foot of the government. Anyone who thought eroding the strength of constitutional rights just because they didn't like guns should have considered that they were slowly slitting their own throats.

Does it matter what the authorities claim to be looking for?

The answer should always be "Do you have a warrant?" followed by invoking your right not to answer any of their questions.

You may still be arrested even if you've done nothing wrong, but your attorney will have a much easier time getting charges dismissed (and filing suit against the authorities for civil rights violations) if you don't willingly give the authorities anything with which they might convict you.

This has always been the thing of science fiction (Star Trek universe being a great example). There's this idea that humanity will automate and invent so much technology that nobody has any work left to do.

In realty? Nobody on the planet has ever reached this point before in history, to prove it really happens.

All I *do* know is that in my own life experience, EVERY time I use a new tool or gadget that promises to save me time and make my life easier? Whatever time it saves is immediately claimed someplace else. In many instances, the claimed labor and time savings turns out to be artificial. (EG. I've owned several Roomba type robot vacuums. Even though each one I tried was an improvement over the old one? None have ever truly eliminated the time and labor I would have spent vacuuming by hand otherwise. What inevitably happens is they don't get certain areas clean enough, so I have to go back and deal with those myself. Then, they need maintenance and cleaning themselves, which requires a lot of time taking them apart and getting lint and hair unwound from places it wasn't supposed to be. Next, something wears out or breaks, costing me more money AND time to repair it or replace the worn part.)

I think all we might really see is some temporary pain around unemployment as we collectively re-think what kind of labor/work we still want to pay people to do.

AI clearly can't do ANYTHING physical, so that severely limits what jobs it can take from humans. Robotics can do physical tasks but we're still FAR from it handling random tasks that humans do easily. Our robots tend to be purpose-built. One may be able to scan inventory on store shelves, but it can't go clean up a spill in an aisle. Another may claim to do security duty but probably has to call in to humans if anything bad happens to it.

I'm curious how you can have a system that simultaneously permits and bans private ownership. What Europe has is a capitalist society with high taxes to provide numerous public services at no additional expense to its citizens. Even though most European countries have public healthcare, it's still possible to purchase private health insurance. A socialist economy wouldn't even have money because there would be nothing one could purchase with it. I suppose a capitalist system doesn't technically need it and could barter, but it would quickly create something akin to money to facilitate exchange of goods and services. Needless to say the two models cannot exist together so the idea that capitalist socialism exists at all is ludicrous.

The reality is that most actual systems (even ones proclaiming to be socialist) are some minimal amount of capitalistic as necessary to function with varying degrees of government control of how free the markets are. Collective ownership doesn't scale well beyond the level of a tribe or other small community.

I've seen how this one ends.

All he does is say the parent has to open an UTMA account with X Financial to receive the share. It's not really a free share. It's a promo bonus for opening an account with him for your kid.

TFS also lists the Guardian as a source.

Like Chernobyl?

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