Comment Let them quit. (Score 1) 120
If employees of a company disagree with how the company is managing itself, disagree with how the company solicits its customers, they have several options. One time-honored possibility is to form a union. Another is to get yourself into a position of influence, such as an important position or even get yourself elected to the Board of Trustees. They may vary in level of difficulty, but they are possible. Another way is to quit in protest. There is no reason for an employee to continue working for a company that violates their moral perogatives.
For God's sakes, let them quit! Never discourage them. Don't stand in their way. Accept their resignation. Feign your disappointment. Make it easy. Open the door for them. Thank them for their service. Sever your ties with them as quickly and completely as possible. Take their keys. Erase their access. Do whatever you need to do to erase them from your systems forever. Then breathe a sigh of relief that they are gone.
Comment Re:How will Jesus find planet Earth? (Score 1) 91
And that's nothing compared to his dad. That dude is guilty of a number of genocides, and his temper tantrums and logic put Lord Emperor Trump to shame. Like, punishing his pet nation for its leader conducting a census that the god himself ordered in the first place.
Comment DEI for robots (Score 1) 220
We obviously need to pass legislation prohibiting discrimination for robots and AI in general. This cannot be allowed to continue.
Comment if it was about mental health we would shift time (Score 1) 282
Comment There are measurement you can do to verify that. (Score 3, Informative) 17
Comment More like price of fuel. (Score 1) 90
And car fuel price exploded. I think this is a far more likely correlation.
Comment They want to disallow china AI model (Score 2) 105
1) make a lot of noise and dire warning
2) get congress to pass the "responsible AI act (TM)" which will only allow "responsible model"
3) Only the local US grown model are declared "responsible model"
4) China and other country are naturally excluded
5) ask politician to put sanction on those who use "irresponsible model"
6) profit.
Comment Should be GPLd (Score 1) 162
This isn't moral. Ubuntu owes the GNU project far too much to replace GNU tools like this, and it's going to come back to bite them later, when they start losing the protection that the GPL gives. (For example, just imagine how much better Android would have been if its core were GPL, and how much worse Chrome could be getting if it wasn't).
For now:
apt install busybox-static #In case you mess up.
apt remove coreutils-from-uutils --allow-remove-essential
apt install coreutils-from-gnu #should have happened automatically.
Comment Define Crypto as counterfeit - and solve the issue (Score 1) 82
I think we could solve the issue in a single line.
"All Cryptocurrency is hereby defined to be a counterfeit of real currency".
Then we can get rid of the scams, the lies, the dodgy donations, the pump-n-dump, the fraud, the emissions... let's just kill it.
Comment that's not what union are (Score 1) 122
Labor Union do not provide exclusively labor to companies. What they do is have the power of collective bargaining, job protection, safety - which is utterly different to being "exclusive provider of job".
You may confusing normal labor union, with hiring hall union (e.g. in construction/actors/voice actor). That is a widely different type of union. Most union are NOT hiring hall union.
Feel free to correct me.
Comment Your answer 1 is wrong (Score 1) 92
The UK can wholly regulate US entity doing commerce in the UK on what they can or cannot do while selling to UK citizen, and their modality of information being saved UK data information for later access in UK.
And the US government can do diddly squat on that except trying political pressure (thus the article), and the company can go out of the UK market if they don't like the modality of it. Which in this case they did not, they agreed to remove some encryption instead, while probably going to thug the dick of the politician they donate to, and whine ask them to do something.
Comment education versus navigation (Score 1) 274
Comment Re:Whose work loads? (Score 1) 48
Is your only connection a metered phone? Usage on the level of several TB per month on the lowest tier wired connection doesn't make an ISP angry, at least in the civilized world.
Comment Entropy phase (Score 5, Interesting) 64
Ancient Rome made amazing aqueducts. One day they had built all the ones they really needed and with no new projects for a new generation to learn from, they quickly just forgot how to make aqueducts.
"Big Tech" is now entering this phase. In a generation all innovation will be gone.