DDG and Kagi and Brave are also bullshit due to AI.

FreeBSD is also free software as defined by the FSF. ZFS is too.

When were you born?

They were a membership organization run by 3 universities.

Of course you are. It would be highly illegal (and pretty dumb) to loan someone money without collecting that data.

But are you collecting their geolocation data, browsing history, and all the other tidbits that corporations collect in the pursuit of targeting ads, and then selling that data to anyone willing to pay for it without the consumer's knowledge, let alone their consent?

If not, then you're just doing your job.

If so, then sorry, but you're part of the problem.

The problem is not that law enforcement has access to this data. The problem is that corporations are allowed to collect it in the first place.

Of course, this is by design.

The government can't collect this kind of data without violating the Constitution. However, nothing in the Constitution or any other federal law prohibits corporations from collecting whatever they want.

Since the government (and by extension, law enforcement) can get pretty much any data they want with a subpoena (or a National Security Letter, if they don't feel like getting one of those pesky warrants), they turn a blind eye and let the corporations collect whatever they want, our rights be damned.

"over the next few years, every developer will have their code generated, leaving them more time to focus on their core business."

Umm... you mean like writing code?

Software written by people who don't actually know how to program.

What could *possibly* go wrong...?

ESP-32 is about twice the $4 price.

A bitcoin is nothing more than a file generated by an algorithm. It has no more intrinsic value than a Word document.

It would have been more like 1998. Yahoo Mail was part of an acquisition of Four11's RocketMail in late (October/November) 1997.

BASIC on an HP-3000 mainframe in 1980. We had a DECWriter terminal (basically a dot-matrix printer with a keyboard attached) that connected from our junior high school to a local university's mainframe via modem. You took a regular phone, lifted the handset, dialed the number, the modem on the other end would pick up, and you'd put the handset into this cradle that was attached to the DECWriter. Then you'd get a login prompt. Awesome. }:-)