There's a huge market for Office alternatives, but nobody wants to do the actual work.

A company an acquaintance works is trying to migrate to Google Workspace from the Microsoft ecosystem. They have thousands of design documents that require a very specific formatting as they are sent to dozens of different suppliers and contract houses. The import completely blew up the formatting of the documents. Googles response was to use Gemini to fix the formatting. When that didn't work, they recommended just recreating all the documents in Google Docs. You're talking about thousands of hours of work. But hey, you're not using Microsoft!

Exactly. An agent is just an interface to a LLM. Left to it's own devices it does nothing. Like any piece of software it waits for you to tell it to do something. The developers wrote a feedback loop telling it to continuously do something.

The real news is that, traditionally, if you fed the output of a LLM into itself the output the results become irrational. Looks like they are tightening that up, or at least filtering out the nonsense.

If that's mind blowing, go read up on what industries Siemens is involved in. Or Tata Group. You can buy Tata tea at a Tata supermarket and take it to your Tata built home in your Tata electric car recharged by your Tata solar array.

It absolutely would be noticed, because he wouldn't have a controlling stake in his own company. The board could Steve Jobs him out of his own company if they wanted to.

if a student is missing.
put their face on a milk carton.
they will turn up.
but the the chuckling will take awhile to disappear

Yes, and I think Cloudflare was likely on that point. At least, I would have been.

They are right to take the approach they are doing. First stop is education and challenging the orders. Educate the politicians and the courts on both the technology and the reasons behind the way the technology operates. Fight it in the courts because that's the right thing to do, even if bad actors want the harm and also technically illiterate folks don't understand the harm, the moral grounds need the fight to be fought.

ONLY after that fails, absolute simple, blind, malicious compliance. If France refuses to listen to the technologists and wants the ban, that's fine, roughly 25% of the global websites will be blackholed in France, and sites that rely on those will also shut down. Any and all requests get met by a redirect to the French court order. When the politicians and the courts demand the impossible and want to nuke themselves to the online dark ages despite people telling them they're making a mistake, so be it.

Google says that patent expired in September of 2025, as it was filed in 2005. Yes, we are getting old.

Personally, I prefer the old rectangular Thinkpad charging connectors.

I agree AI isn't that different of a technology than any other, and it can be used for beneficial and harmful purposes

However, I'm against nationalizing it's development for the same reason, extending your example, I'm against nationalizing the publishing industry.

You're arguing that having an AM radio in a car isn't a perfect solution? Nothing is a perfect solution. This is just one piece that can help someone out in an emergency. Nominal cost is low. It already exists. As the OP pointed out, it has proven to help people out.

Absolutely people should be better prepared for emergencies. We can do that and also have AM radios in cars.

Everybody *should* have an emergency radio. Most people nowadays don't own any kind of radio besides what is in their car. It only costs a few bucks and gives everyone with a car a chance at getting long-distance communications. Sounds like a no-brainer to me.

Thing about emergencies is that, often, you are not home when they happen. I was at work when the last massive power outage hit my area, that lasted for days. I was also at work when the last bout of floods hit. We were on vacation on cabin on top of a ridge when wildfires hit our area. Cell phones were useless, but the radio still worked.

Gone With The Wind made all that money with $6 tickets, adjusted for inflation. Average ticket prices in 2019 were $9. And there were a third as many people in the US at that time.

I know someone who was shot in the neck in a completely random attack at night, and survived. The cops wrote it up as aggravated assault instead of attempted homicide. That year the homicide, and attempted homicide, numbers in the city were down. Yay! They never caught the guy, though he shot two more random people in the same neighborhood that month.

The big lever on the side of a breaker box. Or the power switch on a server. Or "docker kill skynet_01"

Paying the publishers, not the authors. Whoever actually wrote it, researched it, invented it, or created it still gets squat.