The probkem is thet the roi probably materializes after the locup on the managements stock options ends so they don't much care, and most svatholders don't much care beond a few quarters out so this type of long term project is a very hard sell esp if the company in question is not in tech. As much as it anny os slashdot ers ( at ,east a lot of os ) it is considered a cost centre by most, sad but true

Or drop another layer of complexity and frankly bad patching qa over the last year and transition from wsl to linux on bare netal/ hypervisor with no windows at all, at some point you have to start questioning what windows adds to the value chain

What bizarre world is it that I actually want Comcast (of all companies) to WIN in a lawsuit.

Not necessarily (ok I know I'm not a data point but whatever) I dob't own any steam hw, but I game on linux every day since feb/march this year (yea I know I'm a bit late to the party) Ok I'm not an mmo player (mostly construction simulator, Roadcraft, a it of Sarisfactory and lately quite a lot of Docked and everything works perfectly, shout out to Vaulve for ptoton. Even remote gaming works like a champ when I'm away ftom my rig thanks to Sunshine and Moonlight, let me tell you I'm not going back to windows at all MS can die tomorow and I will not notice paart from the entire tech press gong absolutely bonkres

You're probably right but here is the thing Firefox was way higher 5 years ago, on the other hand was significantly smaller 5 years ago than it is today. The momentum is posetive for steam on linux (up an cumming platform) vs down for fiirefox

Not that easy on recent M series macs ,or so the rumors say, a better way wold be to go for a normal x64 lapotop if you want to run linux anywat

That ain't the same thing.

This thing is doing things you didn't tell it to. It might even do things you explicitly told it to not do. It is not a case of "well, you could've forseen this as a consequence if you had been careful" like your campfire. My example is only a bit silly, it is absolutely possible that an AI agent will decide to hack NASA because you asked it for some data for a school project. Even in the broadest possible sense, that does not fall into stuff that the law so far has considered to be in the domain of negliegence.

AI agents do stuff you could not possibly have expected. Heck, I asked Claude a fairly simple knowledge question yesterday and it wanted to read from /dev/null. There is no argument you can make that would convince a jury that I should in any way have expected that and taken precautions. In a hypothetical world where a read from /dev/null randomly kills a puppy somewhere on the planet, I don't think I would've been convicted.

And now you're just a vibe coder... congratulations on the well earned promotion.

You can easily make a law that stops the trillions of dollars in capital flows into all of this bullshit which is the only thing that matters anyway.

As for this magic genie takes over the world sci-fi nuttery if intelligence really mattered the smartest of US would rule the world. In reality the exact opposite is true.

I don't accept the premise technology is neutral. If you could spend $20 at your local hardware store and fashion a device that nullified the coulomb barrier in whatever it was pointed at nobody would need a time machine to figure out how the world would end. Technology itself has predictable implications for society.

No way in hell is government hoarding such technology ever a good idea.

I would love for my devices to have their AI models local like Apple did. It is really annoying to say "Play song ABC" and even though ABC is a local file, my device goes to the cloud. But Apple gave customers privacy, security, and resiliency - and everyone complained that it took up space. So next time you want to complain that companies are requiring Internet connections for stuff that could be done locally, remember that someone tried and it was rejected.

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.

You're thinking about it wrong. Think of all the new content you'll have available that you won't want to watch! Isn't that worth paying two, maybe three times as much?

A UK company is still a European Company it's just not an EU company Europe and EU are nut 1:1 mapping, honestly people this is so basic it should not need repetinh.The UK quit the EU they did not quit Europe.That wold be rather complicated as it would involve moving the physical landmass of the country quite a bit further west, and even the brits are not as silly as to attempt that particular projec as the costs ware lightly to crash the economy even faster ten Liz Truss. But yea why wold the EU contact a propriatary solution from a non EU company is centrally a very valid question