Google says it won't be evil. Will renege later when it becomes too expensive to carry out their initial stated intentions....

Douchy BSA wonk doesn't like the EU guarding the golden goose a little bit more carefully these days. Problem is, they need to. Most American businesses are not trustworthy and dont subscribe to any sort of legal framework or ethos that MAKES them trustworthy, so here we are. You do you, EU.

American big tech is untrustworthy at its core. In the boardroom, in the back room, and in the data center. They have no guard rails, no good law (at the present) that makes them play nice. I think that not just Europe needs to be looking at digital sovereignty. Japan, Australia, Canada, are you listening? Most of the big tech companies CAN'T be trusted, so now it's time to start rolling your own, so to speak. Good luck.

...the same standard garbage that many, many companies before them have done to try to figure out where they can "add value" (meaning make more money doing exactly what they're doing now) without bothering to innovate again. Think AVG, Avira, MalwareBytes, Office, blah blah blah. More benign or useless features masquerading as a face lift while their memory footprint quadruples ...or worse. Microsoft has been re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic since Windows NT got a bump from v3.51 and Windows ME hit the scene. This is just another one of those. And I'll be turning most of that crap off so that the stupid thing is usable again because I don't want their "personalization". I'm surprised they haven't crowed about adding AI features yet.

I am getting SO tired of hearing the stories about the excesses of AI. OpenAI wants all the water and all the power and all the data centers and all the capital markets (ALL of them, ALL $5 TRILLION) in investments so that they can make a thing that's going to cost every man, woman, and child on this planet $550-ish a month AT A MINIMUM, just so they can break even. Microsoft wants all the things. nVidia wants all the things. Apple just wants to borrow all the things from someone else who knows how to do it evidently. The Magnificent Seven want all the things. By my count the whole AI ecosystem wants something on the order of 25xGDP of the entire planet for the next 10 to 25 years to make their aspirations a reality. And I'm tired of it. Imagine sitting in your hovel waiting for AI Power And Water to turn on your power for a couple of hours each day so that you can charge your phone so that you can use their AI agents. It's disgusting and perverse. So why do we keep tolerating this kind of talk? I CAN'T WAIT until the financial idiots come crashing down to reality.

Someone finally said the quiet part out loud. And nVidia's software underpinnings come from Silicon Graphics / SGI back in the day. Can you say, "OpenCUDA"?

American tech companies in general (and the huge tech companies in particular, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and the "Magnificent Seven" AI companies) have all proven that they don't deserve your trust. Europe, Canada, Australia, ...all of South America..., you all need to be paying attention and separating your church and state from our "state", because our state is pretty f***ed up at this point. And the federal government in the United States will never try to bring these companies to heal. So, impose fines and restrictions where you think necessary. They're not going to limit themselves for you, or act in any sort of honorable way. I wish we could apologize for their behaviour but, honestly, we suffer under their stupid and greedy yoke as well. GDPR it, Europe. Get serious about it.

Honestly, Sam Altman and company do not deserve your trust at this point. Bogus company valuations built on Intellectual Property and Copyright theft should have been your first clue. Same goes for most of the other Magnificent Seven in general. It's funny that Anthropic is issuing Claude take-downs for a product that was trained on the rest of the internet predominately without permission. "Theft and infringement for me, but not for thee."

"Hey! Massive copyright infringement and intellectual property theft is only allowed when WE do it, not anyone else!"

I intentionally blew the interview because I could see their attack surfaces were porous and their "hybrid cloud" architecture was weak at best. The biggest problem, as I saw it, was that their then-current posture was what management had mandated and they had no interest in making their network and security architecture "better". Also, they were lobbying for "stronger" anti-drunk-driving laws so that they could "get more business", if you know what I mean. All told, I'd rate the company as a C to C- but they've got a product that kind of works in a world where the courts want what they've got to keep even the drunk drivers going back and forth to work as necessary. But this is exactly why I hate the cloud services industry. The "fail closed" attitude is good for firewalls but not for things like transportation or medical applications. "Local First." Join the movement.

It isn't Windows that has the trust problem. Look in the mirror Steve, er, I mean Satya. It's gonna happen when you turn an operating system into an advertising, distraction, and surveillance platform (that still runs on the same deficient kernel that you ran in the year 2000).

Builder.ai ended up being 700 remote workers in India pretending to be bots. The exceptionally stupid part was the company's market cap of something like $1.5 Billion. With that sort of "due diligence" going on I can imaging some over-zealous, greedy hedge fund manager investing $450 Million in a bottle of A-1 Steak Sauce after not stopping or slowing down to read the label completely.

I've tested many of the PoE and WiFi models and they all work well with an internal Micro-SD card and ReoLink's RLN36 NVR (Network Video Recorder), with on-device human/animal/vehicle detection. I don't care for the battery-powered or solar-powered models because of the power drop-outs and they don't survive cold weather well. I love ReoLink for its "Cost-to-Value" ratio, which is much more affordable and reliable than the Amcrest, HIKVision, and Rando-Brand Chineseum variants that cost $400-800 or more per camera. And they're head-and-shoulders above the $90 (really $20) ADT 0.9MP cameras. The fixed-focus cameras start around $80 for a pair and $250-350 can get you their top-of-the-line 16x optical zoom camera. And most of the models either have infra-red illuminators and auto-switching between day and night or excellent color rendition in low light. Strong "buy" recommendation here.

I've not tried Zone Minder yet but I've used Blue Iris (works, I guess, but the UI is clunky) and Emby's IPTV plug-in.

Emby kind of works but mostly the various streams are all fragile and it stops playback too frequently to take seriously and the devs are openly hostile (kind of like Plex) to any requests or suggestions to make it better. They insist that they know what they're doing and it's my network. Yeah, my network, with the multi-gigabit (10/5/2.5/1GbE) switches and proper QoS and enterprise-grade APs and I do this for a living in a data center and I've got more than 100 hours into the dev cycle both at home and work. Yeah, whatever. So I wouldn't recommend you waste your money on the Emby Premier license. It's still an option for me to play with but the RTMP/RTSP streams aren't even reliable on the local LAN, let alone via WiFi or over the Internet. I hope that Zone Minder will do what you want. For my part I'm trying to develop the ReoLink Windows and Android apps to work "better" in an Ubuntu Zorin or Cinnamon desktop environment using WINE and Android emulation layers. Good luck in your quest.

Sweet mother of 110 Baud Modems! Yes, people, sh*t breaks. Welcome to my world since about 1984. While we've gotten better at it, it's still not fool-proof, and there are a LOT of fools out there. And you can claim that "billions were lost" but those are also ephemeral billions that wouldn't even exist today without the Internet and the greedy b*st*rds that have taken extreme advantage of it. News flash: Cloudflare is important too, and they've had outages. Facebook has had some super-entertaining, extremely comical outages. It's time to tone down the "billions in damages" rhetoric because one meteor strike, volcano eruption, solar flare, or *ss-clown in the seat of power can pretty much disrupt anything for an hour, a day, a month, or forever if the event is big enough. And I've been watching over the whole thing for 40-odd years waiting for some of the younger generations to leap out of their second- or third-story windows (think stock market crash circa 1929) because their Spotify play list was unavailable or they couldn't share their narcissism on FaceTube or DisInPinTrest. Maybe they even lost a game save point in Worlds of BoreCraft or some such thing.... So buckle up, you haven't actually seen a real, global internet outage yet. And the closest I've seen was a Cisco-NTP/GateD bug in '96 or '97 that crashed most of the internet at hour-long intervals when the Daylight Saving Time forced altering the system clocks or sometime in the late '90s when someone configured their BGP/4 router as AS0 and we weren't smart enough to be filtering our BGP adjacencies yet. I can't wait for the systemic shock that comes with a real outage....

On one hand, China already has more money than most of the rest of the world. (One the other hand, China has more unemployed people than the US has people.) And on the third hand, China is more than happy to steal any and all technology and engineering that they happen to run across. They are a self-avowed kleptocracy. They already have your designs. Why would they need you, Tim? Oh wait, it's you that needs them....