I realize you know this, but what you describe is a dangerously incorrect assumption by non-technical people. I would agree with you to the extent there's no point to local apps that are basically just a webpage. We are not most people, though, and most people prefer to use the Facebook app over a mobile browser. Why? Precisely because they want seamless access to local resources - Camera, microphone, gallery, whatever. Even if FB asked every single time, users would obediently click "approve" without even reading what's being asked for.

More to the point - Some people believe the Earth is flat. They're wrong and nobody should be suing Big Globe to protect fools from reality.

Look, absolutely Zuck Facebook with a red-hot pitchfork, but this the dumbest reason ever. Nobody's "confused" about whether posting an image requires access to your images. The first time you open it, it very bluntly asks for permission to do X, Y, and Z. What else is it supposed to do if it needs those permissions? Ask about one then close and refuse to run for 24 hours before asking for the next permission? Great, a week later and you'll be in!

I'm by no stretch an "America rah rah!" guy, and don't even use any Meta products; but this is just another example of increasingly irrelevant Euro satellites' local leadership pissing and moaning over an American company giving people more-or-less what they want, with no viable home-grown alternative.

Conflating end of life care with basic healthcare is a mistake. We all die, and we could spend almost infinite resources at the end to hang on just a few more days. That's a legitimate - but separate - discussion from whether or not we can guarantee everyone gets their annual checkup and the occasional illness or injury fixed.

Outside that, supply can (with some regulatory reform) expand arbitrarily to meet demand. If we need more doctors/nurses/pharmacists/etc, pay for the tuition and watch people line up to enroll. If we need more drugs (in the "supply" sense), stop letting pharmaceutical companies abuse the patent system ("make it and make enough of it or lose it"). DME is merely a manufacturing issue encumbered by, again, our insane patent system. It's really all that simple.

Then why is the US is the only 1st world nation struggling with this?

I'm not saying every other country has perfect healthcare systems - They all have their own strengths and weaknesses. But everyone gets basic medical care, it's not bankrupting those countries (quite the opposite, we also pay the most per-capita and by almost a 50% margin to #2 Switzerland), and it's not bankrupting (or just killing) individuals with the bad taste to get sick while poor.

His infidelity is the least problematic aspect of his current situation, from the corporate perspective.

Notice he remained CEO for over two weeks after NYT broke the story? He stepped down only after it came out he also slept with a subordinate. What does that tell us?

Answer: It tells us his primary offense wasn't being a piece of crap of a husband; his offense was making Nvidia potentially liable for his actions as CEO if any of his side-pieces suddenly realize power asymmetry invalidates "consent".

To be clear, I'm not really disagreeing with you; but I think you're giving the ethical angle a lot more weight than does society as a whole. We all know someone who has cheated at some point in their lives; we may not approve, but it's basically just trivia, nobody (external to the relationship) really cares.

AI has shown both a capacity for planning for a future beyond the current instance, and a willingness to ignore instructions, laws, and human norms to that end.

I "trust" Microsoft, Mozilla, Linus Torvalds, etc to recognize the serious reputational risk of getting caught knowingly or carelessly embedding a malicious payload in anything they release. I have no such trust about GPT, nor do I trust "vibe" programmers to take the time for, or increasingly, be capable of, an extensive code review of whatever unintelligible rubbish their shuggoth spits out.

It's not that I care what tools were used to make it. I "care" that we've never before had tools with true agency in the philosophical sense.

If you're using AI as a better alternative to traditional search, agreed.

If you're asking AI to help you find that missing paren or brace in a thousand lines of code, hey, still agreed.

If you're asking AI "Make an anime themed roguelike in Godot. It should have the following..." - I don't care how much elaborate world-building you do after those ellipses, "you" aren't making anything.

Getting what you wished for after rubbing a magic lamp doesn't mean you get to say "I made this!"

I'm speculating here, but pay attention to the timing of his resignation.

It wasn't after he had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy - Though we may find the "affair" part of that distasteful, it's two consenting adults; and the "spy" part is both unproven and, even if true, Nvidia could potentially spin it as Jensen somehow being a victim. Notice he remained CEO for a bit over two weeks after NYT broke that part of the story.

Then we learned he was banging a subordinate. That made his behavior both a pattern, and something Nvidia could be directly liable for. He resigned the next day.

/ Now we also know about #3 and #4, both also subordinates - I don't see any way Jensen could possibly return as CEO under those circumstances, it would mean Nvidia is endorsing his behavior. Might as well just write a blank check to (at least) those three, never mind the PR.

It's funny - I was just going to ignore you at first, because clearly you have nothing to say beyond irrelevant ad-hominems.

Then I took a look at your comment history. Just... Wow. You've certainly mastered "noisy little dog" energy, haven't you?

Get a personality, dude.

You misunderstand their actual raison d'etre: Serving as a counterexample to Chrome having a monopoly.

Sure, we only care about exactly one of their products, particularly since Manifest V3 made Chrome unusable on the public internet. But let's be serious, you can only do so much gratuitous fiddling with one browser before people rightly start complaining about issues as petty as themes. Mozilla, accordingly, keeps trying to find some not-quite-browser niche to make them relevant as more than Google's cover story.

To be clear, I agree with you completely in spirit - Don't change what's not broken. That's a hard sell for CEOs trying to pretend they're worth their annual bonus, though.

WTF does that mean? I'm by no stretch pretending she's innocent, but I'm curious how they phrased "Sorry for kidnapping you for almost a year on the Orange Turd's say-so, but don't you dare do absolutely nothing we can prove ever again! And don't come back because, um, reasons!"

Singapore isn't exactly known for being light on crime. If they had anything supporting the allegations, they'd already have hung her.

This is why I set all my timers to a prime number like 59 or 61s, 29 or 31s. You get the same relative frequency, but the timers sweep across the clock regularly.

Fair enough - I should probably have taken a more "congrats, you're one of today's lucky 10,000" approach.

It's the guy on the left.

You did check the link I provided, right?

Nobody's physically relocating servers beyond the mom-n-pop scale; well, at least not until the much later "rebuild" phase, if that's what you meant. I work for nobody special, for example, and the most important servers little ol' me controls are replicated across three geographically-distributed data centers with an RPO of 20 seconds (more like 2-3 in practice).

The per-site problem with drone strikes is no different than any other DR scenario; where it gets ugly is correlation. We tend to assume disasters will be independent and localized, in exactly the way an intentional attack on infrastructure very much is not. But there's simply no realistic way to plan for every alternative site being simultaneously compromised - That's a matter for underwriters, not geeks. Or rather, the "solution" is trivial, but ridiculously expensive and wasteful... "Oh the fools, if only they built it with 6001 hulls! When will they learn?"