For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

This is not an AI problem (I mean, it is), it's a user problem.

I use AI to code a lot. Like, a crazy amount. I am by no means a professional software developer, but have been coding for close to 30 years. One thing I never do is work on production code - that is what dev environments are for, I always have backups - I'm too lazy to learn Git or other code repo tools, so I just work off static files and keep my own versions in folders.

I never, ever let AI touch active code or files without having a backup in place. Anyone who has ever used AI for code development knows that AI does stupid shit, it doesn't listen, it rewrites entire files when you asked it to write just one function, and does other random stuff.

The human component of AI coding needs to focus heavily on QA. Treat AI like a junior programmer and scrutinize it's code like your career depends on it.

It really shows just how useless and slow our government is. Making rulings on something that haven't been relevant for well over a year. You think at some point the courts would have said "look, guys. no one give 2 shits about NFTs anymore. The entire market crashed 93% since COVID. Maybe we stop wasting our time, and just let this thing die"

I thought this whole NFT thing dried up and died

AI Generated content is very easy to spot. And given YouTube scans every video uploaded for inappropriate content, I'm sure they could spare a few CPU cycles to detect AI-generated content and just block it entirely.

I wish Meta would do the same thing. It's getting out of control.

BRICS
  Brazil
  Russia
  India
  China
  South Africa

China is responsible for 35% of all global greenhouse gas emissions
Between these countries, they represent over 55% of total global greenhouse gases

Brazil, China and India are also 3 of the top environmental destruction countries globally.
China, India and Russia and Brazil, as 4 countries have the same GDP as the USA.

Pay for your own mistakes yourself.

How is this still a thing in 2025. America is really behind when it comes to land-based internet. I can't remember the last time I heard "Data Cap" when it comes to home internet. I have a data cap on my cell phone, but its like 100Gb a month or something unreasonably large that I'll never hit.

ChatGPT is full of undocumented limits. I've found the other problem - lengthy chats, where you've provided a lot of context and have iterated over dozens or hundred of prompts, at some point also starts "retrograding" and providing answers to previous prompts instead of what you asked.

If you ask it to generate a file, don't expect the file to be there between now and an undetermined amount of time, because it deletes what it generates shortly after.

Your prompt questions are based on you.
My ChatGPT and other AI tools are pretty good at answering my questions - because I've trained them to respond in a way that I like.

That said, these AI tools are also full of bugs and undocumented limits. For example, if your chat gets too long, the AI will just start ignoring prompt instructions all together, or will recycle old responses for new questions that are not at all relevant.

The limitations of ChatGPT and other tools is also fluid, and very annoying without any sort of way to know when you will hit a wall. For example, sometimes I can ask ChatGPT to write code for me, and it'll write hundreds of lines of code flawlessly. Other times, it'll write 50 or 100 lines of code before buffering out, and requiring additional prompts to keep it going, or just generates useless garbage.

Sometimes I'll ask it to browse websites for me, and it tells me it doesn't have those capabilities, 5 minutes later it works fine.

Most AI tech is all about how you use it. Your prompts, and its "memories" you trained it on

No... I don't want a credit card
No... I don't want to provide corporate welfare by giving you free money for you to donate to your charity
No... I don't want to provide you with my zip code/postal code
No... I don't want to provide you with my email address.
Yes... All my shit is in the bagging area.
No... I don't want to split payments.

All I want to do is checkout.

This seems like a pointless project.

When was the last time you saw a BSOD? And what are you actually going to do other than reboot.

"Your system encountered a problem that we cannot recover from and will reboot in 30 seconds" - Done. That's all the vast, vast majority of windows users needs to see.

Does it need to be any more verbose than that?

Windows is already bloated AF on boot. It takes a full 2-3 minutes for all background loading apps to load on boot/login, which causes a constant barrage of popups.

And this is with all non-essential things disabled.
-VPN
-Time Tracker
-Messaging Clients
-VoIP Software
-Security Software
-Required Driver Loaders & Support programs

Its brutal.

But seriously... why? Who uses Yahoo, and why?

I worked for a call center company that handled Comcast. We intentionally had a mandated hold time of something like 3-5 minutes, so the customers never assumed they could get through immediately. It set forced expectations.

Even if agents were available for a call.