Except for #BBC The nations LEAST trusted broadcaster - who want to know if you are watching their lies and propaganda without a license.

I dont so who gives a shit.

Taken far too long for this to happen.

Eh, I still consider Vista to be the second-best Microsoft OS, just behind Seven. Not sure what is in third place, maybe Win2K? Or XP, but only if it has the service packs because it was lousy without them.

I want the sound the 20MB hard drive on my old ITT XTRA (an 8086 PC clone) made when the system booted up and started to load DOS.

https://youtu.be/FB5C_p6p_Do?si=ogITM1lCsDi_Dxk2 is an interesting counter-argument.

Tracked? Mossad isn't interesting in tracking, they're interested in explosions.

I know , there is no reason at this juncture that this civilsation is going to last more than a couple of decades before total collapse set against a background of climate chaos and complete economic failure. At best we have about a 5 percent chance of avoiding this fate.
Whats worrying as neglect and underfunding continues apace - when collapse finally sets in there will be nobody looking after these facilities to keep them safe. This again just supports the likelihood of failing to avoid this catastrophic end-game scenario.

But this is ludicrous.
There is nothing smart about a tyre that sheds microplastics into the environment through use,
regardless of its ability to report on road quality.

Once again another reason to accept that this civlisation is on the wrong path with a 5% change of getting onto the correct path.

Bullshit ideas like "Smart Tyres" only lend more credence to this assertion, only a fool would think otherwise.

That stuff's not even the most pressing problem with YouTube's content censorship. The larger issue is that content that directly crosses the CCP's party line, keeps getting flagged in all kinds of objectively counterfactual ways. Nobody with more than a couple hundred subscribers can talk about the history or culture of Tibet, for example, without running afoul of this.

Why gloomy when our capitalist greed is killing us all. Theres nothing gloomy about people who wont be born into a civilisation thats in its death throws and a runaway climate with a 5% chance of averting disaster.

Rejoice that millions less people WONT be born into a dying world, because the alternative is far mor gloomy.

Eh. The people who actually like Google's horrible AI-generated garbage, were already using Google anyway. No change there.

Whereas, I have entirely *stopped* using Google's main site, and my usage of Wikipedia has increased, because I'm now using it (plus the browser's in-page search feature) for quick lookup of things that, six months ago, I could more quickly find on Google, but now I can't. Other things I find using ddg or startpage, and still others I now have to resort to older, pre-internet methods, like manually punching a bunch of individually-looked-up numbers into spreadsheets in order to calculate what I actually want to know, like it's 1992, because nobody who still indexes most of the internet, can figure out how to do decent relevancy ranking.

I do still use some of Google's other sites, e.g., Google Maps. Though who knows how long that will continue to be useful, given the direction the company is heading.

Is the ONLY possible respose to that.
A question that of course will not be asked because the answer to it would be abject horror.

You need to think more outside the box,
look at how things have played out historically,
and feed that into the general trends of what
direction our society is going in and who chooses
that direction.

Censorship will be the end result.
What AI isnt trained on cannot be known.
That the truth can finally be silenced or become white noise.

quote ; "At least "Clickbait Journalism" is easy to identify and avoid"

AI tools will make it Harder to identify and avoid.

#KnowThis
People will see this as a good thing, and it is,
but not for those who participate in freedom of truth.
But for those who wish to control it.

Just as Google has gone from doing one thing really well ( Search )
to doing lots of things to a level of mediocrity due to constantly being
poisoned by the forces of capitalism.

This too will be the fate of its offering.

Our civilisation is on a dire trajectory and AI is just another means
to accellerate the thing that is killing us, and the planet - that thing is Capitalism

More confirmation that this is where we are.

Apple typically provides mainstream support for a macOS release for a year, and then security patches for the two years following.

For example, macOS 13 (Ventura) was launched in the fall of 2022. It is receiving security patches until (at least) the fall of 2025.