We all know they are because Trump fired all the people who calculated those numbers because he didn't like them.

I would guess that it's the classic where people who drop out of looking for IT jobs are no longer counted in IT unemployment statistics. There's probably other ugly shenanigans too. Things are so much worse out there than anyone is willing to admit.

I really hate the 90% billionaire owned corporate hellscape of the modern news media. It feels like we're living in North Korea now. That's the level of misinformation you have to wade through. I guess at least so far when the thugs have rounded up American citizens they have at least released them in a few weeks... Which is a sentence I had the write

What America "prefers" doesn't matter so much as what America "got" last year, which is Iron Curtain, not free markets.

What I would suggest, and what it sounds like they're doing, is to use EU data centers.

You seem to conflate or confuse the "effort" of the individual doing his job with the "effort" of the government ordering him to do so. You seem to believe they don't have any less-useful endeavors to allocate man-hours from, and that training more sysadmins is not possible or desired.

You would be shocked and appalled to find how evil just about every company on the planet is including and especially the small ones.

We have a hyper competitive system where access to food and shelter are on the line and 60% to 80% of everything humanity produces goes straight to the top before anyone else gets a crack at it. People are not going to be nice about it.

To make way for more money to blow on AI.

The elite and the Epstein class are done with us. They're going to spend all their energy automating us away. And we are going to spend all of our energy pretending they're not doing it.

They don't need us to buy their products when there are no products. This is the end of capitalism. It has served them well but they are done with it. Unlike us they are not emotionally attached to it.

Violence doesn't work for left-wing causes. The left wing is by nature bad at organizing and following orders and those are what you need to make violence work. Sooner or later any left-wing movement that uses violence turns into a right-wing movement when it inevitably gets taken over from inside by the right wingers.

The left wing is good at being right about basically everything but not good at violence. And that's not going to change because people who are right about things aren't good at following orders.

Trump voters gave up friends and family and husbands and wives. It's tough to turn on Trump after giving up that much for the man

They will not receive the phone and they will not get their deposits back. The regulatory agencies that would punish Trump for doing that are run by Trump. I would have a laugh at their expense except it means those same regulatory agencies aren't going to protect anyone else from anything else..

The difference is that electric cars and trucks primarily charge overnight, when the demand for electricity is low.

You don't need to improve the grid capacity to serve people charging when you have excess capacity available.

Outside of banning the technology there isn't really a hell of a lot you can do. We are not going to build the capacity because that would require tax dollars from extremely wealthy people and those people run the country so no they're not going to pay for you to have electricity.

Our entire civilization is being slowly dismantled. But how about those trans girls in sports am I right? /s

I've been wondering about the links between models for some time. The GPT's are easy to tell from everyone else, and from each other. Not just because they are dumb as stumps, but because of their arrogance about finding the hill of some wrong "fact" and dying on it. Normally it's not too hard to tell them apart, but recently I've noticed that Gemini and Claude are almost indistinguishable. And I would agree, there are certain interesting phrases each use. Like Claude's "Spot On" which Gemini has been emulating lately.

I'd be very interested in running a fingerprint on the both of them to see what comes up.

I was always told that running random code that you don't know what it does is a bad idea. What I'm hearing with these AI models is that "what you don't know" has become "what you can't know". Normal code would require a thorough audit to integrate. The AI stuff is unauditable.

It sounds like Cisco is trying to alleviate these unknowns. It sounds insufficient. Am I missing anything?

That's fine when you're interacting with informational websites where it doesn't really matter if the site works as intended. I've found that half the storefronts and interactive sites don't. For something like an insurance enrollment, I would not expect it to function without disabling Ublock or Noscript.

Several American citizens have been disappeared for several weeks at a time. So far all of them have turned up only slightly worse for wear but it keeps happening and eventually some of them will not turn up or if they do they will have permanent physical damage.