When you select something where it says it is local you expect6 the item in a couple of days, when you get a shipping notice for China or a number of other countries it can be weeks before what you bought arrives. it is a big issue when you are trying to get something quickly.

yep even Biden threatened countries that looked to limit foreign tech. While Trump might be more incompetent and clueless in his push, both sides are guilty of abusing their access to world trade and economies.

any decent computer algorithm will be many times better at spotting a scam than the average person.

They are a business their primary purpose is profit, however they make that profit through saving lives. The US is determined to devalue life therefore no profit.

it seems to have, either that or they just reset again to full mod points. Not that that was my concern, I hate modding up some dingus I intended to mod down for idiocy.

posting to undo an undeserved mod up.

The irony is most of those on bandcamp will be heavily utilising computer and AI generated content in their music, they just don't think of it that way.

To me this is just acknowledgement that AI produces as good a quality music as people and likely will surpass people in many cases. Personally I don't care whether what I listened to was generated by a person, a computer or a blind chimpanzee, as long as I enjoy.

yes however the way the internet works changed the ways in which they publish, they intentionally remove details for summaries and use clickbait headlines to ensure people cannot fully understand what the story is about before reading. This moved the editing focus from quality of the story to ensuring those first few paragraphs and headline are built for clicks, the rest of the story no longer matters to the editors.

More specifically clickbait killed journalism. I once had dinner about a decade or so back with the editor of a major media org, after a few drinks i put it to him the damage that clickbait and poor journalism was doing. His response was he hates it, but they are a business and hence they have to serve up what the audience demands otherwise he has to sack people due to decline in readers. Clickbait and poor quality articles exist precisely because that is all that gets eyes on articles and h3nce pays for people to write it.

Your experience of under 30's is fundamentally different to mine, if anything, what i see is they generally trust almostany shit.

Sounds extremely positive, the shit people trust online is appalling, if AI is making them think and not automatically trust this is a huge win for society

They do comply, the problem here is you seem to have no clue about what the GDPR actually says.

This is slashdot, it doesn't matter how inaccurate his rant was, it was anti MS so it will get modded up even though it should be modded down into oblivion.

I think people are completely misunderstanding the change here. You can still offline activate you just can't do it by phone. You can go online (on a seperate computer and enter the code and get an activation) or if you are a enterprise or gov you are unlikely to be using phone activation and instead will be using a MAK or a KMS server. the only thing that has changed here is you can't use the phone as a method.