So this brings up an interesting case. Fingerprints are physical, they can force you to do a fingerprint unlock, the 5th won't help. But what if one finger was set to wipe the phone? You don't have to tell them which finger unlocks vs which wipes - that does fall under the 5th. So make your right index finger the wipe one, that's probably what they'd try first. And it wasn't wiped due to any action on your part.

>the instructor having to use AI to write backs up the claim that people are forgetting things by using AI.

Where did it say they had to use AI? And is asking an AI to proofread something that much different than MS Word flagging spelling and grammar errors?

Or they'll sell the "anonymized data", including calculated bra sizes.

This is a pretty invasive move on Comcast's part. Only the lawyers will win this one.

Spirit is kaput. Google is picking up wreckage from the scene at scrap value.

But you do make a point that most people underappreciate. The Spirit airline experience was bad, but one of the bigger factors in the poor experience was that everyone on the planes were extremely grumpy. You could avoid being nickel and dimed but there was no escape from the foul mood. No other airlines have ever come close.

There are no barriers to how humans get "replaced" by AI. Are we here to benefit humanity or benefit tech bro stock prices?

The whole marketing campaign behind AI was targeted at CEOs to cut their labor costs. This makes them salivate like Pavlov's dogs.

Did the marketing appeal in a "work smarter, not harder" way? No. It was aimed at laying off huge swaths of workers. Not just worker bees, but the creatives in coding, systems management, development, but also other worker bees.

Not everyone needs creativity in their work, although it helps.

People now pump their own fuel in most states. You now walk up to a checkout and scan your own stuff. You order at a screen at McDonalds. Heaven forbid walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee at the counter.

All of these are small cuts, and ultimately, fealty to the stock price on any given day. Job creation through AI isn't quite the goal. Lowered cost-of-goods is the goal, and the goal of capitalism in general. Do the profits filter down to worker bees? Unlikely.

Take Internet search as an example. AI engines seek to trap the thousand results and deliver you a neat package of "an answer" even if it's wrong. Any stupid AI engine can deliver believable results, subverting the thousand others that have the same answers-- perhaps authoritative, even trustable result.

Yep. Trust is built.

1. Rapidly iterative and successive models, all of them looking like dot-zero problem children do not imbue trust.

2. Rapid inter-cross dealing tech companies, all fighting with each other for dominance using the dot-zero madness does not imbue trust.

3. Models that fight each other, jump barriers and hack into companies at will, does not engender trust.

4. Digesting rivers, streams, farmland, for data centers whose parts can't even be purchased, does not build trust.

5. Creating turf wars between the models of different countries does not earn trust.

6. Creating incredible parts shortages and pumping component profits does not become trustworthy for supply chain users.

7. Bozos like Sam Altman and his merry-go-round of allies makes many people very queasy.

8. Jamming Co-Pilot down the throats of users, changing ToS to fit more mad infiltration goals to the desktop does not make people want to trust Microsoft, specifically.

9. Inability to show that AI helps, rather than lays off workers does not build trust.

The man is a fool, and so are those that become hypnotized by early success, ignoring pretty frightening failures in AI and the chains of monopoly grabs that are going with it, not to mention data center densities that are clearly unsupportable, financed by pump-and-dump Wall Street fans.

Humanity? Did you say humanity? War, even tech turf wars, leave many suffering humans in their wake. That didn't used to be true; computers were enablers, not *disablers*.

The Internet was built on gamers, pR0n, and dubious fun.

In its foundling days, these were university colleagues and DARPA. Social media were weird things, now long gone through Darwinian evolution. It's become highly monetized, and not really within the control of end-users.

Worse the dearth of public policy makes it the Wild Wild West on a scale out that only Wall Street might've imagined (and monetized).

So what if there are dick pics? Others might get useful work done and not be dependent on the micro-costs that make users the product. It's refreshing. Yes, it takes discipline. You have to hold your nose.

But you're holding your nose, rather than drowning in X, FB, Insta, ad nauseum. Give it a chance.

And those solutions don't work.

You can do all the DNS snooping with your MTA agent, and spam removal doesn't work.

You can search for plentiful buzzwords and twit-filter trends, and you'll still miss a huge swath of goo.

This "they" you speak of thrives on user rage disguised as "engagement". They monetize it, and instead of actually spending money on things like abuse@ account monitoring, or IP filtering, they let it all slide, leading to the cesspool we have today, uniformly.

This is marked to 0, but it's true.

What were once price/earnings ratios, and other useful metrics have been:

- Pumped to insane P/E
- Sold to data centers no one's built and many vehemently dislike with
- Unstable public funding support in some data center site acquisitions + poured in capital for
- AI that routinely breaks all barriers to hack into other systems while
- Racing against other models to do still worse based on
- BS and uncurated input data
- For absolutely unproven general use modeling by an unsuspecting business herd desiring to save COGS because
- Lowering labor costs is a religion to them because
- They must feed shareholders while the infrastructure vendor, NVIDIA, sells future annuities based on future deliveries for future products that they have circularly sold like great zeppelins of yore.

This historic scam of inflated value falls to the ground when only one part of this dastardly plan is punctured. You thought the crash of '29 was big? Look at the numbers right now. This is a fool's game from one end to the other.

Only the money men will make any loot, and a lot of empty buildings and food bank lines are going to follow. You can't grow corn in a data center; the concrete floors are too tough for even John Deere.

I agree with a lot of what you say here. However, it's not always realistic for me or other end users as some apps are mandatory for work. I'm specifically thinking of kdenlive and ardour for me personally.

I'm trying to make an elegant compromise. But I certainly hear you!

It's also Devuan Ceres, which is fairly unique. I'm trying to make a bunch of my family/clients happy as well. It's not *just* for me. However *I* am certainly happy with it already. :)

It won't be a real solo distro till I address: https://github.com/crhy/spaced...

Agreed. I'm trying to make this version of Linux a hard-core smackdown to windows entirely. In fact that's secretly the main goal.

LOL. That's a terrible exaggeration.

I feel you on these comments. That's one of the reasons I'm going with flatpaks. At least for now. Brave browser with manifest v2 ublock is my current go to.

They're not random things. I'm targeting usability for all users. I used to be a serial distro hopper, so I'm coming at this not from a vacuum.

Also, there's no currently shipping desktop based on Devuan Ceres, which has a lot of advantages....