Getting him replaced was probably the point of the honeypot operation. He is highly effective. China wants to compete. Getting him removed improves their competitive position.

AI is a very small risk compared to government controlled laptops being sent home with kids that give government far too much control and insight into kids lives outside of school. Insight that they should not have in any capacity whatsoever. As an IT security worker I refused to let my kids bring home laptops or chromebooks that were in control of the schools. Those laptops can have cameras turned on, microphones turned on, files modified... basically anything anyone can do with remote administration tools. While at school, this is warranted and needed. The second the child leaves school property, that same control is over reach. The only way to reconcile the two needs is to have that equipment never leave school grounds. Even when remote admins claim none of the capability exists, they go cold and quiet when someone like me who works in the industry points out that claim is irrelevant. That simply because they are admins, that capability can be added on a whim and removed before someone looks. Government should not be able to track where a family is through that hardware/software. They should not have control of a device that can be sitting in a childs bedroom or anything close to this.

The only trust here is that software makers want to trust that they have more control over your devices than you do as the owner of them. Thats a huge fuck no for me.

Yes, I absolutely despise the new UI. I started using reddit specifically because of that compact interface that never autoplays anything, gives you all identically sized thumbnails of videos or pictures etc. When they started trying to force people to that new UI I all but stopped using it. I did find a plugin that takes the new UI and creates its own equivalent of old.reddit.com called sheddit that I am still using when I HAVE to go there. But I also have other complaints about the way that reddit is managed. Too many subreddits are allowed little fiefdoms. I don't like that but I reluctantly see where there isn't much choice. What do have great issue with is any of those little fiefdom subreddits when they make it the front page... i really think that reddit should disallow any closed or heavily moderated subreddit from ever making it to the front page. If it isn't a fully open subreddit, then it should never be on the front page anyway.

More people do office work than ever before.

This story is so old it was the reason for Unix. Once the platform controls the essential business process, it owns the business. You work for them now, and all your aspirations are moot.

It's not like you can't use another model to validate the results you got with one model. That's a step you should be taking anyway. It's actually built into the system for test/dev of the agent and inference model itself. Active supervision, sandboxing and all that.

It seems so. Although Netcraft confirms it is (ahem) a rounding error.

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I remember when they introduced that. That was hilarious.

What would you expect the CCIA to say? Vibe code the replacement?

Their servers go down because they DDOS themselves demanding more cert renewals than they can support. The blog certificates expire and browsers refuse to load your cat memes.

I ran this through the translator. "Having a dedicated home with Prime Video allows us to build on that legacy with unprecedented global reach and a broader commitment to the Television Academy and our mission throughout the year."

It came out "Jeff offered more money."

This is all about getting us to have warm fuzzy feelings for our Flock protectors. Probably so we are willing to report the vile criminals who vandalize them to steal the valuable metals and precious SSD, HDD and memory components inside.

To everyone who believes that innocent people should not have privacy, may you get all you wish for. But just you. No one else.

Everyone is focusing on Flock, but there are lots of other companies where law enforcement gets this or similar data from. Focusing on Flock will not save us from this. The only thing that will is pestering our elected officials to change the laws. Law enforcement long ago figured out that they could get around constitutional rights when data comes from non-governmental companies. The only thing that is going to fix this is the laws being updated to the point that anything that government needs a warrant for if they do directly, would also need a warrant if they use non-governmental data. Otherwise we will just be chasing our tails from one company to the next.