LOL

It's Meta's anti-theft logs. Cos, you know, Zuck doesn't trust his employees not to steal from him.

And that's just Meta so far. Still got OpenAI and Anthropic and xAI to dob in, at least.

More likely an age thing. Someone born in the last 30 years isn't likely to know. But then someone born in the last 30 years probably has never seen Slashdot either.

If profit is the objective then you've failed already.

Wannabe accountants.

The article is correct. Basically, they're taught that greed is good rather than bad.

Apparently, the agentic AIs have a lot of trouble with regular CAPTCHAs. My guess is the bots that are breaking CAPTCHAs are specialised at that job and aren't in the open for anyone to use.

Inflationary pressure just isn't discussed. That's not the concern of these experiments. But yes, any serious consideration given to UBI at a government level would be very concerned with inflation.

Nope. Maybe an argument could be made to do it that way if it were somehow manageable but it certainly isn't the premise of UBI per se.

Um, no. The premise of UBI is it is for everyone equally throughout life. It doesn't judge nor punish. You're allowed to be a useless slob. It wouldn't be UBI otherwise.

It's because the detractors first complaint is one of "The recipients will just become a bunch of bludgers and contribute nothing back to society."

I like it.

User tracking has a similar problem that needs fixed as well. It has taken away user choice and gives all the control to the ad industry ... and anyone else snooping on the data.

The ad industry needs to switch back to context based ads, rather than user profile based.

It was much ado about nothing ... but in the future no one is going to retain any accommodations. So, when we want to make an adjustment, it will be a Y2K treatment each and every time from now on.

Bunch of idiots made this decision, imho.

Previously, when someone reported a vuln, they'd send in the FBI instead of hiring anyone to fix it.

It's not like it uses much CPU during that startup. It's checking things, looking for game updates, that sort thing. I have a KDE window rule setup on "steamwebhelper" to prevent focus stealing so then it doesn't interfere with what else I'm doing at the same time.