If the data centers can't connect to the grid then they can produce their own electricity, such as using diesel generators.

Then what's the point of locating them in BC in the first place? After all, the reason

BC is a popular place for data centers [is] because of the low cost and reliable electricity from their abundance of hydro and nuclear power.

At least, that’s partially true. I’m not sure where you got the idea that BC has nuclear plants. We don’t.

And the conclusion feels rather muddled:

Wasn't there a coal plant restarted somewhere by a data center seeking electricity?

So...you think data centres will flock to BC due to the cheap hydro and imaginary nuclear power, but they’ll make use of that cheap hydro by setting up a trailer park full of diesel generators and building a coal plant?

AI summaries in my search results, attack vectors in Notion with sides of AI slop, every damned piece of software these days seems to come with an intrusive “AI” feature to do something or other, and only rarely can they be disabled at all. I'd rather see a world entirely without them, or at the least requiring opt-in; but at the very minimum, I should be able to turn off these vulnerability injection engines completely in any software I use that does not fundamentally rely on and genuinely require them. It didn’t work for cookies because everyone just got conditioned to click “Accept all”. With LLMs, at least it would be easy to develop a habit of “Disable”.

It took place in 1886, so while the previous commenter may be technically correct to say that it “used to be the case”, it is unlikely that anyone here has personal experience of the prior state of affairs.

People should just steal their stuff—of course, they are free to tell specific burglars and hackers that Sora wants to opt out of their attacks.

And they are already trying to fork it.

Check who is the owner of said number, does it match the company's website, heck, have AI call the number to attempt to verify it (perhaps ask the operator who picks up to provide a callback number/extension which would match up with any of the official company numbers).

So every time Google generates an AI summary that includes a phone number—how many times a second do you reckon that happens?—you want an automated robocall to spam whatever business or random person’s phone number happened to match search terms? That’s certainly a...suggestion, of sorts.

Caravaggio was a murderer but that doesn't stop people appreciating his paintings and no left wing losers searching for a cause are

worrying that he will profit in any way (monetarily or otherwise) by people paying for his work.

Also many were happy to continue using ResierFS when Reiser was banged up for life for murdering his wife. Where were the protests about that?

Interesting choice of parallel, but to be more topical, you'd have to suppose that Hans Reiser is still free and in charge of the project. Unless you're saying that the XLibre project should kick the leader out, and that's why the parallel doesn't miss the point the way it seems to?

So you think people should migrate off a company for being American owned and subject to political pressure from the current US junta by switching toanother American company? The merits of your plan are a little bit elusive.

It's actually quite similar to the SCO-Linux disputes: shithole company files last-gasp nonsense lawsuits just as it circles the drain.

Is it really? In this case, it sounds to me like the lawsuit is basically legitimate, at least insofar as it points to the wrongdoing of the LLM corporations. Now, maybe in a moral sense when it comes to plagiarism, they should be co-defendants rather than plaintiffs; but that doesn't mean that their case doesn't look like it has some prima facie merits. (IANAL &c., so please don't misconstrue this as an attempt at a legally well-informed contribution)

No, I'm not into cell phones. I might get a OnePlus at some point, but I've spent the past decade(?) sticking to Samsung's budget A line of phones (better battery life than the flagships and I don't have to pay for extra performance I don't give a crap about). I just want a smartphone with decent battery life that isn't an iPhone. And I'm hardly the only person who buys Android phones. If everybody wanted an iPhone, there would be no market for higher-end Android phones, like the Samsung and Google flagships.

You're assuming that everybody wants an iPhone, which is quite obviously wrong (as is evident from the fact that people do buy other phones—had you not noticed?). Some do, some don't, some don't care. Personally, I would pay a premium to use anything but an iPhone. I think I'd prefer no smartphone at all if that were my only option.

Green-rumped parrotlets have been studied by one Karl Berg; the parents assign 'names' to their offspring https://www.science.org/conten... I suppose it would not be surprising if it turned out to be widespread among birds that are at once highly social, highly intelligent, and very adept at vocal adaptation and mimicry, e.g. parrots and corvids. (I'm not aware of claims that crows do this, mind—I just don't think it would be surprising if they did.)

Nothing I store in Dropbox contains binaries. No Dropbox files are in my system path. That would just be silly.

I encrypt my /home partition. I don’t need ALL the data on that partition to be encrypted. The stuff I don’t need encrypted goes in Dropbox.