Since you brought up the Capitalist class I think it's fair to relate this to Marx's criticism of Capitalism. CEOs don't really have a choice when a new technology emerges. Labor markets are disrupted and if they want to stay competitive they have to adapt to, if not adopt, the new technology or perish. In this case it's almost certain his board is demanding he adopt AI as part of his product line or they will invest elsewhere. The only solution for a secure communications platform is something privately hosted, which is impractical, or at minimum a non-profit organization.

This sounds like the rant of someone who was never disciplined enough to learn how to code. MAYBE LLMs can get us to your fantasy, they are far from it now, no matter how much you confidently declare otherwise.

Honestly, knowing data structures and algorithms is more important than before. You need to have the skills to evaluate what AI has done. Knowing how to read and write code is more important than ever, because someone has to validate and own what the AI produced.

Both major parties are bought and paid for by the same billionaires. We have a one party system with a thin veneer of choice. Good luck voting your way out of this.

No, don't you know that under capitalism markets will self regulate to achieve the optimal in... *cough cough* outcome? Buyers can self organize to avoid buying from harmful monopolies and oligopolies and instead choose to just die! And, if buyers are really upset they can just purchase politicians at a higher price than the harmful corporations do.

Will the employee base at companies like Microsoft eventually consist of a bunch of AI agents? With the General Counsel being the sole human, retained for legal purposes?

Now that anyone can produce an AI slop project in an afternoon, I think it's reasonable to set some kind of quality standard. I think this is just ensuring that the project authors and maintainers are really committed to the project instead of just aura farming. As a developer it really sucks when a project you depend on is abandoned after an initial big splash. I've used AI to create around 25 personal projects, all which are fairly unique and useful to me, but I won't publish them because I have zero intention to maintain them. Inexperienced "coders" won't understand what they're getting into when publishing an AI generated project. So, this just ensures that the projects promoted in the subreddit have some level of proven track record.

And, the moderators are correct, AI is bad for open source software. AI copies their homework and doesn't attribute or carry the licensing forward from the projects they copy. This isn't simply about Open Source projects using AI, but about AI being used as a loophole to separate Open Source software from its license.

A lot of the complaining is likely AI company marketing bots.

Don't give them ideas... Now that the market has surfaces a resource, the elites may start looking at wolves blood now - the wolverine stack.

Just in the last 24 months, Gulf, Iranian, Ukrainian and Russian cloud DCs have been targeted, including different availability zones of the same cloud vendor. So I think it's time corporates and governments start re-recognising the benefits of on-prem data centres. Yes, the old, distributed office-building DCs: halon fire suppression, lit/dark fibre, AC, cooling, giant boxy UPSs and captive power generation - all that. What makes it better now is that computers have gotten a lot more efficient (e.g., die shrinks, ARM solutions), while compute demands of most core business processes hasn't changed (I consider most AI loads are NOT truly 'keeps the business going' core. More like icing on a cake)

...then implement link security checking on employee PCs.

For businesses, tweaking temperature and increasing HVAC recirculation (i.e cutting down on fresh air) reduces power consumption.

So when the AC air in these building is unusually cold, warm or stale:
- at the doctor's,
- at the mall,
- at the cinema,
- at (God forbid!) the hospital! ...should we think of Voltus and Google?

What is Ellen Zuckerman, head of energy market development for North and South America at Google, doing to mitigate the impact on vulnerable on humans? Does she have constraints applied in her spreadsheet model to avoid this? Or has the accountability headache of managing impact just been passed downward to "Where it belongs!"

Do you reckon this was used in the Venezuelan attack?

Thanks for correcting me. The Slashdot story link I read didn't mention the foot rotting story. Brave guy and good rescue. It may have been better if he took up the initial Russian offer of surrender. It's beyond time to end this senseless war.

You can at least state that foot rotted off story is fiction.

Yes. Think. And the best course of action is to make the 'hacked' board advertise it's hacked state on bootup -- via VGA, blinking board LEDs, and even sound output. Something like, "Warning, my RAM has been hacked." But allow the user to proceed if they accept the risk.