Yes. No idea why so many people do not understand this very simple concept.

Their Copilot failure is already legendary ...

In addition, users should expect all data they put into any prompt to be collected, analyzed, profiled, used for LLM training and sold.

I have trouble imagining there are still people that would be "shocked" by any of that.

Yep. That collapse cannot come soon enough. Time for the world to move on.

When you have a mindless America-centric view of the world, _everything_ is US based!

I would expect it will eventually come to the US as well, because manufacturing two versions is just more expensive. Kind of like RoHS came to the US effectively. But it may take a few years.

By the definition of "are the base mechanisms used well-known and well optimized"? Seriously, do you even begin to think about the claims you make?

They claim to improve efficiency, yet they also claim not to be eliminating jobs. How does that work? Everybody just getting richer?

Somehow I doubt that and somehow the only real way for LLMs to not eliminate jobs would be that they do not actually increase efficiency. There is a mounting body of evidence that this may actually be the reality of things.

That reference is pretty damning. Basically makes LLM use dangerous unless you are very careful. I wonder how many people are actually careful enough and how many will damage their cognitive and on-target skills badly ...

Well, I guess we will see some really bad long-term problems from LLM use. Probably makes the whole endeavor negative-worth.

This whole AI thing is getting as deranged as politics ....

Only that this is not new technology. It is old technology scaled up. There are no easy wins to be had.

You get somewhat limited in Distro-choice, agreed. But Devuan comes without by default and Gentoo lets you chose the Init-system. Non-systemd Debian also still works. Here is a list of some more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The designers of systemd do not understand Unix / Linux and why it is still around and actually growing. It is not by doing thing the Microsoft way. Which is what they have done.

That one I can only attribute to abject stupidity. Because it very, very, very clearly is a really bad idea outside of very restricted and very special scenarios.

These people just make stuff up to fit their hallucinations. No connection to reality. And then they get angry when called out on their crap.

Indeed. Caveat lector.

There is a direct correlation between how much "progress" is not for you and may well be fake on one side, and the amount of money involved on the other. Too many people become complete assholes and stop seeing anything else but the dollars when a lot of money is involved. It is basically a assured you will get ripped off in such cases.