Oh, you want profit? This is a surveillance spyware wrapper around the entire MacOS user experience - so if you thought Microsoft's Copilot Recall was invasive monitoring, you haven't seen anything yet.

If Apple won't monetize a user panopticon and partner with governments to do it, OpenAI will be right there, to take the cash.

Unless you pronounce "beta" as "beeta" then I assume it's "m-eye-koh" as in the first two syllables of microsoft minus the "r"

I will argue against strict adherence to this statement. Gnome applications written to the project guidelines have become very fine, since the introduction of GTK-4 and libadwaita. I prefer many of these to their equivalents on MacOS.

It's true that most of these fall into a general category of "utilities", and that Windows enjoys a broader ecosystem driven by commercial incentive. But Windows programs are hardly "better' for this, and the widely varied usability is generally sub-par compared to level that's become norm for Gnome/Adwaita software.

The Boots theory is broken now too, you can now spend $500 on a pair of boots that fall apart in 6 months.

Like the name for a mushroom or fungus?

Or did they just regress to a 4-year-old trying to pronounce microsoft?

Good luck with that. I can't even migrate app data between phones in Android, even within the same product family.

I recently migrated from an older Pixel phone to a newer one and it could never complete, I just get constant unexplained error messages. Easier to just start fresh.

Personally if I'm bored enough to open Shorts, my viewing time is self-limiting because the content is so bad.

I'm sure it was built exactly to spec by the offshore development team.

Exactly. In fact I'd say their security is too modern. Who needs cameras, lasers, alarms... In the old days you'd just have security guards with guns.

This is an argument in favor of an AI agent to read the news for me and summarize the results in neutral language.

Well in the future Idiocracy, you can always be a Costco greeter.

Here's to 5,318,008

I hope they at least doped the artifact with a radioactive tracer so it can be detected when leaving the country.

The Japanese already did this - https://mainichi.jp/english/ar...

It scans the poop with a laser instead of taking a photo, and it sounds like processing is done on the device and results sent to a smartphone app.

Still ridiculous, but sounds like a more elegant solution than a wifi-connected camera if you're really interested in cataloguing the shape and texture of your bowel movements for some reason.