Comment Re: I wonder whether that is just the US version (Score 1) 160
Please cite a time when any European country has held a CEO personally and criminally liable for something.
Comment Re:How will this be enforced? (Score 1) 87
It won't be. Facebook will just cut a check for $79 million and go on with life.
Comment Re:Rude (Score 1) 149
This is exactly analogous to the power companies pushing people to "efficiency" programs at the cost of comfort just so they don't have to spend money to build out infrastructure.
"We'll provide a worse experience for you so the powers that be don't have to do anything substantive to solve the problem"
Comment Why do I care about instruments? (Score 0) 165
As long as I know how fast I'm going and how much fuel I have left, what do I care about engine speed and oil pressure and coolant temperature, and so on? I don't need to monitor all of the minutiae of my engine's operating point while I am driving. That is handled by the FADEC. The FADEC will tell me when and if there is a problem. I do not need to monitor these things myself. This emotional attachment to the past is just that, an emotional attachment.
Comment Re: IHOP/Gamestop restaurant/store combo (Score 1) 48
There are lots of businesses that are inexplicably still around.
Steak n Shake
Friendlys
Giordano's
Hooters
Many more
Comment Re: Dont let the door hit ya. Bye Felicia (Score 1) 93
Why are you doing AI work with GPUs? For the cost of a pair of GPUs you can have a DGX Spark.
Comment Re: The existence of the database endangers us (Score 0) 142
Tell me you've never used an AI coding tool, without telling me
I don't know about the rest of the peanut gallery, but I can say first hand that claude is excellent at commenting and documenting code and architecture, as well as keeping track of lessons learned.
Comment Re: Honestly (Score 4, Interesting) 46
Except you are accepting their stated reasoning as gospel. They don't want to free up RAM because of a RAM shortage. They want to free it up to run local AI models on the phone, mostly for data harvesting, behavior recognition, and surveillance.
Comment Sure they throw away the keys... (Score 2) 63
... Into a trash can that's owned by law enforcement.
Comment Re: I'm sorry Officer... (Score 1) 69
IANAL, but don't lie and say you forgot your PIN/password. It is a crime to lie to a cop. Instead, just refuse to give it to them because you don't have to.
Submission + - How Big Tech Captured American Schools
theodp writes: In How Big Tech Captured American Schools (alt source), an adapted excerpt of the forthcoming book Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools, the New York Times' Natasha Singer begins: "Many parents would likely object if, say, Exxon Mobil wrote their children’s environmental science curriculum. Or if Purdue Pharma trained their children’s biology teachers. Yet, over the last decade, schools have often embraced the technology industry in similar ways with few questions asked. Industry-sponsored teacher training is just one technique that Big Tech companies use to shape schools and promote their worldviews to students. In interviewing more than 100 education and tech industry figures for my book, and reviewing hundreds of school, government and corporate documents, it became clear that a handful of giants have used their money, their might and their mammoth platforms to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain."
"Consumer tech giants provide the essential scaffolding that schools run on. That means laptops and tablets; operating systems and device-tracking software; the apps students use to write essays and analyze data; the messaging platforms that connect students and teachers; and more. Some of these companies, including Google, Microsoft and Apple, have also used their status as classroom tech providers as a springboard to influence how and what schoolchildren learn."
"This story matters whether you want schools to center tech skills or are agnostic, because the recent learn-to-code craze and the growing push for A.I. in schools are not just about learning. Those trends are part of a larger exercise of Silicon Valley power. The public education system, hungry for resources to improve opportunities for students, has become an avenue for multitrillion-dollar companies to enact their agendas."
"This development taps into fundamental questions about education that Americans have been arguing over for more than a century. What is the purpose of public schooling? Is it to raise critical, independent thinkers? Train students in the latest career skills? Help young people discover their passions? Serve the needs of the prevailing industry or emerging ones? Create knowledgeable and active participants in a democracy? Or all of the above?"
In an accompanying LinkedIn post, Singer adds: "Every few years, Silicon Valley has urged American public schools to quickly adopt the latest technology or teach the latest tech subject: Big Data analytics; laptops for every child; algorithm-driven math and reading apps; computer programming; virtual reality. And each time the urgent arguments sounded remarkably similar: if schools just adopted the latest tech tool, or taught the latest tech subject, it would democratize learning for every child and equip students with valuable career skills. The campaign to expand student access to computer science and other efforts had good intentions. But today we know some of those classroom tech drives did not exactly pan out as advertised. Now some of the same companies that urged schools to provide laptops and coding lessons are employing similar arguments to urge schools to quickly adopt A.I. tools. I've spent years covering Chromebooks and student chatbot use. And I'm troubled by our collective amnesia around school tech."
"Consumer tech giants provide the essential scaffolding that schools run on. That means laptops and tablets; operating systems and device-tracking software; the apps students use to write essays and analyze data; the messaging platforms that connect students and teachers; and more. Some of these companies, including Google, Microsoft and Apple, have also used their status as classroom tech providers as a springboard to influence how and what schoolchildren learn."
"This story matters whether you want schools to center tech skills or are agnostic, because the recent learn-to-code craze and the growing push for A.I. in schools are not just about learning. Those trends are part of a larger exercise of Silicon Valley power. The public education system, hungry for resources to improve opportunities for students, has become an avenue for multitrillion-dollar companies to enact their agendas."
"This development taps into fundamental questions about education that Americans have been arguing over for more than a century. What is the purpose of public schooling? Is it to raise critical, independent thinkers? Train students in the latest career skills? Help young people discover their passions? Serve the needs of the prevailing industry or emerging ones? Create knowledgeable and active participants in a democracy? Or all of the above?"
In an accompanying LinkedIn post, Singer adds: "Every few years, Silicon Valley has urged American public schools to quickly adopt the latest technology or teach the latest tech subject: Big Data analytics; laptops for every child; algorithm-driven math and reading apps; computer programming; virtual reality. And each time the urgent arguments sounded remarkably similar: if schools just adopted the latest tech tool, or taught the latest tech subject, it would democratize learning for every child and equip students with valuable career skills. The campaign to expand student access to computer science and other efforts had good intentions. But today we know some of those classroom tech drives did not exactly pan out as advertised. Now some of the same companies that urged schools to provide laptops and coding lessons are employing similar arguments to urge schools to quickly adopt A.I. tools. I've spent years covering Chromebooks and student chatbot use. And I'm troubled by our collective amnesia around school tech."
Comment Re:no surprise (Score 1) 93
It's not that it's fake. It's that most work is predictable.
Submission + - Who's Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out
Mirnotoriety writes: Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out
“A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.”
“A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.”
Comment Should require a warrant, full stop (Score 1) 33
Searching the flock database should require a warrant signed by an actual judge in the actual jurisdiction where the crime in question is alleged to have taken place, and in the actual court that would hear the case. No forum shopping for friendly judges with rubber stamp warrant policies.
Comment Re: FOR MAGA ONLY (Score 2) 280
Trump couldn't build a coalition of people trapped in a burning building who needed to work together to escape.
