Usefor for grandma, who doesn't understand wifi or connections. Except that i deliberately don't give my TV my wifi password or connect its ethernet. But I can't control the neighbors leaving their guest wifi unprotected, so my data can still be exfiltrated.

That's definitely hysteria.

Yes, if it's out there on the internet, AI can scrape it and it can be used for training. And there's only so much you can do about it.

That has nothing to do with being able to run AI on your own network, on your own system. You can run AI locally on an airgapped PC. Your data is as safe as the physical integrity of your PC or network.

Every day Google finds a new way to disappoint us.

Warrants, encrypted data with only owning jurisdiction access, periodic audits of the camera, the network, the datacenter and access logs. Or just gtfo with this.

And yeah I know, if we do that it's "worthless". Because illegal use is the point.

Or they'd make private cloud devices and not be in the position of handling the data or the encryption. Maybe they could offer an offsite backup service of encrypted data, but it would be just that: encrypted files that only the user has access to.

I still don't understand why we are relying on datacenters and services for storage, it just invites government overreach.

Isn't this just a button to help train better AI slop?

I am not sure what will cause nvidia to "die". They're still the best at what they do and AI/LLMs aren't going to evaporate, it's far too useful. I can definitely see them having lay offs though.

My name is on my credit card. Apple knows. That's a problem.
The German system involves your taxpayer ID. The German government knows. That's a problem.

I am still a proponent of buying a (very cheap) card from the grocery store where they record only your birthday in exchange for a QR code that is good for 6 months of activation. It's good enough for buying liquor and cigarrettes. You can pay in cash. No tracking. I'd accept that.

If the world were a good place, this alone would kill social media.

Unfortunately, people are going to give up their anonymity to access the bullshit feeds.

Any article that mentions the decline of teen fertility as a problem is a propaganda piece. Its authors are awful human beings and deserve to rot in hell for all eternity.

In 2026, teens should not ever be getting pregnant. We don't live in that world any longer. Whoever that bothers needs to rethink their life choices.

From what the SWEs tell me, they expect to be fired within 2 years anyway, they're just cashing in the stupid monery paycheck while they can.

What I'd love to know is the levels of shadow IT people are going through.

It sounds slow, expensive, and invasive.

Obviously we're in a world where young people do not know how to communicate via messaging systems, online web apps and email. They need to be physically sitting on a file cabinet in my cube while I slam obscure commands into a terminal and swear semi-silently at every typo.

I don't know who writes all this shit, but my experience is that our new hires have less desire to be in an office, in a strange city far from home, than I do.

Is this really a top performing game device, or just a thin client to sell cloud SAAS crap? I'm not always attached to the internet and I'm not interested in renting my compute.

So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.