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.

Sure, 204 Mtonne (Tg) sounds big, but over 60+ years, it isn't, only 930 tonne/day. About 2 kBpd, not that it matters because CO2 is spectrographically saturated on the physically-dictated absorbtion wavenumbers. More only reduces the altitude.

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.

Quite so. Measuring anything quickly changing requires relevant reference points. Using age might be convenient, but requires justification especially in something as bursty as human development.

Doing otherwise invites fishing for desired conclusions in a pool of data. Experts know they should not be trusted and need to prove up. Anyone who claims "Trust the Experts" does not understand expertise.

Linked? How, some corelation? What r2? More to the point, how is this possibly free from the "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" fallacy (it came after so was caused by what came first)?

Most likely, both are symptoms from some underlying cause. Potentially with benefits like IQ.

Well, of course they're going to set defaults by what profits them. Long gone is any consideration of what users might want.

Me, I just invert any default I'm not sure I want. Every last one. Works great when I'm in a hurry.

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.

If you know French, "faible" means weak. Pronounced very close to Fable, and in the usual french order for modifiers after the noun. I'd prefer "infirm" which means lame!

Having worked numeric neural-nets, I'll add that NNs are very hard to tune in any desired direction. Often you have to do the opposite of what you'd expect.

Hardly new, sloppy police work has been around for at least 800 years (Magna Carta) and will persist so long as the drive to punish outweighs the costs of error.

This being egregious, and CA, I do hope the falsely jailed wins supersized compensation to caution others with a higher than zero cost of error. A feature (not bug) of the American system (McD coffee scald).

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.