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.

AFAIK Google's Android OS is based on Linux and may fall under the exemption. I suspect there are people trying to enforce the GPL2 surouce-code obligation against Alfabet. Apple's iOS is based on Net?BSD, can be closed but may or may not meet the legal definition.

Who's the government to tell me what music I want to celebrate and listen to?

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.

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.