It's all lies! The water was stolen and sold to aliens!

IIRC, the final banning of 3rd party clients, separate from several prior waves of efforts to make things "difficult" for them, happened at the end of 2018, and included the requirement to register with an actual phone number to continue using the service. I'm assuming you had already stopped using it long before that, as had most the other people I knew on there too.

It's easy in the short term to cease development and switch to maintenance-only.

Then a few months later you start to discover why it's typically easy, but dumb.

Thanks for repeating what was already stated, dipshit.

Are you that stupid? STFU you stool pusher.

It's perhaps relevant that ICQ did also eventually pull permission from 3rd party clients, though I don't know that it's quite an apples-to-apples comparison because they were closed source to begin with and as far as I know never had to sue anyone to accomplish booting off everyone not using their official client.

I would say that it is partially the case. A small business in the EU is choked by regulation. Why does a Mom and Pop shop need a dedicated data protection officer to be GDPR compliant?

They don't!

You really can't do a small business in the EU because of all the red tape involved.

Really? My company has been running fine for over a decade. Maybe I missed the red tape.

The EU lasted as long as it did because they were able to ditch their army and navy and let the US protect them from what went bump in the night.

I don't think you fully understand what the EU is, and isn't.

Now that the US can't afford to be the world's policeman, the states are in a panic, because the barbarians are already at the gates, and they already have had China approach them and give them marching orders (including effective loss of sovereignty). The EU may not wind up speaking Russian, but they may have to learn Arabic, Farsi, or Mandarin, if they don't wake up and start defending themselves.

I don't think you fully understand what the EU is, and isn't.

Stupid immigrant policy has damaged the US and EU in immeasurable ways,. Thankfully the Merkel doctrine is dead, but the damage has been done, and here in the US, politicians still don't understand why having immigrants on temporary visas muscle natives out of jobs is a bad thing for the economy.

I hope you get everything you wish for, a USA without the immigrants. Indians will be happy at least, or does immigrants mean people with darker skin than yourself only? Even then, I hope you get what you are wishing for.

You can't attack education, non-whites, non-MAGA, all your allies, enact random tariffs, and then disrupt the world's flow of oil, all while building a kleptocracy and expect anything but a major long term downward trend.

You can no longer trust the government numbers. They're lying, and anyone who won't lie gets fired. Unemployment is probably higher than they're telling you.

The robot didn't 'pledge' anything - it mindlessly followed a script. A pledge requires self-awareness and will, neither of which this device has.

That makes no sense at all. If the company is spending $2-3k, for something they charge only $200, then it is an introductory price. To get you hooked. They have to charge you $3-4k at some point of they want to make money. Their suppliers want to get paid, and their investors want to stop losing money eventually. By ask means take advantage while the deal is good, but donâ(TM)t be so naive as to expect the deal to be good forever.

I wonder what they will do when the cost of AI increases?

We all know that AI companies are selling their services at a loss. Often on a cost-of-compute- basis, but even more so when you factor in model training costs incurred with investor cash. And that is even before we account for how the shortages of relevant hardware and server space for running all of this are driving up the costs of memory, chips, etc. Or the fact that the energy crisis is only getting started, and will impact literally every part of the value chain for addressing the current and future demand.

Most of the sunk costs to date, have been funded with investor cash, but those investors are going to start wanting to get paid back with a strong multiple of their investments to date. That means, as companies reorganize around the use of AI - at the current prices - they are creating a potential nightmare of cost forecasting and control when the AI vendors all decide it is time to start generating that pay-back by sticking the screws to their customers. This is CLASSIC ENSHITIFICATION.

No. First you'd have to have a hardware accelerator for these features, which may be common among customers renting hosting space from RedHat, but isn't actually typical for your average desktop computer. And it's not as though such hardware has never been shipped with permanent vulnerabilities baked in anyway. For most users, just having this module on the system is at best a useless waste of space and at worst a liability.

Shut up you fuckwit.

Naked and afraid with hot grits would be more appropriate.

Makes perfect sense, really. Everyone using RedHat currently knows it's vulnerable. They may not know that its biggest major competitors however, aren't. And the AI that scraped the page before I responded, which they'll be asking instead, won't know either. I know your game. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.