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Comment Re:collect IP (Score 1) 51

It's like the company I work for. Usage of AI is extremely limited (by a CYA training session): do not ever upload any company code or files to the AI.

Also the company hosts everything externally on Github, Gmail, and Google Drive.

Apparently the lawyers believe Google is only training AI on questions you make on Gemini and isn't scanning Gdrive and Gmail for everything (which we literally know they are because they announced "agents" for Gdrive files, and Gmail is full of "agents" too)

Comment Futurama (Score 1) 208

Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

Well, sure, but not in our dreams.

Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky.

But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!

I must be a defective American. I don't understand why so many people tolerate ads in their Smart TV, on their Kindle sleep screen, in their children's classrooms, and now on their rather costly appliances. I don't even like having ads on paid TV or streaming services. Or ads on my web browser (that's MY bandwidth you're streaming video w/ audio ads to)

It's a twisted idea that every activity in life has to be related to marketing and commercialized. Some kind of hyper-capitalism, where we double down on consumerism in order to continue feeding the machine, despite the diminishing benefits.

Comment violence is the language of fascism (Score 1) 133

The so-called Leftists aren't the ones that literally states they were going to start a civil war if they can't have their way. Out of the mouths of both Vance and MTG only a few months ago, but part of the conversation on the Right for many years. https://www.vice.com/en/articl...

The vast majority of us in America wish to work our differences peacefully and move on with our lives. Most of us know that war is not romantic. It is costly in money and lives, and clearly won't make our streets safer.

Comment Don't do it! (Score 2) 39

Fingerprints all over your screen? Gross!

Actually I have two PC laptops with touchscreens. I disabled them when I moved to Linux because they are not useful to me and it's too easy to bump them when closing the lid. (and on Linux there was a bug where the touch screen was still active when using an external display - sending your mouse cursor screaming all over the desktop)

Comment Re:Why have a career (Score 1) 79

If you don't have to split the house with siblings, people can and do live with their parents until their parents die. And then you end up in a situation that my family is in. The family house is being lived in by one member who can't afford to even pay the electric bill, let alone the taxes. And we end up trying to keep the house from being taken by paying her bills, without the a path to evict her.

As for people realizing college or vocation training is necessary for the standard of living they want to achieve. They are also too old to do it easily. And are disappointed that they will be starting at the bottom rung in their career at age 30 or 40.

We are going to let a lot of people make bad decisions in life that is going to indirectly impact our labor force decades from now. I'm not saying people should be forced to go to college or anything. But we should be making it the easiest decision of their life, and discouraging stupid behavior whenever possible.

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