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Comment "Hey! How can we monetise human relationships?" (Score 5, Insightful) 129

Sweet suffering fuck, is there anything this empathy free android will not try to wring coin out of?>.

Honestly, I wouldn't even give this cretin the steam off my piss now. It's the most hideous abasement of literally what it means to be human, mediating any kind of human experience, connection, communication, and emotion through software that, if we're being charitable we'd call 'unreliable', and if we're being honest, we'd call a disaster on a societal, and environmental scale waiting to happen, and coming soon.

NO NO NO NO NO.

Comment There is no limit ... (Score 5, Funny) 73

... to how far the idea of me ever installing this can fuck off.

Someone might, at this very moment, be building interstellar probes that could be launched into the aether to wander the stars for countless millennia to come, and which will drift past far distant planets that are still not far enough away for Perplexity and their data-grabbing appliances to fuck off to.

Comment I for one am shocked (Score 2) 277

shocked, I tell you, that someone who is beyond balls deep in the mix of technology and marketing woo woo that his company (amongst others) has sprayed utterly ridiculous quantities of cash on, and who needs to generate revenue to satisfy shareholders' desire for RoI, is making all these promises of epoch changing experiences for end users.

What we get instead is parlour game legerdemain, weirdly unsettling reheated word salad (and that's when it's not clearly utter bullshit), Disneyfied colour saturated images, dominated by the bias and prejudices of a small, and not particularly representative group of human beings. If it weren't so enraging it would almost be funny. Especially the bit about search, because let's be honest here, pretty much all of the major products are useless for search, seeing as they just make shit up. It's basically a feature that you cannot trust the output.

Mass market machine-generated slop is an abomination. There are perfectly good, targeted, and useful applications of machine learning with tightly controlled training data, but who wants to drink from the well on offer now? It's more like a firehose laced with sewage; the only things you end up with are the stench, and the information equivalent of typhoid, polluting everything it touches.

Comment The twitter bird ... (Score 1) 8

... has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. It is an X parrot.

I bet X.org are giving Elon the side eye right now, and Apple must be laughing their vintage 20 year old MacOS Panther and Tiger labelled socks off.

"But Elon's a business genus."

Comment Re: Do UK politicians still not understand? (Score 4, Insightful) 205

Pretty much bang on. The EU market has 400m users. It really doesnâ(TM)t matter that UKG says, the de facto standard will happen. And given Iâ(TM)m typing this on a 6th gen iPad mini that uses usb-c, adding it to the phones canâ(TM)t be too far away. And there are lots of us that think that the current government is populated by palsied gibbons, headed by a honking porky sexdoll

Comment Until Apple get on board... (Score 0) 84

This is going to struggle. And we have past evidence of this, with Googleâ(TM)s travails with Google Wallet and payment services (and then thereâ(TM)s Samsung and there first into payments). Apple Pay brought those kinds of payment services to the mainstream, and I think it probably needs that kind of a push to make this work. The question of whether itâ(TM)s advisable to collect all of those IDs in one handy, stealable place is another one entirely, of course.

Comment WAT? (Score 1) 342

"if his tweets cross a line with abusive behavior."

What, you mean apart from threatening another nation with a nuclear attack, or the numerous instances of boorish, abusive and just generally shitty behaviour? What do they count as "abusive behaviour", when it's clear he's not only crossed that line, but pole vaulted it while wearing a jetpack.

There's an often used word for this in Cockney rhyming slang: cobblers.

Comment Creative accounting (Score 1) 517

"...the negative costs of their technology, such as end-to-end encryption"

Negative. Costs.

Well, that's a fairly subjective view of the situation, isn't it it, old chap? I think there are a great many people who would like to see your working on that one, before giving you a smash in the face with a frying pan for being an utter twatknacker.

Comment Re: UK's security minister (Score 1) 517

I may know that. You may know that, but HMG are spending quite a lot of time trying to conflate ECHR and the EU to weaken this position. While May may how been a very lukewarm member of the remain camp and deliberately kept her head down during the referendum, she has very definitely been ready to spike ECHR, and the concomitant Human Rights Act as soon as she possibly could. She's not been secretive about this, but has been incredibly dishonest about the relationship between them. And with a right wing press that's more than happy to see our membership of ECHR trashed, the media has been drip fed stories about "human rights" designed to appeal to a very specific demographic

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