It will only have an effect if the fines threaten their profits, and that seems unlikely.

It says something about our current world that, having read the headline and not knowing who this guy is, I expected him to a booster of both AI and Nazism. It’s a relief to find he means this as a criticism.

Or just make life unpleasant for you because you use a different OS, maybe by adding you to a terrorism list.

You’ll only have privacy if everyone you talk to also uses a private server and a noncompliant client app that’s relatively hard to get. The chances are that your carefully encrypted texts just get scooped up after decryption at the other end. And if they get it built into mobile OSs so that apps can’t bypass it, even that won’t work.

Last time they pushed for this, the politicians planned to exempt themselves from the surveillance they’d force on everyone else:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/leak-eu-interior-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves-from-chat-control-bulk-scanning-of-private-messages/

We could always just not, and use whatever RAM we can get. I’d rather have a thriving market with slightly worse RAM than motherboards that require a RAM no one can afford.

It may not even be that they advertised kayaking to you. They may just have a very good model of your behaviour that predicts you’re likely to be interested in kayaking.

Almost everything just works after installing sandboxed Google Play Services. For a few apps you have to tweak a setting to turn off some of GrapheneOS’s exploit protections. But I’ve found very few that refuse to run, and nothing indispensable. If you don’t like your main profile having Play Services you can set them up under a second profile or a private area and keep the apps that use them away from your main profile.

It runs on theft and planet-scale destruction.

You could argue that this is the very nature of capitalism: theft because it always means owners extracting value from other people’s work, and ultimately planet-scale destruction because it depends on infinite growth while externalizing (not paying for) the true costs of its activity.

In that sense, AI companies are just a faster-growing strain of the global cancer that is capitalism.

the AI/drobe warfare age.

Is a drobe used in war a wardrobe?

“The skilled craft segment of every economy is going to see a boom. You’ve going to have to be doubling and doubling and doubling every single year.”

Doubling every year? For how many years, Jensen? Enough for all these people to finish trade school and make a decades-long career? And how are the AI companies who already can’t see any way to make a profit going to fund this exponential growth in their costs?

They also need to stop handing the UK and its people over to Palantir.

Not any current generation of American conservatives. Today’s right wingers be just as likely to fight alongside the Nazis.

i2p is good. I also have my eye on Reticulum.

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If you’re Canadian, please sign this petition against Bill C-22:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416

But they saved themselves a whopping $10,000. It’s not like AMD has that kind of money to throw around.

In a pleasing kind of way.

I like Vivaldi except for two things: it uses the same engine as Chrome so facilitates Google’s stranglehold on web standards, and it is closed-source. For functionality and design it’s one of the best, but those are important downsides.

Not thinking is an essential skill for surviving in the technofascist world they’re building for us.