I retract what I said about healthcare, that needs exactly one single payer only - health insurance is a scam we have to be done with. As far as service providers, there should be many, but maybe not competing ones, that hasnâ(TM)t exactly driven down prices.

If we ever again have even remotely sane management, it will be time for the U.S. to break up that industry into at least a dozen actual competitors. Also healthcare. And a lot of others.

turned himself in at a local police station saying that he is the head of a criminal hacking organisation and that he should be arrested and the rest of Open AI shut down with immediate effect.

No ? If your are rich enough the normal rules increasingly do not apply to you.

You have a medium memoruy. I remember how USENET was, prior to the web forums you complain about. Reddit has blocked the possibility of a real discussion forum that works for complicated topics, locking in a short term popularity contest with ever-shifting "hot topics".

This "new" site is part of a larger effort by that slob to kneecap or compromise US government Web sites, and steal your personal data.

I first read about the effort here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedreydossier.substac...

Yesterday, she took a look under the hood of America.gov, and yes, it's as bad as everything else the DOGE vandals have been doing: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedreydossier.substac...

Up until this point, government Web sites were designed, built, and maintained by the agencies responsible for that government service. For example, if you wanted to apply for or renew your passport, you would go to state.gov, which is run by the US Department of State, which is responsible for processing applications for and issuing passports. No other department has lawful jurisdiction over passports.

From the point of view of the law, that's still true. But the slob, without anyone's permission, kluged together passports.gov. This site was built and is run by the White House's "National Design Studio," completely outside the law and without any independent oversight. The State Department was not consulted and has nothing to do with it. Further, the site is filled with third-party trackers, analytics, and some custom code that copies every page you view, including form contents, to an unknown third party.

Oh, and the guy leading the National Design Studio and in charge of building these fake sites? He's Joe Gebbia -- cofounder of Airbnb. Read both articles for more details.

In short, you should treat America.gov as a malware site and stay well away from it. Under no circumstances should you feed it any of your personal information.

most AI is Super Intelligent.

I always preferred bayonet mounts over Edison screws. Thankfully 90% are the former around here. But I digress... I changed all my light bulbs to LED ones about nine years ago when we did some renovations and haven't changed any since. What the hell's going on with yours?

The wildlife in Amsterdam is very engaging to watch!

Price comparison has been going on for years; just send someone round to nearby stores with a pen & clipboard; collate the results and set prices.

"AI" is just the latest type of magic pixie dust that is used to wow people that something great is going on.

when it talks about climate change. However the morons that run the state will not do that.

The U.S. should just open up all immigration from China. Better having them here than hitting the beaches of Taiwan.

Bugs (in new code) are hopefully being added more slowly than bugs found and squashed in existing code - so surely the number of remaining bugs will drop. Hopefully those running bug finding AIs are not keeping some remote exploitable bugs to themselves; I would not be surprised if government agencies were doing this.

I don't think rpi has been PoP since the B; pi4 and 5 are definitely not PoP, but your other points are all valid.

I'm not so sure the shop should be allowed to choose what agent the user employs. You wouldn't like it if they banned particular web browsers and said you had to use Chrome or Edge. The browser is the User-Agent, a program that acts on behalf of the user and shows the user the results. It might also filter those results in a way the retailer doesn't like, for example removing advertisements or popups, but that's between the user and their browser.

I would put it another way, always favour those who will increase the wealth of Trump and his family.