Microsoft is famous for never getting any future prediction right. Remember 640K should be enough for everybody? The internet is a fad? The house of tomorrow? Clippy?

If they figure you'll talk to your computer to give it commands, you can be pretty sure people will still be typing away on their keyboards decades from now, or interfacing with their neural lace, or anything else other than what Microsoft predicted.

> It's like "The People's Car" (the Volkswagen)

Also, TIL that Nazi Germany was Marxist. /s

> If you did K-12 in the USA in public schools, there's a good chance you got your history from a book ("A People's History of the United States")

A good chance? Lol.

A *vanishingly small chance*. It's not approved as a primary textbook anywhere. It's not in the APUSH book list. Etc.

You'll find a few teachers that use it as a primary text, and a few more that use it as a supplementary source. I would wager that the latter group is well under 1%.

Coding arguably requires talent - although Microsoft has been proving consistently for half a century that you can be a successful software company with piss-poor engineers.

But even if AI produced perfect code, then producing software essentially requires no talent. I'm not saying it's a bad thing in itself, but it moves the act of producing software squarely into the realm of everyday mediocre accessible to everyday talentless people.

And on top of that, the fallacy is that AI simply doesn't produce anywhere near anything that resembles perfect code. But of course, Microsoft is desperate to have you believe otherwise...

I'll just say this: I'm glad I'm at the end of my career as a software engineer, because I didn't spend a lifetime honing my skills to end up a mediocre types-question-guy.

The stress level measurement is what the smartwatch pretends to supply you - a feature that entices you to purchase the watch, if you're interested in knowing your stress level.

What's being monetized is the raw data - accelerometer measurements, O2, location... whatever the hell those things measure to do what they pretend to do - because a lot of really invasive and personal information can be inferred from those measurements.

collect data on you for monetization.

You've been modded funny but it's absolutely true.

Extortion.

And books.

Trump, his Heritage Foundation puppetmasters and his MAGA minions have been at it for years too. Just like ole Adolf.

Trump is only able to do all the fascist shit he's doing now because the extreme right has been stuffing the courts - and the Supreme Court - with fascist-adjacent judges for years. And - if this needed remininding... Jan 6 happened.

Donald and Adolf are quite literally following the same playbook. The only difference is, Donald is an idiot who's really doing the Federalist Society's bidding.

Germany disintegrated even faster under Hitler.

Trump's wages war on knowledge and science.

And you know what? Even if you don't care about climate data, those satellites have been put up there at great cost to the taxpayer. Whatever happened to going after waste and abuse? People who pay taxes should be hopping mad.

Anyway, at the end of the day, it's yet another distraction to make his idiotic MAGA supporters forget that he's a fucking pedo.

That's why I replace the trashcan icon with a US flag.

for non-bullshit-AI OSes like Linux.

you're crazy.

Remember this: all AI knows comes from stolen data. Why would you interactions with it be treated any differently?