So the big news here is that all the cool media players spy on their users.

But does mpv? Users are obviously demanding this feature, or else these stats wouldn't be available. How hard is it, to add code to betray the user and tell someone else how fast they watch videos? Free Software just doesn't keep up. All it does it work perfectly, time after time, until the user dies of boredom from the lack of drama.

IIUC (dubious) the 'next version of Siri" is actually an entirely different program, just one that fits the same advertising slot. So you really can't judge it based on the current siri...OTOH, judging it based or rumors and PR is, at best, dubious.

Oh man! Oh man! This is the Pebble Time 2 I wanted, even kickstarted back in 2016. And they're projecting 30-days on a charge! Even my PTS only did 9 days at most! Even though this isn't expected to release till Christmas, I think I've found my next smartwatch!

On the occasion that I tow, the most I generally have to go is about 30 miles round trip. There is a *theoretical* trip I might make that would be 30 miles one way without towing and then 30 miles the other way without towing, but it's actually never come up.

So a modest towing range isn't a huge deal breaker for me either.

However, I would think it be wise for them to have some EREV option. Particular bonus points if it is reasonably removable to get the storage space as needed when the generator won't be needed.

You perceive it as an LLM having an opinion. The LLM has no opinion, it just will agree with what you say. So it was in no way an active participant in concluding anything.

You said 'we' but that is an incorrect statement that can be a perilous mindset in ascribing too much agency and validation to a text generator.

That's not plausible. There are too many choices...or do you mean "just let them decide what fits on the first page"?

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

I'm not sure you can trust all versions to have the same flags set...in fact I'm rather sure you can't.

It's already happening. It's just that the actual uses are being drowned out by advertising/crap/PR/??.

There isn't just one flow of things happening. Most of the noisy ones are crap, but they aren't the only ones.

If that's really your definition, you're being silly. Randomness is easy to add. Even genuine quantum randomness if reasonably easy, but it requires generating and filtering noise.

OTOH, it is true that randomness is part of the human though process. I just don't think it's part of rationality.

...wait until people start spending a few years dead... for tax purposes.

I used Firefox from version 0.9 or something all the way up until a couple of years ago, when I finally had enough. I think the remaining userbase are fairly determined to keep an alternative to Google alive though, since pretty much everything else is Chromium-based, and that is a noble goal. So I hope Mozilla somehow avoids driving Firefox into the ground, although they also seem quite determined.

No, you concluded, it agreed, which is what these solutions are inclined to do when in doubt. This is fine, but it's bad to start assuming that the output is externally validating your half of the conversation.

So in corporate software development, I think LLM can readily reduce the needed headcount.

One is they ask employees to generate tons of procedural documentation that no one will ever ever read. Management will look and see a linked document hundreds of pages long and be satisfied that it was created, but never once will it ever be used by another developer. It's what managers imagine developers want of each other and so they force it, and developers have to satisfy this misconception while also providing what the developers need. Mountains of tedious garbage nonsense that looks vaguely right, congratulations, that is 100% in the LLM wheelhouse.

Another is having a team of junior devs that the senior devs would favor a small junior team because that quantity of junior devs are more work and less useful, but execs think an army is what is needed, when you just really want a nimble little team. AI is the marketing to make the business folks true believers.

The core people are still needed, but a lot of 'fluff' that perhaps should have already been gone can now be rationalized away.

Batteries are probably approaching their limit. I doubt that another factor of 2 reduction in size/power is possible. Super capacitors seem to have stalled out (probably on fabrication problems). I haven't heard anything about hydrogen storage in zeolites for a decade (of course I haven't been looking). Wireless power transmission pretty much needs to be point-to-point, or there's no way to bill for it.

OTOH, we really need a good power store that doesn't release carbon dioxide. All I've been able to think of is battery swapping, with the battery essentially being owned by the government. So standardized connections across multiple companies, and no problems with which battery is in the car. But that needs a reliable charge-meter. (I think fast charging is destructive of batteries, and even if not it poses huge problems to the power grid.)