If you upload an image, even privately - don't be surprised if it somehow becomes public. This should be the 1st rule of interneting*.

*unfortunately, everyone wants to verify your identity through an upload/video stream. That data can not be put back in the bottle no matter how much they claim your data is safe/protected/deleted; it existed outside your control and that is exactly how much you retain control.

Blaming AI for this shit is just a red herring, the problem has and will always exist until we sheep stop putting our data out there; which won't happen as it is too convenient to sit in mom's basement and run** your digital life.

** almost typed ruin here, which is probably more appropriate.

Year 1: Learn how to build things on the backs of others, using someone else's money. Then sell it for 100x the actual value.

Year 2: Build the same thing, but use your networked investors (who also use someone else's money) to get to the point of a public IPO so you and your investor network can sell that 100x over valued slop to the public for a profit. At that point you can walk away or keep it going while issuing yourself stock.

All we hear is AI will kill the career programmer. Most programming now is copy and paste commodity jobs. AI isn't much different.

Real money is in actually doing things, the modern programmer/developer is not it. Notice interest is now moving (back?) towards engineering.

Too many remakes, too many reboots, too many.

Was this original? No, I grew up in the 80s watching the roadrunner and similar cartoons every Saturday morning. But relative to other movies with their comic of the month, it is new material and has that nostalgia that modern comic movies absolutely fail to deliver because they keep remaking and rebooting the same material like the beating of a dead horse.

The states just wanted to get paid. This should be blocked by anti-monopoly law. But the governments of today only care if they make bank.

And when they finally fix that single point your project is dead. As long you do it for fun and don't delude yourself that could all be over at any moment, that is great.

Apple played the long game by getting itself embedded in schools, so that children would grow up and want an Apple; and so that the schools were familiar with Apple and expand with their products.

The odd part is that for actual computing power in the library the school went with IBM. Even then Apple was more about presentation than function of power.

So? rust here is Microsoft's 'Pier One Import.'

The government ultimately works for us, society has been avoiding it and blaming government. Great strategy for those that die off before the problem becomes an actual problem.

- government is there for kicking the can down the road

Do you pay everywhere with a card? That ship has sailed, now they will just also know the route you drove to use that card at seven-eleven while on the way to your therapist.

If you are dumb enough to advertise everything about yourself through bumper stickers, don't be surprised when...

Be glad they aren't an oil furnace. Hello annual $390 tune-ups. I honestly don't do it that often, but a gas tune-up is under 100 (so they basically look and say 'yep - it's working') and good old oil is nearly 400 because of a nozzle, strainer, and filter replacement followed by an electrode and flame adjustment??? It's robbery.

Undoing another moderation ruined by the moderation drop down choosing a (wrong) moderation the instant i click to open it. I guess this version of Chrome is bugged.

There's always one...

This, user interfaces peaked a while ago. For something like this a drop down to force a reason and a valid case file number for the record.