... which just ditched MS for software in public service. The northerns are the most reasonable when it comes to public service IT. (For context: I live in Germany and they're both to the north :-) )

Not next generation. And people did notice.

"Don't Be Evil" - Google 30 years ago

"Be Evil" - Google now.

... my government has spent on shitty proprietary software is patently absurd. This being Germany were people should know better but deciders and their digital culture are still stuck in the steam age. Maddening. Germany and Europe as a whole is way to slow in appointing FOSS as it's primary source of software.

I visit news.google.com regularly. It is customizable to show topics that I am interested in.
It includes links to all of the sources and more significantly, it does not have any "AI summaries"
Hopefully it will remain that way and avoid the enshittification of AI.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... is the anti-hero we need. I wish it was a government-run service -- bring your bricked device and you get a reembursement. Should be easy to check if it is was bricked by a brickerbot. Such a service should pay off easily compared to the cost of botnets.

... significance if all goes well. That's a good thing, by and large. It's called post-scarcity-economy and in a perfect world it's capitalisms end game.

If there's 10s of millions of people in china looking to cheat on their exams using llama models... i figure the "market" will make suitable models happen pretty quickly.

Is it possible to have AI do the unit tests?

That should cover it.

You realize of course that Exams are also highly tuned for one specific thing, like "20th Century English Literature", "Linear Algebra", "Criminlology: Overview of the Prison System", and "Axiomatic Meta-logic".

Eigenvalues are all but guaranteed to show up in the the 2nd exam, and all but guaranteed not to be mentioned in the other three.

PS That last one is highly recommended, but its a little dense.

Your logic is odd and difficult to parse so I won't even try.

It's not the cities. They don't take up much land compared to the rural farm areas that have been cleared to support industrial animal production.

It's impressive to see the amount of damage humans have done to out natural environment.
Fortunately, others have demonstrated that "rewilding" is possible without a great effort. All you need to do is stop clearing and burning and let nature do the rewilding. When you consider that 70% of cleared land is used to support industrial meat production, a logical first step would be to let this land recover. There would be less meat but that is a good thing for human health as well as the environment.

Books are the product of intelligent humans.
When you read a book you benefit from their intelligence.
Books themselves are not intelligent in the same sense that people are intelligent. They are static representations of the intelligent thoughts of people but they are not intelligent. Just as AI is not intelligent. AI just parrots random stuff it reads on the internet. Sometimes the AI output reproduces the intelligent thoughts of humans but there is no ability for independent intelligent thought.