Large-scale government-enforced spying has been around for 20 years and has not reduced crime. In fact, the resulting trove of surveillance data is so valuable that it causes more crime. Now, governments want corporations to provide the same abuse to children, in the delusion of saving them. The problem is not the necessity or efficacy of saving children, it is the collateral damage. Corporations should not be helping the government spy on people. That is absolute (and reporting business events, Eg. money transfers, is different). Some governments have adopted digital (on-phone) proof-of-age identity that tells a business nothing else about the customer. But they refuse to give people in cyberspace the same right to privacy.

Governments are working to move the internet from "no-one knows you're a dog" to identifying every 'owner' and spying on every conversation. It is an Orwellian plan, which also explains why it is dangerous.

Information overload, like equipment overload (Eg. 'grunts'), has always been a problem of militant hierarchies. In the past, the focus has been on removing high-cost services (Eg. pilots). This is (or, should be) closer to the ML that computers were designed to perform.

... imported third world. If there were no pensioners, white trash or racists, Fox News wouldn't have an audience and voters wouldn't protect billionaires.

The point is the same as the Microsoft Ribbon (toolbar): Dumbing-down the UI. With the ribbon, one doesn't see all the options that can be changed in displaying/controlling data. With a talkie-PC, there's no need to learn about filenames, folders, switching focus, or control objects like menus: Wage-slaves don't need to be 'taught' anything.

So they want an AI version of you, to sell crap to you. They no longer have to hire ad-execs, script-writers and actors: They will use your identity and likeness for free. That should motivate everyone to join SAG, at the very least. More likely: People demanding money from a corporation using their likeness. Cory Doctorow is correct: "Enshittification" is more than reducing quality, it really is "too big to care"; about the law, about the customer and about their own future.

This was explained in the comedy movie, Ruthless People (1986): It is not new.

Black Friday is an attempt to clear specific product lines, and shops seem willing to take a massive loss on personal computing products.

Prime Day is a month before Black Friday and has no visible purpose. It is obvious marketing that helps only Amazon. It is an attempt to inflate their sale numbers in the new financial year.

I was using a cloud-to-network drive application with encrypted data on Microsoft Live, about 18 years ago. Way back then, Microsoft recognized the lack of data structure and asked if the data was corrupted. I clicked "No" and Microsoft never bothered me again. Nowadays, using Live UI is faster than a middle-ware application, although it's slightly more work.

Correction: ... it's important somebody else do something about it, for free.

As you've admitted, nobody wants to stop sinning but the real problem is, we all refuse responsibility for our choices.

Mis-read a title: Posting to undo all mod-points.

Translation: What I know is the the only thing that matters.

This is the self-important stupidity driving MAGA: Notice where that took the USA?

Money is stuff rich people can own, it is stored labour and thus is a proxy for difficulty of making (or, in the case of bling, owning) something. If a king (or Trump) owns everything, then money has limited purpose because he can't buy anything. At best, he can trade his wealth for someone's labour. But if he owns everything, the labour force is at his mercy (Hint, Hint: Trump isn't attacking immigrants merely to appease the racists and steal the farms). He doesn't need money to control or motivate them, he can merely withhold his own property: Food, shelter, healthcare and sex (other workers): This is slavery.

The end of transferable wealth won't end the power to oppress others and enjoy immense decadence: The rise of King Trump is proof of that.

The interesting idea behind "In time" (2011), is poverty equals death: Thus, one can control population size and enforce obedience by changing the cost of staying alive. Also, when the workers gained more wealth, they attacked each other, rather than the system that enslaved them.

BeauHD is bending the knee to Microsoft, let me fix that.

Correct title: Microsoft forces more customers using Windows 11 to share their data.

Ahh, the left-wing has to drop everything and obey the centrists. You sound like the right-wing.

The centrists had power not too long ago and while they worked tirelessly to impeach Trump, everyone knew that Mitch McConnell would kill it: Making the entire activity, pointless. The centrists did nothing to stop the real problem: The glorification of Trump's dishonesty and thuggery.

Software isn't created because no-one will pay the cost of bullet-proofing, testing, and updating it.

Selling stuff cheaply, creates a need for more stuff and thus, more employees. That's not the plan, here: Like most tools, it's a way to increase productivity (output) without increasing costs (wages).

If the above tasks can be done cheaply, then everyone can create (using AI) the custom software (with open-source drivers) they need. Of course, then there will be no jobs because a machine can write the OS/system-level/middle-ware/application-level/UI software for all other machines.

Improved technology, always reduces the number of employees (per unit of output). Thus, if output (sales) remains constant, the number of jobs, decreases. Software changes this dynamic because increasing output (sales) has a unit-cost of pennies. Vibe-coding AI (if it can be invented) changes this dynamic, again because everything becomes a sunk cost. It's almost free to own the IP and almost free to make.

For one neighbouring shop, the opening/closing time is seasonal. Worse, the month the change-over happens, depends on the amount of maintenance they require. Gooogle maps fails to report the seasonal change and the this-year change. To be fair, they don't update their business web-page either.

Never trust Google maps.