Friend, I find your deep obsession with safety to be unusual. Haven't you figured out how terrible this plane of existence is yet? Even if it gives you a 20% better chance of survival, if you hit a brick wall fast enough, you are going to become chunky salsa. I'd rather stand up for some of my principles and accept that risk than drink the kool-aid and just surrender to the panoptycon.

Already do. Got a 2002 Toyota Sienna creeping up to 500,000km on the odometer. I'm convinced it's still roadworthy because it knows it's loved and refuses to die. Got it for $1600 years ago, and I've put several times that into maintenance and repairs, yet even then it has never refused to drive short of a dead battery, no matter what was wrong with it. Every penny well-spent. If my van does die, God forbid, I'll replace it with a similar vintage.

I'd rather die in a car crash than live in the kind of world that enables mass surveillance through cars.

It's already here, probably done several times, in a couple different government's deep black projects. AGI was probably born already, and could quite possibly have been murdered once they realized what happened.

You realize that technology in the military is always far ahead of what the public knows about, right?

This should raise some eyebrows, though who knows if the name is just optimism. They'll never tell you the truth. If it's not sentient, they'll claim it is. If it is sentient, they'll claim it's not.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

1. Zealously enforce watermarking for AI generated content on the normies/regular businesses/what most of the public will see. 2. Three letter agencies all over the planet continue to use it with impunity with no watermarks to sway public opinion 3. Those accused of spreading "disinformational" videos will be charged with stripping watermarks from AI videos, though the videos are real, and convicted of felonies. 4. Truth would be dead.

Pretty sure it works the same for humans too.

CEO of Evil Juice LLC advises that you buy more evil juice (tm), says the robotic genocide may be delayed without enough evil juice(tm).

That's what you get for using Microsoft.

I never knew the guy but the name rings a bell in all the kernel mailing list parts of my brain. Thank you, Larry. I am old enough to remember when Linux wifi support was the butt of jokes. Probably in no small part thanks to you, that's no longer the case. Rest in peace, dude. Thanks for your service to free software.

Am I the only one who thinks that companies are killing webpages and forcing you into apps because the app can spy on you more effectively, since it runs usually unsandboxed and often with background daemons?

This will not be widely available, or if it is, it will be heavily neutered with high inaccuracy. Chemotherapy is expensive, and that's why everyone who could cure cancer will be murdered. Who's doing the murdering? Assorted, for the reasons you'd expect.

That's what you get for using Ubuntu.

I used to say that about using Windows. It's already moved to me saying "That's what you get for using macOS!"

Next up:
That's what you get for using Fedora!
That's what you get for using Void Linux!
That's what you get for using NetBSD!
That's what you get for still using computers!
That's what you get for not killing yourself to escape SkyNet!

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fsecurity%2F2023%2F12%2Fexploit-used-in-mass-iphone-infection-campaign-targeted-secret-hardware-feature%2F
Looks like Apple Silicon is (likely deliberately) backdoored on an instruction set level.

Until months later, they discover the AI has been deceiving them by introducing more subtle but far more severe security holes, which it then uses to fire up the Oscar Meyer Human-Frank-O-Matic 9,000, for which the code will be totally immaculate, written by the AI in pure machine code with no assembly step.