Yeah it's a poor thing to just try to silence your opposition and curb free speech.
Inventing new weapons against your opposition sounds fantastic until they do it to, and they're always so shocked as if how could it ever happen to them?

Best not to do it, and allow people to talk things through instead.

That's always been the game. Use your data to gain insight to exactly how much extra they might be able to extract per person.
Grocery store points card? Yep, you nailed it. They charge higher prices if you don't give them your data, in order to charge higher prices. They're just letting you delay it a little bit while they build their price gouging system.

I'm fighting back. I'm using AI to get information on their prices and historical data so I can determine if the price is good or BS. Sooner or later we'll have database just like they do that AI can pick through and show their pricing BS and make more informed decisions on what to buy and which companies to support.

Everyone always yelled 'BUT ITS CHEAPER!"
And we all said back, no, no it won't be.

At first it will be, but most of your gas prices is taxes. They will immediately turn around and find a new way to tax your mobility either via electrical charging costs or per mile taxes. It's the perfect way to prevent poor people from being able to move and be mobile. "Oh, I can't go there, I can't afford the stack of taxes I'll get at the end of the year for driving.

It's even better than charging taxes at fill up. People will be afraid of the big bill at the end of the year or when they renew insurance or whatever. With fill up taxes you can determine if, at that moment, you have enough money, or if someone is going to pay for gas. But a big tax bill at the end of the year? Yea we know what this is,.

Yeah it's the classic not my problem syndrom.
"Look I'm amazing, I did it cheaper, where's my bonus, look at my resume as I leave to next company, look how awesome I was at previous company and saved them money....nO wAy! IT's all cheap and security risk because it's from china? I had no idea! Good thing I don't work there anymore!"

Sorry I live in reality and not the one told to me. I can't speak for anyone elses experiences, but I had two business trips to the USA this year.
Went to the border, said where I was going and just drove in. No problems, no fuss, no muss, nothing.

Everyone acting like it's dangerous and scary. Yeah, maybe if you have a criminal record and you're doing illegal activities, it's proably a dumb idea to enter a foreign country. I never hear any stories or could find any of regular people going for proper reasons having any hassle. I checked, I was concerned at first too if everything was as nuts as everyone was saying. Each story ended up with some person who has been kicked out of the USA before for trying to stay there or has a criminal record, every, single, time.

I'm interested if I see stories of people who aren't trying to skirt the rules actually getting hassled. Let me know if you have any of those, where I won't investigate the report and the person, and find out they're a criminal or violated laws to get across. I'll read it if you got it. Won't hold my breath though.

I'm not talking about your mom and pop shops.

There's no way they're operating at that with constant larger profit margins every year. We're not talking raw dollars. That naturally goes up as costs goes up, record profits, as in, what's left after there expenses is massively increasing. Out here you can get a back of chips and a 2 litre of pop for nearly 10$. It used to be 5-6 at a gas station, not your main stream grocery store.

Such tight margins my ass.
There's not entirely to blame though. Each time you raise minimum wage, presto. Less buying power and nobody realizes it because they're too hooked on sparkle eyes higher number on the pay cheque even though their rent and food leaves them with less 'stuff' each time.

Where I'll have a basic cheap smart phone just for all their stupid apps that are 'required' with a different name than my own that only gets turned on when I have to use one of these apps. I'll only hotspot or wifi it. It'll just be an android tablet.

Want my data always all the time? Kiss my ass.

All these companies are making record profits and gouging the shit out of me, like the grocery store. So I absolutely, absolutely, use my most fucking expensive card to get what I can back from these price fixing pieces of shit. 25$ legal payout for charging you an extra 2$ on all fucking bread and fixing the prices for 15 years?

Eat my ass. Someone is going to pay the price for this, and it's not going to be fucking me as you guys expect. I will drop every fucking rewards card and in fact, overall stop using my credit cards all together, and I'll ditch any with yearly fees if I start getting declined to use it. It's only worth it because I can stick it to these greedy record profit making sacks of shit, and it pays for its yearly fee.

I'll switch to just having my low fee card as a backup, and back to using cash, because now there's zero, zero benefit for risking interest, or going beyond my means temporarily for a month.

The level of suck my ass these companies can have is at a record high.

Well you're clearly not from BC. 98% of the electricity in BC is from clean sources, such as hydrodams.

But you know, go on, you do you as usual.

It's got to be a bug with drivers or something to do with windows updates. For simple games like league I used to get crashes, or no starts, but, fine now, same hardware, didn't change anything.

I've seen the same thing with various games. I played Robocop and other UE5 stuff, not a single issue. There is something where all this data collection information would be useful that they do. If they had all the information from systems like mine where it's working, comparing it to similiar systems like yours where it's taking a dump and analyzing the collective differences to figure wtf it is that's going on.

Latest updates when I play heroes of the storm, an older SC2 engine game, that should run fine all the time, I'll get like random stutters where it'll drop to 1 fps for like 4 seconds then go back to fine. Why? No idea at all. Other games? Not even a hint of an issue. So it's something weird with a driver or process these guys are doing. Probably some data collection crap if I was to guess. I'm frustrated with that crap.

I miss the days where drivers were drivers and didn't report back to the manufacture.

I run UE5 games no problem and they look fantastic. I run a decent system, R7 3800x, 32 GB ram, RTX 3080.

What is wrong with people? That one comment, senior dev, you keep using that word and I don't think it means what you think it means is accurate.

AI at this point can be an assistant for functions and writing code, giving you ideas or suggestions how to write a function, but by no means can you sit on your ass and do nothing while the AI does your job for you can while you're all proud like you did something.

We live in a constant state of stolen valour where people are lazy, want to do nothing, achieve nothing, and take credit like they're amazing for something.
If you use it, you have to guide to be specific about what it does, how it does it, and have prompts. You can use it to automate some functions and do some work for you, but you can't hand it the damn keys and just say, "Make a program that does X with the quality that will give me a pay raise" go scroll facebook and come back as a hero.

It can do really basic things well. It can be another pair of eyes. It does not understand what a proper senior developer does when it comes to how something has to be written, the consequences of 'it works but wasn't written properly' or the security issues behind it.

If you look for a book that's considered dark and has a fictional story where someone is encouraged to commit suicide by a specific way, maybe some murder torture mystery novel, you seek it out and read it, then kill yourself. Was it the books fault? The authors? Or you for consuming that content with intention?

Look, you can go to your local library and find a lot of books about medicine, how it affects people, risks of taking too much and go, 'Ah, it could kill me if I did this.' Is the library at fault because you wouldn't have figured out a way before?

It's just grief and finding fault in others. If they watched a show and someone died after being hit by a car, and they jump out in front of a car to die, or someone falls from great height, is that show at fault now?

No. This is just trying to benefit from the death, most likely to deal with the grief of losing their kid. It's certainly not chatgpt's fault for having the information available.

I don't always agree with you but in this I do. It's absolutely a Ponzi scheme.

Your bitcoin increases in value only when you convience other people to buy bitcoin, then you can sell your bitcoin to receive your payment.
It decreases the value of their bitcoin when you do it. It's like if the ponzi leader asked you to sell a product, and I'll give you a token for each one you sell, and it's value is based on how much money you get other people to put into the tokens...oh wait, that's exactly what they did.