The non-nightmarish AI character is already there, it's the computer on board the enterprise.

Unfortunately today's AI technology only seems capable of being your plastic pal who's fun to be with.

Answer: not many

The linked data in the article lists 2023 estimates of 120 thousand programmers and 1.6 million developers.

So "Programming jobs" make up a small minority of jobs involving coding.

Jellyfin uses far more ram on the server, doesn't have an app on my TV and the mobile app can't keep subtitles in sync with the video.

On the other hand, it will do hardware encoding with paying a subscription.

Can't do hardware transcoding without a Plex pass.

Most of the major supermarkets in the UK do delivery, so losing Amazon wouldn't be an issue.

At the start of the pandemic when lots of people switched to using it they did have trouble meeting demand as it took a while for them to scale up.

Sure, I can buy that misinformation is a societal problem. People like to repeat what they want to believe.

However, social networks would appear to have massively magnified the problem. Firstly by optimising for engagement which leads to promoting controversial content and secondly by normalising the "sharing" of a post to broadcast it to all of your contacts.

Someone is using cryptocurrency in a fraudulent way? Colour me shocked.

Presumably if some sucker had outbid them we'd never have known?

Common sense would lead to banning all forms of cross-website tracking.

Somehow I doubt that's what they have in mind.

They take all your contacts, they tell everyone that you've joined and they can contact you, which is exactly what the article is complaining about.

The fact they do it in a cryptographically secure way does mean they haven't got your contact list stored on their servers for someone else to steal is good, but the shitty user experience of "hey we just messaged all your contacts for you" is still shitty.

They're hardly the only messaging app which is quick to advertise how seriously they take the privacy of your messages but think nothing of uploading your entire contact list to their servers and sending a push message to all of them already on the service to tell them you've joined.

Looking at you Signal and Telegram...

Telegram won't let you add someone from your contacts without syncing your whole contact list to their servers.

"Dreaded" in this context means "% of developers who are developing with the language or technology but have not expressed interest in continuing to do so"

Limiting the pool to people who are actively using the language probably explains why Java, Javascript and Rust are so far down the list.

(Honestly, I'd describe myself as both wanting to use Rust and also dreading it. It seems to have so many neat ideas, but then I look at some actual Rust code and oh grief I'm already confused...)

No, but that's the situation they want to avoid.

They want to make sure they own the next tower defence, dota or autochess if it comes out of their game engine.

The only reason for all the popups is that the website you're reading wants to do a load of bullshit with the data they gather about you.

If you only use personal data to fulfil user's requests, there's no need to ask for consent.