As Eric Raymond (ESR) says, AI is a force multiplier. My elaboration: If you are good at what you do, it will let you do accomplish more good stuff faster. If you are not very bright, AI will let you be not bright more efficiently, but it won't make you bright. It's just a tool. It needs to be utilized correctly. There is no shortage of things in this world that can do tremendous damage if not used properly. AI is nothing new in that regard.

"AI slop" is so 2024. That argument isn't valid any more.

I'm surprised you didn't use the word "slop". Spewing a bunch of slogans that would have to be more clever to make it on to bumper stickers makes you look like the people you are complaining about. There are legitimate criticisms to make about AI, and ways to support and defend those arguments. You are not doing that.

The government doesn't want to lose it's monopoly on photographing and videoing people in public.

Sounds like you're not defending Access so much as ODBC.

It's mighty convenient for you that your claim makes it impossible for you to provide evidence of this outrageous claim.

... is not let AI get into the hands of people like Bill Gates. That, however, is impossible.

With the pending change in top management, he may be unemployed.

Or promoted, who knows?

I got the impression they were only using a single key, not dual key encryption.

With the key recoverable on the device?

Fucking amateur hour!

What about the other billion cameras constantly recording you in public?

Can we get an app for that too, or do we just have to deal with it?

The discoloration only bothered other people.

My hips are doing great. A few more parts and I'll be fully bionic!

And yeah, I'll be 63 in a couple of weeks.

Wasn't Leonard Nimoy in that documentary?

I had to have both my hips replaced last year.

While I was waiting for the surgery, I was in pretty intense pain, which makes trying to sleep a real joy.

I was using a heating pad to help with the pain, and got the same effect. My legs looked like I'd been in a car wreck, or beaten with a bat.

Circular bruises that weren't bruises.

WE DON'T UNDERSTAND GRAVITY.