Letâ(TM)s stop wasting money and space on that.

Itâ(TM)s the actual purpose of most appointees in the administration: erode confidence in the government so they can more readily defund it.

The problem is that the people who think this is a good idea are also the primary beneficiaries, and donâ(TM)t seem to realize it.

I don't know about page views and whatever but more kids than ever are applying to college and the rejection/waitlisting drama is at a fever pitch, the highest number of applicants being last year in 2024, at a level 2x of what it was 10 years before.

So do american universities.

"stealing" is an interesting word choice. No one is "stealing" anything, it's being offered up for free and no one else is being deprived of the thing.

The only possible theft is in business, People will not seek the artist to create original works, they'll ask the AI. If they're happy with the substandard work the AI will do, and we've all seen what AI creates for art and code at this point, then there's no real loss here.

My kids are training on their content for free at school.

We have all the regulation we need in terms of copyright law. If AI plagiarizes, and I definitely believe that can happen, then sue everyone involved.

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.

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The problem with all social media right now is that someone or some entity owns it. That entity censors according to whatever guidelines suit their principles, and they also coincidentally run pretty vast botnets to make sure that what can't be removed outright, gets modded to oblivion. None of it represents the interests of actual users.

What we need is a social media funded by the people who use it, where we all have input into what is and is not considered OK. It should probably not be for profit, probably run by a committee of paid elected members with the technical expertise to ensure it remains viable. Accounts should be entirely anonymous, VPN usage should be encouraged not forbidden, but accounts would be *paid* via some form of electronic currency. Accounts that have not paid for many months should be forbidden from posting.

The value of social media is to allow us peons to gather and discuss things that matter to us. The horror of existing social media is the enforced echo-chamber that Musk and Zuck have made.

All the marketing wank sounds great, I want all of that. But only if it can do that on my machine, without a network connection or a central server.

If any queries need to leave my machine, then I do not want this thing at all, and would consider it a virus.

We also need "highly immoral" browsers that can be configured, by users, to lie, mislead and spoof by default. There are only very particular times when I want to be logged in to anything, and I'd rather do that on a tab basis, and that tab should be a world unto itself.

No one else should be in a position for deciding if we're opt-out-by-default, it should be nearly impossible to opt us in to anything.

I hope not, many phones also use lidar.

Create websites of meaningless drivel and exceptionally long, deliberately poorly formatted prose to maximize the number of ads you can shovel at people, and of course we're going to favor a tool that can summarize the bullshit and eliminate the ads .Find a better business model, or gtfo.

1. Make a big public announcement that you are committed to building a factory and are dedicated to manufacturing in America.
2. Wait another 3.75 years claiming to be working on construction (or sooner - I mean the man is trying to be a dictator in the land of the 2nd amendment).
3. Move on with your life pretending it all never happened.

They did kind of do that a few months ago. Something about mfg in texas, something vague about a new plant in Michigan. Trump was very happy. The problem is that investors had to be told about the India plant, and that was fine until India and Pakistan had a little spat and Trump was publicly besmirtched. Now India is bad, and Apple can't be in India.

The loser of all of this is any genuine hope for a return of manufacturing jobs in America, something that is very clearly not going to happen without an actual plan and actual investment. The US isn't going to run out of the gate building iPhones, our manufacturing base has eroded far too much for something like that. A real plan would have us start on simpler things where we could control our own destiny, rather than large assemblies with thousands of components from dozens of countries.

There's some serious marketing astroturfing behind the ray-ban style concepts. I have never seen anyone wearing these in the wild, just a lot of conspicuous product placement on high-profile people. I don't doubt people want workable AR, but that's not really what that product offers, at all. Possibly it can cross the threshold of "kinda useful" with good AI, but I'm still not sure it would be anything more than a toy.

Meanwhile, actual VR or AR, is getting a lot better, but there seems to be marketing money to stifle those for some reason.

The main obstacle to all of these things is, of course, not technical, it's financial. These things are all horribly locked down and anti-free. It's not surprising the developers and applications aren't showing up.