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Comment Pay to end the most obvious abuse (Score 2) 24

whether their data is used for personalised advertising

If you pay, your data won't be used for advertising purposes. But rest assured it will be used some other way.

Because crucially, the one thing Facebook isn't saying is that paying will stop the data collection.

Of course, the best way to avoid Zuckerberg collecting your data is not patronizing any Zuckerberg site.

Comment Much diddling with the economy for conservatives (Score 1) 48

I'm guessing MAGA didn't onboard the economic laissez-faire espoused by the traditional - now defunct - Republican party.

So just like the GOP, MAGA pretends to have national interests at heart. But unlike the GOP, MAGA's approach is much more socialist.

A kind of national socialism if you will...

Comment Meet national security concerns (Score 4, Insightful) 58

my ass. Even indigenous US social media platforms are a complete privacy and data safety nightmare.

At this point, I genuinely question which of China abusing Americans' private data or the American monopolies in cahoots with the American fascist state doing the same thing is worse.

Comment Re:collect IP (Score 1) 57

They don't need AI for that. Teams - and pretty much all Microsoft products - are honeypots designed to collect data.

Well, no so much "honeypots" in the case of products that employees are forced to use at their workplace: they're no honey needed to attract them and get them to give Microsoft data. If you disagree with Microsoft's privacy invasion, you lose your job.

That's the genius of Microsoft's particular brand of invasiveness: instead of convincing individual people their products are good enough to relinquish their privacy for (Facebook), or convincing a large part of the internet to let them sneak in their trackers (Google), Microsoft convinced the bean counters at most companies to install their spyware and ram it down the throats of people who need to make a living. Disgusting...

Anyway, the AI thing is just the turd on top of the shit cake.

Comment Re:You know given that Intel (Score 1) 26

What's the market for a good integrated GPU ?

AMD is clearly capable of making a fairly high end integrated GPU. The PS5 is roughly a GTX 2070 level GPU integrated with a Ryzen CPU.

But to make that perform well, you need a custom memory architecture with faster memory bus for the GPU. And you need an enormous cooler. The PS5 is basically a tiny motherboard with a massive heatsink attached to it. Xbox Series X isn't much different - they went heavier on fans and airflow, less on the heatsink.

If you go a little better on integrated GPU performance, who really cares? If you go significantly better, the cooling situation becomes complicated, and you're almost always going to be better off just using standard discrete parts where the cooling is a solved problem.

Comment Re:Parents removed the last ban in 1974 (Score 1) 191

The whole "dropping kids off in the dark" thing is a dumb argument because that's going to happen to some people no matter which time zone you use.

The fuss wasn't that it happened - it was that it happened to a different group of people than it used to. People don't like change, and complained loudly that they were now the ones inconvenienced.

Comment Re:No agreement (Score 1) 191

Everyone already has the choice to set their own hours for their business.

But most people need some sort of alignment between school hours and work hours. If you need to commute via mass transit, you need to align with transport. If you work in the financial industry, your hours are generally based off the stock market's hours. There's lots and lots of factors that essentially force large chunks of people to align their schedules.

We ended up in the time zone situation we have because it's the easiest way to get things reasonably aligned.

Comment Yeah... no (Score 3, Insightful) 191

What's gonna stop obesity among Americans isn't permanent standard time. It really, REALLY isn't that.

A good start would be making healthy food that isn't 1,000,000 calories per pound, and not made of fat and sugar mixed in unknown chemicals affordable. And taxing the living shit out of junk food. And getting people to stop eating supertanker-sized servings.

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