You cannot die, McLeod. Accept it.

Also Sean Connery.

Although outsourcing is definitely a thing, a lot of companies are just not hiring, even at the expense of shipping new products. Do not discount enshittification and stagnation. Why build a new thing, when you can put lipstick on the old thing.

And we have the steam deck, which does this thing already without inviting MS into the home.

That is a half-truth. China is 100% guilty of everything they are accused of, and more. That's not proaganda.

But yes, we've given them too much money and allowed their fetid mass of government to be a threat. There is propaganda sold to the west by our own oligarchs, with the notion that by allowing them to exploit the cheap labor market of China, we would all be uplifted into the intellectual and cultural elite. Obviously that doesn't work, toilets need cleaning too. However by our having invested so much money into China, rather than dominating them and cracking them open, we instead started to get infected with their rot, and yes, they now have the power to be dangerous to our oligarchs. That doesn't change the equation any, they need to be shut down.

Of course we do also need to shut our oligarchs down too.

If they drop the whole CCP thing and murder their ruling class in the streets, we'd all probably do business with them again. Maybe even to the point where we flee our oligarch hell-holes in pursuit of a better life.

The reasons to force the phone ecosystems to open continue to mount, and itâ(TM)s pretty clear governments are benefiting greatly from our lack of control over our devices

'scuse me, but prove said computer was not TOAST whenever MS-win10 was least-bad? It will only get slightly worst after alleged-support ends in October.

Linux has been running main my machines since 2000 with a few island MS machines that occasionally get booted to run specific software (never more than one per). The idea of any MS-OS being suitable for general-purpose, 24/7 is beyond risible--all require too much maintenence.

Their business model is to make their content public and index high on google. And they are mad that someone is using that public knowledge.

The solution is simple, put it behind a paywall. Problem solved, they will go bankrupt in a few hours and Anthropic will have to use something else. Literally everyone wins, except holders of rddt, but they kind of have that coming.

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.

You could piece together what they're talking about if you know the company "Mattel" and also when they reference "Draw 2" cards.
You could have also clicked either link.

"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.