There is no way to balance mass surveillance with "privacy, security, and the freedom that we enjoy in this country"

This is why some of us still use cash and Monero

Those are the politics that brought us the last 80 years of relative peace and freedom

And what does the language matter anyway when you can now type in pseudocode into Copilot and ask it to form perfect equivalent code in any language?

Posts like this and users like this are why I still Slashdot

From OP:

the front power-seat switch could overheat and ignite the seat

Dolly Parton playing Miss Mona in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas:

You know what burns my ass?

It has happened under both.

Exactly. I think this is salty people who desperately want the AI bubble to pop and for it all to be a scam of 'stochastic parrots' and a modern Mechanical Turk. It somehow offends their humanity and they are sure there is a vast capitalist conspiracy to defraud everyone. The fact is some asshats like Altman are indeed overhyping BUT that does not change the fact that my team of programmers got cut by 30% yet we are kicking out bug fixes and new features faster than ever. At higher quality too because now a lazy developer isn't half-assing the testcases.

Agreed 100% about hard to predict. I love this analogy from Geoffrey Hinton: it is like driving in a fog. Your headlights see only a few meters ahead and then there is an impenetrable wall of fog. Anyone who tells you they can see exactly where the road is heading a mile ahead is selling you something.

If like me you use VirtualBox you should hold off on this kernel upgrade until you know VirtualBox is ready for it

More relevant, Commerce is run by Howard Lutnik, who BBC just implicated heavily about getting Epstein services and lying to Congress. And who unilaterally decided Anthropic (run by Dario who is Democrat and therefore an Enemy of the State) could not release Fable for weeks until they bent the knee. And who approved OpenAI ChatGPT5.6 saying they did not even need government approval. Because Sam Altman already bend the knee.

Free speech includes lying.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

Iâ(TM)m okay with either approach. Adblock filters all ads that are separate origins, and I can just fast forward past the inline ads.

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