Remember that interview with Don Lemon where Musk got heated over censorship?

Me too.

I mean. They could go with google and most ideally change nothing, or stay with the open source project and try to cut out a slice of the appstore pie for themselves.

Google can only do that if they can maintain grip on the market. This requires the likes of Samsung, who also contribyte to android, to move with them to their then propiatary solution. Google is not going to win this just with their Pixels.

Google closing android would ruffle a lot of feathers so it definitely wouldn’t be a given they would come out of that on top.

Apple has no problem existing outside of Google’s sphere of influence. And honestly if the android market would split and you’d get legitimately google-less phones with large app stores that google doesn’t control that would be fairly beneficial if you ask me.

Trump: starts trade war

Trade partners leave the chat.

Trump: surprised pikachu

If google where to close android it’ll undoubtedly be forked. Pretty sure the likes of Graphene and Calyx will be fine for the forseeable future.

Yeah, agree. Hence the crime against humanity stance.

Data you get from people by using torture is automatically invalid, especially when it comes to getting people to “admit” things.

When are we finally going to consider this the war crime/crime against humanity it is?

As much as I’d love to take this at face value, people taking a run with what an AI told them is highly problematic.

I was wondering why we haven’t seen any actual data on how they’ve saved the US money yet. The answer is likely that they didn’t.

For me this entirely revolves around why why’s and how’s when it comes to how that affects the ethics of it.

With a defense type scenario I’d likely have a hard time looking at myself in the mirror if I just left and essentially allowed my home to be taken.

If we are the aggressor because we stepped in some horrible turd electorally then they chose this and therefore no thanks bye i’ll send a postcard.

We really need to stop calling it “brokering peace”. Trump just wants Ukraine to give Putin what he wants.

Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up.

Yes. Let this house collapse. Today if at all possible.

now i throw my trash out the window.

You don’t believe not using paper towels was a net positive so now you choose to create and by extention live in a pigsty? I’m not following.

Dare I assume you are aware we have “industry” because we consume?

I’m aware of this, but it still mostly just something for people speculate on. Something people buy, sit on, and then hopefully sell with a profit.

Bitcoin was supposed to be a decentralized money alternative, but the amount of people actually, legitimately, buying things with crypto are highly negligible. And honestly even if it did serve it’s actual purpose, the cumulative power consumption would still be a point of debate.

You’re not wrong with the comparison, but the whole point of the computer having control over the vehicle is that this doesn’t happen, despite the driver’s abject negligence.

That it’s controlled by a few is only a problem if you use it… my issue with it starts before that.

My biggest gripe with AI is the same problem I have with anything crypto: It’s out of control power consumption relative to the problem it solves or purpose it serves. And by extension the fact nobody with any kind of real political power is addressing this.

Here we are using recycled bags, banning straws, putting explosive refrigerant in fridges and using led lights in everything, all in the name of the environment, while at the same time in some datacenter they are burning kwh’s by the bucket loads generating pictures of cats in space suits.

People are lazy. Getting people to sign up for a forum has a much MUCH higher inertia than just clicking join in a group on a platform they already have an account for.

People will subsequently evidently just “deal” with it’s inadequacies.

Reddit has the same advantage, you have one account and subsequently have access to a billion and then some communities. Ditto for Discord versus self hosted solutions like Teamspeak.

Lemmy kind of adresses all of this, but actual forum software I think is still mostly the same as it was in the early to mid 2000’s when I used it. It’s demise is a shame but not a surprise.

Well, yeah. That’s life as an admin under the best circumstances.

I don’t disagree, but I don’t see the reason in tempting/inviting work to spawn. Especially in the cases where windows itself is optional.

I also think it’s interesting you’re not convinced it’s a reasonable risk. I’ve had updates break things on clients under my control on several occasions, particularly post Windows 7 with the bigger feature releases.

It’s definitely a “when”, and not an “if” to me.

It’s also worth pointing out Microsoft has already actively been working against allowing you to bypass the requirements. It’s very clear to me they want to go towards some kind of hardware lifecycle management and I would definately not put it past them they deliberately make windows stop working on unsupported platforms at some point.