

They’ll still track you.
There are (admittedly inconvenient) actions I can take to reduce how much I’m tracked, and also to intentionally pollute a portion of the tracking data that they do collect.
Or I could just give up and let the fuckers win…


They’ll still track you.
There are (admittedly inconvenient) actions I can take to reduce how much I’m tracked, and also to intentionally pollute a portion of the tracking data that they do collect.
Or I could just give up and let the fuckers win…


There are four lights.


AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices
But what if I don’t want them to?


The cameras on poles can’t see literally everywhere, and can’t physically follow you around.
And the cameras on poles have (at least in theory) regulations and laws governing how their footage can (and cannot) be used.
MetaCreepSpecs don’t have any such restrictions.


with metal parts to make a working gun.
That’s always convention “forgotten” in all these breathless “think of the children” arguments.
You can’t fully 3-d print a working gun that isn’t as dangerous to the user as it is to the target.


but unfortunately, Organic Maps doesn’t offer public transit directions/schedules in my region
It is based on data from the Open Street Map project.
If nobody in your area has added that information, it won’t be there.
The good news is, anyone (including you) can add that information and provide a public service to the people of your area.


but to get it available when you aren’t at home will require you to learn a bit about networking
And, importantly, to learn about network security.
As soon as you open a hole in your home’s firewall and/or NAT there is the potential for a bad actor to enter through that hole, if you haven’t properly fortified it.


Sure he can. Just like a bull in a China shop can ruin things he doesn’t understand.


and creative work created by millions of people who were never directly compensated.
That’s much too kind. We were never indirectly compensated, either.
We were never even asked for permission to use our works and words.


Because killing a leader without a plan for who will replace them isn’t very efficient
And often leads to a worse leader seizing power out of the chaos and power vacuum that the assassination created.
Mobile carriers are mostly IPv6-only these days.
I was going to point that out as well.
Your phone is probably on an IP6 network right now.
And it will be NATted to an IP4 address when it leaves the carrier’s network to interact with the public internet.


In this case it is both malice and incompetence acting together to create the worst possible outcomes.


Wasn’t that just underwater data centers that used the surrounding ocean as for cooling?
I don’t remember wave power being a notable part of their plan.(though I may have forgotten a detail or 2 over the years)


the answer to fixing things is more and more going to be “get Claude to fix it”
Yeah that will certainly work (eyeroll) to deal with things that were done 10 years ago as a workaround to some other undocumented incompatibility.


If a company does layoffs, they should not be allowed to hire any staff in the same or similar roles for 12 months.
The workload doesn’t decrease, it just gets spread to the remaining workers who are already overloaded because of the previous round of layoffs…


This means after 5 to 10 years of this cycle all that’s left of the company’s institutional knowledge is how to deliver for KPIs and the sycophants who best adapt to this reality. You get a hollowing out of the company.
That happened (and continues to happen) to my former employer.
After years of layoffs and outsourcing, the company doesn’t have anyone on staff anymore who knows how half of the systems work.
Theae days, if something is more than 5 years old, the operations and maintenance staff (entirely outsourced contractors now) have to pray the documentation is correct (or even obtainable) if they have a hope of fixing it if anything breaks.


we have so many layoffs this year.
And the year isn’t even half over yet.
Just wait until the full impact of Trump’s bullshit works its way through the economy.
The carnage will be felt for a decade or more.


I’m extremely avoidant of anybody that even ask for ID.
I don’t even give them my phone number when getting a haircut.


What if the kid lies and says they didn’t use AI?
Have them re-do the assignment in a classroom with the teacher (or any other procror) present.
I don’t get it either, but it was also a big problem on Reddit for years.