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I’ll pour one out for the Yaris.

It’s useful for my firmware development, but it’s a tool like any other. Pros and cons.

Five years ago the audience would have fawned all over this kind of crap.

It’s good to see people are wise to his stock pumping strategy now.

It’s intentional.

Obviously, Google makes money showing ads during search. But they have finally bit the bullet and starting tarpitting users in search in order to show more ads.

A quick, useful, and accurate search means that you’re on their site for the least amount of time, perhaps mere seconds. That’s not what’s best for revenue growth.

PS: Go try Kagi and be reminded what good clean search results look like. I use it because my time has value. It’s very good.

Guess I’m out of the loop. Who’s Elmo?

Supposedly she was an information and IT specialist… Setting the thing up to not broadcast its SSID should have been one of the first things they thought of. But probably she didn’t know it could be done, which again speaks to her overall incompetence.

The process of training the model is arguably similar to a human learning, and if the model just sat on a server doing nothing but knowing, there’d be no problem. Taking that knowledge and selling it to the public en mass is the issue.

This is precisely what copyrights and patents are here to safeguard. Is there already a book like A Song of Ice and Fire? Write something else, maybe better! There’s already a patent for an idea you have? Change and improve upon it and get your own patent!

You see, copyrights and patents are supposed to spur creativity, not hinder it. OpenAI should improve upon its system so that it actually thinks and is creative itself rather than regurgitating copyrighted materials, themes and ideas. Then they wouldn’t have this problem.

OpenAI wants literally all of human knowledge and creativity for free so that they can sell it back to you. And you’re okay-ish with it?

Or a few years early…

This is essentially what OpenAI is asking for. To profit off of the work of unpaid labor.

There are deniers. They’re wrong.

These companies absolutely do use your microphone to listen.

My wife and I have tested this and you can too.

Have a conversation near your phones about purchasing something offbeat. We used a kitchen garbage disposal in our test. Talk about them for a few minutes, about needing to buy one, different brands, etc.

Almost immediately you’ll be served garbage disposal adds.

We’re at a point where not only should the Internet be classified as a utility, so should Search.

Anyone who uses this should be considering switching to Linux though.

I was just reminding you that many of us have jobs or software tools that preclude us from using Linux day-to-day regardless of how much we might like the idea. Having a more comfortable windows experience has value to us.

I’m locked on windows because of very expensive embedded systems dev tools. Give people some credit for having considered linux; not everyone can switch.

I’d love to switch to linux but it just doesn’t make sense for me.

I’m an embedded systems developer and my proprietary toolchain is windows only. Additionally I use several Adobe product routinely (illustrator, photoshop, premier).

Sucks.

That’s a bit woke for Texas isn’t it?

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I stopped reading when you admitted to using Facebook.

I use paid search engine kagi.com; search results with no ads or “promoted” crap.

Seeing search results without all the advertising is shocking the first few times you do it. It’s amazing how much advertising pollution has crept into Google’s search results.

I use kagi; love it. As an embedded systems developer I’m more productive with it.

It’s okay to plagiarize books if they’re in a library.