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by autoexec 1mo ago
You can tell more about him by keeping an eye on what goes into his wallet. He's gotten millions in donations/bribes from companies who want to profit from data centers. He's not letting them down.
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by autoexec 1mo ago
I don't have JS enabled and it looks like they don't know anything about me at all.
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by autoexec 1mo ago
unique is ideal, as long as you're differently unique to each site you visit
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> Sign up for a virtual mailbox for $15-$25/month. That isn't going to stop Microsoft from collecting your address by collecting your wifi info, or from the data you enter into websites or documents. When the maker of your OS i
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Probably both so they can change what they censor without waiting for you to run windows update and also so they can collect your information (IP, timestamp, etc) to associate with whatever you did
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Not an option. Companies are happy to sell you products at premium prices, take your money, and then still collect, mine, insecurely store, and sell all your private data.
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Whatever number they give publicly on how many US law enforcement requests they received you can be sure that number won't include anything they turned over the NSA which is probably everything in their cloud all of the time. We know t
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by autoexec 1mo ago
It shouldn't surprise anyone that a chatbot trained on countless minecraft videos would have the ability to roleplay as someone playing minecraft. If you've got links to research showing something that isn't that I would be i
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by autoexec 1mo ago
You're right, for you, since you had the ability to do the repair yourself (although Framework shouldn't have made you invest the time and effort it took to repair this on your own). The legal route would still be a good way to go
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> LLM + harness = agent. LLM + harness = chatbot. The chatbot is still doing all the work here. The harness just provides the software environment it works in. It still doesn't have desires. Harnesses don't change that. There&#
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by autoexec 1mo ago
That's only true if you reasonably can be expected to know that it might do whatever it did and you haven't been mislead by the people selling the system. If you use a product as directed, for the thing it was advertised to do, an
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by autoexec 1mo ago
That's only true if the risks are reasonable, understood, and expected. Driving a car is risky, but if someone sells you a car that goes flying into incoming traffic because of a flaw in the design the car company is to blame. "Dr
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by autoexec 1mo ago
There's not really enough info in the article to decide. I'd have no problem with him going to court and having to show to a jury that he used the bot in a way that no reasonable person would have expected to result in the website
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Companies don't market their chatbots that way though. If they mislead someone into thinking their product is anything other than a completely unreliable chat bot and a person falls for their lies the company should share the responsib
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> If it's paying for it's own room and board, and is determining it's own destiny: it should have to face it's own consequences, no? No, because someone told it to do those things. Chatbots don't have will of the
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by autoexec 1mo ago
It looks like you're forced to participate by law once you sell over a certain volume. > Backed by the Canadian civil courts, the federation has the monopoly for selling Quebecois maple syrup on the wholesale market, and for exporti
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Why worry about how a stock will look in a decade when you can buy and sell in microseconds based on AI, tweets, and vibes. Screwing over users makes people money today. Long before the consequences kick in investors can jump ship to the ne
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> Of course some enshitificstion is simply companies responding to what the largest market segment wants Not the largest market segment, just the segment with the most control/cash to throw around. That segment will only grow smalle
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Social media sites are full of this. They want to decide what you see or don't see instead of just showing you what your friends post in chronological order. Streaming services are another good example. They don't want to give you
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> Cisco's patent on Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol led to the development of the more secure and more capable Common Address Redundancy Protocol This seems like a success story in spite of software patents, not because of them.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
I'd be surprised if they called out Dave Mitchinson the incompetent lead project manager at GeneralMassiveTech Industries United LLC, but they probably should have just omitted the "Examples" heading entirely if they weren&#x
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Most people wont. Even those that do will probably switch to something that does the same (or worse). Alternatives are scarce. Most other search engines are using Google's search results (at least in part) behind the scenes. AI probabl
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> If I buy a lot of Scott toilet tissue, I'm happy to get a discount on Scott toilet tissue. Don't expect discounts on what you buy often. They know they have you hooked on those already and they'll drive up the price on t
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Yes, it's happening in brick-and-mortar. They've been conditioning people to accept the idea that prices will differ depending on who is doing the buying through the use of apps and loyalty cards ( https://web.archive.or
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> Now they’ve decided to go in the complete opposite direction and it doesn’t matter what type, they’ll show me the items they think I want. Not exactly, they'll show you the items they want you to buy/are paid to promote. They
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Google doesn't care about you. If you have to close one website that is infested with Google's ads/tracking because it doesn't actually have the product what you want and you're forced to search for another website
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Search is just there to show amazon what you want so that they can show you what they want you to buy instead. Companies want everything to be push instead of pull. They don't want you to be able to choose what you buy, they want to pu
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> Amazon makes enough in search ad revenue to give every single one of their employees a $35,000 cash bonus and still have change left over. There was study not too long ago that showed that 48% of Amazon's employees were paid so li
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by autoexec 2mo ago
True, it wasn't without it's limits, you could also get some potentially undesirable results if you got overly creative with directory/file names, but it was still the best in terms of giving you freedom to organize
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Thankfully they ditched it. One of the best things about DOS was that it gave users control over the directory structure. While other OS's just barfed a billions directories all over your disk on install and spewed system files whereve

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