It was already a propaganda mill. Now it will be for the Nazis instead of China.

The problem isn’t co-pilot. Co-pilot is reasonably useful if you’re careful.

The problem is that it will almost certainly cost extra.

And that’s fucking terrible.

Sadly yes and they’re mainly taking the worst aspects. Normal built in features like heated seats as subscriptions, dropping smartphone integration for their own far inferior dogshit UI and features, and so on.

Navy SEALs seem shady AF and have for years.

So go fuck yourself. IDGAF about fashion at all, but there’s no reason to be a piece of shit about it.

Yup my first thought was “Where is your God now?”

Google ditched “Don’t be evil” a long time ago.

Duh. Spacex isn’t your friend, nor is it benevolent. Not even if you’re a shitty maga fascist.

Good, fuck ‘em.

The FBI says (or at least used to, who knows now that we’re the bad guys) to use ad blocking as a matter of cybersecurity.

I don’t care who it is, all my ad blockers stay on.

Weird because I’ve used it many times fr things not related to coding and it has been great.

I told it the specific model of my UPS and it let me know in no uncertain terms that no, a plug adapter wasn’t good enough, that I needed an electrician to put in a special circuit or else it would be a fire hazard.

I asked it about some medical stuff, and it gave thoughtful answers along with disclaimers and a firm directive to speak with a qualified medical professional, which was always my intention. But I appreciated those thoughtful answers.

I use co-pilot for coding. It’s pretty good. Not perfect though. It can’t even generate a valid zip file (unless they’ve fixed it in the last two weeks) but it sure does try.

It’s typical. At least one Windows kernel developer is an asshole as well.

They fire h1b folks too. I remember in 2014 when they fired several thousand people one guy from I dis was a new dad and suddenly he had no job and a deadline to find a new job that would “sponsor” him or else he and his family had to return to India. It was like 90 days or something. I still think about him sometimes and hope he’s ok.

lol they won’t. Also, enough folks from India are here in the NW that there are minority support groups that specifically exclude them because otherwise they get very little representation. I believe the phrase is “non-Asian minority”, or similar.

It sounds both inevitable and like a great idea.

“Transcom pursues AI to enhance patient movement ops and mass casualty response”

“U.S. Transportation Command officials briefed DefenseScoop on the new Mass Casualty Operations Toolkit and other AI-enabled efforts they’re tackling with MIT.”

No that’d be the executives, you dickhead. Hey - please remember to breathe.

Well put. I was mad at first and then immediately remembered that they’re not wrong. :(

Meh. Google Gemini has given me great medical advice always couched carefully in “but check with your doctor.” and so on.

I was surprised too.

RFK jr’s wants, needs, desire to continue breathing move me not at all.

He can fuck off.

If we had a science-backing and non-Nazi government who I had any belief in their ability and will to keep our data safe, this might be really cool. When I first got an Apple Watch and saw all the ways it benefits me I honestly wished everyone had one by default.

Instead, something like this would simply be used to further control people especially women since it can track monthly cycles (to my knowledge at least.)

I used to love spacex- no longer. You all know why.

See I bet you think that would make things better, don’t you?

It won’t. It will make them so much worse.

Unless the EU (government) runs it, you’re going to get the world’s shadiest App Store or Sores possible.

“Just don’t use the shady ones then.”

That’s great until:

1. It’s your SO or kid accessing it and they don’t know any better.
2. You just bought something (an appliance, a vehicle, an FPV drone, whatever) and it requires you to use an app, and that app is an exclusive on the shadiest App Store possible.

“That doesn’t happen on android!”

It will absolutely happen with Apple, because there’s so much money that will be up for grabs.

I hope you like signing up with all your personal data and credit card information on app stores that make Apple look like saints, because that’s where this is headed, and sadly you’ll drag me with you.

Because again this hypothetical thing you bought might be a family member buying it, so it won’t even be up to you at that point.

This is what I see happening in the future.

The way to avoid it is to get rid of app stores completely, and have users download and install apps one by one. Like that’s going to happen.