Prox

Samsung S95F OLED

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/best/by-usage/video-gaming

I’m gonna go to businesses I don’t like, hop on the Wi-Fi, and pirate from all the most obvious trackers.

https://www.rtings.com/tv

So look, this is just gonna happen. It’s legal to film people in public (in the US) and we all know stores, etc. are already using facial recognition.

The real problem here is the (apparent, though almost certainly assured) lack of responsible use of the data. Scanning faces means you also get time, place, and event/activity, and the citizens then have zero control of what the govt does with this, who they share it with (e.g. Palantir), etc. All prior collection of US person data required appropriate approval, limited scope of access, and timely adjudication/disposal. But ICE is (again, apparently) operating outside the law.

Unless of course the manufacturer hamstrings it well before that time.

See: Samsung

“I’m going to spend $1500 so I can save $8/month.”

No. There’s no “hopefully” anything when it comes to this bullshit. It’s bad for the individual, full stop. This is not a thing to compromise on, because any compromise at all will eventually harm the users (though leaks/hacks, or government overreach, etc.) without any actual benefit or offset to them.

This but with Shorts, too.

Isn’t this true of like everything AI right now?

We’re in the “grow a locked-in user base” part of their rollout. We’ll hit the “make money” part in a year or two, and then the enshittification machine will kick into high gear.

LOL there goes any hope of an Azure government cloud getting any traction.

Lots of fluff in this article and the site itself sucks. Here’s the key paragraph:

One way to achieve this would be to impose a levy on the gross revenues of the largest AI providers, collected by a national or multilateral agency. As the technology becomes increasingly embedded in daily life and production processes, the revenue flowing to AI firms is bound to grow – and so, too, will contributions to the fund. These resources could then be distributed by independent grant councils on multiyear cycles, ensuring that support reaches a wide range of disciplines and regions.

My biggest issue with this approach is that it fails to acknowledge that AI is a bubble currently propped up by venture capital. In 1-4 years all those investors are going to want their ROI, and AI companies are going to start turning the money crank hard.

In no way is Peacock worth $17/month.

Yeah, this is literally discrimination based inherently on race, gender, etc., but it’s going to be considered totally fine because the mystical AI is doing it.

Would Moto count? I’ve been rocking their basic-ass phones for years now. Way, way less bloatware than Samsung, etc. and only like $200 unlocked.

RtJ called it out years ago:

1. Lie
2. Cheat
3. Steal
4. Kill
5. Win
   (everybody’s doin’ it)

FTA:

Anthropic warned against “[t]he prospect of ruinous statutory damages—$150,000 times 5 million books”: that would mean $750 billion.

So part of their argument is actually that they stole so much that it would be impossible for them/anyone to pay restitution, therefore we should just let them off the hook.

Who is going to actually pay for all this AI junk once all the investors decide it’s time to stop “disrupting the market and gaining share” and time to start charging people what it actually costs to run (plus margins)?

Like, I use ChatGPT and Copilot and shit because it’s free, but if it were $5/month I’d happily walk away.

These are some stupid company names.

LOL what kinda bullshit comment is this?

The people in the White House are idiots. They choose Signal because they’re either dumb/negligent -or- because they have been intentionally avoiding record preservation requirements.

Signal is a solid app for sure, but these dipshits didn’t choose it for being the right tool for the job here, as it certainly is not.

What kind of first-world county would let it slip?

Glances nervously in US