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Yes, snap isn’t even on the scale.

The goal is not always to “take control” of the whole system. A cryptolocker that makes all your files unreadable will happily run in user space.

Also, you’re forgetting that windows also have UAC, and that people will happily type the admin password of their device when asked to, because they’ve been conditioned to not care by badly made stuff. And, while win+r is unlikely to work in most Linux DE I know about, triggering a visual prompt that ask for your password is also a thing.

There is not much difference between common Linux distro and windows as far as seizing user files with malware is concerned, aside from the fact that no website will care to try telling you “press alt+space” instead of “win+r”.

I don’t see him running a lot already.

From the outside it really seems that a large amount of the USA administration is actively working against the USA’s interests. Which sounds weird.

Only three? PITCHFORKS!

The whole page transferred about 7kB and shows 18.2kB of ressources according to the debug tools.

I’m trying a new approach. Since I won’t touch anything beyond W10, and W10 is getting officially phased out, I just informed people that I won’t provide tech support for W11 and beyond.

The “solution” is to curate things, invest massive human resources in it, and ultimately still gets accused of tailoring the results and censoring stuff.

Let’s put that toy back in the toy box, and keep it at the few things it can do well instead of trying to fix every non-broken things with it.

ProjectM is a thing :)

AI isn’t smart. But the current level of robotic and AI we have (well, we had even before LLM) could enable a society were a lot of basic needs could be done very efficiently by machines, making it meaningless for people to have to fight for these basic needs.

Unfortunately, the goal is to increase ROI.

More like “die”. Because the basic income that should be enabled by robots doing our job is not coming anytime soon, sadly.

A few months ago, I had trouble with Firefox on Android, so I started looking again in the settings; something you really rarely do in a browser. Finding a few things like data collection, usage data, marketing data, and “occasional studies” being all enabled by default sure reminded me that Mozilla isn’t what it used to be.

It’s ok, I’ve heard he’s a billionaire (after people resume sending him money).

It’s also hotdog-spreading, I mean, look at that legs opening.

You’re missing the point of a safety feature. The car shouldn’t, by itself, close the lid if something’s in the way. It should allow the user to push it down, or disable it temporarily, to do so.

The point of a safety feature in any system is to prevent unexpected situation from having unexpected consequences, not to be a magic solution that accommodate for brainless people. In one direction, you can make the judgement call and force the thing down, in the other direction you lose a finger.

They sure did not know about the “not crushing human limbs” part.

Heck, I have errors in windows log that are just “sure, let’s move on”.

The real one will actively try to crush harder if it fails to close, so yes.

I’m sure these “engineers” were confused everytime they saw an elevator door not mercilessly crush people.

Your first mistake was thinking the company training their models care. They’re actively lobbying for the right to say “fuck copyright when it benefits us!”.

Your second mistake is assuming training LLM blindly put everything in. There’s human filters, then there’s automated filters, then there’s the LLM itself that blur things out. I can’t tell about the last one, but the first two will easily strip such easy noise, the same way search engines very quickly became immune to random keyword spam two decades ago.

Note that I didn’t even care to see if it was useful in any way to add these little extra blurb, legally speaking. I doubt it would help, though. Service ToS and other regulatory body have probably more weight than that.