US surveillance is far more effective than North Korea or Russia’s domestic surveillance

Only China is in the same realm in terms of ability to surveil citizens. They’re just more open about using it for low-level offenses

The choice does exist, but it gets harder and harder to go without a phone

Many jobs expect us to be available at all hours. Younger generations cannot navigate without maps. Phones are also the primary way we record/observe ICE. They’re also our calendar/organizer, notebook, and many other things

Sure, we can have an independent GPS, camera, calendar, and notepad, but the barrier keeps getting higher

We need to develop counter measures, and long-term pass strong laws banning this level of government surveillance

Why would they blame the poor? The need the poor to be their excuse for getting a bailout. Not sure how they’ll sell it yet, but somehow all the AI companies will get bailouts to “help the poor” through our upcoming difficult economic times

Honestly? Good. These cameras should either be public or dismantled. I’d like to see them dismantled, but worst case scenario is the current one where they’re selectively used by law enforcement

I’m kind of surprised Lemmy allows duplicate comments like Reddit. Super easy to prevent the issue, because there really isn’t a case where a person would want to post the same comment multiple times

I’m so confused why so many people think a VPN is the best solution. It’s easy to implement, but hardly optimal, and certainly not the only solution

Do less drugs.

you don’t know to use AI. no one here does. I do.

That’s hilarious. Everyone thinks they’re some kind of savant while using LLMs. The reality is quite different

AI is a useful tool, but people who misuse it, primarily due to overreliance, end up creating more work than AI is solving

It’s a coalition of groups with different purposes

One group wants to ban porn entirely

One group want to collect data on everyone. Your porn habits can be valuable if you’re a future political rival

Some people believe it will prevent children from seeing porn

Others use it as a way to assert control over sex workers, especially female sex workers

Probably a few other smaller groups too. End of the day, none of them have your interests at heart

Are they getting people onto Linux, or are they absorbing people that would be switching anyway and taking advantage of those users by charging them for something they may not need? Hard to say which it is

Many electricians, carpenters, and steel plant workers are currently working to build AI data centers. Funding other projects has been postponed or cancelled as the AI data centers are able to pay more

Electricians especially. Trump cancelled many clean energy projects, which created large swaths of electricians without work if it weren’t for AI data centers

That sounds like what they’re saying, but they don’t provide any reason for us to believe them

The truth can absolutely be a bad thing. If google reports an important vulnerability, then buries it in CVE slop for 90 days, and publicly announces details of the important vulnerability that hasn’t been fixed yet, it would be worse than if they had never reported it

The 90-day publishing window is tough when OSS projects are getting buried in AI slop reports

I clicked on 6 sites

• 4 were personal portfolio sites

• 1 was a personal blog

• 1 was a web design company

Pretty disappointing, and I’m not going to keep clicking on more in the hopes I find something interesting

A lot of them are actively talking about how it could be a bubble and the implications. No one is going to be surprised. Billionaires are just really hoping they can make it work before the bubble pops

what really is lacking is now more hardware dedicated to single user sessions to improve quality of output with the current models

That is the exact opposite of my opinion. They’re throwing tons of computing at the current models. It has produced little improvement. The vast majority of investment is in compute hardware, rather than R&D. They need more R&D to improve the underlying models. More hardware isn’t going to get the significant gains we need

I wouldn’t have a problem if they were actually investing the money in something useful like R&D

Nearly all the investment is in data centers. Their approach for the past 2 years seems to be just throwing more hardware at existing approaches, which is a really great way to burn an absurd amount of money for little to nothing in return

AI is here to stay. AI is also in an unsustainable bubble. Both things are true

investment bankers are the worst

Lawyers are even worse T.T

James Cameron is genuinely a world expert on submersibles. He made The Abyss and Titanic because he loves the deep sea

He made Titanic solely as an excuse to go down to the Titanic and film the wreck. He didn’t even have an idea for the story when he pitched the movie

Then he became the first person to ever design and dive his own submersible to Chellenger Deep, and only the second ever submersible to reach that depth (after the US Navy’s Trieste)