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These freaks took a Clockwork Orange for a manual.
These freaks took a Clockwork Orange for a manual.
It was already a huge privacy risk before, though.
ICQ shut down yesterday and it was relatively small to begin with so I‘m afraid Google will be around for decades to come and possibly outlive most or even all of us.
But how do you integrate a subscription fee into analog doors? You can‘t enshitify that!!
Good luck getting past all the censorship to even scramble a halfway workable dataset together. Because the tech is definitely not what Apple is looking for there.
Worst part is some of them aren‘t even idiots, just selfish and reckless. They don‘t care if the company still exists in a year so as long as they can make millions driving it into the ground.
That‘s what I was getting at actually. They rebranded when clown attacks went viral on the internet. The new image of the company and their now (in)famous jingle „I‘m lovin‘ it!“ was supposed to only launch in Germany for McCafés but promptly went global when they really needed a rebrand quick.
Both are clowns and bring people nightmares.
It‘s really annoying how searching anything online becomes harder by the day because of it and AI is not helping with it either.
Who needs Ronald McDonald when you have managers like them?
You know I‘m worried you might be exactly on point with this assumption. I still give some of them the benefit of doubt because humans can „reason“ themselves into pretty dangerous things by appealing to authority and the like. Doesn‘t make all of them evil but sure as hell way too gullible for the field they‘re working in.
Well I know a lot of German companies that would look for alternatives immediately if their management actually used the internet and knew about this.
This is the Brussels effect at work, everyone.
You would think space engineers would‘ve run those numbers before sending tens of thousands of them in orbit. It‘s really annoying that we can only hope for the best at this point.
Well duh they‘ve done the same when „working with“ German universities doing civilian drone groundwork. (Pun unintended) Scholarship programs are just a cheap way for them to get access to core technologies and they will utilize them for military use if possible. Maybe we should think twice before exposing our research to a systematic rival that seeks world domination and has been known for stealing tech.
It‘s exactly this dangerous mindset that‘s riding us in some AI service hellhole. Too many super talented developers have told themselves exactly that instead of standing up for their principles or even allowing themselves to have principles in the first place.
Only recently have they started leaving companies like OpenAI and taking a stance because they‘re actually seeing what their creation is used for and with how little care for human life it‘s been handled.
Of course many critics knew this was headed towards military contracts and complete Enshittification. It was plain to see OpenAI founders aren‘t the good guys but „someone else would do it anyway“ kept the underlings happy. This deterministic fallacy is also why anyone still works for Meta or Google. It‘s a really lazy excuse.
Oh of course. My point wasn‘t that there‘s already easier ways to replace all workers. It was more about that humanoid robots sure ain‘t it. The upkeep cost and fail rates are way too high to be cost effective and we won‘t see more of them than small test facilities that only exist as a bad proof of concept to pressure employees.
Humanoid robots are awfully expensive to maintain and a silly idea for factories. The team of robot experts you’d need to run this operation would cost much more in the end. You‘d be better off just building fully automated factories that use conveyor belts and wheeled robots. In other words, this is just Amazon propaganda to discourage unions and keep wages low. Robots are not on the way to replace us but rich fucks have every reason to make us believe so.
Yes, some of the biggest crypto providers are de facto chinese. They trade big time, always have. When techno idealists in the west were still discussing Bitcoin as a free currency over a decade ago, china already ran gigantic crypto miner farms and saw it only as a speculative asset. They knew from the very first day it‘s not about using crypto, but making money trading and holding it.
Other countries already struggle to find use for the masses of panels china has been shipping in the last couple of months. They need to be approved, bought and installed first and there simply isn‘t enough personnel for that. There are already more panels sitting in EU ports than countries could realistically install in a year.