demonsword

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

I think most countries spy on their citizens

we should not be OK with that

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)

the man has rarely been proven wrong in anything tech related he has said

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Presumably because they haven’t invested in AI.

Presumably is carrying all the weight of your whole post here

Perhaps we could get a non-biased opinion and also from an actual expert rather than some finance ghoul who really doesn’t know anything?

I also hate banks, but usually those guys can sniff out market failures way ahead of the rest of us. All their bacon rides on that, after all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

They did an attempt at VR

but it was a me-too attempt, almost a copycat of existing hardware... hardly innovative

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Why do you think using energy is bad by itself?

Building infrastructure has an environmental cost. Even if they're building them for themselves, wasting the energy produced on AI and some other bullshit will worse our climate catastrophe while delivering nothing useful in exchange

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And he invented JavaScript in a cave, with a box of scraps

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have my doubts about whether it was really a supernatural event

don't worry, it's just a fairy tale

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Shit, I remember having to wipe my boss’s computer back in '03 because he clicked on an attachment called something along the lines of “bigtiddies.mpeg.exe” or some shit.

I could almost hear The Office theme song playing while I was reading that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Decentralization is, by definition, censorship-resistant, just hop to another instance.

or roll your own instance, with blackjack and hookers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

maybe because most people lurking around here knows it's trivial to bypass wired's paywall

 

Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.

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