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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I really don’t think their goal is consumers.

Sure they want consumers to use generative AI so that they get quality feedback so they can improve the product. But that is not the goal.

The goal is enterprises, the goal is replacing workers with AI.

There are estimations that around 300B$ have spent so far for generative AI. This is not for a gadget that close to no-one likes and burns money rather than make money

This is for removing humans from the productive cycle. It is such an ambitious goal that the various CEOs/shareholders are ok taking such an high risk gamble.

Trump will ditch any red tape to AI because Trump openly wants this world, a world where there isn’t any more the need for immigrants or workers or unions.

My ingenuity suggests me that this plan will fail on technical grounds but if it will not, it will be worse. There will be poverty and civil unrest, there will be instability and wars (it’s always easier to look for the enemy outside rather than inside) and, in the end, economy will not do great either (who will buy the crap people will produce?)

Again, I think that this plan will fail on technological grounds but removing red tapes will not accelerate this failure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Required: only in EU Available: EU close countries (UK, Switzerland, etc)

In the US banking is a bit different than over here. People still pay rent with checks (that in EU are de facto obsolete) possibly sent in an envelope via mail.

You may wonder why…. Because a money transfer (that in EU is generally for free) in US is often a double digit operation.

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

It’s a mechanism that is compulsory in EU (and nearby countries like Switzerland).

When you try to spend money online (without the plastic card), you need a second factor. In practice in, let’s say, Amazon there is an iframe with a page of your bank that asks to confirm the operation on the banking app or insert the code they sent you by SMS or things like that

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dude, have you read the article? this is from an article on Nature.

Nature! Not the flat earth society scientific newsletter.

For publishing on Nature it is necessary that a number of the most well reputed experts in the field have peer reviewed the article.

By modern standard of “science”, publishing on Nature or Science is the closest to get to “consensus”.

I see your point in some newspapers articles but this is not one of that cases

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

My setup as well (plus encrypted DNS for good measure)

I still have to somehow trust my ISP but I go down from having to trust my mobile ISP, my employer WiFi, random shops WiFi to just one ISP (that,fwiw, has shown to be transparent, customers friendly etc)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Microsoft:

Google: Hey! That is a great idea! Let me say publicly that I want to do the same

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Or give psychological safety that it is demonstrated to increase productivity 🤷‍♂️

What makes you think union decrease productivity instead?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Well it sounds more scary than it realistically will be.

YouTube must pass to the player the metadata of where the ads start/end. Why? Because they need to be unskippable/unseekable/etc. If the metadata is there it is possible to force the seek 🤷‍♂️

Just matter of time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Likely android 7 would not honor (or even be aware) of this new metadata bit. You'll be fine 🙂

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You are technically (and possibly legally) correct... But the spirit of the law is allowing customers to install what they want on their devices.

This move defuses the responsibility to the developers but EU showed in the past that what they care is the spirit of the law and not the law itself...and they are happy to change the laws to make them more adherent to the spirit

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