Don’t need it if you use the Brave browser.

It has been interesting to me to hear tech professionals talk about giving AI Agents access to their desktops, and I suppose it’s just the next step after people gave everything over to voice assistants.

I’ve just heard way too many stories of GenAI and LLM products screwing things up in a major way to ever be comfortable with that and never really got into smart home technology on the assumption (now proven correct) that the devices snoop on their users. I have a smart phone but generally keep it in a faraday bag.

Yes and no.

Occasionally I like to fall asleep to SNL or a football game in the fall, but my bedroom is also haunted and the ghost likes to turn the TV on at weird times, so I leave it unplugged the vast majority of the time.

Yeah, it’s nothing particularly special IMHO. The best feature I’ve found in using it is that, for Microsoft products in particular, it can tell me capabilities of certain things I didn’t know previously when I present it with a problem.

Search engines used to do that before they got enshittified.

The closest facsimile I have in my work is occasionally running an Excel formula I’ve written through Copilot in order to find a formatting error or to help fix an Access query, but If fundamentally understand what I’m doing, can validate that the produced result is correct, and can fix it if I have to somewhere down the line.

It’s good you’ve found some simple ways to use it, but in the vast majority of work I do, it would take longer if I used AI because everything produced using an LLM has to be human-validated regardless, so I might as well not skip the important step of learning and understanding it.

I never use it to ideate and never use it for anything that isn’t eminently simple, like creating a sheet with x number of columns and rows or something like that. I hate the idea of the environmental impact and that helps me avoid it.

Yes.

Hate turning mine on and having to reset the input every single time because they’re trying to annoy me into connecting it to wireless.

Not sure, but I know which one I absolutely would not choose: Westeros.

I know schoolteachers who can’t get kids to pay attention to anything for more than 60 seconds, even when it’s literally written on the board in front of them. I don’t like age verification either, but people are burying their heads in the sand about how harmful these applications are to developing brains, and IMHO age verification is the lesser evil.

30% of their kids off of social media is a huge success.

You sound like a gun supporter in the US: “It’s not perfect and is, therefore, not worth doing at all.”

Absolutely right.

I’d love to see 30% reduction in kids being on these platforms globally. That would be a good start.

A 30% reduction of kids being exposed to these harmful platforms is a good thing and I’m glad to see it.

Also, all laws are imperfect, and expecting 100% efficacy is moronic.

Vibe coding, baby.

Legit endangering our brave spacefarers.

Correct, and the FBI inadvertently admitted it publicly by releasing video in the Guthrie abduction case that shouldn’t exist.

Every device with a wireless connection and a GPS, camera, or microphone is surveilling you.

Can confirm. Am dozen.

Wasteland 3

Wouldn’t be surprised if, somewhere among these tens of thousands laid off this year so far, there’s another Luigi willing to go full old school Teamster.

Are nukes really that precise at this point? I honestly had no idea.

But I don’t trust the US or Israel to show any kind of restraint once one gets let off the chain.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda. None of this will work to move the nation. Maybe it worked in Chile, but Chile isn’t made up of 50 different countries like the US is.

The only thing that will affect meaningful change on a national scale is a massive cultural change. I think that reinstating the draft could do it, but we’ll see.

I do think that it’s important to do what you can at the local level though. The people still have a measure of power there.

If they end up dropping nukes I hope one falls on my head. I don’t want to survive nuclear war.

Reminds me of the people here in the US who drive gargantuan, gas-guzzling trucks and SUV’s in order to make themselves feel cool, when there are smaller, more efficient, and better-running vehicles that are readily available and more useful for daily travel.

Iran and Ukraine have certainly demonstrated that military priorities in America are misplaced, not to mention their strategy. From what I’ve read, we’re running out of the interceptor missiles we need to protect against these drones and they’re too expensive and difficult to produce that it’ll take years to replace the American stockpile. (Though, admittedly, I’m no expert and only know what I read.)

It also reminds me of Vietnam, when the US was defeated, essentially, with booby traps made of wood, natural cables and string, and scavenged ordnance. Hell, listening to Keg-breath speak about Iran reminds me very much of Robert McNamara. Sucks that we have people running wars who paid smarter people to write their history term papers.

But this one isn’t on the military in my book. The Joint Chiefs told them the US military wasn’t prepared for a war with Iran and why, and Donald just assumed he could order up another victory like a Big Mac. He was destined to fuck with the wrong country eventually.