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Hard pass. I feel that this is one of those cases where ignorance is bliss.

GPT?

That’s a joke I cannot afford to make…

I’d hate you too if you were trying to clog up my tailpipe.

Google was found to have paid manufacturers and telecoms to have Google search and Chrome pre-installed, and further enforced this by blocking access to its Play Store if they didn’t comply. Finally, it prohibited manufacturers from offering other versions of Android, again by threatening to ban access to its apps.

The only reason Apple isn’t also fined here is that they build and sell their own hardware, so they don’t have to force anyone to play by their rules - because they’re the only ones on the field…

Apple has been fined several times for abuse of dominant position though, and will surely be fined again since they continue to do it and profit massively from it.

It’s been years now, and I still haven’t found the exit.

I’m sure there’s videos of that in Epstein’s collection.

We need openWrt for TVs :(

Yep, I’m expecting they’ll report “sheets on the beds didn’t contain any visible blood or semen, so we have concluded no abuses could have happened here. In fact, all the toys we found indicate the kids were very happy and well treated”.

Are we gonna ignore the CDs and harddrives full of videos of famous and rich people fucking children?

"We seem to have misplaced the warrant for that, we’ll be back in a couple of hours it would be a shame if it somehow disappeared in the meantime…"

My upper management was invited to a business partner company’s board meeting, and I was asked to provide topics for them to push during the meeting, like, what strategic functionality would we want them to have for us to use etc.

I’m like, dear dimwits, we’ve been using their shit for 10 years now, we have what we need in terms of features. These new “AI assistant” crap they’re pushing, it’s useless and will NOT pay the cost, I’ve done the business case, fudge the numbers if you must and you’ll still be hard-pressed to find savings there.

I asked them to make a fuss about how their support keeps getting worse and worse, as they keep firing people to the point that none of the competent people I got to know over the years works there anymore, it’s only new joiners or incompetents left. I know their product better than their whole support team by now.

But sure, preach on to your shareholders about how you’re doing miracles, while the company chews itself inside out until it gets so bad that it’ll implode.

Sorry for the rant, this one hit close to home.

It should.

Had the EU been forceful in its deterrence, Russia would have never looked to Crimea, let alone start a war.

Buy alas, being spineless and weak gets you exploited.

I’m surprised how we’re not seeing Chinese AA systems randomly show up across Iran.

Not officially supplied by China, of course - sold to some neighbour, and mysteriously and “illegally” moved to Iran, along with some Chinese passer-by to monitor the systems performance against real American combat aircraft.

Especially against the F-35s, I assume they’d want to collect data.

It is not the right call. That cedes ground to Russian influence.

The right course of action is to fight back the russian covert ops, expose orban as grossly incompetent and corrupt, and get him replaced with someone who’s actually good for Hungary.

That’s just par for the course, like with emails, slack messages etc, always assume they have access to everything.

I don’t get these companies that are trying to force AI down people’s throats.

I really like how mine is handling this. They gave us Gemini like 6 months ago, along with about a paragraph at most saying that we must stop using AI services from unvetted providers (GPT, etc) with company or customer data, because we needed to have legal agreements in place for that.

Nobody ever mentioned it again, at all. They probably provided us with that AI because we had people using all sorts of services and it was becoming a nightmare, so they signed some contract to cover data protection requirements and said “here, use this one if you must”.

Now it’s just there. There’s zero pressure to use it. Some Google guys wanted to come over to make some presentations, some people signed up for those but they were entirely optional.

You use it if you have a use case for it, or don’t, doesn’t matter. The only metrics are the one we’ve always had - deliver good work, on time. How you do that is up to you.

You guys still have hair?

The EU has a nuclear bomb when it comes to trade: ban, or apply huge “tariffs” on US tech services. Walk away from any patent agreements for good measure.

The US economy would literally implode.

Right now that’s just unthinkable because of how much European companies rely on American services, but opening up alternatives that could make this possible is a huge bargaining chip.

Cat tax!