Well, to make your metaphor more fitting, the whole town would have to be owned by your supermarket chain and they chose to put the town hall into one of their stores.

Now the court forces them to hand out build permits also for competing supermarkets.

I just want to turn the thing on and play Factorio or Minecraft, not figure out if my 4080 will run on it etc.

Funny that you chose two games that run natively on Linux.

Filming, duh.

the fact that they’re microscopic might be an issue

Why? All that means is you may already have one without knowing it.

Standby pointlessly draws power. I switch off all devices that don’t run on battery for that reason. But I’m not exactly Apple’s target audience anyway since I also consider the price before buying stuff.

This article focuses to much on the glasses/face recognition tech while the actual problem is the database with of personal information and its public accessibility.

whatever overpriced gaming laptop comes working out of the box.

Not an Apple one, for sure.

They also know their target audience has plenty of people who gobble up every bad design decision and even defend it online years later.

Dangerous attitude when it comes to itsec.

Well, they gotta have the expertise. Engagement optimizing systems like YouTube’s suggestion feed are known to move users towards outrage.

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Don’t say AI when you mean AGI.

By definition AI (artificial intelligence) is any algorithm by which a computer system automatically adapts to and learns from its input. That definition also covers conventional algorithms that aren’t even based on neural nets. Machine learning is a subset of that.

AGI (artifical general intelligence) is the thing you see in movies, people project into their LLM responses and what’s driving this bubble. It is the final goal, and means a system being able to perform everything a human can on at least human level. Pretty much all the actual experts agree we’re a far shot from such a system.

government emails stored in Microsoft’s cloud

Firefox needs to work on ensuring seamless compatibility with more websites, web apps and so on

Care to share some examples Firefox has trouble with? The only issues I have with websites is due to my aggressive use of Noscript.

My farts in a sealed bucket are extremely limited and yet I haven’t found a single buyer.

4% of gross revenue is not a negligible amount. For no company.

How people will accept having their entire lives scanned, categorised and sold off to the highest bidder is beyond me

Me too. It was painfully obvious what Google will do once they launched Gmail and I never used it because of that.

Well, once the AI hype calms down and people realize the current approach won’t lead to actual intelligence or “The Singularity”, there may be quite some nuclear plants left over. That or they will be used to mine shitcoins.

And who forces all the corps to correctly implement that protocol? Getting you locked in is in all of their interests, after all.

Sure, but the networking and consent-finding are defining features of a blockchain. Nobody calls a git repo a blockchain.