I like how IG Metall calls out Tesla‘s lie before the article doubles down and gives examples of what Tesla is also lying about including job cuts at the site. Which is a very easy thing to debunk I might add. Those numbers are public.

I agree with the sentiment but this isn‘t really how the BND works. It‘s more like the German NSA. They have barely any real executive power and rely on other institutions or even nations to act on the information they gather. Secret services in countries like the USA, UK or even France have much greater executive powers such as a license to kill.

I see the actual Police, their powers and use of surveillance systems like Palantyr as much more problematic, personally. Or the fact that we have a de facto illegal right radical party sitting in the parliament and other parties don‘t even think about applying mechanisms to protect our democracy and freedoms from them. It looks like our secret services in Germany are at least doing their job. I wish I could say the same about politicians.

That‘s honestly less surprising or impressive than people using Death Stranding for that.

I genuinely expected them to go with the much more exploitable „Made with Europe“ proposal so this is a bit of a surprise. I‘m still not sold on this idea entirely because the EU has a lot of trade obligations with nations around the world who may feel betrayed by this. But it‘s still better than other proposals I guess.

Going local is taxing on your hardware that is extremely expensive to replace. Hell, it could soon become almost impossible to replace. I genuinely don‘t recommend it.

Even if you HAVE to use LLMs for some reason, there are free alternatives right now that let Silicon Valley bleed money and they‘re quickly running out of it.

Cancelling any paid subscription probably hurts them more than anything else.

Most people have no critical thinking skills whatsoever. You can see it in the polls everywhere.

I‘m surprised Stoat is gaining so much traction here. It‘s no open source and will likely go down the same path as Discord if given the chance.

Becoming independent from the US empire‘s dollar or oil is a serious crime that gets punished with dictatorship. It‘s no coincidence the US is launching a cascade of fascist think tanks and lobby groups against Europe right now.

Most of those overlords don‘t care about their business anymore. They want to get the bag now. It‘s how Oligarchies operate. They burn billions to make millions. Or in this case delete trillions to make billions. The goal is have proportionally much more money than us pathetic peasants.

The way Trump operates in particular is unsurprisingly dull. He flips the table and ruins the game for everyone. Then he waits and whoever says some flattering words to him and gives him a hefty bribe is excluded from his bullshit. Suddenly they see their competition crippled while they themselves can do business as usual. That‘s all there is to it. Trump was never the brightest bulb and probably thinks his obvious scheme is brilliant.

The end of that list reads like it’s straight out of the Russian propaganda playbook.

I’m afraid they‘ll get a slap on the wrist and be forced to introduce face ID or something equally harmful for users after politicians get involved. I don‘t trust these things anymore when „it‘s about the children!“

On one hand yeah sure, people ditched Skype and MSN as soon as something better came along but that was a long time ago. Discord has sadly been the go-to for people for over a decade. Many users literally grew up with it. They are conditioned. A lot has to happen for them to leave their comfort zone. It‘s like asking someone to stop drinking coke or get McDonald‘s after they‘ve had it for their entire life.

I‘ll say this probably won‘t be the straw that breaks the camel‘s back but there is a silver lining. Discord will lose revenue over this and might change course quickly. This already rolled out in Canada and from what I‘ve heard many users cancelled Nitro at least. That‘s a start. Discord may also try to milk remaining users even harder as a result very soon and that will definitely put them into a down spiral.

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…And far right Trump supporter. I don‘t envy Venezuela for their top politicians.

We need more people in custody and evidence to be tempered with? I don‘t think we do. We just need a world without billionaires.

Everything running on LLMs can easily be dislodged with prompt injection. This is just a translator so the worst it can do is establishing a parasocial relationship with users I guess.

But over 30 years of cybersecurity go down the drain with agent based clients and operating systems and there is no fix in sight. It‘s the epitome of vaporware except big tech is actually shipping it against better judgement.

Also the media landscape in Japan has become kind of a joke in recent years. Racism has definitely had an uptick since the pandemic like it had in many places.

Oh I never ever intended to imply it‘s a good thing. It just is. They won‘t give in or can be reasoned with. They became billionaires because they care about money, status and power.

I hate the home screen so much and that I can‘t customize it. It‘s basically just full of ads disguised as recommendations.

Intel is arguably worse. They‘re in a bad spot right now so they can‘t do crazy things like Nvidia but they totally would and will go down the same path. I don‘t think US designed hardware will ever truly come back to end consumer products.

Way too late. This has been a talking point for a while. The AI bubble will burst but that doesn‘t mean they‘ll just return to their roots. Those new data centers need a use case and they need a good reason to keep building more.

I guess the silver lining is that this plan B won‘t work out either so we‘ll have to see. But until then we better take good care of our current hardware. It will probably have to last a good while longer.