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This is feeling somewhat inevitable. There are a nonzero number of highly-intelligent individuals capable of developing weapons tech AND AI/ML who are also 100% Dead Certain nothin…

There are no benefits to bog-standard, crappy replacements for genuine human-crafted creative products. Period. These tools should be applied to solving real problems. Instead, the…

Yeah, sorry, this feels like a strawman. The adblock issue is only the most recent and exciting of the multitudinous pile of suck Youtube has been generating the last 5 years or so…

And discussing piracy isn't it.

Egregiously bad. Remember wannacry?

It has also been super gross to me to watch these infant technologies be thrown at removing humans from creative tasks. The whole point was supposed to be to automate the mundane, …

Fair enough! However... I'm still not seeing why that experience requires an account, so while this response is academically interesting, it doesn't actually address the purpose of…

Please explain in excruciating detail the need for an account to provide a single input box for zip code to just calculate fees? I need a serious breakdown of the logic behind this…

Yeah, you'd need someone on the network to be doing something like browsing the internet and coming across a malicious website capable of making requests to other nodes on the loca…

"Unsecured AI" is the "Ghost Gun" of AI control now, I guess? We're inventing new terms for the AI models people can run on their own without the involvement of a megacorp? Nice na…

HN doesn't amplify drama as a business practice, as best I can tell. Arguments happen, but they don't seem to blow up much here.

I don't think it's just the internet. Covid was a very (ahem) masks-off moment for people realizing just how shitty things are and deciding they don't want to put up with /anything…

That's okay, I can stop dualbooting once win10 is out of support and the hassle will be gone! Though I've been refunding games that don't run on proton sometimes as well, because d…

The fact that the targeting part is the output of a multibillion-dollar industry focused on scientific experimentation on humans without informed consent. Also the fact that they'r…

> Linux is not even close to matching Windows in gaming performance. I'm curious if you've actually, you know, tried linux with proton/wine at all in the last three years. Things h…

So I now get advertised to by windows: 1) On the login screen (if you let it do its OOBE login background thing) 2) On the post login screen every time I update asking me to sign i…

Ceding your concept of morality to a book someone wrote thousands of years ago is the pinnacle act of moral apathy. That level of apathy is revealed in the way you make your argume…

Oh, yeah. ICS/SCADA is definitely the worst industry I've heard of as far as security is concerned. I don't think Microsoft has anything to contribute to that, because no, I don't …

Because Microsoft has a difficult relationship with information security and developing internal corporate procedures that are more conducive to growth and safety than to pleasing …

No, it heavily depends on their ability to enforce it. This CEO can't enforce it and should thus shut his mouth and continue being the quiet little corporate parasite he is.

How is that relevant?

Wow. Is Ars really stretching this hard? Can we not just let the evidence speak for itself? Despite their desperate attempt to scarequote and chop up excerpts from a direct quote, …

It'd be fun to participate in an effort to purchase cheap drone FCs en masse to ship to Ukraine. I'd love to help violate China's export restrictions. Really, it's the FCs and ESCs…

Good.

Theorycrafting here, but wine and proton will make it pretty easy to decouple Steam platform DRM. It should be noted that it's perfectly possible to release your game on steam in a…