“Death panels!” the conservatives shouted. “The government will have death panels!”

The rubes ate it up, not realizing they had death panels the entire time and paid more for them.

They were probably like, “Finally, I can go to a company that doesn’t force me to use a Dell.”

I can’t tell if this dude is 23 years old or 53 years old.

Wow, what a joke.

Wells Fargo upset over some fake inputs?

Maybe they should have just created some fake employees to do this work like they opened fake accounts for people who never asked for them.

I need to preorder this this weekend.

If only it were that simple. WE are all the test subjects in this case whether we like it or not.

Yeah, I agree with this take, though I did see an article that quoted Tim as saying they wouldn’t be able to totally get rid of hallucinations, so I’m still a little reserved on it all.

The biggest thing in the last couple of weeks is Microsoft showing off the half baked Recall “feature” that let your computer take photos of basically everything you do. The idea that you could search for something you did in the past using normal language is interesting, but the implementation was terrible. So that’s a big strike against MS, so much so they now are recalling the beta release of that. MS doesn’t have a good track record with things that are supposed to be local that somehow end up not local; I believe there was a big issue on xbox where local screenshots were still being monitored by the cloud somewhere. MS also loves shoving ads down your throat and turning back on features you have explicitly turned off. There’s no trust.

Apple certainly has their own issues, but as others have said, they have at least outwardly been a privacy first company, at least in marketing materials. They were one of the first to build in “secure enclaves” into phones and PCs so biometrics couldn’t get off of your device, for example. There’s a bit of a history, earned or otherwise, that Apple isn’t doing bad things with your data, so when they say their AI junk is private it’s easier to swallow.

That said, I still have yet to find a use for any of this AI junk across all platforms. I wish it all just stayed in the realm of intelligently making your photos a little sharper or whatever and not hallucinating things out of whole cloth. I’m actually happy my iPhone isn’t new enough to take advantage of this new stuff.

“A direct line” has already happened.

I’m pretty sure I saw an article on here in the last week about how they talk to each other.

I like the games but hate Amazon so I’ll skip it.

But hopefully the show itself is good.

Sure but not built in where you can then do an OS search like “find me text from the call I was just on where it showed their password for a moment.”

Something I didn’t think about until I saw someone making a post about it on Mastodon is that you may not have to worry about just YOUR PC, but what happens when you are on a zoom call or using another screen sharing app and THEIR PC is taking screen shots?

Now you just can’t worry about your own machine, but every machine out there that might interact with you in that type of way could be capturing data. And if you accidentally have your email up or maybe a password manager, could their PC just be gobbling that up without you knowing?

Guy in a MAGA hat, running: “…the US is under threat…”

Goose, chasing: “under threat by who, motherfucker??”

Someone, for the love of god, just announce when Silksong will come out, already.

I assume this article is about how I want to pull my hair out when trying to do anything in that program because everything feels so obtuse and weird and nothing else.

Guess I have to stop drinking alpaca milk.

I thought I found a bargain the other day because they had this big thing of tortilla chips for only $2! Wow!

And then I got home and the bag was about 1/3 filled with chips. I forgot to check the weight versus a normal bag. I got swindled.

Make it so Doritos are back to being ~$3 per bag instead of $6+.

You’re welcome!

I hope you like it. I end up buying a couple of cartons every time I’m in the store, ha.