Unless ads give enough revenue.

At least the trend of putting “AI” in product names should stop.

Even then, which is much better than the cloud models, most people seem to be as Dell said. They are not buying AI.

Using AI gets you fired.

At that price you’re going intel.

…and how should I access this cloud compute? Stick my fingers into a network socket and wiggle them?

How to disable Copilot

Delete Windows.

Seriously, you think those switches will keep working?

I was thinking that number is far too low

Ironically cars can park and navigate, but not drive.

I agree with this. I tell people to ask it questions about things they know about. Then, when they see how many errors it makes, ask them why they assume it’s any better on a topic they don’t know about.

You see the same effect in journalism. News stories seem pretty authoritative until you read one about a subject you know.

This was 2005. It’s not new.

I remember declining a job offer (I had the contract to sign) long ago because one of the people I’d nominated as a reference contacted me and said “I legally can’t answer the questions they’ve asked about you”. Turns out their pro-forma reference questionnaire asked things like “Is this person punctual?”, “what issues has this person had?”. General dirt digging

If anybody were to answer that and the job offer got revoked, I could take that person to court for libel. Companies should know better than to ask anything but factual details in a reference.

So I turned it down stating that if they were so unprofessional around recruitment I wouldn’t trust them to be a good professional employer if I worked for them.

For a long time it was just a software implementation of OpenGL. It’s grown into a completely different beast.

Talk about feature creep!

Roddenberry Vs Adams

One painted a sci-fi utopia. The other showed us ourselves.

Wait… You’ve got enough wood and steel to make one?

Burn the rich guy!

Journalists that interview LLMs need a slap. It’s not an admission of wrong-doing if the LLM is the source.

The encryption of streaming media is annoying, but it’s not what I fear. The ability to lock the software that I run on my hardware to “approved vendors” only is what worries me, and it’s what TPM promises. A security model where the only trusted party isn’t even the person owning the hardware.

AI so fast it speedruns enshitification without ever being good.

No. The board can decide to issue more shares, but this is a sub-dividing of the already issued shares and so normally requires a vote from the shareholders. Major shareholders normally sit on the board, so the two groups overlap but are legally distinct.

If a company buys it own shares, it’s normally a “buyback” and the shares cease to exist.

Of course. They are shareholders.

The company is a separate legal entity though.