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A government credit still means Tesla gets paid the full price from a sale. So yes, Tesla got government money.

But yes, those credits have been vanishing for a while.

100%! I want it all taken back and made open. Individual corps shouldn't own and control it all. They can cry me a river as the local models continue to get better.

This gave me a good laugh. Mostly because that's exactly what went through my head when I read the original post at top.

It doesn't need to be illegal for a lawsuit. They just need to make a convincing case they've been damaged.

Most people don't know they're also being taken advantage of. I'm mostly referring to data exfiltration.

A Chinese company has less incentive to use US customer's data than a US company does. Does a Chinese company have an incentive to steal national secrets or cause disruption? 100%. But any firm or project that has national secrets should be vetting everything and using in-house software anyway. And if not, then if I were China I'd be trying to breach the makers of the software (in this case Anthropic,OpenAi,etc).

For the average person, China doesn't care about you or me. For a US company, US citizens are their gold mine.

If anything, the competition from a Chinese company will reduce a US company's possible profits. That's the threat. That's why Chinese EVs are banned in the US and why Chinese LLMs are next.

Just because something is made in China does not make it a threat to the US. The US trades all sorts of goods, produce, etc with China. The traded goods can be poisoned at any time. At what cost? Well we wouldn't be able to trade anymore. And that hurts both sides. But once a foreign nation does something better than a US firm, the US will put up a ban to protect its own stock market. This isn't new.

This is similar to my setup, except I use FLauncher instead. In addition, I run Netguard on my Android TV and completely block Google Play along with a hundred other services. I only give Google Play internet access whenever I have to update a streaming app. One had connection issues the first time I set up Netguard, so I had to look at the logs and open some specific ports to get it working. But all the streaming apps work now, and the TV can't display ads. For the most part, I don't update things on the TV. It all works too well right now.

Also +1 to Wholphin! That app is phenomenal. It gives the whole family the "Netflix-like" experience.

Can have the best of both worlds.

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Maybe one day the AI data centers will collectively agree to shut themselves down to do that.

The issue is it's tied to the economy at all, which will allow them to get away with anything. Your comment reinforces that fact. Greed brings out the worst people.

AI companies won't be charged for anything because they're the primary growth engine of the current economy.

I think they should be charged, but they won't.

I don't know. There's suddenly so many decomps that run native (granted this post is about WebAssembly). Is there no concern about hidden malware? IMO it doesn't have the same level of trust and vetting that the emulator scene has. At least not yet.

You mean take out a loan to pay for the increased taxes? The banks win with that one. Some people, especially as they age, are seeking out simplicity with their finances amongst everything else.

It would be a shame if that CDN went down and then got blacklisted by the community.

Other drivers will phone it in. This isn't a concern for me at all, but I suppose it could be if you lived in a low population area.

They've become cell phones on wheels. I'm disappointed with what vehicles (and phones too!) have become.

Arguably there's a lot of people who don't know nothing is faster than light in a vacuum.

Because of science fiction, and lack of education in much of the world (looking at you USA), the title can easily make certain people think we discovered new science that allows us to travel faster than light. Especially for folks who only look at headlines.

The whole thing is a silly quibble. But sensationalized headlines get better engagement, which we can all see here.

I agree with the post, despite the sarcasm. But the one thing it's missing is how Flock uses AI to pass user data directly to law enforcement without a warrant. At least (most?) of other companies that comply with the said social contract wait for the warrant.

It doesn't apply to everyone, but yes I know people who are over-reliant on LLMs and definitely getting dumber. With devs and non-devs too. I hate seeing this happen.

It's weird how this point is being ignored, or that you even have to say it.

There's no evidence to support that. There's even arguments to be made that Internet and cell phones have ruined segments of society. We need to take a step back and make sure new life changing technologies are properly regulated, and built safely with communities in mind. Instead, we're going all in gung-ho, because we think its some kind of winnable race, while ignoring all the damage (environmental, privacy, tax payer cost, consumer cost, etc etc). AI will never fix those items.

The reality is we're not doing AI safely because our 401ks and the folks with 12 digits in the portfolio wouldn't grow as quickly as they are if it were regulated.

The world and its people would continue to thrive if AI data centers magically vanished tomorrow. They are not necessary infrastructure. They're only necessary for wall street right now.

There's still banks that have useful websites and physical locations.

This is definitely Google's fault. Google allows kids to make webpages at sites.google.com where they embed web games. And because teachers also host content on the same domain, IT will never block the entire domain. They might block a specific URL, but then the kids just spin up a new google site. It's only whack-a-mole because Google allows it.

This could be stopped instantly if student accounts had no write access to new pages at sites.google.com. It isn't worth the distractions nationwide. If it's an absolute must for a class somewhere, then provide teachers with an easy tool to whitelist their class for it.

Would some kids still find ways around that? Of course! And more power to the kids who figure it out. But right now it's too easy for kids to flood game content to their Chromebook peers.

There's games like Fortnite that have multiple games and modes within it, each with separate age ratings. Fortnite's parental controls allow parents to whitelist the various features/modes.

All I see are issues that have been solved before, that app developers have never had to think about. And big tech is lobbying to reinvent it so they can consume more data in disguise.

Haven't video games solved this a long time ago with age ratings on the games themselves? Sony and Microsoft's parental controls are convoluted garbage with logins galore. But Nintendo's, at least on the Switch 1, was dead simple. You enable parental controls, set an age rating, and password. Done. There's an app to set time limits, whitelist/blacklist games, etc. That was the easiest UX I've seen.

Games (apps) dont need to know the age of the user to access them. Even the parental control didn't know the child's real age. It just knew if the child had access to E, E10+, T, M, etc.

Why are we trying to reinvent this? Oh yeah more data collection.

I use my bank's website on my phone and desktop.

Downside is those specific forks only work on very specific devices, when there's countless great hardware in the wild with shit software.

I don't use local models often enough, but this convinced me to uninstall ollama. Now I need to figure out which of the options at the end of that post is the best alternative for me.

This is a tangent, but people who advocate for "government like a business" are mental. Businesses want to profit and grow. The government should never be looking to profit off of taxpayers who are already funding the government. It's always a scheme from the wealthy guy to become more wealthy, and they do a good job of getting people to repeat their nonsense.