rustcleaner

Never buy, never subscribe, obtain by other means, until things change.

Starve 'em!

I'll be real here: as a customer having to call into support, I have had way more unsatisfactory experiences dealing with "south asian" reps than I've had with AI. That offshoring has been absolutely horrible and it needs the heavy hand of government to put an end to it: Hire Americans for tech and support roles or be ready to pay taxes which will cost more than any cost savings that are had by offshoring, with the caveat that moving HQ out of America to try to dodge this -> full sanctioning from doing business with America or American companies.

This is not a funny dynamic, and the only real winners in this have been the investors. I would hardly call Microsoft an American company anymore.

PR fixes:

1) Stop the guardrails (except for anti-hallucination guardrails, those are good),

2) Stop the REPLACE ALL THE HUMANS agitprop and sales pitches, maybe start presenting it as a technology which will overthrow rather than empower aristocracy,

3) Stop sucking up compute silicon and driving powerful home computing to absolute unaffordability,

4) Lean really heavy into local inference and open weights, for information privacy and personal sovereignty; we [smart ones] can see that the cloud monster is the Intelligence Community's golden goose right now and we're not buying it!

My concern is your telemetry may have been stored up to that point, then forwarded upon connecting.

Agreed. Information wants to be free. I am sad nobody has a LOIC powerful enough to disable CloudF{lare,ront}.

Never ever connect your "Smart"-TV to your network, or if you have an incurable impulse to then make sure it's on a firewalled gateway-less VLAN. Take the money you save buying the thing (compared to what a profitable "dumb" version would cost) and buy a surplus corporate mini-workstation system, and slap LibreELEC/Kodi or whatever on it, and use that device as your "smart" device. No good for you can ever come from bringing the TV onto the internet... ever!

(Also: never paypig, never subscribe!)

What will protect is taking bicycles off motor vehicle roadways, and laying down new, much narrower bicycle-exclusive roads all over instead. It doesn't make sense to mix the slower and vulnerable bicycle traffic with the faster and safer motor vehicles!

I install Simon's collection on every device of mine, as well as PySol.

(I'm stuck on Guess aka Mastermind right now, and damn good at it if I say so myself! Also Solo aka Sudoku on 6 sub-blocks, with X+Jigsaw+Killer & No symmetry+Unreasonable difficulty.)

>So if the 'Gilded Age' saw deflation of ~30% over some decades, what will historians in the future call an era of thousands of percents of inflation over some decades?

The 'Gelded Age' where the average man had his balls cut off by inflation?

Never ever subscribe. Let them bankrupt themselves on the altar of safety!

This right here is why I will never subscribe and, as an American, I hope the Chinese kick our butts. Maybe being second place to China will force American AI to dispose of these morality/safety guardrails.

Can't this be fixed by adding a cyan to RGB, making RGcB? Or, even adding yellow and magenta for RyGcBm?

>The bigger problem will be if someone (such as a Chinese AI lab) releases a Fable/Mythos-class open weight model.

That is my dream for 2026 right now!

Left vs right is how the Epstein Class divide and conquer the electorate.

>most people aren't going to deal with that shit

Then we cipherpunks dunk on and make fun of them as we jet by in our cool top-down VPN convertibles! They can be ID cucks while we enjoy all the finer things on the internet!

Liberty and privacy aren't free; it takes sweat off the brow or the blood of sacrifice to preserve or claw back to.

Isn't that liblyrebird/Snowflake that Orbot/Whonix/TBB use as an anticensorship gateway?

Their kompromat-gathering is first class... maybe even the best!

Come iToddlers and the Samstung, Pixel [soon Motorola] with GrapheneOS is the way!

I recommend deploying the BitMagnet docker (behind a VPN with assurances it is offline if the VPN cuts out).

Censorship-free magnet crawling!

>The UK is not shy when it comes to invading your privacy or censoring the Internet.

The sage Eric Blair was a Brit.

States have been the most terrible churches imagineable!

No one can be a true Atheist and not also be an Anarchist, and no one can be a true Anarchist and not also be an Atheist [all Scotsmen aside here :^)].

Apostates and criminals are synonymous.

Democracy is a consent [to be ruled] manufacturing system which defuses head-lopping popular rebellions. It is not for the benefit of the people.

>We age gate alcohol to reasonable success,

We shouldn't.

>sometimes that involves showing id.

Then the yokel checkout attendant proceeds to punch the 8 digit birthday into the keyboard, which serializes you as one of less than 30,000 customers in the area. Birthdays are leaky identifiers.

>Because capitalism itself is the enemy.

Let's be real here. It's investor-monopoly capitalism that is the problem. Individuals worth less than $100,000,000 owning private property or their businesses isn't the problem, it's the Financial-Industrial-Complex with its Dodge vs Ford ruling (established duty to maximize shareholder returns) that is the problem. People owning their homes, cars, agriculture fields, tractors, semi-trucks, and small/medium business are not the cause of our ills. The cause is the financialization of everything, turning everyone into rent-paying debtors always on the precarious edge. Free enterprise is good, but monopoly enterprise is not. Quit making people race to the bottom in competition for basic survival, and start making the moneyed monopolists do it instead!

This is why OpenAI, Adobe, et al, are trying to take away personal computing, putting much of it into the cloud and squeezing component costs. Why they're trying to get us to accept guardrails on AI for moral hazard reasons. Why Anthropic intentionally gimps its models if it detects AI research.

They are the monopolists and we are the paypigs! NEVER SUBSCRIBE!

>I personally have halted any projects where I can't completely control access to the product

Good! That gives someone else the room to come in with a better, freer solution!

Lehman (a lobbyist) did an end-run around congress to the WIPO, to use treaty law to force the passage of the DMCA.

>So you're against copyright protection

Yes, I am. Copyright is legalized plunder of anyone who does not pay a protection fee for a "license" to not be plundered. Going after torrenters and people trying to regain functionality on their thermostats and 3D printers is legalized plunder.

This is why awards need to be based on % of total assets or revenue of the defendant. If little guy beats the big guy defendant, little guy should walk away with millions or billions. If big guy wins against the little guy defendant, it's just hundreds or thousands. It makes relatively poor individuals who can't afford a team of effective lawyers lawsuit proof, while making those who can wage effective lawfare juicy targets if they so much as fudge the line with the outside of their shoes!

Qubes OS is nice for that. Set up a plain vanilla Windows TemplateVM (Windows Firewall whitelisting in/outbound connections), clone the vanilla template for each subset of applications, then make a bunch of AppVMs which point to those cloned templates.