Yeah, it was my preferred browser in the early 2000s when it had the Presto engine. When they switched to Blink, there wasn’t any point of it being a separate browser.

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From a quick reading of the actual law, here are some of the AI uses it prohibits that will apparently “stifle innovation”:

…use of an AI system that exploits any of the vulnerabilities of a natural person or a specific group of persons due to their age, disability or a specific social or economic situation

…to assess or predict the risk of a natural person committing a criminal offence, based solely on the profiling of a natural person or on assessing their personality traits and characteristics

…the use of an AI system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques

…the use of AI systems that create or expand facial recognition databases through the untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage

…the use of biometric categorisation systems that categorise individually natural persons based on their biometric data to deduce or infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation

The CEOs are investing in AI to put on airs for investors and inflate their company valuation, often pissing off customers and losing sales in the process. It’s evidently a worthy trade-off to make number go up.

I first read it as TLC. You mean the TVs will play nothing but low-grade reality shows?

Whining that nobody wants to use your product worked pretty well for Zuck and his Mii-verse. Oh, that’s right, it didn’t, never mind.

Yeah, people responding to my original comment assume I’d prefer Jim Crow Joe. Trump has a more abrasive personality that a lot of people love to hate, but obviously they’re both geriatric puppets to distract everyone while the billionaire cabal continues business as usual. Trump is primarily an entertainer and is certainly the more engaging distraction.

I assume you’re referring to the fact that Tesla has a Shanghai factory and is exporting Teslas made there to Canada.

Yeah, I liked Jim Crow Joe even less than orange gameshow host. Some of his policies had direct negative effects on my life. Then the election came around and the democrats decided we don’t get a primary at all this time, so we ended up with a choice between an ignorant gameshow host who somehow fancies himself an independent thinker and a cackling hen who puts on no such airs, both of whom are completely loyal to the international billionaire cabal.

I just ate a hamburger. 🙈

I’d sooner buy a Chinese EV than a Tesla, but the orange gameshow host running my country says I can’t.

At least in Star Trek, the robots would say things like, “I am not programmed to respond in that area.” LLMs will just make shit up, which should really be the highest priority issue to fix if people are going to be expected to use them.

Using coding agents, it is profoundly annoying when they generate code against an imaginary API, only to tell me that I’m “absolutely right to question this” when I ask for a link to the docs. I also generally find AI search to be useless, even though DuckDuckGo as an example does link to sources, but said sources often have no trace of the information presented in the summary.

Until LLMs can directly cite and include a link to a credible source for every piece of information they present, they’re just not reliable enough to depend on for anything important. Even with sources linked, it would also need to be able to rate and disclose the credibility of every source (e.g., is the study peer reviewed and reproduced, is the sample size adequate, etc.).

I prefer the “never see any ads again” feature in uBlock Origin.

It also, consequently, makes the advertisements which they show to you *far* less valuable. So this feature is not widely advertised.

I do wonder how much more effective surveillance capitalism-style ads are compared to ads like what DuckDuckGo has that are based on what you’re searching for right now, or ads based on the content being viewed. I’d personally be more likely to click on an ad based on my current search or content I’m viewing where it’s directly obvious how they know my interest, as opposed to seeing a creepy ad on a random website where they magically know I recently considered buying new shoes.

I certainly wouldn’t let something like a cheap RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server with 96GB of VRAM go to waste. I’d put it to good use with Blender rendering, running models I actually care about, and maybe some Games on Whales.

I have multiple Reolink cameras and can recommend them. Everything can run completely locally with their app and the cameras blocked in the firewall while recording to a SD card. You can let the cameras connect to their servers for push notifications and remote access if you like (I unblock them in the firewall sometimes if I’m going to be away and want to access them).

The cameras have onboard ML that can detect humans, cars, pets, and motion, and it’s fully possible to leverage those events in HA, making a something like Frigate and a Coral TPU unnecessary.

Personally, I just use them with the app, as well as RTSP streams from VLC, though I did have local push notifications setup with HA in the past for human detection from my Reolink doorbell.

Yeah, as does Reaper, though I really want a modern version of Cubase to work.

Nice, do DAWs next! 😍

What’s going on right now is that the TAM [ed: Total Addressable Market] and data center is growing just absolutely tremendously. And we want to make sure that, as a company, we help fulfill that TAM as well.

Your TAM is about to go bam, so cut the shit and make us some RAM.