Imagine the USA being the new North Korea, Donald Jr. eventually following his father to the throne. Ostracized by the world. Global hacker scams and their own version of Juche. The parallels are astounding, esp. if you make a few simple deductions into the near future: distribution of wealth, collapsed economy while claiming it’s booming…

It’s the “Hit Rock Bottom and Turn Your Life Around” narrative. But it’s BS - there is no rock bottom. Things can always get worse. There is no miraculous cure. You need to make change happen.

He’s a fascist nut, easy to dismiss. But mainstream media are spreading the same lies.

Sorry to say but this is just one aspect of dropping out of all climate contracts national, international and global. And yes, AI is making this much worse.

“Hyperscale data centers are the really large data centers that are being built now for [generative] AI, which is really driving a lot of the growth in this sector because it requires vast data processing capabilities,” said Volzer. “The trend is larger and bigger centers to feed this demand for AI.”

Much of the water used in data centers never gets back into the watershed, particularly if the data center uses a method called evaporative cooling.

Think about that the next time you “ask ChatGPT” something.

Just one more reason not to use servers located in the USA for anything.

data collected through your device by the South Korean tech giant on behalf of “Israel.”

You make it sound so political. It’s just business!

It’s not even a new thing. Israeli spyware has been a thing for decades.

This reads the same as similar headlines from almost 10 years ago, about Google Voice or some such iirc.

Back then “but Google is actually doing good things in IT” was still going strong and people pointing this out were often dismissed as tinfoil hatters even if the proof was there; I’m glad that has changed somewhat.

I knew what this was before I clicked it! On top of everything else, I love the choice of music. It’s the same pseudo-oriental music they use in movies and TV show when they introduce a terrorist lair in some Arabic nation. Preferably in squalor. Unbearable heat, hungry children barely moving in the dust. Or a docu about Al Qaeda.

edit: oh, it’s just a cut from the whole video. How could you forget Dijon-Gate, Bicycle-Gate and many more! Truly the worst POTUS ever. And people begrudge Trump a little vanity. SMH

Hmm, maybe the G in MAGA does not stand for “great” after all.

Or Biden!

Trump is kinda the opposite. He’s all about that peanut farm, and was from the start. POTUS is just a way to get more peanuts. And narcissism of course.

I will always love the story about how it’s made in China - the country whose name our Führer can only cough out with a derisive undertone. While claiming it was made in North America. And it hasn’t got any gold in it - just fiberglass and chrome color.

My first thought! Definitely not this guy:

The Changelog seems to be mostly about the UI, security updates come from upstream, i.e. Firefox. But there’s this further down:

In response to recent privacy concerns, we’ve significantly strengthened Zen’s privacy measures. Previously, we only disabled telemetry, but some minimal pings were still being sent. Now, Firefox telemetry has been completely stripped out from the core.

Additionally, onboarding pages and initial Essentials favicons are now locally bundled and our website no longer relies on any external services, CDNs, nor Cloudflare services. Initial Essentials selected on startup will only be loaded when the tab is clicked on, so connections won’t be established until you explicitly enter the tab. We also changed our onboarding Essentials options to more privacy and productivity focused sites.

Only critical security updates and other non-telemetry-related services remain. As a result, the number of external connections has dropped from 82 to around 20-10 — factoring in that Zen’s site is loaded twice (for the welcome page and privacy policy).

Librewolf + LocalCDN is still better. Fight me!

And they’re running into issues due to increasingly ingesting AI-generated data.

There we go. Who coulda seen that coming! While that’s going to be a fun ride, at the same time companies all but mandate AS* to their employees.

Both are good 👍

ASSD

IDK; my father is one or two generations before boomers and what they did was not better.

Mostly correct, but I believe the strip deliberately portrays this as unrealistic, a dream basically. And seen like that it becomes even more cynical somehow. Which is something I appreciate in humor.

Thank You! Yes!

So … A-not-I? AD? What do we call it? LLM seems too specialised?