This is not about stopping bot-scrapers, it’s about charging them.

Capitalists are so fucking innovative that they’re trying to replace unpaid human labor with robots that are worse and cost money.

Your argument is more out of date than Vista. Windows is not the default because people like their software, or would choose it over anything else. It’s because they’ve positioned themselves as the default monopoly since the goddamn 1980s.

To see what happens when Microsoft has to compete on quality of software, just ask yourself why Copilot and Recall aren’t being rolled out on Windows phones.

It’s a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying (Veo 3)

It’s ironic that you describe your impression of LLMs in emotional terms.

Windows users are a revenue stream, not customers. M$ views it’s users as a sort of raw material that can be processed with dark patterns for ads and subscriptions. And like everything else, Americans are treated with the most disrespect and coercion.

Oh, I see now. This is actually pretty cool then.

Nobody is going to install this on my TP-Link. The back door is factory.

I read the headline and made a bad assumption that would have been corrected if I read the article.

That’s awesome! I never installed this crap on Windows, now I get to skip installing it on Linux. Keep up the good work.

Also Clegg

asking women for permission would ruin my sexlife.

probably.

The Last Jedi is top 3 out of the Skywalker movies easily.

In a few short years, you’ll see. The sequels will be redeemed just as the prequels before them. Time is a flat circle.

It’s great to see Elmo suffer.

But I’m reminded that the concept of “voting with your dollars” and “consumer activism” are the ways capitalism has captured revolutionary activity into a fashion that serves the ego, satiates the desire to act, and neuters any chance of efficacy.

When capitalists see the demand for change, they package it, promote it, and trade it on the market.

There should be a warning label on any establishment or product that requires a smartphone to use.