

Time to flood their AI with a ton of skibidi toilet and ‘what the sigma’ memes, so it confuses everyone for eight year olds.
Time to flood their AI with a ton of skibidi toilet and ‘what the sigma’ memes, so it confuses everyone for eight year olds.
Hate to say it, but AI-driven voice impersonation is not coming - it’s already here. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty damn impressive, and is at a useable state already.
Good article. Just shared it with some less tech-savvy friends.
Good article.
We need a version of the UK government’s National Risk Register, covering everything from the collapse of financial markets to “an attack on government” (but, unsurprisingly, that risk is described in terms of external threats). The register mostly predicts long-term consequences, with recovery taking months. That may end up being the case here.
I assume they mean on a state government level? I doubt this will happen, unless it’s already started. Plus, as they point out, such plans typically focus on external threats to the government. A huge internal threat like this is a long-standing blind spot. Hopefully in the future that prospect becomes a more prominent concern.
We need to dust off those “in the event of an emergency” disaster response procedures dealing with the failure of federal government—at individual organizations that may soon hit cash-flow problems and huge budget deficits without federal funding, at statehouses that will need to keep social programs running, and in groups doing the hard work of archiving and preserving data and knowledge.
This is a great point. DRPs (Disaster Recovery Plans) have been a pretty big focus on organizations I’ve worked at. However, the focus here is almost always on natural disasters that can cripple an organization’s IT and daily operations. So I don’t know how much those will help in this situation either.
We’re talking about short term credit lines potentially being crippled and regulatory organizations essentially shutting down. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that.
Not true. I know several people in the UK who have Roku streaming devices.
I used them for a long time. But switched elsewhere due to their enshitification through ads and their TPS bullshit.
The country is being burned to the ground from the inside by fascists, and this is the hill Democrat politicians choose to die on?!! Holy shit! What a fucking joke!
I know I have, and several friends and family have. And the fact that there’s been a lot of discussion online from people expressing their frustration and disappointment about price increases and dwindling value, makes me think that it’s a broader trend.
We’re in a closed loop with this shit. Just like with cable TV, the more people quit using it, the more they will gouge the remaining customers. Because greed and laziness are more important to these companies than affordability or product value to their customers. Their customers are just rubes to be exploited.
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Same here. About 25% have picked up Signal, the others haven’t. Even though, like you say, they don’t have to drop WhatsApp to get Signal. They aren’t mutually exclusive.
And there’s no rhyme or reason for who starts using Signal. Some of my most tech-illiterate friends jumped on it, because they were sick of Facebook and Meta. As I’ve if them said: it’s not at all difficult to start using it. So it’s all about motivation.
It didn’t help that there are several other similar spots or there, like Viber. So some people who have multiple already installed don’t want to get yet another. I get that. But Signal is such a solid and unobtrusive app
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Did you include the whole ‘verified’ tag fiasco in your list? I didn’t see it explicitly in there, but maybe it falls under a general functionality fuck-up point.
I’m sure once the press coverage starts to take hold and their venture capitalist overlords realize what’s going on, they will crack down on the mods hard. Just like they did back in June/July of 2023. Little piggy boy will punish any rebellious mods and then grovel in mortification to his corporate masters.
Aaaand here come the admins to relentlessly bully any mods involved in this into submission. Because the reddit admins are pathetic, greedy little pig boys who don’t give a flying shit about their users or moderators.
Same here. I cancelled my subscription a few weeks ago. I should have done it sooner.
So that’s where all the new jobs are going to come from after the economy goes to shit because of climate change, oligarch hubris, etc.!
They are going to pay the unemployed people pennies an hour to humiliate themselves by dressing as robots and doing all sorts of menial tasks for them. It’s going to be like Sleeper meets Gone With The Wind.
(I’m joking at this point, but this could make a good plot for a dark sci-fi comedy.)
As if Intel doesn’t have enough problems. That dipshit buying them would probably destroy them.
Well said, and great example.
Agreed.
So it’s not even coherent hate speech. How old was the person who posted that? 10?