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Well, there’s free Copilot now.

It’s a free sample, which is a very common marketing technique. The free tier only gives you 2000 code completions a month so if you end up using it a lot you’ll need to switch to a paid tier. Nothing particularly nefarious there.

It’s free as in beer.

I appreciate how quick a read is it. Much more likely for random people to read it and start thinking and then you can jump out of the bushes and go “surprise, you just read a manifesto!”

I’ve got a digital voice recorder similar to this on me almost all the time, I like to use it to make notes and to-dos and what have you. Very handy for recording phone calls too, when put on speaker.

If Meta creates a solid foundation of open AI to get to that point then I will give him credit for that, though. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Meta’s doing the right thing right now, if you reject that because eventually Meta will do something that isn’t then you’ll get nothing at all.

It’s simply a silver lining.

Frankly, I’m fine with Zuckerberg reading the room and doing what’s needed. It shouldn’t be what’s needed, there’s going to be huge blatant corruption under Trump. It’s terrible that America has put itself in this situation. But America has put itself into this situation, here we are.

So if someone lobbying for something that’s good has to suck up to Trump to get it done, that’s unfortunate but at least something good gets done. The proper fix is to get Trump back out of power again and put a more reasonable government in its place. That won’t be for a while, though, and it will require the DNC to read the room to accomplish it.

Indeed. I’m in a single-party province, it’s perfectly legal for me to record the phone calls that I’m part of, but years ago Google decided “I am the law!” And took that away from me. Super annoying.

The article says Samsung’s version still isn’t as good as how it used to be back then, but perhaps it’s a step in the right direction.

Yeah, this isn’t really an AI-specific story. I’ve refused to buy all sorts of things that depend on “cloud services” that I know would simply cease to function if some remote server went away, without any option to tell it to talk to a server I run instead.

There are plenty of open models for AI these days, it should be possible to build a robot buddy like this that could have its brain rehosted somewhere else in the event that the parent company shuts down.

You said “Yeah. I respect the Republicans for actually getting shit done, as evil as their goals are.”

No I didn’t. That’s someone else further up the chain.

Yeah. I remember a big argument I had over on Reddit right after the election wherein I was arguing that Harris had been a bad candidate. People piled in to argue that no, she was an awesome candidate, and I was being a misogynist to argue otherwise. But I kept asking those people “did Harris win the election?” And they just couldn’t bring themselves to answer “no.”

A good candidate would have crushed Trump. Trump was a terrible candidate. So what does it say about the Democratic party that they managed to lose regardless?

I am very much not a supporter of Trump or the Republicans. That means I want them defeated, and to defeat them you need to understand what’s going wrong when you fail at that.

The ACA was a Republican proposal originally. It was better than the giant heap of nothing that Americans had before, but it’s not a great triumph of the left wing. It’s a bare minimum.

They didn’t even get single-payer included in it.

The Democrats are the party of the status quo. They want everything to stay the way it is, generally speaking. They default to not rocking the boat.

This is why they’re bleeding voters, IMO. It’s not so much that people like what the Republicans are doing, its that at least the Republicans are doing something.

Maybe he doesn’t read Reddit.

Pretty sure I saw him in Nunavut. They should send the investigators there.

I think we can forgive such a minor transgression.

Then we’ve discovered the world’s most inefficient try-hard serial killer. If you have the slightest modicum of common sense then when you realize that the “random” target you’ve picked is a mega-rich CEO then you just pick a different random target.

And it has no significance whatsoever with regards to the general public’s reaction. At this point the true motives of the murderer are irrelevant, the general public has imagined him into a hero and that’s the important part.

“Making money on the misfortune of others” is a way too charitable way of describing what he was doing.

He was making money by making people die. Often in slow, excruciating ways that drained them and their families of all of their wealth and hope along the path.

Udio actually, I find I prefer its versatility and user interface.

They don’t forget it exists, they just haven’t quite managed to destroy it yet.