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<i>This week everyone's been asking this, and news agencies tried to put $3t in perspective but didn't really do it, resorting to things like how many dollars it takes laid end to end to the moon, etc.</i> The richest…

Employment, particularly for juniors is perceived to be down, but there are a lot of trained coders. People have been unhappy with BigTech products for a decade or so. Data selling, no privacy or security, closed…

When travelling in some countries, hotels require you let them photo your ID to stay (while in other countries this is illegal to do, and in others it's legal but never done). I wonder what the real risk is. What can…

Or what outcome do you see (for various countries)? Currently, it's already considered very rude and an invasion of privacy/peace to be filming in a restaurant or public space and capturing neighboring customers or…

In light of the OpenAI shakeup, many here have pointed to Altman's goals with the project being ones most don't consider the most important (money, reckless use which many enhance government/powerful control), and a…

You're looking for a restaurant. You see two side by side. One has a sign above it that says 'No tipping in this restaurant. Tipping is not permitted' beside a restaurant that doesn't have this sign. Which one are you…

There are high quality original sources writing information today, just like there was before Web 2.0, when people would go on the internet to learn things and spend actual quality time reading blogs and personal…

The trend continues that nothing works on the Internet anymore. All accounts are constantly getting hacked and data leaked, yet every organization requires sensitive data to sign up (more and more). Today I tried to…

Or created anything of value (value higher than they would have without using chatGPT)? Or StableDiffusion etc? If so, what sorts of things? We've seen videos saying it will change things, and make money, but haven't…

Recent headlines outline something many people aren't happy about: Most recent headline in this vein I saw was some people went to a party, and someone modified all the photos they took at the party to be not real, but…

A lot of the $10 mp3 players from China do a lot of what modern computing is (they read pdfs, play music, etc. I haven't seen one that saves text files but that doesn't seem a stretch to add). But they don't come with…

Most of computer tasks can be done by a small suite of apps: - edit text, view and edit photos, read pdf books, listen to music (all can be done by same application). - edit and view video (could perhaps be done with…

Do those two things balance out? (Some estimates put the stock market loss at around $7t or $9t, additionally).

Possible progression: AI voice becomes common (paired with AI-written/rewritten content). Tons are produced. No one likes the content, and engagement overall on the platform goes down (perhaps moreso because the AI…

Is there something that's like the FOSS/EFF ethic, but for hosting code?

Would the chip shortage have even happened if we had opensource chips (and lasers to make them)?