Companies are stealing your computer’s resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.
god everything except linux is going to run like shit in 10 yrs
It runs like shit today. Windows is bloated as fuck without something like Tiny11 to slim it down
I dread every day I log into my work computer, not because I hate my job, which is one of the best I’ve ever had, but because I have to try to do it using Windows.
You and me. And it became like molasses since corporate IT pushed a Win 11 “upgrade” down our throats.
At least you aren’t having to manage your windows install. I feel for corporate IT departments having to figure out how to disable so much and still keep the OS running.
they dont lol, they just let it be slow
I’m scared from the possibility of linux going the same way… we tend to think it can be simply forked and continued on, but it’s a software too complex for some smaller group to maintain.
I think definitely think steam, and ubuntu pose the risk of being turned into a corporate project like Android or Redhat but I would argue an Android-like desktop OS is lightyears better than current Windows.
Prefect. It can click buttons and complete tasks.
No sir, I did not accept your terms and conditions, my browser did.
Can’t wait till AI can just learn and utilize my consciousness on my behalf. That way I don’t need to exist.
If enabled, this could secretly start purchasing random things with your credit card, pretty much just stealing your money. We can’t trust a voice assistant with this, why trust AI?
so a legal botnet then
Chrome has been for years, so this is only a worse problem for end users.
So why hasn’t anyone said much about Apple Intelligence? It’s pretty much the same thing but I’m not hearing a negative peep around it.
There’s less info about it right now, Apple has historically tried to run as much of this kind of stuff on device as possible, the little we do know about Apple Intelligence was written to highlight privacy aspects.
Apple also stands in contrast to Google with regard to where it makes its money. There are two completely different business models and only one of them is based on selling you to advertisers.
Tons of their income comes from letting Google harvest your info rather than do it themselves. Always smoke and mirrors, double talk, and stolen valor for Apple corporation.
A small amount of Apple’s annual revenue comes from shipping iPhones with Google as the default search engine on Safari, nothing more.
$20 billion a year is not a “small amount”
“Even if you are paying, it doesn’t mean you are not a product” - Cory Doctrow
The data collection happens on both ends. Apple only lies that it is about privacy and whatnot. Gives you a false sense of safety.
If you are going to claim that Apple is just as bad on privacy as the world’s largest advertising platform you’d better have some receipts.
I heavily use both platforms, whatever I talk about or wherever I go, I see targeted ads. When I speak about brand X, I immediately see ads for it both in ios and android. Plus every device mic is being listened to all the time, advertising agencies are your proof. Sure android devices collect more data in practice, however the data that’s not being collected by ios can be inferred from the data that’s already been collected. Do you really believe a company when they say their devices are made to ensure your privacy? Google literally says the same thing on their privacy policies ;) it’s all legal mumbo jumbo that doesn’t mean what it’s supposed to.
because of Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm syndrome was made up by the media to discredit women who criticized them. It’s not a real thing.
That’s not what exactly happened, but yes.
Stockholm Syndrome (if it exists) is not what happened at the Event it was named after
I assume because a lot less people use Apple products. So many (myself included) do not care one bit what Apple does.
Google doesn’t have the leverage to get it into your OS against your wishes. They can’t even make me have their apps (search, assistant) on their Android.
WELL DON’T JINX IT
Thank fuck I use Linux as a daily driver. I won’t touch this AI infested bullshit that windows and Google are becoming. This is just an IT security nightmare.
cries in system admin
Headline: Google reinvents testing automation tool, now with AI
Silver lining is that this may be the end of captchas
Nope, still need that training data to sell to self-driving car tech.
Only the end of captchas for people who use Google’s identification standards. With device IDs and accounts they already usher many users past Captcha and I think the more who do that, the worse captchas can get for us who don’t
Corpornet
Didn’t windows also start tracking how you use windows?
i guess it’s just puppeteer + ai prompting
unless AI gets significantly better in the next year or so I doubt it’s gonna be any better than someone spending an hour writing a puppeteer scraping script
Google should create AI agents to use their services and pay for their bullshit since they like AI agents so much.
