Dejected Warp Core

Seriously. “Our product is as much a honeypot for corrupt policing as it is for public surveillance” as the way to whitewash this just goes to show how hard they had to workshop this press release. It’s indefensible.

You’re right, but all the 1% heard was: you think they should have less yacht money.

Ah, that explains why the article smells like an LLM wrote it.

I feel ya. Pass the ibuprofen.

On a related note: every search engine under the sun now has AI built in EXCEPT the one called “Ask Jeeves”. If any of them should have been 100% AI, it was this one. And instead, it fucking died in the middle of all this.

I see you. Not enough people are going to get this one.

[ins] gets used on some systems too.

Of course they’re not using them: have you seen what Telsa charges for their solar tiles? Tesla can’t afford that.

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There’s something about watching a luxury import brand fast-track enshitification faster than everyone else, including economy options.

I misread that as:

The most profitable thing you can do is seize someone readily available […]

… and realized that also tracks.

so responsibility part was skipped.

The article mentions that the datacenter is run by a 3rd party. I’m not arguing to absolve Meta here, but I think this is a classic case of diffusion of responsibility. The more contractors and subcontractors that get involved in stuff like this, the more these kinds of problems crop up.

because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit.

Oh, it’s worse than that. The grant money was the wrong party color, so it had to be disposed of rather than lead to a positive outcome.

Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?

I’ve seen, firsthand, how Icelanders group up and solve problems together as a unit. They have a cultural tradition of outdoing other cultures, because of this.

Further failure domain segmentaion.

If we add unstable governments or government interference to that list of possible disasters, it starts to make a little sense.

Maybe? Probably? For all I know, a solar-sail effect might help it stay in orbit.

Those only solve for gravity, or not having to pay for fuel to keep things in orbit. Other heavenly bodies are further away, so latency becomes a big problem, followed by exponentially more power to transmit (radio) in order to maintain the same bandwidth. That and cooling: the possible candidates range from as bad as orbit to worse and much worse, all with increasing latency and power needs to boot.

Overall, even the in-orbit version is a bad idea.

What’s sad is that Stanley did a remarkable job of putting a vacuum flask in the literal hands of millions of Americans. It shouldn’t be hard at all for everyone to figure out why this is the case, but here we are.

That or they read Neuromancer and came away with all the wrong lessons in their head.

Exactly. It’s like watching the gas station across the street and quietly setting your prices to the same thing. The moment you set it one cent lower than the other guy, it’s a race to the bottom and everyone makes less money.