Indeed Azure & AWS use complexity (e.g. their terrible docs) and convoluted non-standard terminology, approaches and non-interop to keep developers in their platform silo and competitors, who provide the same advantages with better DX and less complexity, away from their money cows.
What a great beacon of hope to consider that we are closer than we thought in the clean energy rollout !
I read somewhere, not sure though how it is assessed/how valid it is, that last year 50% world-wide came already from clean power, with countries like the UK around 50% in the middle and others like Spain far ahead.
Yeah UK's currently going through the biggest rollout of renewable energy ever, the pace is insanely high. Theres new rules to allow plug in solar coming into effect too with kits already available for renters and such.
> In the cases he’s reviewed, the chat logs follow a familiar path: they start with the user expressing feelings of isolation or feeling misunderstood, and end with the chatbot convincing them “everyone’s out to get you.”
> “It can take a fairly innocuous thread and then start creating these worlds where it’s pushing the narratives that others are trying to kill the user, there’s a vast conspiracy, and they need to take action,” he said.
> Those narratives have resulted in real-world action, as with Gavalas. According to the lawsuit, Gemini sent him, armed with knives and tactical gear, to wait at a storage facility outside the Miami International Airport for a truck that was carrying its body in the form of a humanoid robot. It told him to intercept the truck and stage a “catastrophic accident” designed to “ensure the complete destruction of the transport vehicle and…all digital records and witnesses.” Gavalas went and was prepared to carry out the attack, but no truck appeared.
> Time to organize around groups and collectives that we know we can trust
I’ve had the same thoughts, but if you look deeper, it all circles back to what we already had: (open, transparent) public institutions, society, and government by the people. The foundation wasn't the problem; the environment was.
Along the way, social media noise, engagement-optimisation and Kardashian-style "entertainment news" infecting real news made an attention economy where, no matter how scandalous you are, attention can be minted into dollars. That is what polluted our infosphere and lead to the lack of trust.
Now, nobody trusts these previously mentioned public entities any more - sometimes due to state-actor or ad-tech disinformation, and sometimes for good reason like when the poisoned public allowed these 80s-style telemarketer-style political weirdos and their cronies to take over public administration.
Even though normally people on here do not prefer videos, this one is based on a scientific essay and comes with the added benefit of being really on point while also being funny - give it a try!
Original Essay: https://curecancer.ai/
OpenAI has now officially absorbed the Facebook/Zuck's ethos of 'Move fast and break things' no matter if it's society itself .. as long as their share prices "go up".
They even hired former infamous FB staff and have been in the last months employing the same 'engagement' (addictive) product patterns.
I've been replacing my Google Homes and Chromecasts with Snapcast streamers, and this is the next thing I've been planning to look into.
It's truly absurd how the Google voice assistant USED to work properly for setting timers, playing music, etc, and then they had to break it 15 times and finally replace it with much slower AI that only kinda does what you want. I'm done.
Selfhosted is the way to go if you want to keep your sanity. My wife has basically given up on any Google/Apple voice assistants being able to do anything useful above "set a 10 minute timer".
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