Hm, alright, I can see that - but to me, this is an example of business practices that the GDPR is explicitly trying to restrict. Of course it will be difficult to delete someone’s data if you’ve been sharing it with many other companies.

Could you expand on some of these challenges? We haven’t had these issues in any companies I’ve worked at, but those were mostly on the smaller side.

Weird question to ask through radio, over.

AI could be useful if it could orchestrate more complex tasks that the relevant apps don’t natively support. But of course that’s not what we’re getting.

I use lots and lots of timers every day to structure my chores and work. For example, I’d sometimes love to be able to start one timer, and have another one set to automatically start as soon as I stop the ringing from the first (which might take a few minutes).

Very simple requirements, but specialized enough that I’d have to write it myself. But I can’t see phone AIs supporting something like this in this decade.

That’s good! But I’d still prefer if I and the other 44% could at least say “please stop producing and sending us trash”.

They should really make mailed advertisements opt-in, but of course the industry won’t do that. And this what makes it cancerous IMO: they never give up trying to inject ads into people’s lives.

OTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact

That’s a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label “cancer” seems fair to me.

Yes, it’s pretty common knowledge that this is how many fashion trends were set. Unless you’re educated in the field and know that pop sci is wrong on this, there are less condescending ways to ask this.

Yeah, I find it hard to believe this wasn’t their goal, especially considering they found this bug in testing and still released the update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994193

I’m also not a fan of Slack, but it doesn’t break new things every week while also putting ads in your face, so that’s a plus.

Teams is also only communication.

I am vaguely familiar with Cities Skylines and many other city sims, and I’ve never heard those acronyms. This isn’t a Cities Skylines-specific community, so it’s more than fair to ask for an explanation of them.

Slack isn’t great, but at least a few years ago it was much, much better than Teams

Yes, it is. No, the delays on Youtube don’t come from the performance of the adblocking code, so you won’t notice many differences. But more efficient adblocking is good for everyone - noticeably more so on devices with batteries, but still helpful for everyone.

Well yes, but have you also considered that line must go up?

Not righteous at all, bro :(

What a fucking piece of shit.

I have to admit, every time a story like this comes out, it makes me distrust any other large company all the more. When this whole thing first started, I already expected the publisher to be lying. Looks like the pattern holds true!

No, you couldn’t.

Homomorphic Encryption is a well-known field of research in cryptography. Honestly, if you are capable of understanding the proofs, you don’t need them to be listed on Wikipedia.

That’s also my approach. If I want to use a slur for comedic effect, I only do so if nobody I’m addressing is actually part of the targeted group.

Damn, that sounds great! Hard to believe we’re already at 3.2, it felt like I was waiting for 3.0 for a decade!

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll give it a try!