The only thing protecting us before was “who has the time to analyze all the data we gather about you?”.

Without analysis how could they tell that you consistency take an extra 1.45 minutes to clock back in from lunch when you eat Taco Bell. Schedule a colon cancer screening, while also increasing your health insurance premium along with your estimated new risk level due to your sub optimal life choices? This is all needed to insure you last meat bags with jobs perform to shareholder expectations.

Well guess what LLMs are really good at?

It’s been a heavy rainy season here, lots of wind, power and net issues.

Meanwhile, the LAN works on a UPS, solar, and no Internet.

(Sure is nice being able to put on a movie or music playlist, and work on documents, or sort though old vacationphotos when it’s a rainy day with out a cloud failure blocking it.)

Something something, national security, builds a regulatory moat.

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Also, I want most of the services they want to move to the cloud to still work when the net is down.

I may want to use a computer to watch my media library or play a game that I already own with out an active internet connection and ID card. Or, just use a word processor or tax program, or image editor.

Sorry, please provide your ID to log in to the cloud to do basic daily tasks, citizens. This is for your own good, trust us.

Here’s a crazy idea, spend the money on power/network infrastructure now, and build more renewable power generation as we go.

That way, in the worst case scenario, you have cheap renewable power for a generation rather than warehouses of depreciating and unused silicon.

Wonder why they decided to run them on NG… Hmmm

Same for Roku, and worse now that they were bought out. Sorry grandma, the Roku is getting cut off. Lol

Control. Can’t black mail people if this sort of thing is generally acceptable and it’s easy to be anonymous.

What good is a surveillance state if you can’t threaten troublesome elements with purity laws.

To get my codes you have to play Alone in the Dark 2, and have the original 2 sided playing cards, then translate that into Brittanic runes and find the latitude and longitude of the given city on a cloth map from the original Ulitma.