I think they just hate, nothing is protected even what they claim.

You know how in the movie Idiocracy they used " 'baitin" as a shock factor, and had all the woman characters be demeaned and sexualized?

Somehow, this is a lot worse.

Yeah, and this is how I know you never worked in the random standard production to miss the humor. Its a picture of a tech bro type in a clearly decommissioned closet stressed out about what’s going on, a common thing and always funny. I can just picture the tech on site in the next room replacing a fan on a much less “cool” looking appliance while that guy stresses out on a conference call with the “stakeholders” on his coax nest.

Now that being said I have worked on places still using coax (might still be) and tape libraries, and all sorts of museum pieces well after you would think they would. But I can tell that picture is after decommission since it is clean. If that was in use it would be filthy and filled with so many things that may or may not be important/in use. Fans all clogged running at max rpm, and the smell… I can still smell it now. But then again I was the guy they called to fix shit after the local (often tech bro) it guy gives up so I think I often saw the worst places.

Yeah, but has anyone asked grok about this yet?

The issue is that they don’t care, they sell the data to others and they get to spin it while doing it. Its not selling data (that you are broke) to an advertiser, its the idea of that advertiser falling behind if they don’t buy your data (that you are broke).

unless they’re smart enough to try to connect to any open network they can find like some sort of malware

Uhhhhhhh, bad news there. Many companies have been found to have their stuff make hidden networks and share info these days. I am sure you could figure out a work around if you are savvy enough, but the normal dood? Fucked and pretending this is normal.

Possible that they are piggy backing on other hidden networks. I remember there was a whole thing with Samsung years ago with their stuff doing something like that, and there are a few patents around that propose hidden networks from the “internet of things” days.

I just don’t want to even truck with this nonsense, where the fuck is the line before we just stop using these things? I know there must not be a line, since we are talking about circumventing our shit spying on us like it is normal.

The loss of freedoms in the states… The point you tried to make?

Well that mess of text just derailed the whole conversation. Thanks? I guess?

Someone want to put it into an AI to summarize so we can really jump down this hole?

Some one should ask AI whats wrong with them, then we can ask it to summarize the output to be easy to read. Fuck it, lets just ask it to show us cat videos.

Whoever picked that stock photo needs a raise, chefs kiss.

Its a known phenomenon, seen with Shirley Temple during the depression as example. People tend to want entertainment counter to the world state.

Its how I know we are in clown world times, since not even this indicator seems to play out anymore.

I would get in a jonhy cab way before one of these.

Crime is legal now.

Skynet took on the whole world and more or less won, the us can’t beat Iran…

Maybe North Mexico? Naw that is mean to Mexicans.

If Skynet was based on today’s “AI” I don’t know how it would be the same threat. Like bad, sure. But also reaaaaaly dumb at the same time.

Oh good point, I clearly was not looking at the silver linings

Ha! When has a windows 11 update actuality been a net benefit?

Likely a mix of all 3 things. (Both stupid lawyers using chatbots and a special extra helping of techbro leadership that is hellbent on “challenging the paradigm” or some other shit)