Re: A Godfather of AI Just Won a Nobel. He Has Been Warning the Machines Could Take Over the World.

On 10/17/2024 10:11 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:

Le 2024-10-17 à 09 h 37, DFS a écrit :

On 10/17/2024 8:57 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:
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I don't use sleep all that much anyway, but when I do, I expect it to work. It does in Windows, but I'm convinced that I can get it to work reliably in Linux somehow.

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Keep hope alive!
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As the deceased cola-idiot basher amicus_curious (Bill Weisgerber) used to say:
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"Hope is what replaces action when you run out of ideas."
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LOL!
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Take away hope and cola/Linux/FOSS crumbles to the ground.

 Honestly though, even you, DFS, must be aware of how things are degenerating on the proprietary side.

Most of your claims are paranoid fantasies.  Those that aren't fantasies are irrelevant.

They're pushing AI like there is no tomorrow,

Yes.  And it will continue for a long time.  But what's the problem with it?

they're making surveillance more commonplace without a care as to how it might affect the user.

In your mind.  You have no evidence of this.

Programs that should be light are bloated,

Load up MS Office and LibreOffice and check the memory usage of each.
 > cloud functionality is forced on the user (install Windows 11 > clean and notice that all of your personal folders are within

/OneDrive/),

If so, they're empty and you don't have to use them and you can remove them and uninstall OneDrive.  I uninstalled OneDrive immediately and it hasn't come back, despite many Windows updates.
I am going to reinstall Win11 soon just to clean out the Registry.
 > you can't remove the browser,
Yes you can.  MS's public message is it can't be uninstalled, but it can be.
I haven't tried this but:
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Open a new browser window in Microsoft Edge and paste the following into the address bar to find the Edge version number: edge://settings/help.
Cut and paste the following address: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\{ YOUR Version.Number}\Installer in File Explorer.
Open a new Command Prompt window as an admin within the folder and paste the following command and press Enter: setup.exe --uninstall --system-level --verbose-logging --force-uninstall.
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 > it keeps demanding to make itself the default,
I haven't seen that.  Occasionally a not-associated file type will open in Edge, but I told Windows 11 one time Brave is my default browser, and I rarely ever see Edge.
 > etc.. Sure, some things might work great, but a lot > of things are ridiculously awful. For example, on a fresh install of

Windows, my sound would routinely stutter if the GPU was enabled (common problem in Windows on this model of laptop). In addition, right before giving up, just watching Louder with Crowder and opening an image of my son caused the damned machine to freeze. How do you even explain that? It's just laughable for a paid product to do such things.

You get paid to teach, right?  Does getting paid mean you NEVER make a mistake?

So yeah, Linux software is often shit. The operating system is inconsistent. Many of its developers have drunk the Marxist Kool-Aid. Its users are frequently flaming fagots like Chris Ahlstrom or Joel Crump. However, just like RonB said, you don't pay for it.

I paid $7 for a legal Win11 Pro license (via Gamer's Outlet).

If something doesn't work right, you can probably fix it

Maybe, maybe not.
In the past I suffered MANY non-working menu items in Linux.  Click on an entry and nothing happens.  The command that was executed looked correct (when you edited the shortcut) but it just didn't work.
Sometimes the app could be launched from the command line, sometimes not.

and you didn't pay a cent to do so.

You pay with your time.

Why do we need to continue paying for a product whose owners and developers don't mind progressively taking away our rights

Which rights are you referring to?

and believe that we can't be allowed to even _own_ the software we paid for?

You don't own any GuhNoo/FOSS software you download, either.  The copyright stays with the developer or the FSF.
They often let you do what you want with their code (though they may demand you give them any changes you make), but it's still not yours.

Why do we need to let them know whatever they want about us by default?

You don't.  They don't.
No need to be paranoid.  You and I and many millions around the world have been posting racial and religious and political vitriol online for decades.  What consequences have you suffered from that behavior?

Why does our information have to be on the cloud because it makes it easier for them to decide whether we are guilty of wrongthink?

Your info isn't taken from your computer and posted on the cloud.  Why claim that it is?

Stallman was right. Modern society shouldn't have to surrender to this.

What statements did Stallman make about AI and privacy, etc?