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They convert our drinking water into memes.

The only thing separating this from being a Ponzi scheme is that there is a product, and it does have value. It’s overblown for sure, but it’s not a pure Ponzi scheme.

It’s not RAM slots, it’s unified memory, built into the CPU/chip. ALso means you can’t expand it later.

You’re not getting a 4080 for $200 though…

Well, the good news is, there are no calls, because your application isn’t going to see a human in most cases.

/s

I mean, if they don’t have permission, and aren’t sovereign citizens of the island/country, that’s an invasion. I’m sure artillery would dissuade the company from encroaching.

I mean, Micron for sure did, when they “exited consumer RAM to focus on data centers” at a point where overall RAM was at peak demand. That’s a supreme intent to create artificial scarcity.

So now LEO’s will just buy the data, instead of getting warrants, right?

Hold my beer

-Copilot

The fact that it can do it in the first place means it can do it at all. Just because they require the selection now, doesn’t mean they aren’t harvesting telemetry 24/7, and won’t “accidentally” enable this feature later.

This sounds a lot like fingerprinting under the false flag of making user experience better.

But was the GPU OK? That’s gold right there.

Speech to Text -> NLU -> Ordered summarized -> human for review (we hope?) -> order placed. They are using these to reduce the labor demand on the human portion, and I presume at some point the “to human for review” will just go away, if they get the accuracy dialed in.

The shitty part is, it’s not like they are saving much money, since those jobs pay shit anyways. I have to wonder what the ROI is on replacing the electronics and hooking all that up, plus the R&D that went into the system itself, is.

Now I envision cops just straight up jacking people’s Rx glasses under suspicion of being recorded, like they do with phones already.

Clearly they are not ready, if Romania is in NATO and NATO didn’t shoot down the drone…

DeepSeek never said it was permanent in their pricing materials, the article writer did. They are just taking the current expiration date off an existing discount. It’s absolutely a shot across the bow at Claude, OpenAI, et al., but the author was click-baiting, as is tradition.

I’m sure your security department will let the battery die.

Yep, HomePod has a 'babbling brook" loop. I used to use “rain on a tin roof”, but Apple is a jerk and doesn’t make bringing your own sleep sounds easy.

Eh, the US gov’t has a pretty solid track record of “bailing out” with “loans” and then “forgiving” them, aka free money for the C-suite.

It was more likely by Security than IT. Had the same issue at my last job. It was so their corpo data harvesting could be running 24/7. It could be this bug, but also could very well be intentional to keep telemetry flowing. It’s disgusting, but it is fairly common these days.