Seems like in the USA everyone gets treated badly all of the time, except the very richest.

You have 10 minutes to clear your desk and get out. Not a team player!

If it gets wrong enough, people will stop using it. So it would be in the interests of AI companies to pay for good sources of data.

Or at least you’d hope that. In actual fact they’ll be thinking: let’s keep stealing because most people don’t know or care whether what the AI says is true. Besides, they can make money by turning it into a tool for disseminating the views of those who can pay the most.

https://archive.is/ECZN8

I recently learned that Steve Ballmer is a director of and major donor to the Jewish National Fund, which supports the Israeli military and the settlers in the West Bank and around Gaza. This made me like Steve Ballmer slightly less.

https://shopisrael.com/blogs/support/does-steve-ballmer-support-israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_National_Fund

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Polio_Eradication_Initiative

Torvalds is still very active on the Linux kernel. As far as I know, he’s in charge of it and makes major decisions about its direction.

Bill Gates retired from Microsoft in 2008.

For a couple of minutes.

The point is not that there’s anything inherently wrong with a Chinese phone, but that they’re lying by saying it’s designed and manufactured in the USA. It is neither.

Yes, I wouldn’t assume the picture has anything to do with the phone (if any) people will actually receive.

He ripped off the font, and some are saying it’s a slightly tweaked REVVL 7 Pro 5G, which is a midrange Chinese phone T-Mobile already sells for $170 with a T on the back. Trump’s T is a bit bigger. Would be fun to see T-Mobile take legal action…

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Yep, apparently it’s a cosmetically tweaked Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G, which goes for $170 under the T-Mobile brand on Amazon.

Eric Trump admitted it was going to be made in China, so the press release’s description, “designed and built in the United States,” is just a lie, or actually two lies.

‘Eventually’: Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn’t being made in the USA

If by “everyone” you mean the people stupid enough to buy a made-in-China Trump phone.

Apple’s “find my” network can find your phone when it’s turned off, because the phone continues to transmit low-energy Bluetooth which other devices in that network receive and report. So if you’re in a crowd with a switched-off iPhone and other people have their devices on, it’s still possible for your location to be tracked. There may be other modern phones that do this too, continuing to transmit low power signals to nearby devices. If you really don’t want to be tracked, you can’t be sure Airplane Mode or turning the phone off will be sufficient.

You don’t get the same feeling of suspicion about what the machine is up to. Windows 11 feels like the computer spends just enough time doing what you want that you don’t walk away forever in frustration, but most of the resources are spent doing unspecified things in the background for people you don’t know, who are very interested in what you’re doing. My Windows XP machine’s CPU scores 75 on Passmark, while my Windows 11 machine scores about 46,000. But the speed at which they do many ordinary things isn’t so different, because Windows 11 does so much heavy stuff in the background. My Linux machines (scoring between 8,000 and 28,000) all feel tangibly faster than Win 11.

I ran mine like this for years. Then a few weeks ago I installed Immich so we can browse photos directly from the NAS on our phone. That’s how it will stay. I don’t want it to turn into an application server.

Dyson was dead to me when James Dyson campaigned for Brexit on the grounds that it would be better for British jobs, and then, once Brexit was done, moved his whole operation out of the UK to Singapore. After which he whined to the media about how people were being hard on him, calling him things like “hypocrite”, “traitor” or “weasly greedy little Farage-fellating wanker the country would be better off without.”

EU referendum: Sir James Dyson says Britain better off out

Leave campaign’s tweet about Dyson staying in the UK has aged terribly

Brexit backer Dyson says hypocrisy claim over HQ move abroad ‘incredibly harmful’

Google is doing a good job of discouraging some of us from buying Pixel phones. But they don’t care because the number of people installing Graphene etc. is relatively very low.

Raising all boats makes a much more fun world.

Billionaires are pathologically selfish, often it seems with actual personality disorders that make them unable to understand a world of mutual support and sharing, or to appreciate how much they benefit from others’ support. Unfortunately we let these people become far too powerful.