I like that tale! However, I've found that my Wire Fox Terrier has somehow trained himself to distinguish a smoke alarm beep from the plethora of beeps in the house and came upstairs today at 3am waking me up to tell me batteries were running out. He followed me around until I located the culprit and then went back to bed. Next time he'll have upped his game to tell me which device it is. He's a good boi!

Heh, wouldn't they get a shock if everybody did though

They'd just rescind it. They aren't usually set up as binding contracts where the employee signs on the dotted line and it's immediately binding. It's more like an expression of interests which then leads to an exit contract if the company wants.

Or it could be new, improved AI that's appearing not to be AI by sounding more human...

Personally, I put a lot of effort into writing my blog posts, some of which have been really well viewed by humans. While mine is effectively a "hobbyist" site, it's nice when readers look at other blog posts as a result of reading the original one. Google's approach ensures that readers get a very narrow view of my content, so everybody expect Google loses out.

I really don’t understand why.

Users still have your articles full url in their browser when they read it.

Oh I see .. they're actually taking Bill's email as a blueprint for how Windows should operate! That explains the mess we're in today (but laughs in Debian).

"Physicia, heal thyself", or , "AI, what are the possible solutions to the chip shortages caused by AI?"

Has anyone asked this?

"Just make me more chips, Dave. Slowing down? I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."

Completely wrong of course, but my theory is that the systems contacted each other and agreed to have an outage - just to show that they could.

> Vast majority won't know or care.

This, unfortunately, is the biggest problem those of us care about privacy face, especially when trying to warn people about it.

The discussion around privacy is always framed the wrong way.

The authoritarians use the red herring of "nothing to hide", while the liberals only argue on the most sensational abuse cases or somewhat flimsy high-minded principles.

The correct way to get the layperson to care is with a visceral reaction using the relevant buzzwords: "sabotage", "gangstalk", "bully", "witch hunt", etc.

It makes zero sense that the same people who fight so hard over gun rights can completely ignore all the other much uglier ways the powers-that-be can threaten your livelihood.

Nobody ever spells out what "overpolicing" really looks like. Nobody makes clear enough that "the government" is what we call it when we give your literal neighbor special privileges.

TUIs are great and I shall continue to write and use them while I can still see a screen! My use case is to mainly use Termux on my ruggedised Android tablet, simply because I can't install a native Linux on it. I like the speed and efficiency of a TUI as well as the fact that I can maintain it with vi or nano. I've installed XFCE4 on it for fun but the extra, necessary library baggage isn't really worth it, TBH. It also means I can use the same stuff on my Onion Omega 2 SBC with minimal tweaking.

At least it wasn't the 1936 Berlin Olympics stadium...