True except the 80% of people who will suffer further because of it, and the 20% that will gleefully be laughing to the bank and buy up everything at a discounted price. Few of us should be cheering for the failure or success of AI.

We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong!

Turns out that maybe a YouTuber gathering a bunch of old failed Commodore executives who don't give two shits probably isn't the best way to bring a failed company back online who's sole purpose is to cash in on nostalgia from GenX'ers who is general give zero fucks about it.

Anyway to set up Firefox on android to actually block tracking? Seems like it is just as leaky as Chrome, but maybe they have improved it.

We don't need companies taking risks for the sake of risks though. We need companies that actually have good ideas and can produce products. This isn't much better than a Kickstarter. And you probably know incredibly well, no one is changing or going to succeed in the very bloated cell phone market.

Mullvad doesn't work on Android though correct? And if privacytests.org/android is to be believed, seems like Brave currently is the best of the bunch, unless you have seen something better?

I think you'd be surprised, there is always a connection. Oh some middle aged millennial waxing poetic about nostalgia? Wow, totally haven't heard that before, and it's certainly not the singular thing every company is capitalizing on in media currently. No, you are absolutely unique and Google is simply listening to every conversation about you.

Anyway to set up Firefox on android to actually block tracking? Seems like it is just as leaky as Chrome, but maybe they have improved it.

Probably something people aren't thinking about. How would this even work in two party consent states/countries?

It doesn't need to, that's the issue, there is so much other data you are generating that can be harvested. Nothing you talk about is completely random, so it's incredibly easy to build profiles about you, without listening to a single word.

I am thinking about installing Graphene OS, any thoughts so far on how it work, or rather what hasn't worked on it? I am already using Brave and Proton and trying my best to get out of the AI overlord mess that is Google.

People have already done that and shown that no the device isn't listening to you 24/7 and sending all your data out. There are plenty of papers on the subject, and it makes sense. Why record, decode and analyze all audio when your digital footprint is so much easier to compile and analyze. People aren't random, so it's easy to put them into statistical buckets of how to target them. Here is one reference paper (of many): https://recon.meddle.mobi/papers/panoptispy18pets.pdf

Hire them back at a lower pay none the less. People will and are desperate for work, so it won't be difficult.

Yeah, most of the analysis I have seen has shown job losses due to AI have amounted to less than 1% of job losses in the US. Most of the losses are because of... just look at the White House. Easier to blame AI than actually admit politics is causing some serious issues.

I mean fast chargers already do this by default, especially Tesla Chargers with 'surge' pricing. Can't wait until they figure out exactly how much you are 'worth' and can just set the exact pricing based on what you 'can pay'.

You could also just take a couple of pictures and if people are moving, do an image stack and it removes the people from the images. Pretty classic technique to get rid of people from busy photos. These days you could also just use AI to remove people from pictures as well.

Oh wait until you hear about them partnering up with SignalTrace. When they capture your license plate, they then will capture any wireless signals associated with the license place (wifi, bluetooth, tracking tags, ect) and then can easily build a profile about you without needing your license plate in the future.

Tipped workers represent 5 million+ workers in the US. While yes, ending tipping is important, probably better ways like raising minimum wages and getting rid of 'tipped wages' would work to end tipping rather than just telling 5 million people they need to find different work.

But if you talk to the majority of tipped workers, they don't want to change the system, which is likely a far larger hurdle compared to diner preferences.

Yeah, my first computer lab was similar, full of old Apple 2s, lot of Oregon Trail and Mavis Beacon teaches typing. Wild that kids don't take or have typing classes any longer. I can't say I miss it perse, but it was great to have access to a computer when we couldn't afford one at home.

Same in every industry. Food industry is especially bad. Hell, I grew up on a farm in the US and we were free labor for our parents, but we wouldn't have survived elsewise.