Not sure it’s really antitrust in this case. Disc drives in general have pretty much fallen completely out of use in most applications. Laptop and desktops haven’t included them in years, and music, movie, and tv show physical sales have fallen off a cliff.

This is kind of non-news. It is essentially just an ongoing process that has been occurring since the very first industrial robots were introduced.

A government promising it’s worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.

Wrong definition there bud.

Depends on the company. Some asset heavy companies (think railroads, commercial REITs) pay steady dividends, and are extremely unlikely to just go under without warning.

To be fair, you’re only a moron if you are considering it a “hold forever” stock. If you get out in time, or even if you miss-time it, that’s just gambling, which only makes you a moron if you can’t afford the loss.

I usually stop at this point because it’s a complete waste of my fucking time. I already know where the relevant sources of information are, and the current AI models have proven themselves to be incapable of distinguishing between firmware versions or subtle differences in model numbers. I try things again every once in a while to see if anything has improved, and so far, no dice.

The problem for me personally, is that for my job, there simply isn’t enough information for the AI companies to steal train models on. I do industrial programming. It’s programming with fucking crayons. AI is hilariously wrong every single time I have asked it anything.

I love AI, when it works

The problem for me personally, is that AI has worked exactly 0% of the time when I try to use it.

And how much would you have to pay people to take those thousands of Home Depot systems, string them all together, build a facility to hold all this, then hook it to the grid?

Office suites like this are usually more aimed at corporate customers anyway.

Looks like this is going to be a browser based suite with online collaboration, more like Google docs than Microsoft office.

That ship sailed years ago. We are all criminals now.

If the pirates have taught me anything, it’s that there’s a way around everything, and someone somewhere is smart enough and bored enough to find it.

When the bread starts to get expensive, you can’t have the masses protesting against the circus. Doesn’t surprise me in the least that they’d come down hard on the anti-tech crowd.

You know, I think I just came up with my first $1,000,000 product; drywall with embedded copper mesh.

Gonna be a whole lot of people born on Jan 1, 1970

You still be identifiable as the walking cylinder. What we need is a ministry of silly walks.

There may have also been some big money lobbyists from companies like Google, Amazon, etc, that pointed out how much money it would have cost their poor shareholders to implement.

The fun part of open source is that someone smarter than me will inevitably just update the existing spoofing tools to include whatever checks those platforms are using.