I remember reading that plan and being shocked about how good it sounded. And then they did the exact opposite of every single thing they promised, which I’m sure endeared themselves to all their enterprise customers.

So sure, I welcome Microsoft’s attempts to finally drag itself back into relevancy, but they’ve got a massive self-inflicted foot wound that’s gonna complicate matters.

For a security standpoint, it sounds like your company is exposing everyone to a huge data breach if this gets leaked. And that’s assuming Flock has your best interests at heart to begin with. Imagine what an attacker could learn by identifying the nanes, faces, and checkin times of everybody that worked at your company. Nothing good, that’s for sure.

Ethical reasons aside, tampering with the devices is entirely out of the question. First off, it’s criminal, and second, you’ll be on the shortest of short lists of people who might have done it. (This is more for casual readers of the thread and not OP.)

I agree with the comments that recommend talking more to your union about this. If everything’s going to be handled by security anyway, then why even involve the third party?

Great. First tax dollars are being used to falsely accost people in the streets, next it’ll be the IRS in our homes. I hope your last name isn’t Tuttle.

Not a single better idea in the tech industry.

We saw what this looked like with Ron DeSantis in Florida. When he went to war with Disney, nothing got nationalized. It just got handed off to one of his private cronies.

I’m not worried about high storage costs because Samsungs let you add an SD card to the storage and… Oh they removed that feature from their flagships?

I was a little disappointed to see language like this on Lemmy, but I tried looking up Mythos online and literally all mainstream media talks about it this way. They’ve all bought into the Anthropic PR.

You aren’t wrong, but even if LLMs didn’t exist, employers would invent a scapegoat to make the same demands of their employees.

You propose we do what exactly with AI?

I’m not proposing anything. That’s a whole different conversation. I’m not proposing ways to fix climate change either. Doesn’t mean they aren’t bad.

Corporate-backed vibecode tools want coders to cease thinking about their own code, which is different from software engineers not being able to build hardware. Apples and oranges.

Good?

Ignoring rapid deskilling being forced on us by the tech sector is naive at best. This is not like the things you tried to compare it to.

It’s about as naive as insisting man-made climate change is no big deal because climate change has always been around.

Facedeer pretends to be above the thing he’s doing because he’s a pretty well-known troll who believes nothing and will say opposite statements just to promote AI…

The good news is that none of the companies pushing these products have created the dependency yet, and they are running out of venture capital almost too fast to have the option.

That makes your point clearer now, thanks for elaborating.

The features removed in Brave Origin are its moneymakers: the VPN and AI assistants have a paid tier, the ads are obviously ads, the crypto pushes you towards their preferred tokens. Even the News portion of the app requires some data collection, which can be monetized.

So to me, it doesn’t look like any of their features are hemorrhaging money. Rather, they are making money, and Origin gives users a one-stop shop for opting out of the monetization schemes.

We are, I’m just using Firefox as a counterexample to the idea that less features = desperation.

These aren’t purely hypothetical concerns: Earlier this month, Anthropic announced it had developed a new AI model, Claude Mythos Preview.

So they are hypothetical concerns. The Atlantic just takes Dario Amodei at his word.

(ETA: Mythos is a joke, and an insecure one at that.)

But why not take the opportunity to promote the chatbot CEO who is complicit with bombing Venezuelan fishermen and Iranian schoolchildren!

Hegseth demands that Anthropic allow the Pentagon unrestricted access to Claude, reigniting the dispute first set in motion earlier this year.

Because there is active conflict, Anthropic is more willing to engage with the government’s demands than they were previously.

I can’t wait to see what increased compliance looks like from Dario.

Is this the kind of headline that makes investors excited?

If something isn’t on Android, it’s because the developers made a conscious decision.

The things you listed aren’t on iOS because Apple hates you (more than Google has managed to, thus far) and doesn’t want to let you have choice.

It’s really interesting reading a conversion between somebody who knows what they’re talking about, providing sources, and a known troll (FaceDeer) who can only go “nuh-uh” and complain about ghosts.