To add to another comment: they failed way too early for that. If you're doing planned obsolescence, you must make sure it fails soon after the warranty period ends, not within weeks or months after the purchase.

Man vs reeducation camp guards

If you're ok with a little piracy, this exists: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dd3boh.outertune

And then you can also buy your favorite albums/songs on bandcamp to actually support the artists!

The constitution prohibits “ex post facto” laws - how can you revoke someone’s documentation when they complied with the laws as they were at the time?

I agree with you generally that this should be illegal, but it probably isn't.

It definitely isn't ex post facto; this is not a law that punishes anyone from a legal perspective, it merely changes the requirements for a certain privilege (the ability to drive a vehicle). If it declared these licenses invalid before the date of the law (which could carry punishments for illegally operating vehicles), then it would be ex post facto.

Another way to put it is that it simply makes a certain action illegal which was previously legal, and laws do that sort of thing all the time. Consider that in the US you didn't need a driver's license in order to drive at all until 1913. The NJ law requiring drivers licenses also "revoked" someone's privilege even though they complied with the laws previously, requiring them to get a permit from then on. But, since it didn't introduce any punishments for not having the permit before it was introduced, it wasn't ex post facto.

Of course the law is also clearly discriminatory, but US's extremely limited anti-discrimination laws are likely not broad enough to be applied here.

The current events should awaken many people to the sad fact that US laws and its entire legal system exists primarily to protect the wealthy and the powerful from everyone else; all other functions are secondary. As such, many horrible, immoral, and unjust things are legal under US laws, and many others will be twisted into being legal by the supreme court.

That list is missing like 50 countries that the US has majorly fucked up for money/oil/power in the last half century, do they not get a pass?

It's not the fault of consumers, monopolization and price fixing are inevitable outcomes of capitalism. Even if people somehow weren't attracted by lower prices, amazon would do all sorts of shenanigans to drive competition out of business or agree with them to fix prices.

TikTok got its hold mainly by being extremely addictive and using predatory dark patterns to keep you scrolling. That and being less censored compared to other corporate social media. While we can try to strive for the latter (with reasonable limitations), we shall not do the former, even if that means less users overall. "Avoid success at all costs".

To be fair, LLMs can be quite useful tools to fill the gaps around traditional tooling for writing and coding. But I agree with you that they will never become AGI, just by their very design.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is already the case, depending on your definition of "code". After all LLMs can spit out code-looking text at a rate much faster than any human. The problem comes when you actually try using this code for anything important, or worse still when you try to maintain it going forward. As such, most code in projects that actually matter will probably be either created, or at least architected and carefully guided by humans for quite some time still.

Yes, fully agreed. What dummies!

-- Sent from my ThinkPad

It actually does this already sometimes, especially if you chat to it long enough. Not because it's "smart", but because it's just emulating a writing style of a corporate middle manager.

'Company deliberately has control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while selling them to unsuspecting general public'