It was already a propaganda mill. Now it will be for the Nazis instead of China.

The problem isn’t co-pilot. Co-pilot is reasonably useful if you’re careful.

The problem is that it will almost certainly cost extra.

And that’s fucking terrible.

Sadly yes and they’re mainly taking the worst aspects. Normal built in features like heated seats as subscriptions, dropping smartphone integration for their own far inferior dogshit UI and features, and so on.

Eh if they come up with a reliable way to defeat it I’d say it’s worth it.

I use a wireguard tunnel and run my system through my dual PiHoles at home… on my iPhone. I don’t get tons of ads. But I’m stubborn like that. If they manage to show me ads after all, I’ll simply stop using the whatever unless I have no choice. I’m not married to any of this shit and hate ads more than I like apps etc.

And here’s the problem: I don’t give a shit whether you give a shit, yet you and most of Reddit felt the need to weigh in anyway.

Yup my first thought was “Where is your God now?”

Google ditched “Don’t be evil” a long time ago.

lol. My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.

I work in IT. Gen-X. Which you forgot because you’re bad.

My daughter just got her degree in Cybersecurity. Millennial.

tl;dr: STFU with this stupid inter-generational tribalism, it’s wrong and stupid.

That orange tip means that’s a toy, right? That’s how toy guns are manufactured in order to cut down on police shooting people for running around with realistic looking toy guns.

A subscription that somehow still manages to use surge pricing? I’m assuming that’s the next logical step.

Good thing my computer isn’t in Germany. I will stop using web browsers before I disable ad blockers.

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2015/08/03/were-there-alternatives-to-the-atomic-bombings/

What a lazy and shitty comment.

Bombing Japan == horrific but better than the alternatives we had.

Though even then there were variables.

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2015/08/03/were-there-alternatives-to-the-atomic-bombings/

Duh. Spacex isn’t your friend, nor is it benevolent. Not even if you’re a shitty maga fascist.

Fuck “lifetime subscriptions”. They’re taking a page from Tesla and I’m sure they’ll require any new owner to pay them separately should you sell the vehicle.

Simply avoid VW and any future brand that pulls this shit.

I just had the opportunity to purchase “AI” eyeglasses. They do recording, pictures, capture audio, supposedly let you talk to them, etc. IIRC the frames were by Ray Ban, they didn’t look awful.

They were powered by Meta. That was an instant hard pass for me.

TBF I’d probably have skipped them anyway, but if they’d been some other company I’d have at least been intrigued and given them another look.

Good, fuck ‘em.

The FBI says (or at least used to, who knows now that we’re the bad guys) to use ad blocking as a matter of cybersecurity.

I don’t care who it is, all my ad blockers stay on.

Weird because I’ve used it many times fr things not related to coding and it has been great.

I told it the specific model of my UPS and it let me know in no uncertain terms that no, a plug adapter wasn’t good enough, that I needed an electrician to put in a special circuit or else it would be a fire hazard.

I asked it about some medical stuff, and it gave thoughtful answers along with disclaimers and a firm directive to speak with a qualified medical professional, which was always my intention. But I appreciated those thoughtful answers.

I use co-pilot for coding. It’s pretty good. Not perfect though. It can’t even generate a valid zip file (unless they’ve fixed it in the last two weeks) but it sure does try.