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    20 hours ago

    The problem is that even the open source models (and they’re not fully open source anyway) aren’t exactly trained ethically. They’re still trained on stolen data, they are still consuming gargantuan quantities of water and using the same amount of power as a small city.

    They are in no way harmless. The only thing that’s better about them is that they don’t steal your private data. The environmental issues are still there though.













  • If you work for a large enough organisation it’s almost impossible to get fired. Microsoft like most organisations almost certainly operate on the PIN system, or something equivalent.

    Basically to get fired you have to get yelled at by your manager, then have a documented yelling at from HR, then get another documented yelling at from HR, then get put on report, then fail to improve, and then you’re fired. Each stage has like a 2-month cooldown before the next step.

    Start to finish the whole process can take over a year. Most people quit out of boredom before it gets that far. If you are not literally the most incompetent employee in the department you’re probably safe.



  • You would have the same trouble Microsoft did though. No one wanted to use the Windows mobile because there were no apps for it, and there were no apps for it because no developers wanted to develop for a platform with no users. Chicken and the egg.

    It would be nice to have a smartphone that was just web-based and didn’t really have apps, but I think that ship has sailed, people are just used to the concept and I think they would think of it as a step backwards if they had a phone that didn’t use apps.