My work laptop has at least 2-3 browser extensions that are glorified keyloggers/traffic sniffers.

One of them legit intercepts all my web POST requests and runs them through a locally hosted ML model to try to detect whether I’m mindlessly spilling company data into ChatGPT (or any other big name AI).

That’s all fine or whatever, but Chrome shouldn’t be burning 10-15 GB of memory on my laptop with only a handful of tabs open…

Sigh

What’s worse is when your computer software manufacturer makes such a bad, unintuitive product that they have to invent an artificial super intelligence just to help you figure out how to use it.

This is so true. I’m nearing 40 and becoming more and more frustrated with (mainly) horrible UI redos that move shit around every 6-9 months.

I can’t think of computers as tools anymore because every revision of their OSes just completely obliterates the muscle memory that I’ve built up from decades of using them.

Oh, thought crimes. Neato.

Thune: “We’re not going to negotiate on anything until Democrats stop holding government funding hostage”

So it’s “hostage taking” when you’re the ones getting leveraged?

Countdown until Repubs start chanting “free the hostages!” in reference to the American people… 🙄

This is just bait for people to point out that it’s illegal to commemorate a living president.

At which point they’ll feign “oopsies” and—surprising absolutely nobody—proceed to roll out a Charlie Kirk coin.

“yolo-gramming”