Imagine how much better the company would be if she didn’t have to burn so much of her time and effort on managing and mitigating Musk’s chaos.

Edits can be reverted, articles can be locked.

Sure, but the vandalism has to be identified first. And that takes time and effort.

Who would take down what is the digital equivalent to the Library of Alexandria?

I can think of a few possibilities

1: peddlers of misinformation

2: people who love the poorly educated and want the misdeeds of their political allies to be forgotten.

3: copyright trolls.

I doubt it’s the engineers who are demanding that this atrocity exist.

There’s also free and open source alternatives.

What happened to freedoms in America? It’s easy for a government to strip them after the people stop believing in them being important.

Add to that how much more difficult (and time consuming and expensive) it is to build/rebuild than it is to destroy and you’ve got a real problem on your hands.

That’s why I choose open source whenever I can.

Chromium isn’t as problematic as Chrome.

Clarkson’s Farm. And until recently, The Grand Tour.

Can’t think of any others from the last few years.

Keep digging, “Leon”.

expect quality at Amazon to decline.

They’ll have to dig a new basement for it to get any lower.

They tried to do the same to me on Instagram.

Nope, it’s not worth that level of privacy invasion.

Alternatively, don’t connect your TV to the internet

Until the first use menu gauntlet requires an internet connection to complete setup and enable the device for normal usage.

“Smart” devices are getting increasingly difficult to avoid in many products categories.

Try buying a non-smart TV without going to high cost commercial/industrial models.

Copilot’s results asserted that Bernklau was an escapee from a psychiatric institution, a convicted child abuser, and a conman preying on widowers.

Stephen King is going to be in big trouble if these AI thingies notice him.

Edit: I agree about junior devs not blindly trusting them though. They don’t yet know where to draw the X.

The problem (one of the problems) is that people do lean too heavily on the AI tools when they’re inexperienced and never learn for themselves “where to draw the X”.

If I’m hiring a dev for my team, I want them to be able to think for themselves, and not be completely reliant on some LLM or other crutch.

If it also shifts their current load off the existing grid, that might be beneficial.

So I guess if they just replaced the control system with a modern computer that would fix most of the problems

Introducing new Clippy For Reactors.

with some maintenance and upgrades.

Hopefully we can trust these tech bros to do that properly and without using their usual “move fast and break things” approach.

they can function even if cellular networks are not functioning, at all or optimally.

When I worked for a cell company, our on-call technicians carried a pager that was on a different company’s network.