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Another good option is Arcane. Its project structure gives you a good place to put bind mounts which you can edit the contents of in app (like configs and such). It's pretty handy. I am in the process of switching to it from komodo for all of my stacks

Nah not everyone

lol, yeah that tends to happen when someone comes around claiming to understand what is happening yet displays the contrary. Good luck out there

Competitors still exist chief, it is not an effective monopoly yet.

Legal monopoly, no, effective, yes. The US government has even sued them to that effect, alleging they have been using anti-competitor and unfair strategies to maintain its monopolistic power. It may not technically / legally yet be a monopoly, but that is not what an effective monopoly is.

Also yes I do feel you are not educated enough on the matter, as your example clearly shows. It is not "oh no, they know I am out of toilet paper" it is more about "they have location tracking, search habits, purchase history, and more, and now they model predictive algorithms on what variables they need to push to influence you in a specific way". They can extrapolate that some advertisement on your route caused you to speak about X, and the online ad Y afterward pushed you to searching the web for Z, which comes up with specific products or messaging they want you seeing. Now imagine all this data at scale with billions of people and billions of dollars of compute to crunch massive amounts of patterns they can use to push you and others.

It doesn't have to only be about purchases either, this same information can be used to get some political message in front of you, as well as misinformation that you may never properly vet the truth of to sway your decision making over tens, hundreds, thousands or more instances of this.

You can hide behind "But I have autonomy!" all you want, if it didn't work for them they wouldn't be doing it. You will never free yourself of it completely, but why not start reducing your data footprint by not letting your TV record your conversations and viewing habits? Every little snip of their web reduces your vulnerability to it, even if only a little.

But yes, I do agree with your last point. Not really part of this conversation though.

If they increase their prices they will lose to their competitors?

What competitors? Shopping is nearly an effective monopoly. People just don't go elsewhere to check for better prices anymore, amazon is too convenient.

They can sway an opinion with or without tracking people, you seem to be taking away peoples autonomy on this point.

And you seem to be ignoring how predictable the human brain is. There are reasons people consider all these algorithms to be evil, they take advantage of emotional weaknesses to influence people to do things they normally wouldn't have. Saying it has always been that way doesn't make this more effective way any less of a problem. With all this personal information being harvested, these companies can ramp up the manipulation and sell it to the highest bidder. That information is something worth hiding so you can still interact with the world and be targeted a bit less.

You folks aren’t special enough to be this paranoid about targeted ads

You dont need to be special lol. They are targeting everyone all at once. I really suggest to read into the situation a bit more as you seem to underestimate the scope of this issue.

AI is Evil -> Irresponsible AI use is Evil AI destroys the environment -> Irresponsible AI use is destroying the environment

All it really takes imo is a small adjustment of words to change your stance from looking like zealotry to actual concern for the issues. I also think these sidetracks are important, to be fair. Otherwise we wouldn't have had this conversation to deepen our understanding of the issues.

I would be more than willing to agree if the message was "Frontier AI labs are causing massive harm to the environment by facilitating irresponsible use of AI" rather than "AI is evil, fuck you for using it" (not saying those are your words, just getting my point across lol)

Then why did you say they were leftist?

As for the layoff blame, just because I say I like hamburgers doesn't mean I hate hotdogs. Layoffs can be happening from both those things, and just because people are acknowledging one source doesn't mean they are helping the other source..

You are right, it is a false equivalence, the stranger standing there isn't automatically processing, tagging, then sending off the data to thousands of customers so those customers can increase your prices for things they know you'll buy anyways, use the data to flood your algorithmic feeds with something that will actually sway your opinions their way.. But yeah.. You have nothing to hide right?

He doesn’t care for misguided opinions not backed with anything but emotion. The people he is talking about don't actually look into the issues and fight those, their mind is set that AI is evil and you are too for any usage of it, without actually understanding anything about the situation.

There are situations where using AI uses less power than traditional methods, there are situations where the power is clean, hell there are even models getting made that don't use stolen data. Some people use it more responsibly (use tiny models where possible) while some toss everything at whatever new Fable or Opus is available.

There are levels of AI usage and their blanket statements with no understanding are annoying because it alienates the people that are responsible with their usage.

Maybe I am just not understanding your direction based politics, but isn't it the right that put him in office? Isn't your comment backwards?

To be clear, I literally don't know, it's hard enough following my own country's politics lol

Thanks for mentioning that client! Just gave it a go and its probably the best client I have tried so far

His comment was not based on three nines, the OP is the one that brought up 10 min a week