Usually being compared with their non-OOS alternatives, not random enterprise org software.

> We really have a societal problem in that we allow private entities to do things we don’t allow government to do.

Thats basically the foundational idealogy of the united states. Thats not the issue.

The real issue is your next sentence. The government can just loophole around their intentional limitations by paying private companies to work on their behalf.

It's a loophole, but it's willful by design on the government's part. The book "Means of Control" by Byron Tau covers this in great depth.

It's so much worse than even those of us who are moderately interested in mass surveillance know.

I'm aware it's intentional on the government's end. My point is it is not intentional by the original intentions, and should be a priority for people to advocate to fix.

The only private companies with this power are monopolies. Effective competition would destroy this behavior. So the real problem is the government _intentionally_ and _illegally_ allows monopolies to form so they can get access to this workaround.

Sometimes it would be nice if you could just break even though. Particularly for these AI projects.

History did not begin October 7th, 2023. We are capable of looking at prior events to see that the story is not so clear cut.

When are you thinking history began? 1948?

For the part of the history relevant to the topic, you have to go back to at least November 2, 1917 [1].

From the same page: "1901 the Sublime Porte (the Ottoman central government) gave Jews the same rights as Arabs to buy land in Palestine and the percentage of Jews in the population rose to 7% by 1914"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

Honestly? Yeah. Not really Gemini or AI chat bot stuff, but I definitely appreciate when the software I use that interacts with images includes at least some minor drawing/highlighting/text overlay capabilities. So, while I don't like this feature in particular, I'm not against the general idea.

These are real things and they happen on very good hardware. They are even acknowledge by Microsoft. The explorer issue is from waiting on for a response from network drives that the explorer thinks exists or tries to find. The start menu I'm not sure, but I get the issue from time to time and I think its because of some background process hanging the UI or something.

Waiting to download ads to improve your experience.

Ok cool

If people can use AI to find bugs to close them, people can use AI to find bugs to exploit them. The scale has changed.

And the project maintainers or their allies can use AI to find bugs and fix them.

The people developing exploits have an obvious way to recoup their token investment. How do the open source maintainers recoup their costs? There's a huge disparity here.

If people never felt full from food, food was always instantly available in your pocket, and food costed no money to obtain, I believe McDonalds and TikTok would be very equivalent. Likely McDonalds would even be far worse since people would probably be dying to it daily.

That's the bright line. The lack of any barrier to entry.

This requires many asterisks, as once you hit any appreciable size of "giving out food" you tend to hit tons of local ordinance about food safety, permits, and just general distrust of directly interacting with other people's kids at a playground (depending on the age we are talking about, but since we said playground, I'm assuming pretty young).

To add, little children have been arrested for having lemonade stands in the USA before.

Source?

You don't need all the asterisks if you don't stretch the metaphor beyond its breaking point.

I'm not stretching it at all. The context was McDonalds, and the added context was giving food to children at a playground. I'm completely bounded on that context.