When using my current browser, any guess as to how often I’ve said to myself “I need a browser that spies on me more”?

Well, killing off Chrome would probably be a good thing.

I know from the way it looks at me that my spreadsheet loves me.

So he’s trying to declare Game Over to avoid accountability? Fuck that.

And if you thought there was some natural end point to enshittification, here’s your evidence that there’s no such thing.

An alarming number of them believe that they are conscious too, when they show no signs of it.

Is Musk going to try to rig the proceedings so he can claim victory?

Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.

They’re probably laundering Trump’s ill-gotten gains.

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That category also includes a number of things that will lead to the deaths of large parts of the US population.

So what’s the great challenge with blocking it phoning home, or even better, subtly fucking with the data it sends back? For example, Winnie the Pooh-themed fisting videos.

In the sense that it’s flagrant bullshit, yes.

“It’s not entrapment if it isn’t a person doing it!”

Just open the felching hatch and have a spittoon handy.

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People on Lemmy are really good at seeing past capitalist propaganda, except when it comes to China.

Any information coming to the West from China is state capitalist propaganda.

Show me any post about any technological advance that doesn’t have critical comments in the thread.

Posts like yours reek of nothing more than propaganda.

Smells more like bootlicking to me.

This announcement would be seen as a massive breakthrough anywhere else.

I don’t trust science (or R&D engineering) that’s not peer reviewed. Anything else is just marketing hype. Show me hard numbers or GTFO.

China also has a problem with the government lying-- for example, about their claimed reductions in greenhouse emissions. There’s no reason to trust self-serving authoritarians without credible corroboration.

BYD will later this year have 7 different car models on sale in Britain vs 6 (soon to be 5) from Ford.

That’s an irrelevant metric. Nobody’s going to buy a car just because the model range is a bit wider than some other company’s. What’s relevant is adoption, and then buyer loyalty. It may be that BYD offers cars that people want to buy, but they’re subsequently found to be of crap quality or aggressively undermining driver privacy (which other non-Chinese manufacturers have also done).

but the shear scale of investment from China will make them unstoppable

If appropriately rigorous science and suitably disciplined engineering are part of the process, and regulators do their jobs correctly, then maybe. Otherwise it’s just throwing money at a problem. Investment doesn’t guarantee results. China is certainly capable of getting positive outcomes from tech investment, but it’s not guaranteed.

Well, that and lack of diligently enforced safety standards.