Don’t get me wrong. I’m not defending Google here because honestly, Google definitely is an ad aggregation company first and foremost and the android ecosystem as well as it’s other apps and service are all aimed towards augmenting or facilitating that business.

But Apple absolutely are also in the ad aggregation business and not only do they take kickbacks from Google in order to make Google the default search app on their I-devices, but they also have been fined for illegally collecting user data for targeted ads without user consent.

They absolutely do harvest user data for the purposes of ad aggregation. Their “ethos” of user privacy should not be trusted and anyone who thinks they’re the good guy in this space should probably do some research into this subject.

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-france-ads-fine-illegal-data-1849950163

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-privacy-data-collection/

https://www.androidpolice.com/apple-google-meta-handing-over-user-data-at-alarming-rate/

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/apple-wiretap-settlement-privacy/

Am_ I? Chastising those on Lemmy for using AI, are they the cause of the dead internet theory? Or is that caused by bot farms manipulating social media algorithms? Just because a hammer builds weapons doesn’t mean one should ban the hammer.

You are when you rob those sites of impressions and click throughs. Just because there are other things contributing to the death of the internet, doesn’t mean that you get to move goal posts. This is a significant acceleration of the progress of both enshittification of the web and bot driven dead Internet theory.

You seem to be all for that because somehow you think the Internet can only be improved by removing humans from it and replacing it with bots? Is that what you mean when you say:

I disagree, AI is likely a solution to worsening forums and the like - boring old repeated questions will be answered by AI, anything more unique and interesting will be asked of real people.

Because there won’t be a place for real people when the internet is just bots and the AI has killed every forum in existence, which is what I was talking about when I pointed out that the AI is both inaccurate but also robbing sites of their revenue and visitors.

The difference is that the bubble that burst in the 80’s wasn’t caused by McDonald’s. In point of fact, McDonald’s was seeing significant growth then, and has largely been recession proof from the looks of things.

This AI bubble is dangerous because investment brokers and venture capitalists are putting up money saved in 401K’s and IRA’s and investing those funds in AI. When AI crashes that money goes poof.

speculative investment into AI development is now the dominant force driving the US economy. By the numbers, the US GDP has grown at a rate of 1.6 percent so far this year, on pace to hit the 2.8 percent growth it achieved in 2024. That’s all well and good on paper, except for the troubling fact that two-thirds of that growth came from AI, per WaPo‘s analysis.

Consumers spending is down significantly due to tariffs and other bullshit. Consumer spending is normally what drives GDP growth in the USA by quite a large margin quarter over quarter. The AI boom has supplanted it in a very short period of time at such a large margin that it’s unheard of.

You should probably go look up how much money is being invested in LLM’s and how much money it’s making the companies investing in it. Because it’s pretty far into the red and it’s not sustainable even if all 8 billion of us started paying for subs for it, so long as we can’t make it more accurate (and as the Internet dies it will get less accurate), and we can’t figure out a way to prevent it from hallucinating when it doesn’t have accurate info.

I’m also going to point out how ironic it is that at the end of that you both told me to get with the times and called me an old man, as if in this day and age in 2025 there aren’t women on the internet. That’s a beautiful self own, if I do say so myself. Very nice work.

Because once you recognize that using it is helping along the death of the internet, you start to maybe sort of not want to contribute to the sites you like visiting being scraped for information that when presented to you by a fancy statistics algorithm may not even be correct.

But also because I like learning things and the process of gathering information and vetting it is both easier and better in quality than can be received from and LLM. Or if it isn’t, a simple search engine query will suffice.

I’m also going to point out that this isn’t even the only thing wrong with LLM’s.

When this bubble burst it’s going to wipe out the 401K’s and IRA’s of Americans saving for retirement (the ones that are lucky enough to be able to save) and tank the economy. The largest companies in the world are playing a stock market shell game with other people’s money and it’s gonna end badly.

The resources that the LLM you used are pulling from will cease to exist and the LLM will continue to degrade in usefulness as a result the longer people like you do not engage the actual content being collated by the LLM. This is a zero sum game. The LLM is not sustainable long term for various reasons, up to and including how it’s funded and the fact that its data set is dependent on the websites and resources of other sites where humans engage with each other and the LLM is actively choking off those resources.

Are there any updates for the vehicle’s unfortunately system?

Are there any updates for your phone?

Is your phone hooked up to Android Auto via physical cable or via Bluetooth?

Are there any settings on the vehicles infotainment system you can set or change?

Are you using a voice assistant like Gemini? If so, have you trained a voice model?

I was basically forced to upgrade to the 9 pro from the 8 when I dropped my phone about 25". I could either pay to have the shattered screen replaced or pay for a 9 pro with the discount. I immediate realized just how invasive Gemini had gotten and I miss my 8 every day. The 7 was too big for me, but it was a solid phone.

Nope. It’s not. I had to follow multiple guides and use three different utilities including power shell, group policy editor, and regedit, and even then I didn’t get rid of everything until I got tired of them fucking with shit and used shutup10++ to just toggle everything off. And I’m lucky enough to only have windows on my work computer at this point and to have admin rights to that computer. This shit is exhausting. Every update breaks something new and brings back shit I have been trying to nuke from orbit.

I feel this way about a lot of stuff including fail compilation videos. I don’t know why they exist and I’m glad I don’t use social media anymore because they’re so prevalent. I don’t want to watch someone get seriously injured or die. No thanks.

I use Bazzite. I like it a lot.

Shock! No, but seriously. This is not a surprise.

Nah. Regular people. I am not an influencer and I got one of these emails. But I’m also not going to test their hardware for them.

I like pixel phones but I actually really really hate Gemini and I’m not buying the pixel 10. I think they’re also attempting to get people who bought their phones previously but haven’t bought one in awhile to use more of their stuff.

So long as you download and install a compromised app first.

Dubbed “Pixnapping,” this attack vector begins when a victim unknowingly installs a malicious mobile application on their Android smartphone. -Pixnapping could be used to steal private data, including 2FA codes. -Side-channel attack abuses Google Android APIs to steal data on display. -Flaw is partially patched, although a more complete fix is due in December.

“VoLTE (Voice over LTE) is the feature that routes voice calls over a 4G LTE connection, a crucial function now that carriers worldwide are phasing out their 2G and 3G networks. Without it, you might not be able to make phone calls at all on many modern networks. Similarly, VoWiFi (Voice over WiFi) handles Wi-Fi calling, routing calls over a Wi-Fi network instead of cellular — a handy feature when you’re in a building with poor signal.”

Basically, some countries don’t have access to VoLTE or VoWIFI.

Since they don’t have official access they were using this to gain access (in places where pixel phones aren’t on the market/not sold in that country for instance).

If VoWIFi/wifi calling wasn’t available where I live I wouldn’t be able to use my cell phone to make and receive calls and texts while at home. My place is a dead zone.

Some places also have spotty 5G service. So VoLTE would work better in those areas too.

Damn. Allegedly they hacked this nursery group, stole a bunch of PII including photos of children which they then posted to the dark web, while calling said children’s parents in order to blackmail the nursery group for Bitcoin.

Teenagers. This is nuts.

Mostly because I don’t like gaming on windows and I want things to work without having to tweak every single security feature and all the junk I turned off every single time there’s an update. I’m also tired of MS breaking things with updates and generally using the public as free beta testers to the detriment of their products.

Also, fuck 365.

Not anymore.

Nope. This was a rumor and the article title is misleading. Valve blocked NSFW updates of games that were originally labeled as SFW and then the dev tried to update with NSFW game elements.

I suggested “Fedlings” in the main thread and I think that could work for the fediverse at large.