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The hilarious question is: will you fail the AI certification for using AI during the exam? What if it's a competing AI?

So, "Gnu is Not Unix, Dawg"?

That's the real joke...

Let's hope you're right, but you might be underestimating the "$200 per month (robo)engineer can only do it like this, therefore this is the way to do it" factor.

If you often find yourself saying "but you didn't specify humanity must survive this!" maybe you're part of the problem ;)

I believe originally it was a name for PTSD, that's an even more curious association. In case it wasn't obvious, tortoise-related puns can be taken too far :)

I recently concocted a (conspiracy) theory that relicensing of HC projects is a ploy to get IBM (or some other company happy to rain on IBM's parade) to finally make an offer. Mitchell leaving the company features in the theory as well. Basically it seems like since at least 2021 HC leadership and/or investors are exploring exit strategies that will bring in the beeeelions.

When cloud was a young buzzword there was a popular test: replace "in the cloud" with "on the internet" and see if you want to continue.

- We store pictures of our kids [in the cloud|on the internet].

- We store all our proprietary code [in the cloud|on the internet].

- We store all our secrets [in the cloud|on the internet].

- We store all the sensitive customer information that we could be fined millions for losing [in the cloud|on the internet].

It still is a good test, but I guess this ship has sailed...

Maybe it's nothing, or maybe it's freudian, but email existed before Google, so did calendar. Youtube was an acquisition. Maps, well, there are great alternatives now that do not require anal-probe-level surveillance to find an address or a route.

Just publicly fund the services that are useful to people. If "government" (i.e. us) can pay for a square for people to meet at, why not "digital spaces"?

And if someone's thinking "but government will use this data to surveil people!" - this ship has sailed, they have access to everything that's not e2ee, and even that's not guaranteed.

Government is practically the only body that can be expected to follow laws and act with people's best interest in mind. Some governments even do, just need a non-dystopian one...

And yes, there's commercial space in government/local authority-operated places. That's fine, just make sure to boot those that decide to install the equivalent of cameras and microphones on their storefront.