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I already cancelled my subscription. They've demonstrated far too reckless behavior for me to trust something this critical to them, especially as they present themselves as the private and secure alternative.

Okay, to me it reads like a lazy swipe. You seem to be aware of the power of AI to build you whatever you want, so why ask this question like this? It seems like you're just trying to tell people they should fully trust the software they install.

Sometimes you need to use a particular piece of software but don't want all of its functionality. You're allowed to want some but not all.

It used to be. The core offering is still functional. But with every update it becomes less usable. Orbs, badges, glittery avatar borders, aggressively animated, rainbow gradient text usernames, and now ads embedded directly into the UI.

> The Ultimate 4K System includes every 4K movie available (at the time of shipment) pre-loaded onto two Terra Prime 120TB movie servers along with one Strato K movie player.

What? How are they getting away with that?

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Firefox have all those features? Why put third party intermediary between you and the source?

Perhaps the average employee at this organization is ill-equipped to make good use of AI. Efficiency and effectiveness might be a function of a good engineer wielding it, while a bad engineer might burn through tokens just to keep up.

Or maybe that's just me in the bargaining stage of my career collapsing.

Do 404media links get auto de-ranked on HN? I know it's a contentious publication in the SV tech circles. I'm surprised this isn't higher up.

One would imagine they've run the numbers and found it to be unproductive to spend more on Claude.

Doesn't stop them from legally mandating you give them the device as-is and retain all data on it.

My philosophy: if the hardware doesn't belong to me I'm not doing anything personal on it, no exceptions.

Translation software and text-to-voice has existed for many years, why does AI make this any different?

Horrid. What the hell are they doing?

Aren't we supposed to be living in a world of accelerated software abundance because of AI?

> Japan is an island. It has always been and not just from a geographical perspective. Its very culture and history are ones of isolation. The restrictions are not new, the perspective "Japan first" is not new - these have always been there, they are at the very core of the nation.

That's not at accurate from what I know of Japanese history. You seem to be over-indexing on the (relatively) brief Tokugawa-era sakoku policy and ignoring the thousands of years surrounding it where Japan was an active importer of culture.

Kanji, government structure, Buddhism, law, art and more were all imported from China and hugely influential in Japanese history. After the the Meiji Restoration, Japan explicitly set out to Westernize and went abroad to study European and American institutions, invited Westerners in to help build European-style banking systems and government systems, adopted Western clothing, architecture, military organization, legal codes, etc. etc.

If anything the Japanese are masters at importing the things they like of foreign culture and then modifying to make it their own. They have always been importers of culture.