I suspect that it's always been the case that bigger customers are able to negotiate better prices. 1 car a year vs 1000 cars a year? 200 pounds of bread a year vs. 200 tons of bread?
Absolutely ... smart thinking! Each brand is likely to have different ways to lobotomize it, might take a while to decide which is easiest/best return, then start stocking up.
I heard a talk a few days ago, and the fella said that if you want a non-smart monitor, you'll need to pay somewhat more for what he called an 'industrial monitor'. He said the 'smart TV' is cheaper because of all the data it'll collect, and they can sell that data to make the price-to-the-user lower. (Don't know for myself, my old Samsung monitor's only smarts were to send data out to one URL, and I was able to change that URL to a site that doesn't exist.)
For 30 years I watched the fossils downplaying, lying about, covering-up the facts about free solar energy ('oh that'll never work'), wind ('oh that'll never work) and other green tech. Now they see the writing on the wall, and they're buying because that's the way the wind blows ... because They're rapacious motherfuckers, and never have enough money. They started in the US cutting down all the ancient forests, they'll forever rape whatever looks like dollars.
I'd never ask a friggin machine to do coding for me, that's MY blast.
That said, I've had good luck asking GPT specific questions about multiple obscure features of Javascript, and of various browsers. It'll often feed me a sample script using a feature it explains ... a lot more helpful than many of the wordy websites like MDN ... saving me shit-tons of time that I'd spend bouncing around a half-dozen 'help' pages.
It is the case that posts people make on HN can quickly be moved from the front page to the 2nd or 3rd. This may be algorithmic or a moderator decision. A valid point is that there's no way of knowing why this happens, apart from careful reading of the site's guidelines. Some users will be bad-jacketed. Some posts can be flagged or simply go 'dead', also not transparent.
What if some civilization in the past already had something like this, and there are 'plates' or pieces of rock out there (under sand dunes? written in the sides of those vases from ancient Egypt?)
Could they make portable readers that can at least spot old pottery chunks that are probably FULL of videos?
Manipulating the atoms in a crystal to store info is extremely high-precision, as is verifying the accuracy of the write). So is reading positions down to a few nanometers, But consumers wouldn't need a $6000 reader to get, say, 10GB dumped to a hard drive ... you'd carry your crystal and 16GB drive down to the corner store and user their reader to dump sector 37BJ to the drive. No need to trust them with your platter ... but are you exposing all 360TB to potential damage from the machine?
Encrypted text is pretty much worthless to LLM. The hard part is getting decrypters to potential readers. RSS could get the text to readers; it could even get decrypters to readers as well ... if someone was working on this problem.
"Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT cannot accurately cite sources because they do not have access to the internet and often generate fabricated references. This limitation is common across many LLMs, making them unreliable for tasks that require precise source citation."
It also mentions Claude. Without a cite, of course.
Reliable information must be provided by a source with a reputation for accuracy ... trustworthy. Else it's little more than a rumor. Of course, to reveal a source is to reveal having read that source ... which might leave the provider open to a copyright lawsuit.
That's not how capitalism works.