Anyone who assumes they won't be fooled is setting themselves up for disaster.
The biggest of Musk's warning signs, for me, was the hype. Hype can drown out valid criticism. When the hype is big enough, valid criticism ends up being drowned out by rage based, critical rhetoric that's in a screaming match with proponents.
(The worst part about being hype averse is that I can end up averse to legitimately exciting things.)
It's funny you mention that because I remember at the time of HyperLoop somebody said "what about just ... trains?" and we all scoffed at it as if trains were some outdated technology
AI is maximizing the move fast and break things approach, including not asking for permission from its userbase.
It's consistent with believing that AI is the future -- if a company doesn't perform really well, it loses that race. And if the userbase they piss off is also the userbase that's skeptical about AI, then they're not pissing off anyone that's relevant to the company winning.
By migrating to another code forge and paying them so they're sustainable.
Which doesn't answer your question at all, but it is the metric they'll pay attention to. And it is the the thing that actually addresses the underlying problem.
This isn't just a kernel thing. Expecting volunteers to dump time into compliance is ridiculous. Not because they oppose the idea, but because huge swaths of the internet run on people doing something for free -- and they'll just do something else if governments begin threatening them.
Europe realized this with their new infosec liability regulations. If you're giving your labor away, you're not liable for your software; if you're making money off your software, step up and do better. Maybe California and the others should learn more from the EU.
> Expecting volunteers to dump time into compliance is ridiculous.
Exactly, so any distribution that relies on volunteers will likely include a region-locking clause in their documentation (which may or may not be a GPL violation)
Many big distributions (Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora) are sponsered by big tech companies, and are not maintained by volunteers.
Can you imagine trying to fully trust a mental health professional today? A patient can't see a therapist's notes, but they sure as hell can be breached.
There is zero LEGITIMATE use for your breached health data.
The business owner is in a job that takes a huge amount of their life, with a suicide rate four times higher than average.
People accuse veterinarians of being in it for the money, the same day another owner decides to euthanize their dog because they don't want it anymore. While an angry owner on social media is rallying pitchforks over something that the vet can't even respond to due to privacy standards.
I have no sympathy for PE that's wandering around our lives, destroying the actual purpose of businesses to extract profit from everyone they can.
There are times when it is best for the project to stop being fully open source. Such a hardline stance that it should always be open source and changing that is considered a rug pull is a harmful mindset to have as it can result in projects dying or missing their shot at success.
The biggest of Musk's warning signs, for me, was the hype. Hype can drown out valid criticism. When the hype is big enough, valid criticism ends up being drowned out by rage based, critical rhetoric that's in a screaming match with proponents.
(The worst part about being hype averse is that I can end up averse to legitimately exciting things.)
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