Not being able to run ai spyware 11 sounds like a big entry in the plus column to me 😅

Well that sucks. I assumed the ram, ssds, hdds could be recycled into useful forms.

Can we all buy cheap hardware when the bubble bursts and the billionaires decide not to pay the electricity bills for these ridiculous datacentres?

Feel free to repost, I’m more of a commenter 😅

Sweden have been leading the way in extracting screens and digital services from schools. Worth reading this: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/sweden-went-all-in-on-screens-in?publication_id=1221094 Plenty of data referenced for the reasons why…

A fair response. Just couldn’t see anything except US references when I looked at the site.

Love the princess bride reference. Thank you for acting on behalf of those of us with less technical skills.

Your comment is more technical than I can properly follow, but this all reminds me of the tarpits I read about a year ago. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

Is that more usable? (Genuine curiosity from someone who would shed no tears if the plagiarism machines experienced resistance)

your Industrial Workers of the World only seems to exist in the USA; a disproportionately problematic but still relatively small part of the world.