Or women.

Or transgender.

Or heathens.

Or poor.

Or disabled.

The list is essentially anyone who is not a Christian white cis male.

We’re going to need lots of popcorn.

Absolutely.

Except not in this timeline.

Here it’s all about ChatGPT, nothing about neural networks, nothing about machine learning, or about what we used to call expert systems.

You do realise that the journalists around us don’t sit still long enough to make the distinction, and I can guarantee that the Orange has a shorter attention span than a goldfish. The general public has no clue at all.

Hopefully ChatGPT et. al. will choke on their own input shortly, take all the trillions of investment dollars into the sewer and cause a few CEO’s to suddenly discover the meaning of Defenestration.

… dreaming is fun …

On a positive note, something we, as-in science, got from this whole kerfuffle is back propagation, which for the first time gave us the ability to (partially) solve until now unsolvable multivariate problems.

Hopefully more will come of that before the LLM in charge pushes the big red button into oblivion.

What could possibly go wrong … though to be fair, the current crop of LLM are evidently smarter than the Orange running the country at the moment … even including typical LLM hallucinations.

For shits and giggles, check out the dimensions of a sheet.

How do you think that the internet works?

How do you propose to connect such a mesh in New York to New Jersey, or Chicago, Los Angeles, or Sydney?

What, price gouging, on eggs? What will they think of next, toilet paper? No wait, I bet they haven’t thought of making the package look the same, but put less product in it and charging the same? No wait, what if they changed the package and put less in it and charged more?

Nah … that will never work.

This sounds like a trap.

It’s free unless you fail the test.

So if between weeks you don’t retain any skills and the entire world resets, then the sum total of your existence is what you experience in a week and what you can store in 1 kB of data. Unlike groundhog day, where the protagonist knows and can learn.

The 1 kB would be the only thing that indicates that something is going on.

The irony is that your own memory of the 1 kB existing and how to write to it would also need to be retained.

(I’m a software developer, it’s all about the edge cases.)

My initial response with the expanded parameters, I’d probably store a GPS location and a timestamp. How far did you get in a week, assuming that your starting location also resets.

Seems like storage outside your brain is stable, so you can use your 1 kb of brain persistent storage to store a URL and credentials.

I only noticed the € vs $ because I was searching for the case, so all good.

It’s telling that they continue to attract fines. I saw the ones you mentioned also but didn’t have the energy to start digging.

Despite assertions made to the contrary in this thread, I’m not at all convinced that they’re doing anything other than maximising shareholder value to the exclusion of all other considerations, including making a risk assessment in relation to paying fines versus compliance with the law.

Interesting, when you read that article, it says that Meta will appeal, searching for the GDPR fine and the appeal, all I found was more fines, but no records of the results of any appeals.

Also, it was €1.2 Billion, not $1.2 Billion.

Again, you vastly underestimate the size of Meta.

In the last quarter of 2024 it shows a net income of $20,838 million. A $20 million fine would change that 3 into a 1 and again, that’s net income for just for three months.

Source: https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2025/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2024-Results/default.aspx

What are the legal implications of hosting this information in a different jurisdiction and are there places where this data would be legally protected?

Think about it in terms of risk / reward or if you like, shareholder value.

If the value of the data exceeds the fine combined with the risk of it being discovered, the data will continue to exist.

Factor in the cost of actually guaranteeing that deleting something across all online, nearline, offline and archived data stores and the chances of anything being purposely deleted are not high.

Accidental data loss, sure, purposeful data loss, I can’t see it happening.

And?

I’m going with … never.

I’m familiar with Linux, having used it daily since 1999.

I’m referring to the research about tech workers thinking that MacOS is based on Linux.

An offline version with ads and no ability to store data locally sounds like an online version to me.

What I find more shocking about this assertion is that I have no facts to back it up, but I believe it, and I’m not surprised.

Of course someone here has a link to some actual research … right?