Eurolinux with EU Commission funding would hit hard.

They are as useful as the Large Hadron Collider, or the New Horizons probe.

They are instruments of practical scientific research. They may have some return in useful technology or not, but science is always worth it.

Many people in lemmy is highly primitivist and tech conservatives. Meaning that they don’t actually want any technological progress.

Quantum computer do exist. And have existed for some time now. Breakthroughs have been achieved several times.

That guy is a moron.

But AI assistance in taxes is also being introduced where I live (Spain which is currently being government by a coalition of socialist parties).

Still not deployed so I couldn’t say how it will work. But preliminary info seems promising. They are going to use a publicly trained AI project that has already being released.

The thing is that I don’t think that precisely that is a Musk idea. It’s something that have been probably been talked about various tax agencies in the world in the latest years. The probably is just parroting the idea and giving them project to one of his billionaire friends.

In Spain we trained an AI using a mix of public resources available for AI training and public resources (legislation, congress sessions, etc). And the AI turned out quite good. Obviously not top of the line, but very good overall.

It was a public project not a private company.

Because an AI is not a human brain?

It’s impressive how the technology have advanced in the last years. But obviously it is not a human brain.

Let’s put it in simpler terms. Imagine it’s a French made move and meta just ripped it and it’s selling it back in the web.

As soon as that product, the riped french movie, is available in France for sale they are selling it through their French branch, which would be breaking French law on French soil, thus could be easily prosecuted.

If they do not comply they could be lawfully ban from operating on France.

Haven’t you seen what happened with twitter in Brazil?

That’s not how international companies work. They ARE in France.

That’s not tech. That’s company policies.

Streaming services, as a tech has evolved and it’s a better technology that it was before. New encoding formats allow for transfer of more data over less bandwidth for instance.

Online communications, as in forums as such, as also evolved with new and better ways of posting, and better security (I remember when websites just stored your password in plain text).

What people complain about are mostly company policies, not technology. Netflix charging more for less content, or Reddit banning third party apps are not tech. Those things are not developed. They are just a company decision.

And company decisions are as bad as always. People also got screw by companies in the 90s. People who just notice more now is because now they are older.

Not everyone wants to socially interact. That’s something to respect.

I tend to prioritize not-human services, as social interaction exhaust me.

When I used to work with customers I really didn’t like when people starting talking about unnecessary staff. The less I had to interact the better for me.

Yep, I also been growing older and I have nostalgia for old times. But I’m well aware that grass is only greener on my memory, as it has always been.

When half the posts in your feed are “X instance bad” people get just tired and go out.

It has happened to me sometimes a meaningful part of my feed was just people brigading about some instance they don’t like. It’s ridiculous.