Oh yeah, completely forgot to list the destruction of aesthetically pleasing views with public advertising boards and the waste of lifetime spent on watching ads in my list.

Edit: also loss of life from depression and inferiority complexes caused by unrealistic life and body image goals in advertising

That seems more like a 90s problem. Who uses Microsoft Office today as a data exchange format?

The Wikipedia page for SearX claims it has been discontinued in 2022. The GitHub repository being archived in 2023 would seem to support that.

You mean because my responses actually fit the comments I respond to unlike your low effort FUD that is phrased in such a general way that it could easily be spammed all over without attracting too much attention?

I don’t know why you people all think AI has some magical capabilities. Tracking which aircraft is owned by whom isn’t exactly a complex task if you have the raw data of flight movements (needed for ATC and otherwise independently tracked by plane spotters,…) and people movements.

So judging by how many terrorist attacks and similar events had perpetrators that were in theory known to the relevant government agencies that means those private vendors are now somewhere above the “incredibly bad at it” level?

You do not see the scope of the way advertising ruins our society.

We have

• a world-wide surveillance and profiling network collecting data about everyone for advertising purposes that is beyond the wildest dreams of authoritarian regimes
• ruining our planet’s climate through advertising efforts by the fossil fuel and automotive industries among others
• ruining our health through advertising efforts by the tobacco, alcohol, sugar and similar industries
• destroying our systems of government through advertising efforts for political causes and for populist candidates
• keeping our population divided by using advertising methods to spread wedge issues
• destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,…

Essentially everything you think of as propaganda is just applying advertising methods and societal structures for political purposes.

I guess it depends on the kind of job but at least with focus heavy tasks like programming I can already notice my error rate increase significantly by hour 7 or so. I can’t imagine working 10 hours a day without spending half of the next day fixing stupid mistakes from being overly tired.

Realistically most people will still not run devices 24/7 at home. Data centers will always have a place for that kind of service, even if they host a lot of small, independently owned devices by the very same people whose home connections we are talking about.

I would say most people do not need a home connection that is in the same order of magnitude as the average data center server connection in use at the same time. Mostly because by definition there won’t be many servers to transfer data from and to at that speed and the average person doesn’t run too many connections in parallel.

The vast majority of countries do obey US sanctions, at least in the old world order pre-Trump, not sure how that will turn out in the coming years. Mainly because they do not want to be affected by sanctions themselves.

Actually it is mostly the US that has been caught doing that. Not saying others don’t do it but the US is the one who is bad enough at it to get caught regularly.

“Hosting their own” doesn’t exist in this context. There is either an ISP, a data center (for colocation) or (more likely) a root server or VPS provider involved which is bound by sanctions just as much as a Git repo hoster in the same jurisdiction would be.

You do realize that if this is a sanction related thing that it will not be limited to GitHub?

This isn’t really a very high throughput anyway, some devices had half of that back in the days when 2-4TB was the largest capacity for NVMe devices so it hasn’t really kept up with size very well.

Sure, six vendors all decided to release scam SSDs of similar sizes.

I know for a fact that a lot of applications made these mistakes before AI was around so while AI is a possibility it is absolutely not necessary.

There is never going to be an AI that fixes that

Don’t be so negative. Of course AI, if sufficiently trusted, could fix the existence of the human race and by extension the existence of bullshit management.

It will kill the black market for that kind of data. What good is a black market if the data is trivially available to everyone?

Well, I just vaguely remember the times before dynamic search engines came along, when it was all just manually compiled lists of websites. It might be nice to have some of those again, not to fully replace dynamic search engines but as an addition to it. I guess those awesome… lists on GitHub for some programming topics are like it.