I read a story of one datacenter years ago where their waste heat was heating the industrial complex around them. It was a nice change to see. Regulations around it would really help. Oh you want to do this? You need to reuse 80% of your waste heat to get approval, and have x% of power be renewable.

We know how do it, people just dont.

I had this happen many years ago, to the point there was no chance something wasn’t listening. We suspected it was my partners iPhone with Facebook installed before they got better about preventing abuse like that, as it was a Facebook ad that showed up.

Were talking about something where we never use the product, would never use the product, but it came up in a conversation just between the 2 of us, and there were ads the next day.

It happened a few times.

If youre trying to call me out for calling them out, its not the same and this falls flat.

These are all saying things and the world can and should be better.

This guy said I wont use anything that AI had any involvement in.

It’d be like saying I wont use an iPhone because apple is evil while using an iPhone.

Not apple really needs to do better, im not happy with some things they do, while using an iPhone.

I ran into someone who was adamant he wouldn’t use anything that touched AI.

I showed him how the fediverse app he was using to tell me that he wouldnt use AI had AI involvement.

He’s still using it.

If its real time monitoring you, but not if its logging data to send later when it would be expected to be doing so.

Audio doesnt take up much space.

Even if it was open source, you’d need to be able to verify what they ship matches the specs. Allowing you to flash whatever you want onto it helps, but you still need to validate the hardware.

I dont know. You’d need to reverse engineer the hardware and software to be confident, and could a OTA update then sneak a bypass in anyway?

Edit: i think Amazon might have abandoned this as well and always records on echos now too.

Im a perfect world, as they claim, its a secondary system listening that isn’t recording or transmitting anything, and is meant to be low power. If it hears the wake up word, it wakes up the other mic and starts recording.

Thats how they claim the smart speakers work anyway.

This would be different.

Pretty much yep. Elon has a controlling interest in SpaceX so I think that was just his outright decision, unless he had to abstain and let the investors decide? I’m not sure if he had a controlling stake in xAI.

Edit: You also left off ‘overvalued’ when referring to xAI/Twitter. I think SpaceX honestly could have grown into it’s individual valuation pre-merger.

I was just reading a story about some sky divers who died in a plane crash shortly after launch.

It said the non commercial airliner stuff isn’t held to the same regulatory standards, and these smaller outfits often fudge or push safety things off and whatever state / agency it was said it couldn’t say these types of services offering flights are safe because of it.

I think people might see that sometimes, but not understand why, because they just see a starship blows up headlines and don’t understand what is happening as it’s a test program (for now), and the headlines / stories don’t convey that.

So when things explode, sometimes it’s fine, and the stock might go up because a lot of really important things still were tested, some for the first time, and they went well.

Other times, things will explode and it can cause huge delays, and while they learn something, it’s still ‘bad’ compared to the above blow ups, and the stock will very likely go down when these ones happen.

And then sometimes, something goes wrong on the test pad and you blow it up, and that is very bad. It’s a test pad, its meant for that, but it causes huuuuuge delays.

But OP is right, they brought this new chaos upon themselves by going public. They really shouldn’t have done it yet.

There’s a lockup period ya. I heard they reduced the duration though, but it’s typically 6 months.

Anyone who bought at $135 the money went into SpaceX’s balance sheet.

For now, anyone buying after the $135 is buying from people who bought those $135 shares.

Mark Cuban is famous for having zero cost collared his shares that he couldn’t sell and getting out of the dotcom bubble with his money since it protected him from the downside that happened, so maybe it’s possible they’ve done that here as well?

stayed private, and never merged with xAI/Twitter

Next up: to install Linux on hardware the hardware first needs to verify your identity. This is at the RAM, SSD, and CPU level. All 3 must agree before allowing installation.