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New comment by bjacobel in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

bjacobel — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:13:39 +0000

There are also a lot of bad technologies that start off being called a toy and then just die. Many more, I'd wager.

New comment by bjacobel in "The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it"

bjacobel — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:11:50 +0000

> ChatGPT has a billion users

And their company's leadership is famous for compulsively lying. Pardon me if I suspect they might be arriving at that number using creative math.

New comment by bjacobel in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

bjacobel — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:34:57 +0000

Has generative AI made material progress on curing cancer? Has it produced any breakthroughs, at all?

New comment by bjacobel in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

bjacobel — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:36:51 +0000

Exactly such an app exists.

https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/232163

New comment by bjacobel in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

bjacobel — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:48:05 +0000

This already exists, but you have the markets backwards. Microsoft wants to force the cruft onto everyday users; it subsidizes the cost of the operating system license. Home users can be conned into paying for OneDrive or Copilot subscriptions much more easily than enterprises can. On the other side, Windows Server is their lightweight version, and it's made for the only customer that Microsoft respects: ones that paid in full upfront.

New comment by bjacobel in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

bjacobel — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:01:22 +0000

What makes the statistics published by the government inherently more trustworthy?

New comment by bjacobel in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

bjacobel — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:01:08 +0000

> Upgrading your CPU wasn’t a spec sheet exercise — it was transformative.

New comment by bjacobel in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

bjacobel — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:19:42 +0000

What happens when law enforcement members are the stalkers?

New comment by bjacobel in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

bjacobel — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:45:39 +0000

Every unique Google search triggers a Gemini request.

New comment by bjacobel in "I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code"

bjacobel — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:57 +0000

US GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was 0.1% when you take out NVIDIA and OpenAI sending the same $100 billion back and forth to each other

New comment by bjacobel in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

bjacobel — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:39:57 +0000

They massively over-estimated demand [1] and produced tens if not hundreds of thousands of units that didn't sell. This is them trying to liquidate their inventory of components.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2024/10/vision_pro_bites_dog

New comment by bjacobel in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

bjacobel — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:47:14 +0000

> According to Grok

Do you have any sources that aren't prone to hallucination and fits of partisan, racially-charged, conspiratorial hysteria?

New comment by bjacobel in "How the AI Bubble Will Pop"

bjacobel — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:36:36 +0000

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/20250...

New comment by bjacobel in "Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime"

bjacobel — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:24:32 +0000

Hey now, I'm sure that this one-emdash-per-paragraph comment is organic and genuine.

New comment by bjacobel in "AI's $344B 'language model' bet looks fragile"

bjacobel — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:33:57 +0000

There is a distinction between "vehicle for a large volume of speculation" and "valuable". Cryptocurrency has not created any "value".

New comment by bjacobel in "Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum"

bjacobel — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:24:05 +0000

> Plus, you no longer need to deal with buying and maintaining a separate device like an iPad!

I've found a much easier solution to this problem.

New comment by bjacobel in "How can England possibly be running out of water?"

bjacobel — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:09:06 +0000

Ctrl-F "AI" Ctrl-F "datacenters"

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New comment by bjacobel in "AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies"

bjacobel — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:06:34 +0000

1. Those are revenue statistics. I am asking for you to provide data to support the claim “users are finding utility from the Metaverse”, not the claim “Meta is generating revenue from the Quest Marketplace.” Those are different claims.

2. Is it your assertion that all content offered on the Quest Marketplace is “the Metaverse?” Is the top paid application “Beat Saber” a Metaverse app?

3. The source of your statistics is Meta, a company famous for repeatedly falsifying platform usage metrics [1].

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/08/21/meta-accused-of-i...

New comment by bjacobel in "AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies"

bjacobel — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:01:25 +0000

Can you provide usage statistics to support this claim?

New comment by bjacobel in "AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies"

bjacobel — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:03:54 +0000

Who has "the Metaverse" been useful for?