Does this mean the US is going to stop paying prisoners pennies an hour for their work?

Nobody’s going to call the hobby police. Do what you want.

You have my permission to call whatever you’re interested in a hobby, if you feel like you need it.

They’ll announce peace, that doesn’t mean anyone will actually stop shooting.

They also have big dreams of finally being able to get rid of all the peasants.

As a paid search engine, Kagi actually prioritises doing what users want.

Want AI? It’s available. Don’t want AI? Turn it off and you’ll never see it again.

I assume it’s all translated from Japanese, so I wouldn’t read too much into the exact word choice.

Ah, like the way Tesla’s Autopilot avoids being on during accidents by cutting out just before impact?

At least they’re taking plastic garbage out of the ocean to use, so if it all ends up back in the ocean we aren’t really any worse off.

I personally would like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.

In this accident I’m sure Autopilot disengaged half a second before the crash, that somehow proves it wasn’t Autopilot’s fault.

That’s because their systems whine at them so much that they close popups through muscle memory and don’t retain memory of doing so.

Which sounds dumb, but you can’t use modern technology without developing an in-brain adblocker to prevent you from constantly being distracted from the thing you’re trying to pay attention to. Everyone considers your attention to be a resource to be sold or used for their benefit.

Well now he has Internet so he can download Factorio and he’ll never go outside again.

I mean, they could, but the searches would be more expensive because you’ll actually use them all, so you wouldn’t save any money unless you’re using search like five times a month.

That also leads to you using other search engines half the time because you don’t want to waste one of your Kagi searches.

I don’t understand why the fire fighters are upset, he clearly has his park-anywhere lights on.

We’re opening the door to charging for simple Google type searches. I worry that 15 years from now, I’ll have to pay like $1 per question.

Search engines cost money to run. If you aren’t paying for the product, you’re being monetized some other way. You’re the product that’s served up to the real customers - the businesses who buy data and advertising.

That’s why Kagi is a thing even though there’s free search engines all over the place - you pay a monthly subscription, and then you are the search engine’s customer.

Remember back when you could buy RAM? Those were good times.

It’s because AI gives you complete bollocks which looks like a correct answer complete with made-up sources.

One gives you shit, the other gives you shit that looks like tasty food.

Computers have had the capability to automatically execute nearby bats for years, just run autoexec.bat

Typically, the free product they push doesn’t cost them trillions of dollars.

That model works when free users are costing a couple of cents in server resources, not hundreds of dollars.

Yeah, Oracle gave it away to Apache Foundation, but it was too late, and at that point everyone switched to LibreOffice.

That’s probably why they gave it away: they gave up on monetizing it after all the users already left.