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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Things i Hate (Or: Rants by an Old Man) Post 303030615 by Neo on Wednesday 13th of February 2019 02:32:54 AM
Old 02-13-2019
I don't see point in the "rants" about issues with vendors related to computer parts and components. Vendors are vendors and they have always been vendors and will always behave like vendors. Selling is selling and is a professional as old as old can be.

What hardware and software vendors are doing, the same thing all sellers do everywhere, pales in comparison to what the information-based companies and networks like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and more are doing to pollute the very information-space and human conscious which rips at the core of human civilization's social fabric.

The major issue we all face is not how venders sell or market their goods and services (that's always been an issue, from the beginning of time), but the fact that high-tech, high-flying information-based companies and networks like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and more are building machine-based systems with the sole goal of world-domination (read number of users, profit margins, influence etc) with machine-based AI in all aspects of our information-based lives, disrupting countries, societies, seeding hate and social mistrust, partitioning humans into groups and pitting them against one another.

AI in the commercial space means "targeting" and "classification" and it is this "targeting" and "classification" of every aspect of our lives and using this information without our express permissions, selling our most intimate details to anyone willing to pay, and using machines to process this information in order to exploit all of us on the planet. Witness the rise of hate, populism, supremacy, and more which is getting worse, not better, year-over-year.

That is something to be worried about and to "rant" about, in my view.

Everything else is "noise" compared to what is happening to the very fabric of human society and is getting worse and worse because of the push by all major big tech players ..... their answer is always: "AI will solve all these problems", when in-fact it is "AI" (and these high tech companies goals and objectives) causing these problems (well, it's the companies pushing AI causing the problems).

It's evil. Pure evil. Really. Believe me.

Profit, greed, influence.... it's the cause. The cat is out of the bag and there is no going back. The future is not very bright because of this certain dystopian world we have created.
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MAN(1)							      General Commands Manual							    MAN(1)

NAME
man - print out the manual SYNOPSIS
man [ - ] [ -a ] [ -M path ] [ section ] title ... DESCRIPTION
Man is the program which provides on-line access to the UNIX manual. If a section specifier is given, man looks in that section of the manual for the given title(s). Section is either an Arabic section number (``3'' for example), or one of the words ``local'', ``new,'' or ``old''. (The abbreviations ``l'', ``n'', and ``o'' are also allowed.) If section is omitted, man searches all sections of the manual, giving preference to commands over library subroutines, and displays the first manual page it finds, if any. If the -a option is supplied, man displays all applicable manual pages. Normally man checks in standard locations (/usr/man and /usr/local/man) for manual information. This can be changed by supplying a search path (a la the Bourne shell) with the -M flag. The search path is a colon (``:'') separated list of directories in which man expects to find the standard manual subdirectories. This search path can also be set with the environmental variable MANPATH. Since some manual pages are intended for use only on certain machines, man only searches those directories applicable to the current machine. Man's determination of the current machine type can be overridden by setting the environmental variable MACHINE. If the standard output is a teletype, and the - flag is not provided, man uses more(1), or the pager provided by the environmental variable PAGER, to display the manual page. The FORTRAN version of section 3 of the manual may be specified by supplying man with the section ``3f''. Also, a specific section of the local manual may be specified by appending a number to the section, i.e. ``l5'' would indicate section 5 of the local manual. FILES
/usr/man standard manual area /usr/man/cat?/* directories containing standard manual pages /usr/local/man/cat?/* directories containing local manual pages /usr/src/man directories containing unformatted manual pages SEE ALSO
apropos(1), more(1), whatis(1), whereis(1) BUGS
The manual is supposed to be reproducible either on the phototypesetter or on a typewriter, however, on a typewriter, some information is necessarily lost. 4th Berkeley Distribution April 19, 1988 MAN(1)
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