Here’s how to remove the supposedly un-uninstallable OneDrive NSA data collection mechanism in Windows 10.
Use the code on page 2. Paste it in a file named nukeonedrive.cmd or something similar. Run as administrator. Not my code, but it is hard to find unless you’re me. I’ve checked it in a VM and it does nothing bad and does exactly what it claims.
This from Daniel Lemire is a good response to the Ceglowski essay that I also wrote about recently. It takes a different tack as compared to my response but also makes some points related to mine.
Cegลowski would keep the technology as it isโฆ โWhy do we need to obsess on artificial intelligence, when weโre wasting so much natural intelligence?โ
Technology is fine today. Let us work hard to keep it as it is.
I could not disagree more. We urgently need to improve our technology. The web as it stands today wonโt be good enough in 30 years
Robotics and the speed with which this and AI as well as AI-approximate technologies will come to dominate society are going to utterly surprise people like Ceglowski.
Things that are inevitable within ~100 years if tech society continues:
Extensive DNA modification/improvement.
Ubiquitous robotics and AI.
No more livestock– all meat lab-created.
Artificial life.
Artificial wombs.
Children with 3+ parents (already happening!) or no parents.
Neural implants.
I’d bet every cent I have on at least those seven things happening. They are baked in. What else, though? There will be more. People like Ceglowski can’t even imagine those things, just like people in 1920 couldn’t imagine the internet or ICBMs.
Reflections on Amandla Stenberg “Calling Out” Kylie Jenner for Cultural Appropriation.
My reaction to calling out other folks for cultural appropriation is mainly to laugh, and then to sigh.
Do they not understand, I wonder, how contingent and how young so very many “ancient” cultural traditions are? How quickly they spread? How human cultures always have and always will borrow, pilfer and adopt bits of other cultures?
Always have, and always, always will.
This whole cultural “appropriation” obsession and calling out people for it is at best a distraction to anything useful and at worst actively harmful — especially when you use it to bully and shame young people.