FTFY

AI, or what passes for AI these days (ie. not AI), can not be regulated. The cat is out of the bag. This isn't like nuclear regulation where it can be physically controlled (and even that doesn't work; eg. North Korea). You're not going to stop some mad scientist in the basement from creating something harmful.

Instead of regulation what needs to be worked on is technologies to defend against AI threats.

Windows 2000 was the best ever made. It is the last true version of Windows NT. NT kept getting better with every release. Each was faster, smaller, more stable. It was going places, the legacy of OS/2.

Then they merged all the Windows 95/ME crap to make XP. Windows never recovered from that blunder.

The absolute best? There is only one choice:

GrapheneOS on a Pixel phone.

There are cheaper phone alternatives like LineageOS on supported Androids but it doesn't have the functionality of Graphene.

CalyxOS is similar to but not as good as Graphene but maybe worth a try. Also Pixel-only.

Please give us demonstrable results, not marketing wank. Then we might believe you. All you have to do is simply show actual provable results. It's easy because scammers can't do it. Just do it...

Solar roadways, anyone?

Not only that but people like me that ride motorcycles and have wind damage to ears. Or in the 90's I used to be in the SPL race and had sound systems that would break windows. Or people like me that suffer from trichotillomania and have hearing loss from sticking/twirling hairs in the ear and pounding the eardrum.

I'm nearly 50 so in the age group.

Many C64's, hell even TI-99/4A's, serve web pages these days. I won't link to them because that would probably kill them but if you search you can find them. This is 40+ year-old tech.

The question I want answered is why someone simply suspected of something (NOT convicted) is out on labor duty for a crime they possibly didn't commit? This is weird on all levels.

You'd have to be an idiot to participate in this. They're just getting a whole bunch of free work then pick the one they like.

Install F-Droid then install AdAway from it. Or just install AdAway from the apk. AdAway requires root because it uses the hosts file to block ads. Works good although it will block almost all ad referral links which can be annoying if you actually want to go to an ad-sponsored link.

What waste? Modern processors have AES in hardware. Except for the initial TLS negotiation (and even that is hardware accelerated on most systems) it costs almost nothing to use encryption.

For as long as we're running Von Neumann architecture machines then C and C++ will continue to dominate anything and everything that needs to be high performance and/or low-level/hardware access.

Because if you don't need C/C++ then you're scripting or whatever much-higher-level language stuff. Languages like Go and Rust fit somewhere in between... no-man's land, where they're doomed to get lost like every single previous attempt at such languages.

Nuclear power is definitely the answer to our current power problems. Fusion is hopefully eventually the answer but regular old fission is orders of magnitude more safe and more efficient than anything else we have. A "person" is smart, "people" are just absolutely dumbfuckery stupid.

I see patterns that other people don't. I notice things other people don't. I care about things normal people don't. I keep insane amounts of information on designs in my head.

What does this give me? An absolutely crazy detailed view of the world that normal people can't see or even process. I write software no one else can. I write software that is more stable and secure than anyone else can produce, ever. In fact, you're probably using software I wrote right now. It's so good that nobody even notices it exists because it doesn't break and nobody has ever needed to debug it. Yes, I'm that good and yes, I got paid very little for things that millions or even billions of people use every day and nobody knows who I am.

What is the trade-off? Well, every day life gives me anxiety you can't imagine. I hear, see, taste, feel, everything in the world with very high intensity while you are able to ignore it. I can't ignore it. I see patterns in everything and I need absolute perfection and control with my own designs. I suffer tremendously just to exist. I'm not joking when I say I would give up all my special abilities just to be normal. Just living is torture even though I do "amazing" things (to normal people).

I'm not the typical geek that has issues. I have issues way beyond these people. Yes, I have tried to get professional help but I'm not like anything anyone has seen before so they're not quite sure what to do.

You will all benefit from my abilities even though other people will take credit. I'm OK with that. I just want to be normal and not suffer.

Just give us a browser that doesn't spy on us and is stable. This was the Firefox mantra 14 years ago and before that they cared about user control.

What the actual fuck has happened to software?! These last few decades have shown that they don't care about performance, privacy, or anything but the bottom line for their own profits. Fuck that! And fuck you too!