Starting Dec 1, 2024, Google Maps Timeline data will be stored locally on users' devices, boosting privacy.
"Google has announced plans to store Maps Timeline data locally on users' devices instead of their Google account effective December 1, 2024."
"The development is part of a series of changes the company has enacted in response to allegations that it misled consumers and illegally tracked their movements despite turning off Location History from the account settings by taking advantage of the non-obvious Web & App Activity setting."
Some random Chinese company: does something jenky
Blogger: "The entire country of China is doing this jenky thing!"
They just added a fee so that AWS can't copy it without paying. What's the big deal.
Batteries.
They can use backup generators or consumer power for emergencies. Almost never happens in practice.
It's behind a paywall
They buy power plants and run it themselves. It improves reliability. For example, Google owns its own solar and wind farms.
People are downvoting because they want to hate AI. And hating AI is valid. There are many reasons not to like AI. Environmental and power reasons are not one of them.
Can we stop with the AI misinformation? AI is not slurping up consumer power. All major tech companies use privately generated, non-consumer power.
Bitcoin is still causing these power grid issues. It has been since 2019.
Edit: to the brainturds downvoting without even looking into it, read it from the source
A few of these are not red flags though... Yellow at best
More details from the article:
- In the 1920s, many Mexicans were fired from their jobs due to intense anti-immigrant racism and the great depression.
- Private and city local agents would show up at some people's door with train tickets in hand, and say "pack your bags and get on this train."
- Hence the air quotes around "deported".
- At first, most American Mexicans left "voluntarily":
- They wanted to escape racism and find work.
- The Mexican government promised them free land, as well, further pushing many to leave.
- Many of the American citizens that left were the children of non-citizens, whose parents made them leave.
- It wasn't until later the federal government got involved, and comparatively fewer (90k, still a lot) were deported forcibly.
Interestingly, this is a common trend when we look at anti-immigrant action. The federal government is rarely the actor that does most of the damage. Most of the action comes from extremely racist MAGA-type populists going around burning property and attacking people en masse. See also the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Regarding the cognitive dissonance required to A) value decentralization of power, and also B) support the CCP: 🤦
It's simple: People who gain from misinformation create platforms that empower bots and sockpuppets.