Look up when American companies got banned and when TikTok and Huawei got banned.

American companies have been banned decades earlier.

> Also are you going to simply ignore the fact that Tesla, Apple et. al. are operating just fine in China?

Also, are you and the other commenter ignoring the fact, thousands to millions of companies from China sell in the US?

Temu and Shein are still free to sell forced labor lead-infused goods. Lenovo still works. So do millions of tiny Chinese brands on Amazon.

You ignored that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are completely banned in China. Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, and Google Maps are completely unavailable in mainland China

TikTok wasn't banned (but had to restructure) and RedNote operates without any changes.

> Tesla, Apple et. al. are operating just fine in China

Yeah, and both companies manufacture heavily within China

> Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are completely banned in China. Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, and Google Maps are completely unavailable in mainland China

For very good reasons

Most of the time, the domestic market in China is indirectly controlled through political and social influence, not through policy. It's not a fair market at all.

Anybody knows what algorithm HITACHI is using on their elevators? Their elevators feels most “responsive” in high rises.

I can't imagine any elevator just uses a set algorithm. I'm sure after installing, technicians work with facilities for a period to dial it in as every building will have different needs and traffic patterns.

Using nextDNS, this page redirects me to a Russian ISP (TTK) block page for some reason and I’m nowhere near Russia (!)

> not absolutely jaw-dropped by these types of capability improvements?

Because you need a trillion tokens (aka a lot of money) to achieve this. Barring hitting any “safeguards”.

This is a vendor provided benchmark after all.

Oh come on

Plex has better client support. But Jellyfin being open source client support is catching up quickly.

Huh. I was able to run Plex alongside Jellyfin on my library no issues.

Just depends on what naming conventions you use.

For foolproof matching, adding Plex metadata in the style of "{tmdb-12345}" to the directory name would cause problems for Jellyfin, as they used to demand different formatting, for instance square brackets.

It has taken a years to convince the maintainers that this change is a good idea and not "letting Plex determine the future course of Jellyfin."

That's only if one is stupid enough to give an LLM access to their computer. Don't do that, it's incredibly irresponsible security wise.

The vast majority of people are in fact this stupid.

I recently had trouble connecting to a new AP on my laptop. After a quarter hour of frustration, I connected to the AP of my phone, asked Claude Code what the problem is, and she found the issue in seconds. I didn't allow her to make the actual changes, but she did have read access to everything, and helped me considerably.

So network-manager gets a new bug report about too-long non-ASCII AP names, I get online, and I don't know maybe Anthropic sneakily learned something from my local python projects. I am one of those vast-majority stupid people.

> The world we have built thus far is so incredibly ill-prepared for the power and scale of the AI models we all have access to.

Exactly, so use the AI to secure your servers. Ask the AI to audit your site for any security holes. If unable to rewrite, at least harden the existing code. AI’s are really really cheap (and fast) security consultants now.

AI cannot replace CEO the same reason AI cannot replace your girlfriend.

I think your workplace might have a problem with sexual harassment.

I think you misunderstood his (quite obvious IMO) point.

Both the original point and subsequent joke were quite obvious. So much so that I’m considering whether your own comment is performance art

Talk for yourself.

> Teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for "maximum control, zero rejection"

https://fortune.com/2026/04/17/teen-boys-dating-ai-chatbot-g...

> The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends. Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/25/schoolboys-ai-gi...

Wow, look at that, teenage boys making awful choices, who’d have guessed

Awful choice for whom exactly? From their point of view, it is the rational choice.

Awful choice for themselves and their futures. They may think they are making a rational choice but they’re not thinking about the future. Just like teenagers have always done.

Not that any of it is gender specific. The women on /r/myboyfriendisai are making the exact same mistakes, in many ways it’s worse because many are fully grown adults.

... Yeah, that's a replacement for your girlfriend kind of like watching TV is a replacement for eating dinner...

Not a great analogy. These kids are partially satisfying something with AI girlfriends. I'd liken it more to people giving up on food and living on Soylent.

Because I don't have a CEO?

Think you’re going to need to elaborate on that

AI can’t replace genuine 1:1 human interaction. We’re social animals, and a machine pretending to be a human can’t engender the same emotional response as another human.

But how much of a CEO’s job requires 1:1 human interaction? If I as a software developer am to be told I can do fine without human meetings to discuss product requirements, why can’t CEOs?

If CEOs are going to start claiming that a core role of their job is emotional inspiration as a result of all those all hands meetings they’re going to be surprised how much laughter they get in return.

> If CEOs are going to start claiming that a core role of their job is emotional inspiration as a result of all those all hands meetings

Oh hell no. That's not where the value lies.

You can't send an AI CEO as part of a trade delegation. Sending an AI to close the deal doesn't tell the other party that you're there to make sure the deal happens. That's the sort of thing a human CEO does that an AI can't.

Why does it have to be a CEO? You can always send somebody lower down, who actually knows their stuff. Requiring it to be the CEO is just dumb status games.

> Sending an AI to close the deal doesn't tell the other party that you're there to make sure the deal happens

But they’ll have an AI CEO too. They will discuss and make a deal.

>But how much of a CEO’s job requires 1:1 human interaction?

Basically all of it

> If I as a software developer am to be told I can do fine without human meetings to discuss product requirements, why can’t CEOs?

Because your job is different than a CEO (and it's also not true for your job)

> a machine pretending to be a human can’t engender the same emotional response as another human.

If this were so obviously true there wouldn't be nearly so much concern about people having relationships with AIs.

No, that’s why there is a concern. They’re replacing human relationships with things that superficially look like human relationships but have no depth.

No, that's other people being concerned, it's not the people in the relationships that are concerned.

The position was "a machine pretending to be a human can’t engender the same emotional response as another human" and quite clearly to some people it can, so the statement is false.

It CAN replace all that corporate lingo bullshit. And that would be great.

the AI and your GF have things you desire that are irreplaceable: social status.

A CEO's job isn't the one that everybody here apparently thinks it is. A CEO's job is networking, marketing and PR. They get paid the way they do because they can get into the rooms they need to get into to build the inter-business relationships they need to build.

So you’re saying that what makes them able to be a CEO is that they became a CEO

Yes, but the way you're phrasing it suggests there's something getting lost in translation. A CEO's job is to perform the role of CEO: when the head of engineering wants to zig, and the head of marketing wants to zag, they need to choose between the two in a way that leaves no question about what the decision is or whether the direction should be followed. I don't think people would obey an AI oracle in that way, I certainly wouldn't.

>I don't think people would obey an AI oracle in that way

You clearly haven't encountered the large group of people who trust hallucinated LLM output more than their coworkers.

When they like the output, sure. I've never had any luck convincing them to change course by showing that I can prompt an LLM to say something else.

That's right. Obviously they need to build a network before they become a CEO, but that's what Ivy League's, family connections, and exclusive private schools are for.

Hire a pharma rep to do those public-facing parts of the job, hand over strategy and analysis to the bot.

Because she's in bed with the board?