Yeah, it could be, but these guys aren't looking to replace human workers with a robust, well-trained, and properly-deployed AI, they're looking to slash and burn their labor costs with whatever they think will squeak by.
I've used Amazon's AI live chat bots a fair bit over the years and I have to say they're actually pretty good. 90% of the time they can resolve the issue themselves (at least in my experience) and faster than it would take to connect to a person. But most people don't have Amazon's budget or customer service-oriented business model.
Nah, cults have other characteristics too, like a particularly charismatic leader, a tendency to have an extreme us-vs-them mentality, a desire for isolation rather than spreading the 'good word' far and wide, etc. There are definitely things that distinguish a cult of 100 people from a religion of 100 people, for example.
Your scale is off there.. it should probably be more like:
cult(-100)...religion(-80).................atheism(0).................?'
A group of people that is very serious about what they believe in, no matter how illogical it is.
It's pretty easy to invert that statement: a group of people that is very unserious about what they believe in? That would be folks like DIscordians, the Church of the SubGenius, Pastafarians, etc.
Describing this as a 'new wave of attacks' makes it sound like it's unprovoked, which it extremely was not. Which is a weird choice from an Iranian news org.
Interesting, I never even knew Brave had that stuff built in, i switched from Chrome years ago and installing ublock origin had already just become the default thing I do to any browser first thing by that point. Though I will note this line in the link you provided:
For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix
Which suggests that they're planning to eventually be forced into Manifest V3 (or something similar) to gimp those extensions, but I s'pose I'll give it a shot without ublock and see how it goes. Firefox has given me trouble in a bunch of ways (not remembering per-page zoom, hotkeys changing on me unexpectedly, issues with reddit/lemmy on long posts, etc) and I wouldn't mind switching back.
I liked Brave well enough, but I switched to Firefox when I learned Google was going to force Manifest V3's adblock-gimp into Chromium. I figure it's a matter of time before Chromium-based browsers like Brave are forced to either adopt it or fork Chromium and maintain it themselves, and I know which of those two seems more likely to me.
My nephew has a Pixel Fold and it's kinda neat and all, but he barely uses the unfold feature cause he just doesn't need a big screen most of the time so it's mostly just a really thick-ass phone. It's not even great for watching movies because it's a weird aspect ratio so you have big black bars on the top and/or sides.
Also we tried folding phones before, we called them flip phones, and the hinges were always the first thing to break.
I tried this before and it wouldn't boot off of drive #3 for some reason. When I hit F11 in the bios I can select 'Nobara (BPXP)' (BPXP is the people who made drive #3) and it works tho? shrug
Convince the US that Israeli accountability is in their geopolitical interests, because otherwise the US will continue to protect them and provide diplomatic cover against international law. And, uh, good luck with that.
I just mean I have strictly a layperson's understanding, wanted to make it clear I'm not claiming to have any insider information or any ability to actually predict what's likely to happen. I just read a lot of news.
Be sure to remember that I don't really know what I'm talking about and any predictions I make are likely to be wildly inaccurate, but otherwise I'm happy to help explain the situation a little bit.
I took a drafting class in high school many years ago (late 80s) and for the first half of the year we did all of our drawing on drafting tables with pencil and paper. It was crazy. Fortunately they had computers too, so once we had the basics down we transitioned to using AutoCAD.
But work-related specifically, my dad repaired fax machines until he died in 2014. So many places still use fax machines, especially related to medical and banking records, because it's secure point-to-point transmission of sensitive information with very little chance of someone snooping on the line or otherwise intercepting it.
But the point is that significantly lower traffic will kill the business model of many websites, and thus kill many websites.