I’m technically Gen-Z (but just barely) and this is something that really worries me. It’s become increasingly normal in recent times to share absolutely everything online but I’ve got a pretty grim feeling that this isn’t gonna end well. People don’t realize that the AI’s being trained on your data today will act as an internet history that you can never delete.

Civilization: add more civics and techs and special resources, more civs, more units... It doesn't bring anything to the game. It just makes the excel more annoying to deal with. I paid for Phoenix Point (from the creator of XCOM). Nice game but when they asked for feedback it was just about wishing either more units or more maps or more factions, which would you prefer? None! How about making the core mechanic more fluid so there's less "oh I didn't mean that"? Or the crashing and having to start over after many updates.

What would really make Factorio better? I don't know. Maybe a simplified interface? There's so many ctrl-click things and having to place and stock turrets in a hurry that it just makes me not want to start the game etc.

It would be interesting to compare the capabilities and policy challenges of at-scale data privacy, with patterns in single-node systems like SE Linux and App Armor, which have been historically daunting.

Sqrrl (now Amazon) work on Apache Accumulo has tools for access control plumbing in large datasets, https://accumulo.apache.org/

> Every Accumulo key/value pair has its own security label which limits query results based off user authorizations.

You want to be able to see usage to a resolution of at most 5 minutes.

That way people can spot things like “having my electric heater on for those couple of hours used more electricity than all my lights use for a month”.

I have an inverter and solar panels in my place (very common now in South Africa middle class homes due to unreliable electricity producer) and I can see a full history of electricity usage.

It’s easy for me to see where I can improve my efficiency or why my consumption was so high.

It’s still only an overall figure though, so you have to do an informed assumption as to what caused the consumption.

For example it’s obvious that the 3kw draw for about an hour or so after I shower is the geyser heating itself back up. I can see from the usage stats that my battery was depleted from the night, that the solar production is still low due to my showering in the early morning and that the energy was thus coming from the grid (the inverter records all these figures).

It is then obvious that I can very simply save money on electricity by putting a timer on my geyser so that it only heats after 10am or so, once the sun is high enough for solar production to cover the energy usage.

Now I just wish I had something as convenient for monitoring water consumption.

Anecdotally, I now use ChatGPT for at least 25-50% of the queries that I previously would have had no other channel for other than a search engine.

If I was in charge of Alphabet I'd be starting to worry. This move makes them look a bit desperate.