Btw, would it be legal to use a torrent client that uses an LLM to make up the outgoing packets so that you aren’t sending copyrighted material? ;)

Couldn’t it use some kind of partial kernel emulation to make kernel level anticheat think it’s working?

What’s even worse is that even for the things you can do with GUI settings there’s no standardisation.

Say you want to do something simple like changing your password. Most distros can do that via GUI, but how you do that exactly depends on your DE, sometimes also your distro, and always too your distro/DE version.

So if an older relative calls me and wants some help with something like that, I’d first have to boot up a live stick of that distro and version and hope they didn’t install anything that would change the settings.

That’s why almost every single tutorial/guide online about stuff like that doesn’t even bother telling you how to use the GUI settings and instead just defaults to CLI, because that’s more standardized.

But yes, when it comes to slightly more obscure settings (e.g. horizontal scrolling for touchpads) you are generally SOL on most distros. Heck, can’t even change the vertical scroling speed for a touchpad on Gnome with GUI settings. And when you ask about how to do it you get called an idiot for even wanting to change that setting.

Yeah, sure. I heard that ürediction for 15 years now and still everyone and their grandma has a PC. Might not be a tower but a laptop instead, but the PC isn’t going anywhere.

We can accept a few highly skilled and/or rich US refugees. But we don’t have space for that common rabble.

That’s like a whopping 0.01% of dog owners.

Read the rest:

Searchers had been using bloodhounds, officers on horseback, drones and helicopters in their hunt for Hardin since he escaped nearly two weeks ago on May 25.

Apparently, neither the escapee nor his hunters are very fast walkers. That 30min walk took the helicopters two weeks.

You can make real good humus out of celery.

Why go out when home’s better?

When I was living in a bedroom at my parents’ house, going out was hugely desirable.

When I lived in a single-bedroom flat during university, I could finally invite people without my parents’ supervision, and I used that a lot, but the tiny flat with no decent equipment wasn’t great for inviting people over. Now I got space and a projector and a play room for the kids, so of course it’s easier and more freedom to invite people over than to go out where I have to constantly watch out that the kids aren’t bothering anyone.

Again someone who thinks that public policies are natural laws…

NASA could do and did do what SpaceX is doing now, but they are beholden to the government and if the government says “we don’t do that for ideologigal reasons” then it doesn’t matter what can be done.

In almost any other county, calling the police won’t get anyone hurt.

In my country the dispatcher would probably even just send a social worker instead of police.

Thanks for the summary! That sounds freaky!

Well, the trade-off between trusting a huge corporation or a single dude on the internet.

What exactly happened there? It was the big thing, then I didn’t use it for a month or so and then it was gone.

Even if you make them in large quantities, material cost alone will be at least €50k. You will need a skilled operator nearby, and constant maintainance, and if you lose even one per year, a regular underpaid human worker will be much cheaper.

These things are pure marketing devices to pacify investors, generate headlines and make unions and workers afraid.

Because it’s not real. It’s purely for marketing, not for actual wide-spread implementation.

Even in the best of cases, even factoring in economy of scale and all that, a robot like that will cost upwards of €50k at least, probably closer to double that, will require constant maintainance, and the risk of vandalism or accidental damage is really high. And you’ll likely need a (skilled) human operator nearby anyway, because the delivery vehicle doesn’t drive itself.

The purpose of projects like this is marketing and public perception.

• The company looks futuristic and future proof. That’s good to get investors.
• The company looks like they could replace humans with robots at any time. That’s good with negotiations with unions and workers.
• The company gets into headlines worldwide. That’s advertisement they don’t have to pay for.

This robot is not meant to ever go mainstream. Maybe there will be a handful of routes where they will be implemented for marketing purposes, but like drone delivery and similar gimmicks, it won’t beat a criminally underpaid delivery human on price, and that’s the only metric that counts for a company like Amazon.

“Prescription glasses” only mean “glasses with optical properties”, so glasses that actually do anything with focus, as opposed to e.g. non-prescription sunglasses or non-prescription accessory glasses that people wear to look smart or something.

It doesn’t mean you need a prescription for them.

(That said: in some countries you need a prescription for your prescription glasses if you want your health insurance to pay for them.)

90% of the things that Japan introduced according to comment sections on the internet never happened (or never made it past the prototype stage) and the rest was actually introduced in Korea, not in Japan.

The Japanophilia is strong with a lot of people on the internet.

There’s this idea I’ve been considering for a long time.

Imagine putting a remote controlled firework smoke bomb under the tailpipe, hidden from sight. At best a really stinky one that smells like burned rubber or something.

When someone follows to closely, just fake an engine issue or something by activating the smoke bomb and fill their AC air intake with the smell of burned rubber for weeks. Just to teach them to not follow too closely again.

So on this road with no line of sight obstructions at all the driver failed to notice two kids impatiently waiting to cross and failed to slow down a little in case the kid actually jumped in front of the car? That guy is obviously not fit for driving.