And it's crazy how I can link to the actual enforcement agency's FAQ on how they interpret it and you largely ignore it/talk around it because it's inconvenient. Law enforcement goes after distributors instead of downloaders for the same reason they go after drug traffickers far more than regular possession: it's easier to prove, penalties are higher, and it does more to chill the activity they want to discourage.

Having worked on these systems, datacenters in space still don't make any economical sense to me. Cost of shipping, additional power and thermal limitations/challenges, much greater radiation environment causing corruption and premature hardware failures, and little to no maintenance/upgrade opportunities. Zero sense

They can't unless the parties agree that they can. The sneaky part is the "by continuing to use our services, you agree to the new terms" part, which is standard practice. You'd have to terminate your account before the new terms come into effect, then take them to court to make sure they didn't keep your data around and use it to train their AI anyway because they "didn't notice" that that particular content belonged to someone who didn't accept the new terms.

my sibling in adhd, this went right over my head

This is really cool! I like the idea of pen and paper as a supported UI. I've never found handwriting on a touchscreen to be an effective or enjoyable experience, across the myriad devices I've tried it on (including an iPad with an Apple Pencil). And app-based form entry is often a drag. By the time I've even opened the app and clicked the "new entry" button, I often could've been done already with a simple pen and paper.

As of 2023 Mozilla had over 1.3 billion dollars in reserve (thanks Google!). This is not over yet, but it will be drained pretty quickly if they keep treating a nonprofit like a typical silicon valley tech company.

A specific place that is an aberration in how fast those changes have come That's really hard to quantify, but yeah, innovation is probably happening faster today than it has in the past, which is likely due to: increased connectivity - more people have access to advanced technology lower barriers to trade - despite Trump's best efforts, trade/competition between countries still happens better access to education People generally fear change, and change comes with work. Just because you were screwing on toothpaste caps in a factory yesterday doesn't mean that job will make sense forever. Nor should it. Jobs that don't need to be done by humans shouldn't, and people should instead take more useful and fulfilling jobs. But sometimes people get caught in the crossfire, such as creative people having to compete with machines that can churn out decent, derivative works far more quickly. But that just means that the nature of work will change. If we use the printing press eliminating scribe jobs as an example, people have largely moved from reproducing text to designing new typefaces for branding purposes (or being commissioned for a calligraphy piece). I think the same is happening w/ art right now. Traditional, 9-5 artists producing largely derivative work is going away, because most people don't need something truly original. So the number of artists will go down, but the truly great artists will still have a place in creating original works and innovating new types of art. We will still need people with an artistic eye to tune what the AI produces, so instead of manually creating the art, they'll guide the art w/ tools, much like how farmers don't hoe fields manually and instead use tractors (which will become increasing autonomous as time passes). I've gotten into chess recently, and chess is a game that is largely "solved" by AI, meaning the best bot will beat or tie the best human player every time. There's still some competition between the best bots, but bot v human is pretty firmly in the bot camp and has been for years. However, chess is still a vibrant sport, and people still earn a living playing it (and perhaps more than ever!). It turns out we value the human aspect of chess, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I think the same applies to art and other fields AI can "replace," because that human touch still very much has value. If you fight technology, you will lose. So instead of that, fight for fairness and opportunity. They’re not dumping billions into data centers and talking about using entire nuclear reactors to power them just because they think AI is a fun toy. Well yeah, they're doing it because they think it'll make us more productive. For a business owner/exec, that means higher profits. For the rest of us, that usually means higher inflation-adjusted incomes (either through increased wages or reduces costs).

Taycan doesn't have one-pedal driving. Even with the setting enabled to regen at throttle liftoff it's barely noticeable - unless it's in the adaptive mode where it will maintain a distance from a car in front. Nothing like many other EVs where it'll actually turn the brake lights on and bring you to a complete stop without needing to touch the brake pedal. The brake pedal is where most of the heavy regen comes in in a Taycan.

Yes, in the sense that every device you own has these same commands The alarmist of the original was that this was somehow unique to the esp32 If your device has Bluetooth, it has these commands

Nice read, thanks.

But open source and built from Firefox

Better than ballistic dead reckoning, yes. I'm not sure whether it is better or worse than star trackers plus inertial navigation units at that time scale (INUs drift over time and need to be recalibrated every so often to fix that drift, but I really don't know how accurate star trackers are for position since I only use them for attitude measurement).

I'm currently trying to figure out how to use RSS for this reason.

I'd much rather use a password and a two-factor auth via TOTP code. It's fast, portable, I can store them on a variety of open source apps, and it's very hard to hack. I don't need to use a specific provider, or browser. Flexible and free. Passkeys in their current implementation are comparatively a mess. Here's an article that runs through many reasons why: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/12/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security/

No one believed people were dumb enough to vote for tRump once, much less a second time after his insurrectionist mob tried to stage thr violent overthrow of our system of government. And yet... Here we are.

Yeah, TBH it's still probably not actual "AI" and is really just complex, inaccurate autocomplete—proven by the fact that GPT 2.0 can be run entirely in Microsoft Excel lol (even though it's certainly a massive table). So it's just a buzzword... Nevertheless, I think if it's free and open-source, I can mildly get behind AI usage in certain situations. The profiteering models I have more of a problem with.