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Even without that kind of false positive, with every phone running the check on every image false positives on perfectly normal images will be extremely common.

I occasionally use the Civitai.com to generate realistic images, and due to US regulators jawboning payment processors, they've put in strict filters. I've been using it for G-rated images, but they often get false positive for much worse ratings. I generated an image of a portrait of a couple at the beech, with a man in board shorts and a fully clothed woman, and it rated it XXX. One image of fully clothed people didn't even get a rating and was automatically removed as a "terms of service violation".

The struts in vertical opening doors ware out really fast. Regular doors are much more reliable.

Oh no, the devices in my WAN aren't directly exposed to the internet! What ever will I do‽

There's lots of reasons to push for IPv6, but the ability to not have a NAT is not a good one. I absolutely want everything on my network to be behind at least one layer of NAT. When setting up a router, I have two choices of internet protocol versions:

    Choice A: If I set it up right, everything is behind a NAT.  If I set it up wrong, there is no connection to the internet.

    Choice B: If I set it up right, everything is behind a NAT.  If I set it up wrong, Everything gets directly exposed to the internet.

Someday I'll get around to learning how to properly set up an IPv6 LAN, but until then, I'll just use the default IPv4 setting.

Also from domestic sales, most of which will be running open-weight models, most of which are from China.

From STMicro:

    STM32MP257 application processors (STM32 MPUs) are based on a dual Arm® Cortex®-A35 cores running at up to 1.5 GHz and Cortex®-M33 cores running at 400 MHz.

Why do they put a full-desktop-capable A35 processor in the sme product line as the M0 microcontrollers? I presume they're trying to milk value out of the name recognition but they're just diluting the name.

Costco either has the best deals or the worst deals on computers, often carrying each at the same time.

In trying, I discovered that most family members don't want to use anything that lets the government spy on its users, but one sibling is against privacy in general and only wants to use platforms that allow the government to spy on users, so there's no solution.

Also admin@… or even legal@… I usually check for a "contact us" web page, too.

It's probably more so the anti-datacenter NIMBY measures that overwhelmingly passed, usually with bipartisan support. Everyone wants food and internet access and electricity, they just don't want anyone farming or building data centers and power plants.

It's not as far down uncanny valley as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, and only slightly outdone by Disney "live action" remakes, and for some reason people watch those.

It's NIMBYism, which has wide bipartisan support.

I think Efinix did something internally, with Yosys.

AMD has practically abandoned their HPC-focused Threadripper series too, leaving the market segmentunmet by anyone. The supercomputers in the Top 500 listing only account for a fraction of CPU sales, where they mostly serve to feed accelerators.

The streetlights in my neighborhood still have the round photo sensors on top, that have something like a watt of standby current for the sensor itself. I don't think they're trying hard to save powwer.

2026Q2 numbers show Intel falling quickly but still in the mid-60% to 70% in every market: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/desktop-cpu-...

AMD specifically calls out high sales of Instinct products as leading the sales growth. I wonder how their Epyc and Ryzen lines compare to Intels Xeon and Core lines. AMD's Instinct sales are practically nothing compared to competing Nvidia products, but no one† buys Intel Arc accelerators, so that may be the main reason AMD is beating intel.

†Disclaimer: I own an Intel Arc GPU

Hopefully they don't completely swap roles completely, with Intel being incapable of competing and AMD stagnating without competition. I'd rather they both be competitive.

I have one a Mecool KM6. I disabled all the Google/Mecool cruft as soon as I got it, including XCPE. The reason XCPE caught my attention wasn't that its activity seemed any more nefarious than normal pre-installed spyware, but that it kept crashing.

Meanwhile, US banks move away from ATM cards, because having a PIN makes it too secure.

I call those bot-only web pages.

Most of the time a web page reports an error or seems to be down, or it gives you another captcha no matter how many times you correctly answer it, it's just denying you access, but it's also trying to hide that from you. Whether there's captchas or an outright denial, those pages are guarded by bots that only allow other bots to proceed to the page. We've known for several years that captchas only deter humans (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2384228-bots-are-better...) so clearly anyone currently using them doesn't want humans visiting the page.

Most of the time, the Gemini summary that Google includes in their search results isn't particularly useful, but extracting data from those bot-only pages is one thing it excels at. So, whenever a search result links to a page guarded by a bot, and it senses that I am a human and denies access, I go back to the Google search results page, and ask Gemini to scrape the page and provide the data I want from it.

By the logic of banana energy potential, you have to go for all of the energy in the entire bomb, not just energy that could be easily released through fission. That's about 4*10^20 Joules vs the 6*10^13 Joules released over Hiroshima.

which, by Cave Johnson logic, gives you about 6.5 million more bombs per bomb!

Fun fact: There's about 200 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of energy in a banana.

A growth in power generation by 50% isn't even enough to meet the anticipated increase in demand for electric vehicles and appliances. Data center usage is barely a drop in the bucket, in comparison.

Also, there's much, much more going on in data centers than AI, so data center growth isn't necessarily AI growth.

Does anyone make TVs with Opera/Vewd (rythmes with lewd) anymore? That's what mine is running, and it supports Netflix and whatnot, but doesn't show ads or spy.

Also, Android TV boxes sometimes have shenanigans installed by the manufacturer, but they are easy to customize to only run what you want, and they run fine without a Google account.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to use an Apple TV box without linking it to an Apple account and letting them spy on you.

I'm surprised, usually critical embedded equipment runs on OS/2 or NT.

AI stuff is especially buzzwordy. I guess that's what happens when a technology spends half a century being little more than a buzzword, before breaking out and becoming useful.

Usually from power plants, although they sometimes use generators when off-site power has outages. One of the Air Force bases near me recently installed a specifically designed multi-fuel generator: https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4421866...

It's already resulted in five injuries: https://abc30.com/post/five-high-speed-rail-workers-injured-...

TCAS has solved this for airplanes. It wouldn't take much to modify the system for trains so that, in the least, it notifies when an unexpected train is nearby. A little more logic could allow it to verify which track each train is on.

I will never cease to be amazed by the range of thought experiments that get published as math papers.