Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast
Is that even necessary? Anyone with a CAD tool can recreate the 3D printed parts from a glance and a few specs.
It’s literally a tube. Which—to be fair—is a “weapon of mass destruction” according to President Bush (the other war criminal president).
You don’t need explosives. It has a spot in the front for a camera. One of the new microcontrollers with AI accelerators can do face recognition extremely quickly. It would be possible to use it as an assassination tool.
Even if you changed nothing about the design, the speed and mass of the thing hitting a person in the face could kill.
Don’t give them any ideas! We don’t need Dumb Restrictions on Motors.
Nobody will 👍
Each one should have a picture of Charlie Kirk on it. To celebrate his legacy, of course! So everyone can understand the lesson he taught the world. So others with the same beliefs can follow in his footsteps!
“It’s worth the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths […] so that we can have the Second Amendment”. Charlie Kirk, 2023.
The real problem isn’t investments in AI. It’s that they don’t know WTF they’re doing!
Huge companies are spending millions of dollars on AI services they don’t know how to use and aren’t even aware of cheaper and superior alternatives.
Just buy some AI hardware your damned self already!
GLM-5 was just released and is at something like 95% parity with the latest models from Big AI. That means for merely a few thousand dollars you can get the same damned service for a fraction of the cost. A single Nvidia DGX spark can handle the AI requests for hundreds of employees simultaneously and there’s free, open source tools that automatically distribute requests across a cluster of the things.
Yet here we are: Businesses are so used to the Chicago School of Economics methods that they’d rather spend a million dollars a month on a service than a one-time, mere thousands of dollars cost on hardware they have to run and maintain themselves because “it’s not a core business function.”
If it relies on SIM cards that means it doesn’t work at all with regular computers or when the device connects over WiFi, right? Seems kinda useless.
Of course, all age verification checks on the Internet are useless regardless but this Japanese method seems extra useless.
In short: The anime left a scientist bamboozled.
Within the browser, it’ll work to “protect” your traffic (including DNS) from prying eyes locally. As in, someone on the same network as you or your ISP or whatever networks your traffic passes through to its destination.
Instead, it sends it all to Microsoft Central Data Collection™! By passing all your traffic through Microsoft’s central servers, you can rest easy, knowing precisely who is inspecting everything you do (including the US government and the other countries in the Five Eyes network).
Let’s be honest: It’s yet another unfair transfer of power from local criminals to international ones, increasing the wealth of billionaire pedophiles. Give the locals a chance to rise up, would ya?
Yes! Because cyber bullying can only happen on platforms that are designed specifically for adults. By banning children from social networks, we will have completely eliminated the problem and totally not at all created much worse problems like potentially leaking the identities of millions of people and destroying the entire concept of privacy.
(Nods head vigorously)
When my kids were young, but old enough that they may inadvertently stumble upon porn, I told them the truth. The truth that so few explain to their children. The truth that many adults don’t understand and many more completely forget.
Porn is fake.
It’s not real. The sounds? Acting. The breasts? Those are fake too. The perfect skin? Makeup (or airbrush).
Even “amateur” porn is fake! As soon as someone agrees to be filmed having sex it ceases to be real.
Also, let me get this straight: Your greatest fear from children being exposed to porn is they might begin to accept mysogyny‽ As in, you think porn is the most likely place kids will be exposed to it and somehow just nod their heads‽ “Oh wow, that’s totally sexist! But they’re having sex so it must be OK. I’ll try to be like that!” (Child nods head).
Or perhaps you think kids will be viewing so much porn—specifically, the mysogynistic kind—that it will somehow carve mysogyny into their minds?
This is so much like the beliefs of conservatives that try to ban books that mention LGBTQ people. Stop and think for a moment: How much porn did you view as a kid? How did that impact your life?
I seriously doubt it changed much. Unless, of course, you were reading Playboy for the articles.
Just think: Without legislation like this, kids will be able to see people having sex! Thus, ending their lives. Not so different from staring into the eyes of Medusa!
The amount of children exposed to sex that have died—or suffered worse consequences like early onset conservatism—may have been zero so far but the dangers are clear! We must skip right over parental involvement in child rearing and go straight to the source of the problem: Computers.
Computers have been giving everyone access to too much information for too long! We must restrict it! The first step is to get an implementation that actually works to censor information—to save the children (wink wink)—then later, we will have the tools necessary to censor whatever we want!
When glorious dictator decides that information about trans-genic mice must be erased from the Internet, we shall have the power to do so!
In his thrust to increase the world’s dependence on fossil fuels—to serve is Saudi and Russian masters—Donald Trump has succeeded in massively increasing demand for renewables.
He really is incompetent at everything he does!