I suppose another interesting way tech workers could catch if their coworker is working for North Korea would be to do something crazy like talk to and get to know their coworkers as human beings. But that would never happen.

Maybe someone could start an IETF RFC for communications protocol for digital video over local wire and fiber that is open.

The have the old site at reg.bom.gov.au

Older 64km Radar Loop near Melbourne

The old images were from radars that did 6 elevations with a sweep time of a minute per elevation. So rather than put the data in a continuous 6 minute buffer, they throw all the data away every 6 minutes and start over.

They could have bought a system from a number of groups for far less money. There are even TV stations that would have sold them a world class system for a few million dollars. That would be a turnkey system that can take feeds from all the existing radars plus any of the newer coastal radars that also collect weather data as well as the mobile research radars.

We MUST be able to inspect and age verify every AI slop porn image to protect the fictional children!

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Asimov's Laws of Robotics can't be encoded using any existing technology. So there is no way to stop bad stuff from being generated at this time.

There are proposals to have 7 day SSL/TLS certs. This is an example of why that could be a major problem. Many Islands are connected by one cable with an old satellite system as backup. Emergency satellite links often don't comply with the local law of the disconnected country or the downlink station.

If you read the article carefully, they are talking about lenses THINNER than a hair. I see several of the posts here thinking the width/radius of the lenses is this small, a reasonable mistake given the way this was written. Having a radius that small would severely reduce their light gathering ability, requiring very bright light or very dim images or very long exposure times.

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Prof. David Kipping had a recent video on his Cool Worlds youtube channel about "TARS". Which would be capable of launching tiny sensor probes out into space by accelerating them on a spinning foil.

I would expect the AI to say "fix the core routing network" based on the last problem I had. It turns out the ISP's config is broken for IPv6 BGP via two different backends on their system to the same router on my end. I kept getting the BGP packets on the wrong interface so one link would never come up. I have no idea how that would happen but it did. Oddly the v4 BGP works quite well.

Base load coal power in China is about $25/MWh. Solar panels by the container ship load cost less than $0.20 a watt at the factory. Most of that cost is the energy to make them. A good guess for daily average solar production is 4 hrs a day at 100% power for total power produced over the 20 year expected life of the panel.

No way! HOLY SHIT!! Wow!

When are advertisers going to learn that too many ads run people away from their product. That has been a great deal of technical market research that proves that. The bottom line after increases in ad spend also proves it. I guess the people buying ads haven't collectively figured out that the only people who are falling for the ad agency's BS is the ad buyers, not the end customers. There is plenty of data showing only 2 commercials in a typical sitcom work which is the 1st one past the end and the one before it starts. The rest of the commercials in a sitcom decrease brand value.

The Aussie ABC has a show called Gruen which is about ads and covers the technical and psychological details behind advertising while making fun of bad ads. The show was named after the well studied psychological technique of confusing customers with shop layout.

Reddit is upset that Anthropic is taking a dubious approach to Redditâ(TM)s usersâ(TM) consent - when thatâ(TM)s Redditâ(TM)s job.

A site thatâ(TM)s switched its terms to grant itself the right to sell its usersâ(TM) content, blocked accounts for trying to delete their content⦠is upset that someone else is acting similarly dubiously.

By all means, Reddit, call it for what it is: You have something you think is valuable, others think is valuable, and you want to force them to pay you for it, not take it for free.

But donâ(TM)t pretend itâ(TM)s about user consent. Youâ(TM)re in NO way doing this to protect your users from exploitation, you just want to be sure youâ(TM)re the ones profiting from it.

You'll be too intellectually lazy to learn either one of those things so it seems a moot point.