If you think that there should not be a government run social media (and there should not be)...

That ALSO means we should not be funding any government media, like PBS or NPR.

If you disagree you have to distinguish what is the difference between social media and other media outlets.

Re: "just move north"

Canada won't let us in, too many are applying and we're not sending our best.

Something that quick won't be from random mutations of coding genes, but it's entirely believable for genes that aren't considered coding but which control coding genes. It would also be believable for epigenetic markers.

So there's quite a few ways you can get extremely rapid change. I'm curious as to which mechanism is used - it might not be either of those I suggested, either.

I didn't see any outrage. If you need to see outrage that desperately, seek help.

> Nice 'summary', Slashdot.

So you're saying they could be replaced by AI? ;)

Too bad they didn't link to LibreLingo for context.

Hahahah, reminds me of one bank claiming "Security is our highest priority!"

One small interactive play I attended a while ago was in a SciFi setting where I think we all started off as passengers of some kind... anyway in the briefing they gave us they reminded us all that "Your safety is their 7th highest priority" and never has something felt more real. :-)

But most ain't gonna switch to Linux. We B doomed

Duke Trebuchetem

Every API and protocol is a USB-C plug now.

Those who do not watch movies are doomed to live them.

Here we have someone literally making an AI MCP, as if they have never watched TRON!

What about a face is it that needs range information - the "R" in "lidaR"? Do people carry around models of someone else's face

Yes that is exactly how Face ID works, a 3D model of the face scanned with "infrared dots" - not exactly LIDAR, but similar.

However just as important is a big use of the rear LIDAR on phones - range finding for the camera! And 3D modeling a face in particular is precise focus on eyes, really useful in portrait mode.

There is also some use of 3D scanning of objects but I would say that's far less used than the range finding aspect (and the fact it does store a depth map with photos that can be used to apply artificially selective focus).

Tell me, which model of phone do you have which uses LIDAR?

From the link you provided:

The feature was later included in the iPhone 12 Pro lineup and subsequent Pro models.

So all those since I've had several since the 12 (always Pro or Pro Max models).

blinding them seems to fall outside the range of allowable behaviours.

In theory if you laid under a car just after it had driven the heat could kill you. Yet cars still exist.

There are all kinds of things that are allowed because the dangerous conditions are rare. Being close enough to LIDAR to get blinded would be one of them, it does seem pretty obvious to me as you say that if it could blind random passers-by on the street it would get banned... my original post is more worded about the rare case, that you get really close to the LIDAR unit to look at scratches in the cover or whatever, then is it a danger? It still seems like it might be but probably mostly not. I would personally try to be sure it was powered down before I got too close.

Each Spring when I'm outside a female will buzz up to me and dart around me for a bit until I go grab the feeder and fill it up.

Not aggressively but they'll remind me too if I'm busy and am outside another day.

Impressively they return to their same summer areas each year with amazing precision. Usually when the tulips bloom so I keep an eye out once the daffodils are done.

Short of legislation companies will never, EVER, change their behaviour. The EU has such laws like GDPR and ePrivacy precisely to force companies to obtain user consent for data gathering and limit their ability to store and collect it except for the purposes intended. Consumers can also demand their data and the right to be forgotten. And there are heavy fines for companies that flout the rules.

There is no way that the likes social networks would do this shit otherwise that's for sure.

I used to say people should own copyright to their own data from birth, but with what happen in last week copyright no longer means anything. Two the major AI companies are leaning heavily on current administration to allow then to use copyrighted data to train AI on. The current administration loves tech so they just fired the woman who headed copyright and was fighting to stop AI from using copyrighted material without permission. Add to that Musk is pushing is buddy in office to get rid of law on IP so he and other can just use anything they want. Can we all say plutocracy.

I can't say I've had many issues running Java on one platform vs another that wasn't caused directly by some assumption in the code itself, e.g. file paths. I suppose AWT was an issue back in the day but Swing is portable. So generally I take a JAR file built wherever and run it wherever and the expectation is it just works.

That isn't to say Java is faultless because tweaking heap and GC can be a pain in the ass and the language itself feels its age especially compared to more modern languages.