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Submission + - Android Open Source Is Becoming a Controlled Experiment (reclaimthenet.org)

alternative_right writes: Google’s latest move to withhold crucial components from the Android 16 source release has sent ripples through the privacy and custom ROM communities, reviving fears that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is being quietly hollowed out.

While the company insists AOSP isn’t being discontinued, its actions are telling a different story for developers who rely on Pixel devices as their foundation.

Comment Re:We did the same during WW2 ... (Score 2) 153

I believe the CEO of General Motors was made a Lt Gen.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
Knudsen was president of the Chevrolet Division of General Motors from 1924 to 1937 and was president of General Motors from 1937 to 1940.
His experience and success as a key senior manager in the operations sides of Ford Motor Company and then General Motors led the Franklin Roosevelt administration to commission him directly as a lieutenant general in the United States Army to help lead the United States' war materiel production efforts for World War II.

Comment Bandwidth (Score 1) 19

Engineers decided it would be fastest to fly physical hard drives with data into the country, since transferring huge volumes of data over the internet could take months.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum's quote circa 1985:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

And the Obligatory XKCD

Submission + - Facial recognition error sees woman accused of theft (bbc.co.uk)

alanw writes: Home Bargains introduces facial recognition camers, woman pays for toilet rolls, Home Bargains mistakenly submits an allegation that she shoplifted them to Facewatch, next time she tries to enter an HB store she is escorted out with no reason given.

"As soon as I stepped my foot over the threshold of the door, they were radioing each other and they all surrounded me and were like 'you need to leave the store'," she said.

Madeleine Stone, senior advocacy officer at the civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, said they had been contacted by more than 35 people who have complained of being wrongly placed on facial recognition watchlists.

"They're being wrongly flagged as criminals," Ms Stone said.

"They've given no due process, kicked out of stores. This is having a really serious impact."

"Historically in Britain, we have a history that you are innocent until proven guilty but when an algorithm, a camera and a facial recognition system gets involved, you are guilty."

Comment Re: It seems (Score 2) 155

We know that it had a loud bang and compressor stall roughly at V1. We know the pilots issued a mayday ...

Where does this knowledge come from? I'd expect pprune to mention these things, but there's no mention of Compressor Stall there. There IS, however a user called Compresser_Stall who has commented in the thread. All the broken character encoding suggests that it's been copied and pasted from elsewhere. From an AI, perhaps?

Comment Re:That's not news (Score 4, Interesting) 80

John Brunner's 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar
The title is an allusion to a thought experiment in which it was calculated that all the human beings in the world could fit shoulder to shoulder on the Isle of Wight; given population growth, Brunner expanded this to the island of Zanzibar.

Comment UK "Life Sentence" may be only 15 years in prison (Score 1) 45

See this random example from yesterday, top of Duck Duck Go's News search
A Cambridge man who strangled a former flatmate to death over an argument about a passport has been handed a life sentence.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge-news.co....
On Friday (June 6) he was jailed for life at the same court, and told he will serve a minimum of 16 years.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fart...
A man who stabbed a teenager to death ... sentenced to at least 15 years in prison

Comment Re:Maybe I am soft on crime (Score 1) 45

Bruce Hyman was a barrister (he also produced an episode of Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and may have been a speech writer for a UK Prime Minister). Representing a client in a divorce case, he forged an email and sent it to his client's husband, expecting it to then be produced in court. He then accused him of submitting a faked judgment to the court. It all unravelled and he was sentenced to 12 months in jail.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegalfamily.wordpress....

Comment Official judgment (Score 1) 45

Official judgment

The referrals arise out of the actual or suspected use by lawyers of generative artificial
intelligence tools to produce written legal arguments or witness statements which are
not then checked, so that false information (typically a fake citation or quotation) is put
before the court. The facts of these cases raise concerns about the competence and
conduct of the individual lawyers who have been referred to this court. They raise
broader areas of concern however as to the adequacy of the training, supervision and
regulation of those who practice before the courts, and as to the practical steps taken by
those with responsibilities in those areas to ensure that lawyers who conduct litigation
understand and comply with their professional and ethical responsibilities and their
duties to the court.

Comment DuckDuckGo (Score 3, Interesting) 51

I've been using DuckDuckGofor what seems like ages (a couple of years?). I find it returns useful results about 80% of the time, however when I am using more than 3 words in the query, it tends to pick up on the more frequently used ones and ignore the ones I'm using to narrow the search.

Google also covers more of the internet. One example from today is a search for "You can safely disable CFG80211_CRDA_SUPPORT". No results from DuckDuckGo, but several Gentoo Linux related ones from Google.

Comment More detail at "Talking Points Memo" (Score 5, Informative) 100

Recently updated news at Talking Points Memo

March 29th: Sketchy First Reports

March 30th: More Details on Situation at Indiana University

March 31st: Another Update on the Situation at Indiana University

I wanted to provide a quick update on the case of Professor Xiaofeng Wang at Indiana University. For overview details, see the posts below. The latest is the IU chapter of a faculty organization (the American Association of University Professors) has sent a letter to the university challenging Professor Wang’s termination. You can see that letter here. The letter itself is the best evidence we as yet have that Wang was in fact fired by the university. The university itself has not confirmed that or publicly commented at all. And at least no one who is talking appears to be in contact with Wang. So we don’t have any confirmation from him or anyone speaking on his behalf.

It’s important to note that all of this is unfolding in the context of people having pretty little information about what’s happening. It appears that Professor Wang is the target of a federal investigation of some sort. ...

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