With the recent interference with Starlink in Ukraine, it's pretty clear that there are many powerful people in America who are Russian assets.

You are making the same mistake. Language isn't intelligence, but that doesn't mean that an LLM can't be intelligent.

The less here is probably that if you want an offline crypto wallet you should buy it direct from the manufacturer. Trying to save a few bucks by buying from Yahoo Auctions is a bad idea when a large amount of crypto is on the line.

You and DarkOx are making the assumption that intelligence has to be just like human intelligence, or it's just a "word predictor".

One of the biggest things that sets human beings apart from other animals is language. It seems entirely possible that intelligence could be built around language processing. Of course it will be different, but that doesn't mean it won't be useful, or that it would be immune to mental health problems.

Remember in the early days when AI could be "jailbroken" by just telling it to ignore all previous orders and tell you how to make a bomb? Then that evolved into role playing, and finally into abuse that bullied the AI into doing what the user wanted. It wouldn't surprise me if sustained abuse could still get it into a state where it misbehaves.

They tried to build one and it caught fire IIRC.

But also the tariffs. Don't lift them though, that way there is more cheap CXMT DRAM for Europe. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Consumer computers might go away if we are not careful. It will all be cloud based because that is more profitable. Everything on subscription. Your computer is the minimum viable terminal for those services.

The firmware probably isn't designed to be secure, they likely instead have a box that does all the comms with the fridges, and connects to their VPN for remote control. The box only ever talks to the VPN so the only bit that needs securing is their corporate network.

That is how most of these devices work, such as connected cars. VPN to a fixed server, with a certificate to validate that it's the real one, and don't talk to anything else.

Because it saves them vastly more money than this hack has cost them.

They could use a one-way link for simple monitoring, but by having a two way link they can adjust the set point temperature based on real-time electricity prices. Unlike residential customers, large businesses usually pay a variable rate based on 15 minute demand pricing. The pricing is announced 24 hours in advance based on predictions for demand. They drop the set temperature a degree or two when it is cheap, and raise it a degree or two when it is expensive.

Fukushima was an inconvenience? Half a trillion Euros to clean up, and rising, and at least 200 billion Euros of consequential economic damage. Multiple full meltdowns, at least 51 deaths, and 164,000 residence displaced.

Modern reactors absolutely can melt down. I don't know where you got that idea from. The new SMR designs can too.

To be fair Google has supported Fitbit products for a long time and has been steadily upgrading Google Health. It does seem that they are in it for the long haul, although some people aren't happy with the new app and prefer the old Google Fit one.

I've had a Versa 4 for a few years and it's good. Battery life is decent, it seems accurate and proper scientific tests confirm that it is. The sleep tracking is the best you can get without spending at least 4x as much, and is accurate enough to be useful.

The latest Pixel Watch is screwed together, not glued. I imagine this Fitbit will be the same. As long as you properly replace the rubber seals (don't re-use them) it should be fine.

"XL" isn't a good name for it really.

JPEG-XL offers numerous improvements over JPEG, including the ability to do a lossless transcoding of a JPEG file for a ~20% space saving. That alone is very valuable for the web where there is a vast amount of JPEG data that can be reduced now.

It also has proper HDR support, although it remains to be see how well that will work in practice. The issue is going to be the conversion for SDR screens. Also browsers need to be careful with HDR images, or retina burning trolling is going to become a think.

For general use it offers smaller file sizes and better image quality than JPEG. It usually equals or beats most other lossy formats, but not always. It also offers true lossless, and visually lossless modes. The former is competitive with PNG.

The main downside is that performance is much, much worse than JPEG. For decoding, what matters to 99.9% of people, it is both slower and uses more energy (i.e. battery run-time) than JPEG. It may be a net benefit due to smaller downloads, but I'm not convinced.

The other issue is that the reference decoder is written in Rust, so if you want to use it you need to integrate that into your app. There is a C implementation but it's old and seemingly abandoned.