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Comment Re:Youtube is ridiculous (Score 2) 23

I agree, as long as it's labeled or satire and clearly not trying to be "real" then I don't have any problems with it and it could be pretty amusing.

The problem is the content creators are specifically doing it to troll people. They were suspended for doing this, complied for a while, then went back to pretending to be legitimate. If the UK's ASBO (Anti-social behaviour order... look it up, it's an amusing idea) was still a thing, these guys would be prime candidates.

Comment Re:Youtube is ridiculous (Score 1) 23

I don't understand the logic in banning when all you have to do is label it so anyone watching will know.

"All you have to do". The moment that phrase comes up, you've given yourself a clue what to investigate.

YouTube doesn't know the content is AI-generated except because these two (2) channels were known for uploading deliberately misleading content. To do what you suggest, they would have to produce and implement AI-detection code, plus pay to run it against every upload. Further, they'd have to analyze the description the uploader picks, to determine if it is misleading or not. They'd have to deal with false positives and false negatives.
Or... they could just ban the two (2) channels that were previously suspended for this dickhead behavior, setting a precedent so future dickheads think twice about being dickheads, and shifting detection to the non-dickhead public.

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

Comment Re:Youtube is ridiculous (Score 3, Insightful) 23

You are so fucking old the only "slop" around is in your adult diaper old man. Get with the times!

1} You are incorrect; the person you are replying to is neither fucking, nor old.
2} You are incorrect; slop has an accepted applicable definition - needing no quotation marks - to the point that it is "word of the year".
3} You are incorrect; there is AI slop around.
4} You are incorrect; the person you are replying to is neither wearing a diaper - adult or otherwise, nor a man.

But most importantly...
5} You are incorrect; getting with the times is not an admirable goal when the times are bad. Which they are, in all ways contextually applicable to this discussion.

Come back when your trolling skills evolve beyond the "call them a poopy-head" level.

Comment Re:Plasma and fusion science is pointless (Score 1) 58

The stable genius jr. has concluded that fusion technology is pointless anyway. Coal and oil are the future!

That's your tell that fusion has a promising future. Some people aren't like a stopped clock (broken but occasionally correct by sheer coincidence), so much as like a compass whose needle has been magnetized backwards and always points south (always precisely the opposite of correct, and therefore informative if you know to negate their indication).

Comment Re:Not enough (Score 1) 109

It is a good example, because its someone who was never in the US being charged, tried and jailed in the US for an alleged crime against a British company.

Dual criminality means that the act that they are being extradited for is also an offence under UK law. It does NOT mean that they actually broke UK law. And in the case I am thinking of, they were never prosecuted in the UK. Thge UK-US extradition act is also severely lopsided, with a firm case having to be presented to extradite from the US, but only reasonable suspicion being required to extradite from the UK.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 120

That is part of the English language, used extensively in England, and not pronounced the way its spelled.

Literally just picking a few place names from where I used to live in the UK, and you get:

Happisburgh - dates back a thousand years.

Wymondham - dates back approximately 1,500 years, and originates from an Anglo-Saxon name.

Costessey - originates from around 600AD, and again originates from an Anglo-Saxon name.

Comment Re:Not enough (Score 4, Informative) 109

Note that the US has, multiple times, extradited people from the UK in order to try them in the US, for actions done in the UK - simply because they breached US laws and somewhere in the chain there was a US connection.

The US loves fining foreign companies as well, including major banks like HSBC, for breaching US law.

The US has also confiscated transactions between two Europeans who carried out a transaction in two countries outside the US, simply because they breached the US embargo on Cuba and the transaction was done across the SWIFT network.

In other words, the US loves to do what it complains about here.

Comment Re:Add Random Latency to Trades (Score 1) 106

Imagine what the world could be like if we didn't take a large portion of the smartest kids in the country to have them work on how to skim 0.00001% of every financial transaction and instead employed them doing something useful instead.

History will see this as an absolutely insane waste of potential.

I mean... where else could we put all those sociopaths? We've already got enough politicians and lawyers. Stock trading is perhaps the least harmful thing they could be doing.

Comment Re:Rejected the AMZN Aquisition? (Score 1) 100

That may explain it. I have a Qrevo S, which is from 2024, while yours is from 2022. The only thing that it ever gets stuck at is one spot where, from under the couch, it can see out the ground-level window, and get stuck between the couch and window ledge (not actually stuck, just confused), because the LiDAR sees out the window. And I fixed that just by setting a small exclusion zone there. It never "gets lost" - maybe your house has some vast open spaces that it can't handle? But the LiDAR seems to see pretty far. The only other issues I've had are things like where I'll have a loose cord on the floor or some large piece of debris or whatnot, and even then, it's usually good at not getting stock on them. I'm also impressed with how well it deals with doors vs. a Roomba - my Roomba used to always get itself locked in rooms by accidentally closing doors after it entered, while the Roborock really tries to avoid ever touching them.

The Qrevo S has actually rotating mops, and they do a superb job with the floor. Spotless. My robot has the hardest mopping job in the world, too - it has to clean under my parrot's cage, and he poops off the edge onto a plastic mat under it ;)

I've never had to contact support - hopefully I don't need to :)

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