Comment Dogs displace human obstacles (Score 1) 24
Robotic dogs can be high visibility and include spoken audio warnings. They can carry objects allowing hands free navigation.
Submission + - Milwaukee Tool's owner Techtronic Industries sabotages repairability. (youtube.com)
couchslug writes: Skilled technicians and serious DIYers could rely on Milwaukee power tools to last decades and be reasonably easy to repair as many Slashdotters doubtless have done. Replacement parts which kept expensive tools from becoming ewaste are now unavailable or blatantly overpriced to make repair uneconomic. These are not inexpensive equipment.
Comment Re:Porn (Score 1) 256
Nobody is denying nations and cultures change over time. But who gets to decide how they change? The people within in it or those outside of it? Can we choose who we want to become, or are we obliged to accept whatever change the cat drags in?
btw, I wasn't aware national policy was dictated by writing poetry on the base of a statue, over twenty years after the stature, which had nothing to do with the poem, was erected.
In case you're interested, an actual example of policy implemented by the Federal government would be be Naturalization Act of 1790.
You leftists seem to have a talent for spouting off fine sounding platitudes with no basis in reality, whatsoever.
Comment Re:So somehow people are not happy with copilot? (Score 0) 52
Hilarious Copilot intrusions. And as much as I've come to view Linux as a daily laxative , I can't understand how Micro$ofties allow that toxic system to crawl up their azzwholez. And gawdhelpthem ... they PAY for it !
Comment French Revolution jazz (Score 2, Interesting) 45
A few alpha males kept the group unified. These got killed, and then the commoners took over. A big mistake.
Comment Re:Uh (Score -1) 50
But, ICE murders the right people. Are you next ?
Comment Re:Fuck the Nazi Guardian (Score 0) 39
For north America, 150-million people is a/the sustainable long-term population. Citizen reproduction rates were already pointing at this prudent value. We need import no-repeat-no immigrant bodies to support our post-enlightenment / neo-industrial culture, any more than we need to import finished-retail products. America should preserve and protect its own ( as of say 1930 ) ... while providing humane help to foreign peoples/nations on their own territory. The modern nation with the most under-developed country-side has the best std-of-living; see Scandinavian countries for details.
Comment Re:Higher dimmensions? (Score 0) 52
I asked a similar question to GOOG.ai a few weeks ago. It responded that this ( compactified space ) assumption leads to non-Lorentz invariant equations.
Submission + - Mozilla accuses Microsoft of sabotaging Firefox with Windows and Copilot tactics (nerds.xyz) 1
BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla is accusing Microsoft of stacking the deck against Firefox, arguing that design choices in Windows steer users toward Edge even when they explicitly choose another browser. According to Mozilla, parts of Windows still open links in Edge regardless of the default browser setting, including results from the taskbar search and links launched from apps like Outlook and Teams. Mozilla says this means Firefox often never even gets the opportunity to handle those links, which quietly shifts user activity back into Microsoftâ(TM)s ecosystem.
The company also points to Microsoftâ(TM)s aggressive rollout of Copilot as another example of platform power being used to push Microsoft services. Copilot appeared pinned to the taskbar, arrived automatically on many systems with Microsoft 365, and even received a dedicated keyboard key on some laptops. Mozilla argues that when the maker of the dominant desktop operating system promotes its own browser and AI tools at the system level, it becomes far harder for independent browsers like Firefox to compete.
The company also points to Microsoftâ(TM)s aggressive rollout of Copilot as another example of platform power being used to push Microsoft services. Copilot appeared pinned to the taskbar, arrived automatically on many systems with Microsoft 365, and even received a dedicated keyboard key on some laptops. Mozilla argues that when the maker of the dominant desktop operating system promotes its own browser and AI tools at the system level, it becomes far harder for independent browsers like Firefox to compete.
Comment Re:A little late. (Score -1) 185
The organisation, before r Musk took over, became a cesspit of far-left extremism, in which anything the far-left "disagreed" with (such as facts and other [re]publican values) were censored. A cesspit of Trotsky-slut scabs ... before Musk. Mebby Musk will/should/could buy SlashDot and clean house ...
Submission + - Meta Cafeteria Workers Take on ICE (wired.com)
joshuark writes: Staff at a Meta café in Bellevue, Washington, had made a pact that they would rally together if the Trump administration's immigration crackdown affected any one of them.
Under a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program, federal authorities detained Serigne, a Senegalese asylum seeker and the brother of dishwasher Abdoul Mbengue in December.
"I didn't know what to do at first, but we had this community, and I told them this news," Mbengue says through a coworker who is translating his French.
A number of the cooks, dishwashers, and front-of-house staff at the Meta café known as Crashpad are from Africa, the Caribbean, or Ukraine. Some, like Mbengue, are in the U.S. on temporary authorizations while awaiting the resolution of asylum or immigration cases.
Mbengue's colleagues launched a fundraising campaign to pay for the legal defense of his brother.
Thousands of dollars altogether came in from Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon workers. On February 24, a judge ordered the release of Mbengue's brother.
"He is back because of the efforts," Mbengue says.
This activism inside the tech industry may shift as big tech companies become less responsive to worker petitions and decline to take public stands against Trump policies. A decade ago, thousands of tech workers protested against Trump's immigration bans alongside executives.
Workers allege that on January 29, two agents in "DHS" clothing looking for a specific non-Microsoft employee working at the company's headquarters campus in Redmond were turned away at the reception of the Commons building. Microsoft could not confirm that the visitors were law enforcement.
Meta declined to comment for this story. Amazon and Google didn't respond to requests for comment.
Under a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program, federal authorities detained Serigne, a Senegalese asylum seeker and the brother of dishwasher Abdoul Mbengue in December.
"I didn't know what to do at first, but we had this community, and I told them this news," Mbengue says through a coworker who is translating his French.
A number of the cooks, dishwashers, and front-of-house staff at the Meta café known as Crashpad are from Africa, the Caribbean, or Ukraine. Some, like Mbengue, are in the U.S. on temporary authorizations while awaiting the resolution of asylum or immigration cases.
Mbengue's colleagues launched a fundraising campaign to pay for the legal defense of his brother.
Thousands of dollars altogether came in from Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon workers. On February 24, a judge ordered the release of Mbengue's brother.
"He is back because of the efforts," Mbengue says.
This activism inside the tech industry may shift as big tech companies become less responsive to worker petitions and decline to take public stands against Trump policies. A decade ago, thousands of tech workers protested against Trump's immigration bans alongside executives.
Workers allege that on January 29, two agents in "DHS" clothing looking for a specific non-Microsoft employee working at the company's headquarters campus in Redmond were turned away at the reception of the Commons building. Microsoft could not confirm that the visitors were law enforcement.
Meta declined to comment for this story. Amazon and Google didn't respond to requests for comment.
Comment Re:Eww (Score 1) 65
Ways exist, but not as clean-cut/easy as this ZONE-ALARM work-alike. Long overdue for Linux systems.
Comment Well, they can do something about it now (Score 1, Funny) 39
With their new Mythos model they can take Pentagon down, that's what I hear anyway. Maybe Pentagon needs to be taken down as well as the rest of the regime and all of the regimes.
Submission + - Little Snitch comes to Linux to expose what your software is really doing (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Little Snitch, the long-time macOS network monitoring tool, is now getting a Linux version. The developer says the idea came from experimenting with Linux personally and realizing how strange it felt not knowing what connections the system was making. Existing Linux tools like OpenSnitch and various command-line utilities exist, but none offered the same simple workflow of seeing which process is connecting where and blocking it instantly. The new Linux version uses eBPF for kernel-level traffic interception, with the core written in Rust and a web-based interface that even allows monitoring remote Linux servers from another device.
During testing on Ubuntu, the developer noticed something interesting. Over the course of a week, only nine system processes made internet connections. On macOS, similar testing reportedly showed more than 100 processes communicating externally. Of course, applications behave similarly across platforms, and launching Firefox immediately triggered connections to telemetry and advertising endpoints, while LibreOffice made no network connections at all. The project is still early and not positioned as a full security firewall, but rather a transparency tool designed to show what software is actually doing on the network and let users block connections if they choose.
During testing on Ubuntu, the developer noticed something interesting. Over the course of a week, only nine system processes made internet connections. On macOS, similar testing reportedly showed more than 100 processes communicating externally. Of course, applications behave similarly across platforms, and launching Firefox immediately triggered connections to telemetry and advertising endpoints, while LibreOffice made no network connections at all. The project is still early and not positioned as a full security firewall, but rather a transparency tool designed to show what software is actually doing on the network and let users block connections if they choose.
Submission + - The secret, never-before-used CIA tool that helped find airman downed in Iran (nypost.com)
alternative_right writes: The CIA used a futuristic new tool called âoeGhost Murmurâ to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, The Post has learned.
The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise, two sources close to the breakthrough said.
The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise, two sources close to the breakthrough said.
Slashdot Top Deals
He: Let's end it all, bequeathin' our brains to science. She: What?!? Science got enough trouble with their OWN brains. -- Walt Kelly
