Well, there’s your problem.

This is interesting. I've noticed that most of my parrot's senses seem duller than mine (unlike with, say, dogs) - not as picky with taste (except staleness), no meaningful signs of a significant sense of smell, has trouble seeing things that are right near him sometimes, etc - but he seems more atuned to having rapid reactions to anything unusual than I am. Like, at my old place, whenever a chunk of ice would break off the roof and crash down to the ground below, he'd be reacting before my senses even registered the event. I wonder if the "high framerate" thing is in general a "fast communication with the senses" in parrots. Certainly there's a very short distance between most of their sensory organs and the brain. And it's certainly useful for a prey animal to be able to react to sudden events (like, say, a striking snake, or a diving hawk glinting through the branches)

Anytime Spotify loses customers, it's the fault of Apple and Apple Music stealing customers away from Spotify.

Spotify can only be the #1 streaming music service. Any loss is due to Apple. There is nothing Spotify can do that causes it to lose customers without it being Apple's fault. Don't implement a feature user wants? Apple's fault.

The bird is the word.

"I'm here live . I'm not a parrot." ;)

They're intelligent social animals. Even just a change in eye contact from me alters my Amazon's behavior. He's incredibly attuned to my posture, tone of voice, mannerisms, etc, to clue in whether he's going to e.g. be getting a treat or scolded for misbehavior or whatnot. I can't imagine that a video without that back-and-forth would stimulate him.

I don't watch TV anymore, but he used to just tune it out. Rather, he'd tune into *me*. He'd laugh at the funny parts of shows and the like, not because he understood the humour, but because he was paying attention to me, and I was laughing, so he wanted to join in. And then I'd react amusedly to his taking part, he'd get attention, and getting attention was in turn a reward to him. They like getting reactions to the things they do. A video won't do that.

And yeah, he understands what screens are - same as mirrors. Some smaller psittacines are known to strongly interact with mirrors as if they're other birds, but in my experience, the larger ones don't do that; they quickly learn it's their reflection and stop caring. As a side note, I actually tried the mirror test with my Amazon twice, but each time I got a null result. You're supposed to put an unusual mark or lightweight object on their head where they can't see it, put them in front of a mirror, and if they interact with the mirror like it's another animal, they don't recognize it's their reflection; while if they use it to try to preen the hidden mark/object, it's a sign of recognition. But my Amazon didn't give a rat's arse. I might as well have put him in front of a wall for all it mattered; he gave the mark zero attention. Didn't care about the reflection of a bird. Didn't care about the mark on his head. Just sat there waiting for me to put him back on his cage :P I couldn't get him to interact with the reflection at all. Nor does he react to birds on TV. By contrast, he'll VERY MUCH interact with a real bird (he hates them all... he's very antisocial with nonhumans).

Fixed that for you. ;)

Also, on a more serious note, I know it runs counter to modern day TV, but I would argue the very last thing Trek needs to be is a franchise. TNG was novel because it was all that was on the air at the time. By the time they got to ENT the franchise was burned out and ratings reflected it. I have a lot of issues with NuTrek, but I do really enjoy SNW, can find redeeming things about DSC, but if they try to make it into the Trek version of the Marvel Universe or copy what Disney has done with Star Wars they're going to burn it the fuck out.

Greenshot can be launched via PrtScn too....

I empathise with the nurses. It will be like Microsoft's level one help centre.

You: I'm having an issue with my Arm. Whenever I try to lift it, it falls off.
Support: Oh no, that sounds really frustrating! I can imagine how annoying it must be to have your work disrupted like that. But don't worry, I'm here to help and we'll get through this together.

You: Okay, what should I try to fix it?
Support: I totally understand your eagerness to resolve this quickly. Having arm issues can be such an inconvenience in our busy lives. But before we jump into troubleshooting, would you mind taking a deep breath with me? These kinds of problems can really raise our stress levels.

You: ...No, I'd just like to know how to fix the arm falling off please.
Support: You're absolutely right, let's focus on the task at hand. I don't want to make this any more difficult than it needs to be. I'm picturing how frustrated I'd feel if I were in your shoes. But please know I'm giving this my full care and attention. Have you tried rebooting your arm since the crashes began?

Are they going to ban license plate reading/lookup too if it's run through Azure? Traffic cameras? This is outside Microsoft's decision making IMHO. They either accept money for services rendered or they don't. Discriminating against US law enforcement should not be an option and should actually be illegal (again IMHO). We're supposed to trust the government. If that's an issue, then fix the root of the problem. Disallowing police from using technologies is not the right fix.

That's probably it. First, using generative AI tools might add details to police reports that were not present, and this has very problematic issues regarding evidence and testimony. We know AI loves to hallucinate, and even worse, do it without telling you. If you're writing up a description of a person you don't want it to suddenly embellish the description with details that weren't there.

Likewise, using it to generate an image of a person from a description might add details that aren't there, and even worse, may falsely incriminate someone because the generated image looks like someone familiar who is totally innocent.

Same goes for image recognition - we've already had people false arrested over facial recognition failures - of which if only someone actually compared the photos from surveillance cameras against the person themselves, would've told you it's the wrong person.

Microsoft is basically saying AI is too unreliable to use it for anything that could affect someone's life. Whether it's because the training data set lacks diversity in its images, or other things, it's not in a position where you can seriously affect someone's life with it.

Having software accuse you of committing a crime is something Microsoft wants to avoid because the technology is not there yet. Giving it an image and asking an AI to identify a person is not something AI is ready for yet.

And honestly, the technology just isn't there yet. The output of AI should only be used in a fictional context, You can't trust AI right now in ways that could seriously affect someone's life.

Well, the DMA basically says Apple can't prevent people from installing apps outside the App Store. That's about it. You can choose to use the App Store or not, but Apple cannot control the content or distribution of apps to their devices.

Which is why Apple did comply - all apps still need to be signed by Apple, but those in the DMA area can use an alternate signing mechanism where you submit your binary to Apple, and Apple signs it. They do basic automated checks but otherwise do not review it for content. So if you wanted a porn app, you can - Apple will sign in.

Likely that app signing will include an identifier because the app will be linked back to the developer - so if someone distributes malware it can be traced back to the developer that created it.

The DMA didn't say anything about developers remaining anonymous. All it said was developers have a right to have users install their apps without Apple preventing it. Likely the whole thing of Apple holding developers accountable keeps the platform clean and honest.

Of course, it does mean developers have had signing keys stolen because malware writers have had to exploit developers to get malicious apps signed. I mean, Realtek got their signing keys stolen and used by malware. There's also reports of an Apple developer getting their signing certificate deactivated because someone stole it from their Mac and released a bunch of malware with it.

Why? I mean he's already testified. What benefit does anyone get in assassinating him. Him having a poor judgement of risk or being a conspiracy theorist is quite irrelevant to his death.

It sends the message of "snitches get stitches". It's why the Witness Protection Program exists.

The guy may have testified already, but his death may make others who have corroborating testimony more reluctant to appear lest they get "disappeared".

Of course, if this was China, he would've been killed and no one would notice he was gone.

The alternator is not on AM frequency ...
Facepalm ...
Nor is the other stuff you mention ...

More bullcrap?

The alternator can be a sort of EMI - the slip rings from the rotor do make sparks and are a source of EMI. ICE vehicles have 4/6/8 or more spark gap transmitters, which have been banned for over a century now. AM works just fine.

Spark gap transmitters are banned because they are broadband sources of noise - that is, they produce EMI across a wide spectrum. Now, a car has a lot of shielding - the metal engine is one, plus the metal chassis helps cut down on emissions a lot. But a car radio has to also deal with conducted EMI - the power lines are full of noise and it just conducts from the engine into the passenger compartment.

But you know what? It's a solved problem - it's been a problem ever since we had radios in car. I'm sure Motorola (remember they used to make car radios? Hence the name!) dealt with this issue since the very beginning.

Even AM radio stations often installed car radios as their monitoring radios because they can better reject the interference.

And today's modern radio chipsets - especially automotive ones - handle AM, FM and DAB in the chipset. Modern SDR radio technology that allows for super narrow filters to really suppress interference. AM radio is effectively "free" as it's already built into the chip. If the infotainment system was a significant source of power drain, then maybe not fitting it with 100W of audio amplifiers might be a good place to start - rather than trying to save a few fractions of a watt eliminating AM radio.

It's likely a data broker thing - they don't pay that much because knowing what you listen to isn't valuable information - they'd get rid of all the radio so you'd be force to subscribe to streaming but that would generate a huge uproar.

And yes, my car radio is tuned to a local news station on AM. I'm going to have to make sure the EV I get will be able to pick it up.

Meh, I don't view internet connectivity as some kind of inalienable right.

Well, given these are low income people, how do you expect them to do things like get a job, get an education, or even just try to improve themselves?

Most minimum wage jobs cannot be applied to in person these days - you must go online to apply on their job portal. Heck, most jobs require online application. Oh, you can get a few stores still taking paper applications, but they're generally the smaller ones

If you want to apply for government services, you can do it online, or visit their offices which are open from say 10AM to 2PM. But you can't, because you need to apply for an appointment - online.

Heck, even education often requires going online to do research - a problem for kids when the library kicks them out at 5PM whilst they try to do their homework.

You may decry the fact that many pages are getting formatted for phones, but for a lot of people, homeless included, internet access is required, and often times the only way they get it is on their phones.

It may not be an inalienable right, but honestly, to do basically anything involved with basic survival seems to pretty much require it - getting a roof over your head, education, a job, even basic necessities like food (the cheap places to live often are food deserts, so if it's going to take an hour to get to the grocery store, you probably want to know if stuff is on sale or if they have it).