There are CAPTCHA systems out there on the web that monitor mouse movements to distinguish whether a user is a human or a bot, so as to keep AI web-scrapers out.

My first thought when reading this, was that perhaps this training on human mouse movements is intended to make AI scrapers that could circumvent those countermeasures ...

There was a high-profile scam two years ago wherein deepfakes had been used to impersonate high-level executives in a teleconference call to order a lower-ranking employee to authorise payments.

But ... wherever this tech is going to be deployed, do you think it will be compulsory for the high-level executives to use or only for the lower-ranking employees?

Thanks Duolingo for telling us this.
I don't want to support the kleptogarchy, directly or indirectly.

You could ask Lieutenant Dan. He invested in it, apparently.

The big AI corporations and Trump are complicit.

The corporations are sucking up to Trump, lobbying against regulations for AI safety or against data centre buildouts, and Trump is doing what they want.

The Kessler syndrome is when the low Earth orbit is so full of fast-moving space junk that the orbit is unusable, and space travel has become too dangerous to be feasible.
This was just a theory when it was presented in 1978.

In 2009, he warned that the debris environment had already become unstable.
Since then, the number of objects in LEO has increase a lot with constellations of small communication satellites such as StarLink.
Satellites and the space station regularly have to use maneuvering thrusters to avoid space debris.

Last year, scientists published a warning that a solar storm could knock out satellites' ability to evade space debris: and as little as three days of downtime could allow cascading space debris collisions to lead to the Kessler Syndrome.

I think we instead need a global moratorium against these kind of satellite constellations, until such a time that the space debris has cleared.
Launching them would be highly irresponsible.

Anyone can join PauseAI's Discord server. No invite necessary.
It is not a place where people get radicalised: it is a place where people who already have concerns about AI go ... and then be disappointed that PauseAI's mission is a bit narrow.

PauseAI is about avoiding dangerous artificial superintelligence, by pushing government regulations for AI safety.
As such, it is largely academic, about avoiding a future that even Sam Altman and other AI company leaders, and scientists are saying is possible.
It is not about AI taking jobs, the copyright issue, slop content, chat-bot addiction, or anything else that people get much angry about in their daily lives.

I think that the only reasonably safe way to use MS Windows these days (... if you absolutely need to run Windows for anything) is to run it in a virtual machine that allows snapshots.

That way you would be able to revert the machine after a bad Windows Update, which these days have been far too many.

And that virtual machine has to be run under Linux or Mac ... and Snapdragon X supports neither.

C++ is not really one language.

A lot of embedded usage especially is using C++ as "a better C".
Projects pick and choose features.

Long-maintained projects who had started being developed in one version of C++ are still on that version because it would be worse to mix styles. There are large projects that don't even use the C++ standard library.

"AGI" is just a silly name chosen for marketing purposes.
Not even close to "Artificial General Intelligence".
Nothing to get agitated about.

The reason for why this happened is very simple: petty and childish.

In 2006, Trump started developing a golf course on the coast of Aberdeenshire in Scotland. Then a project started to build a wind farm consisting of 11 wind turbines off the coast.
Trump opposed the project for the only reason that they would be visible from his golf course.
He appealed, lost, appealed and lost in court and had to pay legal fees .... And then the turbines were built.

And that is why Trump holds a grudge against wind turbines.

You could have some hidden link that humans won't see and click on, but a scraper would, which would lead it onto a bandwidth-limited site that provides endless procedurally generated content.

Other than that, there are captcha-like blockers that uses Javascript to makes the client prove that it is a real web browser and not a bot: Cloudflare and Anubis are two examples.

Keyoard nerd nit-picks:

* The ErgoDox layout is a copy of the Kinesis contoured layout, flattened, with extra keys.
* And it is not ortholinear, merely column-oriented as opposed to row-oriented.

Thus might sound like such a nit-pick thing compared to what users get subjected to on MS-Windows, but my design sense gets triggered by MacOS Tahoe's UI elements having unnecessary transparency and high corner radii.

I've heard of many Mac users downgrading their Macs to MacOS Sequoia to get a better user experience.
I don't expect that to be possible on the MacBook Neo, with this MacOS version being the first to ship with its SoC.

Schools and businesses often acquire laptops with service contracts.

In many parts of the world, warranty isn't an optional extra: It is required by law.
If anything is deficient from the factory, Apple has to replace that part.

For these reasons it makes more economic sense to have things more easily repairable, to avoid repairs from eating into your bottom line.