Sometimes I think the Internet and the world would be better off if it just didn't have content (and also no entities profiting from such content) that people in certain groups shouldn't have access to. Guess the worms are out though. Some person's sewerage is sacred to another person - to repurpose the idiom.

I find it significant in the RTO debate of late, that I have not yet heard something along the lines of "Return to office or we'll give your job to AI!" (Perhaps with the argument added that any sufficiently digital artifact-based job that can be done remotely, can also be done by LLM.)

Perhaps this says more about the current state of AI than it does about this article's topic. Or perhaps not. Thoughts?

When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around. -- Rick Falkvinge

They sure seem to be keen on collecting a lot of facial and related data on individuals, examples being this, and the upcoming registration of Android app developers which requires Gov ID for each one.

Yeah, I also don't use fingerprint or facial recog on any of my other devices. That's like leaving post-it notes with your password on it pasted on every glass and door handle you use, or tattooing it on your forehead and walk around in public. In the stupid way I see things. (Also, I have quite faint fingerprints - presumably congenital - and every damn electronic fingerprint scanner takes multiple tries. Paper and ink seem to work fine though.)

Wait until you hear about the restrictions Google will start placing on Android app developers in a couple of months.

I sure hope the EU will be taking them to task for that too. But what are the chances it will make a diff?

Here is a sample from the first page of /. search results for "cup coffee".
* Drinking 5 Cups of Coffee a Day Could Reduce Heart Risk - 2026-07-21
* 2 To 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It's Decaf. - 2026-02-10
* Drinking Tea and Coffee Linked To Lower Risk of Head and Neck Cancer in Study - 2024-12-24
* Caffeine May Reduce Body Fat and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Study Suggests - 2023-03-15
* Drinking Several Cups of Coffee a Day May Be Linked To Longer Lifespan in Study - 2022-10-04
* Coffee Drinking Linked To Lower Mortality Risk, New Study Finds - 2022-06-02
* Tea and Coffee May Be Linked To Lower Risk of Stroke and Dementia, Study Finds - 2021-11-18
* Drinking Coffee May Cut Risk of Chronic Liver Disease, Study Suggests - 2021-06-22
* Could Drinking Coffee Lower Your Risk of Heart Failure? - 2021-02-21

Of course, gym rats have used coffee for a small energy boost before workouts, as well as a recovery drink after, for a couple of years now. Biohackers have drunk "butter coffee" aka "bulletproof coffee" for some years now for energy. (You have to know how different additions will affect your aims.) The general idea of course is to "stack" benefits from various practices: exercise, antioxidants, ketones, fasting, circadian rhythm/sleep, etc. etc.

So you would also need to provide for the interaction between the different magnets. I guess if it's all yours, you could orchestrate it better.

I started out this comment trying to argue in the other direction, because of growing up (and still living) in a multilingual country. But then I started to think of the general population around me, which are all bi- or multilingual to some degree out of necessity. Some are sharp as nails, some are dull as bricks (if that is even an appropriate approximation for "young minds"?) I think the more general trait that keeps minds "youthful" (or vice versa) is an insatiable curiosity about everything around you - including other languages. I have a strong suspicion it works more like a positive feedback loop: exercising the mind makes it more healthy, but a healthy mind is also more likely to seek out opportunities to be exercised.

Doesn't Apple have their own device?

If there was something that could do heating and cooling, I'd be happy to go talk to my employer's HR department to see if they could include it in the Dress Code. (They don't seem to have much more important stuff to do anyway.)

The AC in my office seems to have only 2 settings: 2 hot and 2 cold. Typically on the same day. In the mornings, up to about lunch, it struggles to get from ambient to official room temp, then just as it gets there, people start leaving again and it needs to adjust to that loss of body heat.

Yay for WFH, where you can dress and heat to your own heart's content.

Until the token quota for the month is used up, then those humans sit around and twiddle thumbs, because they can't get anything done anymore without AI.

... but which part of "spy" don't you understand?

That's not a bug, it's a feature. We get *nix machines to get work done, not for emplotainment.

I'm not going to critique the fine article directly, but wood is a much more renewable source of energy than fossil fuels or even nuclear. If you have some land around your house, you are probably also not very dependent on logistics supply chains.

There are some stove designs (typically under the name of rocket stove) that have been developed to provide nearly complete combustion. Hence, they can be fed with pruned twigs and shoots - no need to grow mature trees, fell them, and split the logs - or wood chip pellets made from waste. Let me restate that: Because they are so efficient, they use a lot less wood than the conventional fireplaces and wood stoves people are used to, leave much less ash residue - and also conceivably release a related lower concentration of lead. Some of these designs employ piping the exhaust through considerable thermal mass to capture most heat, and the exhaust is virtually odorless. One enterprising fellow heated a tipee in Montana or somewhere in winter (yes, only a sheet of canvas between indoor shirtsleeves temperatures and outside snow).

Unfortunately it seems it is human to get stuck in "old ways" - e.g. old heating methods, and not knowing or accepting there are better ways EVEN for the same fuel. Another example is building codes (in my non-USA locale) that used to be still adequate for when heating was cheap. On the other hand I guess I can be glad that I live in a more temperate climate where it seldom goes below freezing, so often some layers of clothing are sufficient.

I recognize none of those names - producers, actors, etc. (apart from the Cavil guy, but as TFS says, he's also a bit old now). But what the heck, the last time I saw a feature of any kind may have been 2020 or so ("some" digital medium, due to C19).

I guess the same thrills that made ol 'doppio zero so attractive to schoolboy me will still be in play in new installments, so I'll give it a pass again.