"I think most people can manage to see blood "

This isn't intended to be in favour of this gadget but most people can't see blood in their urine or feces but it's there and detectable in a lab.

Which is why you submit samples to the lab for such things as colorectal screening.

It may be a trite saying, but it's as true in education as it is in a gym. If you don't exercise your brain, it's not going to improve.

There's a reason weightlifters don't use a forklift or crane to pick up the barbells and do a dozen reps. The problem is not that the weights are in need of lifting. And that's the same problem with homework. The teacher doesn't need a stack of 5 page reports; what they need is for their students to practice using their brains.

Unfortunately the education system is designed to evaluate output instead of process. It's easier to grade a paper or a test, not evaluate a demonstration of knowledge. It's always been ripe for cheating, but now the cheat tools are everywhere and made legitimate by techbros demanding AI productivity. So either teaching will change, or we'll head straight for idiocracy and nobody will be left with the skills to wonder why it all went to hell.

Discord is only the latest and least of the problems in that regard - Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest locked all of that content up first.

Slop is a totally fair term for any low-quality AI-generated material, and not an unreasonable one for AI-generated content in general due to average output quality.

It sounds like "Graf Zahl" was a not-so-benevolent OSS project dictator and this was the last straw.

Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yeah it sucks that they renamed that mountain to cover up the fact that it was named after a guy who massacred a bunch of innocent native Americans. OH WAIT

Sloppy McSlopperson, Attorney-At-Slop

You don't need physical access to install a bootkit, just root access, and full disk encryption would only protect against bootkit infection via an evil maid attack. The bootkits being discussed here get install by just running on top of the full OS with root privileges.

But on the other hand, bootkits are an extremely rare form of malware, likely the rarest type, and I think creating Secure Boot in response to it was a case of whipping a curious little problem into a crisis and then never letting a crisis go to waste.

So I looked at cable tv yesterday.

I had access to a remote control and a tv with "all the channels" so, for the first time in several years, I started clicking around through the channel guide and selecting stuff more-or-less at random.

I selected a dozen or so different channels and there was only ONE that wasn't playing a commercial when I selected it. One. Single. Channel.

I even waited for a minute or two on some of the channels to see what the programming looked like, and I got to watch more ads and a few station promos. And that was it.

In only one single instance did I see any actual programming at all.

I was amazed. I'm certainly not missing anything by not watching cable tv.

I remember when cable tv was a new thing in the 70's and the selling point was "no advertising." Times certainly have changed.

"If they don't like it they're free to do as imgur did and make a token effort to block UK visitors."

Why should it be on them to make any effort, token or otherwise, to block UK visitors?

If I left my lawn mower in the front yard that doesn't mean the guy who stole it was in the right because I didn't make an effort to protect it from theft.

If they don't block their website and some schnook reads it who's not supposed to be there, that's on the schnook, not on the website.

"The judgment on the five lead defendants will also bind other manufacturers including Jaguar Land Rover, Vauxhall/Opel, Volkswagen/Porsche, BMW, FCA/Suzuki, Volvo, Hyundai-Kia, Toyota and Mazda, whose cases are not being heard to reduce the case time and costs."

Excuse me? Since when is that a legal procedure?

We're having a trial to find out if these guys are guilty. And then we'll consider these other guys guilty and penalize them too.

Aren't they entitled to a trial?

Your neighbour has been found guilty of assaulting the mailman. Since you live on the same street we're sending you to jail too.

The reason they can't (even if they have the resources) is that the market rewards brutal worker exploitation, or at least fails to punish it in any way while allowing businesses to reap the benefits. Labor laws that enforce decent working conditions would be a good start towards a solution, and those start falling into place after similar union-negotiated working conditions become common enough that they're a de-facto market standard. Unions make the progress and government just locks it down.

Because they don't have the money to start a business lying around (a $1k emergency expense would be a big ask for the average American, average startup cost is around $20k), they likely have health coverage tied to their employment, and they probably don't like the odds of competing in a market riddled with oligopolies that benefit from massive economies of scale and labor arrangements that can treat workers as consumables and work them to their limits.

HTH

Unfortunately we have an economic system where people who can't get others to pay for their toil become destitute.