The biggest problem is caused by the deficiencies of legacy IPv4 and the various kludges to mitigate those deficiencies instead of using the proper solution.

Early versions of HTTP/HTTPS assumed one site per IP. It was quite easy for a firewall to whitelist and/or blacklist individual sites.
Then they added host headers and SNI to allow multiple sites to share a single IP. This is because legacy IPv4 is expensive and in short supply.

So now in order to whitelist/blacklist sites you need to filter at a higher level as you need to be able to match the host header not just the IP.

Once you add in SSL it gets even worse as your firewall devices cannot inspect the Host header without breaking SSL. Some places implement full SSL interception and MITM, but this then totally breaks with applications that enforce certificate pinning etc.

Yes it's a mess of kludge upon kludge, resulting in security problems, Move to IPv6 with unique IPs per site and these problems can go away.

I guess we can add a whole new category to the Darwin Awards.

AI video technology is still nowhere even remotely near just "click a button and take what it spits out". I don't know how to break this to anyone here, but you're not just going to go to some video generation site and turn out Woodnuts without extensive skill about AI video tools themselves and a wide range of traditional video production tools, and without spending weeks to months and significant financial expense on the project.

Even if / when this changes, video production is still always going to be limited by the human at hand. Most people's movie ideas, plotting, scripting, directing, etc frankly will be terrible. The slop in this case is the human, not the tool.

Well, I always thought Algol68 should have had more penetration. People said it was too complicated, but they hadn't seen modern C++.

Oh, but these are *preventative* wars. He gets a peace prize for every country he invades!

Venezuela was using fentanyl as a WMD. Iran was about to nuke us. Cuba might attack us with drones if someone provides them. Greenland might start a snowball fight, and make us look bad if we lose.

Presumably we've got all our best people on this, since they're obviously not on the UFO videos.

One of the "unidentifiable" objects in an earlier release (last year, I think) was obviously as hell two birds flying low over the ground.

I don't have a conspiracy theory to explain it, but this is all utter bullshit.

I've never seen generators on cell towers, and the batteries last a few hours. They're meant to cover the occasional western world power outage, not a major one.

Linux?

On the upside, AI lets anyone make a movie.
On the downside, AI lets anyone make a movie.

Including people who have terrible taste in plot, style, and everything else.

There's some genuinely good stuff out there - Gossip Goblin's work for example. But this is....

I'll just say, there's far better things that one could have spent half a million dollars on...

It's not that exotic. Lightning can jam radio networks, and some places it's not uncommon.

You're assuming it didn't quickly dry out. I've made bread that could sit around that long. But you wouldn't want to eat it without soaking it first (probably in soup).

Wireless has failure modes that wired communications don't. They probably can't avoid some of the failure modes, like jamming. And there are places where wireless just doesn't reach...which aren't the same as the places where wired can't reach. I used to live in a ... large gully or small canyon. Wired had no problem, but it was essentially radio dead.

How are you defining "statistical inferences" as distinct from "logical inferences"? If you're defining fuzzy logic (e.g. not necessarily yes-or-no answers but allowing for ambiguity in conclusions), then we can agree conceptually, but your choice of wording is, I have to say, weird if so.

Yepp, one of the reasons being that POTS will work even during power outages, as long as the central switches are powered. Your VoIP will be down if your house has no power. It probably is more efficient, but that "saving" is also simply shifting some of the power usage to consumers.

Maybe, but the problem is that the electronics have to run at those temperatures and not have solder joints start popping, or other fun failures.