If they don't have admin/root rights on their own machine... more is the pity.

If a Meta employee hasn't figured out how to use an intervening device driver with a random number generator-with-timer, maybe another gig is in order.

I believe in human rights, too. But any good hacker has sufficient skill to thwart such madness whilst still doing their job. Oh, and I'll be there's an AI vibe code generator they could use with but one token to get the job done.

I've been a CLI coder for decades. Mouse use mostly gets in my way.

Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

Electronic log books are a requirement now and in some trucks, the driver will be forced to pull over before they are shutoff.

If this person is correct, Tesla's electric truck is going to be lighter than a regular diesel one, so it would potentially be able to haul more cargo. https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... Trains still haul massive amounts of containers for retail from ports & factories to regional distribution centers.

The coffee tasted like crap with the Bialetti and the blade grinder because the output blade grinders is very inconsistent. A simple manual grinder from KingGrinder or 1zpresso will make short work of that task and produce much better results.

That's OK. Your iris data will be uploaded to Palantir to match up with your other biometric information, along with the total dossier that is you.

This will be compared to the Amazon adware databases, vetted against your FBI profile, crosschecked with Google, purchased by Meta, aligned with various space lasers through the Starlink Alliance, and weighed against various API sets for corroboration.

You were screwed years ago.

Evolution always applies because of random mutations, and the fact that all 8billion of us have not yet mated with the remaining 4billion or so. We have no idea what comes of that.

Add in causal mutations, meaning the introductions of new pressures on DNA. Microplastics in life comes to mind. Add increased radiation by harming or altering the atmosphere that serves as our shield from certain death.

Selective bacteria, viruses, microRNA, enter the picture.

We might evolve, but we always mutate; except for clone humans, we're 100% the combination of two trees of life merging, your mother and father. Currently, we have no other selective medium to alter the combo. Yes, CRISPR and other technologies can be introduced. Selective zygote assays as a filtration mechanism. Never marry that (fill in the blank of undesired pseudo-tribe).

Weaker might be better; it's surmised that survivors of Bubonic Plague had their own weaknesses that became selective strength. Of those that have celiac-related diseases naturally didn't eat contaminated bread-- and there was a LOT OF THAT. Or those that survived mild/dairy-borne diseases.

Evolution doesn't stop; evolution is a subjective determination. Mutation is the objective observation.

For all history we have functioned without this.

We have a right of association, and not to incriminate ourselves, for roughly 228 years in the USA, depending on how you want to cite case law on the Bill of Rights.

We still have those rights.

Is that your old friend from HS? GO ask

You sit behind pseudoanonyimity with your sabeede "screen name" account on website where you can be outed.

In theory, this requires a warrant, and probable cause, among other tests. Maybe that person from HS doesn't want to be identified, especially BY YOU.

I do not want an input only device, and if I want headphones, I'll put one in each ear I want one in. Rarely is that both ears, and usually I consciously and specifically pick which ear I want.

What I do care the most about is a screen. I'm not so hung up on screen size or quality for now, I just want something that I can use easier than my phone. If you don't have a screen, what is the point?

This is the Pandora's Box of the panopticon: Kleptocracy (not democracy) for the masses. Now everyone can redistribute.

Go ahead, walk into that locker room. Do your upskirt shots. Walk into that nudist camp or even gay bathhouse.

See that screen in the doctor's office? Maybe that tax return. Sealed court order?

How about that flab in the mirror? Maybe that scar.

These aren't SmartGlasses, whether Meta or Apple, these are the tech bros whittling away at your privacy and liberty-- for profit.