AI is exactly in the same position right now that Photoshop was in 35 years ago. I was a young photographer then. I learned Photoshop on version 1.0 in 1990. I had just one a national award based on my darkroom work with the photo. I was still a teenager, but the pros in my circle were aghast. And they were aghast again a decade later when digital photography became standard. Now everyone has a camera in their pocket with a little photoshop-like thing to manipulate stuff. After 35 years, I can tell you that people who do not have an eye for photography will never actually figure out how to use Photoshop or digital cameras. They can "use photoshop" to make some hacky crap. But actual photographers went from "this has no use" to "this is the most meaningful change ever." And I've been writing code since 1994, and can only tell you that AI is absolutely revolutionary and will change everything. And people who can't code now will never be able to really use it. But people who stick their head in the sand and act like it isn't there? They'll be out of work real fast because everyone else is going to code their own projects a thousand times faster and more accurately. You can't compete, John Henry.

That's why it's on Slashdot. High value thefts are increasing but most are by traditional methods. Fraudulent pickups and carrier impersonation are simple, easy and allow ample time to unload cargo.

Value rose ~725 million dollars for 2025 so a drop in the economic swimming pool. That's hardly impressive in an economy the size of the US.

High value load tracking and hiring private security guards will be natural responses.

Reddit drama is hardly "news" and but does drive monetizable view counts. Posting reddit drama on Slashdot drives views because Slashdot is a general news site.

Ideological communities are prone to infighting because humans enjoy competing virtue displays. Weak communities will render themselves irrelevant. Effective communities will thrive. Water is wet.

Where AI proves sufficiently useful it will be used but there is no need for everyone to use AI.

Well, it's $17.5 billion after its adjusted for inflation (thanks Trump). Most of it is one-time windfall spending on social programs. Those are things that the right-wing news outlets like "The Federalist" call outright fraud and waste. But most people call it fixing roads and schools while giving economic relief to those hit hardest by federal mismanagement of foreign trade — you know, tariffs, wars — things any economist will tell you are hard on poor people and whole economies.

People are dumbfounded by an AI ban on the subredit because, as written, it effectively bans talking about Linux on an open source thread. Also, it was pretty racist with the whole English thing. Don't be too dense.

Then ensure it's wisely leaked by a third party.

Automated defenses have value, but so does making distrust the default it should have been in the first place.

Clueful people don't expect others to be intelligent. We've seen who they elect.

Not jumping ship until a politically fashionable trigger event offers itself is a fine way to profit from a system to which one expediently objects. That's an admirably shrewd career move, not rage against anyones machine.

Bailing out "in protest" when you're making phat bank to go make even phatter bank is great self-promotion with no downside. Seriously capable people don't stay unemployed long. The departing will be easily replaced which reinforces corporate policies they object to. No one loses anything because nothing is sacrificed.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/bos...

"In addition, the SoundTouch app will no longer function after Feb. 18, 2026, though it will still be available for download until then in markets outside of Japan. Users' My Bose accounts will remain active.

As for why itâ(TM)s cutting support now, Bose says technology has evolved since the speakers first launched in 2013 and that itâ(TM)s âoeno longer able to sustain the development and support of the cloud infrastructure that powers this older generation of products.â

This likely isnâ(TM)t welcome news for audiophiles who have spent large sums of money on the SoundTouch rangeâ"particularly as units such as the SoundTouch 30 retailed for north of $1,000. One Reddit user claims heâ(TM)s now sitting on âoe$4,000 worth of bricks" following the move. Meanwhile, others called the ending of support "exploitative,â shared links to a petition calling on Bose to renew support for the SoundTouch range, and asked their fellow users to send emails to Bose's management team."

Bose survives on lifestyle marketing and nostalgia. They made decent small dorm and barracks systems when I bought 901s at the Ramstein audio photo club, but that era is ancient history.

There are few options for low-damage area denial. Which ARE acceptable and why?

A heat ray beats tear "gas" (which is really a cloud or spray of particulates) whose misery lasts after the target quits the area.

Even if you wear a CBRN mask the rest of you often gets smegged and that IME is not pleasant.

A heat ray does not require physical combat with attendant injuries.

When Slashdot mattered it was glorious.

While of course my Lenovo fleet is mostly from Ebay and of course runs Linux (with some Windows guests because why not?) I buy far more via Ebay.

People often part out personal vehicles and parts stashes cheaper than I can buy them from my local salvage yard buddies.

I don't even have to travel to save money. Much love for my local self-service salvage but that's also a drive so Ebay keeps winning with small sellers making bank.

I also bought my used commercial toaster for small money after my junk new Panasonic toaster oven died in a year, and repaired my Kenmore microwave with a used magnetron (then repaired my shit new Panasonic with used control board).