Comment Re:How could this work? (Score 1) 26
The Turing test (which involves having a 1 to 1 conversation with an AI agent) has fuck all to do with astroturf posts, dummy.
Comment Re: Nope (Score 2) 139
Not by a long shot. Unsafe is scoped. 20% of Rust packages may use unsafe, but the amount of code in unsafe sections is far far far lower. Unsafe means "I accept the risk of doing unsafe things" but because it's scoped, just because a package uses Unsafe, it's still benefiting from the memory safety of bounds checking and borrow checking 99% of the time.
That's a far far cry from "it's just the same thing as doing it in C"
Submission + - Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch (bleepingcomputer.com)
mprindle writes: "The Texas Attorney General sued five major television manufacturers, accusing them of illegally collecting their users' data by secretly recording what they watch using Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology."
Comment Re:Of course he did... (Score 1, Insightful) 88
Usually with our money... Right and Left = Divide and conquer. No option options. I stopped trusting any of them decades ago.
That's the entire goal of flooding the zone with shit. Trusting nobody is not the smart position I suspect you consider it to be.
Comment Re:Yet another Fluxbox / Windowmaker? (Score 1) 23
"And the presentation looks suspiciously like yet another WM."
Of course. Never forget the true reason many new users adopt Linux is desktop "ricing". Utilitarian considerations only matter to the tiny minority of utilitarian users.
Most computers are entertainment machines (which is fine) and that consumer demographic (like those who automatically like social media posts with cat pictures) are easy to please.
Linux adoption greatly benefits from the limited appearance options offered by Windows. If MSFT want quicker uptake of new Windows versions it would be wise to invest in easy appearance customization.
Understanding users as they are is key to giving them what they want. That need not be honestly explained because admitting love for trifles is uncomfortable for some.
Submission + - Young Journalists Drone, Expose Russian Ships Off Dutch-German Coasts (digitaldigging.org)
schwit1 writes: Seven German journalism students, as a continuation of their OSINT course project, tracked the movements of ships with Russian crews off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany and linked them to swarms of drones appearing over European military airfields and other strategic sites.
The guys not only analyzed thousands of data points, but also used leaked documents, established connections with sources in European agencies, and drove 2,500 km across three countries chasing one of the ships – even launching their own drone to fly over it.
At the end of the article, there’s precise data on the vessels, so you can follow them yourself.
The guys not only analyzed thousands of data points, but also used leaked documents, established connections with sources in European agencies, and drove 2,500 km across three countries chasing one of the ships – even launching their own drone to fly over it.
At the end of the article, there’s precise data on the vessels, so you can follow them yourself.
Submission + - Traveling to the US will require you to reveal your social media for 5 years. (federalregister.gov)
Z00L00K writes: Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure
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3. Mandatory Social Media: In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.
3. Mandatory Social Media: In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.
Submission + - Elon Musk admits DOGE was a waste of time (and money) (yahoo.com)
echo123 writes: Elon Musk appeared to admit for the first time that his work at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was a total waste of time—which also destroyed his reputation.
He told Katie Miller, who is married to Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, that he would not take the controversial post in Washington, D.C., if he had his time over again.
“I think instead of doing DOGE, I would have basically built—worked on my companies, essentially," he told The Katie Miller Podcast.
“If you could go back and start from scratch like it’s January 20th all again, would you go back and do it differently? And, knowing what you know now, do you think there’s ever a place to restart?”
After a deep sigh, Elon Musk, 54, replied, “I mean, no, I don’t think so.”
“You gave up a lot to DOGE,” she said.
“Yeah,” he conceded, sadly.
DOGE oversaw a $220 billion jump in federal spending—not including interest—in the fiscal year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Bill Gates has warned Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts will cause ‘millions of deaths’
He told Katie Miller, who is married to Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, that he would not take the controversial post in Washington, D.C., if he had his time over again.
“I think instead of doing DOGE, I would have basically built—worked on my companies, essentially," he told The Katie Miller Podcast.
“If you could go back and start from scratch like it’s January 20th all again, would you go back and do it differently? And, knowing what you know now, do you think there’s ever a place to restart?”
After a deep sigh, Elon Musk, 54, replied, “I mean, no, I don’t think so.”
“You gave up a lot to DOGE,” she said.
“Yeah,” he conceded, sadly.
DOGE oversaw a $220 billion jump in federal spending—not including interest—in the fiscal year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Bill Gates has warned Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts will cause ‘millions of deaths’
Comment Re:This is about control and not much else (Score 1) 121
ya basic, son
Submission + - Maximum entropy reveals how mutations alter enzymes and drive drug resistance (phys.org)
alternative_right writes: Across several studies, the speed of an enzyme's activity correlated strongly with a statistical measure called "maximum entropy." The breakthrough meant they could use a purely statistical and computational approach to determine the maximum entropy—thus, predicting enzyme function.
Instead of the most mutationally explosive virus known, they turned to pathogens with more constrained evolutionary landscapes. One of the first was hepatitis C virus (HCV). There, the picture changed. Maximum entropy aligned much more cleanly with the mutations the virus actually adopted under drug pressure. That opened the possibility of forecasting its "next move," as Warshel put it—a way of playing chess with the virus, using both the strength of each mutation and its likelihood.
Instead of the most mutationally explosive virus known, they turned to pathogens with more constrained evolutionary landscapes. One of the first was hepatitis C virus (HCV). There, the picture changed. Maximum entropy aligned much more cleanly with the mutations the virus actually adopted under drug pressure. That opened the possibility of forecasting its "next move," as Warshel put it—a way of playing chess with the virus, using both the strength of each mutation and its likelihood.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Locally hosted security cameras 2
Randseed writes: With the likes of Google Nest, Ring, and others cooperating with law enforcement, I started to look for affordable wireless IP security cameras that I can put around my house. Unfortunately, it looks like almost every thing now incorporates some kind of cloud-based slop. All I really want is to put up some cameras, hook them up to my LAN, and install something like Zoneminder. What are the most economical, wireless IP security cameras that I can set up with my server?
Comment Re:It's a Bold Strategy (Score 1) 116
They could say no. No-one is stopping them.
You're right. Also a professional baseball player *could* put their bats down and just stand at the plate, but pointing out that it's physically possible is stupid, especially if your argument supporting that "They Can Just Do That" is that baseball players *should put their bats down*.
This is why such people shouldn't be in positions of power.
Again with the should. It's dumb saying "they can do something, but they won't, but they should" because it's a moot point. Yes, they could also write a press release that is an 80 page Star Trek fanfic set in the narrative universe of Mr Rogers. Nothing is stopping them. But what is the value of pointing out something they are physically capable of when even you seem to understand why they won't? It's just a completely meaningless observation, particularly since you couch it in phrasing that suggests it's just a simple easy thing to do? You're trying to have your argument both ways - it makes you sound simple.
Comment Re: Win2K (Score 2) 116
Stability is relative. Compared to reinstalling Win9X so often I only recently forgot my most-used 98SE product key, Win2K was a breath of fresh air, especially for dual CPU rigs formerly afflicted with NT 4.0.
Comment Remember when expensive RAM drove efficient code? (Score 1) 116
There may be a silver lining.
Comment COAST and ROAST (Score 1) 116
Desperation will ensure sales to the only customers (PC building enthusiasts) who will still care about traditional removable RAM.
Normals never install an OS, never open their computers, and never install internal hardware upgrades. People who do are "techno-divergent".
Apple demonstrates soldered RAM and storage are no barriers to consumer sales with zero need for a hobbyist market.
Ancient Slashdotters remember COAST (Cache On A STick) and why it went away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Today we have ROAST (RAM On A STick) which only exists for customers who cannot afford to max out RAM on computer purchase, there being no (conventional user to whom computers are magic) downside to max RAM.
Being able to buy a PC with a cheap spinning rust hard drive and the least offered amount of RAM then binning those and maxing out with aftermarket parts (mostly Crucial RAM in my and many others case) was great while it lasted but the vast majority of PCs go from womb to tomb without upgrades and will in future.
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