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Comment Re:Not surprising, and nothing to worry (Score 0) 286

You are making an assumption that is not correct.

You appear to think that the last time anyone could buy an EV and get the rebate was in September. But, all people had to do by the end of September was to enter into a binding contract to buy an EV -- the car could be delivered later.

So the October sales still reflects some cars sold with the rebates. I expect things to get worse in November.

Comment Re:Not surprising, and nothing to worry (Score 1) 286

With any luck, once Trump is out of office, all of those people involved in the illegal activities by ICE will be charged with crimes, found guilty of breaking the law, and thrown in prison.

That requires a sense of urgency that the Dems have failed show. Garland was known to be someone who would not be quick to act. Many of Biden's actions came too late in his presidency to have a meaningful impact.

Comment Re:I'm inclined to believe that BUT... (Score 2) 141

...this seems like flawed proof. A 27" screen seems a tad small.

That depends on the distance from your eyes. The experiment varied this distance in order to vary the PPD (Pixels Per Degree) and see what participants could distinguish at various PPDs.

Comment Re:I still don't see how there's a basis to compla (Score 1) 37

It's easy enough to look at Reddit's robots.txt file:

# Welcome to Reddit's robots.txt
# Reddit believes in an open internet, but not the misuse of public content.
# See https://support.reddithelp.com... Reddit's Public Content Policy for access and use restrictions to Reddit content.
# See https://www.reddit.com/r/reddi... for details on how Reddit continues to support research and non-commercial use.
# policy: https://support.reddithelp.com...

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Comment Re:at least three lies (Score 2) 37

"...the data-scraping companies circumvented its data protection measures in order to steal data that Perplexity "desperately needs" to power its "answer engine" system."

Really, what would those be?

Arguably they are in breach of the CFAA.. Reddit's robots.txt file:
# Welcome to Reddit's robots.txt
# Reddit believes in an open internet, but not the misuse of public content.
# See https://support.reddithelp.com... Reddit's Public Content Policy for access and use restrictions to Reddit content.
# See https://www.reddit.com/r/reddi... for details on how Reddit continues to support research and non-commercial use.
# policy: https://support.reddithelp.com...

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Comment Re:Still ahead (Score 2) 169

The US is now carbon negative. It reached a max of 6 billion metric tons of CO2 in the 2000s. In 2025, we are putting out about 5 billion metric ton

That's not carbon negative. It's not even carbon neutral.

What you should be saying is that the US has passed peak carbon, but even that assumes that Trump's anti-renewables drive doesn't increase carbon output, which seems unlikely.

Meanwhile China is reducing its unit energy cost by installing lots of renewable generation.

Comment Re:Rendering time? (Score 1) 17

They link to "GPU.zip" which apparently is another side-channel based on the GPU's compressions - https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu...

So apparently by asking it to blur the background, they can time it. Then the "core" of the attack is this GPU.zip so really it sounds like this is more of a "look we found a new way to exploit this."

Comment Re:Rendering time? (Score 2) 17

FTA:

What Android APIs does Pixnapping exploit?

Pixnapping forces sensitive pixels into the rendering pipeline and overlays semi-transparent activities on top of those pixels via Android intents. To induce graphical operations on these pixels, our instantiations use Android’s window blur API. To measure rendering time, our instantiations use VSync callbacks. For a more detailed explanation, we refer to the paper.

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