There's also a distinction between crawling everything to feed into the beast, vs a user making a query and the model decides to load the first 20 hits on a web search. To the website the traffic may be the same, but legally you would probably come to a different conclusion if a human was making the original query. However, only the AI service knows the reason for the access and they have no reason to share that with the website, or anyone else.

Slashdot is funded by cryptocuckery, which has just been outlawed in China.

No, it makes half sense. Well, maybe a quarter. Explanation to follow some more quoting.

Right, all true.

No, Microsoft is a threat etc.

You've shown that Microsoft is a threat, which is reasonable. I agree.

You have done nothing whatsoever to show that China is not also a threat. Not one single word of your comment supports that assertion.

You've only shown one of those things, how did you come to that conclusion without any supporting logic?

That certainly was a big fucking stupid comment. Congratulations?

I shoot with Canon (R5, R6ii) and Sony (A7r3) mirrorless bodies and I have a Samsung S25+ that I regularly forget has any value as a camera at all. I've made efforts to add smartphones to the work that I do, but even with contemporary flagship devices and a willingness to shoot in LOG format for use in big-boy editing software, it's a lot more work to deal with output from a phone than to use a proper camera. Low-light performance is poor at best and shutter lag is a real thing on phones even when they're just being used for photos. The phone is fine for anything I don't care about, but since I do want output of a certain quality, I'd far rather have a big-boy sensor and a fast aperture lens for my projects.

With regard to people shooting professional cinema projects on smartphones, do please go watch behind the scenes footage. Overwhelmingly, you'll see that they're still using tens of thousands of dollars worth of lighting and production assistance to make that workable. Put a couple 36" beauty dishes with 500W continuous sources just out of frame and I think you'll see that even at 30 year old Kodak DC290 will take amazing pictures.

With regard to fixed-lens pocket cameras, the appeal is most often in something that's pocket friendly and dedicated purpose, even if that purpose is just "I know I'm going to be shooting a lot, so I'd rather drain the battery of this thing rather than kill my phone's battery while I'm walking around." You can get to roughly the same place with a smaller Sony full frame body (e.g. A7C R) or a Pansonic/OM Digital MFT camera and a pancake lens, but by the time you buy in to either platform, you've probably spent hundreds or thousands of dollars anyway. It's all well and good to say that you don't need such a thing, but pocket cameras definitely have better sensors that anything in the action-cam class of product that probably represent the cheapest dedicated portable cameras available otherwise.

You won't have a choice. You will buy it or be cited, convicted, imprisoned, enslaved.

I work for an all Windows shop, but most of our tools are web hosted. We could change the user systems to something else and our workflows would barely have to change.

But we still don't.

Not just that, they would use AI to OCR, so their energy consumption would increase substantially. Every problem is a nail.

I am not planning to get rid of anyone. It's telling that this is your only proposed solution.

The DNC awaiting my analysis is the problem. They are the ones hired to solve this problem. Your insistence that I solve the problem is also part of the problem. If someone who was not elected and is not paid to solve this problem is supposed to solve it, it might as well be you. What's your plan besides "getting rid of" people? Every time you say that you make it clear that's the best solution you can come up with.

Fuji's GFX line have larger-than-full-frame sensors that sometimes get called Medium Format. Given the limitations of Fuji's lens ecosystem, you're almost definitely a professional portrait or nature photographer if you're buying one, and since the only competition they have in that space are Leica and Hasselblad bodies that ALSO cost north of US$8000, this isn't a huge deal. Fuji is actually a bargain in comparison.

But lenses and cameras have seen prices raised across the board. None of the pricing is out of line from Tariff policy, but it does mean that I'm not buying any new gear until someone sane gets back in charge of trade policy in the USA.

1) They are provably stupid.
2) It doesn't make me feel good. Facts don't care about feelings. You have to acknowledge facts whether they make you feel good or not.

Why am I supposed to have the plan to fix decades of Republicans deliberately compromising education systems to create a malleable proletariat?

Saying people are stupid isn't dehumanizing them. It's acknowledging reality. Pretending real things aren't real doesn't help anything.

Who's suggesting actual (meaning workable) fixes? What are they?

I just checked to see what drop was and I see it's for keyboard enthusiasts, but they require javascript and I'm not interested enough to enable it. Either the purpose of the site is to sell tracking info or they don't have anyone who knows how CSS works. I don't know why I would care about the latest keyboard releases, they are irrelevant to my purchasing decisions as what matters to me is what is available to me someplace I want to shop.

That aside, I do most of my electronics shopping on aliexpress now. They have been responsive when I have had issues with purchases, and the prices tend to be much better. The keyboard I'm using now (which is a redragon k556rgb) is stuffed with outemu silent peach switches* I bought on aliexpress. I just got an ajazz ak820 from there. Since pretty much all of the keyboards are made in China now anyway, that's the cheapest way to get them. Their search engine is trash, but their site otherwise actually works these days so that's nice.

I wouldn't plan to get a keyboard with specific switches. I would plan to swap them, or buy one that came without switches. There are just too many switches out there for all the switches you might want to be available in keyboards. I have two k556rgbs since one LED died on one of them and they sent me a replacement, now I have a shitload of redragon red switches I'm not using. But it's only like $22 for a 110 set of outemu switches.

* I spent thirty bucks or so on switch testers first to figure out which switches I wanted. Outemu is so far the only brand I've found with feel equal to genuine Cherry, e.g. Kailh and Gateron are both hilariously sloppy by comparison. In side by side testing the difference is immediately obvious. Their "silent" switches are also quieter than other companies'. Do most keyboard enthusiasts just read reviews and skip the switch testing step or what? I see people gushing over Kailh all the time and I'm like, buh?

The M is a better buy than the F because it has more longevity. My first PC was an IBM 5150 with the original keyboard. It was nice to type on, but besides being very loud which I do not consider a feature, it also died. The membrane lifespan is limited.

Thanks, Obama!

That is less than half a joke, because the ACA a) writes profit for insurance companies right into the law and b) caps the amount they can charge at a percentage of the cost of care, which means they are motivated to drive up the prices.

The preexisting conditions part of the ACA is good. The rest of it is crap. It's designed to force people to purchase more expensive health insurance plans, and then to pay for it with tax money if individual people cannot afford it, making The People pay for it instead (APTC.) This is a direct handout to an industry which should not even be allowed to exist.

To pretend to offer them something, you mean. That's the problem, a yuuuge percentage of those young guys are exactly as stupid and bereft of morality as the Democrats think they are.