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Comment Re:A trip through the Australian outback (Score 1) 81

They work for the occasional "blue moon" charging, I think. It'd be like having a house that is solar + battery also having a generator for "just in case", allowing the house to still have power during that week long storm front, an inverter failure, or even just the annual family visit where the place has 10X the normal people there.
Especially if the genset is already there for things like transmission line failures.
IE use the genset to allow EVs to get there to begin with, then upgrade to solar one they're a regular enough occurrence for that to make sense.

Comment Re: Yay (Score 1) 81

I don't generally consider bathroom breaks, basic food and drinks to be entertainment myself. If you consider modern 70% charging times (From ~15% to ~85%), that's about the mandatory 15 minutes break period mandated in various places for continued good performance.

By the time somebody has plugged in their car, walked to and finished visiting the restroom including washing hands, gotten a drink and a snack, and walked back (actual order optional), it's quite likely that around 15 minutes has passed.

Maybe include a walking path or something around these stations, get a little exercise in? I know I feel better about long drives with regular walking breaks.

Comment Honestly who attacks the FSF? (Score 0) 18

LLM crawlers are understandable these days, but who on earth is actively trying to take the FSF down?

A bunch of heathen VIM users trying to stop people from accessing EMACS? What the heck?

Let's say you actually managed to take down the FSF website. Who would even notice or care? How would that help your hacker rep in any way? You'd be a laughingstock for making the attempt.

Comment Re:Photo alteration (Score 1) 45

That was phrased badly. What I meant is that you can keep multiple versions of a photo, used for different purposes.

If you're doing things right, watermarking/editing a photo doesn't destroy the original. The original goes into evidence, the watermarked is posted to the public. That way, there's evidence of the source of the picture, even if it is scraped and separated from the website/page.

In physical terms, it'd be like writing the details of the photograph on the back, like what we used to do with traditional developed photographs.

Comment Photo alteration (Score 1) 45

I think that you're mixing up that a photo can be used for multiple purposes.
Basically, the original unedited photo goes into the police report/file for evidentiary purposes.
The altered photo - probably also resized and compressed to be easier on bandwidth, is what is posted for publicity purposes, where there isn't a police report also attached, where there's a high probability of it becoming disconnected from the website.
The version of the photo intended for facebook or whatever shouldn't ever be presented in court.

Comment Re:unnecessary (Score 1) 45

I can see plenty of reasons to add the department logo, to remind people of where that particular bust came from.
What it doesn't need to be, what it shouldn't be, is something that is trying to look like an actual part of the original image. It should look like a computer logo on a photo, not an actual fabric badge pasted to the wall.

Comment Re: never attribute to malice... (Score 4, Insightful) 45

The original photo is evidence; it was still intact. The edited photo with the police badge watermark was to be a publicity tool, not evidence.

Though I'll state that you don't even need layers for this - just open the .jpg or whatever you got from the evidence in an email or whatever in paint, save as a new file, paste in the watermark, save again.

Comment Re:The writing is on the wall (Score 5, Interesting) 129

It's not that big of a deal. If you knew the libraries involved, his winning entry would take you 10 minutes to code. The advantage of the AI here is that it suggests which libraries to use, and how to connect them. Here is the code if you want to check it out.

Comment Re:Will this make glowing watched cheaper? (Score 1) 48

Not this simulation crap again. Jesus, learn some physics and math. The "simulation" idea is merely a mathematical relationship between a conformal field theory on a boundary and a gravitational theory on the bulk. That's it. It is nothing more than a mathematical isomorphism.

For a simple example, take the non-negative even natural numbers, There is an isomorphism between those and the non-negative odd natural numbers. That does not mean they are the same goddamn numbers. An isomorphism only is relative to the mathematical context on either side of the isomorphism.

Then there is the stupidity of confusing physics with mathematics. Go learn some of you cannot perceive the difference.

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