... One problem is that coins aren't worth much anymore, and bill or credit card interfaces would be awkward.

Most vending machines / arcade machines here in the UK, and a lot of other European countries, have simple contactless "tap to pay" terminals on them now for this sort of thing. Mostly works well and eliminates the need for coins.

This would work perfectly fine with a jukebox.

They actually normally DO! That's always been one of the big Slashdot slanders of Apple -- that they're not the first mover, they just copy other people but do it really well. (I don't entirely agree, but that's neither here nor there for this conversation.)

Liquid Glass does give me serious Vista vibes, and so far, I don't get it. I've only tried it on one device so far, so I'm willing to give it a shot, but I'm not incredibly optimistic.

It's a real joy to use the old versions of OSX. I miss those days. Aqua was a lot of fun.

I agree. Though I remember at the time one of the explanations was that simpler, flatter designers were more manageable for scalable display sizes, resolutions, DPIs, etc. I'm not sure I entirely buy that.

Ultimately I think it came down to a pissing contest between Apple personalities after Jobs was gone. Jobs was the dictator with a vision who kept all the other creatives in line. Scott Forestall lasted about a year and Jony Ive won that battle (though Ive himself only stuck around, in a partial capacity for another 6-7 years).

I hooked up an old pre-OSX Mac recently. A lot of those programs had really solid, clear designs. The Apple HIG used to be a really big deal. The Liquid Glass rollout feels incredibly rushed and half-assed. It's like since Apple has dropped the ball on AI they felt they had to do SOMETHING quick.

Firefox is becoming unusable on Linux for me because of Cloudflare, keep getting the "Upgrade your browser" message and locked out of so many websites now :( Brave works fine so it's not my IP, and the same issue happens with no extensions.

So sad.

(could it be Linux Mint repo is behind?)

This is not entirely true. It's not always the case that if one EU country accepts something, it's automatically accepted in the entire EU. It's mostly true for products but definitely not for systems.

Even when you delete a social media account, the information is generally preserved. You'll probably be required to disclose all social media accounts which have at some time been under your control under penalty of perjury. Even if you can't unlock those old accounts, the information might still be accessible to the government. You might be required to sign a waiver granting all social media companies permission to disclose all information (including deleted posts).

I haven't seen the details of this new policy, but I'm sure you'll be required to fill out a form which says to list all social media accounts that are under your control, and at the bottom of the form will be a space to sign your name with the note (standard on federal forms) that it is an offense under section whatever of the United States Code to knowingly provide false information on the form punishable by a fine of not more than $250,000 and a prison sentence of not more than five years. So, you're taking a big risk. If, at any future time, there's an investigation which reveals the existence of undisclosed social media accounts which existed at the time you filled in the form, you are a felon and could be imprisoned.

Exactly. The headline is wrong. It says "Facial recognition error" and there was no facial recognition error. It correctly identified her. She was wrongly added to the database.

Yes. In five, ten, fifteen, or twenty years, AI will look nothing like it does now. Look how much progress has been made in the last three years!

But it's not criminal to declare your income. Only to not declare it.

Neither do humans if they are engaging in stalking behavior. The issue here should really be about the speech and not the agent which communicates it. If the speech would not be illegal for a human to utter, there is no reason it should be treated differently if "spoken" by A.I. software. Computer software is considered speech under the First Amendment, and that should cover any communications by the software. But the First Amendment doesn't cover all speech. Inciting crime, uttering threats, stalking and harassing, libel and slander, are all categories of speech not protected by the First Amendment. A.I. should not be treated differently than humans in that regard.

And those arguing in favor of these lawsuits seem to want to have it both ways. On the one hand, they say A.I. bots have agency and as non-humans aren't protected by the first amendment. But one cannot collect damages from a computer as a computer owns no capital. So, when it comes to the lawsuits, those same people say the computers don't have agency, and the human owners should be financially responsible for damages. You can't have your cake and eat it too!

Strong diasgree on that. I’ve had great results from uploading my schema, uploading a query to optimize (multiple joins, multiple subqueries, etc., that kind of thing), describing the output set I want and letting it come up with a query.

I would actually say I’ve had the _best_ luck with SQL.

Yeah, that's what's worked for me in maintenance. I no longer weigh myself every day but I do at least several times a week. If I get too high, I know to slam on the brakes for a couple of days (at least).

My wife, OTOH, she can't do that. Seeing her weight every day emotionally impacts her, and she eats emotionally.

I couldn't agree more. It's a real struggle to avoid crap at grocery stores. If you stick the produce section and the meat sections, you're in good shape. Once you start hitting the prepared foods, the frozen dinners, the candy aisle, the soda aisle, the chips and crackers aisle, it is really very hard to eat healthily.