Posting a price is easy if it's part of your business. Gas stations can update their prices and are incentivized to keep the prices up to date.

A hotel that has a couple supercharging stations may not even be running the charging stations in their parking lot.

My local hospital just put in a couple chargers. No posted signs up but their is a QR code that goes to a link to the current prices. So I guess that's something.

a doozie to debug

There is a simple answer to this. Don't buy their cars.

I owned three BMWs (two 3-series and a 5-series). Will not buy one again, even though I loved the feel of a BMW on the road. They really are The Ultimate Driving Machine.

But my local BMW service center absolutely sucks and was often disrespectful to my spouse. And (more recently) they have put subscriptions on features that I would expect would be included in the cost. And let's not get into episode of advertisements playing.

So no more BMW for me. And I am fully in the demographic they want: Mid 50s male, significant disposable income, homeowner in the suburbs.

I'm wondering why they don't just continue the Vision Pro team and see where it leads them.

Or maybe they are continuing the team, just getting rid of one skill set?

I don't have any VR system, but even I can see it's not ready for Prime Time yet. But that doesn't mean it won't be in the future.

As for marketing of it, it really should be marketed as a desktop/laptop computer replacement.

I think a part of the issue is the amount of gold and other precious minerals in the cameras.

People are using AI to find out about the cameras and the AI is scrapping comments like this and telling people about the gold. Then people take down the cameras to look for the gold.

What the hell is that? Is that a salesman in PC-speak?

His podcast Better Offline is squarely targeted at people who are very much online. Indeed his entire gig is the epitome of online living.

If Ed Zitron really felt better offline, he wouldn't be making a living off of a podcast and constant AI bashing.

Not that I necessarily disagree with him though... It's just that the messenger doesn't really befit the message.

If even he thinks AI is dubious, you know AI is bad news.

Lol

This is the blandest, most watered-down way to say "lost their job" yet. Quite nauseating.

> Meta doesn't really know how to do anything else with any skill.

They don't know how to do Facebook very well either: it's been pretty much stagnant and enshittified to death for the past 22 years, and it feels like a forum for greying people whose greying friends haven't bothered to move on either, or to get the date of the next annual meeting of the bridge club.

No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

one of those companies whose sole purpose seems to be annoying you by slapping their name as a watermark on a generic image you'd like to use in a meme, and force to spend 10 seconds finding somewhere else because you were never going to pay a stupid company to remove their mark on a bad picture you can find everywhere.

I wonder how those companies still exist, let alone make any money.

Anyway, the modern way to use copyrighted photos for free is to ask stable diffusion to regenerate it, because the AI companies have done all the data stealing for you and repackaged the stolen data into "models" you can use for free.

This has always been near the heart of the debate. Is it better to keep our code out in the open or to keep it hidden? The 'Many Eyes' theory is basically a psychology test. Do you believe there are more white hats than black hats? The price of security has always been eternal vigilance. This isn't the death of security. It's LLM over hyped marketing. And security remains as it always has been.

I download all my books DRM-free from bittorrent.

My ebook reader is an ancient Sony PRS-650, it still works fine and it has no trouble reading files that haven't been messed up by Amazon. What a concept eh?

"What about the book's authors who aren't getting paid when you download their stuff for free?" I hear you say:

Yes, I wish I could pay for what I downloaded. But I can't. The best option I could find was to buy the paperback as well, so some of my money would trickle back to them. But that's mighty stupid and totally not environmentally-friendly.

I did try to pay an author directly once (the late Ian M. Banks) but he send me an angry email back saying even if he got money from me, I was robbing his editor and distributor, and I should just buy his book normally - which I would, if that didn't entail leaving an undeserved cut to effing Amazon.

So there we are: there's no mechanism to legally buy books that aren't hamstrung by DRM. So honest people who value their consumer rights can't be honest.