Why not use a hypothetical (gravitic/magnetic/magic) field that could both compress a very small star down to a manageable size (maybe down the level just before it becomes a singularity) but also use the resistance, heat, and radiation to power your alien government boondoggles?

I mean its about as likely as a Dyson Sphere powering a civilization.

OpenBSD has its strengths but screaming fast compared to most Linux distros? This is laughable. I would say openbsd is more secure by default and in general than the average linux desktop is but I'm not even sure of that in the year 2024...

This benchmark is a few years old but this has not changed, except maybe to skew a bit more in linux's favor - https://www.phoronix.com/revie...

Again there are places where OpenBSD has its strengths but I'm not even sure its faster as a firewall at this point.

CPU based on 80186 w/16bit, 9600bps modem, supported LISP, prolog, BASIC, assembler, rs232 serial - https://retrocdn.net/images/b/... - advertisement is on the 2nd to last page, its in japanese but the specs are in enough english to interpret what it had.

not really surprising - Atari had computers and much better computers than game consoles. This was released in 1986? The year after the first Macintosh came out with a 16bit processor. These sorts of computers were all the rage at the time. What's surprising to me is how rare they are, even in Japan. I guess they just didn't sell that many.

In addition to sandboxing they have their own app store, their own email services and mail apps, their own data services..you're paying for a google services replacement with screened apps with data stored in Switzerland with no 3rd party usage of that data, where extradition of that data is much harder. My hunch is people using this sort of phone aren't actively posting to tiktok or instagram or X and are actively trying to keep prying eyes off their location data while still having a useful data terminal. This isn't for poor people or your average C-level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also https://www.freon.com/en/produ... - look how safe and cute that kid looks in the cancer chamber.

Perhaps you're thinking of a different chemical? It doesn't sound like this chemical specifically causes lethal toxicity, perhaps maybe other chemicals in its manufacture? It sounds toxic to brew..

How do you have a five digit slashdot ID and not remember the nerdcore scene posts (which succeeded the perl poets for idiot quotes tags on forums)? I mean most of the grumpy low-6s-or-less digiters were the "grumble wtf is this not really nerd stuff" commenters. Anyway as evidenced by this post https://slashdot.org/comments.... blues nerds and folk nerds have been around even longer and haven'tt gone anywhere. If nerdcore is gone, its because it wasn't great or as others pointed out, was subsumed by greater hiphop. To be fair to your outrage, this is a slashvertisment written as a CleverPost to oldtimers who know who cmdrtaco is for an old-timer with nostalgia factor.

AI is a marketing term to explain generative text and predictive text to non-technical people, much like Hacker was re-used and ab-used to describe someone who broke into computer systems in the 80s.

I think you underestimate the power of generative text. It is NOT AI. When its used as a tool to generate text, its amazingly powerful. It can save a ton of time getting a framework and outline in place prior to you putting the meat on the bones.

I also think the proper way to use this tool will be akin to something like, here's a metaphor for sculpture, where you say "I want to carve a horse" and the 'magic AI for sculpture' will grab a stone block of the right properties and whittle away a general horse shape in the way you want. Could you make the details exact with generative help? Possibly but that will be the difference between crap AI work that broaches on copyright violation and actual creations with a human touch.

Business is going to be very very interested in a tool that can detect more accurately things generated ML, and attorneys more so - the very heart of legal contract and copyright is at stake. The hype will not die down, nor will investment. We may see an ML-style dot-com bubble burst but that didn't kill the web - it made it better.

Transformers based generative text can double the productivity or more of a programmer or technical writer but it cannot yet replace them - and no one is currently claiming otherwise.

Follow the money. The idea of research chumps had to have crossed the minds of the kernel developers. Good thought!

Nothing short of full disclosure has any chance of getting the chumps past this mess.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.