There are some really smart people on slashdot, and many of them work from home on a keyboard

If they are not using AI to personally hold down three or four jobs then I'm going to assume that most businesses could not get that kind of productivity boost

is a face photo really suitable for age verification ? Can it reliably distinguish between an 18yo and a 19yo ? is it better than a photo of, say, the back of the hand

What are the odds that these photos were not encrypted or even cropped to be just a thin strip of image instead of the full face

It's the solar panels vacuuming up all the photons to turn into crypto

My god they're causing seizures now - just when I thought crypto couldn't get any worse.

My problem is that I'm insufficiently educated and just plain too lazy to read and understand the original papers in order to come up with an independent conclusion, I suspect I'm not alone.

I happen to trust Hossenfelder because I've enjoyed her videos in the past and they made sense to me. I'm not qualified to judge all her pronouncements but I am inclined to trust her. I'm sure other people trust their sources for similarly non-rigorous reasons.

or someone leaks the key

Why can't there be a browser option to just delete all the cookies when the tab is closed

I wonder if the models trained on US-only data can be compared to the model trained on everyone-but-the-US data to gain some insights - flattering or otherwise

I am reassured that the government is illegally collecting data, It seems quaint and old fashioned to even try to look for evidence upon which to base allegations.

So are they going to remove all binary attachments from email ? Really, how would they know if something has encrypted content buried somewhere. I'm not even sure that they know what kinds of message they are trying to intercept.

isn't he saying that Nintendo (owner) entrusted the goods to Sega.

Which part of Putin is the leader ?

If we replace all the parts is he still the leader, or can mutiple leaders be constructed from his discarded parts?

I can see this leading to a war between the Putins in various stages of decomposition.

and sadly, some will conflate fear and respect..

Isn't that the plot of "Grapes of Wrath - 2025 edition" ?

Are people that think like this the problem though ? There are bound to be some (many ?) that think this way, but the people that put him in power were the ones that changed their vote from Dem to Rep. They are/were at least open to voting Democrat and will need to be won over for the Democrats to win again.

Besides, I'm not so sure that the two traditional parties had much to do with it anyway, if Trump had seen an easier path by running as a Dem I think he woudl have done it