Meanwhile science still don't know how a friggin' fruit fly brain works. Otherwise we'd already have drones with insane autonomous flight capabilities.

RTFA, or in this case, WTFV.
If you block the recording light with tape or a similar solution, the gadget can identify it and prevent it to start recording.
But somehow if you drill a hole just enough to damage the LED, apply some resin to it and let it dry, it records video normally without the light.
Maybe there's a light detector behind that LED that just detects if there's enough exterior light coming in... if you damage just the LED but not the light detector, it doesn't block the recording function.

Much more simple: https://xkcd.com/221/

Because it's the first thing that comes to my mind: much easier support for client-side digital document signatures using token certificates (like thumbdrive or smartcard devices) plugged in the client machine.
This has been a pain in both my previous and current job. Both provided SaaS products that worked with digitally-signed XML files. But when the client opted for using tokens/smartcards, we had no other choice than make the client install a client-side software to do it locally and send it back to the SaaS servers.
No problem when it was one or two users, the problem begins when it's entire organizations with hundreds of users, each one with their smart cards...
Maybe with Web Serial API we can do it in-browser, it'd be great.

It's not what the law means, but... it would not be a bad idea... Stop Killing Windows anyone?
But by the law MS would be required to at least let you activate the product, being by activation servers or phone, releasing a "forever key" or a patch.
Honestly, no biggie for them.

There are still a few cases where Delphi/Lazarus/OP is a solid choice, like native desktop applications and lightweight and high performance microservices.
In my previous job we used Delphi to make a set of multi-language, multi-platform libraries for electronic tax documentation.

Advanced robots using AI-powered visual analysis and laser cutting tools to make plywood slum houses in 10x less time than a team of puny humans.

Closed Captions are even worse. It's in many news outlet Youtube channel.
It's like it was translated to some other language and back to English with a 90's translator, with lot of missing words, in all capital letters and with a 15 seconds delay.
Mind you, are the authors that provides the content of these hateful CC's.
They're supposed to be at least decent, because they're (supposedly) human-made and directed to hearing impaired people.
Oh and Youtube don't let you fallback to regular automatic subtitles. It's those atrocious CC or nothing.

Well, being a reacher of the top of the building is an almost impossible mission, a pretty risky business specially for outsiders. I'd join a few good man, train all the right moves, and avoid any collateral damage, so we can get there and become legend. I bet the guards will be losin'it.
I wonder what secrets are up there. Maybe vanilla skies? The mummy of Ron Hubbard?
But I suspect that after that, days of thunder will be upon us. Scientologists have an endless love for their secrets. They'll hire the best law firm to sue us into oblivion, night and day, so we'd never see the color of money again.

Maybe they've used the (much probably existing) gov't backdoor, which log activities are directed to /dev/null .

That's why I personally despise a lot of the "clean code" nonsense. Oh, "no comments, your code must be self-explanatory" my ass. You just cannot explain complex concepts in a subroutine or variable name. Comment your code, with good sense. In extreme cases, if it's too long or needs images, you can very well include other documents along with the code in a "doc" folder. But never let yourself or others alone with just code.
And Git commit messages are documentation too. And a pretty good one. When you're doing a "blame", it's just wonderful when the "what, who and why"s are right there in the commit message, no need to scramble around looking for information. I just hate when I stumble in a lasy ass "fix: bug fix" message (no shit Sherlock), specially when the perpetrator is not available anymore.

Well, in recent news, they've found a 52 years old tape containing pretty much the only known copy of Unix v4 and they managed to recover its contents, in an almost artisanal way. The thing is, we still know how to read magnetic tapes, even if the specific format is unknown we could make do.
Also, we still can play those olde gramophone disks, because even like more than a century after we still know about how they works.
So it's safe to assume that in 100 years or so, such media will still be readable, even if the means to do so were lost, if the knowledge to do so is still there, there'll be a way.
In a more dramatic scenario we now know how to read 4000 year old Egyptian hieroglyphs thanks to the Rosetta Stone. So along with the media, some kind of "Rosetta Stone" would help a lot. I think a laser-engraved titanium plaque written "hey guys, just use lasers to read these glass slabs here" would do it.

Seems fair, as long as USA let their "content of interest" (i.e. Epstein files) to be hosted abroad.

I like my g'old reliable HDDs, but HDD technologies seems pretty much stagnant since more than a decade. Today's a 2TB HD cost pretty much the same as a 2010's 2TB HD, same speed, same everything.
Meanwhile I heard a lot of promises but none of them did hit the shelves.
Plus, SSDs got more robust and were getting close to same $/TB of HDs, this trend only stopped due to the recent RAM/Flash shortages (thanks AI big techs).
I'd love to see HDDs to make such a comeback, but I'm not holding my breath.

More AI features no one is asking for. This AI bubble is looking more and more like the dotcom bubble.
Please burst already.