Wrong. You can run a super fund yourself, if you so desire. SMSF (Self Managed Super Fund.) Ask your accountant about it. Then you can track your ability to invest in whatever vs the big guys. Many invest in real estate via SMSFs (or did.) It's not simple, but it is possible. No, you can't just open a bank account or buy shares, etc. I know people that do it and get 10% returns. The catch is you have to have the time, knowledge, and skill to do so. Plus annual accountant fees, etc.

We can't even stop stupid people from voting for stupid people to be president and doing worldwide damage.

Seriously, stop using Google to search. Use Gemini or ChatABC or anything. Why? No ads. Stop using Google to search and start using AI to search. Be smart about your searching and ad revenue to Google will drop.

How long will this last? Don't know but right now, only a mug is using Google to search for anything. Or a person that wants to see ads.

Isn't the solution just to work out which hostnames/DNS zones need to blocked in your pihole? Is there a static set of IP# to block or does everything get sent to the cloud?

They don't even need to do that. LLM AI produces output based on its input. LLM AI can't create. Therefore, it stands to reason that if you can get any AI to create music that contains music that can be shown to have been copied from another work and that said AI doesn't have an agreement to consume that music lawfully then it must have been consumed illegally. Not only that, the copied music (even if only a few bars) is copyright and royalties can be owed.

What's more likely is that various bit torrent activities have been traced back to Anthropic. What'll be interesting is if employees were given direction to download music from bit torrent or if that was done by people believing nobody would notice and it seemed like a good idea at the time to get a whole lot of music content.

If you create a new song that includes riffs or music that is substantially similar to (or the same) as existing work, then there is existing case law that says you owe royalties to the original artist. This gives you some idea of that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Summary, courts have already ruled that creating new work that uses part of existing creative efforts requires compensation so any AI platform consuming commercial music, without an agreement, to create new works is open to being sued.

Some modern cars contain up to 4TB of SSD storage across all of their systems. Boot drive here, media drive there, map data over there, download partition for updates, etc.It all adds up. Some modern cars have terrabytes of storage hidden away.

Computers have been inside cars for years, we didn't really get a choice, we just wanted the features they provided without realising what we were buying.

Right now, if you are dependent on Google search for revenue and aren't working out a way to pivot from that, you're in trouble. For the moment, convience of searching from anywhere will keep Google search traffic going, but for how long? When I want to search for something now, I don't go to Google search, I go to Gemini. The best part is that I don't get a screen ful of ads. Gemini = Google Search - ads. I had this conversation with a marketing dude recently and he wasn't prepared for it. They work on Google adwords, etc, and when I told him my searching for products now is Gemini providing me a list/table, with no searching or ads, he was lost for words. He got it. If AI doesn't kill anything else, it will kill Google search.

Red Hat's Identity Management package is getting closer to being usable.

What do you define as "soon" and "late"? Depending on how you define "complex life" and when you consider this planet to start being non-viable for life, Earth hosts "life" for only 13% - ~45% of its existance. Some estimates put life as we know it only being viable for another 500 million years, others say out to 1.5 billion years. If we say life started 2.6 billion years ago and say humans can exist for only another 500 million, then intelligent life only gets less than 6% of this planet's existance to function. If we only have 6% of this planet's existance with which to work out how to survive the Sun's expansion, did life start out late or early?

To leverage off of Silo (TV show), what if someone created nano-bots as a weapon, unleashed them on the enemy, only to find out that they couldn't be controlled and proceeded to wipe out everything living? It's not clear if whatever it was that wrecked the planet in that scenario also died. This is another version of the Terminator world where technology created to defeat an enemy turns upon (all) humans.

Because when you operate a burner phone, everything is done with cash, not a card of any kind. The T-Live app won't take cash.

5G RAN has been designed to make MITM attacks like this not work. The mobile base station would need to be part of the telco's network in order to function - and these SUVs are not part of AT&T or Version's network. What these SUVs can do is force your phone to downgrade from 5G to 4G/LTE (or 3G) and then attack you. I suspect that Israel is making bank on selling equipment to Texas without Texas realizing the limitations.

Try this in Gemini: "what size mirror is required at an orbit of 500km to match the refelcted light of the moon when the mirror is curved to focus light"

There are some posts saying "don't live there" about flock cameras. You don't get a choice, Cities are allowing them everywhere. To see how many are near you:

https://dontgetflocked.com/

I wonder... to what extent can the mirrors be tuned? It seems rather inefficient to use space mirors to target a 3 mile circle. I asked Gemini and it disagrees with your assertions, however I can't paste the formulas into a slashdot comment. The key assertion that would disagree with your back of the envelope measurements however is easier to quote:

Because the mirror is so much closer, its required light intensity (Im) only needs to be roughly 0.000169% of the Moon's actual light intensity to appear just as bright to us.

The final result for the mirror size depends on its curvature (or lack thereof.) Gemini gives me 2000m2 for a flat mirror but 60-100m2 for a specular mirror.