To be fair sand is rough on floppy drives.

It's quite common globally since long before "pervert glasses".

Image boards like 4chan often have threads with poster-supplied content. If you want to understand humanity, look to its vilest preferences.

Unlike RF jamming IR floodlighting is harmless to communications.

What (theoretically of course) would be required for a discreet 360-degree IR flood zone of useful depth?

Knowing countermeasures makes sense in an irreversibly declining-trust society. What are the most effective? The least disruptive to legitimate (which means communication, not concealed photographic spying) uses?

The parent is useless. Slashdot was once a tech site instead of this general news for the typical retard.

Anyone have some QUALITY reading material on the subject? We will never see that from the editors who really should be replaced by AI which would do a better job on a bad day than they've done for many years.

How can you state that? I'm assuming you're a Rust proponent from that wild statement, which goes to show you how little you know about the topic.

Yes, memory leaks can and do happen in Rust. Rust is not perfect. Neither are the people who write it.

Most Rust code is written by its proponents' AI models, anyway.

This is an engineering maxim as old as time.

If your response to theoretically old, brittle, and "wrong language" code is "rewrite it in something better", you don't understand the problem.

There has never in the history of software development been an effort to rewrite a platform in another language which wasn't subsequently plagued by all manners of new and interesting problems.

In a best case scenario, the product has an exhaustive regression testing framework, complete unit tests for every function, e2e testing, and reintegrative CI/CD. But that is rarely true for any project, and certainly isn't true for old ones which predate such practices.

You make an important point: the biggest positive contribution to making old tools better without introducing more brittle behavior is with coverage from test suites, and improved code coverage.

Media bullshitted America for views since long before electricity.

Fear sells to the simpleton masses terrified of what they don't understand. US literacy is poor and comprehension terrible.
This will not improve because intelligence is not a choice.

This IS the Rust community you're talking about, after all.

While Rust is a fine language, the community tends to be a bit fanatical and irrational. Pair that with a generally shallow technical aptitude depth and a lack of experience, and vibe coding, and therein lies the problem. There seems to be a high intersection between them and the systemd, so that's not a surprise.

And that's without getting into questionable mental health practices that are common in that community.

So they posted none.

Creators are free to compete and create collectively or their own.
They sell their work for what the market will bear if they want money. If they wish to create for arts sake they are free to use AI to enhance their product with their professional insight, or ignore it and market their work on its own merits as determined by the customer.

The market will decide. Artists are free to create but not entitled to customers. Anyone is free to create for the joy of it. If they want money they serve the customer.

The vast majority of entertainment has always been trifling so what is really at stake when automating kitsch generation? If Great Artists are so great, they are free to prove it independently.

Development does not require empowering AI to do act upon anything important.

That's not really been part of the discussion because greed.

No matter how many old men yell at clouds, tools improve.

Presuming AI will remain crude is odd for techies but Slashdot (by management, especially moderator intent) is no longer a tech site.

There are no inherent obstacles to effective use of AI. Successful movies already use computer-generated content aplenty. The Matrix is now very old news.

The entertainment industry exists for profit, not welfare.
The gaming industry is already larger than Hollywood and
animation (by any name) will only improve.

Scripts are "code". Interposing fewer humans between script and finished result lowers costs and democratizes production by reducing physical (including equipment and set) footprint.

As movies obsoleted theater so computers are obsoleting old ways to make video. That's a natural evolution, similar to how CNC machining obsoleted factory floors of manual standard and specialty manual machine tools. Those tools still exist and get frequent use, but not for mass production.