The thing here, ... that is precisely an industry that is ripe for automation with AI. The likes of travel agents (especially corporate travel agents and travel portals) will be the first to be automated away by AI.

Why would you need "AI" for that?! Whatever humans might still be in the loop they're doing at most just being in the way to some web interface too.

It's not even that the information is in some random free-form pages - although we do know how to crawl these even literally since before Google - but basically all reservation systems are using more or less the same backend and there are only some knobs tweaked differently regarding gatekeeping.

This is a simple database thing, no need for any AI or anything.

It's absolutely unreal, had recently someone who wanted some "AI" interface to get all songs from 1985 in a professional product that of course had the filter already (heck Windows Media Player has it!) in a clear, deterministic fashion in all places one might need it. We aren't talking about anything fuzzy like recognizing the song, or matching something in any way, the data was there for all files.

Probably thanks to some agentic assist: https://www.reddit.com/r/Surfa...

First these ARE already running desktop Windows, I don't think any are sold with something else.

Second, here are in question all the low level bits and bobs specific to this platform, you can't meaningfully run the low level drivers, stuff related to sleep and wakeup and so on in emulation. Even if you could even more you're lacking the code to handle Qualcomm hardware on the x86 side so it wouldn't help at all.

Yep, https://www.qualcomm.com/devel...

Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me ... you can't get fooled again...

With Passkeys, they have access to your stuff without any oversight by courts and discovery. There are ZERO 4 and 5th Amendment rights to stuff protected by passkeys. They can compel you to unlock your phone, and put your finger on the print reader, and facial scan you .... all without your permission or CONSENT.

The "With Passkeys" qualifier is unnecessary, ANYTHING you store in the cloud, or on your phone behind a fingerprint is up for grabs for any entity that has access to the cloud or can force you to unlock the phone with the fingerprint (...doh). It doesn't matter if it's a password manager or your secret document to take over the world. You don't like that, just use a password manager that unlocks only with a strong password each time. It makes no difference if inside you have passwords or passkeys, they're just as safe (or not) as you wish. It's up to you if you want them synced with some big cloud, or unlock by fingerprint or a strong password, or anything else.

There's no point having Passkeys if they can be copied from disk to disk, that's repeating the problems with passwords but as a digital file.

By that logic there's no point to have ssh keys, they're just files that can be copied. But of course there is, you're doing a complicated dance to prove you have the secret - WITHOUT TELLING YOUR SECRET PASSWORD TO SOMEONE EACH TIME YOU LOGIN

There's nothing magical with the passkeys, they're just like ssh keys. Their main advantage is that by doing asymmetrical cryptography you don't just hand over your secret (password) to someone, so you don't care if somehow you're talking to the wrong site, you don't even need to rotate your credentials if they get genuinely hacked.

Protecting them locally is of secondary importance, but if you wish to be locked behind a password only you know in your password manager (most good ones nowadays do passkeys too) you can do that too.

Also, if we're talking about being compelled legally - these aren't for giving you access to some encrypted vault you only have access too - they can be shoehorned into all kinds of cryptographic things but not as the main use case. The main use case is just to login to Gmail, Paypal, Github, Cloudflare, whatever. If "they" are investigating you they can get to all those accounts without asking you, often even preventing the provider from telling you they gave away your data.

Just from today, and for a change the abomination is not that a 16GB Surface Laptop with freakin' Windows ARM (most niche OS the last 10 years or so) is 1530 Euro (down from 1799) but the charger is extra, 77777 Euros. VAT included, thankfully. ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/1w6401r/slightly_overpriced_power_brick/

That's directly from Microsoft, not some Amazon 3rd party seller/scammers.

The responsible thing would be to resell any actually valuable books after scanning, but that would require effort so they probably aren't doing it.

LOL, if only someone had a streamlined operation to sell books online. Wait, someone does, for more than 30 years now, it's called AMAZON !!!

They aren't selling them just because that would be illegal, for whatever much they care about it at this point.

... for other people."

This is the core concept by which the copyright works, BECAUSE it would be trivial (even before you could store and transmit books digitally for approximately nothing) to have plenty of copies the society decided this is somehow bad. You take one, there are less remaining ones, their value rises. If there are none left, tough. This is not a fluke, an unfortunate accident, some nasty people doing something you don't like, IT'S FUNDAMENTALLY HOW THE SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED.

You may not be, but what about someone who owns said toaster trying to figure something out?

He'll be just the same NOT helped at all by GP's commenter GP having it in his attic.

Ubuntu TOUCH is disqualifying. You want to install packages?! Why, you perv, this is a PHONE! This is how things go.

I mean Google Maps it's a sh*show for literally going 15 minutes from the car in the "woods" in Western Europe (quotes there because it's more like someone's backyard in other places less populated, and I don't mean a king or anything). OpenStreetMaps are way better but it has to be a somehow popular region/destination.

Yes, I understand, "smart" TVs, wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.

But nearly half the apps are backdoors to your network?! Isn't this federal pound me in the *&s prison level stuff (or whatever the equivalent would be in the relevant jurisdiction)?

Cheaper than a free USB stick? I realize that went haywire a lot with the AIpocalypse but I used to set the size for that at under 128GBs.