Flatpak, Snap and containers in general need lots of drive space. Good thing storage is cheap these days OH WAIT

D'oh, but DarkOx, I actually do agree with you on something: the license plates are there and they're visible in public. We don't need Flock to have our privacy compromised; everyone can do it.

We haven't denied our adversaries the capability; we're just trying to regulate their good intentions. That strategy doesn't work.

Flock is the symptom not the disease. People either need to demand anonymity and insist we stop displaying things like plates at all, and actually limit public photography, or just accept we will be tracked everywhere. There is no middle ground to be had.

Indeed. We seem pretty conflicted about that, so we're getting the worst of both worlds.

A lot of people are intentionally commiting crimes of various severity and they don't actually want police to have a more effective enforcement tool

This set of people is dwarfed into insignificance be non-criminals who are also being caught on camera. And the problem with that isn't false positives, it's true positives: non-criminal John Doe's car was spotted at a certain place at a certain time, so let's make that fact available on the market. That way, we can target him with ads, increase his insurance premiums, let his wife's PI know what neighborhood he had lunch in, let assassins when he's home, and let burglars (or his wife's rapist) know when he's not home.

The sheer amount of not-quite-what-consumers-need RAM that is going to be auctioned after the AI companies' bankruptcies will be unprecedented. Remember we're literally talking about an amount equal to what the entire consumer market was using. It's going to be a few years worth of the entire RAM manufacturing industry!

The scale of not-quite-right RAM we're going to see, makes me imagine (warning: red flag for talking out my ass) consumer motherboards specifically made for the mountains of weirdly-packaged cheap-but-fast-as-fuck RAM at hyperscale data center auctions. We'd end up calling them "AI bankruptcy rigs" or something like that. Yes, they'll perform differently (more throughput than you need, more latency than you want), but it still ought to be usable. IGPs usually included, I suspect.

And they will just be a product of the times; ten years later no one would want one and bankruptcy rigs would be seen as odd late-2020s relics; the lemonade from Sam Altman's lemon industry. It would be a dead-end tech. But during those late 2020s? Could be a neat-o opportunity.

Amusing. Immediately bumped to +5 by the same bunch of knuckleheads that would condemn anyone pointing out that public sector unions are the reason for this clown world nonsense as a Nazi.

Now watch the "fired" officers get hired the next day in another jurisdiction.

If?

20-something poor students are literally bathed in rigging the instant they experience initial contact with post-secondary education in the US. They know, with metaphysical certitude, that rigging runs their world, and whatever goes on a polymarket is but the least of it. Only the clinically naïve somehow miss this.

That's where I stopped. NPR wine women language. These people have no problem with all manner of "ghastly" things going on, as long as it serves their virtues. I'm inclined to chalk this up to yet another moral panic among the privileged, and few others. When you look closely at the entire opioid conspiracy that went on in this country, you find an endless supply of NPR listening pant suited professional babushkas managing the clinics, pencil whipping the audits, and indulging their limitless altruism while safely ensconced in their gated suburban mcmansions.

Fuck these people and their latest crisis. Nothing going on at polymarket is a patch to the harm they do.

No, I'm not. I'm just not so debilitated by Trump et al. that I can't see past his relevance in US politics.

If the weather is bad enough, people choose not to go out in it. Unless someone has a gun to your head, you always have a choice.

Heh, there's some validity to that. Human drivers are a daily rolling disaster that society tolerates only because there hasn't been any reasonable alternative. If-and-when autonomous vehicles actually become cheap and reliable enough, I suspect that human driving will gradually start to be curtailed -- not necessarily by banning it outright, but by making licensing requirements more restrictive, by making insurance costs more onerous, and/or by "nerfing" the cars such that they simply refuse to perform dangerous maneuvers.

No, it's not, because it will be selective bullshit. The favored will be immune. The ebil ones will get the shit end of the stick.

I get the tightrope they're trying to walk. Completely agree with you there. Thing is, it won't work out the way their naïve techbro geek brains think it will work.

To normal people, this all looks heinous. When something inevitably happens beyond the confines of openaianthropichuggingfacewhomeverf's little sandbox and fucks with something normies actually understand, the reaction isn't going to measured and deeply cognizant of all the techbro nuance and balancing act. It will be a big fat banhammer swung with enthusiasm and great force. Politicians will make it their issue and lines will be drawn. "Experts" and regulators will spring out of the woodwork with all manner of shackles and limits.

They can't stop talking about it: they're making new headlines daily for the same incidents. They think they're simultaneously white knighting about "dangers" and also promoting their work as sci-fi next level powerful. All they're really doing it engendering a massive backlash. They'll get it when lawmakers figure out how to persecute the people responsible when LLMs attack. How many hours until an LLM is used to compromise the email/phone/whatever of some senator and all hell breaks loose?

That may have already happened....

Can we finally know whether or not there is beer on the sun?!