I understand the myopic that makes this happen. Amazon gets a marquee event, and supposedly boosts its stature and hopefully drives viewership. Everything a corporate vice president wants. The Emmy organization gets the most money, that they use for⦠whatever. Win-win right?

Well, no. Viewership will drop because now people have to get an Amazon prime subscription as opposed to simply having basic cable, or (gasp!) an antenna. They wonâ(TM)t even know when it happens because they wonâ(TM)t see the ads for it on a competing network. And so what used to be yearly appointment viewing cultural touchstone dies.

See also: Apple and the Charlie Brown specials.

But, it is invalidated if they use research that hasn't been published yet when they falsely imply that the chats are ephemeral and won't be used as training data. An equivalent in the academic world would be getting coffee with a fellow researcher, then they scoop your paper the next week.

They mashup the data they're trained on. If mathematicians have private chats with ChatGPT, Open AI will train using those private chats. It's a known fact. What "AI" is really doing is extracting intellectual effort from humans and reappropriating it to the owners of the "AI" companies. What feels like intelligence, is in fact intelligence, but not artificial.

Please stop using programming languages as a proxy for performance and safety. Rust has turned into a religion and the developers who become entranced by it have a certain kind of brain damage.

I hate that we live in a world with cameras everywhere, but if police have good intentions they should have no problem handing the keys over to the courts.

I can envision a system where they ask a court to approve releasing footage from an area where a real crime occurred. The investigator identifies vehicles and people of interest, then an open source algorithm tracks where they came from and where they went, without exposing the rest of the population to a dragnet search. The results would be registered as evidence in the case.

We've seen that officers cannot be trusted with the keys themselves. Flock and other corporations shouldn't be able to access the footage. It should be stored encrypted where only the courts have the ability to decrypt it. Then we should pass laws for data retention periods that are reasonable(perhaps no more than 1 month).

Now they can do to Babylon 5 what they did to Star Trek.

Oh yeah. We are partying now.

Blaming AI will allow the monsters to do their monstrous things and blame the machines when there's a potential consequence.

You have 150kW of compute running under your desk? https://carthageelectronics.co...

We all love to hate an Elon, but Starlink is a real product you can use today. The Falcon rockets are real rockets used to launch satellites. Obviously, space based data centers won't individually be the same scale as land based data centers. The point isn't large scale compute, but rather to take advantage of being in orbit whatever they may be. Cooling and scale are clearly not the advantage.

So, you must work for the military or SpaceX?

What's the definition of a data center? They have compute and storage resources customers can rent.

Space data centers currently exist. But, they aren't used like terrestrial data centers. They're used for processing surveillance data at the point of observation. They're the equivalent of Flock cameras that are running machine learning models to detect anomalies, only when an anomaly is detected does it send the data to a ground based data center. That allows them to hunt for missiles and stealth planes optically from multiple points to develop a 3D mapping from optical video feeds. Starlink and Starshield are the Golden Dome.

What SpaceX is selling is a time slice when their satellites are flying over the ocean or areas the military isn't interested in. They'll offer the product at a discount, because The capacity and energy to run it is already paid for through defense contracts. For SpaceX that means every penny collected is profit. Their network becomes critical defense infrastructure until space is so full of debris that they can't utilize it anymore.

I didn't understand the TOCTOU issues or the licensing issues. I will simply stop using Ubuntu because of the licensing issue. My experience with Rust developers is that they are so convinced of their correctness that they will break the world and tell you that any problem you're having is a skill issue. Right now they're just trying, and failing, to replicate coreutils. Sooner or later they'll start changing flags and behavior and telling everyone who opposes that it's a skill issue, "just do X or Y". If too many corporate distros use them, then we'll see the democratic process for coreutils fall apart and Linux distributions will start to fragment.

The folded size needed to be small, like the 12 mini.

Just look into qualified immunity and civil asset forfeiture. The police think they can get away with this kind of thing, because they can get away with this kind of thing in a police state.

They're looking for cash withdrawals and gold purchases. This is related to civil asset forfeiture and they're looking to improve their profit margins. The argument will be that they suspect people who carry large stores of physical value are involved in trading drugs, guns, tax evasion or terrorism. Won't you all think of the children?