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Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 14

Crypto was, is, and ever shall be, a scam.

Someone else used to think that: Donald Trump calls Bitcoin 'a scam against the dollar', but now... Trump pardons convicted Binance founder 'CZ' Zhao who plead guilty, btw, while retaining his stake in Binance, the company that supports Trump family's World Liberty Finance crypto venture, through which they make $$$.

Comment Re:Human on the loop required (Score 1) 86

You must - MUST - have a human double checking this. Dispatching any kind of response without human review invites catastrophe.

According to TFS, the cops on the scene had a copy of the photo, so this should already be the case.

They then showed him a copy of the picture that had triggered the alert. "I was just holding a Doritos bag — it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun," Allen said.

Hopefully, they had already surmised this was a false alarm, but guessing they had to cover their asses and check it out and follow through as though it was a real situation, since it was flagged by the system. Not defending this, but can see why it happened. Had the video simply been originally viewed by a person, who would have realized it was a finger, it would have ended there. On the downside, people seem hesitant to dismiss/ignore obviously errant AI assessments.

Comment Re:This isn't mainstream (Score 1) 213

Agreed.

There's the old joke, reality has a liberal bias.

Perhaps because reality treats everything and everyone equally and that doesn't sit well with "Conservatives" and those on the Right, especially those, like Trump, who believe everything is a zero-sum game and there must be winners and losers.

Comment Re:Tribalism (Score 4, Insightful) 213

The core tenet of conservative philosophy is that some people are innately better and more valuable than others. That thinking thrives on the constant identification and blaming of pariah groups.

The belief, especially on the Right, and Trump specifically, that everything is a zero-sum game and there must be winners and losers doesn't help. More people having equal rights and opportunities or being able to be married doesn't take anything away from others

Even if it achieves the goal of destroying the currently identified pariah groups, they will quickly divide within themselves and destroy each other. Conservatism and tribalism are parasitic mind virus.

MAGA seems to operate this way - an ever smaller circle of who's "MAGA enough".

Comment Re:Once again (Score 1) 11

Apple had a culture of authenticity. Culture dies pretty hard in most cases. I think we will see the last of that culture dissipate, as it eroded so greatly under Cook and Ive. Then the extractive, enshittifying corruption will spread from Apple, too.

There really was something, that began with Jobs and Woz. It wasn't perfect, and Jobs had a way of twisting ethical stances in ends-justifying-means sophistry. But Steve Jobs would never have prostrated before Trump, proffering a solid gold token.

Comment Re:why not use some of the waste heat? (Score 1) 75

The heat pump's working fluid doesn't have to be water, it'd be whatever fluid can phase change at a "convenient pressure". The released heat on the high pressure side would be used to boil water into steam, which could then be moved to a turbine to generate power.

That "working fluid" woud be what is circulating on the low pressure side, through the cooling blocks.

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Jeremiah Cornelius writes: Some distinctions mean very little to anyone other than the singular individual holding them. Are there others remaining? Does Rob Malda ever bother checking in here? Who remembers the promising ascent and rapid zenith of VA Linux Systems? How about the decade-old sighting of the Slashdot PT Cruiser?

If you're out there we want to hear from you. Or just tell us why we don't.

Comment Re:Once again (Score 2) 11

Oh, you want profit? This is a surveillance spyware wrapper around the entire MacOS user experience - so if you thought Microsoft's Copilot Recall was invasive monitoring, you haven't seen anything yet.

If Apple won't monetize a user panopticon and partner with governments to do it, OpenAI will be right there, to take the cash.

Comment Re:I use Win11 (Score 1) 24

...the desktop apps are better than just about anything you will find on Linux or the BSDs.

I will argue against strict adherence to this statement. Gnome applications written to the project guidelines have become very fine, since the introduction of GTK-4 and libadwaita. I prefer many of these to their equivalents on MacOS.

It's true that most of these fall into a general category of "utilities", and that Windows enjoys a broader ecosystem driven by commercial incentive. But Windows programs are hardly "better' for this, and the widely varied usability is generally sub-par compared to level that's become norm for Gnome/Adwaita software.

Comment Re:Curious (Score 4, Interesting) 91

The tough on crime party sure does love letting criminals out of jail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Trump doesn't seem to consider "white collar crime" crime or supporters doing "bad things" a bad thing - especially if either group has $$$. Basically anything he (or family members) might do, or has done, is okay or, at least, shouldn't be punished too hard. He also seems to believe in the "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" thing, w/o the asking for forgiveness as nothing he ever does is wrong in his thinking. The rest of the GOP just looks the other way when it come to Trump so as not to rile him or his blindly loyal ~35% base they need -- many of whom are about to get priced out of their healthcare, or lose a rural hospital due to Medicaid cuts, or lose their farms due to tariffs or lack of cheap labor ... /$0.02

Comment why not use some of the waste heat? (Score 2) 75

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone trying to use the waste heat that all this computer power is generating? I realize that would impact cooling a little, but surely SOME of this can be recovered efficiently? Steam turbines are the usual way to turn heat into electrical power. Is there no way to do it for data centers?

For example, use a heat pump to concentrate the heat to above boiling temperature then use that to boil water to run a steam turbine. The heat pump would require some power to run, but I think you could run that at a net-positive for power?

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