Its not even about skilled users.

ANY 3D print job will often involve a little bit of setup in a solid modelling program, just to arrange the printed pieces on the bed, and set up the supports and infill for the printout. This isn't like forbiden images where you can check against a hash of an identical file.

I'll never understand the obsession the americans have with guns, and I support gun control. But this aint gonna work and is purely old grey haired men legislating about shit the dont understand AGAIN.

In fairness your negative impression of Mongo DB is not wrong. Its a terrible product that confused a generation of web designers into thinking that relational DBs do not scale and only unstructured DBs can do "Big Data".

For reference the maximum record , er, "document", size in mongoDB is 16 megabytes. Its 20mb for couch.

A Postgres JSON field by comparirison can hold a gigabyte, and if you are an insane person you can hold 1.6TB per *row*.

Of course something terrible has happened with your DB education if you think any of this is sane, but fortunately relational DB theory has endless ways around this, none of which you'd know if your a believer in the NoSQL marketing hype.

Theres a reason we abandoned unstructured databases in the 1980s.

Theres some real brainrot happening in Google senior management about this. Fucking *everybody* has been complaining about the AI summaries being not just fundamentally useless and wrong, but actually time wasting. You can do an experiment with this and search for a made up but plausible sounding nonsense word like "elbow coupled hose" and it'll give you a page long confident description of an "elbow coupled hose". Seemingly it used to say "Im not sure what that is, but I think it means...." which was just as annoying but at least it would flag it as a *guess*. But now. Nope its just confident bullshit. And lately we've been hearing about it doing this with medical information just making shit up, which could have a price paid in bodies.

This isn't even touching on the carnage this is causing websites with lost clicks due to simple minded people accepting the AI summary instead of clicking search results.

Google URGENTLY needs to remove these summaries, and honestly fire whoever was responsible for it not happening earlier. Other than the Grok mass sexual harassment tech, it is the most harmful and misaligned manifestation of AI so far, and Google steadfastly refuses to acknowledge it has a problem to the point they will just deny misinformation is misinformation when confronted despite being clearly untrue.

This sort of inability to function within reality will doom google if they are not careful. Delusions are company killers.

Theres a spiralling list of datacenter cancellations going on right now. Some 25 at last count. Not a lot in the scheme of things, but the number keeps growing. I'd say the opening motions of this little symphony of ruination have already started.

Ahahaha that article is a classic.

Yes, as a teenager in the 1980s we did *very stupid shit*. Drunken parties, blowing up rubbish bins with chlorine bombs, invading backyards to skate in swimming pools, actually lots of stupid skateboard shit, frigging nangs, you name it, I was one out of control teenager. And many times that resulted in the local copper giving me a smack and taking me back to my parents who ..... well they never hit me , but I sure as hell didn't enjoy it.

And I regret NOTHING. I had the time of my life and almost feel sad that kids of today just seem to be lacking the instinct for pure juvenile chaos we had as Gen Xers teens.

What I dont get about this kinda propaganda op is just how fucking weird it is to be making propaganda to make one self seem *more* cruel.

Don't Trumps supporters just stop for a second and think "This isn't normal? Adults are not supposed to behave like this, and especially not politicians and bureaucrats"

Well, we have seem performative cruelty before in certain political movements, and it wasn't a very fun regime to live under.....

Its a recurring theme actually.

Antivaxers have had a real weird tendency to be very agressive about it, so a lot of folks got their shots and kept their mouths shut to avoid the harassment and bullying from the daft uncles and idiot son youtube-believers.

Ask any doc, they got a *tonne* of these quiet vaxxer "Dont tell my husband" type requests.

Back when Biden got in I found myself regularly kinda enraged that Trump was being gone after for the dumb secret documents stuff, when what they SHOULD have been doing was dealing with the fact he was personally responsible for more dead americans than almost any other person in history thanks to his mishandling of covid.

Anyone else with that sort of american blood on their hands would have been strapped to a gurney and blasted into oblivion.

Instead dumbasses voted him back in again, and here we frigging are.

Its always those motherfuckers that cause the problem. Here in australia the speed limit for scooters and ebikes is 25km/h which is a pretty safe speed. Notwithstanding getting run over, a crash at that speed rarely causes a serious injury, just an ouchie really, some scratches and bruises, but rarely anything broken. At 35km/h the chance of a break grows considerably larger, and at 45km/h a crash WILL put you in hospital and any higher, you'll be in critical care or worse.

The problem is the little shops around that sell shit chinese scooters and ebikes as "offroad" bikes that can hit 60-70km/h , dont have proper regulators to protect the batteries from exploding on overcharge and either no speed govenor, or one that can be switched off with a convenient flip of the switch.

My GF's idiot brother recently got arrested doing 75km on a highway (ebikes are banned on highways) on an electric scooter. The cops confiscated him, charged him, and proceeded to confiscate and destroy the scooter. Now, the man is a raging idiot, but he was never actually told by the bike shop that riding this stupid thing was illegal, and he figured that as long as he had his driving license it was all legal. The police beg to differ and so did the judge.

Recently we had a Parlimentary enquiry into the things that recomended putting in restrictions on the import and sale of these 70km+ shitty vehicles as unlicensed motorbikes. And I fully support it, becuase if my collossal idiot brother in law hadn't been stopped by the police, chances are he would have been stopped by death. But it would have been better if he had been stopped by not actually being able to buy it at the local bike shop.

Someone will buy it. That sheer volume of IP and physical assets wont simply slip below the waves, someone will acquire it. I mean shit, Intel actually has Fabs. No doubt debt levered to hell and back, but Fabs none the less. My guess is Nvidia would be eyeing it off hungrily, and so would AMD, although AMD would face serious regulatory hurdles being that such an acquisition would create a true monopoly.

For non paywall news site, the vast majority of impressions come from people stumbling off the net onto the site. For paywall news sites, the only source of new customers is people stumbling onto the site off the net.

Almost no website survives being delisted.

Is there a readable version of the article. Its stuck behind a paywall I have no intention of paying, which is bit of a "I have no idea how to have an informed opinion on this?" scenario.

A lot of it is, and it works terribly.

Recently I got hit with a 30 day account restriction because their insane AI thought I was dealing drugs on facebook after I commented on a friends post ;-
"""As best as I can tell, Cocaines major demographic is rich folks in New york, LA and Florida. Thats why you aren't seeing arrests""""

I appealed on the basis of "What the fuck?" and they reversed the decision and undeleted the post but kept the restrictions? Exceedingly strange decision making. Needless to say, my experience of Facebooks AI moderation isn't positive.

Yeah I'm not quite sure what to make of it. According to a friend of mine, his 13yo hasnt even been affected, it straight up hasnt asked his age yet.

The concept is solid imho. We DO need kids spending more time running about , getting fit and socializing with other kids. climbing trees, kicking footballs, figuring out how to talk to girls, all that good childhood and teens shit.

I'm just not convinced this is the right way to get there. I'd have prefered time limits. An hour or two screen time a day like the chinese messed about with for MMOs back in the day. That way kids still keep contact with the culture, but also have to go outside and touch grass and do the humaning stuff too.

Our parents rarely ever banned TV (Though my dad did try that for a couple of years when he sold the TV set so us kids wouldnt be glued to it, but he folded the next year and brought a new one lol) but what they did usually do is try and limit the amount of time we where planted in front of one.

This was actually one of the scenarios that Marx was kind of looking at when he was writing Das Kapital. He envisioned a scenario where the steam powered technology of the day would lead to so much automation that the majority of workers where surplus to needs, then asked what the result would be. If workers where not needed, he figured, then they would have no money. And if the majority of people had no money, then the people who owned the machines would have very few to sell too, and this would mean they'd have to start laying off the remaining that still had jobs, and this would lead to a vicious spiral where eventually nobody had jobs, or money. It'd be a comprehensive economic collapse. This was an example of what he called a "contradiction in capitalism", essentially what happens when market forces start tearing a market apart.

Now of course, Steam power was never going to do that, but he was writing in the 1800s and looking at the disruption the introduction of automation into the textiles industry had caused and wondered what would happen if that applied to the entire economy.

So we might now be facing the real prospect of "What happens when the loom eats the world" that he imagined 150 years ago. We have also however seen that his particular solution, statist communism, didn't quite pan out as utopian as he imagined it would. Too prone to capture by labor elites rather than what he imagined, control by working class people. You end up with the USSR instead of what he had hoped, which would be a less fantastical version of the paris commune.

Which does leave us in bit of a pickle. Where to go from here?