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Comment Re:AI. (Score 1) 110

While I agree with your assessment of them, users aren't always the best arbiter of what they want in a product. Ask virtually all users, and they'll say stop changing anything. But while I can't speak for mobile, I have no idea why you think you need Brave / UO to stop ads on Slashdot. I'm only using Ublock lite and I've yet to see a Slashdot advert.

Comment Re:This is a weird little hit piece (Score 2) 170

The phrase "pervert glasses" is delightful, but does anyone at all really buy into the idea that guys are following around the women of Walmart to video them?

You don't need to "buy into the idea". There's whole youtube channels dedicated to people harassing women and running around with hidden cameras in the process to show their followers "How to pick up girls" and shit like that.

I guess, but this can't be common

It's common enough that there are multiple laws covering this in pretty much all western jurisdictions each targeting specific acts and ways and locations where it is done. Many jurisdictions have laws governing repeat offenders too. Additionally a very large number of actual sexual assault cases are associated with stalking as a start and also include charges of voyeurism.

nor would you need expensive glasses for that when you have a cellphone

It's much harder to hide a cell phone compared to someone who doesn't suspect a camera hidden in glasses. And no the glasses aren't immediately obvious to everyone. We on Slashdot may have seen them multiple times with multiple stories, but for the most part people have no idea about them, and those that do know about them will likely have heard stories about how "safe" they are for privacy with recording LEDs etc.

I remind you that this kind of perverted bullshit is so prevalent that Meta had to implement detection systems to identify if the LEDs had been tampered with.

"We, as a society" are full of harassing fucks.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 40

It's the wrong thing in production

Based on what? What makes something wrong or right in production providing the toolkit works and exists to allow it to be widely adopted and mass produced, and the end goal of the device is achieved?

I've seen similar complaints before: "Arduino has no place in production, it's too heavy on flash for microcontrollers, blah blah blah blah". Yet it too does the job, and does in fact get used in some production cases as well.

If you want to gatekeep, fine. Justify your position with points specifically relevant to production. Let's hear it.

Comment Re: Why? (Score 1) 40

I was referring to the cost of materials in education.

So completely off topic and irrelevant post then? Got it.

then there’s obviously demand for those types of end solutions

False. Not all products meet a demand. In fact the vast majority of novel products actually create the demand in the first place. There is zero demand for Python on a microcontroller. But that doesn't mean it's not a good idea, and that on release of the product it will become adopted. Take for example the Arduino platform. There was no demand for a simplified abstracted C API for Atmel microcontrollers, ... until someone made it. The idea created the demand.

Comment Re: Feature Request (Score 1) 110

Features I'm not using which are built into the browser increase the attack surface if an attacker can enable them remotely, and I don't take for granted that this is impossible. Also Firefox has a habit of enabling things you disabled on an update. HTH, HAND

Not every feature presents an attack surface, even more so "remotely". Also you're dealing entirely in theoreticals. My theoretical is I suspect you likely are complaining about Firefox while having piss poor security practices yourself. You have far bigger things to worry about.

Comment Re:The hidden subsidies to the nuclear industry (Score 1) 137

Saying nah-ah isn't being clever, it's just cementing your ignorance. Fissile material for bombs isn't made from commercial reactors. There's a difference between "reactor-grade" plutonium and "weapons-grade" plutonium. The plutonium that is generated in a commercial reactor is heavily contaminated and incredibly difficult to separate from spent fuel rods. It's simply not done for military purposes anywhere other than one waste reprocessing plant in France, and there were talks about shutting that one down due to its cost.

All nuclear power use special reactors are run to create weapons grade plutonium. They aren't used for power production in any meaningful way as they can only run them a couple of weeks at a time between shutdowns and removal of rods.

Being ignorant doesn't mean someone is "lying" to you. You can use the opportunity to educate yourself, or continue to look like a moron in public.

Comment Re:JPEG 2000 (Score 1) 110

Why? JPEG 2000 is as rare as hens teeth. It's not actively used by anything other than some extreme niches, has a complicated spec, and frankly was well and truly surpassed as an image format. Heck the only reason anyone is talking about JPEGXL is because PDF/A is planning to adopt it in an upcoming spec, and browsers have integrated PDF readers.

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