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.

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.

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.

The "magnificent seven" are passing around $100B in IOU notes, and if that slows down enough that a call comes for any of them, then the AI bubble goes POP, and the world economy goes THUD.

And why the hell the link to Yahoo, rather than the actual LA Times article https://www.latimes.com/enviro...

Looks like one tsunami would go over the entire facility. And then... salt water sitting inside.

And nuclear power is so much cheaper than wind or solar...

NOT.

Want to get us all wearing glasses because we'd be walking around creating a surveillance network. Americans don't like the idea of the government running a surveillance Network so we're building our surveillance Network with Private industry and then the government taps into it with private contracts.

Americans have this weird thing where they don't care how much they are oppressed or how much the boot is on their neck as long as it's a privately owned boot. The idea of that the billionaire is getting together on their golf course is a de facto government is way too complex and abstract idea for most people. And try explaining a power vacuum to them or what happens if you don't have a powerful central government...

The way I've tried to explain it to people is imagine that in the center of the town is a giant box of guns and ammo. And anyone can just pick up the guns and ammo. And you decide that guns are dangerous so you don't pick one up. That means a handful of your neighbors can grab all of those guns and now you have to do what they say.

Large governments are the box of guns. They are an inevitability. They are up there with the nuclear bomb as inventions of humanity that once we got it we were stuck with it. You either pick up that gun and take part, which is to say you take an active role in your state and federal government and understanding it is best as you can and the systems that need to be built to make it functional. Or somebody else comes along and takes all that power for themselves and uses it against you.

The solution a lot of people come up with to deal with government is the same solution people come up with to deal with nuclear weapons which is just do away with them. And yeah that would be great. Sit down with a real anarchist sometime and they will tell you for hours how great that would be.

Except it never works because sooner or later some rich asshole builds an atomic bomb or sets up the same power structures as government and doesn't call it government.

What on earth makes you think that hasn't already happened? You think that's a human you're talking to now? A human so insecure in their convictions they want to be anonymous and can't even bare the thought of being associated with a pseudonym?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

No. Chrome explicitly dropped JPEG-XL. Both are now (re-)implementing it as it will be required for standards compliance of the internal PDF reader as JPEG-XL is going to become the standard compression format in future PDF versions.

Aside from the actual reason mentioned there's multiple "eXtra Large" aspects to this format.

- It supports more bits per pixel than JPEG (which is very important since we've had a use case for high bitdepth images for decades now).
- It supports larger image sizes than JPEG (JPEG is limited to 65535x65535 which is only 4.225 gigapixels if your image is square - trivially hit with panoramic photography. JPEGXL supports 1.12 exapixels which is very large).
- It supports more channels than JPEG (4100, vs ... 3)
- It has a larger specification document too :-)

I still have no idea what you're talking about. I've not been harassed by updates in any recent memory. They just apply on next launch silently. As Jobs would say, you aren't updating it right.

What are you talking about? Breadboards are used both in education, hobbyist, and professional environments for variable prototyping where possible due to their flexibility. The only time they aren't used is if a specific design doesn't function on breadboards (high speeds, high currents, noise, etc). Breadboards have nothing to do with being a training tool nor have they anything to do with cost.