AI is different. When machines started to replace manual labour, people moved into clerical jobs where machines couldn't replicate human thinking. Computers came along and some of those went away, starting with low level accounting jobs like payroll processing. But there were always other jobs to move to, things that could not be automated.

We are now getting to the stage where AI can replace a lot of human thinking. At some point there just aren't going to be enough jobs that can't be automated left.

We have to decide. One option is we move to to low employment economy, ideally something like Star Trek's fully automated luxury communism where all the basics are provided and opportunities to develop one's self are abundant, rather than UBI and people with a lot of time and little to fill it with.

Another is that we just decide not to automate a lot of stuff, and have humans do it. That does mean a lot of pointless work, although arguably that's not so different to how things are today.

Depends on the exact wording, but Android Open Source Project (ASOP) is not shipped on many devices. Most ship with Android, which includes Google Play Services and a load of other proprietary, closed source stuff. So presumably they would need to implement these controls, and I'm sure Google will oblige by offering them to vendors. In fact even if they were not mandatory, I expect vendors will market it as a feature and want to include it anyway.

I wonder how practical this is. It appears that the surface features need to be so small that they couldn't be painted over, for example. Paint adds significant weight to an airliner, but is worth it for the protection and performance it provides.

Kinda sounds like the online businesses need to start being financial contributors to ensure they are not relying on flawed software.

Besides, bugs are finite.

Because the original only ever existed as a video game, the proportion of the parts are not compatible with off-the-shelf parts.

So the choice is make his own components to the proper proportions and get something faithful to the game version, or completely redesign the table layout to make standard parts work.

He got a resin printer for making smooth parts where required. What he really needs, from what I've seen in the video, are more powerful solenoids.
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On the basis that all major games get tested on their hardware extensively, because they have in excess of 90% of the market.

They have a card that is competitive with the most common gaming systems in use today. They are improving rapidly. They have a lot of pre-orders because it runs the games that are popular in China well enough, and is competitively priced.

The company that makes it isn't a genocidal totalitarian dictatorship. And even if it was, that isn't an excuse to let them take market share from Western companies.

Gamers Nexus will probably test it soon.

The issue tends to be compatibility with games that aren't popular in China. Basically everyone except Nvidia has compatibility problems to some extent.

News today that a Chinese company has released a GPU that benchmarks similarly to an Nvidia RTX 3060. Coincidentally, the 3060 is the most popular GPU in the Steam charts.

It's designed and manufactured domestically. The rate at which they are catching up is impressive.

And the same thing is true of space. Even disadvantaged by geography.

It's Musk though, so is just as likely to be an excuse for his hilariously optimistic claims about how easy and quick it would be to get to Mars.

He seems to have realized, over a decade later, and is now talking about a moon base. Wait till he discovers what a shit-show that is.

AI video technology is still nowhere even remotely near just "click a button and take what it spits out". I don't know how to break this to anyone here, but you're not just going to go to some video generation site and turn out Woodnuts without extensive skill about AI video tools themselves and a wide range of traditional video production tools, and without spending weeks to months and significant financial expense on the project.

Even if / when this changes, video production is still always going to be limited by the human at hand. Most people's movie ideas, plotting, scripting, directing, etc frankly will be terrible. The slop in this case is the human, not the tool.

> you're really splitting hairs, that's not what is meant. a serial port is very much the physical rs232 "connector" or an emulation of it.

Key word "or an emulation of it." From the software point of view, all it's doing is sending and receiving bits at some baud rate. The physical hardware interface no longer matters. That's kind of the whole point of these things. Beyond the hardware interface, modern keyboard and mouse speak exactly the same protocol as they have since the PS/2 days. In fact USB keyboards usually still have PS/2 port hardware in them, which is why you can use those USB-PS/2 adapters (which are entirely passive).

They don't "identify as" serial devices. The are serial devices. Always have been. It's not unthinkable that a poorly made device could be vulnerable to a firmware hack and not unthinkable that giving javascript access to serial ports could be a vector for such an attack. Not even hard to imagine a fancy keyboard with programmable RGB lights or OLED displays (that definitely have microcontrollers capable of executing arbitrary code) getting exploited.

> of course, which is why the browser asks the user for permission to acces all these devices!

That's a strange way to admit you don't know how security vulnerabilities work. "There's no way someone could get in uninvited; there's a lock on the door!"

> they can already do that.

Maybe? But adding a system where javascript can directly and explicitly interact with serial ports is definitely not going to make doing it any harder, is it?
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It's basically a toy commercial. If we are lucky we get a half decent movie out of it too. Reviews seem to be positive.

> this api is about ports that everyday hardware (like e.g. mice and keyboards) hasn't used for decades,

If by "decades" you mean to this very day. A serial port is not the physical connector. Your keyboard is almost certainly USB (no points for guessing what the "S" in "USB" stands for). It presents as a serial device at the hardware and OS level, like all USB devices do. If your OS puts it into a special category and doesn't explicitly label it as a serial device, that still doesn't mean it's not a serial device.

Now, whether or not any particular mouse or keyboard actually has a vulnerability where they have firmware available to be overwritten is an entirely different subject... but it's not unthinkable some devices may be exploited in such a way.

I can definitely see some shenanigans where a malicious website uses this as a vector to keylog. That's *already* well within the realm of plausible exploits, even without the WebSerial API. This is just another surface to attack.
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The ads I have seen say "only in cinemas". Is that no the case?