All the terrible touch features they’re adding to cars these days makes me think a brand new car today would go obsolete before a 10 year old used car with 100k miles. New cars are unrepairable because of how complicated they are.

Even the $3000 Samsung TVs have ads if you connect them to the Internet. Noone is safe

An image is a quantization of reality. An image alone is biometric data if it’s a picture of a face, fingerprint, or any other identifiable feature of a person.

Usually the opposite is true when gutters are this clogged. They turn into a swamp.

I think DUIs are quite high there, but I can’t really find any clear stats about it. From what I remember it’s kind of a problem across all of the prairies.

I’ve got a 9700X and it absolutely rips at only 65W

The trusted 3rd party in this case is actually multiple 3rd parties. There’s several options for trusted timestamping just like there’s multiple trusted root CAs for SSL. Since the timestamping service is free and public, anyone can use it to sign anything, even self-signed certificates. There’s no mechanism to deny access, at least for this portion.

There’s always a risk the root CAs all collude and refuse to give out certificates to people they don’t like, but at least so far this hasn’t been a problem. I don’t have a better solution unfortunately. If we could have a 100% decentralized signing scheme that would be ideal, but I have no idea how you would build such a thing without identity verification and some inherit trust in the system

This isn’t “my idea”, this is how the industry already does code signing. You can’t sign something with a date of 1984 because your certificate has a start and end date, and is usually only valid for 1 year.

You can read more about how this works here: https://knowledge.digicert.com/general-information/rfc3161-compliant-time-stamp-authority-server

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

Code signing certificates work a little differently than SSL certificates. A timestamp is included in the signature so the certificate only needs to be valid at the time of signing. The executable will remain valid forever, even if the certificate later expires. (This is how it works on Windows)

See “Acquiring prohibited firearms”: https://rcmp.ca/en/firearms/classes-firearms/classes-firearms-canada

There are specific exemptions that can be applied on top of a PAL to acquire prohibited firearms. For example, law enforcement is allowed to carry handguns.

On linux it’s just called running an executable

Edit: As a less snarky answer, you can run Android apps natively on linux by installing Android OS in a container using something like Anbox Waydroid.

I think the biggest thing lacking in this kind of hardware is displays. Where can you find a phone-sized 1080p display that doesn’t require signing some NDA or reverse engineering the specs? OLED would be even better for battery life.

I don’t see that probably 360p black-or-white e-ink display is going to be a good experience unless you’re comparing it to a flip phone.

If it looks like a real gun, it’s pretty much exactly as effective for commiting crimes as a real unloaded gun. There’s very few legitimate reasons to have a replica firearm and they are highly regulated. Anyone with a criminal record would not be able to get a license for prohibited firearms.

That’s unfortunate for you, but not every company operates like that. There’s new startups every day, and with all the VC money they’re getting, they’re in a prime position to be building these new products. The fact so many AI products are under-delivering is enough of an indicator for me to agree with the article’s logic

“AI bad therefore…” was not part of their argument at all. They’re saying lack of time is a primary reason developers don’t release more products and try all their ideas. If the productivity increase claims of 2x or even 10x that some AI shills are pushing, then we should expect an increase in shovelware product releases.

The logic seems sound to me. They even collected their own data to try and back up their theory.

They actually did seize several replica firearms… the warrant was accurate as far as I can tell. The cult leader has a whole Wikipedia article talking about their history with the police. They tried to pull off a citizens arrest on police officers over “COVID crimes”. That’s insane behavior.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/queen-romana-didulo-citizen-arrest-qanon/

Loads of new technologies are discovered because of people mixing disciplines that hadn’t been put together before. A new perspective on a problem can make a massive difference!

That’s probably true, but it sure can be hard to motivate yourself to do things yourself when that AI dice roll is right there to give you an immediate dopamine hit. I’m starting to see things like vibecoding being as addictive as gambling.
Personally I don’t use AI because I see all the subtle ways it’s wrong when programming, and the more I pay attention to things like AI search results, it seems like there’s almost always something misrepresented or subtly incorrect in the output, and for any topics I’m not already fluent in, I likely won’t notice these things until it’s already causing issues

Can that not run through Proton? You could probably launch it through Steam, even if you bought your copy somewhere else. I have loads on external apps added just for easy setup with Proton

+ biometrics

This means you only enter the password when your phone restarts, you access specific settings, or I think one or two other rare cases. Personally I only need to enter my pin maybe once a week