Wilzax

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I really only need like 2 or 3 mm of extra nail on one thumb to open oranges and grapefruits perfectly fine. Anything longer than that and it becomes unwieldy and unhygienic.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I accept that people sometimes keep their nails long. That acceptance comes with a caveat that I will not be eating anything handled by hands with long nails.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I have a feeling USB drives will be readable for a long time to come, considering that we still use the standard almoat everywhere, nearly 28 years after its introduction.

That said, copying the data from old archives into new formats is always a good idea

Edit: I was envisioning actual external hard disk or solid state drives accessible using a USB connection. Thumb drives and other ultra-portable data formats are notorious for poor data integrity over time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah I get a big popup that says "Plaintext is exclusive to subscribers" on the direct link. However if I enable reader mode, navigate to the author's page, then navigate back, it works fine

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I didn't know what that food was called until now!

I'll be ordering a crucifixn't next time I go to a café for sure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Adjusted for time since release, 4 more to go!

[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you distribute encrypted materials you also need to distribute a means of decryption. I'm willing to bet a honeypot was used to trick him into distributing his csam right to the government hinself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

NFTs are great for replacing things like deeds or vehicle titles, where we need paperwork to verify ownership. But the problem arises when it's cryptographically hard (meaning exceedingly unlikely on reasonable timescales) to reverse fraudulent transfers of those documents. Cutting out a centralized authority at the price of making the system more vulnerable for gullible people is almost always not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

From the article:

Sure, mobile editing apps exist, but they’re not really suitable for much outside of small tweaks like skin smoothing and color adjustment

Pretty bad ad for phone apps if that's their take on them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Average is better means fewer incidents overall. But when there are incidents, the damages for those incidents tend to be much worse. This means the victims are more likely to lawyer up and go after the company responsible for the AI that was driving, and that means that the company who makes the self-driving software better be prepared to pay for those worst case scenarios, which will now be 100% their fault.

Uber can avoid liability for crashes caused by their human drivers. They won't be able to do the same when their fleet is AI. And when that happens, AI sensibilities will be measured my human metrics because courts are run by humans. The mistakes that they make will be VERY expensive ones, because a minor glitch can turn an autonomous vehicle from the safest driving experience possible to a rogue machine with zero sense of self-preservation. That liability is not worth the cost savings of getting rid of human drivers yet, and it won't be for a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem with self-driving cars isn't that it's worse than human drivers on average, it's that it's SO INCREDIBLY BAD when it's wrong that no company would ever assume the liability for the worst of its mistakes.

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