deliriousdreams

So is the concern that this will be a “pre-draft” in the event that the government need to enact a draft?

Because what the US has is a draft roll. Basically, when you’re born (males only) you are added to a list and once you turn 18 that list is updated to categorize you as eligible for the draft. Once drafted you would be screened (physical/medical screening etc) and then deemed eligible for service and enlisted.

But we also have one of (if not the) largest volunteer military force in the world. We haven’t actually drafted anyone since the Vietnam War.

If this is the case I can see why people are protesting.

Is it licensing fees? I bet it is.

I think there’s something to be said for just the rising rate of actual diagnoses of neurological medical conditions that count as a disability. This would obvious behave an affect on the number of students across the board needing accomodations for their disabilities.

Additionally, there are far more poor people who aren’t being diagnosed at all and those people are likely to go to elite colleges. Poor people are substantially more likely to go to community college than they are to ivy leagues, and they are far less likely to ever get a diagnosis for a neurological condition.

So while I am sure that there are some rich kids getting to these schools and realizing they are in over their heads, and I’m sure some of them are rich enough to pay a doctor for the diagnosis they want, I find the disbelief rather egregious, especially in light of the difference in challenge of the curriculum at an ivy league vs a community college.

I’m assuming you mean that phone software will be free, because phones (while they can be heavily subsidized) aren’t free and are getting up to ridiculous prices. I own a phone that retails for $1000. That’s a ridiculous price for a phone. Except that phones now are just very tiny personal computers.

I’m not saying that the AI is bad in and of itself. I’m just saying that essentially you can’t blame the people of Japan for not liking nukes after we nuked them twice (the perhaps most devastating use of harnessed fire, in my probably not very good analogy).

If we want to make something good from AI, continuing down this path isn’t the way after it’s actively harmed so many people. Doesn’t mean Nuclear power plants aren’t a good idea. Or something. I don’t even know anymore. This analogy has gotten so far away from me.

I like Brendan as much as the next guy. But vending machines on the whole aren’t that great.

Aren’t we already seeing that though?

The vast majority of people who surf the web don’t use a computer to do it. People who do belong to niches. People over a certain age grew up with and still buy computers. People who game still buy computers or consoles. People who stream/create content still use computers and other electronics for that purpose, same with like. Engineers and hobbyists using CAD and other software in creative spaces.

But the smart phone has overtaken the computer as a personal computing device by quite a large margin now. And at every turn companies are trying to make cell phones a den of ad service, slop, and addictive content while stealing any user data that’s not nailed down to increase their revenue and continue the circle.

I don’t think she’s wrong. Treating Generative AI LLM’S as an innovation and studied to see what it can do and how it can benefit a business makes as much sense as any other innovation.

Pretending it is the panacea to all that ails every company in spite of the rot it’s actually directly causing is the problem, but the solution isn’t to change the way we implement AI.

It’s fruit of the poison tree at this point. You’re asking someone who’s already been burned by the fire that’s been let to rage out of control to build a smaller more manageable fire, and expecting them to just overcome a fear response because the fire hasn’t burned you personally.

What does the app actually do? They call it an anti-fraud app, but I don’t understand what fraud it’s supposed to fight?

The thing is, RCS messages are supposed to be encrypted.

And while I agree with you about the assumption that the company can see what you see on the hardware they provide, and there is no expectation of privacy due to that, I do not understand why Google would expect non-corp RCS messages to be assumed encrypted and therefore private if this exists.

Beautiful. Very nice. Thanks for the feature, Xitter.

Don’t France’s special forces and government use the Graphene OS open source code for some of their systems? Sounds to me like they want to have their cake and eat it too.

Man, this just leaves out all the other systems they use for planes and ships to supplement and act as a redundancy for GPS.

I’m not saying that this is t a good idea. But the headline is bunk.

Would you like to see the picture of how I found it?

Tumblr still exists…

I like this idea for a lot of reasons. The inclement weather one I see in the comments is definitely one of them.

But it also puts me in mind of some of the clever ways I’ve seen posts and reflectors used to give the impression (when say you’re driving at night and only see them out of the corner of your eye) of a person standing there, until you look at them properly and then they look exactly like what they are.

There’s one in particular in a neighborhood where I used to live that to this day if I drive by it, my hindbrain says “HUMAN” and I really don’t understand why because the post looks nothing like a human when I look at it properly. It’s magic.

Yeah. I wasn’t sure it would work for your use case necessarily, but I did remember seeing that a version of the Walmart onn box was available in Europe, so I didn’t want to discount it altogether.

Either way I do hope you find what you’re looking for and if I come across suggestions that might work I’ll try to post them here.

Possibly? I don’t know for sure because I can’t find a store front selling it, but it does appear that these devices are region locked and that there are people in Asian countries sharing ways to end around the region lock.

No. It looks like it has a different name.

https://tv.mythomson.com/en/Thomson-Streaming-Box-Plus/270