Also very true, bare copper protected from tarnishing is a thing of beauty

Damn, now that’s a word you REALLY have to double check when reading, enunciating and writing

Welcome to the start of the environmental collapse that everyone but the oil companies have been screaming out loud for the past 70 to 80 years

It’s 100% irresponsible. Especially given how many of then are going rogue.

How do you guardrail the machine that is programmed to literally make things up and/or tell you you’re doing a great job while it does it?

The difference is that there are people who train very specifically to know exactly how the inside of the car works, and they’re legally liable for the state of how said car works after they work on it.

If your engine blows up after a service, you blame the mechanic, if it blows up after you bought it bew you blame the manufacturer.

If your slop bot goes rogue and starts giving your personal details out to people it shouldn’t when all you did is ask it to make a picture of a cat in a stetson, or in the case of grok, generates csam as part of its regular functions, what else do you do but blame the company that created it?

Probably sometime around 1912.

You know what they say, there are two types of people in the world.

There are those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

This is why I never want Iain M Bank’s books to be made into film

Very true, I know plenty of professionals that aren’t the most well versed in their specialist topic.

There’s also a case to be made for the sheer lack of funding going into education that leads to situations where teachers aren’t getting the training they need to be as knowledgeable as possible.

100% true, though in the same vein as I said; it would take a lot of agents personally listening in to cover the sheer volume of phonecalls and radio transmissions that occurred over just the US, let alone the level of granularity they have with today’s “every message on every service goes through a datacenter server and is analysed in realtime” mode of surveillance that leads to things like this teacher being raided for a snapchat message faster than the cops responded to Uvalde.

To be fair to her, she’s 22, and a trainee.

Being brought up from day one in a surveillance state probably makes it easy to forget that every action is being watched

Maybe not over 80 years if only due to the lack of technology (it would have taken a lot of agents manning a lot of switchboards to listen in on every telephone conversation), but saying “at least since the late 60s” wouldn’t be inaccurate at all

How about “The worlds most advanced military power allowed 2000 deaths to occur, all to further allow its parent state to tighten restrictions on free movement, increase surveillance on innocent civilians, and garner support for an invasion of an unrelated country?”

Sweet fucking jesus that’s not a mental image I wanted but by god did it crack me up.

It’s like Dylan Moran’s bit about the “Ideal body” from Monster (top tier stand up show if you haven’t seen it)

Eglin must be having a staffing issue after everyone caught the lettuce shits

I can’t wait for the days where passive cooling (highly emissive IR panels that require little to no electricity to cool buildings) create new errors in the sat data that scientists have to deal with instead of “Oh yeah we’re fucking RUINING the place in specific regions and creating heat islands around all these carbon fuel powerplants and datacenters”

Oh I know it isn’t, because I trust google as far as I can throw a datacenter.

But I’m still struggling to see the use of an app that makes you stop and go “let me ask my app to turn on my remote connection feature and search to see if this person is wearing the pervert glasses.” instead of using my eyes and going “That guy looks like he’s wearing pervert glasses, I’m leaving the area.”

So you have to leave bluetooth on, which means your device is broadcasting an active bluetooth signal.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluetooth-wireless-tracking-privacy.html

If any random shop can use any phone’s active bluetooth to track and profile every user that’s i side or nearby, I don’t want to have bluetooth active when in public. Genuinely not worth it just to fi d some glasshole pervert when my own eyes can do the job without giving away any more of my data. That’s what I’m on about.

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