Humanius

Annoyingly it also turned the word “lobby” into a contaminated dirty word, even though lobbying is a healthy and important part of a functional democracy.

Any group collectively arguing in favour of their interest to the government is a lobby. That group can be anything from employers, to unions, to civil rights advocates.

The problematic part is the bribery, not the fact that there is interest groups lobbying the government.

This happened in Germany, not America

Sometimes concept cars manage to get through relatively unscathed.
The Renault 5 and the Renault Twingo revivals spring to mind.

Retro-revival trends happen every few decades in the car world. We were due for another one.
As long as it means interesting looking cars, I’m all for it!

I’ve called my computer a piece of shit before when it’s being too slow about something

It’s still good to research it and confirm (or disprove) a hypothesis that might seem obvious

Parliament has expressed the desire for a clearer ban on these glasses a few weeks ago

https://nos.nl/artikel/2632327-tweede-kamer-wil-breder-en-duidelijker-verbod-op-camerabril

Parliament wants wider and clearer ban on camera glasses

We already have privacy legislation, and it is already not allowed to secretly film someone and share the footage. So parliament is mostly talking about making it more explicit that these camera glasses are not allowed.

They are currently awaiting an advisory on “AI wearables” by the European Committee for Data Protection, which will arrive later this autumn.

Enough that they can tell with a decent amount of certainty whose social credit score should be lowered, once that gets inevitably introduced /s

(I don’t think that conspiratorially… It’s probably just data harvesting and extreme greed.)

The issue in this case is that they apparently use text to speech locally, store that information on the device itself, and then if at any point in the future gets connected to the internet for any meaningful length of time (be it by a subsequent owner) it will then be sent on to LG… for safekeeping of course /s

The deep-dive by GamersNexus is pretty in depth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

I used to have YouTube Premium.

The main reason for paying for it was that I don’t like having to sit through ads. A nice benefit of Premium over ad-blockers was that a part of the revenue from YouTube premium goes to creators in lieu of advertising revenue. YouTube gets money for running the service, the creators get money for making videos, and I don’t have to watch ads.

I stopped my Premium subscription not because it was getting too expensive, but because YouTube is an American company. Ever since Trump got elected for a second time I have been progressively working on cutting out products and services by American tech giants from my life, and YouTube Premium was a very easy one to cut out.

These days I just use an ad-blocker. If the creators want revenue from my view, they can upload to a platform that isn’t YouTube.

The dumbphones being released now should all work on modern networks. The connection being 4G / 5G doesn’t mean the phone must have an internet browser and an app store.

Luckily software like Teams has noise cancellation, so keyboard sounds generally get filtered out.

If they take issue with you disliking Musk (since I presume that is the political belief you are talking about) then maybe they are not great company to keep.

Walled slop shop

They only have three models of laptop. The Framework 12, 13, and 16

Within each model they might upgrade the specs, or change some things around, but there is no break in compatibility from generation to generation. If you buy a Framework today, (assuming they don’t go bust) you will be able to buy the upgraded parts a few years down the line and slot them into your existing laptop.

A bunch of politicians and government institutions for some reason…

Edit: That is also why the journalists are there

I think using electronic counting (of paper ballots) can be an acceptable way to speed up how soon we get to know what the result will likely be after the polls close. But it is important that there always happens a manual count, and that that manual count should ultimately be the answer we trust.

And with voting machines there is no verifiable oversight.

You just kind of have to trust that the software that is running on the voting machine is actually correctly tallying your vote, and not doing shenanigans behind the scene. Even if the code is open source, and everyone knew how to read code, you cannot reasonably guarantee that that is the software that is running inside the black box that is a voting machine.

With paper voting you can observe the entire process from start to finish. There are no black boxes which just spit out an answer that you simply have to trust.

In the Netherlands we had switched to electronic voting in the past, but we switched back to paper after some very serious security flaws were pointed out. These days there is some discussion on whether electronic counting of paper ballots should be allowed, but at least there is still a paper trail in that case and you could hypothetically double check everything by hand.

“Everbody should use AI”

-Person financially benefiting from everybody using AI