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It’s free - at the point of use.

Also the basic national insurances indeed cover a lot of things AND they don’t have this whole “insurance can deny prescription/procedures” thing.

Tell me you know nothing about the intricacies of media playback (especially hardware accelerated), without telling me…

Legally, you don’t.

And while indeed CCTV used to mean that it’s closed circuit, today it now refers simply to camera systems installed for public (in the sense of non-clandestine) surveillance purposes. Given most these systems are cloud connected, they’re hardly closed circuit, right? Yet we still use the term.

This is what I don’t get either. We literally have dozens of various camera options monitoring us in public, from random video doorbells to store CCTV, state/police CCTV, Google Maps cars, people on their phones, police officers and even random hired security thugs posing around with wearable cameras, drones, you name it… but the problem is cameras built into glasses?

Most European countries have actually codified that one has no expectations of privacy in public - that is, one may be recorded while out and about. Of course there’s legislations about harassment - e.g. following someone with a camera and specifically recording them, in an attempt to harass or threaten them - and what essentially constitutes as blackmail (“I’ll remove this video of you if you pay me”), so people should be using the recourse for those crimes, not criminalising a new product category.

Just owning a camera didn’t make upskirt photos legal, nor does using a Meta camera glass make harassment legal.

🔔 Neeeew achievement!

“Didn’t Ask For This DLC”

You have noticed that life keeps increasing in difficulty without providing additional save slots, cheat codes, or refund options. The developers are aware of the issue. They don’t care.

Reward: A loot box. It’s empty.

And this is all due to them laying off the people who knew how to work things, incl. the AI systems.

I suspect most of these companies will now try to re-hire about half their staff, and let them use the AI systems to increase productivity.

The truly sad part is that the useless middle managers responsible for the layoffs AND the huge bills (because they really thought they can just talk to the AI like they’d talk to a skilled and domain knowledgeable employee, using 10-50x more tokens than anyone with actual knowledge would) will face no repercussions. They won’t be fired because they’re “too important” for the company, because they “delivered so much value” (when in reality it was those fired who delivered the value and all this middle manager did was delegate shit, something an appropriately tuned AI system could do at a fraction of the cost!), and some other corpo bullshit.

And thus nobody will learn from this at all.

From the edge of the anus of course… the further edge.

The second part is wholly software dependent, so let’s not conflate the two.

Having local hardware for local LLM (and other models too! there’s plethora use cases for AI models, e.g. easily tagging people in your photo library, automatic subtitles for videos, even realtime stuff, we could even have models that automatically categorise photos and sort them into albums based on previous patterns, and so on) is awesome. Not having to trust some random third party with your data is awesome.

Blending that in with a specially written agent that can interact with stuff is not awesome. The two should be separate, but problem is, most users won’t understand the benefit of this hardware without being given concrete examples of use cases like this.

The case you’ve outlined wouldn’t meet the threshold of murder anyway. It would be manslaughter as it lacks murder’s primary qualifier - intent.

IMO there’s a handful of crimes - generally, the most depraved ones that cause the most damage, such as murder, rape, sexual assaults - that should be handled as if the defendant was an adult, even if they’re underage.

It’s borderline insane to think that a 17 year old can walk away from a rape charge with a fucking fine.

Minor things like theft, sure, have a separate court, take the age into consideration. But anyone who willingly kills or rapes/sexually assaults someone to the highest degree (making the differentiation here because in the UK, only men can commit the crime of rape, as by legal definition, it requires the forced insertion of one’s penis into the victim - any other case what one would colloquially consider “rape” is actually “sexual assault of high degree”… it’s dumb but it is what it is. Upskirt photos are also sexual assault but we can agree on it being slightly lesser than raping someone, I think), nope, you did the adult crime, you sit the adult time.

Same bro, same.

I mean I like my own. Not yours.

Are you by any chance a bisexual millennial with ADHD/Autism/both?

Even without the “browser loophole”, developers are pushing Google and Apple about further permissions being granted and sideloading and whatnot. Apple and Google careth not… Your argument is pretty moot at this point.

And no, you can already do per website permissions. Or what the fuck do you think the notification settings are for, or the PER INSTANCE BASED REQUESTS for e.g. Bluetooth or USB device access? Or when a website asks you to access your camera or microphone? These are all instances of the browser having access and the website having to request permission separately from it…

Each application should be separate so permissions are separate

Ever heard of this nifty thing called “sandboxing” that browsers have been doing for, oh, about a decade now?

Good luck distributing it “elsewhere” when it comes to iPhones.

Yes, even with the DMA forcing Apple to open up to alternative app stores in Europe, Apple still has a definitive say as to what apps can be published, and what those apps have access to.

Also, a lot of the time, a full blown app is unnecessary, or not practical.

The solution isn’t to prevent functionality from existing - this includes browsers and web apps having access to certain aspects to the hardware - but giving the user absolute control over what they allow an app to do.

Last time I heard this sentence, it was said by the then fiancée (now wife) of one of my friends, who lost a testicle as a teen (the friend, not the wife), when they announced she’s pregnant.

Becau of the push for web apps to get around platform (and platform store) limitations.

e.g. Apple banned apps for vapes (not just talking about nic vapes but e.g. there’s a number of cannabis flower vapourisers that use Bluetooth for fine tuned settings, those were forced to move over to web apps as the native apps simply got pulled), but also software like ESPHome is completely web based and needs access to raw USB devices to write the new firmware onto them, the list goes on.

Main issue seems to be that a lot of these APIs don’t require explicit user approval. USB, Bluetooth does, but apparently accessing detailed system statistics doesn’t? Make that make sense…

An artistic nude doesn’t need a “perfect” model. In fact what you’re describing is the distorted expectations set by the media towards men. Most women are NOT into that.

Also, neither dad bod nor “bear mode” require “shit tons of muscle mass just with a slight faded abs”.

This you?

A pink monster at that!

I’m just waiting for the day that some other leader has his balls drop and says the exact same line back to Trump as he did it to a reporter.

I mean imagine some big public international negotiation, Trump starts mouthing off, as he usually does, saying nothing, and someone with actual authority at that table tells him “Shut up piggy”.