Of new gas cars though. But by changing how you charge a battery you change its effective efficiency. A gas engine can’t run on anything but gasoline. (E.g., gas and diesel engines aren’t compatible with the opposite liquid.)

Many cities had public transport that was demolished for cars. Atlanta had a lot of streetcars. Now the only streetcar it has is sort of a joke. (It’d be less of one if there was better coverage though, but I fear it’s unlikely to get buy in.)

Also, EVs have the potential to basically be “100% efficient” if they happen to be charged by solar. With combustion engines you’re never going to get any sort of improvement, it’s just always what it is.

I think that’s because Meta acquiring Oculus was the enshitfication.

B- but the DOW 🥺

It’s a major pet peeve of mind when places get overly zealous about moderating what is on or off topic when the volume of posts doesn’t warrant it. Especially when there has already been some discussion on the posts.

To give the government a 50% stake. I know the government is the public in some sense, but still.

What about that time you posted a meme to your friends discord server making fun of Donald Trump?

This is a good example because they can and have started going after this type of stuff. I think it’s still going to be failing for some time, but that they even try, that people even get arrested is terrifying.

The best way I can explain it to people is that you think you have nothing to hide now but you think that because you agree with the government. Maybe a good way to explain it to conservative folks would be to say something like “what if they imprisoned you for sharing your religious beliefs?”

I mean to an extent, yeah, but most companies implementing this stuff are doing so because of laws in various jurisdictions, not because they’re worried about their image. But of course it’s all connected, if your image gets bad enough then law makers force your hand.

God forbid they actually try to moderate things properly, why make them do that when we can get all this facial data??

The thing is that the politicians pushing for it genuinely want the 1984-esque mass surveillance. And it’s not even some sort of mustache twiddling cartoonish evil, these are the sorts of people that genuinely believe if you’re doing nothing wrong you have nothing to hide. That police should be able to get into any lock and read any message. That police are inherently good and won’t ever misuse those powers once they have them. They’re really just that naive.

The frustrating thing is that many of these people’s voters, at least in the US, have always believed the Democrats are tracking them and just generally being evil while in power, and totally oblivious to the amount of control they offer up the government willingly. The idea that their beliefs might be persecuted is lost on them, despite not even that long ago saying they were.

I’ve seen YouTube videos of people able to record the image of the the vibration of a potato chip bag through a window to recreate the audio from the room.

There’s nothing wrong with writing code manually. Over the past few months LLMs have gotten a lot better at writing code than they were before, but they can still make weird mistakes.

What you’re calling AI has somewhat shifted to being called AGI. Either way, the ship has long since set sail and LLMs are lumped under the category of AI. That’s what it’s called. Usage dictates meaning. It’s not an endorsement of the technology. The same way the computer AIs in games are called AI even if they aren’t “real AI.”

Maybe it’s just a coincidence! Maybe those files just randomly do that lmao. Including deleting themselves!

Lol, imagine if they made that defense. “This was the result of an AI hallucination!”

Yep, especially because chip manufacturing has such a massive barrier to enter.

Old device? Ooh, that’s suspicious.

And as we all know, they’re going to say that not using a Genuine™ Android® Operating System is extremely suspicious.

Don’t overthink the metaphor. These things are fragile and fall apart. The “door with a lock” is the “guarantee” (wink wink) that the operating system won’t let programs see memory they shouldn’t be allowed to. Putting your valuables in a safe instead of sitting in the floor would be encrypting the passwords in memory in the metaphor.

Also, cyber security and physical security are very different. With cyber security you need to understand that there are orders of magnitude more people looking for simple problems. Like a criminal checking every door in the world automatically, just looking for ones that are unlocked. Someone not being a “target for master criminals” isn’t really applicable for this. Besides, that’s a critique of what level of security an individual should have, but pointing out the flaw in Edge is a critique of something that claims to be secure that isn’t.

This is sort of like saying “I leave my valuables in plain sight by my door because it has a lock on it and door locks are trustworthy.” I’m not super into cyber security and stuff but it seems like one of the most common problems is programs managing to get access to memory they shouldn’t have access to. It seems to happen all the time! Just like many locks for you door are trash.

I think there’s a place for that, but it really shouldn’t be your only one.