Honestly, ever since this execution, I’ve been against any death penalty. There have been way too many innocent people killed from the death penalty.

Not to mention the numerous issues and the moral quandry of legal murder as a state sanctioned form of punishment.

At the end of the day, what’s the ultimate goal of murdering someone on death row? An example for deterrence? Apparently it’s not effective any more than a life sentence and you don’t have the risk of killing someone who was innocent.

You’re right, they aren’t perfect but they are better than meat in most cases. If a plants based meat alternative is what it takes for someone to reduce or stop their meat intake then that’s a moral improvement in my book.

Unfortunately you should secure your home network with a managed firewall to be sure that any IOT devices don’t phone home. It sucks but that’s the only way I would recommend using a device you don’t fully trust.

The article isn’t about the new animation but about how the old clip has resurfaced and is retreading its origin and how it relates to recent events.

Now coming back to Miyazaki’s thoughts on AI, a widely shared video from 2016 shows the legendary animator reacting with disgust to an AI-generated animation demo.

The animation in the clip reminded him about his friend’s disability and how the creators of the animation didn’t regard ableism while making it. Later in the clip, one of the creators had expressed that they would like to create a machine that could “draw pictures as humans do” and Miyazaki was depicted as displeased after this statement.

The article doesn’t go into if there were any comments from Miyazaki on the Ghibli-style image.

There is already a religious following in his noxious wake. They literally think he’s heaven sent.

That’s reasonable. It’s a good idea to have additonal protections and if you have the knowledge, something like a pihole can go far.

In a perfect world the parent(s) would know the needs of the child and adjust. Curiosity should be encouraged but the guardians should be the ones to prepare the kids for the world, as far as home life is concerned.

Access to porn and gambling is impossible to guage the best age for granting access to in the legal sense; it’s a different situation for everyone. That’s why it really should be up to the guardian to dictate when is appropriate.

Unfortunately, instead of teaching with an open mind, what gets passed on usually is the parent’s frustrations and dispositions. To even things out, I also think public education is helpful, but that’s a different topic.

This is all dumb. If you’re worried about kids surfing porn sites then the legal guardian should act accordingly. There are so many methods to blocking porn sites that it’s almost hilarious. Web filtering; most ISPs are able to support website filtering on their supplied gateway or DNS. Parental controls on device; most devices come with opyional locks built-in at this point especially if it’s aimed towards children.

Sure, it’s not perfect but it’s better than removing yet another layer of web anonymity. We see how well browser fingerprinting is going, let’s not make it easier to track who is browsing where than it already is. But that’s the real point behind these bills, isn’t it?

Edit: I guess I was ranting mainly about the porn, but honestly, these are all things that parents should be aware of their children doing. If it’s an awareness issue, then that should be the next step. The government going straight from “oh there’s a problem” to “let’s make it illegal” without trying to raise awareness is extremely heavy handed.

I definitely understand. That’s good to hear there hasn’t been a direct pipeline to selling fingerprint data established yet.

Thanks for checking it out. Hopefully there is a best of both worlds in what they are advertising but I get that technology isn’t magic either.

You’re definitely right that it’s a game of one-upping each other. Unfortunately, it’s now directed in a path that infringes on privacy of the users it aims to serve.

Since you’re working in the internet security industry, what’s your take on something like Altcha as opposed to more invasive means of protecting against both attacks?

That’s a shit take. What’s the point of having user-agents if it’s just a race to the bottom for only supporting a smaller list arbitrarily? It’s not like the bots aren’t going to just spoof as Chrome on Windows 11 anyways.

You’re not wrong about it being easy to set up and use, but the reason it’s still the defacto is because of its earlier monopoly. Now, they are slowly killing what made it the best Enterprise option either by its greedy licensing schemes hiding things you used to use behind new and additional licensing or breaking them with untested patches that go straight from dev to production.

I agree. We need less soldered RAM designs. I thought repairability was something they appreciated.

Let me make everything confusing. There’s a company named Finalspark that uses synthetic human biocomputers to process AI workloads. They state that they use dopamine and electric pulses to reward wanted behavior and reduce unwanted behavior. This isn’t far from how our brains operate on a daily basis.

Here’s my take on this. I have no doubt that humanity will create synthetic consciousness at some point, if we haven’t already. If something exhibits a level of intelligence, then that should be factored into any actions that may impact it. This can go from microbiology, plants, animals to large and complex systems. If you look hard enough at anything living, its just micromachinery. Everything should be respected as if it had some level of consciousness, as we don’t know where that line is. Even if we find a hard line in the future, it’s easy to cross it so we should have a reasonable buffer.

Good. If a registrar causes issues because of their own non-response during their own investigation then it’s useless.

That’s the problem. If you’re evaporating plastic then you’re definitely releasing a multitude of chemicals; some of which would likely be harmful. Since this is to be performed in large quantities that could be a significant amount of pollution.

There are plenty of uses for it. There are also plenty of bad implementations that don’t use it in a way that helps anyone.

We’re going through an overhyped period currently but we’ll see actual uses in a few years once the dust settles. About 10 years ago, a similar thing happened with AI vision and now everyone has filters they can use on cameras and face detection. We’ll reach another plateau until the next tech hype comes about.

In a post-scarcity society, you wouldn’t need money.

We could actually achieve that too. We’d just need to solve food logistics hurdles, homelessness, useless subsidies, bigotry, corruption, greed. Totally doable in our lifetime. /s

According to a paper published in 2020 here, the specific energy and energy density are in line with what you are saying. But according to the article that Wikipedia cited here, sodium batteries show the opposite.

You’re probably right but it looks like there’s conflicting info about this currently.

What’s interesting to me is the power to weight ratio. Sodium-Ion is at ~1000 W/Kg vs Li-Ion at ~175-425 W/Kg. EVs could maybe have less weight and cost in the future because of this.

Yeah, there isn’t a very good alternative other than occasionally getting lucky that it’s compatible with VLC streaming.