I still get the meaningless Internet points though, right?!

I think they are absolutely, positively, going to breach their face database and everyone’s purchase history all over the Internet.

I’ve been watching for an event like this with popcorn ready.

I’ve got a good/bad/terrible feeling that they’re playing for keeps in the race to be the biggest consumer privacy headline public relations disaster.

What’s the benefit to the customer here?

There’s no intended benefit to the customer.

Honestly, they’ll probably miss that and pay massive fines in Illinois. It seems to be the traditional approach by companies that get into facial recognition to also not bother to listen to anyone who could have told them not to.

If even 1% of their companies pay off, they make a profit.

I suspect they make a profit even when 0% pan out. They just need to find someone gullible enough to buy in at the peak, and there’s a new sucker born every minute.

Agreed!

I don’t mean sarcasticly, honestly. As you said, it’s still valuable science.

“border authorities and their supporters in Congress are continuing to promote unproven, AI-driven technologies as the latest remedy for years of failures, including the ones voiced in the memo obtained by NBC News. These systems involve cameras controlled by algorithms that automatically identify and track objects or people of interest. But in an age when algorithmic errors and bias are being identified nearly everyday in every sector including law enforcement, it is unclear how this technology has earned the trust of the government.”

It’s easy to conclude that the intent here was always to establish an automated general threat of harm - to all poor people in sight of these towers.

We’ve known for almost 20 years that it’s not converging on anything like a solution to the excuses given for setting it up.

But spending that money starts to make sense when examined through a lens of a mindset of open class warfare.

I love that someone even bothered with a study.

(Edit: To be clear, I am both amused, and also genuinely appreciate that the science is being done.)

But what if it actually is magic this time? Just this once!? And we miss the hype train?! (This is a sarcastic impression of real conversations I have had.)

How are producers/consumers okay with everything being so mediocre??

“You’re always trying to make everything just a little bit worse so that you can feel good about having a lot more of it. I love it. It’s so human!” - The Good Place

Debian is a full day of romantic walks on the beach, fine dining, dancing, and taking in a romantic comedy, followed by easy quick familiar sex and then falling asleep in front of an episode of cozy reality television.

(It can become anything I imagine, but the defaults are just so comfortable…)

Slackware?

That’s perfect. And I heard it’s not a sin outside of marriage as long as SELinux is enabled…

This is beautiful.

They also last longer than the premade stuff,

And they’re a much nicer experience. It’s funny how fast even minimum hardware performs when it’s doing what I ask it to, instead of spying on me.

Yeah. Samesies. Not all of us put up with this crap.

Edit: There are dozens of us!

But what device do you use to stream?

Raspberry Pi with a bare image of Android TV installed. The result is a Roku without any attempt to serve home screen ads.

So which brand is the better of em?

I haven’t found one that isn’t shit, sadly.

That said, I installed Android TV on a Raspberry Pi 4, connected that to a TV via HDMI, and have all the features (and way more) of a Smart TV or Roku, without the OS level ads or spying.

Is there a .vimrc that already maps all the standard notepad++ keybindings in one go ?

You may find someone who has one, but I just did the ones I found myself missing as I encountered them.

I tried someone’s all-in-one .vimrc, but it broke too many community recipes while rebinding a bunch of shortcuts that weren’t in my muscle memory anyway.

I kept adjusting my .vimrc as my muscle memory transitioned. So having less to fiddle also made it easier for me to keep my .vimrc tuned to my muscle memory.

For example, I was using / instead of Ctrl+F because I liked it better within a month or two.

what’s good about neovim?

• NeoVim supports plugins written in modern languages without a Vim script shim. Vim script is utterly awful, and the sooner we can all pretend it never happened, the better the world will be.
• NeoVim can be configured and extended with lua a language that many people actually like to use.
• NeoVim is built client/server style, like VSCodium, so it can do the same remote/local mix and match tricks. Notably, VSCodium works nicely as a front end for editing files with NeoVim.
• NeoVim is somehow actually faster. vim was no slouch, but a full rewrite seems to have added some…ahem…vim.