Yes. They all get several up-votes, this one included.

https://www.kartelllabware.com/en/products/plastilab/clamps-and-supports/round-bottom-flask-holder/

If you’re up for some constructive criticism: I think the meme would be more effective if you put the silksong price in the lower panel to balance the $70 figure found in the top panel. Said another way, the lower text is missing the suffix “…for $20”.

…and I guess while I’m at it, whatever that meme law is about fewer words is better makes me think the top panel could be trimmed down: The gaming industry explains why they need to charge $70 for a game in order to make a profit.

That would be the brute force approach.

*protocol

It was not immediately obvious from the image (though you might see the starfish for scale), but these things are huge!

It makes you wonder if they have a whole bunch of training data in this style, or if it is the mathematical average of all cartoon styles mashed together.

Are you suggesting I should have asked it to reprocess the image, or ask it to try again?

I would say simply to avoid buying phones from ad-companies, but more generally… if you buy hardware from vendors that respect ownership (i.e. that have user-unlockable bootloaders) then you don’t really have to worry about this kind of thing, as even if the company turns evil later, you can probably flash the phone with a 3rd party rom.

To be fair, unlockable bootloaders seem a bit exceptional on the Android side too…

At first, I thought this was a “flash forward” reference.

I would agree insomuch as Google’s privacy issues are better known.

Nonetheless, we are comparing two jail cells. One has a finger-puzzle that opens the cell-doors (and an obvious surveillance camera), and the other one is securely locked with a less-obvious/hidden camera (iphone backups)… and the issue at hand is akin to removing the finger-puzzle because the captives keep opening it to let baddies join them.

Are we seriously going to pretend that a single person can be wholly evil? Much less a company of 200k people.

Even if Google takes this huge step of requiring their blessing for every Android developer (which Apple has ALWAYS had on their side), they will still be better (by my estimation) along the freedom dimension than Apple. Maybe too far removed for my involvement, but better nonetheless.

edit: misread “just as evil [as Apple]”

Quick! Ship it now!

In theory, yes. There is a first-stage bootloader (that actually finds, loads, verifies, and jumps-into fastboot) baked into the hardware (implemented in fuses and ROMs [like REAL roms, not “flashable” ROMs]), and AFAIK it cannot effectively be modified after the phone is manufactured, so they try to keep it as simple as possible.

So if it were real, the psuedocode would be something like this:

var fastbootPartition=locateFastbootPartition();

if (fastbootPartition == null || !verifySignature(fastbootPartition))
{
     // AFAIK, this code block is already a thing in production, but the
    // message is more like a "signature failed" or "corrupted" than
    // a "you done goofed".
    displayRudeMessage();
    halt();
}

var fastbootAddress=load(fastBootPartition);
jumpTo(fastbootAddress);

Thanks.

Give 'em a break, I’m sure it’s just their first error with units. (Procedes to google “verizon dollars and cents”)

That’s Mr. Human-Cyborg Relations.

I don’t know if this is what you mean, but I find that “Westworld” hits a lot harder post-ChatGPT.

I remember it taking a lot more suspension of disbelief on release, but now much of it falls into the realm of plausible.

Maybe not the “computable consciousness”, but the glitchy hand-wavy “we don’t know how it works either” aspect… at the time it seemed like a mcguffin cop-out, and now that’s like all the new business models.