Supposedly Russia updated the World Health Organisation last week to say the young lab worker who died did not die of parapneumonic plague and that no pathogens have been identified so far. They’ve also quarantined 200 of her contacts.
It suggests both that they are taking this very seriously and that something probably DID happen. That one is looking like a near miss, but with the big caveat that who knows how much Russia is actually revealing.
First, they swabbed the whole deck not just the poop deck. The focus on the poopdeck is probably modern because it sounds interesting and sticks more in the mind.
Supposedly they swabbed the decks in part because salt water prevents wood rotting (versus fresh water from rain storms which promotes rotting), in part because it’s a wooden ship with gunpowder loose which is a fire risk (so best to sweep it away and keep areas damp), and in part because it kept the crew occupied.
This will happen even before any further technology comes along as the AI business model is fundamentally flawed. They’re gambling on earning huge fortunes, but will earn peanuts as they can’t capture the value generated by AI. AI is just another commodity, and people will use the cheapest tool that does the job. They won’t care that company X spent 100s of billions of dollars on their frontier model when a free or cheap model elsewhere is good enough for the task. No customers are paying for that investment - just colossal debt piles and investors desperate to be in at the ground floor. The big AI companies are already well into nonsense circular deals passing each others IOUs with headline figures in the many billions. It’s all a slow motion car crash.
It’s interesting that it’s seemingly easier to make the windows version of Paint.NET work on Wine, than bother compiling it for .NET on Linux? I wonder if the dev regrets starting with .NET in the first place?
It’s a label for certain food stuffs from mainland UK that allow them to enter Northern Ireland. They are goods that cannot be sent to the EU as they haven’t been through all the various accreditations needed for export. Northern Ireland is in the UK but due to the special deal made with the EU, it is also still within the EU Single Market. This was done to preserve the status quo with The Republic of Ireland on the island of Ireland. So certain goods coming from the UK to Northern Ireland need to be labelled clearly so they don’t get illegally sent on into the EU bypassing the checks in place had they been exported directly from mainland UK.
Yes, and as the explainer in the link says: and uses less electricity per person too. Due to deindustrialisation and increased efficiency of electronics, particularly LEDs.
The term AI will evolve again because LLMs are just a temporary storm in a tea cup. Other forms of AI will come to the fore again and muddy the water.
I’ve always thought of AI purely as true “general AI”, and think the term was misused before to describe complex algorithms etc. This is just the current phase of the misuse of the term AI.
I think remote monitoring could be useful. E.g. “Fridge X in store Y has failed, we can book an engineer”. However even then: it should be secure within the network and not accessible outside it. And the other issue is monitoring is fine, but why on earth do you need remote access to defrost a unit? That is just asking for trouble.
I bet cost cutting is at the centre of this - cheaper to have one person able to “manage” problems off site than having people available local to all the stores. But when you save money like this, you need to spend money to ensure it’s secure. And often they don’t because all these companies cut all costs all the time to boost share prices. And that includes competent people in IT and networking. Probably outsourced to some conglomerate that doesn’t give a fuck.
One thing I find confusing in these stories is that it’s multiple chains, meaning their entire collection of these refrigerators are exposed to access en masse.
The manufacturers are saying its because the supermarkets didn’t update the firmware on these models - probably true. However on top of that is a more broad issue: Why are such systems accessible in the first place? Are they internet facing (which is mad) or is there a flaw in the supermarkets private networks or is there a flaw in the access these refrigerators need out of the network?
So often it’s very basic network security that massively contributes to the problem. Firmware absolutely should be kept up to date, but these things can be kept secure without updates by just not being accessible. That would ideally be the local store only and a physical closed network, or if running a chain then that means keeping the chains network properly secure. It’s always multiple layers of mistakes and bad decision that leads to this kind of chaos.
Well here in the UK it’s used by all the political parties - conservative and labour. I see it more as a way of controlling the background in the image for photographs and the short clips that dominate the news cycle on TV and social media. It makes sense for political parties to want to project a positive image of people cheering on whatever the candidate is saying.
It’s all nonsense of course, as they’re just members of whatever party is holding the rally.
They LOVE putting young people, and especially young women in the background, probably to help soften the image of the often old white male doing the talking. The left her in the UK tend to also have a mix of different races to reflect diversity, while the far right (Reform) pointedly only has white people, while the Conservatives will have a mix of people too to show how modern they are. It’s all just PR nonsense and manipulation to help sell their messages.
Yeah, we have this in the UK, and I’m sure it’s taken from the US originally.
It is the worst seat in the house, but I get it’s to try and control the background on clips from speeches. Having people cheering and fawning over everything the candidate says is effective when most people will only see a 5 second clip of whatever event it was. It’s a product of modern social media and clip based news sadly.
I’m in the UK, and politicians do this too at campaign rallies now, and have done so for some years. We certainly took this from US style electioneering.
It’s all about optics - it supposedly looks good for a politician to be talking and people enthusiastically cheering on in the background. It kind of makes sense if you accept that all that will be shown on TV or social media is a clip from a speech, so you want to try and package that with as positive a spin on it as possible. The political party can control the background this way and it’s impossible for the media companies to edit it out.
I can’t speak for other European countries, but I have seen clips from other electioneering videos with a similar set up, so it’s not just the US and the UK. For example: This article from SBS in Australia (one of their public service broadcasters) has a picture of exactly this phenomenon: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/gujarati/en/article/profile-of-australian-labor-party/ji29c0grz
But I’m pretty certain we in the UK took this from the US in the last 15-20 years maybe? I don’t know if it came from somewhere else before? I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s older than we think!
Because it used to matter more. As other have said “ftp.domain.extension” was for FTP, mail for mail, and www for websites but that has long been somewhat redundant, as the servers at a domain redirect connections to the right place. mail.domain.extension was originally exclusively for mail servers themselves, but lots of websites long ago made it also valid for landing pages for web interfaces for their mail service if a request comes in via http.
WWW was certainly a very useful concept when people were getting used to the internet. A lot of people had no concept of computers and domains, so to say “www.domain.extension” was clear to people “this is the website for your browser”. And when you say www it’s very clear you’re telling someone it’s a website; that is helpful when say your audience my include elderly people who never got used to computers.
Also the redirection of connections is so simple now, that specifying WWW is generally just not needed. WWW is still the basic landing place for many web sites, but if you don’t include it the servers at the domain will very likely direct you on to the right place, and if they don’t your browser will often try again by appending www anyway and retrying to see if it reaches a valid webpage. So now we just don’t need to tell people “you need to include www”.
Do we know this is decompilation? The Adobe Suite one seems to be more a replication of form and function than a true decompilation of the existing software. The interface is easy to replicate, and then each tool and function within it is being recreated based on what it does. The project themselves claim that is how they’ve done it, and it’s feasible. It also seems to be entirely legal.
Whether it is right or wrong, it really brings into focus how the copyright laws are. They’ve been used to bash individual end users for decades, but now we’re seeing they actually seem to have no effect on the AI companies stealing vast troves of data to train their models. We’re also seeing that the tools can be used to do perfectly legal things that have been done manually for decades in the open source community. You can copyright specific code, but you can’t copyright a specific GUI or broad function.
I’m doubt when companies were jumping on to the AI band wagon that they envisioned that AI could be used to totally undermine all the “value” they’d built in their businesses with proprietary software that was just too difficult to replicate. Now it seems to be so extremely easy to replicate that proprietary software in general may be in serious trouble as a business model.
I’ve played with the storycraft tools; it’s actually mindboggling how functional they are with 10 projects that all are already at alpha software level, and useable for basic tasks. Whether or not these projects actually come to fruition is kinda irrelevant; we’ve been shown it can be done and with surprising ease.
Can you enable DDC/CI in the monitors on-screen menus?
If so, and if there aren’t drivers available (I can’t find drivers when searching MF2208-A), then if you can enable DDC/CI you can use 3rd party tools to control the brightness. Display Dimmer and ClickMonitorDDC are 2 I found on a quick google.
If Linux can control the monitor, then it sounds like a lack of drivers for Windows but the display should still support DDC/CI; 3rd party tools do sometimes still work in this scenario for DDC/CI in Windows.
Well this will be a test for the UK and France who are each able to veto this within the security council.