Melted toner pallets are shiny and contrast well against paper. I'd set the document background to be a sold yellow before printing it (assuming the privacy invading dots are guaranteed to be yellow).

I remember the last time a tried it on the steam deck, less than a year ago through their launcher, it was completely broken and unplayable. I would love to give it another go if this was fixed.

Doing something is better than nothing.

Same here. Anything I try seems to just work. The only problem is anticheat but even those are starting to behave even when isolated and confined in containers.

yes, the only games that don't work in Linux are the ones where Linux is explicitly banned by the developer.

Open source and hackable makes this a dream watch replacement for my old watch. Hopefully these new watches see great success, so much so that they motivates competition that is willing to sale in stores so that I can buy one.

... without restricting other people.

This whole mess is because society decided that restricting everyone's rights to share and access information was a sane tradeoff to make for making sure people got paid. No it is not and, so long as humans are physical, it will never be. It appears that humanity will have to get this simple fact hammered into them with every new leap in technology.

Find another work-rewarding scheme. Ensure you get paid before you release information (e.g. crowd funding or contracts with escrows). Forget about nonsensical concepts relating to "intellectual" property (information is not property). Forget recurring revenue from licensing information. You only get paid once when you do work. You are not entitled to anything more. If reality makes living off your work unworkable, do something else.

I'm glad other countries are starting to wake up and ignore this nonsense. Stop trying make something as unnatural and immoral as this work.

Slightly off topic but is it still practically impossible to build APKs without agreeing to EULAs and using proprietary blobs?

It's great we are seeing more effort be put into open source android apps, but being forced to use restricted tooling to develop and build them leaves an extremely foul taste in my mouth.

It is possible if you don’t depend on Google Play services.

This. It can be easily done in the GUIs as well (Don't ask how I know).

I don't know where GP got the idea that you can't set a client to 0B/s. All the clients I am aware of support setting the seeding rate.

We are driving full speed into a xerox 2.0 moment and this time we are doing so knowingly. At least with xerox, the errors were out of place and easy to detect by a human. I wonder how many innocent people will lose their lives or be falsely incarcerated because of this. I wonder if we will adapt our systems and procedures to account for hallucinations and "85%" accuracy.

And no, outlawing use the use of AI or increasing liability with its use will have next to nothing to deter its misuse and everyone knows it. My heart goes out to the remaining 15%.

I love generative AI as a technology. But the worst thing about its arrival has been the reckless abandonment of all engineering discipline and common sense. It’s embarrassing.

CCC talk about Xerox copiers changing numbers when doing OCR:

https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6558_-_de_-_saal_g_-_201412282...

Would be nice to get a translation for a broader audience, glad folks are reporting this out!

There is a translated one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXXmhxbQ-hk

the first thing that guy says that existing non-AI solutions are not that great. then he says that AI beats them in the accuracy. so i don't quite understand the point you're trying to make here

Humans accept a degree of error for convenience. (driving is one of them). But no, 15% is not the acceptable rate. More like 0.15% to 0.015% depending on the country.

Meh, just maintain an audit log and an escalation subsystem. No need to be luddites when the problems are process, not tech stack.

Humanity keeps running into copyright issues with every major leap in IT technology (photocopiers, tape cassettes, personal computers, internet, and now AI). I think it's about time for humanity to rethink their take on the unnatural restriction of information.

I personally hope that countries recognize copyright and patents for what they really are and abolish them. Countries that refuse to do so can play catch up.

Since all kinds of companies are getting a lot of money from the generative AI business, I think they can handle being sued for plagiarism if thats the content they produce.

This is based on a flawed view of how we humans behave. Without incentive no effort. This is also the reason why socialism has and always will fail. People who put massive effort in creating original content need to be able to earn the rewards.

The premise, that forgoing copyright would necessitate the forgoing of incentives and rewards, is one entirely of your own assertion and was not implied in my above comment. I agree that your assertion is flawed.

There can be, and are, incentives and rewards associated with sharing information without flawed artificial constraints like copyright.