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Dang that’s actually a pretty non-bastardy privacy policy. Data sharing with consent for non-operational requirements, explicit consent for 3rd party providers, minimal/no retention for non-operational information. Like it’s not great but it’s orders of magnitude better than, say, google drive.

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent steve?”

My FLGS (which is a weirdly massive deal) has the same limits on pokemon pack purchases that everyone else has had to implement, but they recently went one further and now have a rule that children get to cut to the front of the line on restock days. Not a perfect system sure, but the salt from the scalper base has been absolutely legendary.

While the researchers acknowledge that legislative changes take time to show results, they argue that current platform age-verification checks are inadequate and that many under-16s are actively bypassing these restrictions.

The researchers found that more than 85% of participants under 16 reported using social media platforms subject to the act at follow-up, mostly via their own accounts (54%–67%). Of these, 66% reported exposure to platform age-verification checks, most commonly self-declared age (24%–39%) and uploading a picture (“selfie”) (13%–27%).

seems like the plan everyone said would be ineffective has turned out to be ineffective… shocked pikachu

Yeah this has been a joke for a looong time.

The IT equivalent of throwing a sabot onto the gears…

oh! I didn’t realize they had one. Thank you!

While I do sincerely appreciate the suggestion, unfortunately…

db0 (the admin) is a pretty big fan of generative AI - so db0 (the instance) is quite friendly to it, and has a bunch of communities dedicated to specific types of images generated using StableDiffusion - things like StableDiffusionMycology or StableDragons or, in this case, StableWerewolves.

Yeah, that kind of chain-banning is super popular, especially for a while over on db0. It can get pretty ridiculous, for example:

We unfortunately get the same kind of thing in the fediverse - I’m still banned from a ridiculous number of sh.itjust.works communities (more than are in the modlog, even) due to automod, even tho the intial ban was reverted as a false positive.

For unimplanted tags of unspecified size sure it’s technically possible to do, but I’ll let the article summarize why this is blatant marketing hype:

The ideal lab setup often fails miserably once you mount the reader near a gate or machine frame.

It’s worth saying: 1 meter is an ambitious goal for 125kHz. LF systems are intentionally short-range to prevent cross-talk. If you truly need 1-meter coverage, sometimes the real solution isn’t to push more current — it’s to rethink geometry, use multi-coil zones, or explore hybrid systems (LF for identity, HF/UHF for distance).

and then mention that the interference from the dermis vastly reduces the useful range of the tags, and that the article doesn’t actually specify what type of tag they’re designing for (or if it’s using a set orientation…).

… pet microchips are passive LF RFID tags, they have a readable range of maybe 15cm? Unless they’ve figured out some way to power them at distance (or they’re sticking UHF tags in your dogs, which they arent) without frying the camera and giving everyone cancer, they’re inert. What weird marketing hype.

I was at Shiny Night at one of the local Seattle furry bars a little while back and wound up hanging out with a bunch of folks in really well articulated fursuits talking shop. Eventually, as it does with any group of devs, the topic drifted to the classic game of “who hates Teams the most” and unfortunately it turned out the people I was drinking with:

1- Were mostly M$ developers working on Teams doing their ‘team bonding’ polycule thing.
2- Hate teams more than I could possibly ever manage. I mean, you think you hate teams? You think it’s unmanagable, insecure, convoluted and a pain in the ass for your IT crew? Imagine what the backend for that disaster must look like, then make that your entire day job. My god, it was a level of vitriol matched only by discussing Deutsche Bhan with a group of drunk Germans…

… They actually got that approved? Fuck me, I couldn’t even get my “impact of common coffee blends on researcher productivity” project past the IRB.

TL;DR: (y’all owe me for this one, that article is badly in need of an editor)

GOP have pushed bills moving regulation of crypto under Trump’s oversight, and passed a bill that prevents the treasury from creating it’s own stablecoin - thus setting the stage for huge investment of US debt into private stablecoins if/when the US moves towards a digital currency, of which Trump’s USD1 coin is the obvious candidate.

Pretty concerning, and I’ll forgive them the sensational headline because that’s actually what’s being set up, if their interpretation is right (which seems damn plausible)

Losing 1/5 of your range isn’t exactly a slight reduction. When the topic is “this logistical aspect is underdiscussed” downplaying its importance is somewhat unhelpful, but I do appreciate the sentiment here.

I know, but thanks for taking the time to put that together.

(ah, you edited in the second paragraph - upkeep is lower yes, obviously gas is more expensive than electricity as a fuel, but afaik wear on breaks actually tends to be higher given the increased weight of EVs. This has little to do with the practical longevity of the vehicle, however.)

Nah this is the biggest marketing win they could get. Access remains to the biggest commercial market, but with an official government stamp confirming that it’s Too Good™ ? Absolute win.

I’m planning to get an EV (when I can afford one, who on earth can afford to buy new cars??) but my biggest concern is with battery degradation - it’s improved a bunch, but you’re still looking at 80-85% capacity after 8 years with gentle use - which if the car already just barely has the range I need… nngh. It really doesn’t get talked about and it’s such a huge part of the logistics you need to consider when getting an EV.