nyan

they should be forced to build their own infrastructure to support it (no idea what that looks like for delivery robots)

Tunnels, at least in heavily populated areas. They already make pipes that should be big enough. It might require a slight redesign of the bots so that they can "climb the wall" a short distance to pass each other, and maybe extend/retract some bits depending on whether they're inside or out, but my heart would not exactly bleed over the money spent. And they'd be out of sight, out of mind most of the time for the rest of us.

I expect you'd have to start with one of those binocular magnifiers. And the smallest soldering iron tip in history.

Is that because fingerprinting protection “works to good” or is broken? You tell me!

Speaking as a user of a different minority browser, if a check that is designed to pass ordinary human beings using ordinary browsers in a non-abusive manner blocks one instead, it's broken, and Cloudflare should be pressured to fix it.

It's niche hardware: a smartphone in a flip-phone formfactor (with a headphone jack). Of course they're not producing them for <$100. Ars Technica costed out other phones in a similar market category ( last paragraph here ) and by that standard it's middle-priced, or a bit above.

I suspect they're jumping on your use of the word "retarded", since some see using it as an insult as a slur against people with intellectual disabilities. (They also can't spell "casually" and substituted a word with quite a different meaning, which makes it even tougher to decode what they're saying.)

Are we sure? Has anyone actually checked to make sure he isn't a lizardman from inside the hollow Earth, all dressed up in a rubber human suit? I mean, sure, he isn't an LLM, but there are so many other possibilities!

Confiscate both the gun and the dog, since the dog is obviously being maltreated to the point that trying to shoot its owner seemed like a good idea.

(Only the second half of that is sarcastic.)

the next step is to debate what is AI and what’s not.

Unnecessary, in my view. If you use a tool to produce something, and that something breaks a law, then you are liable, not the tool. Doesn't matter whether it's a hammer or an AI. If a human employed by Google had written the incorrect summary on Google's behalf, then Google would still be liable (the difference is that the human writer might also be individually liable, depending on local law).

Search engines received various kinds of legal immunity in many jurisdictions because they were only presenting information written by third parties outside their control. These summaries are not third-party content, and if they are libelous, the responsibility falls squarely on Google.

…just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

At which point they cease to be your favourites, I hope. There are so many alternatives in that space that only inertia keeps people using the Empire of Evil.

Pale Moon is not a soft fork.

Dunno—are any of them particularly attached to white Persian cats? Or am I misremembering and it was some other Bond villain who had the cat?

Economies of scale have been doing really funky things to chip prices, then. Yet another demonstration that the universe Does Not Make Sense.