Data doesn’t cost that much.

I must confess I have no opinion of or knowledge on the YPG and I don’t think that’s something I should be expected to have an opinion on either.

That’s why they’re taking the video.

Why would they send all the footage and not just clips on demand? Why would they constantly record or monitor all cars, rather than just ones of special interest? Why would they need a 1080p stream when for a use case like this a much lower resolution at a fraction of the bitrate will be more than sufficient?

Maintaing 1MB/s stream is not a trivial task, especially if you want to do that for free. I might’ve slightly underestimated the core of the problem, it’s completely impossible to do that.

My guy have you not heard of 4G and 5G?

And at last: Why would car manufacturers even consider doing that? What is the purpose?

AI training data, or because the government clandestinely told them to.

The ability to trade is lost on pretty much every platform including PC. In some ways it’s been lost on PC for the longest time, because PC has had CD key nonsense since at least the 90s while consoles operated on physical media for much longer.

The lack of this ability is, of course, compensated for by piracy.

The other injured were apparently his wife and kid. Not gonna lose any sleep over the family of a rich criminal asshole.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/30/vadym-iermolaiev-ukrainian-born-oligarch-monaco-bomber

Sounds like this asshole had it coming.

Oh, if you didn’t steal anything then that makes it a lot less morally questionable.

Why were you burgling the ski lift?

I wonder if this has something to do with the EU mandating most consumer electronics to have replaceable batteries from next year onwards.

This apparently also bans BPS, which is chemically almost identical to BPA and has been used by the industry as a replacement in many “BPA free” products. Could not find word on whether BPF, another bisphenol that’s chemically almost identical to BPA, is banned. The regulation just says that “Further harmonised classification of bisphenols and bisphenol derivatives is likely in the future”.

The regulation: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/3190/oj/eng

For me there’s a class of notification labeled “Marketing”. It’s disabled now but obviously wasn’t when I got the notification, presumably on account of it being new.

I absolutely hate eating the same stuff for a week straight and I don’t know how people do it. No matter how delicious the first serving is, repeated servings get progressively more bland and after the 3rd serving in a row I’m ready to throw it in the bin.

Yeah certain people have really latched onto this paper, when in truth it’s pretty much completely meaningless and its only value is the slight novelty of building logic gates in AoE2.

The truth is that we don’t really know what consciousness or morality or understanding of natural language is, and we don’t know if substrate makes a difference. Theoretical computer science says it doesn’t, but we live in a physical universe not a theoretical one, so for all we know it might.

The source is this (joke) paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31514

I will save you some confusion by summarizing the argument. The author shows that you can build a computer inside of AoE2. As a consequence of this, anything that can run on a computer can (in theory; obviously not in practice) run on a simulated computer inside of AoE2. LLMs run on computers, so therefore they can run in AoE2, and therefore anything an LLM is capable of, AoE2 is capable of.

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inb4 waterproof Switch

Yeah I feel like it’ll be pretty easy for most batteries to meet that standard, and 800 cycles isn’t that many for most devices.

A lot of manufacturers have opted for replaceable batteries anyway, perhaps anticipating future amendments to the regulation (I believe it was initially more strict).

Stuff like this is why you should tell all your friends and family to hold off on buying devices with non-replaceable batteries now.

edit: Contrary to what the article says though, this doesn’t guarantee they’re launching one with replaceable batteries (though it’s possible). AFAIK the regulation has a cop-out where if the battery is certified to last 1000 cycles at >80% health then the device is exempt from the regulation. This is what iPhones have already pretty much been confirmed to do.

Fair, but there is also the matter of effort. A lot of restaurant classics are just not worth making at home except as a special treat because it’s so much effort at home whereas a restaurant just does it at scale.

Ramen, for example (and yeah many westerners may consider it upscale but it is, in fact, street food) takes a really eclectic mix of ingredients and only a small amount of each ingredient ends up in each bowl. Perfect for restaurants, because they just batch prepare the ingredients and put a little bit of the batch in the bowl, but a ton of work to make at home.

At home one-pot dishes are king.