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It's not just Adobe. Now Logitech wants me to go to a random website in order to add peripherals to my computer, and I'm met with this when I go to the page they tell me to

Not the Logitech I became a fan of, glad they updated the name to Logi reflecting they're half the company they used to be.

I miss the old Logitech software and Logitech Gaming Software, from like 10 years ago.

Now I can't even launch the driver software to adjust my webcam or mouse behavior from my work computer because of legitimate Internet security settings preventing random background apps from exfilteating data, which is exactly what it's trying to do.

Customer support of course blames the user for their app that will never finish loading until it talks to the mother ship.

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Elon Musk Shows Self-Driving Tesla Accelerating Into Oncoming Traffic to 10 Million Viewers

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Looking at it another way: we're all guinea pigs if we consider untested public policy that should work in theory.

Self-driving is not untested, but the problem is that deep down AI is just a lot of statistically derived rules and life is random and will inevitably find a loophole. Technically it's still less likely to kill you on average, maybe even on average if you exclude drunk driving, street racing, and the like.

It's really a philosophical question: would you take dying by your own fuck-up over dying because an AI confused a piece of cardboard for a brick wall or pedestrian?

I think the sweet spot is having the AI back up the human instead of the other way around, but that won't sell as well as reading a book on your commute.

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How cities can stem the tide of pedestrian deaths from large cars and SUVs – Ars Technica

Or, you know, change emissions regulations so that cars can be made smaller again.

Hate to tell you there's no singular villain trying to kill kids with cars.

Literally the only reason cars got this big is because minimum efficiency is the result of dividing mpg by square footage, and by law the number has to go down every year. I do not blame auto makers for simply making the same popular models a little bigger with each refresh so as not to have to redesign from scratch the things that took 100 years of engineering effort to get to the present level of function.

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I know we only ever see a handful of rooms, that's fine, but with over 100 crew they always all have personal quarters that are probably the square footage of 3/4'ish containers.

150m in diameter is one way to think about it. But then it's also 8 containers long, or 25 containers circumference at the largest point down to no more than a few in circumference at the bridge.

You know, that seems tiny, it's like there's no volume left for the hardware that needs to be between every room and all over the hull

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San Jose cop who shot good guy in 2022 is fired for racist text messages

WTF are people supposed to do? No way anyone's intervening to save you when it puts a target on their fucking back, and cops have zero duty to protect you.

Really dislike people pulling the "where was the good guy with the gun" card when someone who fights a gunman unarmed and wins still gets shot by the cops, and the cop goes away unscathed. Obscene that literally the only reason anything happened to him in this case was him blabbing racist shit.