Yeah, but the question is who else. Any suggestions?

Who are some people to follow on Bookwyrm?

Thanks! I was playing hide and seek with this little fella for a while and I thought I had lost him when he suddenly hopped up on this bush and I snapped a few quick shots.

My understanding is that attacks like this force deployment of air defences to population centers rather than protecting military targets. So no direct military benefit, but it can help shape the battlefield.

How costly is the air defence in comparison to the cost of the attack?

Two questions come to mind: will this demo get out and vote? And if they do who can they vote for that will make policy decisions in line with this viewpoint?

He was recently interviewed by Steven Dubner on Freakanomics. He said he was offered the choice of China or Japan and that he chose Japan.

Were these cops named Fred, Velma and Daphne, cause this headline sounds like it came right out of a Scooby-Doo episode.

The article refers to Vivaldi’s response as scathing, but I think it is fair and even and the best overall summary I have seen -> https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/

I guess I am sensitive to over sensationalized media reporting. I want a neutral, even tone in my reporting. A title like “Microwaving plastics may have risks” would be welcome for me. Sensational headlines and an uneven perspective make me think either there is bias or a profit motive to scare you. Either way its bad reporting and I fell like I have to call it out.

Totally makes sense not to microwave plastics, why take the risk?

That said this article is alarmist. It states, “… The human health effects of plastic exposure are unclear…” then goes on to give a bunch scary quoyes to generate fear.

Yes, exactly. And in order to improve the ability to understand the wake word, they need to occasionally send data to the cloud when there is some indication there may have been a misunderstanding. Also, sometimes humans need to listen when the computer has low confidence.

And of course everything after the wake word goes to the cloud. And sometimes it thinks it hears the wake word when it did not. This goes to the cloud and a human may need to interpret it.

So, some things your phone hears will go to the cloud without the wake word. And humans sometimes listen to them. This is pretty clear. Is this malicious or nefarious? Probably not. But it is complex and hard for unsophisticated end users to understand. And the reality is your phone absolutely does 110% spy on you. Just not by listening to you. It is easy to understand why so many people refuse to believe their voice assistants are not spying on them.

A few things are very clear: 1. a phone with a voice assistant enabled has to listen all the time and 2. in order to train the voice assistant the data sometimes needs to be sent to the cloud and listened to by humans.

What is less clear is does this data ever get used for advertising. As you stated there are a number of reasons that make this unlikely.

Simple solution: disable your voice assistant. I do this today and I do not feel like I am losing anything. That said, with the pace AI is improving I can forsee a day when I would feel like I have to enable my voice assistant or I am losing some key functionality of my expensive smart phone service.

So a fork of an older version of Firefox? I will allow it. Beats IE6!

Are there any modern web browsers that still work on XP?

Google was fully owned by the Chinese Government back in 2009. As a result Google pulled out of China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

One if my coworkers installed this on his computer one morning before I got into the office. When I arrived I saw it in a boot loop, so I helpfully put in a network boot floppy and re-imaged the hard drive. Good times.