I love this. Can’t believe I didnt know this site before.

Vaguely agree with the sentiment here.

Every single person I know who had helicopter parents ended up… a bit odd… in a bad way.

Applicability is in the eye of the beholder… of bureaucracy.

It is not really enforceable what people grow in their nook with led lights, or what they produce with metal lathes and metalworking tools, or what they mix up with common chemicals, and yet!

With EURion, printers/scanners that are capable of somewhat convincing replica go into the “definitely need to do this thing” money bracket I guess.

Printer instructions are also usually quite convoluted (don’t event know if anybody really knows the actual format), but definitely it’s not the actual document being sent to a printer (except some last decade printers perhaps), just the actual dithered inkjet patterns, though I am heavily guesstimating. And yet, from inkjet patterns, the printer knows to crash, presumably, though I dont know, the knowledge of currency steganography seems spotty…

There is a semi-infinite amount of processing that can be done on the slicing machine, so detecting gun-like item is wildly possible. Making your own slicer is the same as making your own photoshop (or hacking it). I definitely don’t see 3d printers having enough horses to figure out a non-watermarked-model produced geocode to have gunlike things. But! We forget! With legislation, everything is possible. Probably will require any decent (especially things like metal) 3d printer to have an ISIC specifically programmed to rebuild a model from geocode and do analysis :D (Honestly, completely easy with current technology, MNIST 99.99% accuracy fits into 10k transistors or so)

But I guess this assumes same amount of know-how and confident skills that they had in 90s. It will probably all crash and burn and make all honest customers very unhappy.

Additional note: Since 2003, image editors such as Adobe Photoshop CS or PaintShop Pro 8 refuse to print banknotes. According to Wired.com, the banknote detection code in these applications, called the Counterfeit Deterrence System (CDS), was designed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group and supplied to companies such as Adobe as a binary module.[13]

Everybody with Photoshop / Paintshop pro literally has an unexplained (likely uninvestigated) government binary blob that might be a backdoor :D

Ever heard of the EURion constellation?

This is the same, just an additional dimension.

“Markus Kuhn, who uncovered the pattern on the 10-euro banknote in early 2002 while experimenting with a Xerox colour photocopier that refused to reproduce banknotes.[2] The pattern has never been mentioned officially; Kuhn named it the EURion constellation as it resembled the astronomical Orion constellation, and EUR is the ISO 4217 designation of the euro currency.[3]”

It would seem governments always poke into corporations for debatable “safety”. Even if they don’t say it.

You can of course build your own printer from stepper motors and belts. Good luck, see you in a year. Also 3d printing in general has improved lightyears, so it’s becoming a decent-sized corpo thing => tools becoming scrutinized by government vogons.

Oh sorry… I guess I was projecting…

I mean… That’s their job… But yes!

Lots of holiday deals, fair regional pricing, massive open-source contributions, hanging back from making era-defining, envelope-pushing games to just make the gaming industry on PC better.

No. No no no. It is still being developed, with exponentially increasing resources. You downloading the model adds at least 1 but probably 10 increment to the “downloads” and repo watches CEOs 100% use to validate their insane echo chamber. And you’re literally paying for it all if you live in US and they built a data center in your neighborhood and your electricity bill 4x increased! Or if you ever want to upgrade to ddr5, and ever need more storage space! Or in many other myriad of ways!

Generally, you’re right, it’s just the left over tools from the gold rush, why not use them if they’re useful! No point in throwing them away. It’s good that you’re honest with yourself and will never validate the wild amounts of cosmically ironic cancer-inducing data centers they (I hope only Musk) are operating, by upgrading your local model distilled by your unfavorite AI cloud company that is negative profit for 5 years and somehow still alive

Are you perchance ignoring the petawatt-hours that were needed to train and distil your local AI model?

The wonderful “AI revolution” is kind of the main reason this is an increasingly horrible problem. “Fighting back” against ever “smarter” bots is becoming increasingly hard.

Even if the intents are not malicious, wikipedia is seriously suffering from the “AI revolution”, this is a very interesting tiny research project that gives a glimpse of that: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-generated-content-in-wikipedia-a-tale-of-caution

Rare footage of chinese General’s dissent being open and available is very interesting news, at least to me.

Maybe you should unsubscribe from worldnews and subscribe to USAnews (or rather please make that community and not annoy us with USA garbage deluge).

In many ways, you’re mostly criticizing as if this was a malicious attempt to hide current USA events and further USA foreign policy narratives. Not really seeing any USA in the article. And the factual happenings are interesting.

In some sense, you are doing the same by believing the whole group is against you, and therefore going less into a discussion and just swinging anger.

I was in support of you, but I think in general it’s much better for the long version of your comment, it makes people less emotionally charged into judging :)

Not sure why you got so much hate, friend. You’re even technically correct. Emotional, but correct.

Narcissism 💁

More likely is CEOs and middle managmeent will be out of a job, but tha has a lot of inertia, and depends until when the people who actually provide the value in the company reach their threshold and call quits

It potentially is a fake “cover” article, literally an article made to deluge the internet search index with the keywords “epstein” and “trump” but with a less heinous and more confusing, not damning headline (the only thing most people read). Thus anybody searching for the keywords in the future will find nothing (in the first page of google, bing, or brainrot character generator matrix of your choice)

Apparently they do this quite a lot in UK, i’ve heard (Boris). Once you know it, you see it a lot.

Just reading the actual “article” is usually wild, quality worse than tabloids, and you’re left confused, because why would someone spend time and effort writing an article that is not interesting in any way, completely unfounded, just plain nothing. Well, the reason is usually they did have a reason, and the reason was money and malicious. These days it’s most likely AI slop.

There is nothing short of non-fascistic government-forced bankcrupcy sell off that will actually make it cheap, so… I feel it is a pipe dream

Fuck you, take the upvote