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pycorax

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  • China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

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  • Chinese fintech giant Alipay has for some years now had the "Smile to Pay" system: Alipay users can pay for something by just smiling into the camera in an Alipay "Smile to Pay" POS terminal. IIRC KFC was the first place to have it.

    I thought you were kidding but who the hell thought this ridiculous concept was a good idea? Putting aside the security implications, did no one see how absurd it is?

  • Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10

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  • It was a really good app for quite a bit and had the best inking experience compared to the non-UWP version. A few years back they announced merging the features to the Win32 version and it has since been more or less on par now.

  • Google says Galaxy S25 will now play nicely with Android's instant hotspot feature

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  • You don't have to use it. I for one am glad for this feature.

  • Multilingual people all must have experienced YouTube's f**kery with auto translation. Still no workaround?

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  • I have ublock origin on desktop and revanced patched youtube and I don't have any of this issues. So it might just simply be YouTube being YouTube.

  • The Pebble Has Been Brought Back

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  • Pre-ordered one immediately. I miss my old Pebble Time Steel so much. Part of me wishes there's one with that design but I'll take what I can get.

  • Tesla secures permit needed for applying to operate an autonomous ride-hailing

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  • Oh whoops, I misunderstood what the video was supposed to show. Yea that tracks.

  • Tesla secures permit needed for applying to operate an autonomous ride-hailing

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  • I mean I don't like Tesla either and I agree that they should use Lidars but how is a Lidar supposed to solve this issue? It's still a solid surface and the Lidar will still pick it up.

  • China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September

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  • This does provide another tool for them to claim it isn't censored but label it as AI to hurt the credibility of dissidents though. I don't think it doesn't matter.

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    What was the 'bear vs man' controversy?

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  • Maybe I'm generalising it a bit but it does seem like the main issue is the lack of open mindedness, compassion and an inclination for aggressive responses rather than simply agreeing to disagree.

    Which unfortunately is a difficult thing to achieve since you need both sides to have the same mindset for any healthy discussion to happen. The moment one side decides to be antagonistic, it quickly derails the tone of the conversation regardless how open the other side may be. Heck this happens all the time here. It's called no stupid questions but people will still flame others for asking questions lol.

    The scissor statement just serves to accelerate whatever problem already exists.

  • Microsoft's quantum computing claims slammed as 'fraudulent'

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  • Most competent engineers don't think that. They know and understand the limitations of what they're working on. They just do it because the finance bros pay.

  • Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data

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  • That's not the point they're trying to make I think. It's more of an attack on perfection. Like "the alternative is not perfect either so why not just stay with Chrome". It's not a very strong argument in general but it might be enough to keep people from switching.

  • No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It

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  • I can't say I buy this fully. From a marketkng standpoint, it seems like a huge win: "Subscribe to game pass ultimate and you get thousands of games old and new, up by thousands from last year". From a financial standpoint, running those emulators should be a lot less compute heavy than current games so it should be cheaper.

    The only real issue I see here is legal. Licensing the rights to distribute the games via streaming for their entire back catalogue can't be easy.

  • A South Carolina man executed by firing squad is the first US prisoner killed this way in 15 years

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  • Unfortunately there's plenty of people who are perfectly fine with that. When given evidence of it happening before, they'll go oh "it won't happen here" or "it won't happen again". How do you convince people like them that simply don't care for the value of life? Of course a number of these are also "pro-lifers".

  • Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5

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  • Bringing a ton of their games to PC and the PC game pass has been pretty great. Guess it's not so nice if you're on the consoles or Linux I guess.

  • Why AC Syndicate Is So Bad?

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  • I'm surprised you disliked Syndicate story yet adored Unity's. Sure Syndicate's story isn't anything to write home about but I found it at least consistent and coherent. It's a typical, evil mastermind needs to be taken down story. Is it amazing? Not really but it's serviceable. Unity on the other hand, is... To be honest, I can't even remember any parts of it other than Arno being a miserable prick for most of it.

    Unity definitely had the much better gameplay though. Parkour, co-op, assassination missions and the beautiful rendition of Paris were all great.

  • Protesters ambush Vance during Vermont ski weekend: ‘Go ski in Russia’

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  • I'm assuming they mean authorized by the resort rather than the government.

  • Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low

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  • They actually have quite a bunch of programmes to bring foreigners in. That's not to say that the cultural issues aren't there but that's a separate problem regarding integration rather than immigration.

  • UK gives royal welcome to Zelenskyy after White House meltdown

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  • As someone living in Asia, the US losing influence is a really scary thing. China has been increasing their aggression in the region and the US's presence has always been the counter to that. It was a good balance but a weaker US will tip the balance to China's favour. Not to mention that the US has been a key factor in getting Korea and Japan to work together on security matters. Unfortunately, there's no EU or NATO equivalent for us to rely on.

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal'

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  • While the GPU's created aren't used for gaming, the wafers that the dies are made with could've been allocated to produce the dies for consumer level graphics cards right?