Beacon

An ancient cheap small laptop would do it fine. Plex or Jellyfin software

We hit that point in spinning disk drives a while ago for me

Aside from “ai” it was just as possible 5 years ago. There have been algorithmic random music generators around for at least a decade, and click bots have been around since at least the 90s

This isn’t a revocation of a perpetual license. This is about broadcom not offering their support services any more. ATT still has the perpetual license to use the software they bought

True, but the important thing is that the CEOs made an unimaginable amount of money /s

I feel like this is the first technology news in a looooonnng time that’s actually cool instead of horrible

I looked it up and you’re 100% right. Incendiary weapons are allowed as long as it doesn’t hit civilians or start a forest fire

https://www.weaponslaw.org/weapons/incendiary-weapons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Incendiary_Weapons

Mastodon isn’t a straight replacement for twitter, bluesky is.

I mean, if there’s still gonna be command line commands for all the features then there’s no reason why a 3rd party couldn’t make a gui app for them and recreate the control panels app

I think existing fraud laws would just cover cases where someone tries to sell the fake as if its the real thing.

For instance let’s say i made an AI replica of Arnold Schwarzenegger and put it in a movie. If i said “come see my movie with Schwarzenegger in it” then that would be fraud, but if i said “come see my movie with a replica of Schwarzenegger in it” then that wouldn’t be fraud.

Or at least that’s what i think is correct, but IANAL

No, this legislation is specifically about creating fake replicas. An actual recording of you in a space where you have no expectation of privacy is legal.

But with that said, you already can request meta/Google/etc remove photos of you. Though i have no idea if they actually take action on those requests.

That wouldn’t be better for the company. They probably don’t make money on selling the hardware.