No issues with that. I’ve got a mouse that can either connect with a USB dongle or directly to BT. Works like a charm. Flawless, fast, no latency I’d have noticed.

Only downside: Have a fresh battery at hand. I’ve got a pack of two in my laptop bag. It lasts for ages (many months), but when it fails, it fails. And due to Murphy, it always fails at the most inconvenient moment…

Conservative Gouvernment. They like expensive private schools, preferably the boarding type, for the rich. The working mob needs only enough school to do their menial jobs.

If they struck out the “on buses” or “on public transport”, it would be better.

“Suicide”

Well, a rabbit would make a better chancellor. It least it would be cute.

Merz has the big problem of having neither empathy for nor the knowledge about the needs of an average, working citizen.

He has been a lawyer for large corporate entities and a professional politian all his life, and would not recognize real work if it bit him.

I hope that more of the bad ones than the good ones close.

I was asked to provide technical on-site support at an event, because I knew the underlying server system under the software that project management had found to run this customer event.

They had also hired a bunch of laptops with wifi and a router for this, which was rather expensive back then (you could have bought a small car for that rent fee alone!), so a lot was hanging on this to be a success.

Of course, I knew about nothing what this job was about until I sat in the car with the project manager on our way to the first event. My reaction was: But that software cannot do what you just told me! Oh shit, indeed.

When we arrived in the evening before the first event, the server, wifi, and one of the laptops was set up before anything else, and I went to work writing a rudimetary software from scratch that would do what the customer wanted, and finally hit the bed around sunrise.

The event was a big success in all venues on the trip. The customer was extremely happy with the acceptence of the setup by the audience and the results they got.

Nice try, AI agent.

If the media got their acts together and condemn AI out of all doors and windows, they could win. But at the moment it looks more like they don’t want to win.

Correct.

Recognizing people.

Take this to your lawyer as an admission of guilt of a cyber crime incident.

Same here. But I’m afraid, things like and AI pricing will spread.

Ah, OK. That kind is not much regulating, actually. Or have you heard of them demanding serious penalties from someone?

Especially those who are already crazy. Maybe one should drop this site into the MAGA crowd, and wait how long it takes DJT to make DHMO illegal.

The European Systematic Risk Board? They are part of the European Central Bank. Not much of self-regulating here.

THEY are hiding it! Thousands of dead people every year are found with serious amounts of DHMO in their lungs, but THEY are covering it up on the death certificate as “drowning”!

Whenever did any kind of voluntary regulations in industry and commerce actually benefit the people?

The em-dash is part of properly setting text in a book. Just because those LLM breeders stole gazillions of books to feed their abominations does not make the use of the em-dash wrong.

Neither does the use of proper opening and closing quotes, apostrophes where they belong, or thinspace at certain places a crime. It is just a sign that someone knows the rules of typesetting.

That was an interesting problem that my daughter had at university. She studied a field held in English in a non-English country (no, not USA either!). Her fellow students asked her what AI she was using for her papers, as they were always in perfect English. As she absolutely hates AI and despises using them, this very idea made her furious.

Yes, she wrote those papers herself. Her English is good enough that she did the Cambridge Certificate while she was in school. Her teachers considered her “native speaker”, and sometimes consulted her on texts and vocabulary. And those assholes just assume she must have used an AI just because she is good at it.