Germany implemented this law in a way which allows stores to post the recommended retail price instead.

It’s a fucking shitshow, the RRP is always set way too high and there are “30% sales” all the time now.

That makes much more sense, my first intuition was passing people on the sidewalk which… doesn’t seem like a red flag.

What do you mean with

walking around other earthlings on footpaths etc instead of through

Is an earthling a human, an animal, a plant or subsets of those three? And what is walking through an earthling?

I’m geniuenly curious, I have no idea what you mean.

A foot is like 30cm. So it’s roughly 27000 cm^3 or 27 liters.

AI and robotics companies don’t want this to happen. OpenAI, for example, has reportedly fought to “water down” safety regulations and reduce AI-quality requirements. According to an article in Time, it lobbied European Union officials against classifying models like ChatGPT as “high risk,” which would have brought “stringent legal requirements including transparency, traceability, and human oversight.” The reasoning was supposedly that OpenAI did not intend to put its products to high-risk use—a logical twist akin to the Titanic owners lobbying that the ship should not be inspected for lifeboats on the principle that it was a “general purpose” vessel that also could sail in warm waters where there were no icebergs and people could float for days.

What would’ve been high risk? Well:

In one section of the White Paper OpenAI shared with European officials at the time, the company pushed back against a proposed amendment to the AI Act that would have classified generative AI systems such as ChatGPT and Dall-E as “high risk” if they generated text or imagery that could “falsely appear to a person to be human generated and authentic.”

That does make sense, considering ELIZA from the 60s would fit this description. It pretty much repeated what you wrote to it in a different style.

I don’t see how generative AI can be considered high risk when it’s literally just fancy keyboard autofill. If a doctor asks ChatGPT what the correct dose of medication for a patient is, it’s not ChatGPT which should be considered high risk but rather the doctor.

They want manufacturers to stop writing the USB specification on the packaging and instead focus on the speed.

Of course, this backfired since manufacturers are glad to have another opportunity to confuse potential buyers into purchasing a sub-par product.

Source (PDF)

I’d say the CEO is the only one who’s overpaid. The other executives make between $200k to $370k, which is a lot of money but barely noteworthy imo.

WhatsApp has an e2ee backup option and according to Signal WhatsApp doesn’t have a backdoor. Telegram does not encrypt group chats, which is terrible for privacy and security. Hiding the phone number is a solid feature, I admit. But it hardly protects you from the government, especially if you become a high-profile target.

In 2001 it was limited to US educational institutions only, all registrations prior were grandfathered in.

Although I haven’t got a clue why my non-US university, founded in 2009, has a .edu domain.

Yeah, me and my friends did that too, a decade later. We used something like shutdown -s -t [time] though.

We used to put this file into the shared folder everyone could access, made it hidden, created a shortcut, changed the shortcut’s image to a folder and renamed it to something along the lines of “maths test solutions”.

We also made some other .bat files which looked like this:

powerpoint
powerpoint
powerpoint
powerpoint
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It’s blatantly illegal and Facebook/Meta has probably had enough of EU fines already.

Also, see this article from 2 days ago

Tl;dr:

The case centred on a challenge by Meta after the German cartel office in 2019 ordered the social media giant to stop collecting users’ data without their consent, calling the practice an abuse of market power.