However, if someone went to a phone store with a stock graphene on display and anything else next to it, which one do you think they’ll choose?
Given the past couple years I’d like to think the fraction to choose graphene would be multiple times what it would have been 5-10 years ago. But not close to a majority.
“How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”
Spoken like a true sales/con artist. I can almost hear the brand guidelines poking through… Always mention safety before privacy, always treat safety as a given and privacy as the buffer zone in which to find compromise.
The compromise is how far each town chooses to go above security tier 0: emergencies with immediate threat to life or property.
I love seeing the variety in the takes on how bad “India hot” spice level is.
My limited anecdotal experience has landed my white ass firmly in the camp of “do not fuck with the flavors of back home.”
My go-to core memory on that one is going out for wings with a group of friends a long time ago. We ordered a half dozen of whatever the place’s ridiculous triple-atomic or equivalent was. I want to say 500,000 scoville and they give you gloves to eat it with. I think the deal was something like White Guy eats one of the wings and Indian Guy eats the rest, after the latter had claimed in a friendly way that they wouldn’t be too hot.
Long story short, Indian Guy eats all available wings and licks his fingers like it’s honey BBQ. He liked them and said yeah they do have some spice. White guy ruined the entire rest of his day and suffered for his hubris!
Most of the rest of us (I think all of us were additional White Guys) tried a tiny little piece of a wing or even just a half drop of the sauce. The spot where that little bit touched my tongue was numb and tingly for the rest of the day, lol.
Some people just shrug off that capsaicin.
Even if generated images originally could be traced to the training data, I think that maybe just maybe the shady gigacorps would have some incentive to remove or obfuscate the copyright & IP violation paper trail from their trillion-dollar toys.
Oh no, I will be sure to keep an eye out for these scary vandals invading my peaceful town over these next few days!
I mean, you never know when a passionate young person needs a “thumbs up” to brighten their day and boost their confidence.
And in case any of them want to step to me, I can threaten them with all the old power tools I have in my house that they could learn to use.
This made me image an exchange like
Agent 1: OK McNulty, you have finished your forensic scan of that scumbag’s computer. I can’t wait to hear whether we are taking this monster down for espionage, stealing classified information, or even just another copyright infringement case. What is really in that folder of “Linux ISOs?”
Agent 2: You are not gonna believe this…
That would make sense if you wanted to do what was best for the user rather than push the Chosen Product.