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  • I agree with the sentiment but not with the advice “commit a felony to avoid maybe getting a felony”. There isn’t a chance you’ll get charged with destroying evidence if they’re already looking at you under a microscope like your hypothetical.

    Anyone that concerned needs to just not store sensitive data on their phone, and use a messaging app that doesn’t permanently store messages, either. That way you didn’t erase your phone, AND they find nothing. Attempting to secure your data from the cops while you’re already under the lens with a warrant is far too late.




  • Honestly I feel this was always the goal (one of several), but R&D is expensive. Shipping an odd phone that people still buy keeps the shareholders happy while the multi-year research process can eventually produce more usable results.

    Single-flip phones were the awkward teenagers, now this phone can be the 18-20 age young adult, fully featured, but needing refinement. Next gen or the one after this will add a lot more robustness.



  • Its because its less propaganda.

    The agreement, according to OP’s source, would prevent them from seeking sources that aren’t official sources, and also locks down a lot of journalist interpretation.

    This means that the document basically says they gotta parrot whatever the government says to the press, and not do journalism about it.

    Fox news might live on propaganda, but they don’t want to be constrained by whatever propaganda the government is nice enough to give them, they wanna make their own.

    I think it’s most likely being rejected because they understand how a slippery slope works and are concerned that soon private media won’t be allowed.





  • Its just an API.

    There’s a few ways they could go about it. They could have part of the prompt be something like “when the customer is done taking their order, create a JSON file with the order contents” and set up a dumb register essentially that looks for those files and adds that order like a standard POS would.

    They could spell out a tutorial in the prompt, "to order a number 6 meal, type “system.order.meal(6)” calling the same functions that a POS system would, and have that output right to a terminal.

    They could have their POS system be open on an internal screen, and have a model that can process images, and have it specify a coordinate pair, to simulate a touch screen, and make it manually enter an order that way as an employee would.

    There’s lots of ways to hook up the AI, and it’s not actually that different from hooking up a normal POS system in the first place, although just because one method does allow an AI to interact doesn’t mean it’ll go about it correctly.




  • They legally cannot.

    In fact, in times where the law was followed, the fact that our law gives the president no choice was used to blame the president for things. Headlines would read “president gave money to {something perceived as bad}”, which is technically true, but presidents were just acting on behalf of congress.

    It stems from a time of trust, where the executive branch would do the executing of laws, and Congress would pass the laws and give the president a budget.

    I miss having branches of government, they’ve all fused together now. We had them separate on purpose. If Obama or any other president had done this, it would’ve been an impeachable offense on its own, the universities wouldn’t have needed to even act.