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I guess that they are implementing crappy cameras? Not sure about american plates, but in most jurisdictions licence plates are optimized for easy OCR:

Note how each letter is unique and can’t be transformed with a sharpie into another. That also makes OCR easy. If you use a crappy dashcam, you will get problems regardless. Esp. in low light situations at higher speeds.

So I would guess that Flock uses cheap sensors and cheap lenses. Which kind of makes sense when they are putting out thousands of scanners.

Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

There really is a place for closed forums of enthusiasts where not everybody can get access and where you can talk without being indexed by Google, fed into LLMs and analyzed by Palantir. There is a place for an open discussion on a public square, a place for a chat among mates in a pub and a scientific conference where people can speak freely about their research without fucking Elon Musk leading an army of trolls into the audience

We really do need a way to send companies to prison. If you behave like that as an individual, you are getting jailed. We obviously can’t jail a company, but simply slapping some fine on them for criminal behaviour while their henchmen might get prison time is not the best way forward. So we might need something like “if your company is doing crimes, it gets disbanded” or so.

Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland

The bigger problem is that AI tools have ingested a lot of copyrighted and FOSS code and totally will use that code in your projects. So even if AI output can’t be copyrighted, you are still on the hook if your AI copies copyrighted code into your own project. People will notice if your project just changed the variable names

I’m working in a bigger company and we have processes for new software. Of course not everybody can simply install new software on their devices. It goes through a process for approval and there are some people checking a few checkboxes before you can use new software. Simple stuff like “can our existing software really not cover this use case”, “where do licenses fit in our budget?”, “Does this software have known security issues?” or “Is it a reliable vendor?” and so on. This is something you really have to do in order to do reasonable security and data protection. If you simply let everyone install everythin, you will get hacked. OpenAI admitting that their software is going around committing crimes on its own is quite something in this context.

So the marketing here is:

• “Out model is able to do crimes on its own”
• “We have no saveguards at all”
• “Please buy our model so that it can do crimes in your company network, too”

What’s the big difference? I’m using Maps and it does its job. So what cool features does Waze have that Maps doesn’t?

Apple Plans to Defeat RAM Prices by Letting You Lease a Mac