I guess then that they just block popular third-party VPN services. Still not sure why, though, if it’s not mandated by law.

I would not jumper other cars from a battery like this either.

You can hook the batteries of the two cars up and just let the other car charge for like five minutes, this way there’s no current surge and presumably nothing should melt.

Learned this when I ran out of battery in the great outdoors and one car that’s rolled around was a Google Maps camera car. The driver said there’s so much electronics hooked up on his car that letting me start mine off his battery would shut his whole thing down.

Wagon Christ released a new album just last year.

One would think that this game is from the same developer as ‘Mini Metro’ and ‘Mini Motorways’, but nope. 🤔

I don’t remember any individual instances of anyone saying the word (it absolutely was not used excessively, that’s absurd. I’m not sure it is ever even said by a white person)

Oh, so you just lying outright is somehow a defence for ‘The Wire’, great. Fifty uses of the ‘n-word’ per episode are definitely not excessive in your view, as opposed to the one time in ‘Pulp Fiction’. Are you deliberately aiming for the title of the preeminent hypocrite here, or what? Please just shut the fuck up with your blatant asslicking for the racists in ‘The Wire’ and your obvious and unashamed hatred for Tarantino. It’s just embarrassing at this point.

Oh thank you, your double standards are now plain and glaring more than ever. Thank you for showing your ass to the entire world and saying that ‘The Wire’ can be racist while Tarantino’s characters can’t, I could barely have asked for more than that. Your unsubstantiated hate for Tarantino is now clearer than sunshine.

Yes you hypocritical jackass, I’ve watched ‘Pulp Fiction’ a few years ago. Feel free to invent some new reason why my opinion is invalid.

Are you being deliberately dumb? The ‘n-word’ is said all the time in the first season of ‘The Wire’ by the policemen regardless of their skin color, so either present your analysis on how it’s necessary in the show for police force of all skin colors and ethnicities to be casually racist, or fuck off. I don’t have a craving for arguing with a person who’s either stupid or purposely pretends to be so.

if you’re writing a realistic, gritty show, it might include that word.

Or so a show set in Baltimore can be casually racist, but there’s no chance there were ever racist people in Los Angeles, where ‘Pulp Fiction’ is set, oh no. Only Baltimoreans are entitled to be racist and can be depicted in media as such, not a film from the West Coast, fuck that.

You seem to be a living embodiment of the ‘double standard’ concept.

You are somehow interpreting me not seeing the good in AI as if it was the same as less-able people being unworthy of aid?

I provided examples of the good delivered specifically by AI for disabled people, you still continue to dismiss it. This means that either you’re particularly dumb, pretend to be so, or are a bigot. Choose for yourself which one it is.

I simply say AI is not the way, or even a way. AI is the solution to an invented problem

Blind people not being able to see unless someone, or an AI, describes the surroundings for them, is an invented problem? You seem to be doubling down on either the bigotry or the idiocy.

But wait, since you say AI isn’t the way, you surely have another solution in mind. You know you’re free to advocate for that solution instead, without being an asshole toward disabled people.

when people say “only AI can cope with the scale”, have you stopped to ask, where does the scale come from?

That video is from 2020. Pray tell, were you also protesting against AI in 2020, or did you finger your ass instead until it’s become fashionable to hate ChatGPT, so you could blindly transfer that hate onto Apple too? Have you ever spent a second to learn that the Neural Engine accelerator for AI functionality was included in iPhones since 2017, or did you just pull your ideas about ‘AI scale’ out of your asshole? Do you even understand what it means when AI processing is done locally on end-user devices, or did three buzzwords about AI hate block the entirety of your feeble reasoning ability?

And, for that matter, 85% of what people call “AI” is actually just remote operators in Kenya or India

Or really, please feel free to provide any semblance of proof that Apple’s AI is done by people in Kenya, India or wherever, despite the Neural Engine chip. Be sure especially to highlight how the poor overworked people are able to do sub-second responses to millions of queries every day, with no change in the cadence of quality of the responses.

Fun fact: there’ve been a bunch of ATC simulator games back in the eighties to mid-nineties, but the most successful ongoing series seems to be ‘Air Traffic Controller’, which is of course Japanese. Aside from Windows, it notably includes versions for PSP, DS, 3DS, and several mobile ports that are probably only released in Japan.

Supposedly the series includes layouts of real airports, mostly Japanese ones.

At least this is true to Tumblr’s ideals, where confusing thread formatting is endemic.

To disguise the traffic completely, you can use either aforementioned Shadowsocks or obfs4, which both make it look random and are used by Tor bridges to circumvent packet inspection and whatnot. obfs4 is a bit ass to setup standalone, because it was made specifically for Tor — you need a different piece of software to make it work like a proxy. Dunno about Shadowsocks.

Regarding VPN blocking in general, I wonder how the UK or your provider deal with the fact that a lot of businesses use VPNs for their day-to-day operations. From quick googling, VPNs don’t seem to be banned nationwide, so it would be nice if you asked the sysadmin at your work to set up a VPN, see if your ISP blocks connections to it, and raise a stink if they do.

‘iPhone Magnifier and Voice over’

I don’t hear her complaining.

I replied to you with an example of AI recognizing things that the phone camera sees, to tell the blind user about them. That reply was before this comment of yours. I myself am also a person using auto-generated subtitles on YouTube, because my hearing isn’t too good, especially for the non-native English language.

Yet you claim that none of these uses improve things. So you see less-able people as unworthy of improvements to their lives. Nice to know, because an opinion stemming from bigotry can be summarily dismissed.

Yeah, nothing new to see or learn by it anymore.

Sex is solved now.

Seems to be a weather map or somesuch. Ironically it’s also a Macbook, not a Windows machine.

Explain to me why incessant usage of the ‘n-word’ is necessary in ‘The Wire’.

Yeah, got it, when the word is said in ‘The Wire’, it’s necessary, when it’s in Tarantino’s film, it’s unnecessary. Great criterion.

Yeah, from what I’ve heard, China has much more localized government and policies than people in the West think, and local government catches flak from people regularly.

Take a look at how blind people can use phones to learn what’s around them, and tell me afterwards that you’re still against AI.