Generally speaking, you want panels to:

• Have minimal shading (especially by e.g. poles for overhead traction)

• Not get contaminated by dripping oil/grease/brake dust.

• Not complicate access (either by being in the way or by being damaged and live) for repairs or rescue efforts.

• Not be subject to vibration or impact.

• Be located densely and near connections to the electrical grid, so that the cabling per panel is minimal.

This breaks just about every one of those.

Go put panels on every house/mall/supermarket and then panel roofs over every carpark and railway station first, then we’ll talk.

No, but it does mean that basically everything built for standard domestic/commercial use is unsuitable and instead you have to use rail/marine/heavy-industrial grade equipment, and maintain it regularly.

And maybe they can maybe reuse use of the electric railway infrastructure to wire the panels?

Way too high voltage to be practical.

Still dumb. Less dumb than on roads, but still dumb.

It’s like transferring software licenses.

Funny, $200 is standard in NZ if you pre pay. Can usually post pay though as you say.

Or guess how much fuel you’re going to need and pre-auth a little more than that.

I preferred when I was running custom ROMs and could just hold the power button for a second.

Road design is part of it but improving road design only improves ‘reasonable’ drivers, and things like chicanes, lane narrowing, and speed bumps cause issues for larger commercial vehicles like buses.

Persistent asshole drivers will still drive drunk or drive dementia, run red lights, or go three times the speed a road is built for.

“the systems and environments we place people in” is not just the road. It’s the licensing regime, the society that makes having a car necessary even if you can’t drive safely or afford to maintain it, and that doesn’t mandate effective ongoing training.

The point is that any unsigned image is assumed to be AI generated. You can absolutely strip the metadata or convert it to some other format (there’s always the analog hole and it has to become a bitmap to be displayed) but then you’ve lost the proof you took it.

You’d still need secure key storage hardware and trust roots in the camera like TPMs but every phone has that already…

(This is referring to the ‘signed in camera’ model)

You also want a weapon you’re familiar with and that you can control. In medieval farming communities, chances are everyone’s used a pitchfork. Axe less so.

Pitchforks also work better as infantry; they’re kind of a mini pike so they’re useful in a mass and against horses. Swing an axe in a mob and it’ll hit your neighbour.

Theoretically you could include the original signed unprocessed image (or make it available NFT-style) and let the viewer decide whether the difference to post-processed image is reasonable or unreasonable.

It would however make it impossible to partially censor images without giving away the non-AI proof, unless you had a trusted third party ™ verify the original and re-sign the censored version.

A ‘view cryptographically signed original’ button next to every instagram post would be complete LOL, though.

Are you talking about the AI generator registering on the blockchain? Because there is essentially no incentive for them to do so and every incentive for them not to.

If you mean genuine camera images being registered on the blockchain, that would give away at minimum the time the image was taken, and probably what kind of device it was taken with and all other images taken by the same user. That’s a lot of data.

Images, text etc can be generated entirely offline and independently. There is nothing to force the image to be attached to the block chain either directly or as a fingerprint.

You would have to do the opposite: when you take a picture or video (or write some text?), as it is recorded, the camera chipset signs the image/video using TPM-esque hardware, proving (ish) that it was captured by a real camera sensor.

The issue is that it’s pretty close to mandatory doxxing.

Defamation is a civil issue so you can’t be jailed for it, I believe.

ToS is effectively a contract.

This interpretation of the ToS could be deemed unconscionable, but that seems like the kind of argument that takes a judge and 5-6 figures in legal fees to settle.

An arbitrator is just going to read it, say ‘yup, you broke the rule’, and side with the company.

I would hope so. CFRA seems to be the only explicit protection.

If it was just plain old trademark/copyright law, you’d be right.

It sounds like Tesla are basically saying that you signed an NDA/non-disparagement clause when you bought the vehicle, and therefore it’s a contract dispute.

Doh.

No, no, he’s saying the lesbians give the best BJs…

Also:

Thin stamped construction is cheap, but can still be fitted with sleeving on the live (active and neutral) pins like UK & europlug, but not US plugs. This prevents objects or fingers getting to live pins on a partially inserted plug.

Industry has agreed that leads exit either straight out, or down-and-right, so there is no conflict for horizontal or vertical sockets. Sockets are universally installed earth-down.

Reasonably compact.

I found opensuse’s default firewall rules were very restrictive and you needed to open a port.