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Really busy, from satellite constellation tasking to planet and co basemaps to the sentinel family to aerial imagery to helicopters, drones and even blimps.

They all have their unique combination of cost, resolution, area coverage, revisit rate and spectral modes. Quite difficult sometimes to find a good fit for the underlying problem. What‘s clear is that resolution and revisit rate correlate with cost. Shit‘s expensive.

It’s more likely that the rise of the populist right (or left, like Melenchon) will lead to the destruction of the EU. They do not want reform, they want to go back to the fifties.

Doubtful, honestly, though from what you described with Berlin, this feels like more of a problem of Berlin being a very transient city. A lot of people never fully settling there, especially so called expats, despite living there for decades. A lot of people being part of the cosmopolity, moving from one hype city, one startup, to the other. That’s okay, but it doesn’t work for everyone.

What do you mean with „Germans“? In my friends group, in my son‘s football club, in school, most kids have a so called migration background, but the parents are mostly second generation and mostly assimilated. So what?

That's a very Berlin-centric observation. Berlin is special; it's hard to extrapolate to the rest of the country.

Well, the No vote triggered some adjustments, so this is indeed relatively democratic. What would be the alternative?

Which is when we'd enter economic warfare between the EU and US, something which no one wants to experience. If that were realistically threatened, and we've seen motions in that direction, it's about political and economical survival and we'd see a massive loss of market for US tech.

It's obviously a loosing battle. You're thinking of elaborate attackers, I'm thinking of your common policeman or scammer. Not great security, but might be able to solve the easyness problem introduced by GenAI.

Out of curiosity, what would be your proposal for identifying GenAI images and videos? Any suggestions?

Really good points, thank you for pointing this out. What I'm mostly thinking of is the usage in e.g., social media. There will be efforts to do what you suggest, but for your typical facebook user and scammers, this might help with the more common situations where people use GenAI.

Why police (and media) cameras aren‘t forced to use camera hardware signing, aka content credentials, is beyond me.

What's your suggested alternative? Would you say that American democracy is broken or democracy in general?

Worked there ten years ago. Good company, well run, privately owned, employees getting a share of the success. Jack Little has steered that ship well.

I think the seawater bit is really relevant here. Only understood the importance of this when I saw the seawater part.

"Immersed". The channel tunnel was bored below the sea floor.

Why is the Content Credentials Standard [1] not more supported? It's basically hardware-signing of images, which would make it fairly straightforward to identify AI-generated content.

Needs to be supported by smartphones, of course.

[1] https://contentcredentials.org/

Don‘t take it personally, you might be right in your extreme position, but this feels like a horrible take on what it means to be human.

Multipolar doesn't mean replacement of hegemon.

It's also two different things, you might be right that China, Russia or the EU would be worse as a hegemon, but that doesn't imply that it wouldn't happen.

Being a realist would imply that you would understand that a fundamentally worse hegemon could still replace an existing hegemon.

Do you really think the American empire is never to be challenged? Everything and everyone goes down after a while. Whether it‘s now is unclear, though the active resentment against the US is unprecedented.

Sadly, your comment lacks any substance to argue with, all there is are unsubstantiated ad hominems. Sad.

Interestingly, China is succeeding because it isolated itself partially from US big tech. That enabled them to build their domestic companies. If you give free reign to US companies, they‘re going to swoop up any competition early on.

The US relies on being attractive for smart people. There are still smart people going to the US, but the general mood seems to be that it‘s increasingly less attractive. Mid term, little will change, long term the cultural hegemony of the US will be replaced by multipolar influences.

Trump is all that‘s needed for that. The Greenland saga alone was sufficient. And then he attacked Iran.

Are you implying that this is Germany getting ready to invade Poland?

It was already a thing back when I was doing compulsory service (end of the nineties), but no one cared and no one was ever asked for it.

Sorry, irrelevant to what you‘re saying, but Germany has 85 mio inhabitants. You might mistake it for Poland.

There's a fairly non-invasive way to do age verification: ID cards that connect to a smartphone app that only provide a boolean age verification to the requesting service. Requesting service can be anonymous to the ID app and the requesting service can only receive a bool.

That most implementation will try to collect far more data is the real concern.

The commission is checked by the parliament is checked by the council is checked by the commission. Most other national organizations only have one check - Germany, for example, only has the Bundesrat as a check of the Bundestag.

So in summary: because the law was avoided today, the EU needs to be abolished? Weird take.

You can see it the other way around, without the EU, Denmark and others would have already implemented ChatControl in their country. This is driven by member states (Denmark), not the parliament, after all.

The strait was navigable until three weeks ago. There are very few conceivable paths towards reestablishing this. This is absolutely not the same effective result.

Don't understand this - you can go spec -> test -> implementation and establish the test loop. Bit like the v model of old, actually.

Anthropic's domain usage (there's claude.com, claude.ai, console.anthropic.com, platform.claude.com, claudecode.io forwarding to codeagents.app which errors) and authentication approach have been lacking a lot; hope this isn't a verdict on their use of agentic coding.

Example: I had two orgs with similar names, one I set up myself and another my employer set up. Logged in via SSO. Once I deleted the one I created myself, I could not log in anymore with the notice that the org was scheduled for deletion. Could also not contact support as that required a login. Only when the org was deleted after a week and my employer deleted me and reinvited me I could access it again.

Quite the shitshow for a company worth a couple hundred billion.

One example: I let the agent culminate the essence of all previous discussions into a spec.md file, check it for completeness, and remove all previous context before continuing.