@alice that's safety as in “it's safe to use it recreationally in a context where you may risk missing the keys, as picking it is trivial, even in an emergency”, right?

@alice @smolbrain @eightleggedcrow self-healing cat

@alice @rozeboosje to be fair, I think that most of those issues can be mitigated by using smaller models that have been trained on ethically obtained data using renewable energy, while the mistakes are intrinsic in the technology and will always be therebut there is also a lot of openwashing in the industry, and I wouldn't trust any claim of the training data from the providers of the models unless they can be independently proved, and honestly my interest in using the thing isn't enough to justify the work of verifying those claims, so I don't actually *know* whether those models actually exist.

@oscherler @webhat @aliceI have to admit that I quite enjoy¹ the self-checkout in two of the places I sometimes buy from:* they are done with a handheld device that you carry with you to scan things as you get your groceries* this means that you always know how much you're going to spend for what you have in the cart, without having to keep track in other ways* the handheld terminals only give a beep when you scan things, the places where you pay at the end don't talk* they don't do the weighting thing* problems and controls are handled by regular checkout people: sometimes it may take some time to get their attention, but they tend to be on the nicer end of the scale* when you're done paying, all your stuff is already in your bags (divided by where everything should go when back home), and you don't have to fill them in a hurry because there are people behind you that need to use the space for their things (having somebody else fill your bags has not been a thing here at least since the 1980s when I have memories).I assume that the filming is happening in all of the shop anyway¹ as much as I enjoy anything in the whole experience of buying groceries, which is not a lot of enjoyment

@alice @Retepkce you did mention *which* niche, right? :D

@alice warm bread vs sex?I think that there is only one sensible choice.

Does closed registration increase moderator load? No.It front-loads mod work, but screening applicants is quick, and it saves *everyone* time when you reduce the number of shitstorms you have to clean up after when bots flood your server and start a spam campaign, or when Nazis start sending people slurs and death threats.As long as there's no new user screening process, we're going to continue to have a Nazi bar problem.

@sasutina13 @alice I will never forget how cool I felt (but almost certainly didn't look) with my modem velcroed to the lid of my laptop, reading my email in a cafe. The future!

@alice everyone talks about how minivans can fit so many kids inside, but it's still not nearly as many as a modern American pickup truck will fit underneath. /s