Børnich admitted that much of the work will be done by teleoperators in the beginning. Owners will have access to an app where they can schedule when the teleoperator can take over NEO and where they can specify the task they want the machine to do.

Those teleoperators are gonna see a LOT of dicks.

Why would I want this?

Bold of you to assume there aren’t plenty of folks out there willing to overlook any potential privacy concerns for their very own ‘robot’ butler.

Reminds me of someone here on Lemmy recently who had switched to eating nothing but steak and insisted it was giving them superhuman powers.

The connection between Cap’n Crunch, phone system hacking, and Apple is a pretty important part of early hacking history.

I guess thieves found a way to circumvent it, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense

Even if they haven’t (yet), it’s still a recent development. There are plenty of old models out there without it, not to mention Android phones which hold the majority market share in the UK.

(it’s British Broadcasting Corporation)

Bad title - no roll out is taking place at the moment. It hasn’t even gone through public consultation yet.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but this reads a bit like some of the comments on those old Slashdot threads clowning on the first smartphones.

‘these things will fail, I already have a camera, a cellphone, and an mp3 player, why would anyone want them all in one device?’

Heavy sixers are the most sought-after models of VCS iirc, but that’s not saying much - as you discovered, 2600s usually aren’t worth anything. I think it’s a combination of wide availability and limited appeal to modern collectors compared to later systems.

Personally I’d hold onto it as a display piece, but if you don’t have the space then I wouldn’t feel bad for selling it on or even giving it away.

videos praising the neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell and the anti-immigration rallies

Talking and acting like a neo nazi is what will get you labelled as one. It just so happens that those same people also tend to drape themselves in flags and justify their actions as ‘patriotism’.

Social media has acclimatised us to echo chambers and curated algorithmic feeds that rarely, if ever, serve up content that challenges our views.

From what I’ve seen online, these new releases also have new difficulty/assist settings, higher resolution textures, run at 4K (when docked on Switch 2), and the cutscenes are not just upscaled but have been re-rendered with an improved aspect ratio.

So not a huge step up from the previous 3D All-Stars release, but it is better.

Because the things that seem like obvious best practices now weren’t known at the time; they had to be developed and improved through iteration, like every other technology.

Ah yes, I too remember the part of 1984 in which Big Brother improved Oceania’s outdated train ticketing system.

Unfortunately this was added to the gamescom b2b meeting platform, used by actual game developers and publishers to organise actual meetings with each other at the event. It’s not a throwaway marketing email to be sent straight to junk; it affected everyone using the system for genuine business purposes.

They’re still doing ‘pay up or allow all cookies’ popups, so definitely not good on them as far as I’m concerned.

I’ve not really looked into it, but my impression was it was just wheelchair basketball with a weird pseudo sci-fi aesthetic. Is that not the case?

Personally, I’d rather have a robust and up-to-date set of consumer protections rather than leaving everything up to ‘buyer beware’.

Nowhere in the article or the original report does it say this is specific to Apple devices.