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> and their tooling slowly pushes people away from FOSS and towards proprietary methods.

Can you explain this one in a bit more detail?


They said they are pushed away from Linux and non-Chrome

It will start of with text messaged only. That should give you an idea about the throughput.

Modern smartphones can hold the battery for over a week with minimal usage. You could just turn data on when every few hours or so. It's not automated though.

At least my work S24 says ~16 days in airplane mode + power saver. Not tested.


The CORE One S in a year will probably be a really nice printer. Looking forward to it :)

Interesting. Where are billboards on private property common?

I mostly see them on tv, public billboards and light poles.



Australia small signs (100cmx50cm size) are common. Billboards you’d see down a commercial street are probably private property and often are political also.

How does this advance an oligarchy?

Why do you think Japanese software is bad because of population decline?

Because innovation tends to come from younger people who have bright ideas, or want to make a name for themselves, or simply because they have free time.

You also need other people to work with, so even if you have an idea, it’s much easier when there are a lot of people in the area with the right skill set.

With a significant declining trend in population, especially in younger people, there just wouldn’t be as many opportunities.

Japanese software is not the only place where we are seeing a decline in innovation. This is the country that that provided us a lot of modern electronics as well.

35% of people are now over 65 in Japan. A much larger percentage of the economy now has to be dedicated to taking care of the elderly. The percentage of elderly in 1950 was tiny.


Got so far, but what does the tool do?


It looks like it's some sort of game-playing AI?:

> Automat's objective is to be able to semi-autonomously play a variety of games. It's the first step towards a more general environment for interacting with computers.

That's not what I got from the notebook, though. From the notebook, I thought it was some sort of new programming paradigm, so I'm confused.


I'm not Australian, how are they now being prohibited?


They don't really have a plan yet.

Thinking things through isn't a quality that Australian governments have ever been blessed with, particularly when it comes to tech policy.


Looks rather dead.


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