@coldclimate No, the real mistake was inventing writing. Or maybe coming down from the trees. Or crawling out of the sea onto land.

cstross@wandering.shop
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I have spent this morning installing Linux on a Raspberry Pi 500+ and it has not been going smoothly. -
I have spent this morning installing Linux on a Raspberry Pi 500+ and it has not been going smoothly.I have spent this morning installing Linux on a Raspberry Pi 500+ and it has not been going smoothly. I swapped the 256Gb SSD it came with for a 4Tb one. The RPi imager only saw half of it to begin with, RPi OS itself is unusable with my eyesight, Ubuntu has force-upgraded everything to Wayland, and the world is on fire ...
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Mirrors can fool the Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors used to guide autonomous vehicles by making them detect objects that don’t exist, or failing to detect actual obstacles:Mirrors can fool the Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors used to guide autonomous vehicles by making them detect objects that don’t exist, or failing to detect actual obstacles:
Fooling a self-driving car with mirrors on traffic cones
: 21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff
(www.theregister.com)
Right, who else wants a mirrored beanie that will prevent self-driving cars from trying to run pedestrians over if they unexpectedly exist in the roads (which they're entitled to be on—"jaywalking" is American, pedestrians have right of way here)?