Lovable Sidekick

Dunno - it’s assigned a destination, which could be done by a human, then it seems to navigate there autonomously.

According to OP it was waltzing.

Yes, the real issue is that it disobeyed a Don’t Walk signal, which is clearly a defect for a robot allowed on public streets. People saying it “fled the scene” are just making noise.

The robot tried to cross the street against a Don’t Walk signal it should have obeyed. That behavior is a defect, which the manufacturer should be responsible for. Whether the robot “fled the scene” is only an issue if the robot is smart enough to recognize that it caused a problem, and left to avoid the consequences - which I srsly doubt. I mean if the robot were a live dog we wouldn’t expect it to understand the situation enough to flee, we would assume it just ran off because it’s a dog.

TFA says this hack was mostly phishing and old-fashioned social engineering. I can’t tell whether the author thinks Homebrew is “an AI tool” (it’s not) or an unnamed AI tool was involved. It’s not even made clear that the devs were actually vibe coding, let alone how it contributed to the success of the hack. Regardless of how you feel about AI, let’s not abandon critical thinking.

Nobody got fired because no angry parents found out about this and showed up with lawyers. The people who get fired are the ones who actions turn into lawsuits against the school district.

Reminds me of getting a game CD in a box of cereal - might have been Pajama Sam.

My wife and I could have dinner at a Thai place for that 15 years ago,.

Jeez, you can get a 10-yo desktop computer for less than that at Re-PC.

That’s my attitude.

Thanks, I was wondering about that because somebody told a new user they had a specific number of upvotes, and it was way more than the current thread so I assumed it was cumulative for their account.

Also depends on individual mods, some of whom seem to interpret the job as being the thought police rather than helping the community run smoothly and be a good experience.

I honestly don’t know or care what my lemmy karma is, or even where to look for it.

Also I’ve been banned from a reddit sub and a lemmy community for asking questions I honestly didn’t know the answers to. Reason given in both cases was trolling or ragebaiting. Some communities are highly insular and suspicious of outsiders who don’t have the group mindset. Someone here called lemmy “diverse” - that can translate to a diverse variety of monocultural echo chambers.

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LOL just ignore karma points, they mean nothing - I don’t even know what mine is or where to find it.

Yes, Reddit’s advantage is that its niche communities are much larger, so there’s more interaction than in their lemmy counterparts. And fortunately those communities tend to be more friendly and non-political than the more mainstream areas.

Also expect some fierce emotional venting that thinks it’s an “argument”.

Ignore karma and just have fun.

That’s any hivemind for you tho - everybody in it believes they’re very well informed about every significant aspect of something, and absolutely confident in the set of collective opinions.