The point is that any unsigned image is assumed to be AI generated. You can absolutely strip the metadata or convert it to some other format (there’s always the analog hole and it has to become a bitmap to be displayed) but then you’ve lost the proof you took it.

You’d still need secure key storage hardware and trust roots in the camera like TPMs but every phone has that already…

(This is referring to the ‘signed in camera’ model)

Theoretically you could include the original signed unprocessed image (or make it available NFT-style) and let the viewer decide whether the difference to post-processed image is reasonable or unreasonable.

It would however make it impossible to partially censor images without giving away the non-AI proof, unless you had a trusted third party ™ verify the original and re-sign the censored version.

A ‘view cryptographically signed original’ button next to every instagram post would be complete LOL, though.

Are you talking about the AI generator registering on the blockchain? Because there is essentially no incentive for them to do so and every incentive for them not to.

If you mean genuine camera images being registered on the blockchain, that would give away at minimum the time the image was taken, and probably what kind of device it was taken with and all other images taken by the same user. That’s a lot of data.

Images, text etc can be generated entirely offline and independently. There is nothing to force the image to be attached to the block chain either directly or as a fingerprint.

You would have to do the opposite: when you take a picture or video (or write some text?), as it is recorded, the camera chipset signs the image/video using TPM-esque hardware, proving (ish) that it was captured by a real camera sensor.

The issue is that it’s pretty close to mandatory doxxing.

If you mean the bar, then even stainless of that size is going to be very low resistance - milliohms?

If you mean the body, then I believe it gets complicated. Skin resistance will be diminished by the piercings having a relatively large contact area and probably being somewhat sweat covered - I’m not sure exactly what the ‘skin’ inside the piercing tunnel is like. Certainly you can feel current from a 9V across the wet inner-body skin of your tongue.

The internal path will be quite low resistance because the inside of the body is a sack full of salty water.

It wouldn’t be fatal, even across the chest, but it could hurt.

Wouldn’t expect the bar itself to get hot; just the battery. The bar will be very low resistance and therefore only a tiny portion of the total heat will end up in it.

Now, if you stuck one terminal to one piercing and another terminal to another piercing, then you might have a bad time…

Mostly take each day as it comes. Scheduling is the boss’s problem.

Occasional interactions with tenants/customers/groundskeepers (“We’re here to do X, the property manager should have informed you”), and suppliers (chainsaw shop, fuel) but for the most part it was “here’s a pile of job sheets; one for each job; reasonably detailed explanation on each”. Some customers do want to walk you through what they want, and some neighbours are insane, but generally the interaction is quite purposeful rather than endless smalltalk. I’m more on the ADHD side of things than Au, though.

I found it was generally a good mix of novel and routine, and you could both be a perfectionist (it usually has to look good) and say “it’s nature; it’ll never be perfect”.

It’s hard work but if you’ve got a chainsaw, everything looks like it can be cut smaller if necessary. We have a very mild climate (other than wind, which there’s a lot of). Being paid to build muscle is nice and you definitely feel the difference after a few weeks/months. You’re outside in the sun/overcast/mild rain amongst greenery (even if you’re chopping it up), which is supposed to be good for mental health.

Random unexpected paid days off due to poor weather but not tree-uprooting weather is nice.

That said, there’s downsides:

You are going to be working in a team of minimum two, probably 3 ish. If you don’t agree on processes, safety etc., things don’t last.

Bigger contractors with multiple trucks will have more, but we only had one and that meant sick leave and annual leave was a bit of a mess because you really can’t do much alone, but you can’t usually fit more than 3 in a truck.

Health and safety at small companies is a mess. I never got more than a few small cuts but especially as you get older, screwing up ankles and shoulders starts becoming an issue. Tree work is bad for high-impact low-probability risks and small businesses are terrible at managing those.

Mostly residential and light commercial (e.g. schools) climbing, limbing, felling, trimming, some hedge work etc.

I may or may not be in the middle bucket, but I spent a couple of years doing tree work and that was fairly satisfying…

I found opensuse’s default firewall rules were very restrictive and you needed to open a port.

I expect so.

KDE Connect also works great as a remote control for many things, presumably including this.

I promise it will barely be harder than turning Copilot off…

No. They provide phase shift to give the single-phase induction motors a rotating rather than oscillating magnetic field. They charge and discharge 100/120 times per second depending on grid frequency.

They do not cover inrush current, and would need to be orders of magnitude bigger and a different topology to do so.

Still tens to maybe low hundreds of microfarads.

New Zealand!

What I mean is that the bulk of current copper wiring goes towards distribution and consumption, not generation.

Yes, but big batteries everywhere is going to effect that if there’s copper in lithium batteries, and apparently there is.

This isn’t a big thing. This is a constant thing in every system. It’s the push and pull between efficiency and resiliency. More storage capacity is less efficient when things are going well, but is more resilient and adaptable when they’re not.

Excess storage capacity, sure.

But inflating the base battery capacity to cover people having showers at 5pm because it’s easier than storage water heaters and time/remote controls is stupid. You can reduce the base need for batteries by reducing the need for electricity in the first place and reducing the use of vehicles that need to carry batteries in place of e.g. overhead catenary.

You’re wrong in terms of long distance power lines being mostly copper, but this does seem a lot like fossil fuel propaganda.

Motors, generators, and transformers can be built using aluminium; they’re just a bit bulkier and less efficient. Very common practice.

It looks like CCA might be making its way back into house wiring in the near future, with much lower risks than the 70s aluminium scare.

The big thing is that batteries really should be a last resort, behind demand response (using power when it is available, rather than storing it for later), long distance transmission, and public transport instead of private vehicles.

That’s incorrect. Aluminium is about 30% worse by volume than copper, meaning you need to go up a size. What stopped it being used for houses was that the terminations weren’t good enough, because aluminium has different thermal expansion and corrosion properties, plus they were using much worse alloys. That’s now mostly fixed and if you’re in the US, there’s a very good chance that your service main is aluminium, and there’s talk of allowing copper-clad aluminium (CCA) for subcircuit wiring.

Per mass, aluminium is a better conductor, which is why it’s almost exclusively used overhead and in pretty significant volumes underground. The power grids were built on ACSR.

I’m not too fond of calling this a ‘tax’. Tax money goes to funding actually useful things. Conservatives want you to think that giving money to the government and throwing it down the toilet are the same thing.

Sounds like they need to move to either ZIF connectors or 48V power; this kind of power over high pin counts isn’t really practical.

There’s a reason electrical codes don’t usually let you use parallel conductors below about 4AWG/60A per conductor.