Victoria

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Apple’s AirTag, a popular tracking device, met the performance requirements for securing the AirTag’s lithium coin cell battery; however, the units imported after the March 19, 2024, effective date of Reese’s Law did not have the required on-product and on-box warnings concerning the severe risk of injury from battery ingestion if these small batteries are not kept out of reach of children.
    Apple has now included a warning symbol inside the battery compartment and changed its box to include required warning statements and symbols. Because a number of violative units have been sold to consumers, and to assist consumers in the future, Apple has updated the instructions that appear in the Find My app each time a user is prompted to change the AirTag battery to now include a warning about the hazards of button and coin cell batteries.




  • In my opinion the discussion is (or should be) less about the quality, because it is continuously getting better. While that trend will almost certainly not continue indefinitely, i believe the bigger issue is ethics.

    Pretty much all popular image generating models are based on countless artworks by real artists, which were used without the artists consent.

    Additionally, training and using such models requires enormous amounts of electricity, which is in direct opposition to our attempts to reduce carbon emissions.

    Finally, the goal of artistry is usually not the artwork itself but rather the process of creating it. To an artist painting on a canvas is infinitely more enjoyable than typing something in a textbox.