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The taco toots can be vicious.

Now I’m chuckling at the thought that the view from these glasses is likely to be used for training AI, so you could have a bit of fun just aiming them at the most horrifying but legal porn you can find and plonk them down aimed at the screen while you go do other stuff.

Basically Dan Olsen’s entire channel - lots of good stuff RAGS shadow data extraction from LLMs - a horror movie for anyone who cares about data security in a world where people/organisations use LLMs

At least there’s a chance to warranty it. If you buy the knockoff stuff, you can go back a month later and that manufacturer no longer exists under that name so they have no responsibility to service a warranty.

The big problem with cheap Chinese knockoff crap isn’t that it’s crap, but that it’s that it’s highly variable. With some things, who cares? Getting a spatula for half price that will, even at the worst quality, do basically the same job and last years, won’t be a problem. Getting a badly made computer component that fries some other component, or a storage drive that craps out after 6 months and takes your data with it, is a different matter. You won’t have any recourse. Same with cheap batteries that either ruin the experience by needing constant charging or by being actually unsafe. QA is expensive, but it’s worth it when the object is also innately expensive.

Depends a bit on how much depth and which topics you want to hit. Scratch is easy to grasp and won’t require any real effort to set up, but may make adults feel like they’re being condescended to with its cartoony aesthetic, and might be a bit limited in how impressive you can make your demo. Python would require a bit of ‘teacher’s planning time’ to set up an easy workspace in Google’s collab tools and design a lesson, but could be used to show more depth if the students are the type to want/accept that depth, but don’t mistake interest for readiness. Time might also be important to consider as well. If you have only the one session to cram things into, it might not be a great idea to go deep, and definitely would be asking for trouble to try to install anything on all those machines. Non-technical people have a knack for finding the holes in your plan or taking far longer to do something that requires them to act individually, which leaves you scrambling to try to play remote tech support for the 5-50% who need it while the people who ‘did it in one’ get bored. And first things last, Murphy’s Law always applies to presentations. Just ask anyone at defcon. Even for people who are so tech-y they are teaching other tech people about tech, the demo might work 37 times the morning before your presentation, but it will fail on the 38th because that’s when you’re in front of the audience. Minimize your attack surface. When you are limited to one session, leaving them with a good, inspiring message that makes them want to keep learning is better than trying to info dump. Good luck.

Big L, I see. The american Libertarian Party is a combination of 99% of the people who still want to vote but can’t fit in with the dominant two, with 127 reasons per 5 members. Lots of them are just looking for a way to be allowed to do whatever they want that is currently illegal, whether that’s as banal as recreational drugs or as oppositional to society as child slave torture-rape. Whatever their ‘thing’ is, they want to be allowed to do it, the rest of society be damned.

‘I am tired. I just want to go home and go to bed.’ You can see the quandary.