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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 193 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Because they're eating the dogs, the people that stay there, they're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live around there, and this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame.

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And What’s stopping them from eating the robots? I mean someone ate an entire plane

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 127 points 6 days ago

you have 20 seconds to comply

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 67 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well here we are, with all the signs of everything going as badly as possible fully present. Goddamn evil robot sentries guarding the fascist dictator-wannabe's personal luxury habitat. At least down there, if one of those things malfunctions and hurts somebody it would have to be one of the worst people around.

This is certainly not the future I dreamed of as a child and young man.

[–] prof_wafflez@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

The adults sold us a future they were determined to destroy before it could ever come to fruition.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 81 points 6 days ago (15 children)

Oh, those are just to stop the kids escaping from the paedodungeon.

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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 93 points 6 days ago (2 children)

But despite their many impressive features, the devices can be taken down.

“You just have to spray it with Aqua Net hairspray in its ‘face’,” Cummings said. “And that would be enough to stop the cameras from working correctly.”

FYI

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 61 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Definitely don't Google "2K spray paint" because it's impossible to remove and you can seriously damage surveillance devices with it, like cameras and stuff I dunno

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Small Soldiers also taught us how to turn an electric pole transformer into an improvised EMP device. That turns the dogs off.

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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 83 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because time travellers keep appearing with guns?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 18 points 6 days ago

If they appeared with guns, wouldn't the robodogs also be strapped?

[–] scumola@sh.itjust.works 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

All these AI detection sentry robots are all trained on the same AI datasets. Just wear a black see-through hood over your face with a stop sign on your front and back and they'll ignore you and probably stop walking when near you. You can waltz right in.

[–] sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or dress like a deer and it'll just ignore you and keep going

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

Dress like Trump, attack it, then flee.

Guess who's now considered a threat to the AI?

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 10 points 5 days ago

I want to Walz right in

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The body is Rottweiler-sized, segmented into overlapping hard plates like those of a rhinoceros. The legs are long, curled way up to deliver power, like a cheetah's. It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that's the only ratlike part - incredibly long and flexible.

The grass under the Rat Thing is beginning to smoke.

"Careful. Supposedly they have really nasty isotopes inside," Hiro says behind her... "A radioactive substance that makes heat. That's its energy source."

"How do you turn it off?"

"You don't. It keeps making heat until it melts."

The body converges to a sharp nose. In the front it bends down sharply, and there is a black canopy, raked sharply like the windshield of a fighter plane. If the Rat Thing has eyes, this is where it looks out.

As part of Mr. Lee's good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido's in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

Good book, Snow Crash

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 46 points 6 days ago (5 children)

This is one of my favorite Black Mirror episodes. God help us.

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[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If not fren, why fren shaped

[–] SquatDingloid@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

It looks like a fun and fulfilling thing to hit with my car.

Those little fuckers creeped me out ever since the black mirror episode when they were turned into automated murder dogs

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 60 points 6 days ago

Shitty ass movie life

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Shitty time travelers and their stormtrooper aim.

Somebody definitely fucked up the timeline and they send these untrained time-travellers to try and fix it (and failed miserably).

Now we get Black Mirror robot dogs.

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ron Williams, a former Secret Service agent who is now CEO of the security and risk management firm Talon Companies

Ah life really does imitate art

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago

Wouldn't be surprised if it was named after the game. These guys like to name their companies nerdy sinister names on purpose. Like Palantir

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Because musk is an ignorant child redditor...that is why.

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 38 points 6 days ago

Because real dogs refuse the job.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

will it also say "move along citizen there is nothing to pet here" in a male robot voice?

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 days ago

It can, but it comes out more like "ROOVE ARONG RITIZEN!"

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Because not spend $10,000 on $1,000 worth of security camera system instead of helping poor people. Rich bastards.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

try 75,000 dollars

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Isn't this a perfect foreign adversary opportunity for spying on U.S. political figures?

Just integrate your own robot dog, or compromise an existing one. And surveillance away.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Foreign adversaries already had Trump installed. Why would they need to go through extra work.

Hell - the new Director of Intelligence is a Russian asset.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Probably because Trump hates real dogs.

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[–] 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I feel an urge to go play Horizon Zero Dawn now.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

I'd like to pet it with a .50 cal.

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

can you just approach them and turn them over so they cant get up themselves anymore,, would be some fun activism?

Or is that a crime already in such a free country

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

https://youtu.be/jEBELMDT6cE?t=262&si=dprkjYTi5nhRjbuK

You can't really keep them from getting back up, they won't stay on their sides perfectly balanced because of the curves on their legs. Even so they could "kick" their legs to push them to be able to get back up.

Just in case you're wondering in the future if that will work.

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

If you encounter one of these, absolutely don’t pet it. Instead, kick it. Run over it. Perhaps, light that little robot fucker on fire. But definitely don’t pet it.

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