- b00ty4breakfastit's even less impressive; somebody left the credentials typed into the text boxes and went to get a slimfast out of the staff breakroom and you walked into the computer lab and hit enter.
- "hacks" lol. Next, ctl+alt+del and it's equivalents are gonna be called arcane theurgy
- when the hood is open for anyone to tinker, lots of little weirdos get to indulge their ideas. Sometimes those are ideas are even good!
- does it matter? they were Venezuelans and they were sent to El Salvador. I know that some folks just lump all Latinos into one bucket but Venezuela and El Salvador are, in fact, not the same country.
- I want to believe this is some ploy to open the market for some US manufacturer that slipped a few thousand dollars in an envelope but I have a sneaking suspicion that nobody is coming to fill the void left by this naive protectionism. (Or is it deliberate sabotage? I don't even know anymore)
- I'm sure you've got some hard data about the crazy amount of parents knowingly letting little Timmy develop an addiction to street drugs
- The very first cop show, Dragnet, was explicitly a PR move to rehab the image of the police in the public's imagination. Every cop show since has been propaganda. Even shows where the police are not necessarily the "good guys", like The Shield or even Chicago PD, normalizes police brutality and the flaunting of basic constitutional laws because those dastardly bad guys have to be stopped at all costs.
I enjoy some of these shows myself but it is sometimes crazy how blatant they are about it.
- Even the most Laissez-faire of parenting has boundaries; no reasonable adult is allowing their teenager to experiment with heroin or giving their 12 year old permission to drive their car down the freeway. The problem is that smartphone access isn't seen in the same category of danger that recreational opiates and unlicensed driving are in.
- the triply-nested niche of geekdom
- Intent is unimportant; the law itself is authoritarian. And if you think that there aren't nefarious actors waiting in the wings to take advantage of these kinds of laws, I got a bridge I'd like to sell you
- "us smarties would never fall for such obvious bread and circus. not like those silly dumdums what live in {region}!"
said without an ounce irony as the proverbial rug is yanked right out from under your feet
- There were (maybe still are? I couldn't locate any active clubs with a cursory search) ham radio chess clubs that would play chess on-air over cw/radiotelegraphy.
- I switched to Waterfox about a year ago because my poor old linux box just couldn't keep up with the latest Firefox version (especially the Snap package! I literally unusable for me) and I am very thankful that they aren't going to be including any of the LLM crud that Mozilla has been talking up.
I get the utility that this stuff can have for certain types of activities but on top of not having great hardware to run the dang things, I just don't find any of the proposed use-cases that compelling for me personally.
It's just nice that the totalizing self-insistence of AI tech hasn't gobbled up every corner of the tech space, even if those crevices and niches are getting smaller by the day.
- I'm not saying you're wrong but I'm still unconvinced. I think it is a very obvious backdoor to forcing online ID without having to call it an ID law.
- yes, so wasteful to select a different font in 2025. Real cost-saving measure switching from the evil woke-font calibri to the strong masculine Times New Roman. Thank God Marco Rubio was on the case to set the universe back into alignment with this big-balled move.
Terry Gilliam at his most deranged couldn't dream up this nonsense.
- It's also a massive propaganda channel. We can argue about whether any one particular state is involved in that or not but gut reaction is that if this were the real concern, their solution would be to regulate and censor what is posted online rather than kicking them off the platform and thus detaching them from the teat of (alleged) indoctrination. (that push for censorship also exists).
Maybe Australia and the US are not involved in any social media propaganda campaigns but, at least in the case of the US, there is most certainly an abundance of precedence.
I don't know the sincere feelings of these types wrt the safety and well-being of children but I don't think the goal is "getting them back" wrt policy or whatever.
- >It's quite telling that, even in this basic hypothetical, your first instinct is to gesture vaguely in the direction of governmental action, rather than expect any agency at the level of the individual.
When "individuals" (which is a funny way to refer to the global generative AI zeitgeist currently in full binge-mode that is encouraging and enabling this kind of behavior) refuse to regulate themselves, they have to be encouraged through external pressures to do so. Industry is so far up it's own ass wrt AI that all it can see is shit, there is no chance in hell that they will self-regulate. They gladly and indiscriminately slurp up the digital effluent that is currently sliding out the colon of the generative AI super-organism.
And, of course, these "individuals" are more than happy to share the consequences with the rest of the world without sharing too much of the corn that they're digging out of the shit. It does not behoove the rest of the world to not protect it's self-interest, to minimize the consequences of foolish and irresponsible generative AI usage and to make sure it gets it's fare share of the semi-digested golden kernels
- maybe the hammer factory should be held responsible for pumping out so many poorly calibrated hammer
- > I think we cannot assume malice when it could be laziness
If you are too lazy to go back and check if you left the gas on, you bear responsibility if the place explodes.
At the very least, it's negligent to leave something like that in and not be very upfront about it.