I have serious doubts about any voters, anywhere in the world, repealing any laws like this:

• Most people like laws that let them avoid responsibility
• Most people are, or have been, parents at some point
• Most parents will offload the responsibility onto “the government” instead of admitting to poor parenting

This kind of act of insubordination, the way it is framed, I’m afraid is likely to meet the opposition of most people.

In whose eyes? They have lobbyists backing them, and a general public who doesn’t know any better, or care to know.

Exposing the stupidity is a great goal, running headfirst into the “Who will think of the children!1!!” wall… not so much.

AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.

1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation

This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.

Is there any reason to believe they won’t want to make an example out of intentional violators?

Yes, I get that they may want verification with government ID… but unless they do it at a firmware level, anything above a FOSS Linux kernel on my own unlocked hardware, is fully under my control.

So far, it sounds to me like “age verif theatre” as applied to single user “jailbroken” systems. If they added this on a locked down Android system, as a requirement for network access (note: this is an actual proposal being floated around) then that would be of some concern… but systemd? 🤨

QUESTION: if I run my own system with local accounts, full root access, and no remote accounts… why should I care about whether systemd “MAY BE ABLE” to store someone’s date of birth?

Sounds to me like, for all I care, they could add fields for ethnicity, religion, d size, political orientation, colonic maps, or whatever else they want.

If it’s to build systems shared with underage family members, schools, or other public system… I personally DGAF.

(Skipping the AGI buzzword BS…)

How do the dream cycle and memory consolidation work?

(I find it a bit intriguing though, that people would have time to both write novel-length responses on social media, and do any actual work 🤔)

What are those dream cycle and memory consolidation it’s using?

AGI sounds like BS (by definition)… but what’s behind the buzzword? This guy is supposed to be smart, might as well have built some stuff around an LLM that makes it leap forward.

Poisoning what? Intentional poisoning doesn’t work, and self-consumption only works when it’s the exact same model feeding its own next version.

Women using sycophantic chatbots that they 100% control, is stil about power and control. One is about bodies, the other is about minds, that’s the only difference.

Depending on how much is “too much power”, people might still want to purchase them at a discount for self-hosting purposes. The future is most likely to go through a decentralization of AI services, with spme higher efficiency large providers, combined with lower efficiency edge nodes for less demanding usage… at least, until the next order of magnitude technological shift.

Counter proposal: dynamic tactile buttons.

The tech already existed in 2013, just develop it further.

https://www.robaid.com/gadgets/tactus-technology-haptic-feedback-on-dynamic-user-interface.htm

Check the history of ReCaptcha: it started by helping digitize booksxfir the Gutenberg Project, then once it got acquired by Google, it switched to house numbers, street signs (auto driving?), and is now helping with object identification.

Strictly speaking, math gets proven from scratch by every math student. Software is slightly different, since most of it never gets a formal proof at all.

Using a complex GPT-4o prompt, they sought to pull out tweets that focused on “superficial topics”

Wait a moment… They asked an LLM, to tell them what was “junk”, and another LLM, trained on what an LLM marked as junk, turned out to be a junk LLM?

It talks about model collapse, but this smells like research collapse.

My bad, Kiwix is on IzzyOnDroid. You’re right, F-Droid itself might have a tougher time.

F-Droid does automated patching already, they often remove “anti-features”. The migration is a PITA, but not the end of the world, Kiwix did that recently (split into Play Store and F-Droid versions).

I don’t see the issue:

1. F-Droid compiles the apps
2. F-Droid publishes the apps
3. F-Droid gets registered
4. F-Droid subclasses app identifiers under its own

…and things go back to normal.

You won’t be able to update an F-Droid app with an Obtainium one, but Android is already warning about those, not allowing automatic updates from mixed sources.

There is a reason why people keep asking “How do you spell it?” when being told a name in English. The counterpart is, “How do you pronounce it?”.

Even with “long a”, I still can’t tell how would you want to pronounce “Rach”. I can come up with 4 different pronounciations right now: “Ra-ah-ch”, “Ra-ah”, “Ra-sh”, “Ra-kh”.

At this point, why not just root it? There are public exploits for Android 6 vulnerabilities, it’s not like you’d lose any security.

The incident comes barely a week after a group of tourists were filmed blocking migrating wildebeest at Kenya’s Maasai Mara […] crowding riverbanks and forcing wildebeests into crocodile-infested waters

WTF…