We also um… the shuttles?

I already deleted the app from my phone once they introduced modal overlay ads that you have to dismiss

That’s fair. I guess it could be no different than a scientist with some grand scheme handing his plans off to others to implement.

I think I was assuming that cutting edge AI research involves more math/theory than just… bootstrapping existing tech stacks and tweaking configs.

Wouldn’t an AI researcher naturally find generative AI disadvantageous because they are attempting to develop novel tools which could not exist in the training set in the first place?

How does this work with ephemeral servers though? How does this impact a piece of software I’m self hosting and sharing online? Am I going to be fined potentially thousands if my website can’t process the operating systems age bracket signal?

I agree a lot of the coverage is sensational but there are also gaps and nuisances involved the expose people to litigation for no real societal benefit. It also feels like a very slippery slope to more invasive age verification online.

But from where was this data sourced if the drivers were not caught?

There’s a watermark on the page of a TikTok account… “heiress_ke”. Seems like a Kenyan account.

I suspect those are bots pulling in context from that username somehow?

Or folks who get off on providing zero context for their musings, who can say

Edit: seems like this is one of a series of posts.

Eg: https://mander.xyz/post/48382396

I know that bandwidth isn’t hardly the finite resource that it used to be, but I still can’t get over how amazingly wasteful it is to continuously stream live video halfway around the world just so you can… ask your glasses to describe what’s in front of you?

1000%

And TIL the phrase “violent agreement” 😆

Yeah I agree. And while the onus of that implementation is on developers to comply with the law, there is still negative impact on end users by creating those barriers.

It isn’t mandating you affirm you’re older than 18. It’s asking explicitly for your age or your birthday.

While the API then would take that data to transmit your age bracket to other systems.

This might not be drastically burdensome on an individual workstation, I’ll stand corrected on that. And it’s not disclosing your actual birthdate to anyone either (though I still feel like it should be my choice whether or not to store that information on my personal device).

In either case, we started with this “affirm your age” kind of law on various kinds of restricted websites (pornography and alcohol) and it’s easy to just lie. So now that is now morphing into more invasive age verification strategies.

I view this law as easily circumvented theater that has the aside effect of being a slippery slope toward more aggressive anti-privacy systems in the future.

Im not sure I understand your point about this law being for developers not users.

The fines may only be applied to operating system developers for failing to implement these systems… but having those systems at all still drastically impacts end users in a negative way.

Not once we get fusion reactors up and running, then we’ll be drowning in that sweet sweet helium-4

Insane

Wait. Are these motorcades just staged and ready in every country they might visit? Or do they fly the vehicles ahead of them?

We all hate Trump but I’m pretty sure tech industry patents have been fucked for a while.

Like… Apple and Samsung sued each other over rounded corners nearly 10 years ago.

The system has been and remains broken was the point I was trying to make with my rhetorical question.

Disgust aside, how is this fucking patentable??

Kramer?

I think the issue is that saying “sex is indeed binary” despite the presence of anomalies/mutations (no matter how uncommon) is in direct contradiction to the chemistry analogy being presented.

If you’re going to stand firm that “sex is indeed binary” you’re (in the context of this thread) also saying “chemical elements are binary just with some quirky occasional variations out there”

Which might statistically be the case across the entire universe… but also highly oversimplifies the wonders of the natural world. And maybe it’s pedantic but, binary can’t be simultaneously interpreted as both “exactly two states” and “well, mostly two states”. You gotta pick one, at which point the former is more correct.

So no I don’t think there’s negative connotation either just… a lack of connecting the dots with the analogy in the meme.

they exist. they’re real. they’re just not the majority. and that’s ok. they don’t have to be.

Exactly. Just like all of the other non-hydrogen and non-helium atoms in the universe.