The best use of AI I’ve seen thus far is reading legislative bills. Those monstrosities are so fucking long and filled with earmarks that it’s next to impossible to understand what is in them.

Having an AI not only read the bill but keep a watch of it as it goes through Congress is probably the best use of AI because it actually helps citizens.

I am on record saying we need an AI that can track prices of various things that can then predict when the best time it is to buy something.

I want an AI bot that saves me money or gets me a good deal or extracts money from the capital class.

I remember reading a study about speeding in neighborhoods. It’s not unusual to have people driving 50+ in a 25 MPH neighborhood.

Speed bumps actually caused people to drive faster between the bumps.

What worked was more curves and narrow roads. Essentially making it more dangerous.

So you’re not wrong.

The problem with “age” verification is that politicians are confusing it with identity verification.

I should not have to prove my name and other biometrics to prove age.

Age verification is the fascist way to get people to identify themselves and their online activity. Almost every state that has some sort of age verification law has zero method to actually verify age. No digital ID service, no way to share a credential for verification.

They want people to upload an ID.

This isn’t about keeping children safe and it never is. It’s about identifying critics of the government.

Not only that, but bare in mind that most government employees are there to do a job. They don’t always agree with the laws they have to enforce and sometimes they will make it as challenging as possible for fascist ideas like this go through.

Complaining to them is like complaining to the checkout cashier at your grocery store that the prices are too high.

!waterfox@programming.dev

This behavior seems to be very similar to NFL stars and how they never wanted their kids to play football.

Everyone involved knows how dangerous social media/football is and many of them are in positions to actually do something about it. But because it benefits them personally, they won’t even rock the boat.

I remember reading an article in the early 2000s about how plastic recycling was essentially China buying plastic en bulk to only bury it. Once they saw it was poisoning their water they stopped, which effectively stopped plastic recycling in a lot of areas.

Today, I still try to recycle plastic if I can. I try to limit my use if I can help it but it’s so fucking hard. I’ve recently learned that glass isn’t even recycled in my area. (It’s crushed and then sold as aggregate filler.)

Aluminum cans aren’t recycled like they used to because they have a plastic lining now.

We really need to force companies to take back their products or at minimum pay a tax so that localities can actually recycle their trash.

No, his ball.

In a completely unrelated move, Ring will partner with a complete difference company that will pay 20% above what Flock was paying.

I wonder if removing the cameras is the best move.

It might be better to let them run but have them watching a TV streaming Disney movies.

Then drop the dime to Disney that they are copying their IP.

My understanding is that if your community is not adult content and you aren’t on any adult servers, you won’t need to ID verify. But I suspect it’s only a matter of time before all accounts are required to verify.

If people didn’t leave Twitter when it became an unholy cestpool of alt-right propaganda, they have chosen to stay there because their audience is the alt-right.

The DevOps way is to have them die at regular intervals in addition to other triggers and then rebuild on a regular cadence. Iirc correctly Netflix servers have a 12 hour TTL. Windscribe could easily do a 1-2 hour TTL with matching certs and encryption keys.

The biggest issue is that making a browser from scratch takes a lot of resources. It’s not cheap and takes a long time.

We essentially have Chrome and Firefox now. And Firefox is starting to enshitify.

We desperately need a third browser.

The files were held by the DOJ, the literal department responsible for investigating crimes of this magnitude.

They’ve been held for at least two administrations and were ordered released by an act of Congress.

At what point is it “enough time”?

The goal of companies mandating RTO is attrition. They want people to quit without firing or laying them off.

Their goal is to hire younger, hungrier (both literally and figuratively) coders who are cheaper and less experienced and will use “AI” to clean up their code.

Yeah the title of this post is confusing.

It reads as if piefed blocks anti-Musk content, not blocks Musk content.

Trump is proving once and for all that so long as he doesn’t get punished for it, everything he does is legal.

Bare in mind that the government requires a warrant to obtain data against you, the barrier in which to get a warrant requires probable cause.

Obtaining data about you from a company only requires a subpoena if the company doesn’t cooperate.

BUYING data about you from the same company is completely allowed.

Until we get privacy laws, we are truly fucked.

I wanted to like lawn chair and gave them an honest try but so many features I have come to rely on weren’t quite there.

I realize that they were designed as a replacement of pixel’s launcher but still… I would have loved to keep using them.

I am now using a paid version of Smart Launcher and praying to God that they won’t do what Nova did.