Now we know how they’ll get from serving coffee, to this prediction from 2006:

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.

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).

Update: I see the issue now.

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.

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.

Don’t like Fortnite? Think Roblox is bad? …and all the remaining points?

Wait until you see the future of gaming, coming to Xbox:

Muse, a Generative AI Model for Gameplay Ideation

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/02/19/muse-ai-xbox-empowering-creators-and-players/

Not a matter of “dignity”, but for me it depends:

• If I’m really interested in a game, and the difficulty proves to be too high from the beginning, or can be changed at any time… then I would try a lower setting.
• If I had already invested some time into playing it, and the difficulty proved to be too high… then I would rather abandon the game rather than start from scratch with a lower setting.

Chances are though, that changing the difficulty after some time playing, would feel like a total nerf, and I would abandon it anyways.

Same way I feel about non-cosmetic purchases. I made the mistake of falling for some back in the day, and shortly after abandoned the games… because they felt much less like a challenge, and too much like a pointless money grab. My current limit on micro-transactions is either fewer than 3, or $1.

What if inflation goes down?

Price × 1.05 × 1.03 × 1.01… is still larger than the initial price.

Unless there is deflation, prices always go up.

TLDR: It’s a mess.

Back in the day, I started migrating notepad stuff to Markdown on a Wiki. Then on a MediaWiki. Then DokuWiki. Then ZimWiki. Then Joplin. Then GitHub Pages and a self-hosted Jeckyll.

Each, single, one, of, them, uses a slightly different flavor of Markdown. At this point, I have stuff spread over ALL OF THEM, much of it rotting away in “backups to migrate later”. 😮‍💨
I’ve been considering “vibe coding” some converters…

As for syncing… the Markdown part is easy: git.
Working with a Markdown editor to update GH Pages, was a good experience.
Having ZimWiki auto-sync to git, was good, but didn’t find a decent compatible editor for Android.
I switched to Joplin lured by the built-in auto-sync options, but kind of regret it now, when it has a folder with thousands of files in it.

Obsidian is not OSS itself, but has an OSS plugin to sync to git.
I’ve read that using Logseq alongside Obsidian should be possible… and was planning to test that setup, keeping Obsidian in charge of sync. Possibly with GitHub/Jeckyll, git-lfs for images and attachments.

PS: assuming one could have working back-and-forth converters for the different Markdown flavors, and everything stored in git, then one could theoretically use git hooks to convert to/from whatever local version used by a particular editor.

You’ve gotten to be kidding… /s

As an English as an n-th language speaker, I’m much less picky about regional dialects, and tend to bunch them all up together… then rely on autocorrect — or the occasional Google search — to pick up on slang and regionalisms.

From a correlation to Spanish/Latin tenses, and the etymology of “got + -en”, I got the impression that “gotten” was closer to a strictly pluscuamperfect meaning, with “got” being a more simplified replacement for all past participles.

Does that make any sense?

Trad wife = Maid-mom-slave with benefits

I’m seriously appalled at how brainwashed a woman has to be to agree to something like that… and guys who dig it, are just sick abusive intellectual buffoon sociopaths.

Either form a partnership, or go watch some porn, FFS.

Yeah, I don’t think I like llamafile, reusing some weights between models, and smaller updates, sounds like a better idea.

What I’d like to see is a unified WebNN support, for CPU, GPU, and NPU: WebNN Overview

(Not to pull rank, but my mail profile can be tracked to Netscape Navigator, across multiple OSs 😁)

I was going to say that AI has a lot of implications in the online world that Mozilla was supposed to promote… but maybe you’re right, the AI genie is out of the bottle and there is little left to do about it. Its impact will be whatever it will be, no matter what people want to say about it.

Not sure which “old Mozilla” you want, the 1998 one? the 2005 one? the 2015 one? It has changed a lot indeed, but kind of has been Google’s anti-anti-thrust shield for 20+ years.