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by akersten 7mo ago
Code is speech. Open source projects are an exercise in speaking publicly. This law mandates particular speech in your otherwise Free as in freedom code. How are you not outraged? People are missing the above forest for the "oh but it&
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by akersten 7mo ago
If we insist on stretching this absurd metaphor, the government would be issuing civil penalties to "water distributors" who provide water without the requisite floridation, where "water distributors" includes not just A
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by akersten 7mo ago
I think those boomer firms are asleep at the wheel and this kind of market engineering will completely blindside them. Vanguard can't even figure out how to show me my cost basis on the same screen as the one where I sell a security. W
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by akersten 7mo ago
> But banning OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini would fix a lot of this. I doubt that anyone authoring these laws even thinks about the two concepts on the same day. I think these issues are totally separate.
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by akersten 7mo ago
People, generally, have no grasp of what they really want or what downstream effects of what they think they want look like. They don't know what it would take to effect that ban. In fact, I would speculate that if the same group were
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by akersten 7mo ago
> it's basically the government said "no asbestos in food" and some contrarians it's actually the government saying "you must include salt in your food" and a few people who cook dinner at home and don'
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by akersten 7mo ago
> It's not even meaningfully de-anonymizing! Until I poll the API every day until the bucket changes and now I know your exact birthdate. This law is not well-baked.
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by akersten 7mo ago
> Anti-cheat just has to keep the barrier high enough so regular players don't think the game is infested with cheaters. And even that's the (relatively) straightforward part. The hard part is doing this without injuring the ke
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by akersten 7mo ago
Nice, but in this case the advocate is open and willing to take the heat himself, even encouraging it.
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by akersten 7mo ago
Sorry, was I too punk rock on hacker news?
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by akersten 7mo ago
Just because it's easy doesn't mean it's right. Give legislative busybodies the ability to force this little flag into the OS because it's no big deal, and next year they'll say "hey, make sure you only report
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by akersten 7mo ago
Debian's interests, whether they know it or not, is for the government not to be able to mandate what features must be present in their open source software. They should be happy to have such a vocal advocate involved in this important
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by akersten 7mo ago
Now this is what open source development should look like. I cannot believe a few days ago I was thumbing through an email thread on freedesktop.org about how they could implement the mandatory government API in dbus. Can they not read th
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by akersten 7mo ago
I don't know. Is pointing out that someone holding a drill by the chuck won't get the results they expect that bad?
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by akersten 7mo ago
This is very frustrating as someone who has seen every iteration of this in practice. It's wild to me that we don't simply have a `display: accessibility-tree-only` CSS prop and be done with it. The standards body bringing up &quo
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by akersten 7mo ago
In the context of the discussion a correspondingly negative event would have been along the lines of "we built a data center and then it exploded, we need to make sure that doesn't happen." Not "we're worried about
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by akersten 7mo ago
I didn't say any of that in my comment nor express an opinion about this whole thing writ large. I'm only pointing out that it's not weird for legislature to preempt a real world use case by way of pointing out similar laws.
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by akersten 7mo ago
Eh, if states can pass restrictive laws on AI in absence of a correspondingly negative motivating event, I don't see any contradiction in doing the opposite.
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by akersten 7mo ago
I think you are still missing the point. No one in this thread is making an anthropological assertion. "Thinking" here is just shorthand for Chain of Thought[0], which some models have and some models don't. This model, being
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by akersten 7mo ago
> What stymies IPv6 is human laziness more than anything else. It's not hard to set up. I think the biggest barrier to IPv6 adoption is that this is just categorically untrue and people keep insisting that it isn't, reducing th
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by akersten 7mo ago
That definitionally is censorship, whether you think its effects are just or not.
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by akersten 7mo ago
I shouldn't need to - if it doesn't foundationally offend you that Spain has endorsed a private entity with the ability to routinely turn off part of the Internet for their own private convenience then fundamentally we have a di
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by akersten 7mo ago
Oh, no, not that Europe. You were of course talking about the Europe with Spain (oh wait, La Liga has a cloudflare kill switch). You were of course talking about the Europe with Italy (oh wait, the Piracy Shield). You were of course talki
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by akersten 7mo ago
It's probably a convenience feature. Tons of sites out there that start on www then bounce you to secure2.bank.com then to auth. and now you're on www2.bank.com and for some inexplicable reason need to type your login again. Actua
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by akersten 7mo ago
In the earnest interpretation of your question that presumes you're not trying to drag this into a quagmire of nitpicking over the metaphor, the analogous part of the California law to the casserole ingredient advertisement is announci
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by akersten 7mo ago
I don't know how you can say this: > And quite an elegant one at that. Without involving any government identifiers or anything else. and this: > There is a law, and there will be others to help improve it. > Combined with th
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by akersten 7mo ago
> Free software is already mandated to do a lot of things, like not defraud the user. Surely you recognize the difference between "you cannot go out of your way to do crime" and "your software must include this specific fe
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by akersten 7mo ago
We should collectively make sure that any PRs trying to land these changes are very well reviewed. We wouldn't want any security holes to slip by. I think a couple dozen rounds of reviews should suffice. I've heard great things ab
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by akersten 7mo ago
There is already age verification at the ISP level. They only sell Internet service to adults. What the adults choose to do with it or with whom they share it with should be of zero concern to the government. Of course, that's an ineff

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