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by inetknght 7mo ago
Both articles cite a New Mexico case about the Unfair Practices act. Though I don't see a link to a specific case in either article, I don't think they're separate cases.
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> Apple and Google have your credit card They don't have mine. Even if they did, having a credit card is not proof of age. > if you are a parent that bought soem phone for you child then at first boot up as a parent should be
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> From a practical perspective, that must in turn be backed by a multithreaded event loop to be useful Multithreaded? Nope. You can do C++ coroutines just fine in a single-threaded context. Event loop? Only if you're wanting to do
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by inetknght 7mo ago
It's even more interesting when the latest Windows games run better in Wine than in actual Windows 10/11.
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> What's unethical is taking yhe fruits of other people's work private: ranging from code contributions, through bug reports and evangelism. First, if it's open source, then the contributions are still there for everyone
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by inetknght 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance You might want to get your arguments in order. In one sentence you're calling OSS rugpulls a problem, and then in another you're claiming that proprietary pr
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> I think obsessively examining ones own comment history would verge on excessive If you write a journal, do you not sometimes review the things you've written? This is no different. If you read the whole journal every day before
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by inetknght 7mo ago
100% this.
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by inetknght 7mo ago
Luckily I don't work for an ad-supported business.
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> Would you ban ad supported apps? Yes, I absolutely would. Advertisements are a scourge upon people's wellbeing on top of being ugly and intrusive. If you want to build a free product, that's great. Build a free product. If
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> It should be externalized to a degree. Why? We don't externalize age verification when buying alcohol or visiting the strip club. It's on the responsibility of those establishments to verify age.
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> Nobody would have snickered if the Titanic were described as unsinkable by people who had been trying to sink it for 10 years. Pedantic: I'm sure somebody would have snickered about "unsinkable" if the Titanic sank a
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> Look at how business works in the rich west works. Everything is formalized with contracts, risk is portioned out and offloaded to every party under the sun. Sounds like formalized corruption to me.
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by inetknght 7mo ago
There are legitimate privacy concerns with requiring every website to collect a photo of your ID to prove you are not a minor. Those concerns are amplified when it's done even lower in the stack. You don't want a website to coll
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by inetknght 7mo ago
Everyone knows what's happening inside.
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> Thing is, when these “make the websites collect your ID” proposals come up, the overwhelming sentiment here is “this is terrible and we need to do it lower in the stack”. Perhaps the "overwhelming" sentiment is paid actors?
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> This is a non-issue because it's almost certainly going to be gated behind a permission prompt. lol. > Moreover is it really that much of a privacy loss if you go on steam, it asks you to verify you're over 18, and the
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> Nowhere else works like this. Are you serious? Because this comment doesn't make it sound like you're serious. EULAs and the like allow adults to simply click "I accept". That's apparently the way contracts w
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by inetknght 7mo ago
Buddy... I've been called a robot since long before AI became mainstream.
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by inetknght 7mo ago
Age verification is merely the background task to set up infrastructure for OS to provide many many other signals about who's using the device. Age signals from the OS? Need to provide a channel of information available to applications
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> I want age verification Why?
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> Physical businesses Physical businesses nominally aren't selling their items to people across state or country borders. Of course, we threw that out when we decided people could buy things online. How'd that tax loophole tu
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> There is ZERO use for anyone for your health data 0 You really think that?
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by inetknght 7mo ago
Are you sure you're talking about Claude? Because it sounds like you're describing how a lot of people function. They can't seem to follow instructions either. I guess that's what we get for trying to get LLM to behave h
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> If the UI asks a yes/no question, the “no” should be enforced as a state transition that blocks write actions, not passed back into the model as more text to interpret. If the UI asks a yes/no question, the UI is broken. I
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by inetknght 7mo ago
It's not on the main page. Click the top link to the blog [0]. [0]: https://malus.sh/blog.html
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by inetknght 7mo ago
> Go to more company events for the tech you use. Careful: you don't want to poison the well you drink from. Relationships can sour. Accusations (false or not) can easily translate directly to not having a job when your dating poo
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by inetknght 8mo ago
Not yet.
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by inetknght 8mo ago
Arguments against call it immoral, while counter-arguments call it "legitimate". Meanwhile, three-time Billionaire claims he's solved the problem using soylent green while fifty thousand people react in awe at the live presen
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by inetknght 8mo ago
Data has negative weight on optical media. The data gets burned off of it!

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