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The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

  • TIL: Iranian Women Graduate in STEM at Nearly 3× the Rate of U.S. Women — and Has 5× More PhD Students Per Capita

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  • Mahsa Amini.

  • Linux in California is in deep trouble.

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  • Colorado and New York will have this same law soon. Brazil already does.

  • Shhhhhhhhh

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  • Mmmm, ain't many Silent Gens left. I'm having brunch with one right now and he's 89.

  • By bullying Anthropic, the Pentagon is violating the First Amendment. Here’s why.

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  • Because not everybody is willing to roll over and give up.

  • Scientists Invented an Entirely New Method of Refrigeration

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  • Heat IS energy.

  • Seattle, WA sign on not allowing the staging of fascist paramilitary invaders

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  • I doubt any of the places across the country that have done the same will actually prevent ICE from setting up in whatever area they want.

    It won't. ICE is legally able to enter any public space in the performance of their duties and a public park certainly qualifies as a "public space" no matter what the sign says.

  • Why California is Reconsidering Nuclear Energy After 50-Year Ban | The state is one of several looking into allowing new nuclear reactors to meet climate goals as AI power demand surges.

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  • Those laws have existed at the federal level for decades.

  • Why California is Reconsidering Nuclear Energy After 50-Year Ban | The state is one of several looking into allowing new nuclear reactors to meet climate goals as AI power demand surges.

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  • As they should IMO. SMRs look like a good solution to a lot of power problems, including the electricity needs of Data Centers.

  • Colorado lawmakers push for age verification at the operating system level

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  • Where in the bill does it say that?

    I appreciate that you provided a link to the bill in your previous comment and I'm taking my response directly from there. Here's a quote of the first sentence of the bill summary.

    "The bill requires a developer to request an age signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the developer's application is downloaded and launched. " (Emphasis Mine).

    Okay so maybe it's a bad summary, let's look at the text of the bill. On the 2nd page it says:

    "The bill requires a developer to request an age signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the developer's application is downloaded and launched." (Emphasis mine).

    Then again on Page 5:

    "(2) (a) A DEVELOPER SHALL REQUEST AN AGE SIGNAL WITH RESPECT TO A PARTICULAR USER FROM AN OPERATING SYSTEM PROVIDER OR A COVERED APPLICATION STORE WHEN THE DEVELOPER'S APPLICATION IS DOWNLOADED AND LAUNCHED."

    So yeah, the bill literally says it in both the summary and the text.

    So what is an application?

    From Page 3 "APPLICATION" MEANS A SOFTWARE APPLICATION THAT BE RUN OR DIRECTED BY A USER ON A DEVICE." Huh, no ambiguity there.

    And where would that make sense? What would Notepad or File Explorer do with my age range? That would make no sense at all.

    Ask Colorado and California, it's their legislation.

    And yes, as a professional developer I would definetely comply and use this API instead of bothering my customers...

    That's good because if you don't then you cannot have users in California nor in Colorado (assuming this legislation passes in Colorado).

    ...every time by askIng them to confirm their age, but since I’ve never worked on any age restricted software in the first place, it does not affect any of my products.

    **Why do you think that matters?**There is no exception for your apps in the the Colorado or California legislation! You as a dev MUST comply with this law. If you choose not too then I hope you are prepared to deal with up to a $2,500 fine per user that turns out to be a minor!

    "6-30-104. Enforcement - penalties.3 (1) A PERSON THAT VIOLATES THIS ARTICLE SHALL PAY A CIVIL PENALTY OF NO MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH MINOR AFFECTED BY EACH NEGLIGENT VIOLATION, OR NO MORE THAN SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH MINOR AFFECTED BY EACH INTENTIONAL VIOLATION. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SHALL ASSESS AND RECOVER THE PENALTY IN A CIVIL ACTION ."

    Hmmm, okay well what is an "app store", maybe your app is distributed in a way that allows you to sidestep the law?

    "(5) (a) "COVERED APPLICATION STORE " MEANS A PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INTERNET WEBSITE , SOFTWARE APPLICATION, ONLINE SERVICE, OR PLATFORM THAT DISTRIBUTES AND FACILITATES THE DOWNLOAD OF APPLICATIONS FROM THIRD- PARTY DEVELOPERS TO USERS OF DEVICES ."

    Soooo, if you're stuff is available on Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, GOS, STEAM, EA, or anyone else's app store you need to comply. If your stuff is distributed from your own website you need to comply. If your stuff is distributed from GitHub you need to comply. If your stuff is distributed via package manager on Linux (that's a software application!) then you need to comply.

    Colorado's legislation is slightly smarter than California's in that it at least carves out some exceptions regarding applications for Enterprise, Commercial, and Government use but there are still caveats.

    tl;dr This law and California's clearly and specifically apply to applications as well as Operating Systems, are not "neat", and its easy to predict that most F/OSS developers absolutely will not comply with these restrictions.

  • Colorado lawmakers push for age verification at the operating system level

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  • This bill is not "neat". It literally REQUIRES every piece of software in existence to query for the users age bracket. Do you think that any F/OSS software devs are going to comply with this horseshit?

  • Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

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  • MSO and EXO have a value proposition that Cloud PC doesn't and Cloud PC at minimum doubles the cost.

  • Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

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  • It was never crazy and people were predicting this since the 90s. It's essentially a return to the dumb terminal & mainframe paradigm that was in use prior to desktop pcs.

  • Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

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  • Business's will not adore this. Cloud PCs in M365 or Azure cost money, often as much per year as it would cost to just purchase a pc to begin with.

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • Read the legislation. It's not just operating systems, its applications as well! All applications, there are no exceptions. Everything from GIMP to the EHR your Doctor uses to a custom Open Claude bot on Github. ALL of them.

  • Mamdani signs New York executive order targeting ICE

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  • Maybe MAGA will ignore it, but at least you are forcing them to break an actual law, which you can now hold against them.

    They're already breaking actual law and What Mamdani has done is just an Executive Order. His EOs are no more "law" than fucking Trump, Obama, or Bush Jr's were.

  • Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already

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  • You don’t have enough AI-ready GPU cores so Teams is running the local copilot model on the CPU with your most recent outlook emails in order to prepare a dummy to send to the cloud for further analysis

    That's a depressingly probable reason even though you meant it as techno-babble. It is actually possible that the machine doesn't have enough NPU power!

    isn’t it time to get off Windows?

    I'm already using Linux everywhere I can both personally and at work, heck even my work laptop is running Linux. The blocker on my work desktop is that the remote access tool I use multiple times a day doesn't have a functional Linux version.

    I could switch my work desktop over to Apple but I've never liked MacOS.

  • It's uh, it went... it gone... it's... out for lunch.

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  • If GW were alive today questions about Church v State would probably be way down on his list of "WTF is going on here?!".

    I mean the BoR applying to the States, individual taxes, the stupid amount of power that the Federal Government has, the utter disregard of the 9th and 10th Amendments, our large standing Army...all of these things would be of WAY more concern and confusion to him.

  • Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already

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  • I'll hate it because this already happens with links in MS Teams where despite having a high spec work computer it makes the system so sluggish that the mouse cursor won't move smoothly for 15 seconds or so while it sorts itself out.

    I mean I've already got a Core i7 with 32G of RAM and an NVME sitting on my desk so how much freaking horsepower is THIS little stunt going to take?

  • Mamdani signs New York executive order targeting ICE

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  • Why do you think this would confuse them? Their boss will spend about 30 seconds covering this one morning "I know that NYC did an Executive Order to keep us out of public spaces (room chuckles) but that doesn't carry any legal authority. Ignore it."

    I mean they seemingly ignore most other laws so even if this Executive Orders was enforceable, and it's not, what makes you think they wouldn't ignore this as well?

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    What's a good printer for ASA filament?

  • Linux Mint @lemmy.ml
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    Mint 21 / 22 touchscreen annoyances.

  • Linux Mint @lemmy.ml
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    I tried LMDE "Faye".

  • Proton @lemmy.world
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    Is Proton a good choice for what I want to do?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Automation Question - What am I missing?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Have a ratGDO v2.5i and no case for it?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Correct way to control Sidewalk Heating Mats

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    How do I add a cool down to an automation?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    I need some help choosing how to setup lights and camera for my driveway.

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Why shouldn't I use Reolink Cameras?