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2 months agoAge limits wouldn’t hurt either. Like, 20 might be too young, but 80 is not much better.
Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
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1·3 months agoI 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.
6·4 months ago(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.
Poisoning what? Intentional poisoning doesn’t work, and self-consumption only works when it’s the exact same model feeding its own next version.
There’s this:
Breaking NATO also has a chance of destroying the USD, which could be related to these:
20·5 months agoWomen using sycophantic chatbots that they 100% control, is stil about power and control. One is about bodies, the other is about minds, that’s the only difference.
Depending on how much is “too much power”, people might still want to purchase them at a discount for self-hosting purposes. The future is most likely to go through a decentralization of AI services, with spme higher efficiency large providers, combined with lower efficiency edge nodes for less demanding usage… at least, until the next order of magnitude technological shift.
Counter proposal: dynamic tactile buttons.
The tech already existed in 2013, just develop it further.
https://www.robaid.com/gadgets/tactus-technology-haptic-feedback-on-dynamic-user-interface.htm
Check the history of ReCaptcha: it started by helping digitize booksxfir the Gutenberg Project, then once it got acquired by Google, it switched to house numbers, street signs (auto driving?), and is now helping with object identification.
Strictly speaking, math gets proven from scratch by every math student. Software is slightly different, since most of it never gets a formal proof at all.
Me. Tiny strong magnets, are good for reasonably strong attraction at short distances. Uses so far:
- Magnetic latches for small parts drawers (2 per drawer, 50 drawers)
- Press-fitting a bunch, into molten plastic holes on the back of a digital thermometer (heat makes them lose strength, so the stronger they start, the better)
- Signal for a hall effect sensor (1 sensor, n magnets)
They should always be securely glued in place, though.
I’ve seen people use thinner ones, inside the lid of a gift box, as a latch. Also as a magnet for a LED throwie.
The problem, is stupidity like this:
Science for Kids: DIY Magnetic LED Lights
Don’t let dumb kids anywhere near them! 🤦
I can answer the “let alone 100” part: they get sold as cubes of 216, 512, 1000 tiny magnet balls, or as packs of 80, 100, 200, etc. tiny magnets.
Why would anyone swallow them… the sale is restricted to 13+ or 18+ in most places, but some (including parents) are unaware of the dangers, and they go for like $2 for 100pcs.
No… Google’s 😆
This is what I get:
Sounds more plausible. Even without cells containing them to optimize the process, if enough of the biochemical components remained in the soil, even with broken up DNA and RNA strands, it seems plausible that the processes of life could continue for as long as there is an energy input, like keeping them in an incubator. Even to the point of going through most of the motions of life, including the assembly of enzymes.
They would need to either try with a mixture of minerals that never had any contact with any biological spillover (hard to do on Earth), or catalogue all the chemical compounds present in the breathing soil samples.