Good luck building a distro that play nice with your fork, then. Systemd is embedded deep in most distro, replacing it without breaking things is not an easy task.

Damn. It’s only being talked about and people have already folded.

It’s only a date field. Then it’ll only be an API for other service integration. Then it’ll only be an optional plug into a remote service. Then it’ll only be an optional, but strongly recommended, dependency in other software. Then it’ll only be a digitally signed third-party value that’s mandatory. Then it’ll only be something most installer won’t proceed without.

We’ve been jumping from slippery slopes to slippery slopes over the past few years. It’s tiring. And the coincidental timing of all this is not helping.

Linux Distros (so far) Refusing Age Verification

The systemd dude, ever so flexible as long as the request does not come from actual users, is already working on adding this into core components, though.

It already happened in the actual demo pictures nvidia themselves provided. Colors appearing out of nowhere, details showing up or decor elements disappearing, etc.

It’s a shitshow, and it was the best they could garner in a finely controlled environment.

You can use the web page, aka udm14. You can also set this in your browser so that typing in the search/address bar directly opens this.

I have no idea if this particular development affects these results, but so far it’s been nice. No AI summary, no “similar” advertisement, no “questions about…”. Just plain results. Like, I don’t know, that old google website.

Sam Altman saying that programmers are not needed anymore is all the confirmation I need to know we’ll be very much needed, maybe a lot more than before, probably sooner than expected.

Who actually cares?

Every people that complains, for one. And the “back” feature, with apps that follows the guidelines, is quite useful and consistent.

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Setting up DoH, I already provide the expected name AND an IP. No need for plain DNS at any step. There’s no reason a corporate TV can’t do that either.

How about no, for a change.

And everytime I get a document in a Microsoft format I send a reply asking if this or that is supposed to look that way or be that value. Yet it’s the open format and tools that’s an issue somehow.

Yeah. I got a hunch of that a while ago, while trying some “old” scenarios of de-anonymization we used to do by hand. Just asking questions and posting pictures got surprisingly accurate results. A single picture with (to me) no significant landmark could lead to localizing a specific part of a city, and that was using a local LLM with a relatively small model, running on a 16GB VRAM 4060Ti.

It is now time to remember fondly the time where the younger people were warned by older people to not post all their stuff online, not over-share, be cautious about strangers, etc. I’m not sure when we lost that, but oh boy, it’s a festival.

No, I don’t think I wil.

I’ve seen a few passages of this, the required qualifications definitely not include “ability to read”.

Microsoft-supported formats are badly documented, and regularly broken by updates of the software before changes are understood (if there’s even an update to the loose spec we used to have). That’s a problem.

Sam, you little piece of shit, the thing is, most humans are cared for because that’s what we strive to, not because we want to replace them for fuck’s sake.

I made a joke a while ago about “kid being a necessary evil”. This dude really is comparing keeping humanity afloat and burning humanity’s resource for a computer. I’m pretty sure even his little AI garbage yesman would “disagree”.

That’s… not applicable here. Like, at all. To reproduce a printed document, you input it. To make a 3D print, you produce tailored list of operations depending on many, many settings. Usually, the file that reach the printer have little in the way of knowing what is printed, aside from expensive reconstruction that would only give the general shape, if even that. And even if you can send actual 3D model files to a printer that would do the slicing locally, there’s no “absolutely required” fingerprint there. A tube is a tube.

And, just so you know, there’s a slew of public printers and scanners that will just plain not recognize any of this, too. There’s also some “protection” pattern in some official document; large office printers would choke on them, where a home scanner was fine. This is, at best, only enforceable in the flimsiest of ways.

Let’s entertain the thought. How would one identify what is a gun part being printed, and what is a tube, a mechanical latch, or whatever else. Heck, I printed a plastic replica of a movie prop once. Would that be illegal?

I mean, I’m not in the US, and I know how to drive three steppers according to a list of extremely basic instructions that never ever represent anything “final part-y” looking, but the question remains. How do we go from “lots of gcode” to “yep, that’s definitely illegal” without saying that everything is illegal?

That’s basically what we used to do before big printer came in :D