It does affect our hobbies but at the same time, it's about controlling for what you can and then investing only a reasonable amount of effort on what you cannot. For example, I can't stop Sam Altman and his ilk from buggering up world economies but I can refuse to pay them and stick to using their tooling as a "free" offload for incredibly specific menial tasks one would normally assign to a PA knowing that doing so brings the bubble one step closer to popping each and every time without providing any useful training data whatsoever.

Plus, it works both ways: For those who do derive value from using LLMs for code auditing and improvements, when their software is FOSS, I benefit from the constant incremental improvements the developers make through automated writing of test cases, of hardened systemd unit files and it'll soon be very doable for distros like Fedora to start going all out on SELinux targeted policies.

...all we have to remember is for every brainrot generated, they get one step closer to bankruptcy.

There's also the fact that federated protocols like SMTP rely upon multiple modifications and retransmissions, where if the tax didn't exclude traffic internal to France, then everyone else in the chain could deny responsibility, as one can't tax everyone in the chain for the same thing. So that means they either tax foreign ISPs which then blackhole all of France, or they accept they can only tax a select number of multinationals that do business in France but supply their services from outside of France. If it's the former, France loses access to online gaming, among other things, if it's the latter, then anonymous P2P becomes exempt due to a lack of registered legal entity to tax.

The solution to this problem is to hold people criminally liable for what their computers do to other people and their computers, job done.

Any kind of specific AI regulation is going to ban you from doing otherwise perfectly legal things on computers you own, and if you're asking for that, you are begging for your own serfdom.

The branding became an all encompassing thing and that was a mistake that had to be rectified. People thought of it all as summarising text, generating images and natural English commands (generative model use) and wanted to gut the lot because of it. It's similar to the mistake Mozilla made where they included a toggle to

There's no relationship between what people want rid of and tab grouping in Safari, automated password changing in Passwords, an improved voice dictation model, grabbing related/relevant data from other messaging sources when making calls and extending Photos/Camera object recognition to identify more details. All that comes under the Apple Intelligence banner because all of it uses new NPU-optimised algorithms which don't rely on cheeky hardcoded hacks to work.

A combination of desktop-grade mandatory access controls mediated by launch services through TCC, built-in restrictions with the quartz compositor and the ubiquitous use of hardened runtime means the expectation on macOS is that an application generally does not have access to everything. No cross-application memory access, logs with private information scrubbed even locally, keylogging restricted to a small subset of apps you choose to have the capability, screen scraping limited to the app itself and the global menu bar along the top, etc. In Golden Gate, they're even blocking access to application data directories per-app, starting off with a blacklist approach with the later goal in future versions to make everything fully isolated using whitelisting.

Different OS, different security model to the UNIX tradition the moment GUI apps are used.

If it is x86 hardware then slap on ChromeOS Flex until 2034 and by then someone will have recreated it as just Chromium atop the equivalent of matchbox window manager but using Wayland instead

Try running a Loki Games installer and watch it fall over because head and tail are no longer compatible with themselves without using random, obscure environment variables to try and restore the original default behaviour. That is just the tip of the iceberg for backwards incompatible changes internal to "old" utilities which do in fact still receive regular changes.

My only complaint with Canonical's approach was pushing half and half into an Ubuntu LTS, which was clearly a terrible idea to anyone watching, but now they're stuck with it, I'm sure they'll learn from it.

Idiots will be idiots but thankfully not all countries have judgmental idiots trying to punish other idiots. But hey, that is what brainwashing about so-called freedoms you have in principle which you do not actually have in practice does to people.

If over here we imprisoned people for admitting they did drugs while pregnant, then people would just outright refuse medical treatment when they need it due to a lack of trust. Instead, if people admit to it, we get them free help and support so they can deliver a healthy child, and if later on in the term it turns out that thereâ(TM)s damage done, then a medically-assisted termination of the pregnancy can still occur if two doctors assess the evidence and sign off on it.

WPA Enterprise has this covered. The certificate check occurs during the connection, prior to authentication. Procedurally generated credentials could be printed on to your tickets in advance, designed to work both at airports and during flights.

Considering that just about every website which facilitates any kind of public facing user-to-user communication is what politicians call social media (which would also technically include Slashdot, decades old random PHPBB forums and sites like Newgrounds) I think all this blaming of social media instead of naming and shaming the specific commercially operated websites responsible for the tragedies, needs to end.

Otherwise, if we are going to blame anything and everything, the argument might as well be microplastics.

The law says children cannot purchase or be sold cigarettes, which is not the same thing as saying children cannot smoke. Likewise, with this law, it is perfectly legal for children to use social media, it is just illegal for the companies to target children and have to provide a means of proving that they do something to try and stop children using their services.

Teenagers still experiment with cigarettes, light drugs and start drinking somewhere around the age of 15 like they should and politicians can keep on making a big fuss out of things which simply are not problems to distract from actual real world problems. Like social media.

IMHO, Mozilla should start competing with the rest of the ad blocking browsers, and commit to fully integrating adblock-rust explicitly for that purpose. They should tell the truth they've always been too scared to tell (for fear of losing income) which is that enshittification is unstoppable without going nuclear on the rampant commercialisation of the open Internet, and that people are going to stump up the necessary funds to enable Mozilla to deal with it.

The threat of using DRM to counteract such a move is a complete paper tiger, since it would ruin all the smart device integrations (especially on TVs and older games consoles) which can't be easily updated in the process, as well as break essential enterprise security scanning techniques to the point where it would relegate all but the most banal of entertainment-related services to obscurity.

It's time for management to be brave and grow a pair.

Action cams are what people typically go with for that use case. Better quality video and audio with better runtimes for a fraction of the price, enabling folks to add them to helmets, handlebars/chest and more for multiple angles. These Meta glasses are actually worse than Google Glass and have greater cloud dependence. Maybe the only saving grace will be longer support than Google provided.

Britain has a historical defence pact with Ukraine, which unlike Russia, it is actually honouring. An inconvenient truth is that without the very defence pact formed as part of the Budapest Memorandum (which resulted in Ukraine relinquishing its nuclear arsenal and the UK being duty bound to provide aid) every major Russian city would have probably been (very legitimately) nuked in self-defence by now. Thankfully, it's just a bunch of drones sabotaging Russian national infrastructure, and it could all end tomorrow if Russia was willing to actually honour what it too had originally promised instead of trying to play a failed game of conquest.

Likewise, it was Russia's leadership which created the "Ukrainian Nazism problem" that it's complaining about by spearheading a violent uprising in the mid-2010s which turned fringe groups into recognised militia (e.g. Azov) who are now perceived as heroes of the people seen as acting in the best interests of the Ukrainian majority. It isn't just Ukrainians but also Jews, Muslims, Greeks, Crimeans, disgruntled Russians and Belarusians who all ended up uniting under the same banner that was originally considered to be Nazi-adjacent. The irony is that both the problem and the resulting "denazification" all happened in the blink of an eye, and now those so-called "Neo-Nazis" will be forever remembered for protecting Ukraine from an invasion by an evil Russian dictator called Vladimir Putin.

If I was Vlad, I'd be pulling out and claiming the military operation to be a success before integrating all those volunteer North Koreans into Russian society.

At this point, webmasters should accept very short lived client TLS keys signed by neutral third parties who take care of the proof of humanity on their behalf. Since security requirements for most websites are low, even places like libraries could issue them if needs be, and webmasters could choose how many or how few authorities they trust. The standard could be used creatively such that Valid To field is used purely as an limiter for initiating trust for the first time, providing convenience to users while making it easy to ban any bots which somehow slip through by banning a trusted entity or even a whole country if they are found to be on the fiddle.