Yeah, and even native stuff is super bloated now.

I noticed an instance of Brave with all of the features turned off sitting at a new tab page was using 230MB.

I remember doing OK with a version of Firefox that supported xhtml and JavaScript 2 that ran on a machine with 16MB of RAM total.

And the current browsing experience isn't somehow instantaneous on a CPU with 16x the cores running at 10x the clock. The user response time is about the same.

I think that browser itself ran in 4-8MB. Probably with the Flash plugin loaded too.

FWIW that old machine would take about 15 minutes to encode a 3 minute mp3 file and my current machines does it in about six seconds. So the hardware gains are real.

Maybe ML will actually be able to find some optimizations that are too cumbersome for humans to manage.

You people have gone insane.

Stop trying to control every atom of existence and every move people make.

You're sick in the head, not visionaries, not thought leaders.

Go plant a garden and get back in touch with the real world.

No, NOT FARMVILLE!

> genuine question - why was this code pushed now

Zuckerberg has aggressively been bribing politicians to enact this at the State level.

Several news stories about it though you have to search for terms like 'lobbying' and 'Meta' as fig leaves.

An exception is the Zeropatch technique where they dynamically update machine code of the OS in memory on the fly for folks who can't tolerate downtime.

It's certainly not common on unix systems.

Or an IoT device running a 2.6 kernel that is never going to be updated. :)

Did Dolby break any countermeasures of Snap's copyrighted code in what would appear to be a significant reverse-engineering effort to make this determination?

Or do they only have a suspicion?

This scenario reminds me of the SCO lawsuits when the progress of technology made that company obsolete.

Count the number of "former" intelligence officials on his company's board.

Then search for the many photos of him mouth-kissing his father and son (RIP).

They use both carrots and sticks to control compromised people.

I took mine apart and there were two separate display modules for the 4K screen with ribbon cables I didn't recognize so I just put it back together and stuck in an HDMI streaming stick flashed to LineageOS.

I got one around 2008. They were the best of the non-premium 1080p HDMI screens at the time.

The one I got had slightly better test review scores on display quality than the LG that year. The Sony was 20% better for 3x the price.

It lasted about twelve years and by then a bigger 4K with much brighter colors was half the cost in nominal dollars, so probably 1/4 the cost in real terms.

And by then cheap flashable streaming sticks were available as was pihole and fairly easy outbound NAT rewriting rules to keep the beasts contained.

Well nothing we think of as "critical infrastructure" is using consumer routers - and if it were that could and should be remedied quickly without a ban on consumer routers.

So ... this leaves us with an open question for this to make legal sense.

The best fit is probably an Internet Drivers License and mandatory packet signing for a surveillance control grid and CBDC coming down the pike rapidly.

When in the course of Human Events....

Why do people tolerate these things from both Google and Apple? Do you use your Macbook Pro without an Apple ID? You can't even functionally use an iPhone without an Apple ID.

Why do you tolerate this from these companies?

Why do you tolerate upsells on web properties from Google to get you to move to Chrome? Or why do you tolerate Chrome's incessant fucking nagging to login to your browser/Google Account while using the browser or visiting any Google websites?

Do you completely use your Google items without any of these things?

Yeah, not sure if you remember the Vegan Crossfit Pythonistas.

Instead of saying, "we could write a program to..." they would dogmatically intone, "we could write a Python script to..." in almost every situation.

Not sure who taught them the NLP but their dedication was a fervor.

A whole lot of rewriting of fast, debugged, working code got rewritten by them just because Perl, Ruby, and Bash felt like heresy.. For a while python stacktraces were the error message of common use on Fedora.

Now that we know that Meta lobbied for all of these simultaneous "age verification" laws he's losing what little support he still had.

Have you seen that interview where he just has a bottle of barbecue sauce on his bookshelf?

To make him "relatable" they say?

There's a decades old cartoon that asks, "how would you like your tyranny wrapped, in 'stopping terrorism' or 'protecting the children'?

2025 edit: 'stopping antisemitism' as that's all DoJCRD seems to know about.

What we ultimately need is a digital ID system that can be used to participate in a global open standard for identity verification. With users in control over which information they share with websites. That digital ID system should be government run and operated. Speaking from within the US, what that means is each state needs their own application deployed that meets the standards necessary.

The token, at a bare minimum, should include a completely anonymized cryptographic identifier, and an issuing authority identifier. A trust chain should be established at the IANA level similar to how we do DNSSEC. This at the bare minimum establishes that the account in question *somehow* properly identified to a government agency somewhere. And traces back to the agency that identified that account. This isn't particularly a super duper strong barrier to fake accounts, but it does make it more costly. Those accounts/bot farms will now have to be intertwined with a government somewhere to get properly identified.

The next identifying marker in the above token should be something along the lines of "ofage", "adult", or something along those lines. Rather than specifically marking as "over 18", since many countries have different laws and rules around what they consider appropriate for different age groups. This marker won't actually include your actual age, but whether or not you meet the definition of being of age in that country. The issuing authority could behind the scenes just mark literally everybody as "ofage" if they don't care about it. The decision to determine what "of Age" means rests entirely on the issuing authority, and the only thing returned to the application/website is a boolean value.

So now you've got an asymmetrically signed token with an Issuing Authority; an Anonymous, cryptographically unique Identifier; and a boolean value on whether you meet their country's "of age" definition.

As a user, you should be able to choose which information you provide to applications. The bare minimum should be the Issuing Authority and the Cryptographically-Unique Identifier. But that's about it. Everything else, including whether you wish to share the "ofAge" attribute should be entirely on the end user. And if you want, give users the option to share identifying information if they so choose. Or just leave that out of the spec entirely.

No, it wasn't. But the bot problem has gotten significantly worse than what it ever was. And it's a tough problem to solve without de-anonymizing everybody in the process.

I think there's a very different expectation between "content that's AI-generated" and the expectation that comments sections, review scores, etc. are human. There's a difference between someone posting an AI video and the comment section of said video being nothing but AI bots. Furthermore, it's even more of a problem when those AI bots are dressed up as "real average joes". Hell, it was already a problem before with troll farms in south east Asia, let alone the scale of which AI allows you to build a troll farm. Absolutely unprecedented.

States have no rights in the American system. They have powers, insofar as they exercise them.

Humans have rights, granted by God, as the default religious basis for the Natural Rights Republic.

You'll notice that Regulating AI appears nowhere in Article I , and Federalist 10 explains why these powers were strictly limited.

Yet the Political/Parasite class is happy to abrogate their power for power and money and ensure a government school child never hears about The Federalist Papers in thirteen years of compulsory schooling.

So we're left with too few Americans who even know they should be livid.

Perhaps letting Robert Maxwell and Howard Zinn be in charge of the textbooks was a massive and fatal mistake.