That's exactly why the flags are a better solution. Not good, mind you. The OS has no business handling this. But better, because it's the only way for a service or site to know whether the user is legal in their residence.

No, it's not "slippery slope", and it's not a fallacy. The reason Secure Boot is still not locked down is because of the massive reactions to it, and the way its use is being monitored by cadres of both security professionals and enterprise money who have a vested interest in it actually providing increased security and not blocking their use case.

There is neither any such use case, or any such interests, involved in this case. The functionality is added for no other reason than surveillance. It has no other use case. There is nothing about this that can provide a huge positive effect on security for millions of people, and no financial interest to turn it that way. On the contrary, the financial interest is to always keep tabs on who is logged in, preferably connected to a government issued ID.

That's not slippery slope. That's what the companies AND the governments want. They've wanted that since the Internet appeared, and they're not hiding it. In China, they have it. And here Poettering is building it into SystemD, one step at the time.

Delegating work to an assistant doesn't come with the assistant consistently providing incorrect information with authority, and being literally unable to learn from experience or being taught. So no, it doesn't map to that at all.

This is part of why studies are showing a dulling of intellectual capability from use of LLM's. Doing verification of LLM output instead of thinking for oneself, even if only done some of the time, is harmful. Given how confident LLM generated output reads, I'm not surprised by this at all.

My experience is that it's usually the opposite. Verifying LLM output is soul numbingly boring compared to solving problems. It also dulls the intellect, as several studies have ascertained.

Not in most engineering tasks. The further along a problem gets before its found, the more 0's are added to the cost of fixing it. It's very cheap to make a fix in concept stage, more costly in design stage, starting to hurt in implementation face, and if it makes it past that, costs start being the kind that takes down small companies and get managers of larger corporations fired.

You even explain how CAD has massively increased productivity. It's very easy to take an existing solution and alter it to suit another purpose. This has led to entire business segments which were simply not possible without CAD.

And it was engineers who saw that possibility, and went with it. They're the ones who knew what kind of productivity improvement CAD provides. Sales people thought it meant trying many drawings, but engineers instead perfected basic designs and used them as the basis for alterations.

Today, with LLM's, it's not at all like that. They're not useful for anything which maps onto our previous experience with using tools to enhance productivity.

I use the last digits of pi as my standard pin code.

It is. Due to an INS having a long initialization time and high maintenance costs, mainly in military use. Civilian crafts have largely moved away from having INS on board. It's a substantial extra cost in maintenance and time, which has been very hard to justify.

Modern optical INS systems promise to eliminate those drawbacks, which would likely mean they return to civilian craft again. But those are not commercially available yet.

I can't say I'm surprised. The leadership at Xbox drove the games division of Microsoft from a humble beginning to being a solid player in the gaming scene, with many beloved franchises which they've handled reasonably well. Halo has become a classis for good reason, they've kept as good care of Minecraft as can be expected, and the new MSFS flight sim is really nice. They're clearly motivated by a love for the craft, and for wanting to cater to gamers. Under them, Xbox grew from being a piece of hardware which had a few exclusive games to a behemoth of a gaming division handling massive and popular franchises like World of Warcraft, Bethesda's Fallout and Skyrim, and Doom. They've got control of some of the biggest names in the history of gaming, and they've generally appeared to actually care about providing games which gamers will enjoy.

And then came the demand for 30% profit, no matter what it takes. Something which is pretty much unheard of in the games industry, except for a few rare outliers. And definitely not something anyone has managed to consistently maintain over a diverse game portfolio - and the Xbox portfolio is getting quite diverse. This has shifted focus from catering to gamers to instead shafting gamers for as much money as possible, while slashing costs, which means delaying, crippling and outright cancelling games which have been eagerly awaited by gamers, and finding ways to add microtransactions and the like to ensure maximum squeeze out of what is being published.

Small wonder the people who want to share good games to gamers are less than thrilled with navigating those waters. And slapping in a CEO who has no clue about gaming is a perfect way to ensure decisions are not sidetracked by concern for the audience, but remain focused on what matters: 30% profit, even if it kills off Xbox once and for all.

Because what drives people who end up in such high level positions is the desire to be in such high level positions.

Xbox is a gaming division. Xbox today means franchises like Mechwarrior, Halo, MSFS 2025, Doom, Fallout, World of Warcraft, Skyrim, Diablo, and lots of others.

If Microsoft kills Xbox, that means killing all of those franchises. Arguably, they're trying, with the demand for 30% profits which is really hurting Xbox, but it seems unlikely they'll simply off them.

This law can and will stop that. Exactly the scenario you depict here will be a crime under the law. That's what is happening now, and which is to be corrected. This is a law which vastly increases cost of polluting compared to optimizing resource use. That's the entire reason it exists.

I will add, this has worked in other fields. Recycling and lower overproduction is reality in many areas in the EU already, through much more limited regulation and tax incentives. This is an outlier in resource waste, which is why it's getting targeted in this way.

You haven't even read the post, and from ignorance you promote authoritarian nonsense in order to destroy your own world to enrich the top percent. It's really sad how this site has fallen into antiintellectualism and authoritarianism.

Indeed I am, and that is why all of those things need to be reigned in. Companies should not be allowed to dump externalities on us, and we should not be allowed to dump externalities on others. Using the excuse "but others do it" only means those others also need to be reigned in.

The same logic SHOULD be applied to everything. Anything else is authoritarian nonsense. But we can't start with everything at once.