GitHub apparently has dropped below 90% uptime and it's very likely because they are using AI slop to write important code and it doesn't work.

It's a huge problem but there isn't really a solution.

"There's no call for that sort of crap."

Depends on who you threaten. Celebrating Charlie Kirk's death should be treason punishable by death, celebrating Robert Mueller's death? Just another day. Death threats against doctors at health clinics A-OK, it just depends on who does the threatenin'

Anything can go away. People need to realize who the enemy is and what the rules actually are. We now have a Constitution that does not apply to the President, we have major media that is corrupted by billionaires and controlled by political parties, we now have a corrupt Supreme Court with a supermajority of partisan, Catholic justices. Linux can go away tomorrow, just like citizens can be gunned down in the streets and military veterans can get deported. Go ahead, connect that contraband Linux box to the internet, nothing bad will happen, right?

I'm sure Elon Musk will have an answer though. Just buy the Musk linux edition he invented. He's world's foremost linux authority, after all, and no one knows free speech like he does. Probably worth a 100B government contract.

It's not a question of if it's going to be mandated it's when. And we will suck it down because we are nerds and nerds lean towards the libertarian side and it's the libertarian types that are pushing this from the top down.

Specifically Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook wanted because AI slop is starting to infest his data sources that he sells for money.

All this age verification bullshit is just Zuckerberg and other billionaire types getting out ahead of the AI slop apocalypse so that they can continue to have access to training data that can be tracked back to real humans, so that they can slightly improve the value of their advertising products, and most importantly of all so that they can continue to monitor all of us and gather all our sweet sweet data without the data set rendered completely worthless by slop.

We will let them do it because folks are easily distracted by other issues when it comes to fighting for privacy or other consumer rights.

Why keep saying "politicians" here? I know why, just look who posted it.

Age verification is an outgrowth of the christian nationalism, it is a core part of Republican identity politics. Stop voting Republican and stop supporting politically active chiurches. Bet you won't say that though. Instead, you need to pretend that Democrats are to blame...in Florida!

"...does very little to prevent children from accessing adult material online. "

It's not intended to. Its purpose is to own the libs. You should know about that.

Right, it is a non-functional solution that fails to solve ANY problem. Great virtue signaling though!

Requiriing a trusted source other than the OS (because the OS cannot do it) does not mean that age is not the OSes "business", it means that two components have it as their "business".

But understand that in this case, some people want other people to break the law. They aren't willing to be accountable themselves.

No he didn't. What evidence do you have that says otherwise? Particularly when the remedy is to break the law.

It is when the government says it is. Literally the easiest question there is.

Elaborate. Why does this law need to be "worked around"? And how does NOT adding age information in a database serve that purpose? In what world does a judge accept an argument that there isn't a way to determine age because there isn't an entry in a database? Or that an entry cannot be added on a judge's order? Just what argument gets won because of your "workaround"?

It appears you claim to be an "actual adult" here, too bad you lack the intellect of one.

Slavery was once legal because there were not laws AGAINST it. Laws don't make things legal, they make them illegal.

"Having a plan is great but this fight is far from over."

Not sure what you mean by not over, but there are ways to fight unjust laws besides committing crimes.

The 900 though is for the higher end option. Still you're looking at $600 for a PS5 with a disk drive now. If I'm comparing that to something like the Sega Genesis or super Nintendo that is more than either of them launched at adjusted for inflation let alone what they cost at this point.

It bugs me cuz it kind of feels like people who aren't well off are getting cut off from what used to be one of the few affordable hobbies. Yeah you could play Old hardware but it's hard to find players on old games... And playing newer games as part of the hobby.

And of course you have to know about those games. It's hard to be a dumb kid and we were all a dumb kid at some point and you're not necessarily going to be able to find that cool game that a bunch of people are playing...

They did it overnight. It was done across all retailers so it was coordinated. I doubt you can find a retailer that isn't selling it for the increased price now even though obviously it's the same old stock that you could have bought last week for $100 or $150 cheaper.

It's amazing how quick they can reprice things to screw us consumers over.

Criminalizing drugs completely changes us politics. We learned a long time ago that the reason drugs were criminalized was so that the right wing could go after the left wing because statistically working class people are more likely to take drugs. Nixon's people came out and just admitted it because they felt guilty. The entire purpose of the drug war was and always is political.

Because of that you are never going to see things like this used properly and legalized which is a shame because psychedelics have been shown repeatedly to be a game changer for people with post traumatic stress disorder. And there are a lot of people with PTSD beyond soldiers.

The catch is that for it to work you need to do it under Dr supervision generally. You need someone there who can carefully guide you through the process. Just dropping a tab of acid isn't usually going to work. So by criminalizing it an entire group of people whose lives could be transformed or just left out in the cold. But compared to the billions and billions of dollars that can be made using the drug war to win elections that's a small price to pay.

And of course because we have been conditioned to view talk about politics as dirty anytime you bring this up you're guaranteed to piss everybody off. It is no coincidence that you are conditioned not to talk about your salary with your coworkers or your political beliefs.

Fun fact the reason rural towns tend to be right wing is because there is usually one extremely wealthy landowner who runs the show and if you deviate slightly from orthodoxy then he's the only employer in town and he runs the church and everything else and you're basically persona non grata.

I bring it up because it's another way that the discussion and debate in our country is locked down to the benefit of people who do not have your best interests at heart