^^^ Someone with some points please mod this (#66081144) up!

Indeed the The Commerce Clause has been so stretched as to place essentially nothing outside the bounds of federal law.

SCOUTS really needs to look hard at the individual precedents that have expanded that interpretation in light of that practical reality. Some or all of those have to be incorrect because there is no world where the 10th Amendment gets included, but the intent of Article:1-8-3, is as broad as supposed.

Red state AGs really should be shopping every case they can for opportunities to get in front of the Court while they have a small majority of justices that are at least slightly sympathetic to limits on federal power.

For the individual that is certainly better than Chrome, but from a perspective of does it give Alphabet, any less influence not really much better.

I come back to if we allow Chromium to become essentially the only online HTML Document rendering engine in use, Google makes all the rules. It is really to large a project for any entity not a large corporate to fork.

Just look at the whole plugin architecture(Manifest V2) stuff, Google got their way because the plugin architecture touches so much and nobody maintaining Chromium based alternative browser could realistically keep up with the mainline if they forked or tried to keep a patch set running.

Google basically unilaterally decided what web-plugins are allowed to do; and nobody was able to stop them.

Don't forget the children that don't eat, or miss out on a lot of opportunities because dad spend the money on whatever his version of a horse race happens to be.

I gambling should be restricted to private in person bets, between parties and it should be illegal to profit directly from any sort of book making or facilitation of gambling activities.

So if you and buddy you invited over to watch the game want to bet on the outcome with each other - legal

If you and some friends go the saloon/moose lodge and have a poker game at the table, while you order drinks - legal.

If the saloon charges you specifically for gambling use of the table, vs just requiring you buy a drink - not legal.

If the saloon wants a cut of the gambling - not legal.

  Market making is fine too, options etc on a commodity, and insurance - just fine, but there should have to be an underlying commodity that is actually being traded, or real property that is either impaired or not impaired in the life of the contract. An "event" alone is not a commodity. I can't sell you the results of presidential election (or if I can other things are very wrong). The idea these prediction markets are not 'gambling' is a farce. This judge is bonkers, and I hope this is over turned.

The trick with Iran if you want to be really America first about is not in the taking of the oil it is in the denying it to everyone else.

America is a net oil producer, we have a distribution problem that has us importing oil, while also exporting but we could 'fix' that, and probably would fix that given some time and a reasonable expectation that shipping anything via Hormuz was not going to be safe for the foreseeable future.

That would give America a tremendous economic advantage over the SE Asia, and event the EU.

I think it makes sense entirely to
1) Destroy all prospects of an economic future for Iran so the regime even though it will survive can't fund Hezbollah and others that interfere with our interests, because they'll all be too busy whoring for international food aide to do anything else.
1a) Declare victory and go home
2) Use DPA and any other legal means to keep domestic oil and gas, domestic.
3) Use (2) it advantage America industry down stream of oil and gas
4) Let the rest of the world figure out how to 'open the f***ing strait'

I am going call - homemade IoT stuff someone built themselves with a SBC or something out of scope.

What consumer or SoHo products can you point at that don't use the phone home model? I can't think of single one. Even stuff that really really should be able to talk to something local like my ecobee thermostats don't..

Let us also take DOS conditions out of scope, again if someone can send whatever packet that triggers a DOS on the device they are already on your internal network.

So the threat here if you smart lightbulb gets pwnt is that it could leave an attacker with place to maintain persistence after their foothold is fixed. IE the pwn your browser, gain persistence on your lightbulb, you patch browser, they maintain access to your internal network via the bulb.

Ok fine - but kernel exploits are *almost* *never* the issue there. It is nearly universally some defect in a listening service, not the IP stack itself. So that thing is getting popped via its bad telnet/web service regardless of the kernel is is running.

But what about local privilege exploits, those are frequently kernel issues. Once again does not matter for IoT devices, I don't care if you are root or bob on my light bulb. You bob can make outbound connections and give you are reverse tunnel to attack me thru just as well as root can. There are no authorization domains on my light bulb, you are me or your are not authorized the UID the kernel thinks you have is irrelevant.

Exactly Chrome and realistically Chromium is essentially malware. Geeks especially should consider it a civic duty to use basically anything else. Which pretty much leaves Firefox and Safari.

Browser diversity is critical to keeping the web actually open. Even if Chromium is open source, the reality is Google drives the project entirely. It puts them in a powerful position to gatekeep, and that is bad for all the same reasons it was bad when IE-5/6 ruled the web, nearly uncontested.

We don't want a web where the only standard is whatever chromium does.

In what other industry can you say,
"We think our product is great/safe/reliable/... but no we absolutely won't stand behind it if anything goes wrong." and have that no impact the marketability.
I am not talking legal or anything like that, just purely from a sales and customer relationship perspective.

Just imagine a GM ad;

"The 2026 Silverado our most capable pickup ever!" - Read in deep dramatic voice
"Remember Chevrolote Silverado models are for entertainment purposely" -Read as the image fades to black in higher pitch at 2x speed.

  It would be scandal..but when Microsoft does it, hardly anyone even blinks.

My first Linux installation was Redhat 3.03 on a 16MHz 386/SX system in mid-1995. For those of you without an AARP card, that's a 32 bit CPU with a 16 bit bus, which Intel released to cannibalize the market for the 286, which did not have a memory management unit. That means no swapping, you run out of ram, it was game over.

I think the 486/25 that replaced the 386/SX arrived in ... 1996 ... and it had an astonishing *eight megabytes* of memory. I had kept a one megabyte LIM/EMS 4.0 physical memory card from my 286 when I got the 386/SX, and that actually mattered with Windows 3.x. I put it in the 486, but given that vast eight megabyte expanse of dram it didn't last long.

Then in late 1997 my employer went bankrupt and as part of the dissolution I brought home the dual Pentium 133 system with 32 megabytes of ram. I remember all my IRC friends were so jealous of that monster ...

Not really...

Almost all IoT devices work by phoning home. They call some remote server, and do some API stuff, send some message poll for new messages / instructions. They tend to have very little if anything listening.

If they do get onwd its because the infrastructure that supports them gets compromised, at which point its really the infrastructure that was hacked and not the device. The other thing that happens - all the gosh darn time - is what ever little web based interface they have for setting up wifi/IP settings/etc is some terrible CGI thing with some form of injection vulnerability. Again though if that gets pwnt, it is only after some ofther failure of your internal network security. That is a concern, I understand defense in depth, I get foothold and dwell time issues, However a newer kernel won't prevent that kind of compromise. Lack of shell escaping on calls to system() or bad choices around using eval() will get you popped on Linux 7.0 as easily as 2.0.

spending effort to maintain support for stuff nobody is using is not reasonable. Would you write a book, if you were certain nobody would ever read it or even want to?

Don't say "but what about a diary," even a private diary generally has one intended audience if it is the author themselves, for their own recollection.

writing software that no computer will ever run makes very little sense, even from an educational standpoint.

- as to the hidden breakage. Probably not much, because if you don't know about those 486s lurking out there, you are not updating the firmware/OS/other software on them either, and they will continue humming a long as they have until something else breaks.

This is a part everyone seems to miss when the get freaked out about Linux itself or some distribution dropping support for something 30 years old...

In 2026 if you are still using a computer older than mid-90s (and very more than likely even one from after the mid 90s) it is because it is part of some very specific process that almost certainly has you not making changes, which are almost certain to include software changes too.

Just because Linux 7.x can't be built for i486 any more does not stop you from grabbing any prior version and using that. Thinking about 486s specifically, I know there are actually a lot of odd things like hardened industrialized PCs and some routers and the like running licensed 486 cores and late manufacturing Intel parts; that are still in use. You can even still buy some new. It would not surprise me to learn people are running Linux on a good number of them, it would surprise me to learn people are running Linux newer than 5.10 or 5.15 on them. Even in the most exotic memory configurations a 486 is going to top out at 3.5GBs of memory, I guess you could do nearer to 4GB on a ISA only system (No PCI or VLB). You really going burn 16MB or more of that just on the kernel?

Let's be real if you are running a 468 you are probably using using Linux 2.0 - 2.6 already. Not being able to use 7 hardly affects you.

I have to wonder if this is a first step to abandoning POWER. I can see IBM wanting to get out of the game of trying to build performance competitive CPUs they don't have many outside customers for any longer.

Especially when they could put commodity designs in their shiny black boxes and still charge super premium prices for them.

Speaking as someone who does think we need stronger age, and locality verification on the internet; I too find the whole thing unseemly.

There are plenty of good reasons to want know if someone is over the age of majority whatever that is defined to be wherever they are, and what laws the other party to your interaction may or may not be subject to in terms of jurisdiction.

I also believe this is achievable while preserving some degree of privacy/anonymity. States could as part of issuing IDs for example provide everyone with a set of certificates with various assertions - and you could select select the one you with the those you need to present. - but this a digression.

There are enough good arguments for age and locality verification that lobbing for it does not need to be done in secret. Especially because the broader public, seems to be somewhat receptive even if tech and geeks have their panties fully bunched. Which makes me assume Meta, OpenAI are not really interested in solving the real problems like endangerment of children, trafficking, terror funding, terror recruiting, all manor of contraband distribution, money laundering, structuring, AstroTurfing, public comment stuffing, etc - but are rather just seeking to create an environment that locks competitors out of the marketplace or otherwise creates a situation where they are allowed to occupy a short list of gatekeepers.

All of that is true but I think it is far more about barriers to entry. For all the talk about the need for these massive datacenters, a lot of, maybe most of, the use cases for the the frontier models that actually are worth $$ like code assistants etc rapidly falling into the range where what OpenAI is selling just isn't needed. Qwen is not as good as GPT but it is close, a Mac Studio maybe can't pump out tokens quite as fast as an API hosted on OpenAI's infrastructure but it is knocking on the door (for one human consumer, applications).

Is there going to be market for hosted models, of course not many are going to want to onprem the LLMs running the chat bot on their websites. A lot of companies will want to onprem their RAG tools and anything handling data they care about protecting.

At one point Microsoft people were saying workstations were over, that developers, engineers (not in the software sense), Architects (not in the software sense), were going to use Azure hosted VDIs...Yeah have not seen that, yes I know its possible and someone here will tell us how wonderful their thin-client virtual desktop experience is, but the lion's share of these professionals that I encounter anyway are still buying workstations (or near-workstations pro-line Mac). Point is people are going to want to run their GenAI work loads locally, and they very nearly can. The free and "Open" models combined with affordable performant hardware are going to eat OpenAI's lunch, in a huge slice of the market.

Unless - they could somehow make it impossible to distribute and bundle these things for compliance reasons....Then they'd have nice little moat that would be difficult to cross.