These things can get pricey so I think it’s reasonable to say something like “pizza and drinks for the kids”.

Also this goalpost will move almost immediately. What if the parent doesn’t understand why the OS is asking for a DOB and they type whatever? What if the parent doesn’t log out and the kids use the adult account? What if the kid is really smart and bypasses the check (I think this could actually get bypassed easily)?

Rather than rolling back this rule they’ll just go even further and say the OS must analyze every action and utilize every input (e.g. microphone, camera) to determine the age of the current user and that controls need to be at the hardware level and OSes need to get state certified, etc. Before long only Windows, Apple, Google, and maybe RedHat can comply. An entire community of Linux enthusiasts destroyed. And as some bills have stated, rather vaguely, this can apply to something as simple as a calculator!

Oh, no! Not Meta! Or Oracle! Or umm, Palantir! Or… guys, help me here.

It’s usually fine code but it just doesn’t follow the same conventions and flow. It’s kind of like reading a novel typed in block letters written in 3rd person then suddenly it’s cursive letters and 1st person.

Seniors reviewing code is fine but only when, as someone else mentioned, the code writer is learning from the review. The AI doesn’t learn at all and the Jr Dev probably learns very little because they didn’t understand the original code. Reviewing AI code often turns into me rewriting most of it.

I always say I’m not interested in asking an LLM to add 2 + 2 for me. Of course my managers are always pushing us to use LLMs and coworkers keep suggesting we replace efficient, testable, and consistent processes with AI. If you’re going to use it at least think of scenarios that are hard to code for and it would take you at least 10 min to solve.

Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added.

So instead of getting a human to write it and AI peer reviewing it you want the most expensive per hour developers to look at stuff a human didn’t write and the other engineers can’t explain? Yeah, this is where the efficiency gains disappear.

I read stuff from one of my Jr’s all the time and most of it is made with AI. I don’t understand most of it and neither does the Dev. He keeps saying how much he’s learned from AI but peer programming with him is the pits. I try to say stuff like, “Oops! Looks like we forgot the packages.” And then 10 secs of silence later, “So you can go to line 24 and type…”

This is a feature and not a bug. The biggest distro maintainers will try to comply and the smallest ones will start banning usage or even closing up shop.

And that’s why handcounts should be mandatory and randomized after every election.

I don’t know what it’s all used for but there is a government site for ID verification already: https://id.me/

Even if Trump wasn’t President I’m not all that comfortable with the US government knowing every time I want to rub one out.

There’s a few cryptographic methods to share this data “blindly” (signatures, zero knowledge proofs, verifiable credentials, etc.) so we’re not putting out more and more about ourselves to be taken advantage of.

As you said the biggest problem is the lobbyists. They don’t represent the people, they represent businesses.

Parents who work full time (and who probably aren’t tech literate enough to do anything more than click the “Enable AdGuard” button when setting up their router, if their router even supports AdGuard) simply won’t have the time or resources.

That’s a capability that most routers don’t have, which is the kind of bills we should be passing except there’s zero upside for big business.

There are very comprehensive block lists for this kind of stuff so you don’t have to audit everything yourself.

As a parent I’m totally up for the cat and mouse game over the prospect of living in a world with only proprietary operating systems. This idea will get worse and worse until only Windows, Android, and Mac operating systems are in compliance with the law.

IDK what proxies you use but free ones really suck IMO and they aren’t very obfuscated so they can be easily blocked too. VPNs are trickier but there are methods to detect VPN traffic so that could be blocked too. If you wanted to go ballistic you could even set a whitelist of services and everything else gets blocked.

I don’t know how common this is but in my state the machine is digital but it prints out a filled, paper ballot. That’s what gets counted and not the voting machine data itself (which hopefully doesn’t keep its own tally).

Network level content blockers are really easy to setup and they’d be even easier if bills targeted ISPs instead (requiring gateways have the tech built-in). It takes a pretty smart and determined kid to get around network controls and it can target specific devices so adults still have an unrestricted experience.

im currently using windows 11 on msi gf63 laptop. if i used linux i would use ubuntu,bec it seems like the easiest thing.

Ubuntu is popular but I wouldn’t necessarily say easiest. Something like Linux Mint would probably be simpler.

i game,i use brave browser,i pirate games and software. i also like that my hoarded pirated binaries of games and software will work even years later on windows without too much effort.

My child, you’ve come home.

i use an hp printer,and need to be able to use it on linux.

Stop using HP printers. That being said if it was made in the last 5 years it’ll probably work on Linux out of the box.

i expect to be able to use the laptop and not think about the os too much,meaning i wont distro hop or try to customize it too much. im fine with the terminal,my goal of using linux is being far from malware.

I’m a big fan of immutable distros like Bazzite and Bluefin. They’re so stable they’re almost boring. As far as malware goes I would say standard rules apply: scan random binaries before execution, run normal operations as non-root/unprivileged users, patch regularly.

If you want millennials to go to the theater you need to figure out what we can do with our kids for 2 damn hours.

Doesn’t look like him in the slightest but the only husband and wife comedians I remember on aftermidnight were Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero.

That should really be someone’s day job. Think of all the horrible shit that could be invented and patent it so it is never actually created.