Retiring? Or changing careers?

I don’t think I can retire right now. I hope you are doing better than I.

In the rare case I do watch a YT video with my phone, I’m using the official YouTube app from Google, because it has all my YT Premium features and can seamlessly Chromecast to many devices.

Responsible disclosure is a kindness; it is not required–especially if/when the vendor doesn’t act in good faith.

MS shouldn’t be able to silence researchers, but that’s what the industry gets by voluntarily clustering around a single, proprietary service.

I don’t think either party should be compelled to take (or reverse) any action.

Age verification laws are cropping up in far more jurisdictions than California (which is already quite large both in population and economically).

Anti-circumvention laws already exist. If OSes and browsers do start reporting ages, you can expect Apple, Google, and Microsoft to use the DMCA to (at least) shift liability (potentially criminal liability) onto users that adjust their browser to report an inaccurate age.

If this proposed law the “end of the world”? No. But, it is yet another contribution to both tech and government panopticons and should be resisted, even WITH a POSS carve-out.

As several people I follow try to remind me: “Users of non-FOSS software deserve privacy and safety, too.”

IIRC, they want to have browsers automatically report age, and have OSes restrict access to software (like browsers that don’t do that) based on age as well.

I believe the “goal” is to restrict access to information to younger persons. Porn is the threat they most often wave around, but many advocates also want to restrict access to social media, and apps that have in-app purchases, etc.

Absolutely the law is still dumb, and people that use FOSS OSes should still fight it. But with this change, as least you won’t have to compile your own version of systemd (and NOT distribute it) to escape the insanity.

From Wikipedia:

The name is a portmanteau of GNU and Nutella, the brand name of an Italian hazelnut flavored spread: supposedly, Frankel and Pepper ate a lot of Nutella working on the original project, and intended to license their finished program under the GNU General Public License. Gnutella is not associated with the GNU project[15] or GNU’s own peer-to-peer network, GNUnet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella#History

Not all, but mostly, yes: https://hachyderm.io/@BoydStephenSmithJr/116609141864889111

Eco-seer isn’t really that bad, and “misspelling” the company name is almost mandatory.

We don’t even have standards that strong in programming languages or even fucking machine code (ISAs) anymore.

I think I would like to return to that ideal time (if it ever existed), but… I feel like I’m in a vanishingly small minority.

I think it comes down to incentive structure, and the most clear incentives push away from strong stnadards. The big advantage to (a) strong standard(s) is(are) interoperability, but that’s something end users have to demand because it’s an anathema to rent-seeking-behavior (a central facet of surveillance capitalism, choke-point capitalism, enshittification, and technofuedalism). But, even there, natural incentives fail us, since most users get more utility from “innovative” features instead of low switching costs – or at least the think they do until they actually try to exit a platform/service.

Well, if it’s good enough for quartz mining…

Good, the children yearn for the lithium mines. /s

Maybe I should re-train from computer programmer to lithium miner?

Authoritarian means will not generate the anarchist ends.

Putting aside the problems in the current system, let’s not call Thiel’s system a justice system until we can see some results and verify they are just, 'k?

That’s basically the start of the Shadowrun dystopia. There were a lot of other things that “went wrong”, but when the government removed the liability from private security that has been protecting a hazardous materials transport from workers attacking it in the belief that it contained foodstuffs, it legitimized the “megacorp”: a corporation sufficiently powerful to impose their own legal system on their private real estate.

EDIT: In the previous histories the “Seretech Decision” was on 1999-10-26. Sources: 1 2 3 Looks like “6th edition” retconned the fictional history to start 2001-09-11 (Never Forget), so it’s unclear what and when the equivalent event is. Source: 4

The TL;DR is that training AI on copyrighted works falls under the Fair Use exemptions in copyright law

This judgement was reversed by the next federal judge that reviewed AI, in the Meta case.

It is far from legally settled whether training is fair use or not.

Source: https://lifehacker.com/tech/microsoft-copilot-for-entertainment-purposes-only

I thought that was just the Cybertruck, which yes, I wouldn’t drive even if someone gave me one. I’d flip it and buy something else.

I think both the sedan and roadster are okay electric cars, and I think they have enough range I could use them to reduce the amount of gas I burn in my Volt for longer trips.

But, I haven’t really been paying attention to Tesla recently, and Elmu has certainly been looking horrible to me.

Once companies started suing people trying to practice “responsible disclosure”, I stopped attacking people that choose maximum disclosure.

Responsible disclosure has always been a bit of a hedge. It’s rare to be able to show you are actually the first person/organization to discover a vulnerability.

we are going to need to develop a different model of learning, using, and processing information that considers the provenance of where the information came from and how it got there

They used to teach this in schools under “critical thinking skills”. Following the chain of sources to the primary sources was a task I had to to (at least in part) more than once in secondary school.

Authoritarians don’t like that tho.

I just bail on any site that requires age verification. It sucks, but there are still some that work. I do hear that using a VPN can often help.