There's little point in this, if manufacturers can obey this law and yet still have maintenance remain illegal due to federal law.

Can I take this as a sign that a major party is rethinking their up-to-now support for DMCA?

I'm just going to say the usual thing I say whenever someone claims a $5 wrench undermines encryption:

You can't use a wrench on someone without them knowing you've done it. I can be intimidated, but I can't be intimidated without my knowledge!

So if you're a real mafia type, fine. You win, at least in a single attack. But you can't just monitor people for years with a $5 wrench. And even in a single attack, you've gotta commit to it and murder the target after torturing them for the key. If you fail to murder them, and if you're identifiable, then the victim gets to lawyer up and have laws and courts and stuff.

Wrenches can work, but they're overrated.

Didn't RFK Jr learn anything from Trump's Big Beautiful Healthcare Finance Bill? All RFK Jr had to do is say he has a report, and then wave around a stack of blank papers. If he'd done that, there would be no bullshit to get called on.

LLMs are expert systems, where the expertise is this: what has been written?

That's a pretty cool thing to be expert in, and it really does have some fun (possibly even useful) applications. They seem pretty good at demonstrating this expertise, but I guess a lot of people forget GIGO is a fundamental property of "what has been written?" until you point out that a lot of crap has been written. (Shitposters know the megacodex of human writing contains a lot of crap, because we've knowingly contributed our bespoke turds to it. And I bet LLMs have contributed many of their own turds too, which they're eating and redigesting unless their feeds are very carefully controlled.)

That said, I do have to admit that LLMs have made me move the goalposts on detecting/testing intelligence. LLMs know a lot of stuff (whether it's true or false) and I have a pretty easy time seeing how people could be fooled. I know better than to say I can't be fooled.

Those people all look the same to me.

the president is seeking to supplant the decisions of the CEO of one particular business

It's time you right-wing Demonrats admit that Comrade Trump and his economic planning committee know better about what we need, than running dog capitalists like Tim Apple.

We can't let private industry make decisions about their products. When America unanimously agreed to vote Trump in an overwhelming landslide, we forsook all that Adam Smith nonsense, because Comrade Trump is ready to fight as Marx's champion.

Cower, you free market capitalist losers. WE WILL BURY YOU! [slams shoe on desk]

Dammit; his colleague turned my woosh back on me!

woosh

I've stopped putting a semicolon at the end of code inside Begin..End blocks in all my Pascal programs.

Close, but not quite. They're ok with being recorded while knowing it's happening; they just don't want to know "too hard." Don't talk about it or flaunt it.

If they ask, you can answer "Yes, you're being recorded. I'm recording you, and so are those security cameras over there, there, and .. ah, I remember that guy from the Power to Perverts meeting last week. I don't see his cameras but I know he has a couple. Aha! See his left shoe?"

[Guy from the PtP meeting suddenly turns and stares back, having heard the conversation across the room thanks to the microphones that this discussion is ignoring for now because cameras are more interesting.]

Yes! That's been the known solution all along. People wanted to punch other people for wearing obvious cameras. But wear a hidden camera, and nobody wants to punch you. ATMs and other public cameras usually go unmolested, and they're known.

People really are ok with being watched (they already were watched all the time, long before Google Glass); they just don't want it pointed out to them.

"I don't want to think about it" is our favorite way to get through problems.

Andy Weir hasn't written "The Last Algorithm" yet. This is a text prediction program. It's telling you about the future. Of course it's wrong, right now. Have some patience, people.

We're pretty much spitting in Darwin's face here.

Proudly! You spit in Darwin's face every time you turn on a light bulb or a hot water tap or a car engine or cell phone. Do it early, do it often.

Darwin described how things are, not how you want them to be.

Free market capitalists aren't interested in Comrade Trump's Five Year Plan.

That's my thought. Trump is going to keep telling his employers whatever they ask, and someone (Trump?) has also apparently told all his underlings to make sure they share information too. So what if Hamas One has a microphone behind a panel? The people on board will generally carry newer microphones on their phones, unobstructed by panels. The spyware on their phones can be better maintained and up-to-date, so that if Xi wants someone's meeting to get another 'bcc' added onto it, that can happen.

Against this idea, though: "offense in depth" and the fact that not all adversaries are friendly with one another. While the plane itself will likely report to Qatar, the phones report to someone else, so this is a way to leak to two different foreign parties without those parties having to coordinate with each other.

Maybe Trump shouldn't have to personally whitelist each foreign spy; just let them do their thing without wasting his valuable time. Every time some foreign government buys a few million dollars of his Trump Coin, he or someone on his staff has to manually email them defense documents and that's less time on the golf course. Surely this can be made more efficient, and Hamas One will help with that. Don't make Trump do all the work.