We now live in a fully connected world where most users are connected through web browsers and are the intended victims.

This particular story is an exception to that. Remote software, accessed through a web browser, normally does not have read/write access to your local filesystem. But people are granting local filesystem access to proprietary AI services.

I think that granting such access is .. wow. I wouldn't do it, though I can see how if you use a specialized account for it, and if you're confident that your OS has no local user priv escalation bugs, it might be ok. In your sandbox you trust.

But GP's comment is about whose decision that is. If you use Linux, then it's your decision. If you use iOS, then it's Apple's decision. And MacOS is becoming less Linuxy and more iOSy every year. I think it makes plenty of sense for stories like this to result in people dumping MacOS for Linux. (But daaamn, their values surprise me. You wanna make your computer less secure instead of more? Oh well, like Rumsfeld said, freedom is untidy!)

No, if the state were renamed, it would be to Old America. NM might not be the true original, but if you look at it through the eyes of European colonization and continuous governance, then New Mexico has the best claim of the fifty. (Though if you take a less racist view, then I guess Alaska had the real OGs.)

Randi McGinn, a lawyer for New Mexico, said applying the full $5,000 penalty to the number of violations would create too large of a penalty under the US Constitution's protections on due process.

I ass/u/me this refers to the Eighth Amendment, but I don't remember seeing any monetary constants encoded within that text.

Google's telling me Meta is worth about $1.8 trillion so how would a mere $40B be "excessive?" It's only about 2% of their worth! Civil penalties in excess of 2% of someone's worth are routinely accepted as constitutional, aren't they? If this case were about me driving drunk and killing a whole family, I bet no one would flinch at the 8A implications of taking 2% (!?!) of my assets, and everyone would laugh at my lawyer if he brought up 8A for such an insignificant fine.

I understand why we have 8A, and everyone deserves mercy, but I don't see why Meta deserves exceptional mercy as a singular special case that we would be horrified to see applied anywhere else. Bringing up 8A for such a tiny fine would be giving Meta a very unique carve-out that we normally would not apply.

It may be that $5k is too much to charge criminals per act, in that each crime didn't really cause that much loss, but bringing up due process concerns seems like bullshit when the fine is already so small. NM and Meta had been trying to negotiate the cost of illegal business for years before negotiations failed and it went to trial. Meta decided to let a jury decide, and the jury's come up with a fairly tiny fraction of their assets.

If Meta thinks the price of illegal business is still too high, then they can lower the number of willful violations they commit per year, to optimize the advantage they gain from illegal actions at an affordable rate.

Geez, Zuck, just do less of it. If $40B seems like a lot, then maybe try only $10B worth of crime next time. What's the big deal? Live and learn. After this little fine you still have 98% of the company left to go on and incur the next wave of liabilities.

Why is it always a conspiracy?

Why is it so hard to think that two people might really disagree with your constant bullshit? There isn't collusion there, just correlation - your nonsense is the common link.

This is exactly why I don't run Windows outside of a virtualized environment I can snapshot any more. Their stupid bullshit that they reapply with every update that breaks my working config has wasted so much of my time, it was faster and easier to figure out how to use IOMMU to get hardware directly into the VM and use ZFS snapshotting to instantly revert whatever stupidity they are forcing on people this week.

Next step: completely fuck off Windows for good. The last thing I use it for is gaming, and I just made a SteamOS VM using the same IOMMU technique so I can quickly flip back and forth.

Hopefully by this time next month, I don't have a single install of Windows in my house, other than my wife's work laptop. And she has an IT department for dealing with that piece of shit.

Hey, it's a "moral agreement" between a bunch of billionaires that at best can be described as amoral douchebags.

What could possibly go wrong?

This might come as a galloping shock, but if you can read it, you can copy it.

Sony isn't using some magic proprietary storage devices that can only ever be read by their system.

So it has enough RAM to boot Windows and give you an out of memory error.

Brilliant!

burn down institutions that actually work; they are too stupid to understand how they work.

Khrushchev would love that our government is full of people who disagree with the principle of Chesterton's Fence. It's appalling that "conservatives" have become so far to the left of "The Left."

Vote conservative: vote Democrat.

And a lot of them are just douchebags.

Somehow I got reported for "inciting violence" by inviting a public official to "jump up his own ass and die" - which is quite literally impossible to do, and also a line from a late 90s sitcom - if it's good enough for broadcast TV, how is it ban-worthy on a shitty forum aggregator?

I appealed the ban, which in the most opaque "process" I've ever seen, and the appeal was denied. So I decided that they can go fuck themselves right then and there. I don't have time for such useless snowflake behavior and tone policing when it's clearly not a legitimate report to begin with.

I do just fine without Reddit.

Which has what to do with coastal erosion on the west coast? You know the Mississippi is on the other side of the continental divide from California?

There is historical record of this happening for decades that highly correlates with El Niño. For fucks sake.

So you don't understand the relationship between snowpack, and how that feeds water into reservoirs across the year? And you are calling ME a fool?

Let me explain it with small words to give you the best shot at understanding:

Frozen water stays where it is, until it's no longer frozen. Liquid water moves and doesn't stay where it is. And when warm rain hits frozen water, that frozen water doesn't stay frozen.

What is the effect on hydro power? Dams can only hold so much water at a time. If it all arrives at once, they open spillways to let it through. If it comes over time, it can be held in behind the dam and used to generate electricity.

As it turns out, snow pack is an important reservoir, and less snow means less water in reserve.

Next time try thinking before insulting. Jumpin Jesus.

If you are working with an operating system that isn't painfully behind for this kind of thing: option+n, n.

If you are:
(Windows) Hold Alt and type 164 for lowercase ñ, or 165 for uppercase Ñ (or use 0241 for ñ and 0209 for Ñ)
(Linux) Press Ctrl + Shift + U at the same time, release, then type 00f1 (for ñ) or 00d1 (for Ñ) and press Enter or Space.

And yet we are still seeing new records for climate trends identified decades ago (El Niño).

Not sure what point you are trying to make. Solar irradiance is more or less the same; what is changing is how much we trap.

Yes, let's distill what's happening down in a massively lossy algorithm where you completely ignore all of the following:

1. more rain in southern California means more soil erosion in southern California.
2. more rain in southern California means less snow in the Cascades, which means worse fire seasons in the Pacific Northwest next year.
3. less snow in the Cascades means less water in the hydroelectric reservoirs on the Columbia River, which means more natgas burning for the same energy output. This means more expensive energy up and down the entire west coast.

Try to think a little more.

Way to completely ignore the effect water temperature has on where sharks swim.