We would certainly be at a disadvantage if Russia was able to copy rockets that constantly blew up shortly after launch.

It's a hell of a lot cheaper too. I was spending about $10 / week over a decade ago on new releases at Blockbuster. Now it's about $0 at the library.

Looked up details on the wording, and it may not be just a logistical nightmare but a legal impossibility. The law appears to only apply to specific platforms, and no Mastodon servers appear on the list. New instances wouldn't either, so there'd be no legal basis for trying to force them to ban teens.

I bet a large enough number of those kids know enough to know about Fediverse-based services like Mastodon to start spreading the word. Instead of a dozen large social media platforms, the government will be faced with thousands of bulletin-board-sized "services" networked together into a platform that has no single place you can go to deactivate accounts. Controlling that would be a logistical nightmare.

What always happens when you try to block kids from doing anything: they find a way to do it anyway.

We older folks too were "blocked" from doing stuff as kids, pre- and post-internet, and we too did it anyway. And it actually made us smarter, as we had to devise ways around the obstacle.

Kids are smart. This will just make them smarter.

and the product hasn't even become attractive and popular yet. OpenAI forgot that step...

Most consumers today aren't using IPv4 by choice, but by necessity. Every OS out there supports IPv6, as does every router made in the last 10 years, and supports it pretty much automatically if it's available. The main reason they still use IPv4 is that their ISP hasn't deployed IPv6 support on their residential network, so IPv6 isn't available unless you're a techie and recognize the name Hurricane Electric. The next most common reason is that the site they're accessing only has IPv4 addresses assigned so connections are automatically done via IPv4. Consumers have control over neither of those reasons.

Tell them, "I got an invention that'll eliminate half of all the jobs in the world, then my investors get to keep all the money we used to pay them!"

Based on that logic, I'd love to see ChatGPT try to explain to Uncle Sam why they're not responsible if an assassin got instructions for how to successfully kill the president on ChatGPT.

AI = "Amalgamation of Information"

AI just uses probability calculations to amalgamate together an "average" of information on the subject. It's not smart. It doesn't think. It's not self-aware. It just is a digital hamburger grinder that churns out a paste of what gets put into its hopper.

Microsoft hasn't been able to do proper security - or proper development for that matter - in half a century, and AI is notorious for pissing out poor quality code.

Glad I only use the git part of Github.

If only Microsoft saw some sense and quit pushing this disaster of a technology - or at least gave people the option to leave it out of their activities. Fuck this AI shit, seriously. It's getting really tiring now...

You know this isn't about geothermal...Trump is trying to forge the ring of power.

Two of my implants are passworded - the TOTP application in my Vivokey Apex and my Walletmor payment implant, which occasionally prompt payment terminals to ask my PIN - and guess what: I didn't forget them because they're kind of important. Duh...

I was in Beijing twice back in 2007-2008 for work and got to experience their monstrous, 6-8 wheel, diesel trucks belching smog everywhere. It was such a clean city at ground level, but the worst smog. You couldn't see more than a couple of blocks on most days, and it wasn't fog.

You oligarchs aren't engineering AI to work for people. You're engineering AI to work for corporate interests. It takes far more than it gives in return. It's taking our jobs. It's taking our electricity. It's taking our wealth. It's taking our creative works. It's taking our data.

And what is it giving in return?

It's giving the executive and corporate leaders at eight companies on our planet a ridiculous amount of wealth. To hell with the dog-and-pony show going on in the foreground.

Fuck our corporate overlords.