Hey, a non-response deflective joke! I see you too went to middle school!

You were not going to give me the benefit of the doubt, don’t expect anyone who is genuine to believe otherwise.

You’re free to be as cynical as you like.

“is ai” is very obviously a simplification, but is also the reality of where they have chosen to go.

It’s not a “simplification”. A simplification is still roughly the same meaning. “Coded with AI” and “Is AI” are unrelated statements, not more or less nuanced versions of each other, any more than “Bill is driving a racecar” and “Bill is a racecar” are.

I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt until I saw your responses.

“Is AI” is meaningless drivel. Software does not become “AI”, and an OS is not and cannot “be” AI.

What you mean is, “Debian devs use LLMs to code”, which has no impact on or correlation to whether Debian will include age or ID verification. No one ordered the devs to use LLMs, so that is not evidence of their “compliance” with authorities, as you seem to imply.

These snarkily-delivered insinuations have no value; they’re not educating anyone about the topic, they’re not arguing anything of substance, they lack basic technical understanding of what they’re criticizing… they’re just a feel-good gotcha for you.

If they can identify it, sure. But OS fingerprinting is not perfect through a browser, and can be tricked pretty readily.

Exactly. Hoard now, watch/read/listen later (and now as well).

You’re not limited to tech that complies with laws.

I don’t know, Unlicense is still an OSS license, and imo that’s what vibe code should mostly be.

The point is to get laws passed in the US that create a moat for them as businesses. They don’t care about competing with China, they care about competing with the next YC cohort.

I was in a very similar situation a couple years ago, I was scouted by a recruiter for Axon (who make body cams and tazers). It was a bump from my current role, but I realized that if I was struggling before even taking the role then either

1. I’d be struggling even worse after taking it, which would make me miserable

Or

2. I’d realize that I wasn’t struggling with it anymore, and that’d make me really miserable.

Ignore the people telling you to take the job as some kind of infiltrator/ insider/ conscientious objector: you’re not going to change or dismantle the company from the inside, you’re just going to end up being constantly stressed and miserable each day until you eventually quit. The better solution is to fine a role somewhere that you feel actively helps people.

So in other words companies are trying to get another generation hooked on tobacco (after cigs and vapes dropped off among millennials) by paying movie studios and influencers to astroturf them. Who’da thunk?

He had a duress password, and told it to a border agent (who had no warrant, but that is no longer legally required for border checks), which then wiped his phone.

He was targeted for being part of the Stop Cop City protest movement (and they were likely looking for contacts), and now the feds are claiming that because he could have had anything, he should be allowed to be charged with possession of whatever they can think of (I.e. they already tried to claim in a press conference that he may have had CSAM, because they couldn’t search it to prove he didn’t).

Which they, as the governments, can choose to legally treat as the same thing. “You are guilty of whatever someone does with your account” is not a new concept, it’s just one that most places have chosen to reject. It can always be overridden, such as for the Palestine Exception.

You think that “China bad” == “<insert western government> good” because you are too trapped in a Statist mindset to think of anything else.

Staties describe bad thing inherent to all states while thinking their state is different challenge (impossible)

It’s exactly what it says, but people living under any superpower’s sphere of cultural influence (Western, Eastern, or otherwise) are clearly prone to see their government’s actions as good and non-authoritarian.

tl;dr China is using AI for social control on a massive scale.

Clearly these soy-ldiers aren’t strong enough to defend us from IS (Islamic state) if they can’t even defend their own IS (immune systems)! What pan(demic)sies!

You thought Agent Orange was just for Vietnam Vets (and of course the millions of Vietnamese we sprayed and whose land we poisoned), but no! Monsanto (now Bayer) and Cargill and DuPont (now Corteva) are here at home to make sure it’s not only Boomers who die from their literal poisons!

The real cancerous growths were the friends we made along the way!

“You never even found my posterior labial nerve!”

I’m in Germany right now, and it’s crazy how much more smoking of cigarettes there is than in the states. I hadn’t realized how much it’s disappeared in the US until coming here and smelling cigarettes everywhere