I wish for once this country could pass an unambiguously good law to protect people’s privacy.

my take was everyone should be illiterate. good work.

great pointless strawman. nice contribution.

Every now and again I am reminded of my sentiment that the introduction of “media” onto the Internet is a net harm. Maybe 256 dithered color photos like you’d see in Encarta 95 and that’s the maximum extent of what should be allowed. There’s just so much abuse from this kind of shit… despicable.

I’m not European and even I despise von der Leyen. She’s one of the most cynical people on Earth.

The other day I tried to have it help me with a programming task on a personal project. I am an experienced programmer, but I only “get by” in Python (typically just by looking up the documentation for the standard library). I thought, “OK. This is it. I will ask Llama 3.3 and GPT4 for help.”

That shit literally set me back a weekend. It gave me such bad approaches and answers, that I could tell were bad (aforementioned experience in programming, degree in comp sci, etc) that I got confused about writing Python. Had I just done what I usually do, which is to look up the documentation and use my brain, I would have gotten my weekend task done a whole weekend sooner.

It scares me to think what people are doing to themselves by relying on this, especially if they’re novices.

until it’s zero that’s still too many. everyone who buys one of these things should be made to regret doing so

edit: thinking on it the way I worded that makes it sound much more sinister than I meant. But those who use these things as investment vehicles (ha) should not be allowed to reap a return. Those who buy in should be embarrassed. Everyone who is considering buying should now be thinking, “Am I willing to subject myself to public humiliation for a car that will be worthless soon and might even possibly be vandalized if I left it out in a public parking space?”

“false claims” – lies. they’re just lies.

I actually do this. With uBlock Origin you can set to default block any JS (or just 3rd party JS) and then whitelist by domains. Then you can lock in per-site settings.

I haven’t used Reddit since the api change but I suspect stating that Luigi mangione is a hero who did nothing wrong would get me banned on Reddit. Social murder is completely cool and ok. But actually killing the man who oversees the system of social murder? How dare you!?

I predict that this guy is a moron.

Oh shit, my prediction already came true!?

The way brace’s brain works is something else lol

God, I wish I were in the market for this. I have a baseline m1 Macbook Air and a lack of funds, so I can’t quite justify another laptop. And while Asahi Linux is very cool, going forward I really want to support good Linux-friendly vendors.

I like Lemmy a lot, but when you share a URL it’s just an ID number. Compare that to Reddit, where you can get a lot more information on what you’re about to look at just from the URL alone.

https://lemmy.ml/post/27659153 vs
https://old.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1jg3vlk/progress_report_linux_614/

Are there any plans to make Lemmy URLs more meaningful?

Accusing someone else of being me on an alternate account over a very low-stakes comment. Are you paranoid? Leave that shit back on Reddit.

I live in the USA. Supposedly I, and all of my countrymen, have access to all the free information in the world. Yet Trump is president. A literal anti-vaxxer is the HHS secretary. They’re also trying to destroy the education department. Please reconcile that for me.

How does loading flash drives with “subversive media” do anything for anyone? This just sounds like a plan to export ewaste into another country.

cringe

We are literally watching ICE kidnap people in the USA with legal resident status and deporting them or transferring them to detention centers, and somehow people are downvoting you.

This person’s website got me motivated to start programming in Zig a few weeks ago. Love his website’s design, too.

I mean you can just say that about any and every law or policy. No need to be so knee-jerk about it. The point I’m making is it isn’t just posturing. It’s not like a company pretending to promise to watermark their AI outputs; it’s a government saying you must comply with new rule.