That is $375M to a single person.

Wrong, this was state-initiated consumer protection enforcement action by the state of New Mexico. How those funds get distributed is up to the state government.

Violence doesn’t solve core problems you dangerous idiot.

Then, tell me, what’s the next step after protests that do nothing and failing to convince cult-programmed individuals to vote correctly?

ordered to pay $375m by a New Mexico court.

Meta total assets: US$366 billion (2025)… with a fucking B

I’m sorry, which big tech company is brought to who’s heel?

You were the one suggesting that all of human art could be compressed into a file that could easily fit on a USB stick:

AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.

These are your words.

The difference between art and AI is AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.

If we can compress the entirety of human art, music, literature made by billions of people into the size of a 4-10 GB model, at around 1 person per byte, then we must have not been very creative in the first place.

Remember when Pixar and DreamWorks destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in order to erect enormous Gray boxes filled with computers that run complex operations 24/7, consuming massive amounts of fossil fuels and fresh water, leading to unmitigated pollution; not to mention political corruption, global surveillance, rolling back privacy protections, and economic gangsterism that hasn’t been seen in 100 years?

You act like data centers are a new concept that was invented in the 2020s. We’ve had data centers even before we had the Internet.

Rich assholes make those kind of decisions to pump trillions into AI pipe dreams, just like the rich assholes who run Hollywood.

The fact that we find ourselves in these patterns over and over shows that the ruling class has learned to fuck us in a way so that we complain but not actually try to do anything to change society. Which shows the lack of actual freedom we have in order to live by our actual human impulses.

That’s because we’re too scared to project violence to solve the core problems. The best we have is useless protests that don’t sway psychopaths, because psychopaths don’t have feelings.

Remember when the world shat on CGI endlessly 25 years ago?

It’s like all of this is the fault of a pattern of human nature, instead of one specific technology.

We didn’t need AI for the Hollywood slop. It’s already in the streaming services. Miles and miles of terrible movies with glowing 8.5 scores (according to their own rating systems).

Meanwhile…

Dylan’s words in the PR:

After reading the bill text, this is the conclusion I came to - arch install is an OS installer, the law asks for users to provide birth date when installing an OS. Is that going to be hilariously pointless and ineffective? Yes.

I feel like he’s getting ahead of the work as a matter-of-fact. In other words, the law passed, Arch is used by Californians, they need measures to make sure they’re not breaking the law.

I don’t think protest even falls into it with these kind of people, even though a majority of us would jump on the chance to actively protest this law and these changes. I personally cannot wait to have this shit throw at me at the next Linux upgrade, just to pull something like what Ageless Linux does against it.

That’s why I was vehemently opposed to the hit piece that was attacking this guy personally, by a shit blogger who I will forever blacklist. Also, fuck the mod who submitted that hit piece to Lemmy.

LLMs for coding has improved dramatically over the past year or so. But, I find that its quality varies greatly, depending on the model. I find models like Gemini and GPT to be too overconfident, and it doesn’t communicate well enough. Claude knows when to stop and evaluate the situation for options. I’ve had mixed results with the local models, but I’m still adjusting quantization settings to make it work best with my VRAM.

You still need the skills to understand programming and design engineering, and you frankly need the personality to be meticulous with your reviews, but it’s really nice having something that can code 3-8x faster than what I was doing before.

PrimeTime had a good recent video about a senior programmer’s experience with fixing a very hard to find bug.

I was trying to get you to understand a POV by reminding you how things were 25 years ago, but clearly that idea was lost on you.

Removed by mod

why chase the latest hype that’s probably going to burst soon?

Back in the 2000s, there was an Internet bubble, and it burst. That did not make the Internet go away.

What makes you think LLMs are going to suddenly disappear?

I know what’s been going on.

However, the statement “legal expectation that correctness of the information will be enforced somehow” requires proof because it’s currently not true.

DOB is different. It comes from a legal expectation that correctness of the information will be enforced somehow.

[citation needed]

It’s literally an optional birthDate field in a place where there’s already realName, emailAddress, and location. If you’re concerned about privacy, maybe don’t expose your real name, email, and location.

And it’s not even fucking installed everywhere:

$ userdbctl
Command 'userdbctl' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install systemd-userdbd

Anybody who is calling this age verification is actively lying to you!

This Sam Bent guy should fucking get bent.

It was posted by Yσɠƚԋσʂ themselves, who moderates several lemmy.ml communities. I agree it should be nuked, but it’s not going to be nuked.

BURN THIS IMAGE INTO YOUR MIND AND BE THANKFUL!

In this case Artix already is a systemd-free distro, but this is part of why i think it’s a bad idea that systemd is wanting to implement the age verification crap, cause i think the distro should be allowed to decide if they want to comply or not. Feels like distros that use systemd will be forced to comply unless they change init, which is probably a pain in of itself.

Where do I install an Ageless-style patch to force flagrant non-compliance for systemd distros?