It’s pretty galling watching the US government retaliate against a company for not wanting to create Terminators or that surveillance thing from The Dark Knight for them.

It’s blatantly retaliatory and a violation of the spirit of the law that allows that designation, and if the law is written well and the courts are honest then it would be illegal too. You shouldn’t be able to lie and call a company an enemy of the state because they won’t build you a Torment Nexus.

And I don’t even want AI being used for half the things they already do.

Not The Onion?

I think it’s likely sincere. Lots of space between apologies for “the inconvenience” and the more traditional “any inconvenience.”

The bureaucrat who had to write up this letter letting people know their IDs were going to be insta-invalidated was not a party to passing the law, and probably doesn’t like telling people things like this.

Too on the nose.

I think NixOS might be Unitarian Universalist. Dreamed up in a doctoral thesis, seems neat, half a dozen ways to do anything (none of which are truly wrong), access to all the packages in the world, terrible documentation.

It’s a classic!

:Oh no Valve made popular things that third parties can sell for crazy prices. Let’s sue --those third party platforms-- I mean Valve.

Next do WotC.

LUKS is your friend.

And still I’m told to be afraid of China.

Actually a pretty good idea.

Yeah, ESH. His response of editing an archive showed the site to be unreliable as an archive. DDOSing from the site as a counter to the dox attempt caused the site serious reputational harm as well.

It sucks because his site was actually more reliable than The Internet Archive.

They know they can’t take the gun industry head on, so they chip at the margins. They figure hobbyists aren’t numerous enough to fight back, while the real gun owners shrug.

I honestly wonder if this might be held unconstitutional if challenged.

Well the answer is banning Arduinos, obviously 🧐

All married women, regardless of race.

Edit: I’m sure it’s different if broken down by race, but I don’t know how because I haven’t seen the numbers. However I wouldn’t be surprised to see marriage and conservatism generally track on a societal level regardless of other factors.

Probably so. You take what you can get.

This has been said before, but I am skeptical that this is a realistic risk.

Married women vote R over D by about 15-20 points according to most polls, and I kinda trust Republicans to not shoot themselves in the dick.

What an interesting organization: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/tech-oversight-project/

Some of y’all hate Brave so much you’ll trust Cambridge Analytica’s assessments over what is actually described.

RIP

I’d rather play only board games and TRRPGs for the rest of my days.