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Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.

  • The Ageless Device: Cheap gadgets for violating the California Digital Age Assurance Act

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  • I have serious doubts about any voters, anywhere in the world, repealing any laws like this:

    • Most people like laws that let them avoid responsibility
    • Most people are, or have been, parents at some point
    • Most parents will offload the responsibility onto "the government" instead of admitting to poor parenting

    This kind of act of insubordination, the way it is framed, I'm afraid is likely to meet the opposition of most people.

  • The Ageless Device: Cheap gadgets for violating the California Digital Age Assurance Act

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  • In whose eyes? They have lobbyists backing them, and a general public who doesn't know any better, or care to know.

    Exposing the stupidity is a great goal, running headfirst into the "Who will think of the children!1!!" wall... not so much.

  • The Ageless Device: Cheap gadgets for violating the California Digital Age Assurance Act

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  • AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.

    1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation

    This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.

    Is there any reason to believe they won't want to make an example out of intentional violators?

  • Systemd preparing to comply with age verification laws

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  • Yes, I get that they may want verification with government ID... but unless they do it at a firmware level, anything above a FOSS Linux kernel on my own unlocked hardware, is fully under my control.

    So far, it sounds to me like "age verif theatre" as applied to single user "jailbroken" systems. If they added this on a locked down Android system, as a requirement for network access (note: this is an actual proposal being floated around) then that would be of some concern... but systemd? 🤨

  • Systemd preparing to comply with age verification laws

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  • QUESTION: if I run my own system with local accounts, full root access, and no remote accounts... why should I care about whether systemd "MAY BE ABLE" to store someone's date of birth?

    Sounds to me like, for all I care, they could add fields for ethnicity, religion, d size, political orientation, colonic maps, or whatever else they want.

    If it's to build systems shared with underage family members, schools, or other public system... I personally DGAF.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • (Skipping the AGI buzzword BS...)

    How do the dream cycle and memory consolidation work?

    (I find it a bit intriguing though, that people would have time to both write novel-length responses on social media, and do any actual work 🤔)

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • What are those dream cycle and memory consolidation it's using?

    AGI sounds like BS (by definition)... but what's behind the buzzword? This guy is supposed to be smart, might as well have built some stuff around an LLM that makes it leap forward.

  • Bandcamp Bans All Music Made with AI

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  • Poisoning what? Intentional poisoning doesn't work, and self-consumption only works when it's the exact same model feeding its own next version.

  • Macron to Seek Use of EU Anti-Coercion Instrument Against US

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  • The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men

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  • Women using sycophantic chatbots that they 100% control, is stil about power and control. One is about bodies, the other is about minds, that's the only difference.

  • I Will Be Appearing Less in Future Videos to Focus on My Personal Life [Veritasium]

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  • Is it a majority stake? In the video, he makes it sound like they're co-owners... which says nothing, and the "our brands" wording is also common as a hyperbole.

    If they earn money from pushing quality content, adding similar channels, adding Patreon financing, backer-only specials, merchandising, placing content on other platforms... "the other shoe" could be simply making a profit.

    Whether Electrify will eventually sell out in turn, is a separate question.

  • I Will Be Appearing Less in Future Videos to Focus on My Personal Life [Veritasium]

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  • When one has 20 million subscribers who get notified of the videos, those few cents per Ad, add up quickly. He's also worked his ass off on the quality side of YouTube, which has earned him a lot of good will and supporters.

    Goes to show that quality content, can also be profitable. It's not all about the bottom dwellers.

  • What happened to MAGA?

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  • I'm sorry to say this, but it sounds like you got duped, hard.

    When estimating support numbers, remember the 90-9-1 rule. In opinion creating spaces, most of the Creators and Contributors are interested actors. What you thought were large numbers of "fellow people", were most likely opinion creators, grifters, and a small number of genuine believers. The bulk of real people, were most likely the lurkers whom you never saw or heard from, and who likely held all sorts of different opinions.

    Your one vote was barely relevant, the important part was to plant a series of messages in the minds of those silent 90%. Once the goal has been achieved, and the opinion space no longer needed, those genuine believers get discarded, and the next opinion creation space is spun up with the same formula.

  • Most chatbot servers don't have video outputs

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  • Depending on how much is "too much power", people might still want to purchase them at a discount for self-hosting purposes. The future is most likely to go through a decentralization of AI services, with spme higher efficiency large providers, combined with lower efficiency edge nodes for less demanding usage... at least, until the next order of magnitude technological shift.

  • Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.

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  • NSFW

    No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them.

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  • Check the history of ReCaptcha: it started by helping digitize booksxfir the Gutenberg Project, then once it got acquired by Google, it switched to house numbers, street signs (auto driving?), and is now helping with object identification.

  • Why are most machine learning models (not frameworks) written in Python? Even through almost any programming language can be used for machine learning?

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  • Strictly speaking, math gets proven from scratch by every math student. Software is slightly different, since most of it never gets a formal proof at all.

  • Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets from New Zealand teenager’s intestines

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  • Me. Tiny strong magnets, are good for reasonably strong attraction at short distances. Uses so far:

    • Magnetic latches for small parts drawers (2 per drawer, 50 drawers)
    • Press-fitting a bunch, into molten plastic holes on the back of a digital thermometer (heat makes them lose strength, so the stronger they start, the better)
    • Signal for a hall effect sensor (1 sensor, n magnets)

    They should always be securely glued in place, though.

    I've seen people use thinner ones, inside the lid of a gift box, as a latch. Also as a magnet for a LED throwie.

    The problem, is stupidity like this:

    Science for Kids: DIY Magnetic LED Lights

    Don't let dumb kids anywhere near them! 🤦

  • Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets from New Zealand teenager’s intestines

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  • I can answer the "let alone 100" part: they get sold as cubes of 216, 512, 1000 tiny magnet balls, or as packs of 80, 100, 200, etc. tiny magnets.

    Why would anyone swallow them... the sale is restricted to 13+ or 18+ in most places, but some (including parents) are unaware of the dangers, and they go for like $2 for 100pcs.

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    How many r are there in strawberry?

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    Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

    www.theguardian.com /education/2025/apr/17/nearly-300-applications-to-french-university-offer-to-take-in-us-academics
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    State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’

    www.politico.com /news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535
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    Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

    arstechnica.com /ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/
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    Popular Chrome extensions hijacked by hackers in widespread cyberattack

    www.tomsguide.com /computing/online-security/3-2-million-chrome-users-at-risk-from-malicious-extensions-delete-them-right-now
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    White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon

    www.reuters.com /science/white-house-directs-nasa-create-time-standard-moon-2024-04-02/
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    This AI Paper Unveils the Future of MultiModal Large Language Models (MM-LLMs) – Understanding Their Evolution, Capabilities, and Impact on AI Research

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    Israeli troops briefly enter Gaza as wider ground incursion looms

    abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory/live-updates-israeli-troops-briefly-enter-gaza-wider-104342677
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    Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing

    www.bleepingcomputer.com /news/google/google-gmail-continuously-nagging-to-enable-enhanced-safe-browsing/
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    Another room-temperature superconductor

    thequantuminsider.com /2023/07/31/another-day-another-room-temperature-superconductor/