The problem isn’t the specific nature of the rule: having an api call in the background that can broadcast a user’s age range (if it isn’t a clearly identifiable marker) makes sense.

The problem is that if the government is able to tell open source developers “YOU MUST INSERT THIS CODE OR ELSE!!!” then what’s next?

Will in 5 years they require Persona in order to install an Operating System to combat terrorism?

Will in 7 years they require a closed source module created by the government to be running at all times and the kernel must check to make sure if the closed source module is running?

Part of open source software is creativity, freedom, and freedom of speech. Some software is created because developers like creating things.

I hope Debian fights back against this on first amendment grounds. Great code is not that different from a great work of art, there is unique creativity in something elegantly coded that functions well, and telling developers they can’t code how they want is the path toward totalitarianism.

It’s one thing to force this into Microslop and Android and iOS because those are large profitable companies who don’t actually care as long as they make money. It’s another thing to force FOSS developers who develop for free because of the love of software and great code that they must change their code in a certain way.

Nooo! But I used to be so popular on Lemmy!

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It’s a good point. But I also think I can’t stop environmental catastrophe from occurring because religious people don’t believe in science and most people are religious.

I am all in favor of banning gas cars, building better public infrastructure, and extremely harsh draconian environmental standards to try to stop the extinction event unfolding before us, but over time I concluded I can’t stop it: people are too religious and stupid.

I can’t deprogram the entire world. I may as well have a nicer life until everything dies by using AI. I can’t run for world dictator, as a gay person, and enact the necessary standards because so many religious idiots would never vote for me because I’m gay. At best, I can protest, which does nothing in the grand scheme of things.

People have protested, scientists have lit themselves on fire trying to warn people; no one cares. I don’t think that being a part of the extinction even is immoral when it will happen no matter what I do. And honestly, people are so stupid and evil that maybe the earth is better off getting rid of us, like a human gets a fever to try to destroy an infection. Humans no longer know how to live in balance with nature and belief in religion is the primary driver of that. Should I suffer until the end (with no AI) so I can say “I told you so” in 130 F heat when the world becomes uninhabitable? I like AI. I would rather not format all my documents or write all my documents. I like the help. Yes, it’s environmentally destructive, but it’s sort of like lecturing the captain when the Titanic has already started sinking. We know what’s going to happen, there’s no turning back, at best some humans will escape to a slightly colonized Mars until everyone dies and perhaps the earth will go back to homeostasis thousands or millions of years later and Martians can recolonize earth. I can’t stop these things.

Nope, I’m looking for a reason to keep using it when I hate closed-source software! It’s the exact opposite!

I’ll admit to being one of those people. I’m always a bit biphobic of new bisexual people unless they end up fucking me.

US Corporations that receive secret court orders are required by law to violate their privacy policies. A US-based privacy policy and closed source software doesn’t really tell anyone much if the government is sliding into authoritarianism. There are lots of queries in LM Studio and small packages that get updated and data is sent and received during that, there is no proof that data about the user is not sent if the data is encrypted. That is the core of my stupid question: is the data to their servers encrypted?

Thank you! That’s what I’m saying. I don’t have the technical skill to check this out myself. Should I just delete LM Studio for now? It’s such a great program, but I think it may not be worth the risk.

Students that graduates with a liberal arts degree from an anti-speech state like Florida should be viewed as having the equivalent of a high school education.

Unless someone intends to stay in-state and thinks some mark of stupidity will help them with other stupid people, why not transfer at this point? What a waste of time and money for impacted students.

What’s next? Will the white trash jesus states demand Biblically correct flat earth astronomy textbooks and pass poorly written laws demanding that too?

It’s hard to know if you are right or just biased. I am not an expert on this topic but feel bad for animals who live in small cages or tanks alone and feel like if it must be done, it would be nice if they were comfortable. Has a hamster ever been observed doing this in nature or only in captivity?

fucking hilarious! I needed to laugh. Thanks @[email protected] this made my day

Are there are any worthy online newspapers specifically investigating this?

You’re missing the point… if you have a bunch of soft small cedar chips, they are going to shift while sleeping and some part of your hamster body is going to be on hard man-made material on the floor of a cage that is a lot harder than dirt and grass and leaves.

cruelty to animals (isolation, pellets on ground that aren’t comfortable enough to make a bed. a hard hard floor under the pellets, day after day of misery and tedium and a form of sensory deprivation, having to use his own body as a pillow because of horrible cruelty) isn’t actually funny!

i want to be your friend. can i run away to canada and do canadian thing with you? i’m not sure what people do in canada… but i want to learn…

the people who vote facist light may be perfectly willing to vote harder left if the overton window were shifted… but it’s not shifting… because of many many assholes… and since there are so many assholes, why have sympathy without context?

why should that person be having empathy for some conservative pos who voted to defund healthcare specifically so he could vote against LGBT rights and against women’s rights? this guy could be a cool dude, but he may not be. I need not have sympathy for my enemies.

No, it absolutely does matter. I am tired of these “we owned the libs” idiots giving each other high fives when a transwoman can’t compete in swimming and then suddenly crying bitter tears after they have no healthcare coverage.

done

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