I paid… $74.99 for a lifetime plex sub in 2014. Is this the same service?

They’ll imprison us and use us as cheap labor. At least in the US. Unless they kill us.

The rich. Corps. That’s who they are selling services to these days. Especially the AI stuff. You can’t afford AI. I can’t afford it. But the corp you work for can. The no longer care about us plebs.

Only business that would require an ID/Age Verification check, but yeah. Except they don’t want to hold actual websites liable. They want to hold ISP’s liable.

There’s literally no way to know if the people using the VPN’s are located in Utah. So this law would be unenforceable against actual websites.

It might possibly be enforceable against ISP’s but the problem is, once you fire up a VPN your ISP can only see your entry point and maybe that there is a volume of traffic going to and from your device. They can’t see what websites you visit (provided your VPN is properly configured).

I also don’t understand how this bill could effectively lay any blame against the websites for knowing you use a VPN because they also can’t see any of that information. They know that you visited and from a specific IP “located” in “place” and they can either assume that the use of a VPN means you’re in Utah (very unlikely), or they can assume you’re not (more likely given the population that lives outside Utah).

I think what it does (my take from the outside looking in) is rob people of context. Sometimes that context is extremely important and without it even the best answers can cause flaws and failures.

The one good thing about going to a website and reading an article is that you get context that helps you understand the concept not just the answer you were looking for.

The context is how we learn. It’s how we build on basic understanding. It’s also how we vet information for factualness.

I believe this is why people see a decline in their skillset when they use AI LLM’S in place of their own skills. Every time you use a skill you refine it. Don’t use it and in a lot of cases you will lose it.

I just want to try this for the lulz.

“Designed to prevent bypassing age checks by people who don’t understand the technology they are trying to regulate” more at 11.

Legislators should be required to understand technology or consult experts in the field before they enact legislation. This is a waste of tax payer dollars and I’m not even sure it’s enforceable.

If my tax dollars are paying for it then I deserve to see it. This is public. I don’t have a choice but to be surveilled so they shouldn’t have a choice but to make it public.

Sigh. We’re gonna go from third in the world in food safety to like 80th. Speed run.

I did not understand. I’ll see myself out.

Do you think that only apple TVs have wifi chips?

If you don’t have the technical know how to physically lobotomize the TV’s wifi chip, simply blocking its mac address would suffice.

I don’t think businesses are going to be getting any CPU’s to make new PC’s during this shortage either. The average budget laptop cost has skyrocketed.

CPU upgrades? What CPU’s? Are the CPU’s in the Microcenter with us, Microsoft? Can you show us on the shelf where the mystical CPU’s are?

Is the shortage a mirage? Our imagination?

Not exactly. Princeton NJ and the surrounding areas are quite wealthy. The wealthy/elites have decided they don’t want their places polluted or to subsidize the costs of these data centers. It certainly wasn’t Newark and Camden that fought and won this.

GiGo.

I assumed based on the subtext requesting we read the article that the contents of said article said that we should trust it because it’s constantly changing and challenging itself.

However I think some people might be inclined to downvote specifically because this kind of headline is basically clickbait. I’m not sure they’re wrong in doing so.

Generative AI LLM’S? No. GiGo Counters? Yes.

It did what now? What the hell is this title?

“We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.”

Is the actual title. What gives?

A couple of weeks ago a WAYMO Taxi drove through an active crime scene.

A bit ago they had to patch their taxis firmware to prevent them running down children (something you’d think they already would be programmed to do).

Passengers have reported being held hostage by their taxi when it stopped suddenly and refused to move.

There’s a laundry list of things that have been wrong with them. Some have had reasonable fixes (and some of those fixes should have been implemented before they were allowed on the road).