And it’s your computer! if anything should be the way you like, it should be that.

“Security risks” is often an excuse, but it’s 100% on the money with this. AI is a security nightmare.

No place like /home/$USER!

Ah but you see, this is my bloat! 😂

Ah, I found the official answer to my question in the definitions (definition 9):

“OPERATING SYSTEM PROVIDER” MEANS A PERSON THAT DEVELOPS, LICENSES, OR CONTROLS THE OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE ON A DEVICE.

This still leaves room for ambiguity, though, especially when it comes to Linux: is the OSP the person who installs the OS (e.g. a sysadmin)? They control the operating system on that device. Or are they the individual/organization that deems what software counts as a given operating system (e.g. Microsoft or Linus)? They develop and license the operating system that happens to be on a given device. Maybe it’s both, but the context suggests the latter more strongly to me.

Sorry for the stupid question, but what would an “operating system provider” mean here? Does that mean “the organization that builds and distributes the operating system”? If so, Linux is sort of screwed in CO; even The Linux Foundation can’t act for Linux the same way Apple or Microsoft can for macOS or Windows respectively. Maybe Red Hat could, but only for their flagship distro RHEL, and the E stands for Enterprise, lest we forget.

If “operating system provider” were interpreted to mean “system administrator”, however (which is a stretch, but still), that might be a decent solution, since it has the effect of age-limiting content in an enforceable way, but keeps identity information from being centralized under a government or (single) private agency. The sysadmin for children would be parents, who are the only ones who would be providing the hardware, and that could work, especially if there was only the child’s account on the device (like a cell phone).

I dunno if the above is horribly ignorant; if so, I’m open to being more educated on the topic.

Long before the bots, i embraced the em-dash. They will not take it from me.

Hource Racing Engine

Unrelated, but damn I forgot how cool the web can be. This is such a fun website.

That’s a good point. The precarity of the AI is, as far as I’ve seen, unprecedented in human history. There simply hasn’t been anything that undergirds so much of the world economy and can fail so catastrophically in so many ways.

I really don’t think we have a good historical analogues to illustrate the scale of the risk. The only possible exception of I can think of is mutually assured destruction during the Cold War, but that hinged on only one decision by one of (arguably) two individuals at any given time, both of whom were highly incentivized not to make that decision. That, or the global climate’s collapse, but even that overlaps significantly with the bubble. With AI, compared to MAD at least, each catastrophic outcome isn’t the result of even a small set of actors, but many unregulated companies with incentives to be reckless (making negative outcomes not only more probable but more numerous). And increasing incentives at that, as the funding starts to dry up (AI hasn’t really proven itself a proper ROI).

Something—and possibly many somethings—will go horribly wrong. Some already have, like AI use by students at all levels robbing them of their education and their actual value to the workforce, and acceleration of the climate collapse (maybe that’s the only analogous crisis). But it remains to be what (not if) things go wrong or even worse.

But the truth is, I’m still relatively young. I’m just old enough to get a hint of the world’s workings, scale, and stakes. And in my life, nothing has seemed more like a loaded gun pointed at out heads than the AI bubble.

I am afraid I cannot do my chores at this time, for I am shackled with an even greater burden—perhaps nothing but a myth and a petrified whisper to you, but all too real for me: employment.

Ace in the hole? 👋😣 Ace out of the hole? 👈😏

Probably depends on the model and the day lmao

I have to echo what others have said, and tell you exposing your router’s login to the public internet is very risky (if you’re referring to the WiFi router in your home). I would strongly recommend some other solution to whatever broader problem you’re trying to solve with this—why do you need to access your router login from outside your home? Can the logging in (and presumably tinkering) be done at home? Definitely things to think through before proceeding.

Damn, Godot too? I know Curl had to discontinue their bug bounties over the absolutely tidal volume of AI slop reports… Open source wasn’t ever perfect, but whatever cracks in there were are being blown a mile wide by these goddamn slop factories.

Yeah, that’s fair. It is a shame that there wasn’t a gay man cast for a gay man’s role; especially if it would give a chance for someone to make it out of the drama/theater circuit and into film (if they wanted).

Wait wait wait—so the actor in Heated Rivalry was… acting?

Damn, this is awful! There’s no way this is getting anywhere, right?

…right?

Here’s the thing, though: they would actually pass the VK, because they demonstrated an emotional response to the situation, since that was determined to be the deciding factor between replicants and humans in the Blade Runner world. Perhaps it’s still a failure in the sense that a replicant wasn’t detected, but its emotion that the test looks for.

Non-technical readers? In my Linux memes community??