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Ignoring whether or not this alert was appropriate or not, the government sends out test alerts periodically to both test the system and for people to know their device works. They announce it in advance for a specific time so you can expect it and not panic, plus if you didn’t get it you’d know you have an issue on your side.

The ice cream van around my house is out every day in rain, snow, cold and all miserable weather. Not heard it once in summer. If they’re not a drug dealer I don’t know what their business plan is.

I think on the face of it this sounds kinda reasonable, 174k is still a pretty comfy salary. I can see the person in charge of 100+ schools earning more than the one in charge of 1-2 though, but I’d much rather the money is spent on the teachers/kids as well.

It’s all good, we can’t look at imgur anymore and that’s just as important as food.

Starmer said the plan meant the UK would become the first country in the world to make it impossible for children to take, share or view nude images.

Oh yeah for sure, definitely how it’s gonna work out. If history has taught us anything it’s that teenagers give up easily and aren’t at all persistent and innovative when it comes to being told no. And surely they don’t care about porn at all either.

After all, the online safety bill has been a sweeping success. Something to be proud of.

We got a modern BYD recently as a rental on a holiday that had this, it was really annoying. Anytime anything happened the car beeped, it was near constant different beeps - super distracting. Most of the things could be turned off, but had to be turned off each time the car was started, on a tablet buried in various menus.

The attention thing also wasn’t working great with the driver wearing sunglasses, it’d randomly start complaining. It also complained when the driver would lean forward to get a better view around a corner or anything.

It was a very fancy car, but I’d definitely never choose a car with these features, even though some may probably be useful.

I’d also never trust one of these companies not to change the policy on what they can do with this camera in the future, at which point you’ll have little to no choice about it. Or, to find out they messed up and now anyone can watch you in your car.

I’d go back to the dealership and complain, either ask for a refund or a way to be able to cover the camera, especially if they only disclosed it as you got the car.

Yeah, it’s probably part of it! Banks are even more obvious about it. E.g. in the UK where crypto is a taxed and somewhat regulated thing, most of the banks have taken the stance of rejecting any payments to and from(!) exchanges, even if they’re approved by the government. All because it’s “high risk so they want to protect users”. No such issue with gambling though, obviously.

Fwiw, there are already some cryptos which use proof-of-stake instead of proof-of-work which overcomes the entire electricity consumption thing.

I do wish that places started accepting cryptos which were meant to be used for transactions (e.g. NANO) rather than ones like bitcoin that just happen to have existed for a while, but is technically inferior to most everything else.

Unfortunately, crypto in general challenges not just payment processors but the entire banking industry, and that’s probably too much to ever succeed.

On 1, would it not work if you created a new bitcoin wallet, then bought bitcoin with monero and used that bitcoin to pay? I understand BTC isn’t anonymous, but if you fund the wallet only with BTC purchased via monero and don’t re-use the wallet it shouldn’t identify you.

On 2, I meant to test if proton mail (or one of the other providers where the only issue is needing another email address) accepts adding a verification email address to the proton account (which in theory passes the human verification check), where the verification email address is from for example disroot, or from one of the anonymous mail providers. Basically just a test if the human verification check can be circumvented with another provider that would do the human verification check or similar, maybe there is a gap in the validation for one of them.

Does that make sense?

Either way, if you need this to be anonymous and also rotate the account with a high frequency like weekly, probably neither of those will remain feasible even if one of them would maybe work once.

Thank you, that makes more sense. Proton has an article on this (https://proton.me/support/human-verification) and it does imply your use of tor will trigger it (as opposed to only requiring captcha).

My only 3 ideas are:

1. Some search results indicate that upgrading to a paid account removes this issue on proton, but it seems the wording for this on the page above was removed. If you’re willing to try spending some money on it you can try upgrading the proton account with crypto (buy bitcoin with monero?) and pay for a month?

2. Try if they accept adding a verification email from an anonymous provider, or another provider which would do this?

3. If you plan on/have the option to go on a holiday check which countries allow buying prepaid SIM cards for cash without ID and pick one up to pass the verification on one of these providers?

I don’t understand your wording of what that limitation is.

My best guess would be that you mean you want to use a custom domain for the email address…?

What do you mean by “do not accept 3rd party registration email”?

A full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM; alpine base image is 3.6MB; 3rd completely unrelated thing

I don’t know the context around you getting banned, unless there’s some specific rules you violated. I am not in support of that, but it’s also not the focus of my message.

I disagree with development having to go that way. If anything, the hatred towards ai is a sign that it’s actively not sought after, or at least not with LLMs. If they managed to develop actual AI that is on par with senior engineers, maybe? But we don’t have that. What we have is faulty and inherently flawed. Why would we have to push ahead forcefully with it…?

I didn’t include a list of why ai is harmful as the post was already long, but displacing workers is just 1 point.

• massive waste of resources (as in water, electricity) for tasks which can already be achieved without AI for a fraction of the compute cost (think, search engines as an example). Also consider the environmental impact here in a society where a lot of our power still comes from burning fossil fuels.
• a war on consume hardware (all compute components “sold out” for 1-2 years ahead making everything expensive for average people)
• destruction of the workforce pipeline (even if only junior roles got displaced by ai, we will simply not have a pipeline of new staff to step in once seniors had enough, in any industry this is catastrophic, especially when the machine doing this is not actually able to fully replace staff)
• building a dependence of closed source subscription based tooling or end up locked out of your own codebase because it’s infeasible to do it without once you started
• theft of intellectual property ignoring all licensing for training data, or companies selling individual contributions
• the entire thing being funded by imaginary money propped up by a circle of loans driving us towards yet another financial collapse across the modern world

I’m sure there are even more.

Not all of these are the fault of the technology, but I’m more than happy to throw the entire technology and everything around it under the bus if it means it makes it easier for people to unite against these companies - which I think it does.

Saying “it’s a tool and provides value” is like saying “force feeding chickens in a tiny cage” is a tool that provides value. True? Yes. Valid? No.

Even if that were true (and in some rare cases it probably is) the machine is trained on stolen data, ignoring all licensing or companies selling people’s contributions without their approval - and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

To call it slop is a great way to discredit it and to not support an unethical business/technology.

I don’t think everything is getting called ai slop, but I would say if any part of your project is ai slop (like your “lazy uis”) I’d also immediately lose trust in the entirety of the project, especially if it’s intended to be around security. I do think most projects that use AI for code generation are slop though, I’ve seen far fewer examples of good use (i.e. where the output looks human written because the operator reviewed and refactored every part of it, or where it was used to write small parts of functions rather than entire functionalities)

Your last sentence I think provides a great argument for why people here (and more and more broadly in engineering) hate on ai generated code in general. It produces such vast quantities of code (and often unnecessarily) that it becomes infeasible for a human to review it, immediately requiring us to place trust in the machine to both generate it and review it, and to continue maintaining it while the human operator probably does not even have full understanding of what’s changing. A machine, that we all know hallucinates and generates often low quality garbage, including severe security vulnerabilities by design. According to GitHub, your project has millions of lines of changes on a weekly basis in the earlier days, that does scream slop to me.

Last, AI is more and more hated due to the increasing number of horrible impacts it has on our world, personally I’d not support AI generated projects just on that principle alone.

I’d make the same point as everyone else - choose a distro that suits your needs better - but it seems already made several times.

I’ve used Linux both personally and professionally for a long time but I just don’t want to tinker/break my main desktop. I am currently using bazzite, and while it’s not perfect I’ve found it great in the not breaking department. The immutable part takes some getting used to though. The recent drama around it is annoying though.

I’d be cautious with nix, while it’s reproducible you might end up having to put a lot of effort into making it what you want. If you want that experience then by all means, but it may just frustrate you further if you do it on your main machine.

I use Audeze Maxwell (the 1st edition), I don’t think it’s sold anymore new but there is a 2nd edition (which i never tried).

Strictly speaking I would not recommend it, unless you don’t use a mic very often - in which case it’s awesome.

The sound quality is great (although I’m no audiophile). It works fine on both Linux and Windows. The chat control is part of the headset, not the software. Comes with a 2.4ghz dongle but can connect via Bluetooth too. You can also use them wired with a usb cable while charging. Battery lasts something like 60 hours and charges in about 30 mins (as above, you can use it while charging). It’s rather comfortable, although I’ve replaced the ear pads.

I’ve mentioned the mic is the downside, the actual issue with it is that if you turn on sidetone it’ll have static crackling noises. It’s been a known issue for long and never got any fix for it. The mic can be removed or sidetone can be disabled, but since it’s a closed back you might start shouting involuntarily. If you don’t often use a mic, it’s a great headset.

So… you are familiar with the windows 3rd party programs to use, but not the Linux ones?

That would certainly apply the other way around as well, so is that a barrier to entry to windows too then?

I never understood the argument of “if it’s not in the UI you may need to use a command to achieve it and it’s scary”.

On windows, if it’s not in the UI you have to use either a powershell command or update the registry to change it - which are both a very similar experience.

The only difference I actually see in this point is that Linux has a lot more options.