That’s the plan. Attack subject that are traditionally seen as taboo/sensitive/whatever, then extend. CSAM content, porn in general, even random bulletin board with cringey content these days, are used as the entrypoint. You target those, people are wary about defending their rights because of the flagship topic, so laws are changed to put some extra layers of tracking, surveillance, etc.

Step two is claim whatever site/service the current government dislike falls under an imaginary category that allows using these layers of surveillance. And these are extra hard to remove once put in place, because nobody wants to break their surveillance toy.

It’s never about the porn, it’s never about the kids, it’s never about our security when a proposal shows up and talks about breaking encryption, privacy, etc.

Stuff we want: protecting kids, having privacy.

Stuff these proposal do: break privacy, don’t care about kids (or anyone else for that matter).

Seems pretty simple to me. Again.

He would pay someone to do it for him, then claim he did it by itself, fumble doing it again on camera, an complain people are harassing poor baby musky and storm off.

Ah, you used logic. That’s the issue. They don’t do that.

I hope some people are keeping track of all this, to keep them ALL accountable, and put safeguards in place so that it won’t happen again. I also hope there will be something to build on next US election.

If people are ok with authoritarian regimes, let’s use that as an opportunity to strong hand transparency and trust into them. I was always against that stance, but the fucking shitfest we’re seeing there? Yeah, no more of that. Force laws that prevents unlimited power when you can instead of hoping the next madman will play “fair”.

The end result is the same though; if the bar is set to “be vaccinated against a minimal set of preventable disease”, and either people are happy to not be, or worse, because there’s always a worst option, we start seeing more cases of people falsely claiming to be vaccinated while they’re not, other countries might start tightening the grip.

…how would we know that some vaccination certificates are bogus? I have no doubt that some people would be bright enough to travel while having measles or whatever. It already happened, and increasing the amount of people in this situation is unlikely to heighten their awareness of it :(

Weren’t they saying good thing about vaccines a few week ago? After saying they were useless? After saying they were efficient? After saying they caused whatever? After saying they weren’t against them? After saying they caused cognitive decline in kids? After saying they did not have an opinion? After saying they would not use them?

If a massive amount of people were not put in harms way by this senile sick idiot, it would be hilarious to make a montage of their interviews flip-flops.

There is nobody with more dedication than IP lawyers and Nintendo.

And where would you download from, that is seen as legal sharing of someone else’s IP?

The closest you could get is by locating the ROM file in some PC remakes, assuming there’s no “protection” on them.

Again, playing around the “legal” way to do things. In reality, it’s different.

People buying the console for the games that are on that console, not generations before, are 100% fine.

Beside, it’s not something you have to fiddle with to get it work. Either a patch come, or you’re on your own.

It is not illegal to emulate a game that you own.

In a lot of place it is illegal to circumvent technical protection measures, which is technically required for almost anything starting from NES era. Making it impossible to “legally” rip your own games (yes, even in places where there IS a tax to allow private copy of content you bought). So the only way you can do that is by downloading it, where there is no “legal” way to distribute it in the first place, so “legally” you can’t download it either.

I’m not defending the practice, I’m saying that if you’re going the “legal” defense, you’re going to have a bad time if it gets attention. Fortunately, suing every single gamer on earth is not an attractive prospect.

Mario. Zelda. Metroid. For a time the occasional Splatoon. Maybe a Wario once in a while too. Some Pikmin. Even the built-in (paid) list of emulator games are attractive.

Also, you severely underestimate the convenience factor for a lot of people. Yeah, I have a Steam Deck, and 95% of the time, it’s a completely seamless experience. With consoles, it’s 100% of the time. People want a “I turn it on, I start a game”, not a “I turn it on, I might be able to start a game, and sometimes it needs a bit of fiddling, not much, but, more than zero. And sure, I could have this or that other thing by going there and running that, you know, sometimes”.

Part of the difficulty is that Nintendo have hitsquads that will blow your city if you even look sideways at one of the screw.

I see some problems here.

An LLM providing “an opinion” is not a thing, as far as current tech does. It’s just statistically right or wrong, and put that into word, which does not fit nicely with real use cases. Also, lots of tools already have autofix that can (on demand) handle many minor issues you mention, without any LLM. Assuming static analysis is already in place and decent tooling is used, this would not have to reach either a human or an AI agent or anything before getting fixed with little resources.

As anecdotal evidence, we regularly look into those tools on the job. Granted, we don’t have billions of lines of code to check, but so far it’s at best useless. Another anecdotal evidence is the recent outburst from the curl project (and other, following suite) getting a mountain of issues that are bogus.

I have no doubt that there is a place for human-sounding review and advice, alongside other more common uses like completion and documentation, but ultimately these systems are not able to think by design. The work still has to be done. And can’t go much beyond platitudes. You ask how common the horrible cases are, but that might not be the correct question. Horrific comments are easy to spot and filter out. Perfectly decent looking “minor fixes” that are well worded, follow guidelines, and pass all checks, while introducing an off by one error or suddenly decides to swap two parameters that happens to be compatible and make sense in context are the issue. And those, even if rare (empirically I’d say they are not that rare for now) are so much harder to spot without full human analysis, are a real threat.

Yet another anecdotal… yes, that’s a lot. Given the current hype, I can only base my findings on personal experience, mostly. I use AI-based code completion, assuming it’s short enough to check at a glance, and the context is small enough that it can’t make mistakes. At most two-three lines at time. Even in this context, while checking that the generated code matches what I was going to write, I’ve seen a handful of mistakes slip through over a few months. It makes me dread what could get through a PR system, where the codebase is not necessarily fresh in the mind of the reviewer.

This is not to say that none of that is useful, but if it were to be, it would require extremely high level of trust, far higher than current human intervention (which is also not great and source of mistakes, I’m very aware of that) to be. The goal should not be to emulate human mistakes, but to make something better.

I’m self-hosting my mails; no need for another third party that will decide whatever whenever. The major difficulty is the decades of things that are reliant on the old one.

And I just said that google works fine for search, despite people claiming it’s on the decline, broken, unusable, etc. That’s not to move toward qwant, who are no less shady, burn money (sometimes coming from public money…), and despite wonderful claim of an autonomous index, completely stop working when Bing is down. As far as recommendations for search engine goes, google (and Bing for that matter) are far less disingenuous. All usable search engines these days are backed by the big ones anyway. Something like https://openwebsearch.eu/ would be a better alternative, assuming it follows on its promises.

The two thing I use most, by far, from Google, is gmail and basic search.

Gmail, I’m looking to move away from it now, but I currently have every little addition to it disabled. Basic inbox and tags, no automatic filtering, no categories, no nothing.

Search, my browser is set to open the “web” tab with the query, no transformation, no summary, no “for you”, no AI garbage, no “we thought you wanted video so there’s only video in the replies”. It still works fine.

Basically, none of what they added for years… maybe decade at this point, had held a glimmer of interest from me. It feels like this trend will continue. I just want something very basic that works.

Oh, so it’d be ok to get movies, pictures, books, etc. without asking the right owners for us too? GREAT.

I’m mainly interested in Japanese, so I’m currently looking at https://www.renshuu.org/ . In addition to just throwing random stuff at you, it gots some more in-depth training, explanations of stuff (something that never happened in duolingo), additional hints for alphabets including some mnemonics, and years of dedicated experience in the language. I can’t tell how it would feel long term, but so far even having some basic explanations is a great improvement.

People are unfair with this “CEO”. Its statement helped me move on from duolingo, which has seen significant decline in quality while never going beyond “a moderately bad way to start learning”, toward better, more developed, more cared for, cheaper, solutions.

So, thanks for that.

It could be nice. People complaining about it being web based are missing the point of such tools.