Not with a DoD contract they won’t

I agree, they start to sound desperate to keep their current momentum going. I think the bubble will burst soon. Things look solid until they’re not.

This seems just as toyish as did dinnerplate sized drones 2y ago. So chances are I’m wrong again.

You may be missing the point.

To most people participating in soceity for the last 10yrs is obvious that this is just a step. Think of the boiling frog metaphore. There is BIG money in rent seeking through enshittification.

Fortunately open source software is not controllable to the same degree by legistlation as proprietary shit (ms, apple). So, while specific countries or states could create such laws, open source software in general is unlikely to comply. The reason is simple: everyone has access to the source code, so anyone can rip out any offending piece of code. Which is happening with systemd right now.

Btw, if I’m not mistaken the systemd PR implementing the birthdate change is closed wihout the code being merged. For now.

I’d say not before the bosses and shareholders agree to take 50% of their compensation in the form of AI tokens.

These fucking leeches…

Maybe they will, but this is beside the point. Regardless the forks, look at the wider response. I can’t imagine Linux users will accept this, not because of any thechnical impact or systemd haters hating. This is people actively preparing to make a stand against enshittification and techbros funded legistlation.

I think there is an intention to convey a clear message. I will be warching the distro’s. Red Hat, being an IBM company, will probably back this age verification farce. I’m not so sure about the community distro’s like Debian or Arch. Maybe even Ubuntu will stop short.

Despite being a minor technical feature, I think this will have a disproportionate response from people.

It is quite obvious that it’s AI

I like how you make your point, but the soft power of the US is over. As pointed out by others, the current administration is a sympthom, not an aberration.

US may have military primacy and the reserve currency, but neither can restore the loss of the appeal it had between post-ww2 and 2020. When tourists get deported after months of incarceration and we see videos of masked federal goons shooting people in the face, that is something else. When allying with the US gets you humiliation, threats, or even missle and drone attacks, that just does not seems like the smart move. So, respectfully, with friends like the US who needs enemies?

Wishing you best of luck getting your country back tough.

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– your friendly ai

I haven’t looked into this b/c, frankly, this at a low place on my current emergencies list, but sounds plausible.

But… they’ll operate on builtin mini nuclear reactors, just like submarines. They’ll go years without recharging!

– emusk (probably)

If this will indeed be implemented, that is finally an objectively good reason for the haters. I wonder how distros will deal with this.

Yeah, and the next scene is where a bunch of obese federal goons climb out of their unmarked suvs to kidnap a few brownish kids and shoot some of the parents in the face.

No, wait that isn’t fiction. Those things did actually happen.

This does not sound plausible.

Whatever may come, there is one sure thing: nobody will trust the US ever again. It may take the old allies a while to find their footing and they may still be dependant on the US. But that relationship will be more like that of the abusive caretaker vs abused teen. Biding their time until they finally can exit the dependance.

Seeing the source (FT) and the Rubio directive, that anonymous qoute from the “European military official” may have come from some hungarian puppet.

Source code of what? Unfortunately, none of the above is anywhere near enough.

We need locally available ai models that can run off-line. Also: the ai context and history must be kept separately from the model itself.

If the ai model needs to communicate with the outside world, user needs 100% transparency and control what data the ai sends.

That’s easy. Just a matter of leaving them off. /s

Seriously, be careful what you wish for! Hw vendors have been trying locking people out of their own devices for decades. Throw in the current trends of big tech and in a dystopian, but possible future you may not be allowed other devices than approved by the powers that be. Russia’s Max(?) app, anyone? Or the Chinees counterpart? Different kind of computerless, but there you go.

In other words, this is a self-defeating wish. I hope not many people fall in the trap of adopting this standpoint. Wishing reality away is not a good strategy.

Of course OP may have just attempted sarcasm. Which is fine.

Do tell… genuine question, what would you consider 2 significant differeces?