While I am curious about where the parents were, I also recognize that even if they knew their kid was playing video games with randoms on the internet, it’s still unlikely that the parents would have the skills to differentiate the other kids on the server playing from the random adult with nefarious intentions.

This seems like a failing of parents to use parental controls and also make themselves aware of the dangers and safeguards altogether.

I suspect the parents were working. A lot of poor parents often are working when their kids get involved in things they shouldn’t.

Now this is a sticker I want. Gonna start slapping this puppy on gas pumps over the stupid “I did that!” Biden stickers.

How many times do they need to be grifted for them to learn?

I was able to change my SSN but it was a process to say the least. The federal government leaked my info and the info of 21.5 million other military members and government employees in 2015. Combined with everything else that’s out there from other data breaches it was basically the only thing I could do that didn’t involve changing my name or buying a new Identity.

You asked a question. I answered the question. I don’t know what people expect these days but I expect programs to download what I tell them to when I tell them to and not suddenly decide to download things I don’t tell them to. Back in the day we called programs that download things without the users consent viruses.

Especially if it redownloads and reinstalls itself after the user removes it. Doesn’t matter what company it comes from that’s not how things are supposed to work (MS does this same type of crap with copilot and that’s also insane).

On android phones I believe this is called Gemini Nano which is part of the Gemini app for Android and the android AIcore app. The AI core app supposedly eats up like 4-12GB of storage. I believe it’s a system app that you can’t uninstall.

Might be worth a look at your phone apps especially if you have a pixel phone.

It downloads the 4GB local model and then doesn’t use it. Instead chrome LLM usage is routed through their online LLM service instead.

Chrome’s most recent release, version 147, now includes an AI Mode pill in the omnibox, however, this routes queries to cloud-based AI servers. The local model is not used by that AI, instead it powers features like “Help me write”.

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.

I think my first might have been alta vista.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Join a lobby. Start a lobby. It’s not just tech Bros that can do this. Anyone can and should lobby for what they want. The difference between you and a tech bro millionaire is that they are organized.

I took the headline to mean the critics of the law were saying they don’t want teachers to be allowed to have cell phones on the job. I wonder if a lot of the commenters here took it the exact opposite way (teachers and students should be allowed to have cell phones, rather than teachers and students should both be banned from having cell phones in schools).

I think that may be where the crisscross is.

This would be easier than banning VPNs wholesale.

“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.

There is a distinct possibility that when people like the guy you were talking to “retire” or get forced out, these corps will hire you (a person without the degree but with the passion to do the job). In pretty much all cases you should assume that they will be taking advantage of you in any way they can, including by looking to use your much cheaper labor to fill the holes the other guy left when they retired.

They will pay you a fraction of what they paid him regardless of your skill. They will avoid any and all training so they don’t have to increase your pay. They will try to force you to use AI rather than building skills you will need to progress in a career like this. And when you give pushback they will force you out either by outright firing you or by making things so miserable you abandon your job. They will continue to do this to anyone they can get on the hook. Probably even after the bubble pops (using local models instead). They don’t want knowlegable humans because those people can ask for what they want and will advocate for it. Those people know what they are worth. They want patsies.

They don’t think. They know. They have carefully weighed the likeliness of repercussions vs to the profit to be made from doing it anyway. They have also weighed how likely it is they will face legal action and what the legal action will cost them. They have also also stacked the deck against the common user and any legislators that might want to hold them accountable through lobbying and other forms of coercion or bribery.

This is a well calculated “risk” vs reward for them.

You want some fuk? Give us you biometric data!

Of Bitwarden.