DHH is actively promoting Omarchy as a “beginner distro” (it’s not, it’s Arch with a tiling WM)
LOL a tiling WM for a “beginner distro”?
Arch for newbies would be something like SteamOS (a console-like experience), not something that presumably requires learning hotkeys to change which window you’re looking at. Sure, I like tiling WMs, but most people still right click to copy/paste.
Anyway, it just sounds like one of those rightwing grifts. Thanks for the context!
Somehow I keep seeing articles about how people use Omarchy or how some random rich person likes Omarchy or whatever and I haven’t met a single person who I’ve heard uses it. Does anyone actually use it?
This is a Casio calculator though.
Not sure whether the goalpost is set to LLMs or ML in general, but OP clearly is drawing the line at LLMs, so:
Toaster - it can determine the heat and duration needed for the bread/bagel based on the thickness and density, without needing to manually guess the settings
This is already done with traditional models in rice cookers, pressure cookers, and so on. It doesn’t need LLMs.
Fridge - aware of the contents so it can set the thermostat at the ideal temperature range, even better if it’s in control of internal flaps to automatically compartmentalize the contents for optimal storage
Some smart fridges have tracked their contents for years now and sell that data to advertisers.
Toothbrush - able to scan your teeth while you better and inform you if your brushing was adequate or if you missed any plaque, on which teeth, and warn you of developing cavities
I know there’s some crazy toothbrushes out there, but the closest equivalent I know of is my shaver which actually does give recommendations on how to shave better. Or it would, anyway, if I linked it to a mobile app that’s never going to touch my phone. I got this shaver around 5y ago, again predating LLMs.
Bedside light - aware of if you’re in the bed, and whether you’re attempting to go to sleep, or are asleep, based on preferences and rules you give it beforehand, in plain language
The last thing I want is for my bedside lamp to have a camera and perform object detection in my bedroom just to turn off automatically when I get in bed lol. Plus, I usually don’t want the light off as soon as I’m in bed. In any case, traditional models could do this, but multi-modal LLMs tend to perform better.
So what exactly are you saying to do here? Because I already write to my representatives and advocate against these things. The reality is that lawmakers don’t care what people want, only what’s going to make them the most money.
In any case, the point I was making was that this law isn’t age verification, and spending energy fighting against this when you could be battling the myriad actual age verification bills and laws is a waste of energy. In CA, there’s also the 3D printer BS around scanning and blocking print jobs.
There’s also the ALPR issue, data centers, and so on that have shown that representatives would rather put up a democratic facade than actually listen to their constituents.
But really, nothing should be doing strong identity verification outside of stuff like government (e.g. passports), or anything that commonly exploits identity for crime (e.g. major financial operations).
FYI the article title (and the name of the law) are both misleading. The law does not require age verification, only age attestation.
Does that make the law even dumber? Probably, lol.
What if an asteroid flies into the Earth and splits it in two?
Edit: I’ll add more now that I can sit down and focus.
Age attestation has existed for longer than I’ve been alive. Every service with an age requirement (must be 18+ to view, must be 13+ to play, must be 8+ with parent permission or 18+ to play, etc) used user attestation. The law is stupid because:
This law isn’t age verification. It’s just politicians being technically illiterate imbeciles.
What does this have to do with an exemption for Linux on a shitty OS-level age attestation law…?
The law is stupid for many reasons, among them being that Linux devs aren’t often even located in CA or subject to its laws, and that people can just lie about their age. Corporate takeover of technology doesn’t really have anything to do with this.
The law requires the OS to ask the age and provide it to applications, not verify the age. Linux can provide the same API with a static value or “no age” signal if needed.
It’s a wall of text that lists too many requirements to keep track of at once.
Are you looking for hard souls-like games on PC? There’s a lot of good ones out there, but if you find them easy, it might be worth doing a challenge run (no damage, not allowed items or certain mechanics, etc). For example, I had a friend do a no-damage Sekiro run at max difficulty.
You:
So why is more pollution from subject A acceptable, but less from subject B isn’t?
My response (in response to another comment):
It being drowned out by the advocacy against AI doesn’t mean those voices disappeared, just that there are louder voices now.
You, with the nihilistic doomerism take:
By virtue of even posting, YOU are pushing datacenter demand.
Me, responding to the subject:
people are upset about all the evils. Being more or less upset about one or the other is irrelevant. You’re just choosing to cherry pick one thing that everyone who’s upset should ignore.
What was that about comment history?
Anyway, in response to this:
What matters (at least now) is the number of services it provides.
If you’re looking for things to improve, then you prioritise the places where improvement will have the most effect.
Anyway, if we want to reduce the environmental argument down as much as you are, then we might as well eliminate nearly all life on earth because living creatures produce emissions and consume water. Point is, your counterargument is complete nonsense and reductionist.
People can be upset by multiple things at once despite your best attempts to argue otherwise.
Current non-AI datacenters run all of every other service on the internet.
Current AI datacenters run one class of services.
This is like comparing totals vs per capita.
By virtue of even posting, YOU are pushing datacenter demand. These comments don’t just live in the ether.
I write software for a living. There’s an enormous difference between a text-based service that functionally runs as a primitive CRUD and a compute-heavy service like LLM inferencing. The latter runs on servers that individually consume multiple kilowatts while the former can run on a raspberry pi but gains efficiency by sharing a server that consumes maybe 1kW with dozens of other people. Heck, Lemmy doesn’t even need to do video transcoding like all the toxic social media sites do.
The point being you are MORE upset about the lesser evil, not that one is justified evil and the other isn’t.
No, people are upset about all the evils. Being more or less upset about one or the other is irrelevant. You’re just choosing to cherry pick one thing that everyone who’s upset should ignore.
Just adding to your comment lol.
Before AI, people had been advocating against the meat industry, and had pushed for reduced water usage in agriculture and homes, which led to stricter rules against lawns in drought-prone areas. It being drowned out by the advocacy against AI doesn’t mean those voices disappeared, just that there are louder voices now.
I do enjoy the classic “they’re doing bad so I can too” fallacy, though.
This is really cool! I’m surprised how fast it boots on my phone.