That is $375M to a single person.

Wrong, this was state-initiated consumer protection enforcement action by the state of New Mexico. How those funds get distributed is up to the state government.

ordered to pay $375m by a New Mexico court.

Meta total assets: US$366 billion (2025)… with a fucking B

I’m sorry, which big tech company is brought to who’s heel?

Many “centers” in the US are religious organizations pretending to not pump their own religion: Alcoholics Anonymous, Boy Scouts of America, Salvation Army, Scientology has a bunch of these, too. And Mormons.

Meanwhile…

Dylan’s words in the PR:

After reading the bill text, this is the conclusion I came to - arch install is an OS installer, the law asks for users to provide birth date when installing an OS. Is that going to be hilariously pointless and ineffective? Yes.

I feel like he’s getting ahead of the work as a matter-of-fact. In other words, the law passed, Arch is used by Californians, they need measures to make sure they’re not breaking the law.

I don’t think protest even falls into it with these kind of people, even though a majority of us would jump on the chance to actively protest this law and these changes. I personally cannot wait to have this shit throw at me at the next Linux upgrade, just to pull something like what Ageless Linux does against it.

That’s why I was vehemently opposed to the hit piece that was attacking this guy personally, by a shit blogger who I will forever blacklist. Also, fuck the mod who submitted that hit piece to Lemmy.

LLMs for coding has improved dramatically over the past year or so. But, I find that its quality varies greatly, depending on the model. I find models like Gemini and GPT to be too overconfident, and it doesn’t communicate well enough. Claude knows when to stop and evaluate the situation for options. I’ve had mixed results with the local models, but I’m still adjusting quantization settings to make it work best with my VRAM.

You still need the skills to understand programming and design engineering, and you frankly need the personality to be meticulous with your reviews, but it’s really nice having something that can code 3-8x faster than what I was doing before.

PrimeTime had a good recent video about a senior programmer’s experience with fixing a very hard to find bug.

I was trying to get you to understand a POV by reminding you how things were 25 years ago, but clearly that idea was lost on you.

Removed by mod

why chase the latest hype that’s probably going to burst soon?

Back in the 2000s, there was an Internet bubble, and it burst. That did not make the Internet go away.

What makes you think LLMs are going to suddenly disappear?

I know what’s been going on.

However, the statement “legal expectation that correctness of the information will be enforced somehow” requires proof because it’s currently not true.

DOB is different. It comes from a legal expectation that correctness of the information will be enforced somehow.

[citation needed]

It’s literally an optional birthDate field in a place where there’s already realName, emailAddress, and location. If you’re concerned about privacy, maybe don’t expose your real name, email, and location.

And it’s not even fucking installed everywhere:

$ userdbctl
Command 'userdbctl' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install systemd-userdbd

Anybody who is calling this age verification is actively lying to you!

This Sam Bent guy should fucking get bent.

It was posted by Yσɠƚԋσʂ themselves, who moderates several lemmy.ml communities. I agree it should be nuked, but it’s not going to be nuked.

BURN THIS IMAGE INTO YOUR MIND AND BE THANKFUL!

In this case Artix already is a systemd-free distro, but this is part of why i think it’s a bad idea that systemd is wanting to implement the age verification crap, cause i think the distro should be allowed to decide if they want to comply or not. Feels like distros that use systemd will be forced to comply unless they change init, which is probably a pain in of itself.

Where do I install an Ageless-style patch to force flagrant non-compliance for systemd distros?

It’s what happens when copyright gets extended to infinity with no useful public domain to speak of. And then they will force you to rent the shit out of the copyright with a monthly subscription.

Linux runs on billions of devices. Every device with a microprocessor, except for the tiny portion of desktops, would be useless hunks of garbage without Linux. And Linux would not have those numbers if it wasn’t FOSS. The internet would be a shell of its current self without FOSS and Linux.

The world needs FOSS, and quite frankly, it’s a direct counterbalance to the invasive force of capitalism. Anybody who think the GPL isn’t political clearly hasn’t read anything its creators wrote.

Citizenship isn’t free. You don’t get to have your cake and eat it, too.

I don’t understand why Oracle or the reporter tried to invent a new term for this. This is literally “colocation”, a term so ubiquitous that the industry typically shortens it to “colo”.

No study on caffeine wants to acknowledge the elephant in the room: Half the population has undiagnosed ADHD, and people use caffeine to self-medicate, usually unaware of why they are doing it.

Starbucks uses local imports. The biggest problem is that they burn the shit out of the beans to normalize it down to the same flavor. So, the big appeal of using locally-sourced beans is wiped away by the way the need for a consistent “flavor”.

That’s why Starbucks coffee tastes like shit.