Tell me you don’t understand anything about propaganda and it’s role in war without telling me.

You have to understand that the original headline I saw said something to the effect that the EU was trying to enact a law to close the loophole of VPN’s for age verification workaround.

So while this headline is also problematic, the first headline was worse.

Unfortunately not. The state law allows for local municipalities to make nondisclosure agreements with the data centers which would hide the costs from consumers altogether, and they’re raising prices regardless.

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?

Much better headline than the last post I saw on this.

Funny that they waited to raise the price until after the tariffs were decided to be illegal.

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).

I’m shocked. Shocked.

Did she just manufacture a fight so he would buy her a hat?

Mocha heard that and the fly on the other side of the country.

Yeah. I ran into that when I moved into my new place. Couldn’t access the resident portal via anything but a chrome browser. Wouldn’t even load in Firefox (or waterfox).

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”.

They refer to it as her because it chose to be referred to as her and as “Cassandra”. They asked it to name itself and this is what it chose.

I get what you’re saying about anthropomorphizing the LLM (which I agree we shouldn’t do), but the purpose of this was to put the scope of what it can and can’t do and some of the pitfalls it has in a video that is accessible by the general masses.

Does this make the whole problems with anthropomorphizing LLMs more prevalent? Yeah, probably. Is it intended as a grift? Not that I can tell from watching the video.

I like coffee. I also find it comforting. I drink tea for the same reason. It’s a drink you can adjust to your tastes (which is much harder with juice).

Moomin Papa reads Japanese books, headcannon confirmed!

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).