Age verification is really just about identity verification. “Show us your papers” version of the internet.

My head already has:

• LVM - Logical Volume Management
• LLVM - Low Level Virtual Machine

LLM keeps keep corrupted in my mouth by those two.

Agreed. Do all the things!

Completely agree, but I don’t see that as either or. We need both. This is the coolest summer we might have in our life times. I’m genuinely concerned we are getting ready fast enough of what is coming. I mean it could swing the other way if the gold stream stops, or we need to deal with crazy cold, and maybe crazy hot.

We know this is the norm for summer now and only going to get worse. We can’t rebuilt all our buildings for this new climate, but we can retrofit active cooling. We need a nation program of ACs for hospitals and schools. 25 years is a target far to far into the future.

Aircon is an air to air heatpump. Normally they can run in either direction.

That is also because we let the companies get too big. We need to break them up. The market is completely dysfunctional. It is feudalism right now.

There are, but the market is rigged by monopolists. And things like banks increasingly require apps that won’t even run on customer Android ROMs easily.

The regulators are needed here.

Until it was dominant and could abuse that power to squeeze everyone.

I’d argue this is dumping.

Not just Amazon either. A good few of the American monopolies. AI spending is the pattern repeating and it is a dark pattern for everyone.

Might be like the AMD BC-250 discarded from crypto. Hopefully! https://bc250.info/

Have been a while. The American tech monopolies and their awful business practices have been with us decades. Been “too big to fail” and “too big to jail” for a while. Just now it’s in everyone’s faces.

Sounds like an argument for wallets. Digital or with cash.

Only a matter of time. We don’t need to worry about Terminator and Skynet. We need worry about everything going from engineered to automated cargo cult slop. All run on massive datacenters controlled by a few mega corporation that everyone is hopelessly dependent on and can’t imagine working without. The trillionaire owners of these mega corporations are hiding in bunkers waiting on one of coming calamities to happen, or just from us unwashed masses. While they buy governments and media to keep and increases their riches.

This future sucks. Can I try another one?

Edit: slopocalypse is the term

That’s pretty much the UK really. Only you are very rarely able to get close to the 60mph limit at all, let alone safely.

The are more dangerous by statistics. Some random links:

• https://www.nfumutual.co.uk/globalassets/campaigns/rural-road-safety/rural-road-safety-report-2024.pdf
• https://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/rural-roads-are-becoming-more-deadly-again/
• https://www.simplyquote.co.uk/insights/where-do-most-car-accidents-happen-in-the-uk/

I love these roads and the British countryside, but it is definitely an eyes wide open environment. Certainly can be a shortcut, but often SatNavs without traffic info, use them when they really shouldn’t. You used to often see signs telling people to ignore their SatNavs and not take this road, but it’s less of a thing now as everyone just uses Google Maps. Basically, I want that traffic info as public access for all SatNavs. Not locked away.

I’ve very sympathetic to the developers. It’s a stupidly hard problem to know what speed is likely, at what time of day, on these roads. Far far easier to just have the data of what people are actually doing on these roads. That’s what Google do.

Though if you can detect country road, you could safely assume half the speed advertised.

Oh it’s not traffic. They are often quite empty. British country roads are narrow and often stone wall lined, or tree lined, or embankment lined, or all three. They are winding and can be quite steep. Corners can be almost back on themselves. Often there are bits down to a single lane for both directions, with passing points for someone to wait for the other direction to pass. If you encounter someone who can’t reverse, you might have to reverse quite a way.

I really want CoMaps to be a valid choice. Its maps look are absolutely great, like Ordnance Survey Maps. But I don’t normally use it for the reason I experienced again just today. I use Android Auto in the car with my GrapheneOS phone, but my phone SIM reader failed the other day, so this phone has no internet. Google Maps refused to work without internet. So I just used CoMaps again today. This is in the UK, and lack of traffic info matters. It does routes down the little country roads that are technically 60mph, but you literally can not drive that fast down them. Even with a death wish. But it plans them in assuming that speed. This results in bad routes and inaccurate times. (Though I do enjoy country roads, when used well.)

I don’t think you remember https before. Snowden’s revelations kicked off LetsEncrypt and the much broader deployment of https.

https://www.standwithsnowden.com/news/lets-encrypt-and-snowden.html

Problem is things like corporate banking requires an Android or iOS app. Or a GPU with traffic info. There are problems the lack of anti monopoly laws enforcement.

Or a life of fixing AI slop the AI sloppers generate but can’t fix.