Never said they do that to protect us, it’s to protect themselves and the publishers.
IIRC there were region restrictions but it was not enough

It’s not greed, it was scams and fraud.
They would love selling you games that sit idle in your inventory, but it created a secondary market for stolen accounts and allowed card thieves to extract money after buying and gifting on Steam.

Yes but the language ecosystem is a moving target

Forever? When every new python version breaks compatibility with the previous?

Then this doesn’t impact you in any form. (Especially since it’s just a DoB).
You can continue to whine but frankly I don’t see the point then.

Get out of here with your level headed take. The pitchforks already have been distributed and it has been decided Mozilla will sell the data asap! /s

Yes I can read.

If you’re (or they) not a US citizen (or Brazilian) why would you care if they comply with local laws?

No. It’s a date of birth. You’re right that age verification comes next, but this is not it. Had this field been present before, none of this would matter.

Contact your representative, not your local FOSS maintainer.

Then incite people to call their legislators. Not openly shit on maintainers of open source projects.
I see more people here whining about systemd than about having the laws repealed. It’s simple: there are currently 0 posts about that.

Push back to your lawmakers not the fucking open source projects that comply with the law.

Good news: this is not age verification. This is an optional DoB field on a user profile.

The least effective way is whining on a Lemmy community about open source projects.
Go talk to your lawmakers, not the people complying with the law.

Yes it’s rage bait and most here fall face first in it.
Go petition your lawmakers instead of shitting on open source projects implementing required by law features.

It’s the same in most of Europe afaik. You can’t be filmed as a primary subject without consent. For example, I can photograph you in the background of a monument or in nature, without having to ask your consent.
It’s the same for dashcams, you are filming the road primarily not the pedestrian.

Edit: even better, in France (and iirc in Belgium too) I can photograph you as a primary subject without consent, but I cannot reproduce or distribute the picture of you without your consent.
Look up “Droit à l’image” if you want to know more.
Edit2: Hungary seems to have laws like I initially described, so taking pictures of videos in public should be okay as long as more than 1 person is visible on it.

The hardware being built right now is not usable by consumers. What would you do with a raw HBM chip? You can’t put it yourself on a gpu, nor on a ram stick.
Want a gpu? I hope you have a 3k Watt power supply to handle one of them.

They are not making consumer products anymore. Only data centre tier hardware.

Gone are the days of buying hundreds of Gb of ram and older xeon cpu from decom’ servers, a cheap motherboard to tie it all together.
None of that will be usable by us pleb.

Even when the AI bubble pops, all hardware manufacturing will still be making datacentre grade hw, and either won’t go back to consumers, or it will take months to pivot the factory.

I think that was a friendly plane

You’re absolutely right, that was indeed a friendly American f-15 plane we shot down. Would you like me to make a note not to shoot friendly planes in the future? ⚡ 💪

Please never develop any software for other humans without first developing any kind of compassion or empathy for others.
You are the stereotypical nerd that doesn’t understand people may have different needs than you, so I have to justify how a feature relating to accessibility can be useful…

Being technically something implies it’s not really or to be considered apart from the group.

The “gimmick” is proposing alt text based on the image when editing PDFs. I don’t see how it’s unhelpful. I’m not into editing PDFs in firefox, but I do use it to read them.
Inciting editors to include an alt text for accessibility seems like the ideal use case for this tech. The human still has to review and approve the generated text.
Unless I missed something as I cannot try the feature now, it seems to me a great application of ai, to augment humans in their work, and to a useful cause.
Image classification and description is “old” tech now, and I already use it in my work to auto tag images for editors to find more easily later. Nothing crazy.

It is really difficult to implement in the first place, and the standards evolve constantly.
Some argue it may not be possible to build new browsers anymore