I can’t say I knew, but it doesn’t surprise me. The AI folk, among others, want to spy on us as much as possible, but they also know that if they opnly target the kids, they’ll get destroyed by lawmakers and courts and public opinion, so they need to pretend that they’re only fucking over adults.

If you’re trying to ask whether LibreOffice is dead then I think the answer is no. Because right now, even with minimal updates for small bug fixes or security or what not it does what a lot of people need it to do.

What I look for from that office suite today is very similar to what I wanted from it a decade ago and probably a decade from now it will also be filling a very similar role. So of course it’s good to modernize and continue to make improvements, but at the same time a lot of the things that humans want to do on our computers for work and hobbies are largely the same as what they were in decades past. So if we have something that’s stable then we win.

What you say is true but it’s off topic because that’s not the current situation. What we’re actually seeing right now is that parents literally do not want to take their devices away from their kids and they don’t want to supervise their kids. It really is that simple.

This is not a situation where most parents are trying to do the right thing and they can’t do enough and they need an extra hand. This is definitely a situation where many parents aren’t even putting in a good effort.

You know like what if they didn’t give their kid a cell phone. What if they took the cell phone away at 9:00 p.m. Most parents would never dream of doing either of those things.

Right, but the politicians didn’t sell the law at 30% efficiency. They sold it at something like 95% efficiency. So they lied and they haven’t solved anything.

Maybe they could have used all of that money to run campaigns to help convince parents to properly supervise their children. Maybe that would have done more than this 30% figure.

Yeah this is a key point. It’s pretty safe to say that AI generated code that’s based on open source projects is going to be trained on open source projects. If the people running the AI software make any mistake then they could be facing massive copyright violations.

So I’m kind of interested in whether that type of risk is something that would be pragmatic for a company to take. There probably are some situations where it would be, but I’m not convinced that would happen too often.

But that’s nonsense. If the bills sponsors had been honest about the fact that it would fail for the majority of children, then it would have never passed in the first place. They lied to push it through and now you’re painting a rosy picture around a complete failure.

Or maybe it’s never going to work because you can’t enforce it properly because the parents don’t want it to be enforced. And the damage you’re talking about is not backed up by as good science as you think it would be if you were going to pass a law such as this.

But many people are of the mindset that oh my God. Oh my God we have to do something and this is something and therefore it’s better than nothing, and they’re wrong. If you don’t have a good plan, that doesn’t make your bad plan reasonable.

Well, it’s not the same crime now is it, one is a state statute and the other is a federal statute. But it’s the same conduct and the same set of facts. So this is one of those edge cases where his lawyers will appeal it if he needs to and then nobody knows what would happen.

Actually it’s going to be extra appealable because if the state case happens first which it probably will, then the results of that will be in the news. And how can you find a jury for a federal case that doesn’t include anyone who saw any information about the results of the state case, and if they find out that he was already found guilty for almost the same crime, then of course they’re going to find him guilty again. And that’s a violation of due process.

It sure sounds like you’re doing something wrong then because almost all of us who use that software don’t have that issue.

Yes, of course. If you ignore current reality, then it’s not privacy invading…

3 million plus legal fees by the defense, so probably closer to 3.5 million.

You gotta think and read more about the actual issue here. The PR was pointless. The idea that Linux could ever comply is absurd. It’s open source. It’s international. Nobody cares about Colorado law.

Retroactive taxes for the ultra rich make perfect sense. They took advantage of loopholes, they knew it, and if they are held accountable later, that’s called justice.

The idea that fucking over society is OK of you do so mostly legally is morally repulsive. We have no obligation to respect shitty gamesmanship.

OK, maybe better than nothing. Until they start selling more of your data lol.

If they got convicted of murder, you know they’d stop doing that shit. But no, fuck handling white collar crime with prison sentences.

That depends on the search engine, of course.

Of course we didn’t win. the more hoops you have to jump through, the fewer people who will install their own apps and then you lose all of the community support. And Google didn’t promise not to change their plans in the future. So you know that they’ll promise this now. Maybe they’ll backtrack a little if they have to and they will try to ratchet things up six months later anyway.

Real solutions involve either breaking up monopolies or breaking up monopolies, which is why some of the other cell phone vendors’ actions recently look positive. If there are two versions of Android that are popularly used, then the banks will have to support both of them and then everyone can run away from Google whenever they feel like it. But if there’s only one popular version and Android itself gets more and more locked down then that is Google seizing the entire market and they will cut out all of the other cell phone manufacturers as soon as they can. that will be just as bad as Apple.

No, wrong, try again. Many of us, certainly at least tens of thousands of academics, have switched to submitting and supporting free open journals.

So I agree with your conclusion, but your factual basis is faulty.

No one is stopping to ask whether it’s all worth it? … Actually, I think millions of us make comments to that extent every day. We’re kind of upset that these scam artists are dominating the stock market enough to fuck with our retirement plans. If the rich people were gambling with their own money, that would be stellar. But they aren’t. And… I sure wish we could stop them.

The state police are dirty, of course, but not in the same way the DoJ is. So we cannot reliably predict what they will or won’t ignore.