RiverCrochet

Many people unfortunately completely conflate one or more of these terms to generically mean "ROM-resident code that enables a device to self-bootstrap": BIOS, UEFI, firmware, bootloader, boot ROM, boot flash, IPL, (boot) monitor, microcode

Let's do it.

1. Even correct convictions can later be found to be wrong. Death is irreversible and financially restituting someone's death can never benefit one wrongfully killed.

2. Unless death is the sentence, a sentence should not result in death. If you don't closely control and monitor when the state can do something, it increases the risk of misuse of that power by the state.

3. If cruelty and punishment really worked, crime would decrease over time, not increase.

4. The AC can be set to 75. That's not luxury but won't kill anyone with heatstroke.

Both items in scope as far as I'm concerned. I'm fine with glasses and uncovered phone cameras in picture-taking position being treated the same way from a privacy violation standpoint. Maybe we can also do something about phone speakers at max volume in inappropriate places as well.

Why not? Something that can do facial recognition + location tracking + keep and instantly transmit related digital records to a third party should be considered an invasion of privacy even if in public.

> You're using rhetoric to try and change the subject -- you're making a jump from "good value" to "lack of quality", and painting them with the same brush.

Correct, I am. I apologize if I gave the impression I was debating. I will absolutely "conflate" quality with marketing and advertising when it's the only signal I have about a company and I don't have the resources to research further. For example, if I'm in a new place, out and about, and looking for somewhere to eat, and only have an hour or so, yes I'm choosing the place without AI slop ads unless I have additional information - especially if the food is generically AI generated. I'd love to have time to deeply research all businesses and companies and ignore ads entirely but that's not always practical.

Me learning of your company on Instagram or similar through an AI slop poster ad that looks exactly like the 10 preceding monster-truck-rally AI slop poster ads is a bad impression to me. From comments I've seen on similar Instagram ads, I'm not alone.

You're free to ignore signals of cheapness if you want, as well as not care about quality. If you want generic restuarant food I guess you can go to McDonalds instead of a burger place; it's all the same value to you I guess.

"AI = low effort" is becoming a heuristic regardless of the assertion's absolute accuracy. It's probably not going to die soon as long as it keeps appearing in scammy or low-margin business places.

AI-generated visuals aren't the first to go through this. I'd say the early-to-mid 90's "desktop publishing" went through this too - as soon as everyone could make ads and flyers cheaply with Word, everyone did.

AI generated visuals are becoming a signal of A) low-effort, B) and/or unwillingness or inability to spend resources to genuinely present your product or brand.

Both of these communicate that I will probably not get a good value for my money when buying your product or service.

So you're OK with your bank website being invisible until people visit in person to get the certificates?

You shouldn't be really scared until all devices follow the pattern of the iPhone (and maybe new flagship Android phones too, I'm not in that camp).

New iPhones are expensive, more than $1000. Yet most people who get them finance it through their cellular carrier, usually 2 year plans, so it's just $30-$50 tacked on to the monthly cellphone bill. So ... no one cares unless it's going to double their bill.

Let's say the RAMopocalypse and other AI-driven chip pressues drives everything up even more; let's say now-cheap TVs are now $2000 or $3000. No biggie. Your cellphone company can offer you an eSIM-locked TV with bundled network and services, on a 5 year plan with free lifetime service and replacement, adding just $30-$40 to your bill for 5 years. Maybe it will include something like Family Tracker Life360 Intercom as a value-add - talk to your children to/from the TV to/from any phone on your plan, anywhere, anytime. Safety, etc.

Same thing with your laptop, home IoT/security devices, etc.

If ATSC 3.0 dies and gives way to 5g Broadcast, it'll be another enabler for something like this.

That's when the real lock-in will happen.

was this before mmap(2)?

If DRAM gets the ability to modify itself (computations), it doesn't eliminate the cache layer between the CPU and DRAM. For the CPU to see updated DRAM values it has to bring in the DRAM to cache. Now, if that's a large amount of data, like 1MByte of computations, it's worth it, but for a couple of source/destination addresses in code, probably not. There's also the fact instruction and data caches are separate.

Now, if the RAM in the CPU cache gets computational ability as well, that all changes, but not sure really that would be better than SIMD/SEE/AVX stuff or expanding what can be done with the new tile registers Intel's rolling out.

L take. RAM is too slow for self-modifying code to be anywhere but F tier. This isn't 6502 land.

Basically, the NX bit prevents CPU behavior (speculative fetches) that had a hand in Spectre-type vulnerabilities. That's surprising because that's not its purpose. This is for ARM CPUs.

I recall joystick PEEKs being fine as long as you used port 2. Port 1 was muxed with the keyboard port and would type characters (2's and left arrows from what I remember).

Without copyright, artist B could perform artist A's original work without penalty. If artist B is better at astroturfing social media than A (maybe because they pay a firm to do it) , then B makes money and A does not.

It's fine. IPv4 addresses might get too expensive at some point, encouraging their deprecation. Or it's entirely possible having the option of IPv6 prevents IPv4 addresses from getting prohibitvely costly. Either way, IPv6 has its role.

Me. If I develop an OS and release it for free public use, I've provided a public good.

Firefox displays .json files decently if you ever need something in a pinch.

ASCII was created in the 1960s. That's around the time when the industry wasn't really sure if all files were just going to be a stream of bytes that were completely up to programs to interpret, or if it was the OS's responsibility to enforce a database-like structure on all disk-like I/O.

Do you have a data cap? The cable provider near me charges you $10 for every 50GB over 1.25TB monthly. A while ago they offered an "unlimited" plan without that cap at a higher monthly rate.

I've never heard of a fiber connection with a data cap like that. I ended up moving to fiber eventually, it was cheaper for the same speed and the upload speed matched the download speed as well.

Get off the short bus twin. CPU backdoors do no good unless there is cooperation with network driver code or the CPU itself has full operating system with a full network stack.

Intel's ME comes really close to that, but I don't think Intel's ME has drivers for every possible NIC and bus a NIC can appear on in its little Minix. So, just put a Broadcom NIC in a PCIe slot and leave the Intel onboard NIC empty, or LAN facing only.

Xiaomi may get Chinese 4G/5G baseband chip manufacturers to put in backdoors in Chinese phones, but they're not needed - the Chinese government pretty much already has total control of its Internet. For other countries, how are they going to make Qualcomm provide something undocumented CPU instructions can access.

- If you can buy sugar on SNAP you can just make Kool-Aid, with 2 or 3 cups of sugar per gallon instead of one if that's your taste. Or you can get the powdered tea or lemonade and make super sweet tea/lemonade. Maybe it's slightly healthier.

- At my local Wal-mart, across from the soda aisle is the juice aisle. There's some "healthy" juices like apple, and grape, but also Hawaiian Punch, Sunny D, and their generic equivalents. These are basically high fructose corn syrup with a few flavorings and dyes. These might still be SNAP eligible since they're juices and not soda.

> If you got a call tomorrow that your child had taken his or her life because bullies had posted abusive content about them online

This doesn't happen without clear signs beforehand or if you don't interact with your child at all. Competent parents pay attention to their children and these signs and provide a safe space for them to talk about these types of things. Negligent parents who don't are dangerous.

> Note that, unless you're with your children 24/7/365, you can't fully regulate your children's' behavior.

Maybe not, but parents are still fully responsible for their children's actions. I can't fully regulate my dog's behavior but I'm the one getting sued if he escapes and bites someone.

> Because there is so much pressure on young people to be present on these apps.

Until they pay for their own housing and food, the only pressure that should matter is what I as a parent put on them. Other children creating this pressure is a result of their parents failure to parent, and they also should be held accountable.

> Civilized society frequently regulates products and services that are known to be harmful to society and a threat to human health.

Regulate the product then, not the adult person. Products can be regulated via accurate labeling. Then, it is on you as a responsible to read the labeling and behave accordingly and keep your kids away from them. This works for dangerous chemical products like cleaning solutions. The products I buy in the supermarket that are restricted to 18+ don't require my ID to be stored in a database, I simply show the clerk. Even then it would be far better if 18s and under just weren't allowed in stores. Labeling works best for 18+ content. If you can't handle it, keep your kids away from phones and computers.

Any publicly accessible protocol, such as Ethernet (wired and wireless) can only do so much to prevent DoS/DDoS on a given open multiple access medium.

You can certainly bake in fairness, congestion control, etc. in the protocol level, but protocols require 2 participants to follow rules/spec to work, and if one side doesn't follow the rules/spec, at the very least some bandwidth will be consumed.

The only way to absolutely prevent DoS/DDoS is to have more bandwidth than all possible simultaneous attackers, or limit physical access to the medium. Cellular networks, for example, keep direct physical access to its medium under tight lock and key through proprietary, non-open-source baseband firmware.

Reticulum uses attached LoRa devices, via USB for example if I'm not mistaken. It doesn't directly run on the LoRa devices.

PC not really required. 512MB of RAM and enough Linux to get Python will run Reticulum, on Raspberry Pi's for example.

> What part of these services have been designed to be inherently addictive do you have a hard time understanding?

None whatsoever. Parents that allow/enable their children to access such things when they are clearly in adults-only conduits should be held responsible. Attempting to preemptively eliminate everything addictive from life for adults does not reduce the amount of addiction and only enables profiteering via moral panics. At some point you have to MYOB.

> It's very strange that you can be aware of the fact that Facebook et. al. have been trying to get kids addicted and then pretend that there's no "specific action" to entice them.

> So you're okay with a model where private companies intentionally get your kids addicted to digital crack and can unilaterally sell all their personal information, advertise all sorts of harmful products and services to them, let predators target and contact them, etc.?

The model isn't affecting me because I'm not a bad parent who is letting my kids get on platforms without watching them. If we're going to allow basically any rights/norms/freedoms to be bypassed in the name of "think of the children," let's nip the problem in the bud and permanently separate them from bad parents who are committing negligence.

Whatever specific action(s) Facebook did to entice children using addictive techniques, they should stop doing that and be held accountable. But, if a parent is suing Facebook because of this situation, I find it hard to believe they didn't know Facebook was addictive for their child beforehand. Did the parent remove Facebook from their child's phone the moment they recognized harm? This doesn't place Facebook in the right. But the parents shouldn't get a free pass either if they were in any way part of it.

The selling of personal data and advertising ruins things for both kids and adults, and sensible regulation there would be great. Regarding predators, parents can and should restrict their children from using platforms that aren't trustable, like Facebook.

Here's a better fix: If a parent continuously allows their child to go to a known unsafe place, they are negligent and should no longer be a parent. The exception is if the operator of said unsafe place specifically enticed children. I haven't been following closely but weren't there internal emails showing Facebook was specifically trying to addict and hook teens? That's definitely wrong and a bad thing Facebook did, and they should be held accountable for sure.

However, if my platform says on the outside that it's for 18+, identifies itself as such using machine-readable signals, and I don't take specific action to entice children into the service, it's your failure to parent if they access it, and you should shoulder most or all the liability for it.

The slipperly slope here to avoid is this: do you really want to adopt a model where the state is the one who "owns" your child (except financially, of course, you still have to pay everything) and can unilaterally do things to you and your child in the same of child safety without your input or consent? This exists currently to some extent, it can get much worse.

A government body may review a service and determine it is addictive and radicalizing. This is fine, and helpful. Even requiring the service to display a warning is OK. Then, parents who ignore the clear warning and repeatedly fail to control their children from accessing it should lose parental rights.

The price of food/groceries has doubled over the last few years. The price of new cars is also much higher than it has been. All money I used to allocate to eating out in restuarants now goes to groceries. My next car purchase will be a used car. So there are workarounds for now, but if the trend doesn't stop, soon there will be no more workarounds. Only so many people can get the high-wage jobs.