Except for the mandatory age verification it doesn’t seem bad at all. “Except for” is doing a heavy lift there however.

For most popular distros most stuff works out of the gate. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to wrestle with anything vexing.

I kinda assume the hacker group link is fake. Ubuntu is British, but Microsoft contracts with the US DoD. It doesn’t make sense, unless it’s just easy money. I don’t quite buy it.

It can barf out large outputs fast. As long as you review it and clean it up, it can get you 90% of the way there on a lot of things where you know what the final output should be basically. Need a quick bit of code for a common process? An email requesting a meeting? A picture of a dog burying a bone? A list of which people might be the suspect in the video? Then AI is great!

Need math? Accurate texts or image matching? Use a different tool.

Good twist on that one.

Goodbye Tim Apple, hello John Apple.

Scalping is reselling goods on the secondary market for more than you bought them at the source?

It is harder if you want to resell it yourself, but that is the whole point. The right to resell a piece of paper or a code that lets you into a venue is the means by which scalpers ply their arbitrage.

It just makes more sense to allow people to have the venue refund them. Then suddenly it’s not sold out anymore.

There’s a few ways to do this. At the other commenter said you can attach a name and require ID at the door. ID could be as common as a credit card or a school ID or even an official piece of mail. All this is less invasive than biometrics and more reliable too. Biometrics are always for convenience and not security.

If you want to get extra cautious, sell tickets at the booth for an hour or two before the doors open and up until the beginning of the show. The ticket comes in the form of a paper wristband, like they use for alcohol, and you can pay cash.

Want to buy a ticket for your friend? Use their legal name and then they show ID at the door. There’s paranoid as you? Send them cash.

There’s another option. You can buy tickets for yourself and any number of companions. Only the purchaser has to show ID, and the entire party has to come in with the purchaser.

There. And now you didn’t have to give Sam Altman legal authority to store and resell your biometric data to private surveillance networks and retail shops in exchange for seeing Taylor Swift live.

They already do that to a degree. The problem is that scalpers buy up all the tickets and then over charge people on the secondary market.

I think that second thing is just called a refund.

“Oh no what if someone believes my hype about building a Torment Nexus and, instead of throwing more money on my money fire, tries setting me on fire instead.”

You know what could solve ticket scalping? Ban ticket resales. That’s always been an option. Venues don’t do this because their only concern is selling out their seats.

Either way it’s a problem.

If politicians are writing tech bills to deliberately undermine freedom: fire them.

If they’re writing bad tech policy because they’re not consulting the “good guys” first, such as the FSF, EFF, or OSI: also fire them.

He appears to be a New Jersey Rep, and the Democratic cosponsor of this bill.

Too me one of the big issues is being able to trust a government or business to not trace a person’s identity back through the token. There are technical ways to prevent that as far as I’m aware, but there’s such a strong incentive against such protections that it’s really hard to trust unless you’re technologically skilled enough to verify the process yourself.

Primary Josh Gottheimer. Write in anyone else against him. Vote against him or withhold voting at all in the general.

Do not signal that this is tolerated.

They’re doing both.

Exactly. I will pay for things that I want. If you do not sell them to me I will get them some other way or satisfy myself with other things.

He was asking about pi hole versus and AdGuard DNS.