Literally nobody in the consumer market will care, and the DC crowd won’t buy this until they can prove failure rates.

It’s not that we don’t know what it is, it, again, is just INCREDIBLY FUCKING STUPID.

This is… incredibly stupid. This man has done so many drugs he no longer realizes how computers or electricity works.

ETA: https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/23nd6a/i_remember_in_the_90s_illegal_or_black_box_cable/

Why don’t you just fucking kill me, and replace me with an AI copy of myself. What a dumb fucking world these companies are pushing for.

Jackasses.

Yeah, I just think this is an insane spend for most people.

I much more affordable option, though smaller, are these TRMNL displays: https://trmnl.com/

Whoever did this was incredibly lazy. What you using an agent to run your Terraform commands for you in the first place if it’s not part of some automation? You’re saving yourself, what, 15 seconds tops? You deserve this kind of thing for being like this.

It’s something like $2k. Pretty insane for a project like this. You can just get the actual e-ink panels pretty cheap, but then you need to build a driver for it. Not simple.

A fucking moron who runs around calling everything a bot when you disagree with whatever the topic is.

It’s the new CyberTruck of online insecurity.

Hope that’s “good” enough for you.

Ars is owned by Conde Nast who has multiple whistleblowers saying AI is being forced on them. Think that’s kind of relevant.

Then maybe they shouldn’t be using these tools in the first place. Other Conde Nast employees have already been blowing the whistle about this, which is funny because they sued all the AI companies for stealing content.

Whether there is a news article about it or not, these shitty tools are being shoved down everyone’s throats. From developers, to authors.

The problem with your attitude towards this is that these companies are forcing “AI” down everyone’s throat. It’s a requirement now to churn out more bullshit than humanly possible.

This person was simply fired because they didn’t catch the false information, and not because they used the tools forced upon them.

Solid point on the “single purpose” nature of some devices, but that’s also the legalese going to work here in that “Depends what the meaning of IS, is” sort of way 🤣

Making laws with vague definitions will get challenged, as you point out.

Tell me more

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK IS HAPPENING:https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/27/openais-sam-altman-weighs-in-on-pentagon-anthropic-dispute/

These links never work

Not a lawyer, but deeply involved in the law from the tech side for many years at various deeper levels from the engineering side and bridge to product and so forth.

It doesn’t need to be unconstitutional to be struck down as the constitution doesn’t cover all laws, especially not state and local laws. All you need to do is prove that the language or intent of the law is either:

1. impossible to enforce (ex: software processes cannot be patented or controlled/patrolled)
2. the language is too broad (ex: What is an OS exactly?)
3. it violates a prexisting law or creates a verifiable conundrum (ex: this would violate California’s own data privacy laws)
4. it creates an undue tax or burden on existing technology (ex: devices out in the wild can’t be retrofitted to comply, which sort of fits with #1)
5. it DOES actually violate a constitutional right (ex: 4th amendment)

Being on my side of things, the legal team would most likely start a case with something like “So you say the OS needs to be locked with age verification. Does that mean every TV, router, public computer, tablet…blah blah blah”, so it’s very likely to get tossed on #1 quite easily because these folks have no idea what an OS actually is, and that every piece of technology you interact with on a daily basis has an OS. The lack of specificity alone would get this tossed in a heartbeat.

If that failed, they’d argue there is no way to police or enforce this law because sites who rely on this rule existing are putting themselves in legal jeopardy by simply allowing any traffic from California to access their services. What if someone from another state or country is in California and wants to watch porn in their hotel, or play a game with friends on Discord? Police have zero right to verify that any device entering California complies with the law, so the provider of the service would have to be on the hook to do the verification, which means they would just block any device from California that doesn’t meet whatever flag is sent to say it safe. THEN you have the infrastructure that is required to ensure those devices…blah blah blah.

It’s just a stupid idea by dumbass technically illiterate people. It won’t go anywhere.

As soon as these idiots figure out what an OS is, this is dead in the water because of the above.

This will immediately get struck down in court even if it passes, though everyone should make their voices heard in saying this is complete nonsense.

Yet another case of antiquated politicians not understanding technology whatsoever.

That’s why I said “as much”. Since DDR5 went crazy, people started buying DDR4, which is driving the price up, but still only at a 2x increase vs 5x for DDR5.

Hence, the release of this motherboard.

DDR4 isn’t as much a part of the memory shortage, though that seems to be shifting because DDR5 is jacked up. They’re pulling a solid for consumers by releasing a cheap motherboard where memory can be gotten, or giving a transition for users with older components.

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