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Besides that, the first release of uutils/coreutils was back in April, 2000

uutils predates Rust by 15 years lol

within 12 months

The first uutils release, v0.0.1, was in April 2020.

Are you saying the transition to it was fast? Because it really was way too fast.

As someone married to a trans man who has been on HRT long enough to pass in rural southern US, I can tell you from firsthand experience that we still are advised to wear protection.

Because, you know, he’s not sterile. (He wishes he was, though.)

Bottom surgery does sterilize for obvious reasons, but like you said, it’s not a surgery often given to children.

There are many medications with dangerous long-term risks associated with them. Among them is birth control, for example.

Unlike birth control, people take HRT being fully informed what effects are associated with the process. It isn’t administered without acknowledgement of that information. It isn’t given unless you are deemed confident in your decision by mental health professionals. And even then, in many places, it often takes years to begin the process.

The “sterilization” argument is a weak one made to alienate and fearmonger. People who truly have gender dysphoria and truly wish to resolve that issue through transitioning would, for the most part, love to be sterile. The thought of using what they were born with in that manner, usually, is horrifying and disgusting beyond belief.

Anyway, I know you’re not the one making that argument. Just sharing my experiences being around it since it’s relevant.

But I don’t think I have any right to tell a project what they find acceptable or not. Like I said, it’s not like everybody has to participate, and there are plenty of projects with different rules and vibes.

This is true. If they want to be assholes on their own, then whatever.

It should come as no surprise then, and to no controversy, that we should be allowed to advocate against them in our spaces.

That would be a problem if trans people would be forced to be in the Hyprland community. Are they?

This same argument could be made against any other minority (or majority) group: Jews, Muslims, women, disabled people, and so on. None of them are forced into the community either. Surely it wouldn’t be a problem if they could be openly mocked for those qualities, right?

An exclusive community is about as far from “open” as it gets.

You completely lost me on the first paragraph.

One of the few positive uses of LLMs is the ability to take drivel like this and distill it down to the main points:

Core points:

• Hypocrisy: Ideological critics apply purity tests while holding their own extreme views.
• Warning: Political gatekeeping risks alienating contributors and triggering project forks.
• Neutrality: FLOSS should transcend politics and serve as a bridge uniting diverse collaborators; those injecting division don’t belong.

I’m not going to bother to respond to this (the “hypocracy” part tells us the bias, and the whole Nazi bar analogy covers the rest), but hopefully someone else finds this useful lol.

This is really cool! I’m surprised how fast it boots on my phone.

DHH is actively promoting Omarchy as a “beginner distro” (it’s not, it’s Arch with a tiling WM)

LOL a tiling WM for a “beginner distro”?

Arch for newbies would be something like SteamOS (a console-like experience), not something that presumably requires learning hotkeys to change which window you’re looking at. Sure, I like tiling WMs, but most people still right click to copy/paste.

Anyway, it just sounds like one of those rightwing grifts. Thanks for the context!

Somehow I keep seeing articles about how people use Omarchy or how some random rich person likes Omarchy or whatever and I haven’t met a single person who I’ve heard uses it. Does anyone actually use it?

This is a Casio calculator though.

Not sure whether the goalpost is set to LLMs or ML in general, but OP clearly is drawing the line at LLMs, so:

Toaster - it can determine the heat and duration needed for the bread/bagel based on the thickness and density, without needing to manually guess the settings

This is already done with traditional models in rice cookers, pressure cookers, and so on. It doesn’t need LLMs.

Fridge - aware of the contents so it can set the thermostat at the ideal temperature range, even better if it’s in control of internal flaps to automatically compartmentalize the contents for optimal storage

Some smart fridges have tracked their contents for years now and sell that data to advertisers.

Toothbrush - able to scan your teeth while you better and inform you if your brushing was adequate or if you missed any plaque, on which teeth, and warn you of developing cavities

I know there’s some crazy toothbrushes out there, but the closest equivalent I know of is my shaver which actually does give recommendations on how to shave better. Or it would, anyway, if I linked it to a mobile app that’s never going to touch my phone. I got this shaver around 5y ago, again predating LLMs.

Bedside light - aware of if you’re in the bed, and whether you’re attempting to go to sleep, or are asleep, based on preferences and rules you give it beforehand, in plain language

The last thing I want is for my bedside lamp to have a camera and perform object detection in my bedroom just to turn off automatically when I get in bed lol. Plus, I usually don’t want the light off as soon as I’m in bed. In any case, traditional models could do this, but multi-modal LLMs tend to perform better.

So what exactly are you saying to do here? Because I already write to my representatives and advocate against these things. The reality is that lawmakers don’t care what people want, only what’s going to make them the most money.

In any case, the point I was making was that this law isn’t age verification, and spending energy fighting against this when you could be battling the myriad actual age verification bills and laws is a waste of energy. In CA, there’s also the 3D printer BS around scanning and blocking print jobs.

There’s also the ALPR issue, data centers, and so on that have shown that representatives would rather put up a democratic facade than actually listen to their constituents.

But really, nothing should be doing strong identity verification outside of stuff like government (e.g. passports), or anything that commonly exploits identity for crime (e.g. major financial operations).

FYI the article title (and the name of the law) are both misleading. The law does not require age verification, only age attestation.

Does that make the law even dumber? Probably, lol.

What if an asteroid flies into the Earth and splits it in two?

Edit: I’ll add more now that I can sit down and focus.

Age attestation has existed for longer than I’ve been alive. Every service with an age requirement (must be 18+ to view, must be 13+ to play, must be 8+ with parent permission or 18+ to play, etc) used user attestation. The law is stupid because:

1. Age attestation doesn’t restrict. It only exists for services to cover their own asses legally.
2. Age verification would be required to restrict access, but age verification costs money that MS/Apple/Google/etc wouldn’t make back (maybe MS but Android and Mac OS are free).
3. Linux exists and can bypass it all anyway and often isn’t subject to CA’s laws.

This law isn’t age verification. It’s just politicians being technically illiterate imbeciles.

What does this have to do with an exemption for Linux on a shitty OS-level age attestation law…?

The law is stupid for many reasons, among them being that Linux devs aren’t often even located in CA or subject to its laws, and that people can just lie about their age. Corporate takeover of technology doesn’t really have anything to do with this.

The law requires the OS to ask the age and provide it to applications, not verify the age. Linux can provide the same API with a static value or “no age” signal if needed.

Got it. Andrew Gallant is extremely stupid. Will keep that in mind.

There are definitely things to say against AI, but the anti-AI crowd can sometimes be incredibly short sighted and assholishly militant.

I’d both-sides this except that one side has to constantly fix the other side’s mass-produced garbage-on-demand while their management continues to shrink the resources and time available to do both that and their own job.

Sure, you can responsibly use AI, and creating an environment for that would generally be a good thing. That ignores the reality of the world we live in though, and it’s easy to understand why people are exhausted over the artificial hype and want their spaces to remain untainted by it.

uutils is rewritten by a corporation? Huh, TIL. I guess their website is wrong:

uutils is a community-driven, open-source effort maintained by volunteers around the world. There is no company behind it, just contributors who care about the future of foundational command-line tools.

But, he asked, shouldn’t its hidden functionality be treated as a bug or behavior that should be patched out ““to restore the application’s neutral and intended functionality for all users equally?””

The intended functionality is very clearly not “neutrality”, and this is very obviously not a bug. Free software does not need to be neutral, and has no obligations to be so. If it were truly an egregious change, I’m sure it’d be possible to rally the community around a fork of the software with the problematic content removed. I don’t think there will be a lot of community support around removing this change, though.