The wildest part of this to me is the politicians exempting themselves. It may be different in Europe, but in the US, the politicians are often the child predators this legislation claims to protect against.

The politicians claim “professional secrecy”, but shouldn’t you be increasingly auditable the more power you are given. Private individuals should have an expectation of privacy. Politicians, and those with power and influence should live in the open to protect from abuses of that power.

I thought Diaspora was a decent sounding name. If it had more traction and actually pulled a sizeable diaspora away from Facebook it would have fit better than Facebook, Twitter/X, or Instagram’s names.

I had a base model around that time frame. Good safety ratings for its time but the car isn’t integrated with the touchscreen so while it’s already a dumb-car, I could make it even more simple by tearing out the radio and installing one without a screen. Makes me happy to know I’m not obligated to fix it if the radio breaks because I drive maybe 30-40 miles a week and would rather keep my money than shell out for all the gimmicks.

Toothpaste is for brushing your teeth, not filling the nail holes in the patchy drywall that is our economy! :-)

They’re just making a market for someone to compile a 1TB “Best of the Best Cumpilation”, copy it to a handful of cheap terrabyte drives and resell them (to legal adults) in a verification state.

• This comment should not be read as condoning copyright infringement, but rather as a commentary pointing out that prohibition instantly creates very easy to serve and lucrative black markets that will be filled by someone.

To me this sounds like a fundamental problem with their business model. Private vehicles used for public transportation by people who aren’t well-trained commercial drivers.

I have always thought it was sketchy that we let random people in the US be commercial drivers for Uber without forcing them to get a new type of license or earn some kind of state certificate because most people are absolutely shit drivers and beyond that, there are rules for dealing with people (in this case disability stuff) that you should know if you drive the public.

Would you get in a car with that dude “Chad” who hangs out behind the bowling ally, or that chick “Tammy” who learned to drive from her highschool boyfriend who was a year or two older than her and basically got a rubber-stamped license because the US doesn’t actually take driver safety seriously?

Lame, Colorado is usually one of the most reasonable states. Polis is a decent Governor too. I never saw any of the bad stuff that was allegedly supposed to happen after we forced employers to post pay ranges with jobs, so I don’t really expect anything bad to come from regulating AI.

If we put strict guardrails and penalties with teeth around AI companies, they may go elsewhere, where they can act more unethically. That’s fine with me because Colorado already has water issues and I feel like we manage to be progressive without trampling all over personal liberties. I also feel like a good portion of people in this state are real people who haven’t had the idealism trampled out if them completely and still give/get good intentions.

Shit, I’m getting the itch to submit a citizens initiative to make the whole state an AI free zone right now. As for the AI decision-making, how about real, concrete, enumerable criteria. Vibes are not a suitable way to make big decisions. Fuck-off with your AI datacenters and opaque algorithms. Coloradans deserve to know how they’re being treated. Anything that complicates that or makes it harder to understand is a tool of tyranny.

Yes, that’s going a bit overboard, but so is hammering me with AI propaganda from the moment I wake up until after I go to sleep every day.

Signal lets you post “stories”. Not sure exactly how it works because I’m not into that sort of thing, but it might be something to check out.

Vote to build better infrastructure and provide better transit service. Even if it sucks. A train that goes 65mph next to a 75mph freeway isn’t a failure. It’s a gateway to better transit. I myself have fallen into the trap of viewing these projects as unworthy or not good enough when they are a step in the right direction.

I will now almost always hold my nose and vote for things that fund trails, busses, trains, bike infrastructure, etc. Then I’ll go and complain online about how they didn’t go far enough :-)

I was sorting through a box of CDs recently and found a handful of shrinkwrapped AOL disks. Looks like they go for a few bucks each on eBay now, probably for the novelty factor or as frisbees. I should have stashed a few more. :D

Strawberry is great and so was Clementine before it. It’s really a step up compared to what the average distro bakes into their default bundle of applications.

Inb4 someone added Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Saw to the training data.

Fair enough. I was in that camp for a decade or more myself. I hope you find a solution!

It’s not necessarily a solution, but my Garmin watch can still hold some of my cards, so I don’t need the NFC payment on my phone to duplicate that functionality. Do you wear or carry any other devices that can stand-in?

Yeah, I don’t care if they invent a paywall that jumps out of the screen and gives me a top notch scalp massage. I don’t do paywalls.

If we’re gonna let them on the road, I say that software should get points just like a driver, but when it gets suspended all the cars running that software get shut down.

I hate how VPN access is the scaffolding holding the building up making things look normal. You can visit all your normal web sites, you can bypass georestrictions, you can be a little less tracked than you might otherwise be. But what happens when they decide to do away with that scaffolding and we all find out they tore down the house behind it while we were enjoying “normalcy”. Too much of making the web functional depends on vpns and adblocking. We shouldn’t have to do this stuff and Chromes adblocking scandle should impact millions of users all around the world unilaterally removing adblocking from the web. I fear for the day we have a US only internet and a global internet, not just on paper, but in actual practice.

I agree. Not having access on my terms is absolutely a deal breaker for me and could cause me to stop doing business with a company.

Right. This shouldn’t be about restricting children; but rather, this should be about restricting corporation’s bad behaviors. It’s also not just children that are impacted. Mining online dopamine-junkies for data by placing money extractors right on their weak spots is unethical, like selling someone crack, or phone scamming the elderly.

Can we do this in the same bill as the popup spikes that take out your tires if you stop across the crosswalk? The guided RPGs replacing red light cams can wait a little longer.