Does this systemd change facilitate future verification softwares? Definitely. Will it become a part of systemd? Extremely unlikely. Should systemd rebel and refuse to include anything facilitating these disturbing laws? Eh, probably.

But let’s not blow this change out of proportions. This is a way for systemd to not aggressively fight the laws, without enabling them either. This field changes nothing, and you will still be able to use distros that don’t even employ the field at all. They might become illegal to use in the land of the free, but that’s a separate issue that this change does not impact.

Do you really draw the line at a date of birth field, when every linux system has fields for full name and address for every user account?

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He doesn’t have to liquidate shit, none of them do. They borrow against their holdings.

I’m not talking about change, I’m talking about progress. Progress is not necessarily positive.

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No. Each generation was fucked in their own way, regardless of the two edges of the progress that they grew up with.

I’m not saying everything is lovely and we are at the peak of civilization. I’m saying that every form of progress comes with challenges and downsides, and this saying of “Next generation will be fucked” is a cognitive bias every generation has had for a pretty long time.

They also have positive sides.

I don’t know if I expressed myself that poorly (I was pretty tired after all), but I did not mean at all that there are no downsides to any of these. I meant that despite these sayings, every generation so far has ended up as fine as the previous ones.

Are they really more fucked than generations who didn’t have access to social media, internet, and video games? It seems to me that you are biased by the negative effects these had, and ignoring the positive ones.

Saying that they haven’t been fucked is reminiscent of my grandparents saying ADHD and Anxiety aren’t real.

How is that in any way comparable? I’m not saying the downsides of social media, internet, video games are not real, I’m saying “People growing up with X will be fucked” is a saying that every generation has been saying, ignoring the positive impacts. This is a cognitive bias in the likes of the rosy retrospection.

The generations that will grow up with AI will be fucked.

Eh. That’s something every single generation before us in at least the past 150 years has been saying about other new society-changing stuff. They’ll be fine, society just changes.

Generations that will grow up with social media will be fucked.

Generations that will grow up with internet will be fucked.

Generations that will grow up with video games will be fucked.

Generations that will grow up with computers will be fucked.

Generations that will grow up with morning-after pills will be fucked.

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Of course. Nothing is black and white. This was a real issue, but still abused by anti-EU propaganda to weaken us.

This is not helped by the Linux community who in a general rule are not particularly accommodating towards novices.

Luckily this trend is shifting! More and more linux distros oriented towards users new to linux, and helpful communities.

It’s not just about not using it, it’s about punishing a company breaking the law, profiting from it, and feeding an authoritarian regime.

I’d bet on that as well. It is big tech’s master plan.

But not necessarily interpreted.

The only country bad at using nukes is the only country who dropped some. The US.

Nukes are a deterrence weapon. No one with a sane mind wants to use them.

If my memory serves well, it is configurable. I say X seconds because it can be 5, 10, 30, but of course also 60, 120… This is my programmer brain talking :)

Thanks for the comment though. Much more complete than mine.

Well, from my knowledge, the person you replied to is inaccurate. All tires will transmit at the same frequency. But every X seconds, when each tire transmits its data, it transmits an ID unique to its transmitter with it.

I agree with almost all of your comment. The only part I disagree on is:

How can we attempt to recreate the human brain into AGI when we are not close to mapping out how our brains work in a way to translate that into code, let alone other more simple brains in the animal kingdom.

An implementation of AGI does not need to be inspired from the human brain, or any existing organic brain. Nothing tells us organic brains are the optimal way to develop intelligence. In fact, I’d argue it’s not.

That being said, it doesn’t change the conclusion: We are nowhere near AGI, and LLMs being marketed as such is absolutely a scam.