I don’t ride either anymore, but it’s not that hard to just cover the horn while you’re around more dicey situations. I loved my CBR500 because it actually sounded like a car horn.

Well yes, obviously. The issue with today is that the incumbency of the system makes it hard to change

I don’t think they really existed yet in his era. You’ve got to remember that Australia, a much younger country, invented the secret ballot. It was known as the “Australian Ballot” for a long time.

why ask for a password.

To give the user an extra second to realise they’re doing dumb shit, and should stop?

I kind of think that’s QTs whole deal right? An abstraction layer that allows for devs to not get stuck in the weeds implementing it all manually.

How can a window manager position things if the program doesn’t communicate with it correctly?

Oh, if I came across like I was supportive at all, my apologies. It’s completely fucked. It just seemed like you were saying they bring out the dogs, specifically, because they need an animal that causes injuries. Horses do that too, I guess people discount that because a) They can’t really be made to be violent on their own, and b) because most people who ride horses these days know better than to walk directly up to a human being and then keep going.

The other side of the cops statement about shit being thrown at the horses too is just, how do you know they just didn’t miss? lol

You know the horses also cause serious injuries yeah? Like the whole point of them is so cops can move protestors for fear of being stepped on.

Okay, so I have a few points in rebuttal, but I think we’re generally on the same page. I would absolutely support a ban on political parties using deepfakes of opponents in attack ads or otherwise broadcasting them. Infact, I would support more than just fines. If it was discovered after the polls, I would support a full recall of the election. I’d suggest deregistration from that election as well, but I’d hope the voting public can show it’s distaste for that behaviour. I’d also support some level of required due diligence for news media in ensuring what they’re publishing is real. Though there has to be consideration of the suppression of important information. Can you imagine if the Watergate tapes were never released because it couldn’t be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were real?

So I guess that brings me to my problem with this petition. It seems to be asking for a general ban on the entire population, and that’s just not something I can support. There is, and should be, higher standards of ethics expected of both of these groups. However, I don’t think it should be enforced on the average citizen. They just don’t have the ability to get that stuff in front of eyeballs without help.

The other side of this (I know we’d basically be pissing into the wind with how small we are) is that regulations targeting the companies themselves needs to be a part of this. You should never be able to type in the name of a notable figure (or anyone, really) into a generative AI and get it to spit out an image/video of that person. It’s being used to make porn of celebrities which is incredibly damaging, but there’s now been cases of students creating it of other students by feeding it pictures. If AI companies won’t create safeguards, we need to make them. As it stands, it requires an immense amount of power to train picture/video-generating AIs that can fool people. So targeting larger actors makes the most sense.

It feels like a ban would be about as effective as the war on drugs.

There’s clearly a second price sign, and you will often see two signs for things next to each other like this. The Aussie grown doesn’t say three pack either.

Thank you for the history, I appreciate it. Hopefully Valve releases SteamOS properly soon, it could be the resurgence of the Steam Machine!

Disk encryption doesn’t protect against what Secure Boot does. They are very different, often complimentary, systems.

Yeah no, it makes heaps of sense. It just initially sounded to me like the person was implying the Steam Deck is Valve’s escape hatch from running the Steam store. Which would be ridiculous, the two business sectors aren’t even close to the same order of magnitude.

You would think, after Challenger and Columbia, that NASA would have a lower threshold for these things as well.

Huh. That’s actually a pretty good take.

What do you mean by an escape hatch. Valve have been messing with hardware and Linux for way longer than the Steam Deck.

This is why Microsoft made WSL, they knew they were losing ground big time amongst devs.

No, it doesn’t, because the cost of that software is on the business because it makes them money. This person is literally smoking crack if they think it should ever be on the employee. There is never, ever, ever a situation where an employee paying an employer is a good thing.

Yes, the word free in English both means free as in gratis, without cost, as well as free as in freedom.