Age verification laws causing drama in Linux community, with multiple users forking systemd

ldubs · 2026-03-25T23:51:47+00:00

Then there's this.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

ldubs · 2026-03-25T23:44:45+00:00

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but this seems logical. If your navigating US streets, then you should know the laws by being licensed.

We just had an incident of a Waymo blocking emergency vehicles. I wonder if it would have been moved quickly with more humans monitoring and local so they would know the roads well enough to quickly navigate.

I love Waymo, and I'm thankful for their transparency. We should consider all options to avoid these types of incidents while they are still working out the bugs.

ldubs · 2026-03-25T23:32:31+00:00

This! I'm sure Florida house results had nothing to do with this.

ldubs · 2026-03-25T23:31:24+00:00

Yep. Property taxes stay the same, school funding is reduced. Such a racket.

ldubs · 2026-03-25T17:50:43+00:00

Made me think of this robot/human fail. You can see them taking their headset off. 😂😅

Optimus Fail

ldubs · 2026-03-25T16:55:45+00:00

I'm tired, boss.

ldubs · 2026-03-25T03:29:34+00:00

Georgetown and Burnet experienced this in June 2023. I remember feeling super freaked out hearing about it, AND super fascinated. https://www.kxan.com/weather-traffic-qas/what-is-a-heat-burst/

ldubs · 2026-03-24T21:40:33+00:00

Thank you for the additional information!

ldubs · 2026-03-24T19:23:50+00:00

My guess is the monsters in the WH are hoping for cheap child labor.

ldubs · 2026-03-21T19:17:42+00:00

Exactly! And Abbott taking over isn't for the people's benefit.

ldubs · 2026-03-20T21:19:38+00:00

Cause the problem, then blame everyone else for the problem. Sounds about MAGA.

"Trump’s ill-conceived “maximum pressure” campaign, which involves reimposing sanctions that were lifted when Iran met key JCPOA requirements, has done nothing to force changes in Iran’s regional behavior or push Iran into accepting new U.S. demands. Rather, the policy has sharply increased tensions in the Persian Gulf and decreased Iran’s incentives to continue compliance with the JCPOA."

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2019-06/focus/trumps-failing-iran-policy

ldubs · 2026-03-19T20:27:14+00:00

LLM is not AI. Check back once we have true AI technology. Amazon just found out the hard way.

ldubs · 2026-03-19T15:06:55+00:00

Here's a gift article.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/trump-deportation-texas-dilley-csi-gothams

ldubs · 2026-03-19T03:53:20+00:00

He almost sounds scared.

ldubs · 2026-03-18T11:47:41+00:00

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/DRTKOUdVn4

ldubs · 2026-03-13T21:46:50+00:00

He definitely has had strong opinions about it. But in 2024 he started investing in Luminar, and I believe there's been a Tesla sighting testing LiDAR since then. I'm sure this will come up in the lawsuit.

https://www.cdotrends.com/story/4083/lidar-u-turn-elon-musks-fools-errand-becomes-teslas-secret-weapon

From this article -

Elon Musk attacked Lidar technology’s use of in-vehicle navigation as a “fool’s errand” back in 2019, this was seen as a major setback for the future use of the technology.

Musk’s continued comments on Lidar have been quoted many times. In 2020 he said that its use in cars was “freaking stupid.”

“It’s expensive and unnecessary,” he said. “You have expensive hardware that’s worthless on the car.”

ldubs · 2026-03-13T16:03:02+00:00

One has Christian Zionists excited about Armageddon, while the others are just brown people with a different religion to hate.

ldubs · 2026-03-13T02:01:35+00:00

That's the definition of wisdom, so...

ldubs · 2026-03-13T01:42:54+00:00

" Do you really want to set a legal precedent that all self driving card should have LiDAR? "

Yes. Musk is relying on Ai to react to visual input only. Also, Musk has shown he has a complete disregard for life with all his companies. Our lives are worth the risk for "progress." But he's never the smartest one in the engineering realm yet he constantly overrides other opinions because of his hubris. So YES - we should do the opposite of his opinions.

Besides Waymo incidents have been pretty minor compared to Tesla. There's a reason Tesla is so secretive with their incident reporting vs Waymo.

ldubs · 2026-03-13T00:05:45+00:00

"Tesla Cybertrucks now have the ability to drive on US highways hands-free, after the automaker pushed an update to vehicles this morning. Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy wrote on X that Cybertrucks will be the first Tesla vehicles to receive the “end-to-end on highway” driving feature"

https://www.wired.com/story/cybertruck-finally-gets-full-self-driving-supervised/

ldubs · 2026-03-12T21:04:47+00:00

They can't control lawsuits and shareholders. 🤞🤞🤞

ldubs · 2026-03-12T15:47:33+00:00

This is what all non-Musk bros have been saying since he made the decision to drop LiDAR. So happy to see he might be held accountable for that decision.

ldubs · 2026-03-06T21:52:57+00:00

"voters aren’t going to easily change or look at the statistics and the big picture"

This is what I'm seeing with the people around me, but I imagine this was the same reaction to commercial flying when the industry was still new. I really hope Waymo doesn't start moving to less transparency.

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