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"Legal" doesn't mean much anymore

Because at the same time they're trying to implement age verification for app stores while also very vaguely defining what an app store is.

The Act defines an “App Store” as “a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device.”

So... what constitutes a mobile device? Who is an owner/developer? Does github have to implement age verification for mobile devices?

The sommelier thing is at least somewhat real but it actually takes work. I don't think anyone is getting much better sound than 320kbps with a good quality sound system. $300 studio monitors can give you pretty much peak sound quality at this point, no unobtanium wires required.

My parents let me have a dirt pit when I was a kid, it was a fucking blast. It sorta went away when it evolved into bike jumps

I use DuckDuckGo and it is better in general, but still has a big pitfall with AI generated websites. I've used some others like SearXNG but those feel experimental at best. I'm willing to hear about viable alternatives.

Peanut butter jelly is 2002 from what I can gather

Totally agree. In my day to day work, I'm not dealing with anything groundbreaking. Everything I want/need to code has already been done.

if you have a Copilot license and are using the newest Visual Studio, it enables the agentic capabilities by default. It will actually write the code into your files directly. I have not done that and will not do that. I want to see and understand what it is trying to do.

No, I'm saying that I bought some stuff then changed my ways. I didn't look elsewhere previously. I am looking elsewhere now, and I will not give Amazon money. I was highlighting the problem that tons of people run into - shit is still cheaper at Amazon even if it is much more expensive than it was 2 years ago.

In 2008 you could do a web search and have relevant real results right on the first page. Maybe an ad or two.

Now it is effectively:

• AI summary
• ad
• ad
• ad
• link that is effectively an ad
• link to AI generated website
• link to AI generated website
• link to an actual decent result
• link to a questionable result
• link to AI generated website

I forget the exact proposed bill, it might have been SOPA (or something else threatening net neutrality), and it might have been around 2010. That made me think "they want to make the internet into cable TV". And we're pretty close to that being reality in a way.