Meta sucks, but not for the reasons claimed by the state. It’s bad for everyone’s mental health, and the best fix shouldn’t be apology money and undoing end-to-end encryption but restructuring with robust parental controls and making it so it doesn’t constantly encourage you to interact with strangers.

“The design feature changes the state is seeking include “enacting effective age verification, removing predators from the platform, and protecting minors from encrypted communications that shield bad actors”.”

Oh fuck right off.

I’m sorry but this is a bad “think of the children” decision. There are limits to what Meta or any platform can do about bad actors at that size without structural changes.

What might actually help: only show people content from groups and people that they follow, preferably in chronological order, rather than suggesting new groups and pages algorithmically all the time and thereby increasing the likelihood of children interacting with strangers on the Internet.

And improve parental controls for children’s accounts. I’m sure there’s nothing currently giving a “parent” account high level control over a “child” account, but I’m happy to be corrected if I’m wrong.

But also: require intercompatibility with other platforms and a standardized form of profile data export so people can leave Facebook but stay in touch with the people who still use it.

Don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll have other tools for quickly and cheaply creating falsified videos and the like. Faith in the veracity of video evidence probably won’t be coming back.

Being so impossibly sexy and yet still intimidating for no reason.

Also Wifi support for certain chip sets.

Oh hi it’s me. Archwiki and tldr are great, but man pages explain things adequately about 20% of the time.

Many of the Ms we’re supposed to R aren’t very well written, and we need to be open to explaining how things work in different ways if we want others to take up with the things we like.

Can AI tools make meal plans that help us lose weight the right way?

No. Don’t use it for that.

Yeah as a record on a ledger it’s fine. I think a lot of people wanted them to be more than that though.

Totally. I mean I hate AI too for various common reasons, but this isn’t the way to make an argument.

Per the dev:

“I don’t refuse to document anything, I’m just taking full ownership of all commits. Claude is not a person (sorry to all the people named Claude) and I don’t see the point of having it in commit messages. It has a “Sent from my iphone” vibe. It’s just advertising.”

She also said something to the effect of “if you think the AI code I allow through is noticeably worse than my hand written code, you should be able to tell it apart without me labeling it. I’m tired of your bitching about it because of a tag rather than the actual content”

Can’t disagree with any of that really.

Aggressive defederation is a plague on the Fediverse. If Hotmail blocked Juno blocked Yahoo blocked Gmail blocked whatever as aggressively as a lot of these Fedi platforms blocked each other, email wouldn’t work.

From what I’ve seen in a cluster F and NB as one category separately from M.

I think people will do all kinds of shit for money.

From what I’ve seen of these apps, they cluster NB and F together. And I’m assuming they don’t go further than state ID for validating, but I can’t say for sure one way or the other.

Oh yeah why put age checks on a service when we could just put it on the whole freaking operating system?

In like, 20 states plus DC you can change your sex on your ID basically on demand (no doctor’s note or court order or whatever). There’s enough Uber drivers out there someone will mark themselves F or X to keep their job options open.

You think they’re checking?

See, if rules were applied honestly and equally, yes.

A creature of McKinsey.

Section 230 of the dmca is designed to allow platforms to exist because people can say whatever the fuck they want. But nobody should make a machine that says things they can’t control, and if you do you need to be disciplined for such irresponsibility.