I appreciate the brevity of the bill, but it delegates a lot of discretion to the FTC to regulate things like "How an operating system provider can verify the date of birth of a parent or legal guardian", so it's up to the discretion of someone in the executive branch as to whether GNU and/or Linux will have to scan your driver's license and upload that scan to some government contractor's servers, say.
> The term “operating system” means software that supports the basic functions of a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.
> The term “operating system provider” means a person that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.
So excited to see the GNU vs. Linux debate finally land in court.
[Edit: Never mind, others have explained elsewhere in the discussion. It's the lawsuits Facebook is losing for addicting kids. So rather than, you know, stopping doing that, they want to instead legally force us to alter every OS on the planet. Disgusting.]
Just answering with a possibility here, but they could be seeking freedom from liability for failure to moderate content or ensuring their service is "not harmful". If it's only for consenting adults, and every adult can be pinned down with an identity, whatever happens can have the blame assigned away from meta.
This will be perfect for those washing machine manufacturers! It will permanently pair itself to your passport with e-fuses, so that if you ever try to resell your old washing machine on the secondary market, it'll be worthless unless you also sell the buyer your passport
No worries, by that time so many people will have lost their jobs because of AI that you can hire a homeless person to register all your devices for a snickers. Dirty Mike and the Boys are going to own a lot of mobile devices, and control the world trade of snickers.
I got a house with a 25-year roof, an indestructible Japanese shitbox car I can repair myself from scrap if I have to, and enough in the bank at three to five percent to pay my taxes, all of my hobbies, eating steak every day if I wanted and my share of the universal multi-payer health care system in my country.
That puts me for the rest of my life at a level of fuck you.
And if the system breaks down, I’m just going to hunt and eat you.
How big do you think your chance of survival is meeting someone hungry who spent over a decade in war and conflict zones and is still here?
I’m more concerned about the future for your sake than for mine.
Reading this made me think of the 4chan Navy Seals copypasta about a top of the class navy seals trained in gorilla warfare, the best sniper in the whole US marine corps.
Social score is for communists and autocratic regimes, minton. I live in a democra…
Wait, 27% for the right-wing extremists in Germany?
The strongest party if there were elections today?
Some of them publicly state they are the friendly faces of facism?
I will send your administration a request to put your statue on top of the Arc de Trump. If they can pay 400 million for a ballroom, they can spend one for a diamond statue of the man that saved a lot of American lives today.
True heroes don’t always wear capes. Sometimes they have butcher knife’s.
Breathtaking entitlement, self-righteousness, and arrogance.
Arrogance is usually a defense mechanism that you can't fix with logic... people use it to shield themselves from their own insecurities so they don't feel inadequate or threatened.
If you can't see your own flaws, you can't understand why others don't like your behavior.
"As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding."
Haha I think he was just being humorous, expletives notwithstanding.
Know what gave it away?
> enough in the bank at three to five percent
I mean lol if he’s expecting banks to be around in a societal collapse situation he’s got another thing coming, wonder how the shitbox car will do when fuel runs out in 8 weeks worldwide. Mad max baby!
> It leaves open to interpretation if it applies to all computers, or just general purpose ones.
That's not even the worst part:
> a person that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system
Suppose you write a generic piece of code that some third party then includes in an operating system, but you're the only relevant person in the jurisdiction. Are you now an "operating system provider"? If the "operating system" is made by hundreds of people or more, is it none of them or all of them or what?
Suppose you're a company and you've got a bunch of servers, which are computers, and you have root on them, i.e. you "control" the "operating system".
IMHO, the law tries to target the last entity which has practical control over the OS design and implementation aka the final developer/integrator.
For example in the Linux world, it's the distributions.
Where it gets murky is with Android (and to a lesser extent Windows).
IMHO, the entities which should be responsible are Google and Microsoft.
But since vendors, specially in the Android world, can heavily tweak the OS, there is a case that it's more the device manufacturers like Samsung which are responsible.
The relevant interpretation in practice will usually happen naturally, and the most ambiguous stuff will be set by jurisprudence if necessary.
Is office suite supposed to be an example of lock-in? I haven't used it since middle school. I've worked at 3 companies and, to the best of my knowledge, not a single person at any of them used office suite. That's not to say we use pen and paper. We just use google docs, or notion, or (my personal favorite) just markdown and possibly LaTeX.
I think it's somewhat analogous with models. Sure, you could bind yourself to a bunch of bespoke features, but that's probably a bad idea. Try to make it as easy as possible for yourself to swap out models and even use open-weight models if you ever need to.
You will get locked into the technology in general, though, just not a particular vendor's product.
The foundation never gets more than 10M / year in donations. You really think their donation rate could possibly go up by more than 50x just by cutting ties with Google?
I've been thinking a lot about the primitives we should be reaching for to standardize these agent systems. There seems to be a degree of isomorphism between skills, MCP, and AGENTS.md. Shell and apply seem pretty fundamental due to the UNIX legacy. Happy to see sandboxing finally included as a first-class concept!
I wouldn't something a bit deeper, though, like a standardization around tokenization that could allow for some extensibility.
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