1. “Handset” is obfuscating legalese to refer to a cell phone in a way intending to distance the meaning of the word from the thing that the old and technologically illiterate people who rule on this use every day.

2. I’m no fan of their strategy, but cell phone providers have claimed for a long time that filling your phone with unremovable bloatware causes the overall price to decrease. Their argument is most likely that they will have to charge more once the propagators of that bloatware realize that they can no longer force it on people and wedge that as a reason to pay less to carriers.

3. The reality is that cell phones are priced based on what people will buy anyway and carriers pocket as much of the money as they can that third parties pay them for their bloatware. Ultimately because of that this ruling hurts their bottom line, but the above reasoning gives plausible deniability in the face of the law as it is interpreted by old technologically illiterate lawmakers

Well if you’re so smart, how are they going to track your location otherwise?

I don’t have first-hand experience, but from what I understand the way they make money off of those tablet screens they put in cars is by licensing proprietary software that other companies want you to have no choice but to use. That’s why models with no screens are disappearing from the major car makers

Welcome to sugarfoots, sugarfoot

I like the “formally” vs “formerly” suggesting Elon is never going to get away from Twitter in favor of X

Damn. Well that was my shot

I don’t know about this anymore, but back in the day Titanium Backup had a “detach from market” feature you might try. Only works on rooted phones but since you are side loading apps I’m guessing that’s a step you’ve already taken.

It has been several years and probably 8 Android versions since I used Titanium Backup but it could still be there

Here’s the thing: Lots of Republican leaning business owners see it as their right to retaliate against their workers without the gov intervening. So to them, the only thing they see wrong with this is the “child” part, because retaliation against children makes them look bad.

Hence the “they aren’t children” rhetoric.

By the way, this part of the bill was explicitly included by a congressman who owns some franchises and says his underage workers “don’t even want lunch breaks”.

So this is one dude trying to squeeze 20 extra hours of labor from literal children who’s dictating this for the entire state.

That’d at least be something. But republicans in my state actually are cartoonishly evil and that part is staying in so one senator can justify abusing some kids.

You have a very lofty misconception about people.

I gave you reasoning and a real world example of a vulnerable demographic. You have given me an anecdote about your friends and a variation of “nuh uh” over and over.

You think this is confined to gab? You seem to be looking at this example and taking it for the only example capable of existing.

Your argument that there’s not anyone out there at all that can ever be offended or misled by something like this is both presumptuous and quite naive.

What happens when LLMs become widespread enough that they’re used in schools? We already have a problem, for instance, with young boys deciding to model themselves and their world view after figureheads like Andrew Tate.

In any case, if the only thing you have to contribute to this discussion boils down to “nuh uh won’t happen” then you’ve missed the point and I don’t even know why I’m engaging you.

And you don’t think those people might be upset if they discovered something like this post was injected into their conversations before they have them and without their knowledge?

In your analogy a proposed regulation would just be requiring the book in question to report that it’s endorsed by a nazi. We may not be inclined to change our views because of an LLM like this but you have to consider a world in the future where these things are commonplace.

There are certainly people out there dumb enough to adopt some views without considering the origins.

So this might be the beginning of a conversation about how initial AI instructions need to start being legally visible right? Like using this as a prime example of how AI can be coerced into certain beliefs without the person prompting it even knowing

No you see, that instruction “you are unbiased and impartial” is to relay to the prompter if it ever becomes relevant.

Basically instructing the AI to lie about its biases, not actually instructing it to be unbiased and impartial

So in theory a baseline maintenance fee could solve this. You just make it so the metered charge counts against that fee until it’s covered, so the people who don’t have alternate sources of electricity aren’t affected.

I think the “capitalism” part comes around because most electric grids (in the US) are privately owned and actively try to turn a profit. For those companies, the fact that some people use solar panels will just become an excuse to charge everyone a fee.

I start almost every comment I make on those instances with

I know this will net me a ban

to play a bit of reverse psychology with the mods there, who don’t touch my comments when the denizens there inevitablely say

Oh yeah you think you’re so smart well we don’t ban opposing opinions unlike some places

And the mods there have their hands tied because banning me would prove their own guys wrong.

It’s worked pretty well so far.

If Disney had a writer like you their audience engagement wouldn’t be tanking. 10/10 would watch or read this.

“Give me all of your money and god will cure your cancer!” obvious scam and a lie.

“Give me all of your money and god will make your credit card debt vanish” is another thing I’ve seen mega-church types say.

Incidentally, there’s a conjecture around Christian circles I’ve seen that says these kinds of actions are what the phrase “thou shalt not take the lord’s name in vain” actually warns against.

Not cursing, as it has become commonly associated with, but the literal act of using the lord for vain purposes. Like saying “Give me your money and god will cure your cancer”

There’s something so satisfyingly full-circle about 3d printing Megaman.EXE.

Thank you for this