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  • They’re requesting mostly wrong solutions for real problems.

    Age verification doesn’t address social media’s problems, but does increase data collection and decrease privacy. Same for decrypting private messages.

    A guardian account does seem reasonable.

    They could also completely turn off user seach for minors, so they would have to add contacts by username or email, and couldn’t reach or be reached easily by online strangers.

    Minors could circumvent this if there’s no age verification. But today’s age verification methods are neither privacy-friendly nor hard to circumvent. Until they are, it’s not worth requiring age verification.















  • The platform that works closest to this is https://www.liberapay.com/

    It used to allow making 1 monthly payment and spreading it between projects. But they had to change to comply with banking/payment platform rules so each money transfer is directed to one beneficiary from the get go. Meaning you setup a recurring payment per project.

    There’s also the nlnet foundation https://nlnet.nl/

    It’s possible to give them 1 recurring payment to support OSS projects. But they manage how the money is split between projects and their own overhead. You don’t pick the projects.





  • Yes, this is fucked.

    I doubt a sane society would aim to replace as many jobs as possible with automation, or necessarily be happy with it. Making this a goal mean trying to remove humans and unions out of the equations.

    A sane society may seek to decrease workplace injuries and be more efficient, ie wasting less resources while producing stuff. That could involve better workplace conditions, better product design, and maybe automation. Automation may incidentally replace some tasks, even though it’s not the end goal.


  • The headline and/or article is confusing. It says “machine learning library for the Linux kernel” but goes on to say it’s going to do ML in userspace.

    It sounds like it’s going to be a process that lives outside the kernel and tunes the kernel via some interface. In which case there would be no need for any ML-specific bit in the kernel. Rather a generic interface to collect stats, tune thing. Processes would use those however they want, using ML or astrology or classic algorithms for their internal logic.