The best summary of “the real world” vs principles.

If model distillation is illegal, then shouldn’t we also make training of copyrighted material illegal?

Here’s the thing: Read enough AI output and everyone can spot it. And that’s the seam that runs through it. The answer is partly right and it’s important to be honest about it. That’s the load bearing statement. It’s this. But it’s also that. And that’s doing a lot of the work here.

It’s. So. Staccato. And it sounds like tech bro in a Patagonia gilet.

Yes I would not want to live in the US.

Im sorry, but this is just silly.

If a camera rocords your face, it can be used to identity you. Thus it falls under GDPR regulations as PII. That requires that the footage is kept no longer than needed for its purpose and that what happens to the data is spelled out exactly. My car already comes with a privacy policy that you can read.

So the answer is: Anything that can be used to identify you will deleted - or rather it will never get stored.

And the reason this regulation doesn’t spell out what happens to the data is that it doesn’t need to because GDPR covers ALL data already.

The EU is guilty of many things, but this is solely about increasing driver awareness and preventing deaths and injury - and it’s working, with each generation of requirements, less people die.

Cancelled a little while ago and now moved to Euro-Office. Lame title, works really well.

And before people get at me: Especially Euro-office’s sheets are so much closer to a 1:1 replacement for Excel.

I must be the only one who ever paid for it.

Whatever you end up buying, and I speak from bitter experience here, swap the SSD that it comes with it. Consumer SSDs in micro systems do NOT have the write cycles required for 24/7 docker activity.

Now I run a couple of Micron 7450 Max server SSDs. Live and learn.

This is just hog wash.

They are buying it for 60bn worth of SPCX Class A stock. This is Cursor’s board taking anything they can get for a company that has no future. Not a criticism against Cursor, but their market is standardising on Claude Code, and their value would rapidly head towards zero.

Class A stock has no voting rights. This is the investors of Cursor literally saying “being on Musk’s train to the moon is literally better than whatever future we have right now”.

If we’d stayed in the EU it would have been a legal requirement to employ ZKP.

Myeah, sure, maybe, maybe not. But whatever the source, anonymity does enable well-resourced actors to affect opinion change.

It is possible to create anonymous age verification. I doubt the UK will pursue, but it is possible. Check out what Denmark did.

We ban alcohol, violent films, lottery tickets, over the counter medicine for children and not for adults.

Age verification and identification is not the same thing.

I think there’s a rational argument for saying anonymous social media is what Russia, China and other dictatorships use to undermine and affect public opinion, to be fair.

I’m not saying therefore anonymity shouldn’t be allowed. I’m just saying there’s a nuance here…

And guns! Making them illegal did nothing for people using guns to murder each other!

… oh wait.

All social media is designed to be addictive, though. It’s their entire business model.

And Adobe PDFs are not the same as PDF/As and yet somehow the world still turns and PDF readers of all sorts find their way around.

I’m not saying OOXML is a great standard. I’m saying it’s a fine standard for the specific purpose of having a format that Microsoft can no longer claim IP rights over, so that should Microsoft suddenly feel pressurised to remove Office functionality from Europe, Europe still has a workable solution that’s compatible and interchangeable with the 99.9% of all editable document files sent around.

The EU wants to not depend on US software.

The format is standardised. It might not be a standard you like, but it’s a standard that the US can’t “take away” from the EU. Microsoft, especially in cloud form, can remove access to Office tomorrow if they’re pressured to by the US government.

We might have a desire for better file formats. The EU doesn’t give a monkey about our crusade, it purely cares about not having US leverage hanging over them like a sword. And the underlying file formats, exactly because it’s a ISO standard (however poor it may be) is fine for this purpose.

Whether you use Firefox or Librewolf you are entirely dependent on the hundreds of full timer developers Mozilla’s got working on the Gecko codebase.