This person's distinction between "library" and "framework" is frankly insane.
React, which just is functions to make DOM trees and render them is a framework? There is a reason there are hundreds of actual frameworks that exist to make structure about using these functions.
At this point, he should stop using any high level language! Java/python are just a big frameworks calling his bytecode, what magical frameworks!
Yes, that's the point of freedom. People can carry devices that do things. If they break the law, that's another question, but everyone should be allowed to have computers that communicate that they can control
I don’t want someone to walk around, I don’t know, forcing all the phones around them in a 10m radius to blow up their batteries and hurt people.
Handheld radios, like my wireless tx/rx for lavaliers have to have their spectrums cleared by the FCC. As do most transmitting devices. There are baseline requirements before they can be sold/used.
I get often with these things if you give an inch they take a mile, but there have to be some foundational guardrails here IMO. You can’t just have a bunch of laws punishing people for behavior and no attempts at preventing it in the first place.
The ability to just transmit anything indiscriminately is just a dicey proposition to me. Like how we used to just allow a free for all with drones.
Can you show an example of a phone blowing up its battery with the potential to hurt people because of a harmful radio signal?
This seems like something the phone should be able to handle. People already have root access on devices with radio transmitters, they're called laptops. I don't recall many incidents of a malicious actor with a laptop forcing all the laptops around them to blow up and hurt their owners. If that were a reasonable possibility then they certainly wouldn't be allowed on planes.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding but the prior comment seemed to say “people should be able to transmit whatever they want, however they want, with whatever device they want.”
I imagine it’s not insanely difficult to get a phone to crank up voltage or something until the battery starts melting down. Maybe I’m letting sci-fi/thrillers pollute my sense of reality though
My point is that transmitting whatever you want doesn't mean the devices around you will "blow up", devices also have controls on how they receive radio transmissions.
A malicious transmitter could likely jam signals, but this is already illegal and that comment said "If they break the law, that's another question"
Your hypothetical doesn't make sense. People can already hack around with radios and transmit whatever they want, doing so doesn't result in devices around them blowing up or hurting people.
Malicious transmitters are illegal. There is liability for the person operating the malicious transmitter along with the sale, marketing, and manufacturing of the transmitter.
If the maker of a phone allowed a user to break the law by having the phone become a malicious transmitter and the phone maker didn't try everything in their capacity to prevent it, they'd be in trouble too.
Yes, you can hack your own. You can get a CB radio and boost its power by replacing parts of it. That's on you. If you were able to get a phone from a company that knowingly allowed you to install some software or do this "one silly trick" that allowed the phone to broadcast at 10x the power, you'd be in trouble - but so would the company that made the phone.
Sure, but we already have consumer devices with root access that have radio transmitters. Is this a common problem with laptops? Why would it be a larger problem with smartphones?
The amount of integration between the system and the wifi modem, the frequencies that it can broadcast on, and the regulations for that part of the spectrum.
You'd be quite challenged to make your wifi modem connect to an access point a few miles away. Phones do it all the time. A phone may be broadcasting with as low as a milliwatt when near a transmitter to a few watts when further away ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_device_radiation_and_... ). Wifi has a much smaller range of acceptable broadcast power available (and at the most powerful end of acceptable is less than a phone).
That's called a weapon (EMP discharge), and there's quite a lot of people in the US that are ready to defend even such devices. There's even a Constitutional article about it IIRC.
Why not? As we get pushed more into a corner on this obviously self evident logic chain. Many of us WILL NOT EVER comply with this absurd oppressive tyrannical control of computing and communication and information. We might as well embrace the same non arguments of the over the top second amendment people.
It's literally the silly meme. You will take my gun/GNU from my cold dead hands lol
If you're going to use the "ooh freedom is scary and dangerous" card then I'm allowed to play the "some freedoms are necessary to maintain a free society" card. If that was not your argument, feel free to clarify your position rather than dodge the question.
The risk is if you have unfettered control then it's easy to get tricked into installing malicious apps, and now my device is getting zero-day attacks over bluetooth or wifi from state actors using your phone.
Confused as to what you're asking for here. You want a robot acting out of spec, to not be treated as a robot acting out of spec, because you told it to?
How does this make you any different than the bad faith LLM actors they are trying to block?
robots.txt is for automated, headless crawlers, NOT user-initiated actions. If a human directly triggers the action, then robots.txt should not be followed.
But what action are you triggering that automatically follows invisible links? Especially those not meant to be followed with text saying not to follow them.
This is not banning you for following <h1><a>Today's Weather</a></h1>
If you are a robot that's so poorly coded that it is following links it clearly shouldn't that's are explicitly numerated as not to be followed, that's a problem. From an operator's perspective, how is this different than a case you described.
If a googler kicked off the googlebot manually from a session every morning, should they not respect robots.txt either?
I was responding to someone earlier saying a user agent should respect robots.txt. An LLM powered user-agent wouldn't follow links, invisible or not, because it's not crawling.
There's a fuzzy line between an agent analyzing the content of a single page I requested, and one making many page fetches on my behalf. I think it's fair to treat an agent that clicks an invisible link as a robot/crawler since that agent is causing more traffic than a regular user agent (browser).
Just trying to make the point that an LLM powered user agent fetching a single page at my request isn't a robot.
Well, sure, but this is a problem nearly as old as Go itself. I thought they were referring to larger more recent things, like how generics work, or something to that effect.
Fauci was trying to prevent a run on masks, which he believed were needed by the health care workers. So he probably justified his lie to the US to himself because it was for the "greater good" (The ends justify the means is not my view BTW).
It turns out that masks ARE largely ineffective at preventing CoViD infection. It's amazing how many studies have come up with vastly different results.
Actual (N95/FFP2/FFP3) masks DO work, your comment is misleading. The study you've linked says:
> Colored masks of various construction were handed out free of charge, accompanied by a range of mask-wearing promotional activities inspired by marketing research
"of various construction" is... not very specific.
If you just try to cover your face with a piece of cloth it won't work well. But if you'll use a good mask (N95/FFP2/FFP3), with proper fit [0] then you can decrease the chance of being infected (see e.g. [1])
They claim a 5% reduction in spread with cloth masks and a 12% reduction with surgical masks. I think 1 less case out of every 10 or 20 is pretty acceptable?
Especially at the time when many countries were having their healthcare systems overloaded by cases.
I didn't want to be the one to have to say it, but neither masks nor social distancing had any scientific backing at all. It was all made up, completely made up. The saddest thing I see all the time is the poor souls STILL wearing masks in 2025 for no reason. I don't care how immunocompromised they are, the mask isn't doing anything to prevent viral infection at all. They might help against pollen. I also can't believe how many doctors and nurses at my wife's cancer clinic wear masks all the damn time even though they are not in a surgical enviornment. It's all been foisted upon them by the management of those clinics and the management is completely insane and nobody speaks up about it because it's their job if they do, so the isanity just keeps rolling on and on and it is utterly dehumanizing and demoralizing. If a cancer patient wants to wear a mask because it affords them some tiny comfort, then fine, but that is purely psychological. I've seen it over and over and over because I've been at numerous hospitals this past year trying to help my wife survive a cancer that I think Pfizer may be to blame for.
There was scientific basis for N95 masks and similar masks. If you are talking about cloth and paper masks, I mostly agree. Even then there were tests done with using even those surgical masks with 3d printed frames. I remember this as one example of people following this line of thinking.
As for dehumanization, I used to live in Tokyo and spending years riding the train. I think blaming masks for dehumanization when we have entire systems ragebaiting us on a daily basis is like blaming the LED light for your electric bill.
Social Distancing having "no scientific backing" is very difficult to respond to. Do you mean in terms of long term reduction of spread, or as a temporary measure to prevent overwhelming the hospitals (which is what the concern was at the time)?
I do agree that it was fundamentally dishonest to block people from going to church and then telling other people it was OK to protest (because somehow these protests were "socially distanced" and outdoors). They could have applied the same logic to Church groups and helped them find places to congregate, but it was clearly a case of having sympathy for the in-group vs the out-group.
Basically, yes. However, if we make a distinction between respirators (e.g. N95 mask) and masks (including "surgical" masks, which don't really have a meaningfully better FFE than cloth masks), then at least respirators offer some protection to the wearer, provided they also still minimize contact. But, in keeping with this distinction, yes, masks were never seriously scientifically supported. It is incredibly disheartening to see mask mandates still in cancer wards, despite these being mandates for (objectively useless) cloth/surgical masks.
> I didn't want to be the one to have to say it, but neither masks nor social distancing had any scientific backing at all.
This is false. Even quick search shows multiple papers from pre-covid times that show masks being effective [0][1]. There are many more studies post-covid that show that N95/FFP2/FFP3 masks actually work if you wear them correctly (most people don't know how to do this). Educate yourself before sharing lies.
They burned it beyond down to the ground and below. And many of you on here willfully continue to trust them and argue vehemently against people who try to tell you the actual truth of the matter. RFK Jr. is a flawed human being, but he's doing some good work in unwinding some of the web of lies we live under right now.
It's good RFK is more willing to question things but he seems just as guilty when it comes to spinning webs of lies.
If we think tylenol might cause autism why doesn't he run/fund a nice clean and large randomized controlled trial? Instead he spreads conjecture based on papers with extremely weak evidence.
I think the problem is that apparently some people discovered there is a profitable business model in spreading misinformation, so a trustful (even if not always right), non malicious, reference of information might be needed.
Probably because it's way easier to pull a SIM out of the package and stuff it into the reader than it is to go through the QR code/web site/phone app you need to get the eSIM up and running for your provider.
What I'm really curious about is the money trail. These cards weren't bought in one off cash purchases or via some penny ante crypto reseller. Someone bought in bulk using real money. They probably had to talk with the salesguy at the MVNO to make an order that large. This kind of thing must leave a footprint.
The bar to getting access to MVNO sales is actually extremely, extremely low.
They're ordering and activating maybe 20-50 at a time, and ordering that number of SIM activation kits from dealer supply houses is extremely normal. Activation typically also is at little to no cost as well to dealers in this market.
FWIW: at sixteen, I somehow managed to get dealer access to a CDMA MVNO. I was able to activate accounts on the fly with $2 of "free" credit to start the user off, with zero cost to me. I still get emails to this day over a decade and a half later from various cellular resellers offering me bulk cellphones...
Could simply be a propaganda botfarm. Each of these sim cards registers on facebook, youtube, reddit and the faraway propaganda teams use them to relay messages.
In my personal experience, oh-my-zsh slows down things too much. You're better off just taking whatever you really like about oh-my-zsh and configure it yourself.
Your own quote shows the source of the confusion. OC was asking how will google handle apps that have somebody else signing for them. Your quote talks about letting devs that go through a verification process still side load (though that has no real benefit at that point since google still holds control over you)
React, which just is functions to make DOM trees and render them is a framework? There is a reason there are hundreds of actual frameworks that exist to make structure about using these functions.
At this point, he should stop using any high level language! Java/python are just a big frameworks calling his bytecode, what magical frameworks!