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So we're tossing that "innocent until proven guilty" idea out the window, huh?

We sure do. Legislators who pushed this "strict liability" thing forward were playing "tough on crime" for the audience of naive voters. Now anyone who tries to change this will commit political suicide and achieve the "pedo supporter" title.

pulled the bill immediately

This is weird indeed. These bills are mostly put forward in order to appear tough on crime and secure votes of the naive population ("think of the children"). Pulling the bill is detrimental as it may lead to "pedo supporter" conspiracy spreading among the district.

Qwen 3.8 2 days ago

I have asked local Qwen 3.6 What happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and it refuses to answer no matter how I ask. This is why.

On a more serious note, I am immensely grateful for Qwen and I'm rooting for chinese models as opposed to American models - due to the general direction where US models are going.

I'm being sarcastic here.

But I still strongly believe that Apple hates pro users because they don't make as much money and because they get in the way of serving laymen. The Aperture fiasco, the Final Cut Saga, the Xcode war of attrition and the never ending chain of failures with MacPro - all suggest that I'm right.

(Developer of a major plugin for DaVinci here)

it's an attempt to hijack popular software projects

Exactly. And this is why those projects are typically called "XXX in Rust" or "XXX-rs". Because the creators get to do their favorite thing - coding in their loved language - while skipping all the hardships of designing, accepting real feedback, involving users and getting traction - all while simultaneously hijacking the existing brand.

As of now I know of a single project that changed their name after being called and the project surprisingly got some traction.

ChatGPT Work 13 days ago

Everything. The current implementation is unusable. If you see differently then probably you are looking at Codex chats, not chats.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

Zero information on the knowledge cutoff. The model itself responds it's June 2024 which is weird given that GPT-5.5 has knowledge cutoff at August 2025.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

Intent understanding

This will totally make it brain damaged over a certain tasks. Sort of like the same brain damage that prompted OpenAI project managers to destroy ChatGPT.app today.

ChatGPT Work 13 days ago

What they did to ChatGPT.app is incredible. It was a truly useful app, but the replacement is brain damaged in terms of UI/UX beyond repair.

Incredible, really.

ChatGPT Work 13 days ago

I have updated Codex and it's now ChatGPT. And the chat in Codex is badly broken and doesn't support the one feature I use in almost every chat.

Good job.

Remote Attestation 14 days ago

This is an incredibly nice technology that absolutely will be used to prevent you from using your computer as you wish.