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The law has exceptions for electronic service providers who report what they find on their storage. If you are operating a service for friends at no charge with no business plan you probably will have to work a bit harder to avail yourself of that exception. Might be best to charge a nominal fee and at least pretend to be doing it as a service provider.

It misses the point to think that CSAM is illegal because it is "obscene".

Are you sure you're not the one missing the point here? You're replying to the tail end of branch of discussion about AI-generated imagery. Obscene is the only argument that works against it.

On the CSA side, you rarely hear about arrests (they happen but less than CSAM).

Because it is nearly always someone we know. Someone who we just cannot imagine would ever do such a thing, even when the evidence is glaringly obvious. And I suspect that the fraction of the population diddling kids in real life is breathtaking, and nobody really wants to face that head on. Too uncomfortable.

I could just be overly cynical today. But given my own experiences and other people I've known throughout my life, I really believe it is very common.

has to be changed so a person isn't liable if he deletes or reports the material as soon as he first becomes aware of it

AFAIK that's more or less how it works today as a practical matter. The law recognizes this situation as an affirmative defense, but does not make it impossible to be charged.

To be an affirmative defense it has to be reported immediately or destroyed, constitute three images or less, and not be sent to anyone [other than law enforcement]. Interestingly, NCMEC doesn't necessarily count for that -- if you find yourself in this situation and you want to report something, call your local police.

I get a little twitchy anytime we have laws based on something like obscenity, which is by definition a moral judgement.

Facebook could be catching 99% of those trafficking in CSAM, or 1%, and still be the leading reporter.

Therapy will become progressively more useless as people avoid it because therapists are required to report anything they hear which might be a crime.

It would be grand if both the EU and the US could pop their heads out of their ass on this issue.

Maybe we can get some people in charge that won't make us all embarrassed to be friends and we can focus on getting our house in order.

what can China do if it wins? Become a global talent/education magnet, replacing the US, for example

I'd have given them relative low odds of success were it not for the coincidentally perfect timing of a US administration that seems hell bent on doing whatever it takes to knock the US out of its position as the sole superpower.

I still think it is a somewhat tall order, a lot depends on what happens over the next few years.

As an interesting side note, this island gets a couple flights a week by an Alaska Airlines 737. That is impressive if the population is really down to a couple dozen.

Edit: like the Internet access, the flights are heavily subsidized by the US taxpayer

I think the point is not that Adak gets this money wasted on them, but that this is endemic across the US. Adds up to way more than 340K.

I have never been more sure about the viable future of software engineering as a career than I am after experiencing everything all the way up to and including Fable.

According to Ferrari it is…

IIRC the expectation is that the yearly production run will be about 10x that. The initial China volume was 88 units.

allocation requirements

If I am understanding you correctly, it seems the Luce does not factor in to that equation. There are no requirements for anyone to buy a Luce in order to unlock the privilege of buying higher tier models.

Another casualty of Microsoft using Copilot to describe so many different things.

I just dont understand why many people are so glued to watching his companies, rooting for failure

Because it is a game. A personality cult. Elon made it so because that shoots the value of his companies towards the moon as the true believers buy & hold. And in any game there is opposition, the scale of which will be directly proportional to the fans (so just as fanatical, just as loud). The root cause of this situation is Elon correctly understanding that he could become much wealthier making people dream of Tony Stark than in emulating Tim Cook.

Also, plenty of people want him to fail because this is a clearly unhealthy corruption of the public markets and is likely to have negative consequences for otherwise uninterested bystanders who get caught in the blast radius.

And some of us are bitter that this is as close as we're ever going to get to a real life Tony Stark, and it stings.

It is nearly a perfect analog to TDS. All the way down to the uncritical supporters accusing everyone else of being the deranged ones. It would be hilarious if it did not have such a negative impact on bystanders.

You might be unaware of CarPlay Ultra.

In any case, thank you for contributing evidence to my assertion that CarPlay is additive, not subtractive, and since you can choose to use it or not, adding it to Tesla's infotainment is strictly a win.

I assume you mean boomers? Might time to stop blaming them, since at this point some of them are great-great-grandparents and the following generations do not seem to have shown any more appetite for changing course.

there are companies with amazing software experience, Rivian, Tesla, Nio, Lucid

I own a Tesla, and a Ford. Amazing is not how I would describe the Tesla software experience. It lacks features like iMessage for group and for non-phone recipients that I am able to use in my Ford. Even though many people would say the Ford software is otherwise inferior. And if history is anything to go by, there are features in CarPlay today that Tesla will never add to their infotainment system.

1k miles worth of equivalent tire wear

LOL, that does make more sense. Just wasn't how I read it.

That was good for a laugh. And of course it is so typically AI. Superficially pretty incredible, and then you start to spot the errors. And they are the kind of errors only an LLM would make, not a human.

Also a pretty great demo of why original content creators hate LLMs for stealing all their work.

I want the handling of a Boxster, but a truly fast car is only fun on the track.

This is so true. A while back I had a sixth generation Camaro SS 1LE. The handling was sublime. Think 1.5 scale Miata. Cornered on rails, begged to be driven faster, faster. And 455hp on tap, it was definitely no slouch. But when I took it out to the rural twisty roads for some fun, I found that I would be entering corners at 80+ mph if I wanted to make it do any work. That is categorically a bad idea in all regards, there is so much energy in play at that speed that one unexpected patch of gravel can end your existence. Loved the car, but to drive it safely meant never going past 2/10 of it's ability except on track days.

As compared to (much longer ago) a 2.5RS that I had back when they were cool (pre-WRX days in the US) and you could fling that thing around with no regards to propriety, and it was fun because it didn't have much power, didn't have that much actual capability, but it was relatively light and very communicative. Much better choice if you're not going for track days.

Probably just joking around, not serious. I said the same thing when I bought my Camaro years ago. The only better choice would have been a Corvette. If you are 40+, every second comment will have some form of mid-life crisis slant to it, so you just run with it as the joke.

But the truth is that many of us have been buying such irresponsible sports cars for our entire lives, it didn't start in mid-life ;-)

I almost ... almost bought a hat with a fake mullet sewn in just for when I was driving the Camaro, all for the lulz. Some people don't take themselves too seriously, and I'm definitely in that camp.

$1K? And I thought my tires were expensive, damn...

Corrola

Corolla.

And I suspect Toyota put a little more effort than that into the GR.

Yes, and it inspires a reaction from a whole bunch of other insufferable types that decided the antidote was to be as big a prick as possible.

The GR Corolla is definitely on my extended list of "cars I'd put in my oversized garage if I won the lottery." That and a Fiesta ST. I love tossable cars, even though I also love being able to rip a 0-60 in 2.9s on a whim and never having to wait in line for gas.

Lots of weird judgment and smugness in this thread. This guy bought a fun car that he's excited about? Well obviously he's POOR and IMMATURE because if he was RICH and OLD he would buy an ELECTRIC CAR that's WAY FASTER (in a straight line) and doesn't make nasty noises and smells!!! what an idiot!!!

As someone who happens to drive an electric car that is wicked fast (and not just in a straight line...), I'm not sure why you'd suggest that the weird judgement and smugness is directed only at guys driving gas cars. I get plenty of crap over driving an EV. Especially a performance-oriented one.

I love manual transmissions too, but you're just as judgy.