Allowed? No. Do people do things that they aren’t allowed to do even when they aren’t the best option. Yes all the time.

I would be willing to bet wherever you live there are things that aren’t allowed happening all the time. In fact you, just like everyone else probably participate in some of those activities regularly.

For example, since this conversation is about cars. You have never once driven over the speed limit (depending on where you are under the speed limit) or drove somewhere without a seat belt or used your cell phone with your hands while driving. How about using your turn signal to change lanes 100% of the time.

The world is full of rules not being followed.

Hey everyone with an electric car did you know you are wrong because if i follow this correctly.

1 .You can buy a 20 year old car for $2000. 2. This person knows someone who lives on the 5th floor.

Yeah it’s called individual choice. It’s not for everyone in every situation. Just like diesel versus gasoline or natural gas or walking or riding a bike or taking a bus.

But the point I made still stands you don’t “have” to install anything.

And yes I have seen people running cords out of windows from apartments. Is it the best option. No. Would I do it also no.

But there are options available.

Make the choice that works best for your situation.

Of course your daily mileage comes into play… but

You don’t have to install a charger, if you can charge your laptop/phone at home you can charge your car at home.

It’s just an extension cord.

Of course this requires you to run the cord outside if you don’t have a garage but it’s not like you have to bury it or anything. Because again it’s just an extension cord.

And even if you want “fast” charging at home you aren’t really “installing” a charger you are just getting a 220v outlet installed in the US. If you have a central A/C unit or electric dryer as an example you already have this installed in your house you are just adding an additional outlet for ease of access.

The “real” fast chargers that are installed for public use are not being installed in your home because those are 480v or even 800v. Which is considered industrial use, as far as I am aware you can’t get that power connection in your garage because the infrastructure isn’t there.

See the thing is that the situation you are bringing up is different. Yes, if your boss/owner/ceo has been running a sex ring outside of the company you are working for yeah I can see how you would be like ok maybe the people at this company have nothing to do with this.

However in the situation we are referring it has made global news. And not only that but it is the product that you as an employee are there in support of. Whether you are an intern the janitor or the engineer who directly made this product. You being there is enabling it.

I have been thinking about it and I agree it’s an extreme position.

But these deeds are not being done by one person. And at some point whether you are an active participant or not you are continuing to work there so you have some level of complicity.

If you started a company that made CSAM do you think you and every one involved should be let off, because you claim it was a technological oopsie?

People have been pointing out that xAI is a CSAM machine since basically the first day it came out. And when they basically said they don’t care. All the employees that stayed are all accomplices to the crimes… let alone the people who started working there after.

The only way to stop these companies is to start holding people accountable. And they will never hold the people at the top to account.

So make it hurt for everyone involved and then people will think twice before they sign up to do evil deeds for evil people.

Was going to say basically say the same exact same thing. There is no law saying how AI is handled when using stollen materials or other “illegal” content.

But somehow we have all been brought to believe that somehow “new” technology isn’t subject to existing laws.

If x or any other company downloaded CSAM everyone in the company should be arrested.

Today we learned about how imperialism works.

You are in luck because you can make this an alias (custom command) in your .bashrc file:

alias update='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade'

I was thinking the same, but also thinking the product itself is ai. Seemed odd the article doesn’t link to the company site.

It almost seems like it appeared out of no where. Top search result is a mastadon account that registered 2-3weeks back. Their website doesn’t even appear in searches.

Have we reached the point of circularity. Ai creating products to then write blog posts about. Just infinite hype with no real content/products.

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It’s 2026, do you even need a full keyboard anymore? This year’s badge is a three-key USB macro pad with only the keys that matter for Al-assisted programming: Y, 2, and Enter. Yes, allow it. Always allow. Submit. You’ve just approved every suggestion, every file edit, every tool call.

Congratulations, you’re a 10x engineer now! This year’s badge is built around a PIC16F1455 with USB-C HID. The board lights up with 25 addressable RB LEDs 22 side-mount SK6812s for edge glow and 3 WS2812B per-key backlights. Kailh hot-swap sockets let you bring your own switches. Now that you’re the most productive person at your company, you can focus on enjoying the conference!

It’s self imposed to avoid another prohibition like event. The industry doesn’t want to be associated with the consumption of their product. Broadcast companies also don’t want to be associated with the consumption of the product so they just don’t show people drinking the product.

This already existed without “modern” ai and deepfakes. For example Elvis.

I tried finding it as I have seen the meme a few times. But there doesn’t appear to exist either in the app or on the website. There is just a faq and a normal web form to submit questions and someone will get back to you.

Although I guess they may have taken it down.

Edit: I have tried it with chipotle’s chat bot and they appear to have disabled it and it just says it can’t code as a response.

This depends on where you are located, but it’s better to be on the safe side and assume yes you will be arrested unless you specifically know otherwise.

I would assume by now most places have corrected this but I remember there being stories of how people would lose their license and then drive to bars on lawn mowers and golf carts etc. as a loophole.

And I once ate a heaping bowl of salt.

“As experienced software engineers” highlights the problem with many CAD solutions. People who design physical “thingies” professionally are generally not software engineers.

We of course need a viable solution as an open source product but a lot of this is recreating the wheel without any knowledge of how the wheel is being used or why it is even useful to begin with. So you essentially end up with a knock off version of the wheel that doesn’t work the way someone who is experienced with wheels expects it to work.

Here let me show you some of the different lengths of wire I used.

”you’re getting a new car?”

Yeah, my parents said if I get all B’s they will buy me a bar, and I got all C’s.

Why couldn’t she be the other kind of mermaid?