The people in these AI hate mobs are generally the opposite of tech-savvy. You’d have to know what weird ideas they have about this.

The For You feed is run by some rando not affiliated with Bluesky. https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social

I doubt it. EU regulations demand all manner of documentation, including who supplied software. Tech companies should also protect users and enforce “our” laws, which means a lot of surveillance.

App stores already have to do developer verification, under the celebrated DMA.

There’s a pro-business loophole meant to keep bureaucracy low. Very small companies are exempted. It’s kind of ironic, because Lemmy usually hates this kind of pro-business anti-regulation thing. To be fair, using this loophole to shield devs, as F-Droid wants, is an abuse. It’s only meant to allow small companies to grow until they have the resources to handle the verification.

These are estimated to cost EUR 12M per unit.

If drones cost EUR 10k - 50k, then you can get over 200 to 1000 units for that money.

Will it be able to stop several hundred drones coming at it?

It will probably be guarding something that’s worth another couple 10M, like a tank platoon.

I’m sure that these will have many good uses. In many cases you can be sure that you won’t be facing huge drone swarms. But for large scale warfare, we really need some new ideas.

Also: This has been in development since 2018 and is still not rolled out. There’s another issue raised in the article.

The better comparison would be the Maginot-line.

It’s not that the Maginot line didn’t work, though new technologies like shaped charges made it more vulnerable. It got by-passed. And it’s not even like that was a sure thing. If the german tank columns had been caught by bombers on those narrow, winding roads through the Ardennes, the offensive might have ended in a massacre. But somehow, they failed to spot huge armies invading their country.

Eventually, what we have is a failure to accept paradigm shifts. They take new technology to make existing tools better. They fail to anticipate and prepare for the changes that new technology means for the way things are done.

I know a few marxist-leninists IRL who, as you say, are quite normal.

Really? How does that work? Like, in what way are the ml?

Just surprised and curious.

It’s a design feature of the fediverse that larger instances are better. Bluesky goes a long way towards solving these issues. So there’s no point in complaining about people not making sacrifices.

The quote is from New Mexico AG Torrez.

https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/new-mexico-department-of-justice-wins-landmark-verdict-against-meta/

Ok. I’m sure AGI-1 and AGI-2 weren’t real AGI. What number is the real AGI? Is it AGI-3?

Someone who uses the /s is no better than an emoji user.

But the parents are doing it wrong! Most don’t even disown their kids when they come out as gay or trans; which is the fault of social media anyway.

*Canada

ARC-AGI-3

What happened to ARC-AGI-1 and -2?

Yes, but everyone on Lemmy knows that the law only applies to the bad guys.

Yes, of course. Bluesky is also social media and so the precedent set by these cases will apply to it. Besides, knowledge of a subject does tend to affect your judgment.

The New Mexico court heard how Meta’s 2023 decision to encrypt Facebook Messenger – its direct messaging platform, which predators have used as a tool to groom minors and exchange child abuse imagery – blocked access to crucial evidence of these crimes.

Encryption! These monsters!

In the next phase of the legal proceedings, due to begin on 4 May, the attorney general’s office will seek additional financial penalties and court-mandated changes to Meta’s platforms that “offer stronger protections for children”, said Torrez.

The design feature changes the state is seeking include “enacting effective age verification, removing predators from the platform, and protecting minors from encrypted communications that shield bad actors”.

And when that happens, the headline lemmings here will call it enshittification and call for even harsher rules.

Yeah, so I’m holding off celebrating this “historic win” for protecting the children.

Best guess about the downvotes: UK lawmakers have already discussed VPN crackdowns. Not sure at what stage the proposals are. So it’s not a slippery slope argument. Such laws are part of what builds a Great Firewall.

Why the downvotes?