if they are not getting BLASTED for it, it doesn’t really matter

My instance seems to do that for me. Making this post look very confusing for a moment

why?

Stop ascribing intent to things which do not have it.

you might want to look up the rhetorical tool called anthropomorphizing.

It doesn’t meant that a person saying that actually believes that o1 is sentient. But it’s a good shortcut way to discuss a topic.

can’t do anything but read input and write output for actions

but it can do more. they gave it a shell to put commands into. Therefore acting out more than just inputting and outputting text

intended target and possible target are different things.

The law, as it exists, targets any and all communities with “a significant number of United Kingdom users”. There is no minimum size requirement.

It might be possible that the law turns a blind eye on smaller communities. But it might not. They are in their right to go against a 20 user fediverse instance the same way as they are against facebook

that’s the thing. You don’t have to be a company or resident of the UK.

If you have a community (classic forum, lemmy, masto etc) that caters to a “significant part” to UK users, you are target of the act.

And depending on where you live, extraditions to the UK for criminal charges exist.

Will anyone bother doing that? We’ll see

Edit: In case people want to read the law themselves: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/4

phew

This new season of Robot Wars / Battle Bots is starting strong

Well, now that you mention it…

thicccccccc

You don’t need a satellite phone for this, though

finally a good OS on them

“finally upgraded my steam deck to 1TB” plays Vampire Survivor

… what?

“I hate you, but I hate these guys even more. Nice job”

I wouldn’t even trust them with my public keys

Don’t buy it. It’s too addictive

To expand on the translation metaphor:

Trying to run a window program on Linux (without proton) is like trying to read a completely alien text. Your have basically 0 in common and no way to understand it

Proton is doing the translator job of helping. And it’s doing a great job for a lot of the alien language. Which is why so many programs and games work on Linux with proton

But even it can’t always be perfect, and if the language is using some weird dialect, it might not understand or misinterpret things, which causes games to be buggy or unplayable on Linux

I’m mildly annoyed it’s not called Unspooled