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on OnlyDesks · c/showerthoughts · 14 pts · 110d

I think there are free software devs (e.g. KDE) who livestream their work now too already.

What now?

With free software, I can just modify my client to tell any backend that I'm over 18 or over 21 or whatever the highest age bracket is. The backend is, as I understand, supposed to then take that claim at face value and deliver to me the version that is intended for adults.

There are many problems with the entire thing, but this one in particular is a non-issue.

It wouldn't be any different if you did the same with a human brain (with the memory capacity of ChatGPT):

"Human, read and memorize this giant pile of written text, which is a mix of things on the Internet, almost every book ever written, and such things."

"OK, have done that."

"Now, based on what you've read, tell me: Who is Barack Obama?"

"Barack Obama is a man born in 1961 who was the US president from 2009 to 2017. [... other facts about Obama that were somewhere in the training data]"

"OK, and who was Konrad Adenauer?"

"Konrad Adenauer was the first federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. [... other facts about Adenauer that were somewhere in the training data]"

"OK, what's the current date and time?"

"No idea. How am I supposed to know THAT?"

oddly enough all these things have repeatedly appeared, disappeared, and reappeared in my lifetime, e.g. titlebars on Windows became transparent with Vista, then stopped being so in, I think, Windows 8?

Hasn't yet.

Is becoming, yes. There are still plenty of opportunities to stop it provided that the democratic process remains somewhat functional and governments have not gone into "we are the rulers, we decide whatever we want, screw the will of the people" mode yet.

I don't have the answer on how far on the path toward that aforementioned mode we are. :(

"Die Stimme der Mehrheit" haben sie sich genannt? Vielleicht sollten sie sich und ihre Anhänger einfach als "die Mehrheit" bezeichnen.

Klingt aber auf Deutsch vielleicht ein bisschen doof, vielleicht sollte man es zuerst in eine Fremdsprache übersetzen, wie wäre es mit Russisch?

At least for me, all citrus fruits including their juices have an effect that they make me somewhat happier and help somewhat against depression. In the winter, I usually eat several mandarins a day.

Oddly enough, treason is actually the only crime defined in the US constitution.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-3/section-3/

Unclear that Trump has done those exact things.

In any case, the executive branch isn't going to prosecute its own head. The next president might, but then again it's a real possibility that Trump might not live long enough for that...

Define "censorship" as well as "obvious like following the law" (the law of which jurisdiction?). People have different ideas of what they want to see, and laws across the world are different in what they do and don't allow. So the question is unanswerable as asked.

Here are two articles that may help you understand the problems with your question:

on Firefox forks · c/firefox · 1 pts · 120d

Nowhere close to the >95% market share IE had in the early 2000s.