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    Constitution Doesn’t Cover Right to Clean Water, Court Rules

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  • "The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing,” Engelhardt said.

    Why the eff not?! How are people supposed to get redress for government wrongdoing then? Is he saying there is a nonzero amount of wrongdoing the public is just supposed to accept from their government?

  • As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code

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  • FOSS has had a funding problem forever, and AI has made it exponentially worse by increasing the review and maintenance burden on volunteer maintainers and the infrastructure burden with scraping and agentic build workflows. The projects that are surviving best are the ones that have a funding source, which is typically businesses that financially benefit from the software (there are of course exceptions).

    When the AI bubble pops, companies are going to be pulling back on all spending, so I expect donations to FOSS projects/foundations to get tight. The ones that will still be spending are the ones that will still have money to spend, and I don't expect diverse views on AI to be distributed equally across those survivors.

  • As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code

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  • You joke, but they have built experimental Debian builds on at least one non-Linux kernel. I don't know how far an AI split in the FOSS community will go, but there are more options than you would think. And when the bubble pops, it's more likely the people that still have money after will be the ones not in the AI camp.

  • Am I learning, or am I just prompting?

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  • A short read, but I really got a lot out of it. One thing I've started losing with the rise of AI and didn't realize until now is the communication with coworkers about current problems we're working through. I reach out to people in the git-blame log, and others used to reach out to me. But now everyone asks the AI, so we're even more siloed than before.

    It feels less like we're working together and more like we're working next to each other.

  • How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage

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  • I learned about JavaScript's prototype-based inheritance model a decade ago. It's different from every other major language, but it's interesting and useful when used the right way. I'm astonished (1) people are still rediscovering "optimization" techniques like are described in the article when that's how their constructors should have been designed from day-one, and (2) the JavaScript language still hasn't added more language features to make the mutated-prototype inheritance pattern less verbose and more ergonomic. It's a core architecture of the language and hasn't been improved, it looks like, since the first time I read about it 10 years ago. They added the whole class syntax sugar to hide the differences in the language's inheritance model, so they can add some improvements to the syntax for the better optimized inheritance pattern.

  • One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives

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  • Good. Legitimate safety features should be opt-out rather than opt-in wherever possible.

  • What's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?

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  • Well specifically it melts at a lower temperature because it's mixed with milk. The cheese part doesn't separate from the milk due to the additive, which is called an emulsifier. That also might sound artificial, but it's just the name for things that keep fats from separating from water and water-soluable foods. For example egg white is another emulsifier, and it's used in making mayonnaise.

    Also 100% agree with American cheese being real cheese. It's not the best in every place you would want cheese, but that's true of any cheese. I don't want blue cheese on my nachos, and I don't want American cheese in my salads. But it's great on meat, and it's a good complement to a lot of warm foods.

  • AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes.

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  • prompted questions about who bears responsibility for an AI agent that goes rogue.

    That's not a trivial question, but courts have had the concept of distributed weighted responsibility for decades. Does your company provide users with access to an AI agent you know aggressively finds illegal/unethical ways of completing prompts? Mostly the provider's fault with small fault of the user submitting the prompt. Safer AI with a user who has crafted the prompt specifically to attempt to get the AI to break into a system? Higher weight on the fault of the user, smaller weight on the provider.

  • Nobody Asked for AI

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  • We assume that the AI boom is the result of market demand. In reality, it is the result of investment decisions made by concentrated capital, which is reshaping the economy on its own terms.

    But that's always been true under capitalism. It's just that in the past generally large capital expenditures have gone towards things the wealthy think will get them more wealth. There have always been capitalists who spend their money directing the economy to do what they want, rather than what the "market" wants. They just haven't had the majority of the capital being spent.

    The last 50 years has seen an unprecedented concentration of wealth. The wealthy are literally a thousand times proportionately wealthier than poor people than they've been at any other point in human history. There's not much wealth to squeeze out of everyone else, so the economy is even more at the vain whims of those with all the capital as they look for things to spend it on.

    Tech news has been reporting for literal decades that Apple, Amazon, Google, and similar have been sitting on giant war chests of profit with nothing to spend it on. Well, they've found something they want to spend it on, so they're emptying 20 years of profits in 5. They've now completely blown through those stores, and don't want to slow down, so now they're taking on unprecedented levels of debt. Something is going to give out and things are going to get bad within the next 5 years.

  • All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

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  • Flock Safety cameras are automated license plate readers that capture images of plates along with a vehicle’s make, model and color. Police use the technology to investigate crimes such as hit-and-runs and to locate missing persons. Camera data is owned by the police department and permanently deleted after 30 days.

    That's straight up misinformation, right? They capture way more than just license plates and vehicle details, police do way more than "investigate crimes" with them, and the data is absolutely not owned by the police department and deleted after 30 days.

  • take their money and arrest those responsible

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  • It's worth stating that this is showing just the private company contributions (private as in not owned by national governments). State-owned oil companies of various nations contribute massively as well, so beyond the bribes lobbying problem there's a direct conflict of interest for many nations that get a substantial amount of revenue from those state-owned oil companies.

  • Selling the Sun [Jen Sorensen]

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  • You're right. The FCC approved their requested use of radio spectrum for communication with the satellite. They were very clear they were giving approval for this one mission, and for the communication spectrum, not the visible spectrum.

  • OpenAI's Codex app has 70% GPU usage while it is “thinking” due to tiny useless animation

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  • It's a web app and you just showed we can do it in text with Unicode and a modern browser. This bug is a level of self-inflicted, shouldn't-be-in-the-realm-of-possible problem I struggle to comprehend. It's the software version of not even wrong.

  • Feeling Corny

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  • The average SpaceX buyer post-IPO is almost under water after two-day slide

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  • After briefly pushing SpaceX’s market value close to $3 trillion, investors have begun reassessing whether the stock’s rapid advance can be justified by fundamentals.

    Nothing in the stock market has been about fundamentals for a very long time. Especially regarding Musk companies.

  • TIL that full automation of subway systems is illegal in the United States

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  • Originally enacted in 1964 to protect workers during the transition from private to public ownership of mass transit, the provision now blocks the modernization of transit operations: no legacy US heavy-rail system has automated its operations to permit trains to run without onboard crew. In contrast, countries like France and Canada, each with robust labor protections, automate without conflict.

    Okay, can we get those robust labor protections first, and then fully automate public transit?

  • ‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting

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  • Ok so when a dozen people all go to say the same thing, when do the other people get to speak? 36 minutes later. They get 3 minutes each. These elected officials can spend a half fucking hour listening to their citizens.

  • Can't believe I have to RP with the computer whenever I want something smdh

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  • No I think they mean the linked webpages in the results are websites entirely generated by AI that Bing search has indexed. I've noticed this, too, especially looking for guides or help with very niche topics. It's incredibly frustrating that not just the search engines but the web itself is filling up with AI slop.

  • New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC

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  • Critics, including prominent business leaders, Republicans, and some moderate Democrats, have warned that slapping new taxes on rich people who maintain apartments and townhouses in New York, but don’t consider it their primary home, will just lead the very wealthy to abandon the city.

    Prove it. Show me data where this has ever happened. People talk about the wealthy taking their ball and leaving when taxes like this are suggested, but places like NYC have way more to offer than just low taxes that keep the wealthy there. There's a lot of room in that cost-benefit analysis for the city to raise taxes.