That’s fair. It doesn’t have to be regulation, could be simple fines without regulation as is often done, or law specifically targeting some definition of evil algorithm.

IMO justice demands accountability for the individuals responsible. No more get out of jail free card for CEOs. Without that it’ll just spring up in another form, with it as precedent we can consider going after Oil, Pharma executives etc.

Without either there will be blood, sooner or later.

Participating in online communities is a fun, fulfilling and mostly harmless activity that improves many young people’s mental health, creativity, communication skills, and probably has other benefits too.

It should be, it was, but thanks to a bunch of billionaire technofeudalists it’s now infested with dark patterns, engagement algorithms running on fear and anger to drive addiction, propaganda, segmentation into unhealthy ‘echo chambers’ and whatever else they’ve cribbed from tobacco marketers and evil psychologists. There is significant scientific evidence that it is indeed harmful to children especially, but also adults.

The needful target is not keeping it away from children. It is fighting to bring down the Metas, the Xitters, the TikToks and YouTubes, ban the algorithms that they know full well are harmful to all. We need hold the companies responsible for those harms and fine them until there eyes bleed, but most importantly we need to hold the individuals in charge personally responsible, take away that ‘the company did it’ excuse. Have them rot in jail for the term of their natural lives as an example to all who would follow.

We have K-T at home.

Sardonic, it’s right there…

ban connected cars

Does that mean that unconnected Chinese cars are OK? Talk about a win-win… just pull the SIM / antenna.

Thanks.

Just get a domain and point it at a provider. Now you’re not locked in and can switch at will upon enshittification. Get one of the offline mail archive services like OpenArchiver. Job done.

Has Thrawn made it into SW yet? I stopped bothering a while ago…

If you feel the need to dumb it down, ‘statistical parrot’ works OK. I’m happy with the original.

Ah, false dichotomy. Now I understand.

Conspicuously absent here is that these agreements (making governments vulnerable to truly massive corporate lawsuits) have primarily been pushed in US (tariff-) ‘free’ trade agreements. Given that those agreements can now be unilaterally waived by one man’s whims, perhaps it’s time for push back.

Pretty much any government can (I believe) make themselves immune to this crap with a simple law, or perhaps simply by invalidating the agreement based on failure of the first party to meet its obligations. Same goes for DMCA laws making reverse engineering / interoperability illegal.

Nice to see Vanuatu pushing back with a UN resolution that ‘countries are legally obliged to address climate change’. Hopefully that’ll help with countries putting the financial burden back on the companies and even individuals responsible (If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to).

Why would you do that?

Because you hate yourself?

Oh, right, you found a tool (self reflect) that let’s you do it with zero effort. FU…

Fair cop, probably shouldn’t have used ‘fucker’ here. It is indeed personal as a single dad, no offense intended.

If one keeps the other, sure. Many lives are with one or the other, fucker.

Says the computer.

Lucky 10000 is a beautiful way to look at it.

Personally I take any ‘age check’ I can’t get around with a VPN and a browser ID string (or whatever the kids find next) as evidence of egregious enshittification, and my answer is to stop using that site.

But I’m in a privileged position where I don’t need to for work, never did facebook et. al., dropped reddit (and slashdot before it) except for niche, mostly read only stuff that I can drop in a heartbeat and am a non USian. The vasty majority of internet users are not.

The article is right, this is going to cause headaches at the least and breakage at the worst. Once 99% of the population has accepted this (95% of non phone users), they’ll come for linux, rewriting and refining the currently broken legislation. The politician class globally hates free speech and private communication, this is another big nail in the coffin.

I have some hope that the internet will treat de-anonymization like censorship and route around the damage, at least for quite a while. Sturgeon’s law also applies, at least 90% of the internet is crap, and the proportion is climbing fast with AI slop, but it’s also the greatest single step in freedom of access to (useful) information ever and I don’t want to lose that, and we shouldn’t have to pay for it with voluntary surveillance.

Remember, there’s a bunch of other choke points that can be used to the same effect as OS, ISPs, DNS, fingerprinting, search engine, the list goes on. It’s just that Microsoft, Apple, Google actually want this for the data harvesting potential so OS is easy.

At some point there will be a need for internet 2.0 built with anonymity and encryption baked into the bottom layers, perhaps it’s time to start building.

If it gets you started with local models, by all means go ahead, their onboarding is the easiest and it works. Also a lot of 3rd party stuff uses it as a first class citizen allowing you to try out other things (e.g. Open WebUI) easily as you explore what’s possible. Currently try the Qwen 3.6 and Gemma4 models as best bang for buck, somewhere there’s a does it fit in my machine website that can help (search for it).

That said, basically all roads in local LLM lead to llama.cpp, which gets the innovations first and then others copy their homework. Ollama (looks like they’re angling to go commercial) for a long time used it internally without attribution, now they use a bodged up engine of their own that is less performant and almost certainly a copy (possibly vibe coded) of llama.cpp. They heavily encourage using their own models / quantizations and don’t let you play with a lot of parameters without a lot of friction (possibly because they’re not implemented yet, but who knows, low transparency). You get the picture, wannabe techbros. That’s off the top of my head, search for more authoritative sources.

After you’ve gotten the hang of things, have a look at llama-swap which just wraps llama.cpp, lemonade if you’re on AMD, vLLM for nvidia, LM Studio for mac.

K, I’ll circle back in a week or so…

Hope so, bet it doesn’t without some tweaking though, OpenAI-compatible seldom is, and ollama is bad for that. Still, worth checking out, I’ll have a go at it sometime soonish and perhaps you’ll see a PR (or some doco in the best case scenario).