It’s extremely common and nothing to worry about. As a brass instrument player, I sometimes come across someone whose instruments always deteriorate at 300% of the rate of others. Laquer peels, silver plating blackens, etc.

Definitely been a long standing issue on many laptops with exposed metal parts. Late 90’s, if I used my brother’s Compaq while putting my feet up on the radiator, the metal speaker grills would give me mild shocks.

It repeats a few points too many times for a professional writer to not catch it.

I don’t mind that they let an LLM write the text, but they should at least have edited it.

If you are not willing to migrate out of GitHub, what you can do is to avoid using Copilot on your private repository.

I don't use Copilot, and I don't have anything I particularly care about in private repos on my account on Github. My reaction here is entirely based on principles, not how I'm going to be personally affected.

That was already decided in an old case about Betamax recorders, quoted on the front page of the linked article.

I recall hating the PC Gamer web site back in the late 90’s. It was sluggish on modem because of the banner ads and the heavy use of GIF decorations on their pages. Nothing is new under the sun. Well, they used to have some great articles…

Do you think the mechanisms required by this law, as described in the linked article, constitute ”good parental control”?

Yes, they sound reasonable and leave authonomy of using the feature to the parents while closing a massive gap that Linux distros have.

Nothing's perfect but being able to tell the os the user is say 5 and then not have sites etc. show porn seem better than nothing?

If you want that you get an OS that specifically supports child mode, you don't mandate all OSs default to having a child mode. The reason you don't do this is because when it's in place the default will be if you don't want to prove who you are you can't go anywhere on the internet except the most milquetoast sites (with no user created content) and the worst of the worst sites (that ignore these rules).

If I want to bash the government I don't want to have to choose between giving my id and going to terroristforum dot com.

If you're trusting a 5-year-old with a computer (connected to the internet, no less) and then letting them use it unsupervised, then you would already be putting a lot of trust in sites implementing age controls correctly (or at all). And if there's anything we know about the Internet, it's that web sites can be trusted, right? :-D Keep in mind, whatever law California passes, there will be web sites outside of Cali jurisdiction.

What's worse (and the point of the linked article), a kid who's not 5 but 10 would be very able to bypass this particular requirement, making it utterly useless. It's about as effective as the "parental controls" on Leisure Suit Larry. I'd argue that this is worse than nothing, because now the parent believes they have a working parental control mechanism when they actually don't. Which means you now have a 10 year old online without parental controls AND possibly without parental supervision.

What works:

- Talk to your children about what they can be finding online.

- Don't let children as young as 5 onto the internet unsupervised.

- Build trust with your child. Try to make sure your child trusts you enough to come to you if they encounter material they're not comfortable with.

- If you don't have that relation of trust, your child will hide their online "failures" from you. They are then more likely to be victimized by online predators by blackmail etc.

I think you’re replying to someone based outside of California.

Its not solid. It’s overly long and repetitive.

Everyone who’s still running Intel hardware, especially on Windows.

I recently swapped out my work PC (a beefy workstation laptop) for an M4 Pro and it’s an amazing upgrade.