rdm_blackhole

> "riots" is much dramatized and overblown by the media

I don't think I can agree with you on that:

> On Oct. 21, French Economy Minister Roland Lescure said in an interview that the violence and unrest had caused “tens or perhaps hundreds of millions” of euros worth of damage.

Seems like overblown is not exactly the appropriate word here. Not too mention the the loss of reputation which could keep future tourists away from France, the loss of revenue from the shops that have had to close since they did not want to be looted or burned down and finally the loss of trust in the state's ability to maintain order.

> the major issue with opening a business (regardless of the country)

Well it is especially hard in France considering the record tax rates that France is imposing on its citizens. The cost to actually employ someone is high compared to many countries in the OECD.

Furthermore, the inability to reform the state to restore competitiveness won't improve in the near future whoever wins the presidency next year.

Yeah, France still has that in 2026....

> I would be surprised if this law ends up being adopted.

It doesnt really matter. The damage is already done.

Macron tried to turn France (unsuccessfully one might say) into a country that is open to tech businesses. This law amongst other things (record tax rates, record deficit, weak economic growth, political instability, riots and much more) is simply another signal that opening a business in France today is just too risky and this will impact future growth for sure.

You have countries that look to the future and invest in it and then you have France.

> Reddit traffic is down

Reddit has completely turned me off with their user hostile policies. I used to browse Reddit without having an account while drinking my coffee in the morning.

Now, I need to be logged in otherwise the responses in a thread or posts in the sub-reddits are hidden behind a non-removal modal on mobile.

Well, Reddit sorry to say but it did not work and now I read a book.

> It feels absurd to punish data heavy companies. What a weird proxy disciminator. Makes so little sense.

This is part of the net-0 narrative and the degrowth movement that's been growing(no pun intended) in Europe. Nevermind that growth in the EU is already pretty low to begin with...

Obviously this is bonkers even for the French but just note that this can still be dropped by the senate.

Not saying that this is not a stupid law nonetheless.

I tried previous Google models before and they were ok but I prefer to stick to Claude or Astra these days.

Maybe I am just paranoid but at least if OAI or Anthropic ban my account I am not at the risk of losing access to my email address too.

You never know with Google and that is a problem.

11:43am CET here: builds still stuck in the queue. We are supposed to rotate keys but keys can't be rotated because you need to redeploy for the changes to take effect. Effectively speaking the potentially compromised keys can't be updated.

Also it's impossible to get verified on the Discord server to see what's going on and the support link in the dashboard leads to a 404 page.

I am kinda losing patience here.

Despite them saying that deployments work on Pro accounts (as of 30 minutes ago), my deployments are still stuck. Honestly disappointed.

Also they regenerated credentials for buckets but stopped deployments so the services could not connect to the buckets. Completely stupid. If you are going to regenerate the credentials, then let us redeploy the services.

> The left suppressing lies only opens the door to the right suppressing the truth, because the right was an enemy of truth and a spreader of lies from the beginning.

It must be so nice to live in this imaginary world where the left does no wrong whatsoever but the right is the evil incarnate.

Furthermore, who decides what lies are and what truth is and who is responsible for enforcing this?

Yeah, either you are a bot or you don't care about reading an article that you are commenting on even after I posted a direct quote from said article in my reply so I am not going to waste time responding to your comments.

Good day.

> But early lessons from Australia, which enacted a ban in 2024, show that these sorts of age restrictions are easily circumvented. A study published earlier this year found that four in five teens under 16 made their way onto barred platforms.

No offense but did you read the article? if not, maybe go do that.

Of course it doesn't work.

Everyone knew it when these sort of measures were first discussed here way back when and everyone knew that they would be bypassed as soon as they were implemented.

But politicians, lobbies, and everyone else who gains from this do not care.

Yes, the court can overturn laws that are deemed to infringe on privacy rights but this path takes years. The last time a privacy invasive law was enacted it took something like 8 years to be overturned.

Are you willing to live in the EU knowing that for the next 8 years the EU agencies will have access to every single message, email and picture you send your loved ones just in case one of those could be CSAM?

Even if that was overturned, how will one know if he data they intercepted and illegally obtained will be destroyed or if the text messages you sent to your wife/husband are not going to end up sold to the highest bidder on the darkweb?