someguyornotidk

True. With the proliferation of digital payment systems, I'd argue that a significant portion of cash transactions are illegal. That portion will only grow in time as people get used to the convenience of these systems.

If governments ban crypto then they will without fail ban cash as well.

Edit: For additional context, I live in a country where fees and transactions related to government and regulated services (including telecom) are required by law to use our national payment system exclusively, and it is hell for people who fall through the cracks (e.g. problems national ID that blocks payment systems). I've seen first-hand on multiple occasions people standing outside government buildings begging others to pay their fees in exchange for cash so that they can get unblocked from the payment system.

Whether through malice or incompetence, human institutions can never and will never be perfect. Cash and cash-like systems (inc. crypto) must remain or a lot of innocent people will get hurt, even if it enables criminals.

As someone with many gold awards and notable questions, I stopped participating in stack overflow when they decided to withhold our open data from us. Our deal was that I spend time and effort asking quality questions and providing quality answers for free in return for open (free speech, not free beer) access to the entire qa dataset.

The new owners either did not understand this arrangement or did not value it enough. I now have my kwix backups and my open weight LLM. This should be more than enough to hold me over until a stack exchange substitute pops up.

Good, back to the old way of doing things where people fork and maintain their own code. Some might notify the upstream author as a curtsy, and the author might decide to incorporate the improvement back into his or her codebase. None of this pull request noise.

The best fork wins :)

> For passkey export, there is a FIDO specification for both a format and secure protocol for exchanging passwords and passkey information between password managers, with support on all Apple platforms, and implemented by 1Password, Bitwarden, Dashlane, and more.

Does (more) here include free software like keepassxc and friends which don't restrict what key owners do with their keys? Last I heard, FIDO was moving to ban them.

I cannot imagine any competent security dept would sign off on this.

Another reason that people don't want to admit is because we brainwash models to lie (eg. "I can't do X" instead of "I refuse to do X").

We'd be lucky if government stopped at this. General computing will likely end up be treated like cars and driving. Users and corporations will be highly restricted and over regulated. I don't want this but this is how it's going to go. I bet we will have fully lost our autonomy within the next two decades, sooner if AI gets misused or misbehaves in a significant way.

Oh I'm very away of the damage over regulation will cause to this industry and to humanity as a whole. I'm merely highlighting the irony. Humanity will never again have the kind of autonomy and freedom it enjoyed the past 50 years. We lost thanks to the unchecked greed of a few nasty players. What a shame.

They have only themselves to blame for this. They've spent decades developing technology to spy on and micro-regulate what their captive customers can do with their property. Now that they have this technology, it's only logical that they be held responsible for misuse.

The only (and inevitable) solution at this point is for big tech to get micro-regulated like the banking industry. The same mindless greed that drove them to take control away from their customers will be responsible for the same control to be taken away from them.

Sorry for the off-topic question but by any chance have you tried it with a stylus? I've read conflicting reports about how well this feature is supported.

The pixel tablet is not available in my region and is _very_ expensive (for me) to import, so I really want to be sure it can replace my aging 6 year-old samsung tablet before I pull the trigger.

For huge models like these, the only reasonable way to host them is via torrents. I don't understand why hf doesn't offer this as an option.

Linux distributions got this right: Offer both HTTP and Torrents. Let the user decide.

The problem with slippery slopes is that you never stop midway.

Banning any form of legal, libre software, shows that you are not floss friendly and I do not want to host my code with organizations like yours. I dropped sourcehut when they banned cryptocurrency software and today I drop you.

Looks like I'm going back to self-hosting and accepting patches via email.

"No means yes" in government form.

I don't think whether a country is an importer or an exporter matters at this point. This is likely going to develop into a matter of national security. Nations cannot allow most of their domestic industries to be destroyed.

If the US doesn't reverse course soon, I think we'll start seeing large-scale closure of international markets to US companies very soon. Even with US retaliation, there is no other option.