Way ahead of them. I just buy stuff from other websites now without Amazon or AI involvement.

Who said anything about punishing the people hosting the sites. I was talking about punishing the people uploading and producing the content. The ones doing the part that is orders of magnitude worse than anything else about this.

I am not talking about CSA, I am talking about video material of CSA. Most countries with marriage ages that low have much more wide-spread bans on videos including sex of any kind.

As for prosecution, yes, it is still illegal if it is not prosecuted. There are many reasons not to prosecute something ranging all the way from resource and other means related concerns to intentionally turning a blind eye and only a small minority of them would lead that country to actively sabotage a major international investigation, especially after the trade-offs are considered (such as loss of international reputation by refusing to cooperate).

Cookie banners are completely unnecessary as long as websites only use cookies for technically necessary purposes (e.g. login). The problem is that a lot of websites want to sell your data to hundreds or thousands of other companies. So yeah, we could cut back a lot of red tape there if we just outright banned that sale of data completely.

So you are saying it is too creative for the average person in marketing?

Might be time for a rewrite in something more modern anyway.

That dialog sounds like the AI version of the typical unhelpful FAQ page that answers the questions the company wants to answer instead of the ones that are actually frequently asked. In that situation I mentally tend to pronounce it as Fa-Q (fuck you) page.

Honestly, if the existing victims have to deal with a few more people masturbating to the existing video material and in exchange it leads to fewer future victims it might be worth the trade-off but it is certainly not an easy choice to make.

Which countries do you have in mind where videos of sexual child abuse are legal?

Does it feel odd to anyone else that a platform for something this universally condemned in any jurisdiction can operate for 4 years, with a catchy name clearly thought up by a marketing person, its own payment system and nearly six figure number of videos? I mean even if we assume that some of those 4 years were intentional to allow law enforcement to catch as many perpetrators as possible this feels too similar to fully legal operations in scope.

Rate limiting in itself requires resources that are not always available. For one thing you can only rate limit individuals you can identify so you need to keep data about past requests in memory and attach counters to them and even then that won’t help if the requests come from IPs that are easily changed.

Yeah, the problem with enshittification is not that it is something that some companies do but that all companies are heavily incentivized to do under a lot of circumstances (enough that circumstances will come up for practically any company regularly).

Also politicians should just permanently be ineligible as office holders if they bring up crypto war topics again. Like adding backdoors to cryptography “just for the good guys”. People that stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the laws of nature just don’t deserve the right to be voted into office.

Agreed. Even human translations are usually crap 99% of the time if they are done as pure surface level translations without having someone who understands the original in depth essentially rewrite it in the target language.

Both in English and my native German. I probably do have an accent in English but that is difficult to judge myself. Certainly nothing that prevents other people from understanding me though.

I think the problem is that you can’t create new abstractions very well in graphical languages. It works for something like fixed domains (e.g. Blender node editor or your example) but for a general purpose language you need the ability to define abstractions that never existed before.

The other problem is that you can’t really apply any of the tooling to it that works with other languages, e.g. version control, formatters, linters,…

I thought about it some more since I wrote my comment and I am genuinely unsure any voice recognition system I have ever used managed to transcribe a full sentence to text successfully without making at least one mistake.

On the other hand with a keyboard I am reasonably sure I get problems such as network filesystems being unable to reach the server or broken hard drives more often than having to worry about mistyping a command I commonly use. Granted, part of that is thanks to tab completion but that is part of the issue with voice input, no easy way to correct what it got wrong.

As a primarily CLI user on Linux I wouldn’t even think of most commands as “words per minute” unless I am composing a complex pipeline or run a command with dozens of parameters at which point typing speed is not my bottleneck limiting the speed of input anyway and a free conversational interface would be totally fucked trying to figure out what I want it to do.

In my own real world usage I estimate a comprehension rate of about 92% with voice agents.

For me it feels more like 9.2% most of the time, and that is just the voice-to-text part, not even the interpretation of the resulting text as a command.

Maybe the tendency for LLMs to shower the user with praise for their prompts also makes them attractive to egocentric CEO type of personalities?