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nybble41 , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft's current OS has been shrunk to a ridiculous 100MB in size, but only by getting rid of windows from Windows

The ubuntu:24.04 Docker image is only 77.30 MiB.

alpine:3.19.0 is 7.38 MiB.

Of course those sizes are without a kernel. Typical everything-included distro kernels are generally a few hundred MiB as they include drivers for everything that might be needed, but a custom build for known hardware can reduce that to just a few MiB.

nybble41 , 5 months ago to Technology in Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use

Most of this is personal opinion and snobbery that I can't do much about except maybe ask that you examine how anarcho-capitalist your takes sound.

Objectivist, perhaps. They're the ones who obsess over controlling and monetizing free external benefits. There is no copyright in anarcho-capitalism (including "moral rights" etc.) so the GP doesn't sound at all anarcho-capitalist while arguing for infringement of others' real property rights to prop up their own artificial (non-rivalrous) "intellectual property" rights.

nybble41 , 5 months ago to Technology in Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use

They didn't say it shouldn't have been developed. Improving the AI models so they can deal with this kind of malicious interference gracefully is a good thing.

nybble41 , 5 months ago to Technology in Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use

The EULA also prohibits using Nightshade "for any commercial purpose", so arguably if you make money from your art—in any way—you're not allowed to use Nightshade to "poison" it.

nybble41 , 5 months ago to Technology in Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content

You're restricting speech whether or not you confine your censorship to only AI-generated images.

nybble41 , 5 months ago to Technology in Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content

Correction: Fortunately, not unfortunately. A rule like that would prohibit any form of public / street photography, news videos, surveillance videos, family photos with random strangers in the background... it's not reasonable at all.

nybble41 , 5 months ago to Technology in Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content

Since you don't understand, quotes denote emphasis or specificity, not emotion.

Actually quotes denote quotations. When used casually around an individual word or short phrase they generally indicate that the writer is emphasizing that these are someone else's words, and that the writer would have chosen a different description. As in: These people are described as "teens" but are probably not only/mostly teenagers. That may not be what you meant, but it's how that text will be read.

If you just want emphasis you might consider using bold or italics rather than quotes.

nybble41 , 6 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help:

CVS and E*Trade both refused to accept my fairly standard user@mydomain.info address during initial registration, but had no issue changing to that address once the account was created. It would be nice if their internal teams communicated a bit better.

nybble41 , 8 months ago to Privacy in Privacy = no free speech

They ruled that people acting together have all the same rights that they would have acting individually, and that preventing someone from spending money on producing and promoting their speech effectively prevents them from being heard. Which are both perfectly true, common-sense statements.