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@andersgo Yes indeed!

@stefano Went through the steps and I am sitting on Establishing connection.

So far, we are all going to be wandering around aimlessly until someone decides to take the step of throwing their QR code out tot winds and see who responds. Maybe someone here should make a chat group that represents this organization. Having our own server does not appear to be enough.

Since it is schedule for a June 16 release (more or less), I am going to wait till then to give it a whirl with my test NUC before going on to my Framework 13A. Omfreebdy looks like it will set up most of the stuff I wanted, so let's see what happens.

@grahamperrin That was poorly written. Better said that a whole lot of money is being dumped into marketing these product before they are fully baked.

The docs seem to expect physical presence first or sending QR codes which is dicey.

@grahamperrin How? This is clear as mud.

I am on, profiled, and connected and see nothing.

All I was saying is that it is a tool that is not readily understood, that marketing types are the actual driving force behind the proliferation and early adoption is fraught with all of the usual gotcha's. Punting it onto the unwashed masses before being thoroughly debugged is always a recipe for angst and social outrage.

Many scholarly works on modern politics (real ones, not the ones focusing on the trends being artificially promoted by one side or the other) draw the political spectrum as a line graph with moderates in the middle and the left/right heading off in their respective directions. My personal observation is that this graph should not be a line but a circle. Starting with moderates and branching off as before, but both sides ending up at absolute totalitarianism regardless of which side you take.

@tomaoki your model is correct and on my graph the ideals would be located at the 90 degree and 270 degree positions with anarchy at the 135 and 225 positions.

I agree and this is what politicians don't get.

So it sounds like they are against it without saying they’re against it. A firm non-stand. Excellent.

A super PAC is a type of political action committee that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections, but it is prohibited from directly contributing to candidates or coordinating with their campaigns. This structure allows super PACs to operate independently while still supporting political candidates through advertising and other means.

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"AI" is a marketing term. It is catchier and more futuristic than Large Language Models.

While true, self-aware and conscious artificial intelligence is a goal, we are not there yet.
https://castle.princeton.edu/the-7-levels-of-ai/

If you are gung-ho about it, try dog-fooding it for a while on real work. I did. I used "AI" to help me sift through an Internet's worth of Linux and BSD documentation to come up with a simple, cohesive set of installation instructions. Goals were stated, targets set, hardware identified, and all it was able to produce was either a half-assed system that kind of worked or failed utterly. The latter more than the former. It got confused a lot on the details (either hallucinating up stuff or reading from old docs) and had to be reminded to double-check everything versus the latest documentation. It also had a habit of over-complicating things. At one point it wanted me to install nix (the package manager) on Void Linux as part of it's plan to allow me to install Brave browser.

The graphics stuff is cute and getting better, but is killing off any art form really worth it? Sure, some tools (like "AI" masking) are very useful. But generating photographic quality images as opposed to hiring a photographer is not very cricket. Plus, legally, all fully "AI" generated images or videos cannot be copyrighted and are automatically in the public domain. The same with code.

I am done now
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@TomAoki
"Anything I don't understand is therefore easy to do."
-- Pointy Haired Boss from Dilbert

It's a midterm election year. Politicians want to show themselves as being proactive and forward thinking (or get voted out). California is on a quest to plumb the depths of human stupidity. Sadly, they set the standard for other blue states.

Another example is the law they are about to pass that makes all 3D printers, CNC milling machines, and other automated manufacturing tools illegal (and their owners criminals) unless they can detect if a firearm or firearm part is being printed/manufactured and block it at the device. All these devices (if you are not familiar with them) share one thing in common: they process files called gcode which is a series of X & Y coordinates and commands add or subtract material (depending on the device). The device cannot tell the difference between a firing pin, toilet seat cover, or a slinky dragon. The law wants all files to be sent to an AI for permission to print. On a device you own. It's political overreach at its finest since it is being pitched to eliminate "ghost guns" (unserialized weapons) and "protect the children". For the record, ghost guns are not undetectable or invisible to metal detectors. That is utter BS. Sure, you can print a fully plastic gun with all of the moving parts, but if you put a bullet in there and the plastic firing pin manages to activate the round, you will be lucky if the shrapnel kills you. "Ghost" guns have no serial number on the lower (the part with the grip) and cannot be traced back to the owner. Manufacturing guns for personal use is not illegal in the US. Selling or giving them away is. You can't even will them to your children. Any gun you make during your lifetime has to be destroyed when you pass. You can't even have them buried with you as someone might dig them out.

Selling ghost guns is already illegal nationwide. Out of every 100 ghost guns confiscated, 1 might have a 3d printed part. What this is actually doing plays into the surveillance state setup that age attestation started. To make matters worse, they slipped the ghost gun thing into a budget bill and refused to approved the budget unless the ghost gun bit went with it. When a law affects as many people as this does, the people should have to vote on it. This stuff is being pushed by Left Wing Super PACs as they were the one's making joyous press releases when the law passed somewhere.

I will stop now.

This is best left to those who live and breathe BSD rather than a dabbler like me. I wouldn't trust anything I ported. I was asking where I could request that someone qualified port it.

Yes, but IIRC the law states that if the age bracket is not available, websites will have to assume that the user is a child in the lowest age bracket. This relegates open source operating systems as second-class citizens. I personally would suggest falling back to asking for the age bracket if you can't get it from the OS, but that defeats the purpose of shunting the responsibility to the OS provider from the content provider which is the stated purpose of the law (not it's actual purpose of creating a surveillance state).

There is an alternative to niri called scroll (https://github.com/dawsers/scroll) which is a fork of sway. Sway is in the OpenBSD repos so it stands to reason that scroll should work on OpenBSD. How do I request that this package be added? I am not familiar with the packaging procedures of any of the BSD's.