Ok. I'm on the same page as you all now. So, this is something I understand at least one *nix distro has gone, "fuck you, we'll not do that - if we can't be in your market, so be it.." 

Knowing full well if they exist in places where that ISN'T the rule of law, the people in places where it is can simply "break the law" and run that Distro anyhow. 

But I also understand WHY they want age verification. Porn - right? That is always the reason. "Do you want children to see sexual acts, you pedo?!" 

It is a hard point to try and disagree with. No. I don't - but I also don't think adults should have to compromise their anonymity in order to watch a dirty video. 

So what is the compromise between protecting children and protecting adults? 

Not sure I know the answer. There doesn't seem to be a good compromise. 

Agreed.  Every kid in the world is horny and wants to see stuff.  Most find it one way or another.

"But ... it literally rewires your brain!"

Yeah, that's how a brain works.  Reading this message rewires your brain.  Noticing that it's raining outside rewires your brain.  Your brain is a neural network, that's literally how it works.

i know i know, supposed to be taking an extended digital break.. but i just had to say something when i saw this... lol 

One possible good outcome of the 'middle east exercise' ( cant legally call it a war without congress approval ). Blow this sucker up! Just please be sure Altman is in it at the time!
https://thenextweb.com/news/iran-threatens-stargate-openai-abu-dhabi

But effective. 

Sun Apr 05 2026 11:55:55 UTC from darknetuser

The porn excuse is lame.

Yup. 

Wed Apr 08 2026 11:28:34 UTC from Nurb432

But effective. 

Sun Apr 05 2026 11:55:55 UTC from darknetuser

 

I have seen this show. It does not end well.

"Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so employees can ‘talk to the boss"

https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-ai-zuckerberg-digital-clone-employees

Means we never get rid of him.. in effect.  At least as a human he will die off, eventually..

And its one step closer to the cylons... 

Fri Apr 17 2026 22:33:09 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: virtzuck

Well, it's not as if the *real* Zuck is trustworthy, so what's the difference?

And yet another scumbag, This will only effect HIS empire.  I hope they burn it down. And as i predicted, this is the beginning of shutting down open source AI, using the national security nonsense as the excuse ( just like they did with routers.. )

Short version is Jensen Huang is trying to stop his competition from using chips other than his. How dare they!.  ( which are better than his btw, and 'home grown', so in fact safer in many ways )

    https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-huang-deepseek-huawei-chips-horrible-outcome

Can they "Shut down" open source Ai? They can make it difficult to get, illegal to have - there are a LOT of things they've done that to - and any one of us could fill up a 1TB drive with it in 30 days if they asked us to - and the best of us, they would never be able to catch us if we decided to do it. I'm not that good. I could fill the drive - but I'd probably get caught. 
But if they can't stop us from getting .stil files to print 3D "ghost guns," how are they going to stop us from running open source Ai? 

It is like Axl Rose wanting pictures of Fat Axl to be removed from the Internet - shit in one hand, wish in the other. 

Sat Apr 18 2026 22:51:20 UTC from Nurb432

And yet another scumbag, This will only effect HIS empire.  I hope they burn it down. And as i predicted, this is the beginning of shutting down open source AI, using the national security nonsense as the excuse ( just like they did with routers.. )

Short version is Jensen Huang is trying to stop his competition from using chips other than his. How dare they!.  ( which are better than his btw, and 'home grown', so in fact safer in many ways )

 

 

 

    https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-huang-deepseek-huawei-chips-horrible-outcome

Until we no longer have local machines and everyone gets a terminal, i do agree it would be hard to stop 100%, but they can kill off access to the unwashed masses, and make it cost prohibitive for a company to donate. ( fines, blacklisted, etc ).  And some of the better training datasets, are in the petabyte range. And the hardware required to train and not take years to do it, is way out of the reach of most and we have to lease for $1000s, or rely on the big names. ( now, that said, any model i like, i download the entire thing. and i do have 20+ TB of just training data..   just in case it all vanishes someday.. )

Same for the 3D printing.  Cant do it 100% as some people will find a way to share info on dark-web and build a printer, but when 99% of the world is blocked ( and people start going to jail..raising the risk factor ) , its pretty much the same end result in a practical sense.  And the entire banning of plastic guns is sort of the same idea where 99% of the people could never do it in metal, so if its gone, only a small minority will continue on.   Still a win for the people in charge.

Sun Apr 26 2026 06:35:52 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

Can they "Shut down" open source Ai? They can make it difficult to get, illegal to have - there are a LOT of things they've done that to - and any one of us could fill up a 1TB drive with it in 30 days if they asked us to - and the best of us, they would never be able to catch us if we decided to do it. I'm not that good. I could fill the drive - but I'd probably get caught. 
But if they can't stop us from getting .stil files to print 3D "ghost guns," how are they going to stop us from running open source Ai? 

It is like Axl Rose wanting pictures of Fat Axl to be removed from the Internet - shit in one hand, wish in the other. 

 

 

Ya, so aside from the government buying tracking info on our every movement and building a database, this is happening too. ( employers and potential employers are also doing it. )

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/07/07/535981386/recruiters-use-geofencing-to-target-potential-hires-where-they-live-and-work

Orwell is spinning in his grave about now.

Super. There goes the Appalachia and all the surrounding towns and all the nature. Nothing is safe from the destruction. This really needs to stop. By force.

https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/science/65-billion-lithium-haul-could-power-us-for-328-years/

Not saying I have those .stl files somewhere - but if I do, I don't remember where they are - and I'm not sure what I would grep to find them. :) 

My point, I guess - is that illegal or not - it is more about the motivation to be a rebel than if you can or can't do it. 

I say this all the time - if you keep giving us big screen TVs and iPhones and Androids - and keep us distracted with NASCAR and F1 and MBL and NFL - you don't really need to worry about an uprising. We're so content and fat and lazy - the whole hacker/phreaker culture of the 80s has died because we're complicit and preoccupied with the base level of comfort and distraction they allow us. 

In the 80s, as a 15 year old, if I wanted good Warez - and I had to call New Jersey to get them in Sacramento - I had to pay per minute or phreak. 

Sun Apr 26 2026 14:30:12 UTC from Nurb432

Until we no longer have local machines and everyone gets a terminal, i do agree it would be hard to stop 100%, but they can kill off access to the unwashed masses, and make it cost prohibitive for a company to donate. ( fines, blacklisted, etc ).  And some of the better training datasets, are in the petabyte range. And the hardware required to train and not take years to do it, is way out of the reach of most and we have to lease for $1000s, or rely on the big names. ( now, that said, any model i like, i download the entire thing. and i do have 20+ TB of just training data..   just in case it all vanishes someday.. )

Same for the 3D printing.  Cant do it 100% as some people will find a way to share info on dark-web and build a printer, but when 99% of the world is blocked ( and people start going to jail..raising the risk factor ) , its pretty much the same end result in a practical sense.  And the entire banning of plastic guns is sort of the same idea where 99% of the people could never do it in metal, so if its gone, only a small minority will continue on.   Still a win for the people in charge.

 

Bread and circus. 

And as i have got older, i now believe its ALWAYS been this way ( i mean from day one after the first real coordinated uprising thousands of years ago ), just most never noticed. Just the physical 'items' have morphed over time, but not the 'plan' so to speak.

Sun May 03 2026 05:12:18 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

I say this all the time - if you keep giving us big screen TVs and iPhones and Androids - and keep us distracted with NASCAR and F1 and MBL and NFL - you don't really need to worry about an uprising. We're so content and fat and lazy - the whole hacker/phreaker culture of the 80s has died because we're complicit and preoccupied with the base level of comfort and distraction they allow us. 

WTF .. NO    ( so destroying every bit of nature in sight isn't enough. now they want you home to feed the profit machine too.  F- them )

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/15/span-and-nvidia-to-develop-ai-data-centers-in-your-backyard-lowering-electric-bills/