Oh look, Anthropic now has a reason to conduct age verification. Great.

I'm confused? Do they need this? They have our credit cards, that's fully KYCable

Am I missing something?

How do they know that you are not buying Fable and let it use by some non US national working for you? They would be in trouble, not you.

OpenRouter or other third-party API sources?

From where I'm sitting, it seems obvious people do exactly that.

"It's the most interesting one!"

For a related example I was talking with a colleague recently about how we had both (independently) purchased Nebula subscriptions in an effort to avoid getting YouTube premium and giving Google more money, but both felt the pull back to YouTube because it is so good at leveraging years of subscription and watch history to populate the landing page with content we find engaging.

If even two relatively thoughtful individuals choosing to spend money on a platform with the kind of content they'd like to choose to watch can't seem to succeed at beating an engagement-first algorithm, I'm not sure how much hope normies would have, unless it's the real issue is just being terminally online period, and the only way to win is simply not to play.

If companies were generally capable of that level of awareness they would not operate the way that they do.

~~I am not seeing that, why do you say that?~~ Update: answering my own question. It's the ††.

https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

The new addition: Uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and UAS critical components produced in a foreign country†† and all communications and video surveillance equipment and services listed in Section 1709(a)(1) of the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (Pub. L. 118-159)

††: For purposes of inclusion of UAS and UAS critical components, we incorporate the definitions included in the associated National Security Determination

https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/National-Security-De...

"the following UAS components:

    Data transmission devices
    Communications systems
    Flight controllers
    Ground control stations and UAS controllers
    Navigation systems
    Sensors and Cameras
    Batteries and Battery Management Systems
    Motors"

As stated in the pdf, this is so adversaries cannot assemble drones in the US.

Are you saying the FCC writes one thing in the regulation, but will enforce something different?

The language I see there now is unambiguous, "batteries". Lithium-ion battery for my impact driver can be used to fly an FPV drone. It does not have an FCC certification because it does not emit any RF, and the FCC never required it to be certified before. Now looks like it can no longer be imported, at least not until either Department of War or Department of Homeland Security deems it not a threat.

If you disable watch history, youtube tries to "punish" you by disabling nearly the non-subscription recommendations and shorts not from your subscriptions and a number of other things.

Worth a try.

I don't think it's at risk of being overstatement. CW bands are more crowded than ever before, because there are more CW ops than ever before.

This is, I think, because it's easier to learn than ever, ham radio equipment is more capable for a cheaper (adjusted) price, and ham radio has grown tremendously worldwide due to all barriers being lowered a bit.

CW is very popular, especially given all the other options that are easier.

That it's a smaller percentage of hams that know CW than before is another way of saying ham radio has expanded well beyond CW and the population has grown. But if you have a finite resource (bandwidth) and it's in significantly more demand than ever before, it's a hard argument to suggest that it's not 'very' active.

Because the US is really 50 small countries in a trenchcoat that aren't all on the same page of the script.

I'm not so sure the line is that clear cut. How much hardware is useful today without software? Is VHDL software?

I started with software and have been expanding down the stack more and more, spinning some of my own (very basic) PCBs recently, and it's been a lot of fun. I think the other direction would have been harder, because the ~~core game loop~~ development cycle takes so much longer, and that would have made it hard for me personally to maintain motivation at the beginning.

Software by comparison has almost no barrier to entry and much faster iteration. It's also a lot harder to explain to my mom what I do.

I do think C was a great place to start. Going up and down from there is much easier than trying to go downstack from, e.g. javascript.

fwiw you can usually bypass aliases ad-hoc.

In Bash I believe instead of `ls` you can `\ls` to get the unaliased version.

You can also use the full path to the program, enclose it in quotes, or call "unalias ls" to disassociate it for that shell.