Most places have laws on this. Often, it is legal to film/take photos, but not to focus on individuals.

Easing local control is what that law was about (and it did think far enough to only include user facing). If there wasn’t a global tendency to move towards surveillance and identity verification I’d be all for it. As it is I have some reservations about slippery slope.

The law doesn’t require identity verification. It requires the OS to provide the age group of the user (set at install) to programs running on the OS. Something that, if adopted widely, would immensely help with allowing parents to control access (i.e. if they decide their kid should be able to see everything, just put them in ths age group for that, similarly they could also do that and manage it the same way as they would now. Or if they’re lazy as many parents sadly are, there is at least some enforcement of age control that someone thought about, without giving up any identifying info beyond an age group). Yes it could be circumvented somewhat easily, but as far as I see it that’s always a feature. A child being exposed to something accidentally has very different implications than actively trying to access it.

Telling people specifics about my hobbies has always been scary. Particularly when it’s weird or doesn’t fit the way I assume people see me. For me, I ascribe it to social anxiety mostly, esp resulting from a bunch of childhood occurances that made me very insecure about being open about my interests. Probably one of those things that’s not directly autism, but commonly happens in autistic people because of the social issues that often comes with.

The ones getting fired are the employees bringing the violations to light. The assholes monitoring us are doing just fine.

The issue with asking about the test taker is that it’s often hard to have a frame of reference - whatever you’re used to is normal. There’s not really an easy solution.

“The working classes have control of the state” good one lmao. They have so much control that millions protesting in HK just got violently beaten back and ignored.

It can be rather helpful for some things but I’ve yet to see any actual data supporting it being “substantially faster”. To make something that works and is of equal quality, that is.

I mean if you’re just making the same slightly different website for different customers or similarly boilerplate stuff, I’m sure it’s substantial. But that’s not really most of dev.

I doubt it, honestly. It’d likely catch a lot of misinfo, yes, but it would likely also classify any new findings that run counter to previous assumptions as misinfo. LLMs can’t keep up to date. And they still have the same issue that whoever trains them gets to decide what is and isn’t misinfo, which starts being a problem when it’s an ubiquitous social media site.

I’d imagine the crazy neighbour is russia. I think they qualify, and the country is in europe.

What’s funny to me is that russia also borders the US. It’s not a land border, but the gap isn’t exactly huge.

That’s not what fascism is either lol

I wouldn’t call china fascist, though doubtlessly authoritarian. But I don’t have nearly as much info on china, it seems to me the persecution of minorities is less of a central political scapegoat and more some weird side thing. But without speaking chinese, I might be wrong. The US had plenty of fascist characteristics at this point and is rather open about the persecution.

1. The dairy herd seems to be about beef from a dairy herd. So still meat, but offset by the fact that milk is produced as well. Not sure how they calculate it, nor have I ever seen beef labelled as that (…granted I also haven’t bought any in years), but it makes sense.

2. This just seems like a pet with a byproduct to me but maybe someone knows more about the effects of breeding for egg laying on chicken quality of life

It’s just p2w with extra steps. Pay to get stronger, or pay someone to play for you to get stronger. When games are designed to either make you play a lot or pay to get stuff to make you stronger, some people will gladly pay to either feel powerful, or just skip enough of the grind that they can focus on what’s fun.

I kind of get it, but at the point where I’d be spending hundreds or make someone play for me, I’d just look for a different game.

It would need to have an atmosphere, so asteroids and most (all? Idk not an astronomer) moons are out.

Mars might be feasible at some point in the far future, but there’s still the lag problem of 3-20 minutes depending on time of year, so not very useful for anything user facing.

I’ve always acted assuming this to be possible, but it used to require either an unhinged individual or some other reason for a very dedicated investigation. The barrier being potentially that much lower is scary, particularly for anyone with a bit of internet fame that would rather stay anonymous

In the strictest sense there is no technical definition because it all depends on what is “intelligence”, which isn’t something we have an easy definition for. A thermostat learning when you want which temperature based on usage stats can absolutely fulfill some definitions of intelligence (perceiving information and adapting behaviour as a result), and is orders of magnitude less complex than neural networks.

Woke absolutely is a thing, tons of people self describe as woke, it just doesn’t mean what the right thinks it does. Or more accurately, it’s a word with different meanings. They’re either using it as an actual self description or specifically to annoy the rightoids. Or both.

I disagree that this will help at all. Certainly not to a degree that justifies restricting other people’s freedom. Grooming happens in small circles and doesn’t become substantially harder if teenagers can’t access nsfw channels. Predators don’t seek out adult-dominated spaces. Kids might be exposed to slightly less porn or something but they will still go to pornhub, and now an access channel where there are at least likely normal adults around that could give context id needed is restricted. Worst case they’ll be driven to fringe spaces filled with predators.

And also, people don’t just use nsfw channels for porn or questionable memes. People mark servers as 18+ for a variety of reasons, some have political discussion channels marked as nsfw to make them easier to avoid, etc.

I use discord to chat and play with friends, many servers have an nsfw channel to share things that you probably don’t want to suddenly be on your phone screen in public. It will also filter images in dms.

It’s not the end of the world, but it’s ineffective at tackling the actual problem, if anything adds appeal by making content “forbidden”. I’m certainly cancelling my cheap nitro I’ve had for a while because I’m not giving any company arbitrarily implementing identity verification any of my money.

I’ll also probably look into setting up my own matrix server later…

If they want to be spammed with gdpr takedown requests sure…

If there is an image scan then yea it’ll be a problem, otherwise rhe server being 18+ is just a setting you have no reason to turn on, and as long as you don’t write nsfw in the channel name, discord won’t know something’s an nsfw channel either.

In any case still really unlucky this happened right after you switched lol