Nursie

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by Nursie 8mo ago
It's tough, and I must admit the times I've lived on my own for any length of time weren't always easy. I've done it twice. First time I realised I was spiralling a bit and looked for a form of exercise I enjoyed, which
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I think that neither is especially reliable, but that putting LLMs on some sort of pedestal as 'better' for information lookup here is a bad plan.
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Or it could give out bad information and make everything worse because a subset of people seem to think LLMs are infallible or gods rather than aggregates of the knowledge they’ve consumed.
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BBC.com is a commercial service aimed at people outside of the UK
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So I have an old fashioned "Salter" inflatable BP cuff unit that takes a few AA batteries, that I take readings on sporadically, and as I am borderline problematic (the diastolic number is usually a little high, systolic is not am
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> Anything else I can do with my phone or laptop Most stuff, sure, but probably not - > heart rate monitoring So as someone who is cantering through middle age to a point in life close to where males in my family in older generations
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I believe that nobody's ID will be at risk of leaking, because it will never be handled in the first place, nor will it be accessed. So that's already better than most of the schemes people are upset about. > But I expect the s
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Interesting. It's my understanding that in a similar vein, one of the reasons Belgium got so good at making tasty, stronger beers because wine and spirits were banned in the past. It's not quite 'necessity' being the mot
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I accepted this years ago. In fact I go a step further - code is a liability. It's certainly intellectually stimulating to create it, but I've learned to take joy in discarding vast swathes of it when it's no longer required.
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> Spore is well acclaimed. Spore was fun (IMHO) but at the time of release was considered a disappointment compared to its hype.
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> You might be able to get somewhere by getting a tech company on your side There are quite a few already looking at this, some in the context of providing secure verification services for the existing and upcoming social media bans etc.
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> it's the government having to provide some privacy-protecting means of using them Nope, not necessarily. > I have yet to see a single one implemented in real life. There are likely to be a lot more coming as the newer standards
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> No, uploading identity documents is never a safe process. You should probably stop pretending you understand verifiable credentials then. Because if you did, you'd understand that they don't need to involve uploading identity
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> The successor after the rebrand, is called myID [0], and advertised as: It's an identity scheme and SSO solution for accessing government services. As said at [0] in the "What is myID" section. I sincerely hope that they
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I mean, your example of the ATO there isn't even an age verification thing, it's a defective clone of OIDC, so by that logic we should ban all SSO or identity delegation solutions? Because we don't believe anyone will ever us
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> You don't exactly get to dictate how the government implements it! Who was talking about the government implementing it? I wasn't. And also "This has been done poorly in the past so we should never attempt to do it again
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> There is a problem with schemes like that. /goes on to discuss how government legislation of specific schemes is the issue, not the schemes themselves. Then we don't legislate specific schemes? The GDPR doesn't do that,
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> You need to 100% trust those verification services. First link - mitigation: use a well supported standard like OIDC, not a home-cooked scheme. Duh. Second link - this is part of the problem such schemes as verifiable credentials are d
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In the context of "Age verification should be banned" though, we're already talking about legislative intervention. If there's no particular problem with schemes that are like that then we don't necessarily need a
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> Age verification obliviates anonymity on the internet. How so? Please explain in detail, because there are already schemes such as "verifiable credentials" which allow people to prove they are of age without handing over ID t
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> It's a slippery slope. Is it? I thought that was a logical fallacy? > This is the next two steps into 1984. How so? > Once you start mandating this, there's no going back. > The next generation will start associating
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> Age verification should be banned Why? > They already got so much data on their users There are a variety of ways (see "Verifiable Credentials") that ages can be verified without handing over any data other than "Is o
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In the UK there is also no prior government approval. Clearcast is a private company owned by the networks, who pass advertising through checks to ensure it meets their commitments and guidelines. In theory they could still broadcast it if
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> No; you publish it, and the most the government can do is stop you from repeating it and punish you for having done so. Soooo.... if I approach a US tv network with an ad that explicitly shows naked people doing cocaine, and carries t
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> Almost 100 people were jailed for protesting the Genocide and the illegal proscribing of the protest group. Several hundred people actually. To be clear, you could protest the genocide as much as you wanted, what you couldn't do w
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Clearcast is a private body owned by the broadcasters. The BCAP code is issued by the Advertising Standards Authority which, despite the name, is an industry self-regulation body. It appears to be established in law that Clearcast is an ass
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The downvotes might also represent people downvoting those who are uninformed - Clearcast is a private body owned and operated by the broadcasters, not a government body.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearcast They're a private company functioning as industry self-regulation, not a government department. Broadcasters sign up to the code, Clearcast pre-clears ads against the code.
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I have time for them all - I have a debian workstation, an ubuntu server, I mostly work on my Tahoe macbook and I run windows 11 on my games box. Windows seems like windows. I don't care. I'll keep updating to the latest so long a
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Oh interesting! I'm also overseas these days, in Australia with my English partner, and have rarely thought of the English pancake in some time. Even when I'm making breakfast pancakes they're usually American style and I&#x2

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