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by aethertron 5y ago
When that 1 hour of food education is pitted against 10s of hours of immersion in an online dysfunctional-eating subculture, what prevails? Perhaps children need 1 hour, or more, "don't fall in with the wrong internet crowd and le
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by aethertron 5y ago
Online-initiated grooming presumably begins outside of e2e'd 1-on-1 communications. Seems social media platforms have a bunch of options to help prevent that, and keeping e2e. (CSAM is a different sort of crime and must have a differen
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by aethertron 5y ago
The problem with porn doesn't really come from accidental exposure to particularly 'extreme' material, I think. That might just be a start. The core problem is, for young people (adolescents) and adults alike, the deliberate
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by aethertron 5y ago
I suppose now is the time to invest in art materials suppliers, and exhibition/performance venues, since this will function as a subsidy for them.
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by aethertron 5y ago
Support doesn't need to be perfect. An out-of-date browser should be security-OK for things that don't involve money. Maybe JS needs to get switched off. So sites should work without JS.
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by aethertron 5y ago
They don't need to pre-emptively test on everything. Fixing such issues after they're reported would be good.
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by aethertron 5y ago
Cool. I'd probably pick a different font, but I like this consistency. Perhaps as a way resisting attempts at emotional manipulation by typography...
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by aethertron 5y ago
I would love to see a screenshot!
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by aethertron 5y ago
'Company' and 'government' aren't radically different categories. They overlap. Company = group of people working together; Government = entity in charge of something Twitter is a company that governs people'
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by aethertron 5y ago
> Why? Just because some topic was discussed on some site once doesn't mean all possible ideas were expressed on that topic. Not 'all possible ideas' are worth being expressed. Of the subset that are, it gets boring discus
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by aethertron 5y ago
Sure, some re-hashing is meritorious. But there are diminishing returns.
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by aethertron 5y ago
"Microblogging" (or "social media") has life in it, as long as people like to blather on, but forums are dead. Why are they dead? Because their lifespans were limited. The Death of Discussion by icycalm explains how that
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Why Labour just lost the tech sector’s vote(webdevlaw.uk)
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by aethertron 5y ago
Don't stop ranting. A good rant is good. I value HN for its critical slant, a much needed remedy to the effusive cheerleading of technology social media discourse/sales-puffery. Worried about looking obnoxious? Post under a pseudo
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by aethertron 5y ago
Hmm. Well, that circle-drawer is indeed atrocious. But its atrocity is according to the design spec. It says to use a modal window with a slider. Everyone's supposed to build the same thing. Your criticisms should go 'upstream&#x2
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by aethertron 5y ago
Then you'd need more complex implementations, which would be more difficult to compare, muddying up the point of the exercise: to produce various comparible implementations.
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by aethertron 5y ago
No, why would they? The stance of Salesforce is clearly, implicitly, in opposition to the law. The article claims the announcement was "without taking a stance on the law". But that's wrong. Salesforce hasn't proclaimed
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by aethertron 5y ago
If the point is responding to "there is no corollary law everywhere else forcing people to get abortions", a statement that doesn't mention abortion doesn't quite suffice. Apparently there's a place, California, whe
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by aethertron 5y ago
This 'correction' replaces a specific statement with a rather more general one, obscuring the point of the reply. "California doesn’t allow health insurance to deny paying for abortions."
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by aethertron 5y ago
> It's now rude to just call someone on the phone without asking permission first. Is it? I think that norm varies a lot with different sections of culture. If it was universally rude, then it'd be damn silly that phones are al
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by aethertron 5y ago
Won't implementing this on macOS make it too easy to reverse engineer? Think the hashes are supposed to be secret. ETA: Apple quote: "unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users’ devices". Unreadable, unleakable
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by aethertron 5y ago
Seems if you don't use iCloud, you can opt out. There are alternative backup services available on iOS devices, like Backblaze. But does the OS let them properly integrate with the system?
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by aethertron 5y ago
Just a little.
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by aethertron 5y ago
Who knows what that code blob is really doing? It's cop spyware. Sometimes cops plant evidence. Maybe courts shouldn't trust it. In principle, the OS environment could be made independently auditable - keeping undeleteable signed
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by aethertron 5y ago
Maybe cropped photos, or innocent frames from videos containing abuse? Not sure what GP is referring to.
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by aethertron 5y ago
I'd argue that this update is spyware and malware. Policy-makers are counting on normies being accepting of law-enforcement malware if the crimes targeted are serious enough.
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by aethertron 5y ago
>Who in good conscience would ask a tech worker to give away their labour for free, in the name of everyone else’s freedom? Here's the hope: the tech workers doing it for 'free' because they're scratching their own it
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by aethertron 5y ago
Some 'predators' are dumb. They'll keep using iPhones, get caught, and have their mugshots posted in the press. Great PR for the policy makers who decided this. Such stories will be shoved in the faces of the privacy advocate
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by aethertron 5y ago
>historically this was done with attractiveness specifically And money. Mostly money, at some times and places. Many examples of ostentatious displays of wealth being discouraged or forbidden. Lots of good reasons for that, social and in
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by aethertron 5y ago
The point of voting is for a group to make collective decisions about something. But the 'group of twitter users' isn't a community. I don't want this fake community to 'democratically' determine what I see. I&

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