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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> If Walmart claimed to be a grocery store, and exclusively served only Walmart goods, that's a problem. Why? Trader Joes and Aldi both do precisely that. No one minds.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Okay but again we cannot form all technology to only work for people with cognitive issues and nobody else. We can take their needs into consideration , just as we legally require businesses to put wheelchair ramps in. > NO, there
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Society as a whole, to some extent, and the various industries involved. Why should children be punished with a lifetime of shitty ingrained behaviors just because they were born to shitty parents who wouldn't do the right thing? I&#x2
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> down to the name And an identical bug, per the Bluesky convo Gruber linked. https://bsky.app/profile/mmmeh.bsky.social/post/3mslc3b3u4c2...
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The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars(propublica.org)
5 points by ceejayoz 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Children are either not allowed to have devices, or they have them but locked down with parental controls (hopefully). How many children have you met lately?
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Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook(futurism.com)
7 points by ceejayoz 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Seems like you’re pushing for control over user tech here over any sort of other regulation. That fits your pattern elsewhere in this thread of not actually engaging with what others are saying to slay strawmen. Over? No. Regulation an
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Right but granny is not a child, she is kind of the opposite of a child. The failure modes are often quite similar - cognitive/motor issues and lack of experience with the tools offered. > Appeal to the lowest common denomina
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> Rather than passing laws to require a non-digital option for these things... Do you think I oppose this?
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> They have to have procedures for this sort of thing. "Sorry, try somewhere else" is the procedure.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> You won't get in trouble for using your Apple device in non-approved ways because it doesn't let you. The government won't let me use my car in non-approved ways. They will, in fact, stop me with guns at times. I'
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
I agree! But what's Grandma supposed to do in the meantime?
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> You can freely buy and use knives… No, not necessarily. Quite a few countries have restrictions on knives, including some parts of the US - a switchblade will get you in trouble in NYC. > you can drive your own car Only in approved
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
The average layperson doesn't even know caller ID can be trivially spoofed. Or they accept the push notification dialog on some random site and start getting "COMPUTER HACKED, CALL MICROSOFT AT FAKE NUMBER" notifications that
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Apple has extremely/problematically vague guidelines about what constitutes spammy apps. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#des... > Don’t submit apps that are indistinguishable
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
<marquee><blink><font size="72px" color="red">, I guess.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> So your solution is to ban the sale of any kind of knife. If you give a toddler a butcher's knife to play with and they get hurt, you'll likely get in trouble for child endangerment. Using my car requires it be registered, pa
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
You did the meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som... Last time I was in a bank branch they told me to go to the website for my issue.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Why comment on a site with zero interest in actually interacting with people?
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
What freedom on the planet isn't restricted in some way for societal benefit?
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
There isn’t a way for everyone to be able to do what they want with computing devices and be safe from this shit. That’s the reality. As with most things in society, it’s left to people to negotiate the balance.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Grandma will also be happy to disable it when the nice man from Microsoft phone support calls in to remotely fix the viruses she has.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
Loudly dismissing genuine and legitimate concerns may feel good, but it’s not likely to get you what you want, especially at a societal level. I agree with you on the risks of this sort of protection! But I understand what it’s like for
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
The flip side of this is: Pro: I can use a convoluted process to install an astronomy app Apple didn't like. Con: Billions of dollars of life savings siphoned off with devastating consequences. I'm by no means a maximalist on eith
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
People will murder people, too. We don't have to make it trivially easy .
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
All of my app review submissions come back at like 2-3am, so yeah. We had a client whose website geoblocked non-US IPs and failed several rounds of review until we gave up and put a copy of their privacy policy on S3.
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
They're likely just ticking boxes on a checklist - does the app crash, does the app have a privacy policy, does the app permit chat? Nothing about level one app review should need coding skills. Appeals, maybe, but even there, it'
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
There's a saying about how hard it can be to design bear-resistant containers: > There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists. The same is true for computers. Solutions that &
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by ceejayoz 2mo ago
My local USA Today-owned paper moved from a giant historic building (800 people when I worked there), to a new much smaller office (about 150 people at that point), to announcing they're moving to a coworking space. They're dying,

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