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by deminature 10mo ago
This whole thread is confidently wrong people arguing about legislation they have no understanding of. Social networks have already very accurately estimated your age for the purposes of selling advertising to you. The legislation expects t
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by deminature 10mo ago
>A ban on social media for children is a different way of saying ID Verification for the entire population. ID verification was not required for adults in Australia. Age was inferred based on activity. In fact, blanket verification was d
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by deminature 10mo ago
>not a fan of the government approach of "everyone must prove their age online now", which I believe is how the AU law is done This is not how the law is implemented. The vast majority of verification is being done by 'age
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by deminature 10mo ago
As an Australian experiencing this first hand and considerably older than 16, absolutely nothing has changed. It seems like all the social networks are doing age estimation of accounts and only taking action on those that fail and are detec
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by deminature 10mo ago
A law in New York came into effect recently that requires disclosure of algorithmically derived prices. Such prices must be labelled with 'THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.' https://www.regula
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by deminature 1y ago
In New York at least, Uber's vehicles are licensed through the same agency that licenses taxis - the Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC). They are held to the same standards as taxis and can be delicensed for violations.
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Epic CEO says Apple still hasn't approved Fortnite iOS, suggests obstruction(videogameschronicle.com)
7 points by deminature 1y ago|1 comments
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by deminature 2y ago
I've reported deepfake scam ads of famous people for months and Google does nothing. It's also not uncommon to see adwords links to phishing sites pretending to be banks above the legitimate bank link, and those ads seem to stay u
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by deminature 2y ago
I agree that friendships with women can be really fulfilling, but I've never had it work long-term without lines getting blurred and usually instigated by the woman. Friendships with men are reliably less complicated.
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by deminature 3y ago
Piano requires adaptation in the corpus callosum of your brain to coordinate two-handed playing - it takes time to develop. Competent players have usually been playing for years to a decade before they're at a level of public performan
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by deminature 3y ago
I wish they'd offer a legal avenue to play Switch games at 4K/60 instead of 720p/20-30. Anyone looking for a higher fidelity experience than the 2017 Switch hardware is able to provide is forced to use software like Yuzu to e
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by deminature 3y ago
I've had the same thing with caffeine causing significant anxiety that didn't occur beforehand. One of my medications also stopped working for a month afterwards. I'm surprised there's not more concern in broader society
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by deminature 3y ago
Google does track your movement with alarming levels of detail, just not to that level of granularity. https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6258979?hl=en&co=GENI...
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by deminature 3y ago
My experience with covid is that severe post-disease inflammation can cause wild neurological symptoms including anxiety and depression. I had a 'mild' case and still suffered significant, long-lasting inflammation. I see very few
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by deminature 3y ago
It's only turned really cynical under Cook, chargers no longer included, cables sold separately from chargers to nickel and dime customers, refusal to adopt standards like USB-C unless threatened in court, refusing to pay patent licens
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by deminature 3y ago
The arbitrary laws that the EU has been writing are the one of the last bulwarks consumers have against the creeping power of tech giants and these companies are making more money than ever in spite of regulation, so it doesn't seem to
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by deminature 3y ago
Every app on iOS is sandboxed and the damage they can do is very limited. There's risks involved in opening up to third-party apps, and PWAs are only marginally more dangerous. Non-WebKit based browsers don't even exist today, thi
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by deminature 3y ago
I think PWA developers are going to be pretty unsympathetic to 'your PWA is going be available again in the EU at some unspecified time in the future, when some Apple product manager decides to prioritize it for a given year's roa
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by deminature 3y ago
The DMA has potential fines of 20% of global annual revenue for non-compliance. Apple is playing with fire here. Laws like GDPR and DMA are designed to be just as scary for big entities as small.
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by deminature 3y ago
The user is warned already on the App Store that installing apps from third-parties comes with certain risks via 'scare screens'. There's no reason they can't do the same for PWAs.
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by deminature 3y ago
I'm not a fan of PWAs either, but disabling them instead of allowing them to continue to run is an incredibly bad faith response to the DMA.
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by deminature 3y ago
In combination with the 'Core Technology Fee' that financially cripples any developer that tries to release a popular app outside the official app store, this is pathetic behavior. Hopefully the EU smacks them down for this temper
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by deminature 3y ago
People move there for the high comp, interesting work is a bonus but not guaranteed or even probable. Also the car-centric lifestyle is going to be a shock to anyone used to walkable cities.
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by deminature 3y ago
You won't find that whole list even at FAANG offices. Employers refuse to make their offices superior to WFH so they have to force people in under penalty of job loss instead.
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by deminature 3y ago
It's astonishing how much Sundar has managed to tarnish Google's brand over the past few years with decisions like this that optimize for short-term gains at the expense of long-term reputational damage and customer goodwill.
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by deminature 3y ago
Substack openly hosts unambiguous medical misinformation that can result in harm. It's reasonable to not want to support that, indirectly or otherwise.
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by deminature 3y ago
Two out of three Australians will be diagnosed with some form of skin cancer at some point their lives [1] due to the higher atmospheric UV. This is going to prevent a lot of unnecessary death. Modern medicine is fantastic. [1] https:&#x2F
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by deminature 3y ago
Even if it is, the stock is forever illiquid and that comp beyond base salary is a mirage.
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by deminature 3y ago
It looks like UIKit, the static analysis [1] shows numerous ViewControllers (eg IGSundialSingleVideoClipEditorViewController) with various UIKit lifecycle methods like viewDidLoad, rather than SwiftUI. There's also a surprising amount
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by deminature 3y ago
Today when creating a new next app, you get this: > Would you like to use App Router? (recommended) It seems like users shouldn't yet be funnelled by default into using RSC.

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