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by exodust 1y ago
> protect children from ideas That's not the solution. The prevailing theme taught to kids these days is "question everything". Not taking things at face-value, or believing memes and one-line theories, forms part of the
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I'm in Australia, but I was talking about the whole globe. A clue is when I said "around the globe". From China to USA, the pandemic restrictions and hustle went overboard in many cases. Often these opposition parties might u
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The web is obviously not dead. If "boring information gathering" takes a hit, it's no biggie. Long live the creative web, or the good quality products and services web. AI is great, but so is reading a dedicated article writ
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> "100% lies about immigrants and vaccines" There was frustration around the globe about pandemic policies. Specifically lockdowns, mask mandates, check-ins, and "no jab no job" ultimatums, which have since been ide
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> campaigns to educate parents on using parental controls. Exactly this. The other possibility is that Google & Microsoft won't want to hassle people for ID or "papers please" just for liking a post, reviewing a busi
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If you already have a Google account where your location is stated and obvious, why do you think Google won't still demand your "papers please" after these Orwellian Labor party laws attempt to screw us?
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> pretty much every site like Google already knows exactly who you are Depends how much you share with Google when signed in. If I log out of Google services and browse around the web, my browsing activity is not recorded against my Go
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> "criticism of Israel" Like the death chant marches through Australian city streets, burning synagogues, attacking Israeli restaurants, vandalising, threatening, and shoving socialist-activated Palestinian propaganda marches i
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Interesting, thanks for the link. I was more thinking of a way for the camera to analyse the scene independently of the lens, in order to generate an unbreakable signature bond between the image and the sensor data, so that manipulation of
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Is it really a social problem if AI is generating the images and spreading them around with bots? If no humans are involved except to knock the first dominoes over, it's a stretch to call the chain reaction a "social problem"
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Because it will be a picture of a screen not reality? The hypothetical camera knows the scene it's taking is a flat surface or not, and puts that detail into the signature.
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Is it possible to develop a camera that takes pictures in a special format that records an encrypted signature, some kind ledger technology for images? The idea is authenticity of images could be challenged. If in doubt, the original photog
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If you need to wind back the clock before any of us were born to achieve a "gotcha", you're doing a disservice to whatever educated audience remains. Your what-aboutism opens a gaping hole where a point should be. Ideological
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> "surface patina" Tell that to the victims of gleeful brutality under the guidance of fundamentalist ideology, like that engrained in Islamist governance and extremist militant groups. Your post reads like the come-down from i
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Literally the first thing listed is the declaration of an unlawful assembly. After that you have either compliance or non-compliance with the declaration. Given the mountain of evidence of criminal damage, we can assume the declaration came
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> " watching and filming the ICE raids " You're posting misinformation. Tear gas is deployed when mobs surge in direct violation of orders not to, or to control violence and criminality by large crowds. Your attempt to fra
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The Australian journalist who wasn't wearing any media vest, standing in middle of road next to an unfolding high-tension incident so she could get a good shot? That journalist? The cop that shot her was in the wrong, but she didn&#x
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Do you have evidence of tear gas fired at peaceful protesters? I'm getting a Greta Thunberg "help I've been kidnapped by IDF" vibe from the tear gas claim. There's a lot of videos of the contrary - LAPD pelted with
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> I can't overstate... Your effort to overstate might have derailed your own reality. Don't know about you, but I could never throw a brick at anyone. I couldn't and wouldn't put a mask on and head out with the inte
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The author doesn't write "PHP belongs in the past". PHP is still great and could benefit this CMS, which reminds me a lot of Kirby CMS. Kirby has the same ambition "get our of your way" and everything is static file
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Don't forget bird flu killed chickens in the millions recently, either by the disease or by culling. Kids and anyone who likes these animals were saddened even distressed. Knitting chickens may have started from an expression of respec
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> " For agency work building disposable marketing sites, this doesn't matter " And the disdain for marketing sites continues. I'd argue the thing that's in front of your customer's face isn't "disp
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Censoring the statue of David is not old news! Unless you go back to the 19th century: "The practice of covering Michelangelo's "David" with a fig leaf, particularly a detachable one, was common during the Victorian
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Only juvenile prompting and reporting finds value in "what nasty thing did the LLM say about Musk." What's more interesting is the censorship on the input side. I wanted Grok to analyse a wood engraving from 1861, Gustave Dor
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I like the perpetual license, no AI, and customisable 3D models and animations. This last feature hopefully opens up potential for making creatively synchronised graphics such as animating the expression - say the mouth shape on a 3D face i
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> When Indian users use writing suggestions from an AI model... Let's press pause and note the deliberate decision in using AI to help you with your "favorite food & holidays". A better remedy to the problem invented
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Me: can dynamic content such as inventory feeds be included in wiki pages? *AI Assistant is typing* AI: Hmm, I couldn't find an answer to that. Can you rephrase your question or give me a bit more detail? This is why I ca
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I don't remember pushback against CSS, but I do recall it was common for websites to dabble in CSS for styling fonts but still use table layouts. That's not pushback, just practicality. If you wanted a solid predictable grid, you
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I was logged in but it wasn't showing, but it's showing now. > confidently incorrect I disagree. Grok had a crack and got it wrong. LLMs get things wrong sometimes. Besides, it said "likely from Species", which is g
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> needing summarization Before we get too excited with disparaging those seeking summaries, it's common for people of all levels to want summary information. It doesn't mean they want everything summarized or are bad people.

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