jacobgkau

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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
> all computers must report on the identities of their users Literally not what's happening with these bills. There is no identity, you would only have to type in a valid date (and nobody's forcing you at gunpoint to make it yo
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
> As I see it, part of parenting should be telling your children what's not good for them and why. We tell our kids that smoking is bad for them. It's still illegal to sell cigarettes to minors. > As a kid, if I had seen a c
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
"If parents want drug stores to not sell liquor to their kids, then the proper thing is for someone to build that solution and make a fortune selling it, IMO." See how that makes zero sense in the context of a society? Content pro
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
I already responded to what you're saying in my initial comment. I'll expand for you. > The fact that they won't even though there are (non-required!) tools they could be using to do so is baffling to me. My parents set me
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
> There is no need for any verification beyond that or it's just government mandated surveillance. There is no verification beyond that in these sorts of bills (CA, CO, IL). It's the parent's responsibility to watch their
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
Yeah, the laws in CA, CO, and now IL are essentially just mandating generally available OS's implement a standardized, local parental control system. Detractors will say parents should just install existing parental control software, e
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
There might be less societal objection to "satellites in space orbiting the planet" than to "planes flying continuously over the same area," even if both can be used for similar purposes. I'd assume it'd also b
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by jacobgkau 8mo ago
Would you care to summarize their argument?
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by jacobgkau 8mo ago
It wasn't the tariff. UPS has been tacking on a ridiculously high paperwork fee for the service of processing tariff payments. Other shipping companies have also had fees, but UPS is the main one that's made it exorbitant and disp
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by jacobgkau 8mo ago
Approximate, sure, although you can still go back and delete photos from a small SD card, whereas film's more of a consumable resource.
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by jacobgkau 8mo ago
That would make sense if apps like Twitter or Reddit were banned from the app store or had also decided to ban NSFW content, but they seem to be getting along fine with their verification-free "click here if you're an adult"
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by jacobgkau 8mo ago
I was expecting some mention of the Dutch Reach (internal handles that are sort of backwards to force car users to look in the direction of possible approaching pedestrians or bicycles behind them while opening their door), but I guess the
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by jacobgkau 8mo ago
The XDG portal standards being developed to provide permissions to apps (and allow users to manage them), including those installed via Flatpak, will continue to be useful if and when the sandboxing security of Flatpaks are improved. (In fa
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by jacobgkau 8mo ago
> getting a lot of slack recently I think you mean a lot of flak? Slack would kind of be the opposite.
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by jacobgkau 9mo ago
We do have smaller regional airports in the US, but those smaller airports do still have TSA-staffed security if they serve commercial flights. The TSA considered eliminating security at those smaller domestic-only airports back in 2018, bu
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by jacobgkau 9mo ago
It's hardly proof of address. At best, I'd say it's proof of state residency. I've moved several times since getting my Colorado driver's license (a REAL ID). Technically, you are supposed to submit a change-of-addr
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by jacobgkau 9mo ago
CLEAR members are going out of their way to register their info in a biometric identification system. I don't think the people avoiding REAL IDs are the same demographic.
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by jacobgkau 9mo ago
> We find no detectable platform-level increase in likes for high-reputational-risk content (Study 1). This finding is robust for both between-group comparison of high- versus low-reputational-risk accounts and within-group comparison ac
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by jacobgkau 9mo ago
This is just an anecdote, but having been dealing with similar problems on one of my websites for the past year or so, I was experiencing a huge number of hits from different residential IP addresses (mostly Latin American) at the same time
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by jacobgkau 9mo ago
I didn't say "near by," I said "built into an apartment complex," which is one of the things the person I replied to threw out casually as an option.
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by jacobgkau 9mo ago
You're "literally surrounded" by cafes built into the first floor of your apartment complex? Because that's what I was very clearly talking about. Not shops within walking distance. (I didn't ask and don't ca
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by jacobgkau 9mo ago
There's a limit to the convenience factor. Fast food used to be cheap because it was faster than real food. Now it's expensive, and less real than it was to start with. A hip no-name cafe owned by a huge conglomerate charging $17
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by jacobgkau 9mo ago
> or into the first floor of your apartment complex. I wouldn't trust a cafe built into an apartment complex. I'd expect it to be low-quality, over-priced food placed specifically to try and make a quick buck off people who don
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
Person 2 has no duty to prove anything (or to enter the conversation at all), but Person 2 isn't going to convince anyone of their viewpoint by choosing not to attempt to prove their point. By choosing to say "not my problem,&quot
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
That's a valid statement that nobody in this comment chain was disputing. It is exactly why the person you're responding to is assuming anyone who can leave, will leave, in that event (and why "you should join the reserves if
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
Doesn't China do well partly by ignoring our IP laws (and having access to a lot of our IP since they're in our supply chain)?
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
I know you've made a handful of comments all to this effect throughout the thread, but it's really not helpful in this particular comment chain. Yes, we know your quality of life in Europe is great. Yes, we know life is more than
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
My point is that being enabled by default on all new devices 1) would also be fought by people very similar to you (if not you specifically), and 2) would not be effective if the enabled-by-default software is not effective, which would als
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
It might as well not be illegal if there's no way to prosecute it, and the pre-age-verification status quo was that there was no way to prosecute it.
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
> And we all turned out fine I might add. Absolutely not. You might personally feel like (or want to tell yourself that) porn didn't negatively affect you. I can tell you with certainty that porn negatively affected my social and se

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