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by terribleperson 7mo ago
Apparently, yes.
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by terribleperson 7mo ago
Discord's still doing it, they just delayed it and will supposedly be offering other verification options. They still amount to identity verification, and the noose will be tightened over time.
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by terribleperson 7mo ago
No one seems to be actually doing that.
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by terribleperson 7mo ago
Average Joe thinks age verification is already palatable. Average Joe is happy to give away a photo of his ID. The alternative to OS age attestation isn't no age verification. It's almost every site, and every piece of internet-co
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by terribleperson 7mo ago
I don't really want the free internet to be relegated to onion sites and a hypothetical mesh internet. As things stand, every service is going to either tightly control content or adopt age verification because the alternative is being
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by terribleperson 7mo ago
The thing is, I think these are distinctly different approaches. Mandating that OSes collect a provided age and that websites/software collect and use that is very different from making sites liable for providing various types of conte
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by terribleperson 7mo ago
I honestly think the pushback against the California law is a mistake. We are being presented with an increasing number of services demanding identity verification, in the form of ID verification and/or video verification. California i
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by terribleperson 8mo ago
NASA can't adopt SpaceX's approach, because any failure will be used to attack them in Congress and in the media.
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by terribleperson 8mo ago
The original Droid was accidentally good. A fresh droid has a smooth, flat keyboard that doesn't make for a great typing experience. After a while, though, the keys on the keyboard swell and bulge out. Not the keyboard itself, but the
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by terribleperson 8mo ago
Pass a law that requires devices and software to support a per-device or per user account 'child' or 'minor' flag. The flag must be lockable with a password or another account. Pass a law that mandates that websites and
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by terribleperson 8mo ago
There is a simple and better way to do this, which is device-wide age status attestation. That is, the whole device or user account has a 'minor' flag set, and passes it on to software, and so on. Governments are not pushing for t
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by terribleperson 8mo ago
In reality, losing the nsfw content was certain death, but losing the app would have just been a downsizing. Maybe not even a major one - platforms are sticky as hell. I think most people would happily use the browser. Now if you go out of
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by terribleperson 8mo ago
'the supplements aren't very good' would be believable - a quick glance at the market shows a whole lot of fish oil supplements that provide low amounts of Omega 3s in large amounts of fish oil. Look closer, and you realize a
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
There are actually a whole bunch of good medium to dark roasts out there, but third wave coffee is hip and has been for a while. If you like Starbucks beans, you'd probably like a better dark roast. Try Lavazza. Coffee snobs will look
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
A real, actual doctor told my brother, who has a chronic headache disorder, to just keep taking OTC painkillers. You very specifically should not do that; you'll develop a medication overuse headache and be worse off than you were. It
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
It's not that you need to ask it to be honest, it's that the defaults are kind of stupid and obnoxiously sycophantic. ChatGPT is also prone to getting stuck on particular ideas. If you're using the vanilla personalities witho
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
3-1-1 is an awful mnemonic, but it's basically: 3.4 oz containers in 1 1-quart ziplock bag.
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
My thought would be that the game mechanics essentially constitute a contract regarding what you and others can do with your in-game property. Something would only be a crime if it's outside of those terms.
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
It's not 3 bottles, it's 3.4 oz or 100 ml.
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
So far, the following has worked OK for me as a custom prompt for ChatGPT. ```Minimize compliments. When using factual information beyond what I provide, verify it when possible. Show your work for calculations; if a tool performs the compu
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
Do you have a custom prompt/personality set? What is it?
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
I'll say that a search engine needs to have fresh data. When I search for a phrase from a reddit thread I saw earlier, I want that exact thread to be in the results. When I search for a brand new restaurant, I want to see a map entry f
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
...voice mode bypasses custom instructions? But why? Without a custom prompt it's both unreliable and obnoxious.
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
Firefox has bookmark tags, except they're not accessible on mobile. Browser devs do not seem interested in improving the state of bookmarks.
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by terribleperson 9mo ago
From what I've heard, they have an obnoxious fraud workflow. It is possible to get locked out of your card abroad and not have a way to unlock it.
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by terribleperson 10mo ago
A local AI system that hears your conversations, identifies problems, and then uses spare cycles to devise solutions for them is actually an incredible idea. I'm never going to give a cloud system the kind of access it would need to do
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by terribleperson 10mo ago
It's the perfect "I just want my 3d printer to be a tool" printer. There are better options now, of course, but it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. Much better than my Printrbot Metal Plus, which turned o
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by terribleperson 10mo ago
My Prusa Mk3s (kit built) from 2019 has been no-fiddle for all seven years of its life.
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by terribleperson 10mo ago
The bootable, free memtest86+ is excellent for memory testing (not to be confused with Passmark's memtest86). I concur on the driver issues. To my understanding the Vega driver situation is actually better on Linux than on Windows (or
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by terribleperson 10mo ago
Moving complexity from the layer you only have one of, to the layers where there are many, many competing pieces of software, was an absolutely bonkers decision. There's just no way to make that make sense.

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