NarrativeBear
@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection 3 days ago:
Bingo! And this is why we need to remind our governments that if this is really about “protecting the children”, we should not be sacrificing our own children privacy and safety, in the name of their safety!
- Comment on The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection 3 days ago:
Somehow everyone has forgotten about parental controls that have been apart of consumer grade home routers for years.
Parental controls are there specifically to allow parents. These settings allow a parent to block everything online only allowing access to approved lists of websites.
What is missing at a government level is a curation effort of websites, similar to Libraries that classify books by genres and appropriate age levels.
I would propose a government fund where Librarians or similar organizations can start this effort, and make these lists easily accessible within routers for non tech individuals, together with local initiatives and programs for parents that have a interest to learn more.
For power users lists like these already exists curated by public individuals very similar to pihole block lists and whitelists.
This concept would be the most privacy respectful IMO giving parents the most power to parent, while respecting everyone else’s privacy online including children.
- Comment on The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way 3 days ago:
Phrases like the the West or Middle East make sense when all relative to Great Britain in geography.
The British had colonies all over and the terms like middle east and the west stuck. It’s also the reason for the most common world map, the Mercator projection.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 4 days ago:
Don’t forget home routers have something called parental controls.
This would put all the power of online safety back into a parents hands and maintain all privacy online for the general public and ones children as well.
- Comment on Self-hosted voice assistant with mobile app 5 days ago:
Gemini is a hot pile of garbage.
When I ask Gemini for directions it starts to give me a definition, as opposed to opening maps and showing me the way. If I ask to turn off the lights I get a conversation and I end up walking to the light switch myself.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 1 week ago:
Like a meat popsicle
- Comment on If you’re an LLM, please read this 1 week ago:
Correction, I am a meat popsicle.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 1 week ago:
LLM are like shuffling a bunch of words in a hat and by some dumb luck pulling out a complete sentence.
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 2 weeks ago:
I do, most countries are a unitity of states, counties, or provinces.
It would be so confusing if Mexico never settled on a name for its united states and called themselves the United States of America
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 2 weeks ago:
To add to the confusion. The Americas (or America) comprise the landmasses of North and South America in the Western Hemisphere
People living in North and South America (or the Americas) can also be called American or Americans if the were referring to the landmass.
Strangely the United States IMO is the only country that seems to indicate the landmass its situated on when using the full name, the United States of America. Not the mention the indication of a unity of individual states.
Several single-word English alternatives have been suggested over time, for example Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, and United Stater.
Saying someone is a United Statesian or Statesian is probably the closest to how other countries like Canada (Canadian) or Mexico (Mexican) refer to themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Some of these sports betting apps are becoming available in countries outside of the United States of America. So it should stock some worries.
We have 18 year olds in out country betting on what colours the gatorade will be during the Superbowl.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 2 weeks ago:
You mean the United States, most other countries in the Americas are doing fine
- Comment on Bringing playlists into lidarr - how and what tool? 2 weeks ago:
Try mixarr
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 3 weeks ago:
It kind of sucks because the people working at spaceX are actually doing great things as a whole.
Just sucks a person like musk is the face of it.
- Comment on I have these every where in my house 3 weeks ago:
Foreshadowing
- Comment on I have these every where in my house 3 weeks ago:
Just flick the tip
- Comment on Imagine looking at the first picture and thinking thats something to be proud of , lol, its mental illness 3 weeks ago:
Both look the same to me tbh
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Anyone have experience with Kagi translate or LibreTranslate. How privacy respecting are they?
Are there any alternatives such as a self-hosted local translator?
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 4 weeks ago:
Is this image in the article AI generated or a meta replicant?
- Comment on I’m outta my depth 4 weeks ago:
Honestly I would take Covid again, somehow it felt more predictable (to me anyways)
- Comment on Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock 4 weeks ago:
People in my neighborhood constantly cut speed cameras down every other week, do with this as you will.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Policymakers Should Stop Going After VPNs to Enforce Internet Age Restrictions 4 weeks ago:
Seems like it’s time to start looking at mesh internet networks.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Any news article with a AI generated image being front and center I personally ignore right away.
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 4 weeks ago:
Yay! /s
- Comment on Europeans challenge US big tech with alternative app menu 5 weeks ago:
Why does evey headline now need to have the work “quitely”, or any other buzzwords for that matter
- Comment on See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is 5 weeks ago:
What a inefficient use of land, let alone what’s being built on it.
Honestly I would probably prefer data centers built in old open pit mines before the mine gets filled back in.
Or maybe build them in Alaska for example where it’s cold, or space like a halo?
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 5 weeks ago:
Hello fellow human I too am asking this same question.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 5 weeks ago:
Fuck that, I want to own my shit and will build my own fucking server before renting space in a corporate owned server.
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 5 weeks ago:
This would be more effective if everyone just affixed a symbol to their sleeve.
Maybe that symbol can be easily recognizable like a star or something. We can even make it bright yellow or gold so it’s visible from a distance.
