theherk
@theherk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 days ago:
Curves being what they are, these numbers don’t mean much. Yes twitter has more users but if bsky crosses some threshold, their user count can begin to catch up quickly.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
It could affect those things. But like I agreed with before, it should be handled carefully and this is a big reason. I distinguish simply between Facebook for example and ma’s blog. One tries to make money by gathering data and targeting advertising to people intentionally addicted to a platform. The other is, you know… a blog.
If the law outlawed the online exchange of ideas, I too would be among its biggest opponents but that is probably a strawman.
As far as me parenting? Sure. With the benefit of hindsight, I’m not sure I was fit either, but I did my best.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
I agree that it is unprecedented and should be handled thoughtfully. Nevertheless a corporate website is not a social construct. There is no talk of banning socialization. Maybe you thought they meant social networks in the traditional sense (social group connections) but they are referring to websites. So cigarettes is a perfectly suitable analogy, which is why I can understand your dismissal.
So let me just clarify. Norwegian parents are bad, even though kids here are doing pretty well when compared globally. Regulating how young people interact with the world never works and is bad. So, underage drinking should be allowed, smoking, driving at 8, no age of consent? And parents can just talk to their kids to fix all the problems that happen, including psychological manipulation for financial gain? And anybody that has issues or is taken advantage of just has bad parents? Those who think society has a role to play are just virtue signaling?
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
Interesting. Not going to debate much further with you, but I’m always a bit envious when I run into other parents who claim they have 100% control over their kids. I don’t. My child is grown now, but I absolutely did not. They were their own person, that no matter how much I talked to them had their own life and struggles.
And prohibition does work in some cases. See, cigarettes. Smoking has been in the fall for a long time especially among the young.
But I’m glad your kid will never have any problems ever and if they do that you admit it could have been solved by you talking to them.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
We don’t have to accept corporations selling ads that target young people and using algorithms to take advantage of them.
And Norwegian parents are doing what many are doing; caring for their kids to the best of their abilities. That oil money has provided good social services and these teens do have access to healthcare, including mental, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t teenagers still. They necessarily require some independence. That’s growing up, so you can’t just parent around every problem. Hence restricting some things, like cigarettes and alcohol for example.
I don’t see this much differently. It is a hazardous drug that warrants some consideration. Enforcement is fraught but that doesn’t mean we should just sit on our hands and accept it as is.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 4 weeks ago:
That wasn’t clear to me, but it is a pretty funny point.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 4 weeks ago:
Unless it doesn’t make money.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 4 weeks ago:
Light switch rave!
- Comment on draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024 4 weeks ago:
Well, there are many of us that do care about software freedom. If you don’t, I hope your software is as good as your understanding of open source.
- Comment on People who use firefox how do you see what website you visit on a specific date? (say on september 12) for me it just shows like this 1 month ago:
Unless one shares a computer user with somebody, the privacy concerns of local history are nothing compared to connected features. There are many reasons people might use a browser other than chrome. Everybody disabling history is a strange assumption.
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 1 month ago:
Fair enough. If you do run MacOS, I highly recommend UTM for running guest OS’s. It uses qemu and I have really found it to be even nicer than parallels.
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 1 month ago:
If you don’t plan to upgrade even after security updates end, what’s keeping you there now?
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 month ago:
I hoped it was clear that I was making a purely subjective statement there. So that’s just like… my opinion man.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 month ago:
Almost like Microsoft did a tremendous amount of user research aimed at improving the accessibility of the most commonly used features. I don’t use their products much, but the design has definitely improved over the years and extra padding is a big part of it.
- Comment on Why is the internet overflowing with rubbish ads – and what can we do about it? 2 months ago:
Garbage ads predate the internet.
- Comment on Instagram makes all teen accounts private - npr 2 months ago:
Respectable elo.
- Comment on UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London 2 months ago:
Are you still there?
- Comment on Elasticsearch is open source, again 2 months ago:
Hashicorp watching with rapt attention while Hudson sits in the back and laughs.
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 3 months ago:
510 / 60 = 8.5 - Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them 3 months ago:
I’m sorry I wasn’t more agreeable. You’re absolutely correct. I take it back.
- Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them 3 months ago:
I see your perspective, but I don’t consider that security in the context of software, which may also explain why they don’t use that word, though I readily admit that it is technically security of a sort. The term usually implies authentication, authorization, and isolation.
- Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them 3 months ago:
It is neither intended nor even stated to be intended for security.
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 4 months ago:
String theory. Go.
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 4 months ago:
Because it is FOSS and responsible for many great contributions to apis that make the web what it is. It has history that goes way back. It has been decently transparent, certainly when compared to its closest competitors. It isn’t Google. It has a massive library of extensions. They aren’t planning to deprecate manifest v2.
Don’t get me wrong, I also like other browsers and I’m looking forward to seeing what comes from the servo reboot. But Firefox is bread and butter and there is often drummed up nonsense about it.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
It’s too bad androidauthority doesn’t think the “reject all” cookies rule applies to them.
- Comment on AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law 4 months ago:
If it were a country, it would be the fifth or sixth largest economy in the world. Not debating; just saying it can have a big impact.
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 4 months ago:
You won’t catch me defending Apple’s repairability but you saying they need repaired often is completely untrue in my experience and that of the wider user baser. In fact their durability and longevity are very good. There are people still running around with 2014 models that have never been repaired.
I mean fuck their anti right to repair bullshit, but the machines are good.
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 4 months ago:
Yeah those MacBooks are really known for their poor build quality and terrible efficiency.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 6 months ago:
Dud! You’re getting a Dull.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
Maybe but I don’t think that is well tested legally yet. For instance, I’ve learned things from there, but when I share some knowledge I don’t attribute it to all the underlying sources of my knowledge. If, on the other hand, I shared a quote or copypasta from there I’d be compelled to do so I suppose.
I’m just not sure how neural networks will be treated in this regard. I assume they’ll conveniently claim that they can’t tie answers directly to underpinning training data.