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- Comment on 1 week ago:
more national instances would probably solve that, i think, so you can just go to your local one.
That’s roughly how I chose my instance… I thought I’d choose an instance geographically close to me for latency reasons and such. I didn’t know anything about different Lemmy instances at the time and didn’t (for example) know that my instance actually hosts very few popular communities, so I’d be participating mostly in remote ones. :D
- Comment on Does Anyone Else get the thing where an otherwise nice-tasting cheese randomly tastes of vomit, or have I just been really unlucky and eaten a lot of mouldy/rotten cheese in my time? 1 week ago:
No, but I remember once reading an online post where someone didn’t know they were allergic to (certain?) cheese and thought everyone reacted to it the way they did.
- Comment on It's easier to eat salad with chopsticks than with a fork. 1 week ago:
The only thing for which I have found that to be true is sushi. Everything else is way easier with a fork.
- Comment on Why do people call Fiji and Voss Water “Rich People” Water? 1 week ago:
There are many places other than “disaster response areas” in the world where tap water isn’t safe to drink.
I agree with you when it comes to bottled non-sparkling water at home. But sparkling water doesn’t come from public fountains nor do those exist everywhere you might travel to.
- Comment on UK Politicians Continue to Miss the Point in Latest Social Media Ban Proposal 1 week ago:
A platform I’ve had an account on since 2003.
lol you’ve literally had an account there for more than the age of majority and they cannot guess you might be older than that
- Comment on Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update 1 week ago:
Plenty of countries are constitutional monarchies (e.g. the Scandinavian countries, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain), that nowadays has relatively little to do with what any of their government policies are… plenty of republics do plenty of primitively stupid things too…
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 1 week ago:
you mean like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutraloaf or what
- Comment on Anyone know a good and active IWTL community? 1 week ago:
I hoped that the answer to this would be in the post body, but no, no opportunity for me to learn about something new. 😕
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 1 week ago:
xkcd.com/810/ was oddly prophetic
- Comment on The internet seems to despise both the role of "Parents" and "Children"... 1 week ago:
Kids likely don’t frequent forums like Lenny.
“Kids” being people of what age? Because I started regularly posting to web forums at the age of 10 and if Lemmy had existed then, I might very well have joined it.
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 1 week ago:
Pikachu is meant to be a mouse though, kinda not very fitting.
- Comment on what do you think is the future of the internet and tech in general? 1 week ago:
Either we quickly find a way to undo the damage government regulation has done to it in the last ~10 years, or we lose all the good it could do for society forever because the coming generations won’t know what they’re missing. :(
- Comment on The 10 Commandments apparently mentions absolutely nothing about protecting children from abuse. 1 week ago:
Neither in Judaism nor Christianity are the Ten Commandments the only religious rules that exist.
- Comment on We hardly remember how our parents raised us when we were newborn/infants. How can we be expected to raise our own kids after they are born ? 1 week ago:
Part of it is an instinct. All mammals, including humans, have evolved to be at least somewhat competent at raising offspring because those that weren’t had an obvious evolutionary disadvantage. Think of how other animals do it; if they can do that, why wouldn’t you?
But it’s a skill like any other, you can read books or watch videos or attend courses about it, or you can ask people who’ve successfully done it before (such as your parents).
- Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Just Training A Generation In The Art Of The Workaroundwww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Is trying weed edibles worth it? 1 week ago:
I tried them when I was in the Netherlands (at more than ten years older than you are) and they made me feel bad and vomit most times I tried. I have no intention of trying them again, but YMMV.
Smoking weed meanwhile didn’t cause any such symptoms. Would recommend doing that instead.
- Comment on What if medicine intentionally tastes bad? 2 weeks ago:
Not all of it does? The medicine I take most often is ibuprofen pills (when I get headaches), which tastes completely neutral, neither good nor bad.
- Comment on US regulator won't follow Europe's lead and stick higher age ratings on games with loot boxes and daily quests, since it might confuse parents 2 weeks ago:
“Daily quests”? You mean like how in Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald you get a berry per day from some NPCs and can check once per day whether Mirage Island was visible…? (I remember a phase in my childhood where I did that every day.) Or whatever is meant by this?
- Comment on Break privacy to make privacy? Age verification isn’t the answer 2 weeks ago:
I also read that Facebook has been lobbying for (OS-level) age verification, but not for this reason…
If that were the reason, why don’t they just force their users to verify their identities? They could always do that as far as I’m concerned, that doesn’t need to affect any other platforms.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on 4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster 2 weeks ago:
I hope the UK one day becomes a less anti-freedom country because I would really find it interesting to travel there, but things like this are killing my desire to do so.
John Perry Barlow got it right 30 years ago: www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 weeks ago:
whoever employs LLM
incumbent upon the handler to assume liabillity
I agree. If you make any kind of real-world decision based on the output of AI, you should be liable for it as if you’d made that decision yourself.
But I remember reading some news stories about cases where people (often minors) chatted with chatbots and managed to get those chatbots into states where the chatbots encouraged that the users harm themselves (in some cases even commit suicide?). As tragic as that is, I don’t see how it’s morally right to hold the AI companies responsible for that unless it can be shown they did this on purpose. All the AI did in such cases was what it was advertised and understood to do: generate plausible-sounding text based on user input. Those are the cases I’m talking about.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t, not in general.
There are good and bad uses of AI. For example I used AI to generate my profile picture here on Lemmy (would you have noticed?). In general the creation of art is one of the best uses of AI I can think of; it doesn’t have serious consequences if it goes wrong, and it can easily be reviewed by a human whether it looks as it should.
But using AI to make actually meaningful business decisions without any human review at all? Using AI for customer service? Any company that does that deserves VERY negative consequences.
I don’t agree with talking points like “AI companies should be required to pay copyright holders of their training data” or “AI is bad because of the environmental impact” or “AI is bad because of RAM prices” or “AI companies should be legally responsible for any mistakes the AI makes (such as libel or encouraging users’ suicide)” or such things; I think all of these are nonsense.
I believe in general that AI gets too much attention in the media. It’s really not that impactful.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
It’s just the normal way of doing things I grew up with, only much later in life did I find out that this isn’t normal in all cultures.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
why do we eat dessert when we do?
speak for yourself?
In some cultures, such as mine (Austria, but also in Germany) it’s most common for the main (hot) meal to be eaten around the middle of the day, and if dessert is eaten, it’s with that meal. In the evening we usually just eat a relatively small amount of cold food (ham sandwiches or similar) and no dessert.
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- Comment on Chinese parents love to dismiss mental illness, but simultaneously love to threaten to "send their 'misbehaving' kid to a mental hospital". 2 weeks ago:
Are you seriously comparing child acting to the kind of thing in the comic? :o
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 weeks ago:
prove your identity. If you are an American citizen
how do you verify someone is a citizen if you don’t make them prove their identity?
I live in an EU country and absolutely do have to prove my identity when I vote. I do not have to “register to vote”, or more precisely, I’m already required to register my residence with the government, which doubles as voter registration (the government knows my DOB and citizenship, so knows whether I meet those criteria). Getting disenfranchised for criminal convictions is a thing here, but only very rarely and AFAIK only when specifically sentenced to it.