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- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 14 hours ago:
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 2 days ago:
In Colorado those changes can happen same day within a few hours. No need for multiple days. It will be 14f in the morning, snowing, then by lunch it’s all melted and 60-70 then by dinner it’s incredibly windy and raining.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 4 days ago:
They’re injecting data into the sites during archive so that wouldn’t work.
- Comment on CONTACT LEFT! 6 days ago:
Wait what’s the war crime? Theft?
- Comment on Our kryptonite 1 week ago:
You got me.
- Comment on Our kryptonite 1 week ago:
I mean the rock isn’t going to kill you. It’s the radiation that does, so no, our weakness isn’t a rock.
- Comment on it isn't 1 week ago:
What is it? (The thing in the circle)
- Comment on But the Canadien stock market is over 33,000! 1 week ago:
Yeah the refs clearly don’t care cause they want the sport to be self refereed.
- Comment on But the Canadien stock market is over 33,000! 1 week ago:
They have refs
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 1 week ago:
The definition you quoted comes from a 2010 business paper that literally states that it includes blogs. So yes, it does, because that’s where all these business and political morons got the definition.
If you create a website, then you are sharing content. And if people read that content then you have created a network. That’s the “definition” according to the government.
But that’s not what social media ever meant. Honestly I’m not going to argue this again, if you really want to see the true nexus of what social media was and is you can read my previous comments on the matter. I’m sure you can find them in my profile.
Suffice to say, social media is an incredibly narrow subset of social networks and the internet isn’t a social network though it is a “network where people are social”.
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 1 week ago:
Nah, you just speed up then slam on the brakes to open it, then you can close it as you said.
- Comment on Dogs welcome 2 weeks ago:
Hoarse.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
And by that definition you include every website on the planet. Your blog, the comment section of your local news, etc.
Just because you think that news sites comment sections aren’t included doesn’t mean that definition doesn’t include it, cause it does. That applies to that entire definition.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
Can you give an example of the sort of regulation a social media site should need to follow which Amazon should be exempt from? Or the sort of rule that should bind reddit and Facebook but not Amazon?
A better question is what sort of legislation should apply to every website on the planet, without exception. Because that’s what the current definition does, makes the law so broad as to be pointless. Why are laws being passed that affect every website, when the problem is a few very massive websites.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
It’s a forum. Just like all the other forums before it. It just happened to get very popular. To be clearer: if you define Reddit as social media then you are including almost every single website on the planet. It makes the definition completely pointless.
Regulations shouldn’t be defined in this way.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
I’m just going to repeat myself for the hundredth time here. This is exactly what happens when you define words in such broad terms. Social media does not include things like discord. It doesn’t include Reddit, it doesn’t include Lemmy. But because so many damn people just refer to any site that they can talk with other people on as social media, it became enshrined in law and now literally every service you touch is legally defined as social media.
This is not hyperbole; with the current definitions across numerous countries, Amazon (the place where you buy things, not other services like games) is legally defined as social media.
Words mean things and when words are hijacked for other purposes it allows governments to strip away your rights without you realizing.
- Comment on No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare 2 weeks ago:
Air tags use UWB radio, not Bluetooth.
- Comment on No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare 2 weeks ago:
Simple: “do you trust Amazon to not give away private pictures of you getting home late at night or leaving early in the morning? What happens when Amazon thinks that you’ve committed a crime you know you haven’t? Your own devices will be used against you, your friends, and your family. It isn’t if, but when.”
- Comment on What's going on with Olympic skiers and penises? 2 weeks ago:
There are studies. Hence the multiple cheating scandals, because we know how small of a change can massively affect your flight. Here’s one:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12611860/
Changing the suit circumference by +2 cm increased the lift area (𝐶𝑙𝐴) by ∼5% and the drag area (𝐶𝑑𝐴) by ∼4%. This was simulated to change the jump length by 5.8 m, which corresponds to an increase of 2.8 m/cm in suit tolerance, for a reference jump of 130 m
2.8 meters for every increase in a single centimeter of circumference.
- Comment on What's going on with Olympic skiers and penises? 2 weeks ago:
Every additional centimeter of circumference on your suit gives you almost ten extra feet of distance. It’s insane.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
So the devs who created it can’t run an instance and it doesn’t scale properly. Yeah, I’m just gonna go out on a real short limb here and say that maybe the problem isn’t the instance.
Matrix is terrible any way you slice it.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, clearly I responded too harshly. Honestly I’m just tired of the suggestions to use Matrix, when myself (and several other people I know personally) have constant issues with it. I’ve tried to use Matrix for over 3 years now and I am required to use it sometimes, but every time I’m incredibly frustrated.
I think they and the free software community are trying to put together a good solution.
I agree, and I do think we need that, but sometimes the focus should be on usability before security. I know how much that sucks, but if you look at Lemmy you see the same thing. The focus was on usability first. Security came later, because (honestly) security is kinda pointless when every user can set up their own instance and intercept any posts they want. We’ll get there eventually with security, but if people aren’t using your platform then security is pointless.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
I’m using the default matrix server and I’ve tried with Element and FluffyChat. I’ve never used a different device to access Matrix. It has always been Firefox through Element, and then when that stopped working I switched to try to use FluffyChat which also did not work.
To expand, “unable to decrypt” would affect a lot of users. That’s a good thing and exactly what you want it to do when not correctly trusted.
No, you do not want this affecting every user who has done nothing to change their environment. The device is still trusted, else I wouldn’t be able to sign in and get new messages at all. Here’s a massive list detailing many of the ways this can happen and note that this goes back to 2022. So for 4 years now they’ve had numerous issues with thousands of users being able to decrypt messages sent on the only device they’ve ever used and it still isn’t fixed.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
Don’t know what to tell you. I’m literally unable to read messages sent to me, they all show up as “unable to decrypt”. If I can’t even use the damn protocol then how many clients it has doesn’t matter.
And I have tried different clients.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
So the Matrix admins don’t know how to actually install the thing then? lol not a good response homie.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
For me it broke down the second I started using it. I literally am unable to see chats on the only device I’ve ever used to access matrix, they’re all “can’t be decrypted”.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
Dude, I hate AI. I’m not an AI person. Don’t fucking classify me as that. You’re the one not reading the article and subsequently the study. It didn’t say it included the doctor’s diagnostic work. The study wasn’t about whether LLMs are accurate for doctors, that’s already been studied. The study this article talks about literally says that. Apparently LLMs are passing medical licensing exams almost 100% of the time, so it definitely has nothing to do with diagnostic notes. This study was about using LLMs to diagnose yourself. That’s it. That’s the study. Don’t spread bullshit. It’s tiring debunking stuff that is literally two sentences in.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that was the conclusion.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
You have misunderstood what they said.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
That’s not what the study showed though. The LLMs were right over 98% of the time…when given the full situation by a “doctor”. It was normal people who didn’t know what was important that were trying to self diagnose that were the problem.
Hence why studies are incredibly important. Even with the text of the study right in front of you, you assumed something that the study did not come to the same conclusion of.