Fedditor385
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- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 16 hours ago:
Kids aren’t stupid
Well, they ain’t smart either… Even adults know better but still many end up in situations that are preventable if you have just some small amount of rational thinking. Also… you first need to know it yourself, to be able to educate your kids. Most parents didn’t grow up with TikTok nor do they use it themselves. How to educate your kids about dangers you yourself don’t know or understand?
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 days ago:
Quite a lot of kids and teenagers have the same reaction to taking away their phone, as addicts have when taking away their drugs. I don’t think education can solve problems that are already affecting peoples mental and physical state. Not giving kids TikTok is same as not giving kids to much sugar. In small doses and controlled yes, but nothing you would give them free unlimited access to.
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 days ago:
The government is not wrong tbh. Young people are addicted to social media and scroll endlessly all the time, and I have myself came across, mildly put, disturbing content. I deleted most of my social media and use the bare minimum to only keep up with some remote friends.
I also don’t buy the argument that it’s censoring because it’s just one of many many channels people can freely communicate. TikTok alone does not mean democracy. Also, the same way it can support democracy, so can it be used to demolish it by repeating false claims to make them appear truthful. And if you add AI on top which can generate convincing images and videos of whatever…
- Comment on Example #3194 for blind people enjoying Mastodon/the fediverse BECAUSE many people post with picture/video description 2 days ago:
Well, there are people who encourage others to add alt text, and there are those who want to force everyone to add alt text. I saw both…
- Comment on Example #3194 for blind people enjoying Mastodon/the fediverse BECAUSE many people post with picture/video description 3 days ago:
There is also a seemingly toxic side to this, as people call out the ones who do not add alt text to their pictures. While it is helpful and inclusive, it is not a requirement and people who don’t do it (be it unknowingly or otherwise) should not be treated badly or called out for it.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 3 days ago:
Setup fail2ban
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 5 weeks ago:
You would need to do some research yourself, I am no expert in this… ogg/vorbis was an option for me, and it checks my requirements (high quality, acceptable size, supported on android).
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 5 weeks ago:
I am literally just now downloading my entire Spotify collection as high quality OGG Vorbis files. Ready for the future, however it will look like.