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- Comment on European Union finds PornHub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access their services 2 weeks ago:
In that case: sorry to blow up on you. I have seen to many comments on here claiming these things while being 100% serious. I just saw your comment and incidentally had time to write the above for once, so, here we are.
I agree that there’s no way to completely cut teens off from porn. Your torrent example is perfectly demonstrating this.
But I also do not understand the current outrage at anything trying to improve the situation, even when it’s not some stupid “scan your face” scheme.
- Comment on European Union finds PornHub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access their services 2 weeks ago:
I’d also like to think so. In this case though, this was clearly not what was intended, and also involved a lot of porn.
- Comment on European Union finds PornHub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access their services 2 weeks ago:
So let me get this straight:
When I was 13, I managed to figure out the router password, disabled child protection for myself, then watched porn on my Android 2.3 phone that I had managed to put a custom ROM on because I liked the way it looked and had no idea what a “launcher” was yet.
This is not a hypothetical btw.
My parents were smart enough to enable appropriate blocking and secured access to those settings. I’m not sure something on-device was available at the time, but I included the bit about the custom rom to demonstrate that, even though I didn’t know WTF I was doing, I was more than capable of fucking around with the tech to get it to do what I wanted.
So were my parents in breach of their duties on child protection?
I don’t think they were. They actually did educate themselves (visiting a course / parent meetup to discuss and learn how to protect me from the Internet), and implemented everything they learned.
I was just a little shit and found a way around this.
And this is NOT an edgecase. Because guess what. It takes one kid in the friend group to figure out a way to circumvent parental controls, and then EVERYONE knows how to do it.
It simply does not fucking matter how well intentioned, knowledgeable, and present the parents are (mine were all of that).
Going “this would not be a problem if parents parented” is the LAZIEST fucking excuse, and I’m sick and tired of reading about it on here.
(Because I probably have to make it clear: I’m not advocating for photo/passport scanning, third party age verification,… and all that bullshit. What I think would be a FANTASTIC idea would be privacy-preserving age verification. There are two good ways to do this: 1) on a login attempt, prove that you are of age by presenting a fresh, signed token from a government service proving that you are over 18, and nothing else; site does not get any info, government does not know what you were trying to access; 2) a device-level age field. Proof here comes from the device itself, and can be 100% privacy preserving; just a “yep, is of age”. In this scenario… GUESS WHAT, PARENTS GET ENABLED TO PARENT “PROPERLY” BY PROVIDING THEM WITH A GOOD, SIMPLE, PRIVACY-PRESERVING TECHNICAL SOLUTION.)
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 2 weeks ago:
t’s coming whether we like it or not.
Counterpoint: LLMs are a dead-end for AGI. And outsourcing tasks to a “sometimes correct, but very often wrong” bot starts looking like a not-so-good idea once you actually need to pay for the compute.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 2 weeks ago:
If you’re thinking of the list that I’m thinking of: that is completely unfounded. They started with the premise “AI will be perfect in 2 years” and then drew a graph that looked good-ish. There is no scientific value to it.
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 2 weeks ago:
Federated ForgeJo can’t come soon enough.
- Comment on Nier Automata 2 weeks ago:
Please make sure to do B, C, D and E as well.
- Comment on where? 2 weeks ago:
So what. I’m sleeping, remember?
- Comment on where? 2 weeks ago:
Obviously next to House. He wants his seat neighbors to stfu and let him sleep. I want the same. It’s perfect.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
- German (native)
- English (pretty well I hope; half my work life and almost all my free time spent on the internet, shows, books,… has been happening in English since, like, 8th grade)
- Japanese (learning; enough for talking about food, the weather, hobbies,… in somewhat acceptable grammar 😄)
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 3 weeks ago:
That’s why safewords should be passphrases! /s
Hold on, actually no, not /s
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a very steep curve to start, with some additional minor steep parts along the way, but it’s not a long curve. Once you got the core concepts and the basic language constructs, you’ve learned most of what you’ll ever need.
Two nice resources: search.nixos.org is super handy, and you can search GitHub with language:nix and a search term to get tons of examples from other people.
Oh, and nix and just is actually a pretty common combo!
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 4 weeks ago:
Yep, exactly.
To be fair, if you use Debian, Arch, Fedora,… long enough, you also know how to tweak your machine for every purpose. In Nix, it’s just somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy, because you have to know how to tweak your system to achieve… anything, and then it’s the same tweaking mechanics for every other purpose as well.
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 4 weeks ago:
My Steam Deck also runs NixOS.
Because this way I can much more comfortably configure it, plus everything game related I automated through nix for my Desktop (e.g. mod installs, reShade config,…) immediately and without any extra steps also applies to the Steam Deck.
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Everything is NixOS. Because it’s perfect for everything.
- Comment on Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement 4 weeks ago:
Not to dimish your work at all, but: the Sonarr upgrades absolutely do work.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 4 weeks ago:
Ah, too bad. IMO better clients would make it drastically to convince people to switch.
Hm, I can create groups (also on a muc subdomain), and the other members are added, but writing a message triggers “x left the group” for everyone. Dunno. Probably something trivial I overlooked. But honestly… Weather is too good today to be bothered 😄
Ah, I already had a TURN/STUN coturn server set up for matrix and jitsi, so it was just a matter of telling prosody about that. So I cheated a little I guess 😄 Here is my full config for that, in the unlikely event that you’re using NixOS.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 4 weeks ago:
Very cool!
Re: the backup / restore of state in NixOS: I found myself writing the same things over and over again for each VM/service, so finally wrote this wrapper module (in action e.g. here for Jellyfin), which confgures both the backup services and timers, as well as adding a simple
rsync-restore-jellyfincommand to the system packages. In case you find this useful and don’t already have your own abstractions, or a sufficiently different use case 😄 - Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 4 weeks ago:
Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.
Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.
On the other hand though, voice and video calls have worked flawlessly.
- Comment on Free and open source Audiobookshelf Android client 4 weeks ago:
Awesome! And good job, looks great!
- Comment on Free and open source Audiobookshelf Android client 4 weeks ago:
Why are there no screenshots in the README.
Yes I know I can just install the app, but for an app that primarily seems to define itself by its UI improvements over the established competitor, the screenshots are the deciding factor in the question “Should I download and install this?”, and no screenshots defaults to “no”.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 5 weeks ago:
So which is it: has this topic been taught as super important since childhood, or doe no-one know about it?
Also pretty sure a 4 year old would have little problem understanding “gender expression is how you act and dress and talk, gender roles are what people think you should act and dress and talk like”. So, IDK, maybe have your nephew checked or something?
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 5 weeks ago:
Are you confusing gender roles with gender expression again?
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 5 weeks ago:
Interesting discussion on this from yesterday on the NixOS forums:
- Comment on WhatsApp will now show ads. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah the UX for setting it up was not great. Conversely though, the UX for using it has been fantastic so far. My biggest concern was that the clients would feel dated (on Android esp), but no, they’re surprisingly polished!
- Comment on WhatsApp will now show ads. 5 weeks ago:
Oh no! And just when I finally got around to setting up an XMPP server, too!
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 month ago:
I think the trans movement dug a deep hole for itself when it promoted transition surgery for minors.
We didn’t. Noone is even advocating for that. That is 100% a right-wing straw-man.
That works both ways though, when an “F” on the license is for someone who is 6’3" with quarterback shoulders and five-o’clock shadow.
Exactly, and now there’s gonna be a ton of beardy, muscly men who are forced to revert to an “F” on their licenses.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 month ago:
No, with the incorrect one.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It absolutely is.
There’s also a lot of different variations of fetishes involving piss. For the “get pissed on / in / drink it” part of the fetish, I have a hunch that piss sits right on the boundary of gross/humiliating, but not actually harmful.
Well.
For me at least.
- Comment on Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40% 1 month ago:
So do they