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- Comment on Don't we all hate this 4 days ago:
And they get credit for donating even tho it was actually their customers.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 6 days ago:
Schools are meant to teach kids how to think critically, along with basic facts.
Giving them laptops doesn’t teach that part unless you go out of your way for it.
- Comment on I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer. 1 week ago:
I reported a vulnerability at work when I found out I could make transactions on our system look like someone else made them.
No reply for 6 months, then, when I was in a new department they asked if it was still a problem. I told them I do not think it was fixed but I don’t work there anymore so they closed out the ticket.
🙃
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 1 week ago:
Spencer leaving Microsoft: Yay!
Spencer being replaced by a Marketing Exec who leads an AI division: FUUUUUUCK
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 week ago:
This is the real reason Nintendo is suing emulators and ROM hosts. They JUST realized there is a market for this. Took them 30+ years to figure it out.
- Comment on Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids 1 week ago:
Hopefully it doesn’t come up, but I’m so glad to know her family has a plan in place to keep her safe.
- Comment on Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids 1 week ago:
Most games are games with a chat feature.
ROBLOX IS A CHATROOM WITH A GAMES FEATURE.
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It’s a chatroom where 60% of the user base is under the age of 16 and 40% is under 12.
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Grooming happens on Roblox. Predators move that conversation to places Discord which is where the crimes happen.
I am an adult who helped a kid that was the victim of online predators.
When talking to your kids about online safety, come up with a plan just like you might for a fire. Make sure they know what to do when something makes them uncomfortable and make sure you identify a 3rd party adult that you trust and your kid feels safe talking to, maybe a close family friend or an aunt/uncle.
That last part is how I got involved. I don’t have my own kids, but I knew a kid that felt more comfortable talking to me about that stuff than to his parents.
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- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 week ago:
Other robots might be able to, but I wouldn’t trust a Tesla RoboTaxi get me safely across a single street.
- Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news” 1 week ago:
Brave owns and ad company. They are absolutely tracking users.
- Comment on This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good 1 week ago:
You could be right: The bots have been very bad but I agree that I’m seeing them get shutdown faster lately.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 2 weeks ago:
I got mine for my dogs. I wanted to be able to check on them when they were outside while I was working.
It does not has unless it detects dogs or people on my yard. It had a feature to block out the street or my neighbors property, and I did that.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 2 weeks ago:
I have a Eufy T8210 with a Home Base. The Home Base holds the hard drive. Eufy does have cloud storage now so I don’t know if they still sell this or not.
Some of their products also have an SD Card slot.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 2 weeks ago:
I have a doorbell camera with local storage. I specifically got one that doesn’t transmit my data to their servers.
Everything I do from now on will be self hosted. Fuck Big Brother.
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 2 weeks ago:
u up?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Roblox looks cute like Minecraft so parents don’t pay attention to it.
Most games have a chat feature tacked on, but Roblox is more like a chatroom with games added on. It’s a chatroom where around 60% of the user base is under the age of 16. 40% of the users are under the age of 12.
Grooming starts on Roblox but the bad stuff happens in places like Discord private servers. Roblox doesn’t do anything to stop it because the can claim ignorance since it doesn’t happen directly in their chat.
I know a kid who went through this. I was the one that had to flag all the messages for Discord to get involved. The kid talked to me about the online groomers bc he wasn’t comfortable talking to his parents since he hadn’t told them that he was gay. I can’t imagine kids like him who deal with abuse because they don’t have anyone they feel safe to tell.
If you have kids that play these games, talk to them about online safety. Make sure you have a plan for when something bad happens. When not if. Work together with your kid to find a third party that you trust and the kid would feel comfortable talking to if something happens and they are afraid to tell you, maybe a relative or a close friend.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 3 weeks ago:
I have learned more from your comment than anything else in my adult life.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 3 weeks ago:
It won’t last forever. It will rot the day after I buy it. -_-
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 3 weeks ago:
This is why the creators of Veep ended their show.m when Trump got elected.
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 3 weeks ago:
I thought their CEO was a 15 year old boy.
- Comment on Orion Browser 3 weeks ago:
I use it in iOS too and it’s great. I haven’t tried it on Mac, but I would. Id prefer open source solutions but for an iOS browser it’s solid.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying the 30% fee is fair, but every single company charges 30% except Epic and the Microsoft PC store which north charge 12%.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 4 weeks ago:
Because they keep cramming it in all my apps at work and every time I load my email, it tries to open Copilot?
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 4 weeks ago:
The amount of waifu and furry porn games in the Switch store is higher than you’d think. Why censor Dispatch?
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 4 weeks ago:
It’s too late. You already spent 20+ years training people to use the shittiest version you could give them.
- Comment on YSK that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the best engineering school in the world. You can take free courses at MIT online. 4 weeks ago:
Harvard also has free courses online!
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 4 weeks ago:
3 post, no comments. Less than a day old. You a bot?
But I’m American and I’m not taking his advice. He’s a moron.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 5 weeks ago:
Because they’ve title their home page as such. Here’s what I see when I search.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 5 weeks ago:
Looks like they’ve been leaning hard into AI. Ugh.
- Comment on Fake moo 5 weeks ago:
On top of this, some restaurants are pretty upfront about it. If I remember correctly, Sonic burger patties are part beef, part mushroom.
