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- Comment on Normal 1 day ago:
And a wiener.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 2 days ago:
Exactly why I canceled Amazon Prime. 100% would recommend canceling. I don’t miss it.
- Comment on I want, nay *need*, to see your favourite pet photos 4 days ago:
- Comment on I want, nay *need*, to see your favourite pet photos 4 days ago:
This not my dog but it is my photo. I took this at a local grocery store. The owner must have been inside and when I left they were gone.
- Comment on Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive 1 week ago:
The Verge did a show on Netflix that covered something like this. I think the show was called The Future Of or something like that.
I only watched a couple episodes but one was about how it could be possible to save data in plants. Pretty cool.
- Comment on so cozy 🐟 1 week ago:
I’ve been here. Not to the ocean floor but to Grand Cayman where the Stingrays are. They are so accustomed to tourists feeding them the all gather in one area where the boats go to see them .
For a period of time, boats were banned from this because predators figured out they could have a Stingray buffet.
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 2 weeks ago:
Luckily for me, I was already running 64GB so now I’m down to 32GB. I can try to wait it out. -_- I don’t really need that much anyway, but I’m glad I had it when it was cheap
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 2 weeks ago:
Firefox kept crashing on me a few days ago. Decided to run MemTest86 and sure enough. Bad RAM.
- Comment on A modest proposal 2 weeks ago:
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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” 4 weeks ago:
Brave owns and ad company. They are absolutely tracking users.
- Comment on This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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? 5 weeks ago:
u up?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 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 5 weeks ago:
I have learned more from your comment than anything else in my adult life.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 month 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 1 month 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” 1 month ago:
I thought their CEO was a 15 year old boy.
- Comment on Orion Browser 1 month 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" 1 month 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%.
