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- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 15 hours ago:
Tax land in particular. Can’t hide land easily from tax office.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 15 hours ago:
Definitely proof reading. Especially for people who can barely write intelligibly. They can check themselves if the meaning is still correct and they will learn grammar from the process.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 1 day ago:
Looks like click-bait. It is a proposal from by one old fart in the 800 member House of Lords. Not a serious Bill.
Read this thread…
www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/…/nubbach/
Having said that, it is important to nip such ideas in the bud.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 week ago:
They are not banning the Fediverse because there is no central body to fine.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 week ago:
It is a game of cat and mouse which China has not solved.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 week ago:
If the website owners do it, then ???
I bet you most of them won’t
I already know a heap of VPN servers I can’t access youtube or reddit from.
IP addresses change. Your VPN server will change them (if it is any good).
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 week ago:
No they won’t be.
Firstly it is technically impossible. Even China cannot do it.
Secondly, businesses need them for WFH.
Thirdly, the government is not implementing a block themselves. They are trying to pass on the unreasonable onus onto website owners.
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 1 week ago:
Please do not mention workarounds here
Why not? The eSafety commission offers online tutorials on workarounds.
- Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code 1 week ago:
Phreeli won’t, at least, offer a platform for spammers and robocallers, Merrill says. Even without knowing users’ identities, he says the company will block that kind of bad behavior by limiting how many calls and texts users are allowed, and banning users who appear to be gaming the system. “If people think this is going to be a safe haven for abusing the phone network, that’s not going to work,” Merrill says.
- Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook 2 weeks ago:
Yes because of someone installs the Facebook app they have had their phone contacts list slurped. They then build a map of our circles of friends.
- Comment on Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook 2 weeks ago:
I changed to a plausible sounding name and it worked. I prepared a doctored passport image but it wasn’t necessary.
For another, The FB account they wanted me to get at least two user friends to verify they know me or some bs like that. I didn’t butter. Years later I was able to log into that one anyhow.
They know that they can’t push too hard.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
But someone pointed out that Hyundai (the subject of the video) is in this group. One wonders if they are there to sabotage it.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
Please seek help
Yep, bully, as I said. An entitled one.
And you conveniently avoided the software example (basic vs pro).
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
I would prefer you discussed the point rather than trying to bully me into agreeing.
It is quite possible that the current seat warming arrangements are such that it ends up cheaper for those who want it (since it isn’t custom installed physically) and is of no consequence to those who don’t want it.
If it was enabled for everyone the price of the car could conceivably go up for everyone. Admittedly that may not necessarily be how it works out but it is a possibility.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
But his comparisons because people don’t buy the car expecting the seats to have the warming feature. It probably is even offered as an option that the customer rejected upon purchase.
When I download software and pay for the basic tier it has the pro features built in anyhow. I can pay to unlock those pro features but I don’t expect to use those features already just because I already have them.
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 3 weeks ago:
ProPals are the ones who redefined it. Just because you are essentially in an echo chamber here doesn’t make you correct.
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 3 weeks ago:
No, you made that up.
It is merely a term for having a state for (primarily) Jews in the Levant.
Some Zionists want all of the Levant including parts of Egypt, Jordan, Syria. Unfortunately there a few of these in government currently.
- Comment on In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
And isn’t the winking smiley the most relevant for sarcasm?
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
Some of those options are easy to retrofit, others require assembling to order.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
Two sets of cars, not seats.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
You wouldn’t have a warm seat anyhow if they only installed the seat for prepaid customers but it is possible that those customers would pay more because it would cost more to make two sets of cars. Or four sets if you include optional fancy suspension, or eight sets if you include digital radio, or sixteen if…
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
Risks exist. Be informed.
He is revealing the risk, he is informing. He is indignant that it is a risk which is deliberately obscured by the manufacturer.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
You make it shine like football team loyalty.
I am pro fairness, not pro-consumer. I don’t think the consumers are justified in their entitlement in this case.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
Of course you can do business that way. If the heating costs $x, and half the customers pay for it but $5x is charged then that is a profit.
The alternative would be to make two sets of cars (with and without heating). Or four sets of cars if another similar optional feature is shipped like this. Or 8 permutations if there are the features etc
It can certainly be cheaper to install them by default even if not all customers pay to enable them.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
OK I accept the analogies are not good equivalents.
It is not necessarily true that everyone has already paid for the seat warmer hardware. The car may cost the same as if it didn’t have the hardware installed.
The manufacturer may find it cheaper to just install it for everyone and wear the cost in the hope that enough people will pay for the warmer to be enabled.
Of course it is possible that everyone pays for the hardware anyhow but it is not necessarily the case.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
It is like having a grandstand at a football stadium which costs extra to use. Do you resent that?