HexesofVexes
@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
Why, a hexvex of course!
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 13 hours ago:
All such laws fail to appreciate one key point - if little Timmy wants titties, little Timmy is going to move heaven and earth to get them.
Credit card for id? Sorry mum, the call of the boobies was too great.
Scanned photo id? Sorry dad, just borrowing your license - you understand.
Facial age estimation? Time to buy a grandpa facerig and voice morph with my pocket money!
On the upside, the next generation is going to be very very very tech literate, for necessity is the mother of invention. Sadly, they’re also likely to be into some dark shit as only non-conforming sites are easily accessible.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 days ago:
Erm…
I think there are errors on both parts here…
1.9/170 is about 1.1176%. 4 decimal places is still an unacceptable level of rounding here, but it’sa damn sight better than 0/1 decimal place. Both of you were off on this.
It is definitely right to split rape and sexual assault, they’re very different crimes - combining them is double counting which is a poor faith tactic used to inflate numbers.
1.1176% per year DEFINITELY does not translate directly to that for a lifetime. To put it into context, if you have a 1% chance of being shot each day (assuming BINS) you have a [(0.99)^365]*100% (or 2.6%) of not being shot at all that year - note binomial is not appropriate for rape odds calculations but it’s a nice example of how low odds per year DO NOT translate to low odds per lifetime.
Self report is absolute garbage - it’s the worst form of stat gathering and often leads to socially advantageous answers being given. Using self-report stats as a keystone to an argument is dangerous at best.
The “known rapist” is a tricky one, as it depends how you define rape. Sex under the influence of alcohol you later regret - tricky to place in the at home (you knew them enough to go home with) vs stranger (did you really know them). While it’s nice to give clear cut numbers, this isn’t a clear cut scenario.
/Statsrant
Seems to me you both care about this topic - sounds to me like you should both go data hunting and explore the topic together. Two opposing perspectives makes a great paper, and you generally learn more!
My two cents - being alone with someone is always risky. Trying to assign which is riskier (men or women) is foolish, it creates the dynamic of “men vs women” rather than the desired “everyone vs rapists”.
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 1 week ago:
Tiny Truss Tower?
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
Managed this as a millennial - had absolutely nothing to do with my parents helping pay half my deposit. Nope, absolutely nothing to do with that whatsoever.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 1 week ago:
Not so much in London, and usually you need to pay for the public ones.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
And during those billions of minutes, most of them are cursing the existence of the spyware experience that is teams.
- Comment on one bright second 2 weeks ago:
We live in but a bright second, yet are determined to fill it with darkness unending.
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 2 weeks ago:
4chan is an extreme example of an unmoderated site - indeed it’s what the OSA was designed to combat. If this legislative test fails, it would undermine the acts legitimacy, and provoke questions as to it’s existence.
It’s a shit law - it’s not fit for purpose. Its sole reason for existence is to controle public speech, not protect the children.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 3 weeks ago:
The three pathways for most academics
Option 1 - shit out a large pile of bad (either misleading, over-sensationalised, or just clearly partial work) papers, but get funding to do the same for another year.
Option 2 - work hard to create a quality paper, run out of time, no more funding, off you go to industry.
Option 3 - take a teaching intensive role and never have any time for research, oh and also get paid less than in industry.
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 3 weeks ago:
Neat summary and cleanup - editing original post to point at this.
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 3 weeks ago:
…discord.com/…/30326565624343-How-to-Complete-Age…
Check down on data security ;)
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 3 weeks ago:
So, I looked at age verification - it was made clear photos were on device only and never transmitted.
If this turns out to be false, then the legal fallout would be apocalyptic.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 4 weeks ago:
I was thinking that, you’d think they’d strike once the pot is a little larger.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 4 weeks ago:
This was kind of breach so predictable even surprisedpikachu.txt isn’t enough, but it must be done.
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- Comment on In this essay... 4 weeks ago:
Ehh…
So, it’s more a case that the system cannot prove it’s own consistency (an system cannot prove it won’t lead to a contradiction). So the proof is valid within the system, but the validity of the system is what was considered suspect (i.e. we cannot prove it won’t produce a contradiction from that system alone).
These days we use relative consistency proofs - that is we assume system A is consistent and model system B in it thus giving “If A is consistent, then so too must B”.
As much as I hate to admit it, classical set theory has been fairly robust - though intuitionistic logic makes better philosophical sense.
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 5 weeks ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2mvT1ddiBc
Alas, the game itself was long ago murdered.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 1 month ago:
Didn’t know he had a degree in mathematics - that’s a fun one to share with my students.
Thanks!
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 month ago:
How dare you! You can’t throw facts at puritanical arguments; that’s illegal.
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- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
Hi intel management system, you can be thrown into abnormal states where you sit there eating glue.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
Eh, just means it isn’t plug and play. Once you have the hardware, you are the admin.
It may get tougher, but it’ll never be impossible.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 month ago:
Just allow companies to charge a small fee to process a DMCA takedown, and establish a daily compensation rate based on view counts for the uploader (cost payable by the company issuing the takedown - not the entity they represent). Suddenly you only issue a takedown for clear infringement, with the cost paid by the uploader only when clear proof is given that it is a DMCA infringement. If there is a long delay, the uploader gets more compensation, whereas the uploader is only liable for the initial takedown fee.
- Comment on Losing my resolve 2 months ago:
"How do I share my screen?’
“Ctrl+shift+H”
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 months ago:
Staunch conservative - wants a totalitarian state.
Nothing newsworthy there.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 2 months ago:
I miss thicker netbooks. Easy enough to repair most things, and it had every port you could ever want.
I hate the new “ultra-light” fashion. Give me thick, durable, powerful, and ported!
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 2 months ago:
Oh no, someone might not be paying them for their user generated content (!)
To be fair, it’s probably best that history forgets this period of the web…
- Comment on THIS is always the correct response 2 months ago:
Honestly, I’ve used “hey, can we keep it to friends” a lot over the years. Partners I’ve more earnestly turned down have sat there and quizzed me nonstop as to why, some have turned violent, and then there are the quiet ones that just slander you continually. Emotional blackmail is the bare minimum I’ve expected over the years.
The amount of absolutely insane women out there is beyond frightening.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
Good to know, I’ll go ask one if the profs in our school of built environment for more info. See if they can offer more insight there.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
Definitely a good point to raise; thanks for doing so!
Here’s a fun one - where do you stand on those forced to commute dur to housing prices near inner city work (e.g. I live in near poverty paying a mortgage for a small place near where I work due to poor public transport so I can walk to work - how does this figure into the anti-car vision? Is it an employer issue, a government issue, a personal sacrifice, or something else entirely?)
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
I dunno, the use of AI Ethicist fits as they’re not against the concept of generative AI as a whole, they’re against unethical generative AI (in terms of stolen training data and environmental harm).
If the world transitioned to a post-IP (intellectual property) society (as we need to), with AI eating less power, then AI Ethicists are unlikely to object.