Oh, no no no. It’s called “capitalism”. Supply and demand pricing at it’s finest! /s

Webm is a great format! I’ve converted (almost) all my media to webm for the space benefit, and it means jellyfin and other media streaming apps don’t have to transcode to make just about any connection work natively.

Could be referencing Margaret Lovatt, but still not really funny. The BtB episode about it was pretty funny though.

Anything that cares about people and doesn’t raise you to be a selfish and uncaring asshole is “woke” to them and has to be fixed

Completely agreed, but our opinions don’t change reality, and we see the same sort of requests from countries across the world. If something like this is going to happen, it’s better to fight for the version you want instead of holding your ground in absolute terms and getting whatever is given to you.

I’d much rather this didn’t exist at all, but if they’re going to do it anyway, this way is much less invasive and could be a lot better for our privacy.

Even taking this past the parental control aspect, there are plenty of sites that are mandated to age gated, and having that built in and able to dismiss those with a binary of ‘of age’/‘underage’ (confirm to send, obviously) would be great, and would remove the need for some of the existing privacy nightmare ID validation sites. Which would be a overall benefit.

I understand why people are upset, but isn’t the operating system asking the user for age and then that age being used to get through service age gated the better path forward?

I would much rather be able to tell my computer I’m an adult and be able to go to an adult site and have it use that instead of the adult site having to handle the load of age verification. If the age is set per-user, kid profiles and parent profiles can both work to limit content for kids without impacting what the parents see. Hell, even just not having to click through those stupid steam prompts every time I look at a game with an m rating or whatever would be awesome. Especially since my account is over 18yo on its own…

Oh man, I fucking miss the IR blaster. I loved having the ability to make custom remotes in my phone, made it so easy to control the crappy projector l was using at the time

Amazon can’t see shit that me and mine read, but that’s cuz I liberated my Kindle books and now read/listen to all of my Kindle/audible books through audiobookshelf.

So glad I made that jump a few years ago

What part of WW2 would you compare to Gazans? Would it be one of the sides that’s fighting in the war, or the people subjugated by an occupying power that had no regard for their lives? And did we call that war or was there another name for that🤔

Some dude who has lived under a rock and thinks a war of aggression is a good thing?

Not everyone is completely up on current events, and no one said it was a good thing.

Our words shape our thoughts. Call it like it is and don’t hide behind linguistics to soften the blow. Also, calling it a war is exactly what Israel wants, since calling it the genocide that it is makes them look all the more worse and keeps their genocidal actions in the forefront of the conversation.

Just call it what it is and stop using words that diminish he horrors that Israel is doing. Or keep calling it a war and playing into the Israeli propaganda.

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Right, but war implies it isn’t one side being massacred by the other because they don’t really have any army to fight back with.

Calling the Gaza Genocide a war hides the fact that there isn’t really any kind of armed resistance to Israel and that they’re just straight up trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza while colonizing it.

From the teeny thumbnail, I can tell that’s Technology Connections, and Alex is great for deep dives into random bits of tech.

Anyone interested in pinball machines can find a 3 part series on them, and its sooooo much fun to watch

I guess I can answer this, because I work in IT and that gives me the opportunity to feel smarter than people regularly. And despite also feeling like a moron regularly, the curse of competence tells me the imposter syndrome is bullshit.

It kinda looks like goatse.

If you’re not sure what that is, you have to decide if you want that cursed knowledge.

it had hoped its original safety principles “would encourage other AI companies to introduce similar policies.

This is exactly why self regulation is bullshit. Even if one company decides to do the right thing (and that’s kinda arguable here as you pointed out), plenty of other companies won’t handcuff their ability to profit, no matter the ethical implications.

How much of that profit less decade was just them reinvesting in their company as opposed to burning money like you’re trapped on Everest and need every bit of heat you can get?

I think you read way more into their comment than was written. They said nothing about transformers, only that these assistants are shit. Which, let’s admit, they are.

The underlying technology is cool, current implementations are trash and have no long term economical path to viability unless things radically change quickly.

What restrictions did they remove for trump? It already generates CSAM…

Alex Jones is everything he railed against, and all of his bullshit was performative. It’s so satisfying to hear Dan from Knowledge Fight rip his dumbass arguments apart and expose how much he lies and makes up shit.