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  • I'm also young. I had smart phones ans social media in highschool. The "disadvantage" no longer exists if parents make a coordonated effort to get their kids off smart phones. You don't need everyone, just a large enough group. I highly recommend The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

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  • So, he just needs a cell phone? Seems like they don't need a smart phone. Regular cell phones are still an option

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  • How many generations grew up without smart phones? Basically all of them. Why did it suddenly change that they are now "socially isolated" because they don't have smart phones?

    It's actually proven that children and teens benefit from quality over quantity of their friendships. They don't need to have surface level relationships with everyone they meet. They just need a few really good friends they interact with in real life.

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  • Couldn't that be said about any law that only applies to children? Under age drinking, smoking, etc. Why have laws when the parents should just stop them from doing it in the first place

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  • It is by nature very different from television. Television is purely entertainment, and is one sided. It's also only available when you are at home in front of a TV.

    Social media is two way, you engage with it directly. You are now comparing yourself to the perceived lives of those around you. For most adults, this is fine. It had proven to have a very negative impact on developing children/teens, especially young girls. Not to mention it is now always with you, always in your pocket. You have access to it 24/7, which is nothing like TV.

    TV has been around for a century and has not shown massive negative consequences on mental health. Social media and smart phones has been around for ~15 years and has ruined a generation. It is definitely not just the television replacement

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  • I think it's unrealistic also. I think a better solution is simply to ban endless scrolling. Require them to use pages is enforceable, and remove a proven addicting aspect to social media.

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  • This doesn't solve the problem at the core of social media. The inevitable comparison of fake lives on impressionable children/teens has been shown to cause depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideations. There is nothing that can be done algorithm or advertising wise that would stop that from happening.

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  • You should read the Anxious Generation. It goes into a lot of detail on research showing the damage social media has had on an entire generation. It's pretty undeniable that something needs to be done to stop/control social media's influence on children and teens in their crucial development years. There are some people that are definitely using it as a cover for control, but there are plenty of well educated people that see a real problem and are trying to do the best they can to find a solution.

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  • I think this is a bit more conspiracy theorist than anything else. You're see coincidences and attributing it to a single bad actor. The reality is obviously much more nuanced. There is more and more research showing the psychological damage things like internet porn and social media have on childrens health, thanks to an entire generation being a live test subject. Social media companies have been running unregulated experiments on kids for decades now, and people are seriously noticing the negative impacts. This has resulted in law makers grasping at straws to find a solution. The less tech savvy ones are being ignorant about it and throwing privacy away for the sake of security. But age verification can be done securely with zero knowledge proofs if we spend the time to actually implement in correctly.

    Palantir doesn't need our ID's to track us anyway. They get way more information without it already.

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  • Lmao, now you've created a perfect relationship map for advertising/tracking who knows who.

  • Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news”

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  • They explain it a bit more in the article:

    According to Brave’s published technical materials, ad matching occurs locally on the user’s device. The browser downloads an ad catalog and selects relevant ads based on interest signals stored on the device. When a user views an ad and qualifies for a reward payout in Basic Attention Token (BAT), the confirmation process uses blind signatures to validate the event without revealing browsing history or identity to Brave’s servers. The company has repeatedly stated that it does not build centralized browsing profiles and cannot link ad activity to specific individuals.

    I don't use nor recommend Brave to people, but if advertising is going to be done this seems like the way it should be done.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • If there is a massive object in the road and you stop on the highway, and someone rear ends you, the person rear ending you is at fault. The person behind you needs to leave enough space to be able to stop, and needs to be paying attention for any emergency braking situations. Regardless, these aren't on the highway

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • a crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped

    Okay, idk why we would blame this one on the self driving car...

    a collision with a heavy truck at 4 mph, and two separate incidents where the Tesla backed into objects, one into a pole or tree at 1 mph and another into a fixed object at 2 mph.

    original source

    The difference is a lot of these are never reported when it's done by a human driver. I very highly doubt the rate is 4x higher than humans. I'm not saying the self driving cars are good. I am just saying human drivers are really bad.

  • You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised

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  • I don't think it should be disappointing. Bitwarden welcomes third party security testing, especially given it is open source. The tests done were just tests, and the issues were already fixed.

  • People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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  • Nobody should be forced to eat cilantro

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • I don't work for a school, but I apply default policies to stop tracking/telemetry on all the company computers. I wasn't asked to, nor do my coworkers seem to care nearly as much. So the answer is probably that it will entirely depend on the IT admin they hired and how much they care

  • What do y’all think about Cloudflare?

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  • This image is inaccurate, because it suggests Cloudflare is a small block. The original xkcd makes more sense, because it is a project run by a single person. To represent Cloudflare, it should be a huge block given it's a very large company with a market cap of $69 billion.

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • Anyone that buys a news agency wants to maintain/increase click through and retention. They are going to continue to cater to their demographic, no matter who buys them. Billionaires literally care about one thing. They don't care what the news site is saying as long as it keeps people reading and coming back. They would tank the entire company if they tried to convert it to right leaning media.

    They are going to make right leaning media to get click from the right, and left leaning media for the left. They are not going to leave a dollar on the table. If you can find a right biased article from CNN, please do share.

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • Is AllSides more accurate?