chicken

Living space. Imagine being able to instantiate unlimited pocket dimension instances and invite people to live there for free, would be really cool.

Maybe there's an argument to be made there, but to me the privacy issues with all of the source material being sent to the servers of some AI company, and that company having the ability to put their thumb on the output in addition to the risk of the data being misused or leaked, are so much more of a thing to worry about. Those issues exist independently of how doctors use these tools and what risks those particular uses may have, which honestly I know nothing about, definitely not enough to argue that it is ok, it just isn't something I would personally stress over as much as the other stuff.

I would only be ok with an AI note taking app if the model is running on hardware the doctor physically has in their office because otherwise any privacy assurances don't mean that much.

You're mostly right that it's not about child safety, but in that case why are you asking for suggestions about how to do it? What goals should age verification have if child safety is not accepted as a goal?

Parental control already exists, but seemingly valid criticisms are that it is not a default, has limited effectiveness, and is not easy enough to use. The important detail here is that there are not widely accepted standards for it to interface with online platforms, which are now being pressured to develop privacy invasive child protection schemes they implement independently. What I'm suggesting is that instead of that, letting them rely on "verification" of whether a user is on a restricted device would do mostly the same thing in terms of benefits and be less harmful, if more work is put into building a standard for that and making it an easy to use default.

IMO the issue is way deeper than the method of age verification because you cannot automate child safety (from what I've read Roblox and Youtube Kids are notable failures here), and tech platforms are going to pick between some half-assed attempt at such automation and entirely banning minors, at which point they find a way to bypass it or go somewhere else on the internet that is also unsafe for children. It's all about deferring blame to someone else, not creating a society where people are making sure the kids are ok, and cannot possibly address the actual problem.

But if the idea is that people are too stupid to understand this and it's necessary to come up with the least bad form of plausibly functional age verification to placate them, maybe the best bet would be something like those self-attesting OS verification laws but modified to be less shitty. Something like a more voluntary system where when you buy a device, there's a prominent option to get a version of it that is for kids and has parental control software preinstalled as bloatware. This could (optionally!) broadcast a flag (only to preapproved apps and websites!) that lets the service block the user from seeing or interacting with certain stuff, and otherwise do parental control things. It could at least somewhat work since kids don't have the ability to buy their own hardware. It could be open source and collectively developed and funded as a set of common standards that experts have thought about and agreed on.

It wouldn't solve the biggest issues, but at least it might make it a little simpler for parents who are overwhelmed and need a simpler solution for handling the problem of the raw internet.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was inherent to the terminal that you can't position the cursor and select text using the mouse, and also inherent that there are not right-click menus.

If you don't want to use a mouse in your code editor that's a valid preference, but these are very different styles of programs and exist in separate categories. Personally I was using Atom before I was using VSCodium, and I really like most design choices of the latter, it's basically everything I always wanted an IDE to be like. Don't want to stop using the mouse.

Doesn't seem like much of a VSCode replacement though since it is terminal based

I gotta try making this sometime

excuse

People don't need an excuse to not want to talk to you, which incidentally is itself one of many "great" ways to learn to be quiet. As an example, I once had a roommate who was on some kind of medication for social anxiety, and he was one of the most irritating people I ever met. Failing to overcome his inhibitions was clearly not the main problem, those inhibitions were totally rational, and could have been a stopgap to avoid stepping on people's toes despite not having any intuitive understanding or intrinsic interest in how to do that.

Probably the girl who is dashing around the room squeeling with joy every time a new person arrives and giving them a huge hug, the girl who is excitedly talking about her hobbies, job, or emotional revelations to a circle of smiling friends and acquaintances, the girl who is grabbing people and dragging them onto the dance floor to get the party started.
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And maybe someone will say that this whole analysis is shallow and misguided, and that pursuing any of these things by opening their mouth and speaking more would be a betrayal of their deep inner self or something.

I think something that people who are casually socially successful often don't understand is how important it is to that success to have the correct emotional reactions to other people, and how difficult it is and how wrong it feels to fake those. That is a betrayal of yourself. You should strongly resist approaching friendship as an instrumental goal or a puzzle to be solved. For this reason it isn't well described as a skill, because the most important factors are not skills.

and you could very easily end up completely alone if you never developed the skill of meeting new people and developing relationships with them.

Solitude really isn't the end of the world, it could be a lot worse, despite how challenging it is to face. It does no one any favors to think of this as a high stakes game with solitude as the punishment for losing, that's not actually how it is.

If you want quiet people to talk to you, the main thing would be helping them understand that it is genuinely safe to do so. If you want quiet people to talk to other people, that's probably none of your business.

wonder why the tub overflow isn't working

edit: oh good this is already being discussed in great detail

Could also go with accusing them of projecting and rescinding the offer on that basis

Would make sense except they have different clothes and get grey hair

If anyone was wondering looks like they are estimating the combined cost of the components to be $12,905.34, with the servo motor and lidar being the most expensive parts.

Maybe in some ways it's better, but being pushed to spend 4+ hours a night on homework and encouraged to think it would be the end of the world if you get a bad grade on an exam really sucks.

I like this, but it is really stupid

One option is to do this for them, and just send the link to the instance most suited to your current audience when recommending using Lemmy, rather than trying to explain what instances are, because they don't need to know that to use it.

Get health insurance, a good one

Yes, a lot, it's my favorite hobby. I like trying to make good arguments, appreciating when other people make good arguments, and pointing out bad arguments. Topic doesn't matter too much, though maybe free speech is the one I get most heated about, especially the idea that arguments are worthless and should be suppressed.

The utility of gun rights as a potential defense against tyranny isn't proven to be zero by the existence of tyranny, because guns are not a complete solution. I think it's likely they would be rounding up more people by now, with less expense and difficulty, if Americans didn't have guns.

Nice, I wasn't doing that anyway

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Other than money, what's something you would want an unlimited amount of?

Would you keep seeing a doctor that required to you agree to the use of AI in your treatment to continue being a patient?

Would you keep seeing a doctor that required to you agree to the use of AI in your treatment to continue being a patient?

Age verification alternatives ways

Age verification alternatives ways

POV: M$ releases a new VSCode version

POV: M$ releases a new VSCode version

Crispy chilli oil

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One day, they will both regret this...

Hesitation

Late Bloomer

Make your own robot dog with open source hardware and software - mevius2

Is it true that the education system is crap in America?

Spring dating 🌸

With Reddit flirting with requiring Age verification, the next Rexit might be around the corner, are we ready?

If you woke up a billionaire tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd do?

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Optical illusion

TIL: Stretching probably doesn't reduce injury