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  • Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms( XVideos, XNXX, BangBros, GirlsGoneWild, GTFlix TV and more) accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law

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  • Obesity is literally a self control issue.

    You sound like you don't believe in ADHD “just finish what you started, have some impulse control!“, or autism "read the room, don't be so literal and stop getting distracted by noise and light, just ignore it".

    It night be plausible that most people can just avoid the first cigarette or the first spliff or the first anything, but no one can avoid food, and some people's biology, their hormonal balance, their brain chemistry, mental health, shit, just their metabolic rate can make them have a very, very different order of magnitude of problems with food.

    So it's easy for you to have self control around food and balance your calorie intake with exercise? Great, good for you, but stop acting all morally superior for not having problems in your life.

    Get lost with that judgemental "it's simple" shit and try to learn a bit of self control yourself over what kind of nasty judgementalism you're spouting online without thinking about other people.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • They may have come to this decision through experience.

    Having used it a bit, I find it's like someone a bit stupid with a lot of time on their hands, but no knowledge, saying "I'll learn everything you need to know from Google and write you an answer", just speeded up a lot. And just as frustrating.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • And you have to wade through so much to find the right one. Or type in AI wait a minute and get the answer.

    Uhhh, type in AI, wait a minute and get an answer. How are you checking it? rm - f / isn't the only filesystem footgun.

    I'm finding AI to be right roughly only 60% of the time, and it's as bad and hallucinatory about shell scripts as it is about everything else.

    It will happily admit its mistakes and give you another answer when you call it out, but it's no more likely to be right that time.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • It's fair to say that the environmental and ethical concerns are significant and I wouldn't look down in anyone refusing to use AI for those reasons. I don't look down on vegetarians or vegans either - I don't have to agree with someone's moral stance or choices to respect them.

    But you're right, LLMs are full of crap.

  • My skill prevents bugs, unlike your fancy compiler, peasant.

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  • For me, it's all about the maintenance now. If it encourages you to write messy code, you will come to loathe your codebase. If it gives you clean, easy to navigate code you will love it more and more.

    When I was a young programmer I couldn't abide any boilerplate at all and loved clever magic that made it disappear. Now I don't mind a bit of boilerplate and hate non-obvious machinery.

    When I was young I bought the promise that object oriented programming would solve the software complexity problem, but now I think that at best it's neutral and sometimes it makes it worse.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • What's revanced? I'm not especially keen to give Google my money either. They fall into the category of businesses that have way too much money and power already.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • I don't pay for music unless I buy the track or album.

  • My skill prevents bugs, unlike your fancy compiler, peasant.

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  • All depends what your trade offs are. "Milliseconds of run time versus months of debugging." I know one team that were died in the wool C programmers but their baby had one too many security issues and their CTO said they had to reimplement it all in rust. One of them resigned but the others spent ages on it. They hated the borrow checker with a passion, almost as much as they hated the CTO, but after a bit they admitted it had some benefits and in the end they have a love/hate relationship with it. They hate the process still, but they love the result. The Milliseconds vs months quote is from my friend on that team. He said one subsystem had a seriously massive speed boost because they turned off the logging they used to do to recover from some infrequent intermittent bug that simply doesn't happen any more. They're proud of what they did.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • YouTube music won't play in the background though, so it's a pain whilst driving and navigating traffic or routes. Some of my friends make playlists on there and share them, so I do use it sometimes.

    But absolutely use the service that brings you joy, not the ones that I prefer!

  • What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?

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  • Are you sure about this? Do you have proof?

    When Google explains in their privacy policy that their Fonts API collects your browsing data, I believe them. Without proof.

    https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy

    When I embed Google Fonts in my website via the Google Fonts Web API, what data does Google receive from my website visitors?

    When end users visit a website that embeds Google Fonts, their browsers send HTTP requests to the Google Fonts Web API. The Google Fonts Web API serves the Google Fonts Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and subsequently the font files specified in the CSS to the users. Such HTTP requests include(1) the IP address used by the respective user to access the Internet,(2) the requested URL on the Google server, and(3) HTTP headers including the user agent describing the website visitors’ Internet browser and operating system versions as well as the referer (i.e. the webpage on which the Google font is to be displayed).

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • Soundcloud lets you play any song you want at any time, even on the free tier, and when you ask it to play a playlist, it only plays songs on the playlist.

    You can have recommendations from an algorithm if you choose, but it's encouraged rather than enforced.

    There are a lot more independent artists on it, and fewer big labels, or at least it feels that way because it doesn't seem to prioritise big labels over some person I've never heard of.

    Spotify has an annoy-users-until-they-pay model. If you deliberately piss me off, you're not getting any of my money. Soundcloud just has ads.

  • Abbott orders arrest of Democrats who fled Texas

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  • Dark. Very dark.

  • Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand

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  • Ah, true, yes.

  • AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

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  • I think he's now chairman and certainly still profits from Amazon.

  • What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?

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  • Fun fact: if the website you're visiting includes a free font hosted by Google, the website and page you were accessing are sent to Google alongside your IP address. Google assert that they don't use that data to personalise your ads, but they don't mention not using it for other purposes as far as I recall, and Google also dropped their "Don't be evil" motto. At first I found that funny (who proposes that in a meeting and how do you come to agree to drop not being evil?!), but increasingly I realise that it wasn't just an absurd decision but a serious policy shift.

  • What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?

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  • ...in that you can go to prison for expressing support for proscribed terrorist organisations as determined in UK law, and "Palestine Action" recently became one of them. For the avoidance of doubt, I tell you this purely for information and warning purposes only, and to help you, if you're British, avoid ending up in prison for expressing support for the proscribed organisation "Palestine Action".

    Also to be clear: personally, I don't know much about that organisation beyond what's clear from their name and that they recently became proscribed.

    Don't for a minute think that that doesn't include anonymously online. It absolutely does include what you write on the internet. It also includes (with lesser sentences) wearing clothing that supports a proscribed organisation or posting a picture of such clothing online or in print.

    Historically there never was a right to free speech in the UK, although that changed somewhat with the introduction of the European Convention on Human Rights (which we helped draft post war and which has been extended since), but it is definitely illegal in the UK to express support in any way, including online, for proscribed terrorist organisations.

    You can read more about the 84 proscribed organisations and sentences of up to 14 years in prison here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations--2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version

    The list includes organisations assessed by the UK government as terrorists, such as a lot of Islamist organisations, some far right groups and a handful of separatist movements.

    Offenses include being reckless as to whether you might encourage others to support a proscribed organisation. So be careful about what you say and how you say it. Consider carefully whether you might encourage support for a proscribed organisation and don't do that.

  • What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?

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  • Already illegal here in the uk to protest climate change.

  • My skill prevents bugs, unlike your fancy compiler, peasant.

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  • I think a bunch of C programmers hate rust passionately because they always looked down their noses at principled languages for being slow.

    Now a principled language is beating them on both speed and safety and it's as if the jocks lost a baseball game to the nerds who studied dynamics of solids and cut a series of little slots in their bats so that every time they hit the ball it went out of the park.

    So much hate for the clever win over the brute force.

  • AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

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  • Fuck, this is bad.

    Mr Bezos doesn't give a shit about you.Never has. Never will.

    Ruining your entire life doesn't bother him in the slightest.

    He doesn't even give a shit about your money,he has incomprehensibly vast amounts of moneyand you don't make the tiniest molecule of difference to his life.

    All he gives a shit about isextractingthe largest possible amount of moneyon averagefrom the largest possible pool of peopleand businesses.

    So you don't matter to him. Not even slightly.He cares much, much more about a worm he's never seen that lives under his lawn than he cares about you.And he doesn't give a fuck about the worm.

    Quit giving Bezos your money, everyone. He doesn't need it. You do.