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retrieval4558 ,

Is every person who goes on there and types, "Loli" or "Anya from spy x family, realistic, NSFW" (that's an underaged character) going to get a letter in the mail from the FBI?

I'll throw that baby out with the bathwater to be honest.

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Damn metaphors must scare the shit out of you, huh.

And no I don't mean you literally defecate at the thought.

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It's not "misleading," because the vast majority of people understand what the current colloquial use of crypto is.

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I'm pro sex work, however:

I have mixed feelings about the current ubiquity of online sex work like onlyfans. In theory I've definitely got nothing against it but I'm worried that a lot of young women are faced with shitty economic prospects vs potentially lots of money on onlyfans. The alternatives are so poor sometimes that it feels like coercion.

I just wish young people had better options all together.

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It has never been the cool thing to do

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Yeah I've literally never even heard of these before this post

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Honestly I'd just go low-ish tech and give them a key, or install a lock with a keypad and teach them a number. The security problems with automatic smart locks are too big, in my opinion.

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Why are you so convinced that an advertising platform that a 1/3rd of the country is glued to is unsustainable. And that's ignoring the rest of the world, which is the majority of their user base.

Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)

[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”

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20$ says that this never actually happens in a meaningful way.

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In my head, it's more like Zitter

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Been addicted as shit to this for like a week

retrieval4558 ,

Yeah I saw it west of Cleveland. A little hazy at times but didn't affect the experience much

retrieval4558 ,

For project A, I'd look into tailscale. I'd advise against having home assistant open to the internet otherwise.

Don't know anything about your other project, sorry.

retrieval4558 ,

I've been very happy with proton. I hear good things about mullvad as well.

retrieval4558 ,

Ignoring the literal-ness of "all human lives have value", equating billionaires to an ethic group enduring apartheid and genocide is a hell of a take...

retrieval4558 ,

I'm listening to a 4 part Behind the Bastards on Steve Jobs right now, and Woz is presented like a pretty good dude, all things considered

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    "It's like relying on unpaid labor when the company has nearly a billion dollars in revenue," he added. Reddit reported revenue of $804 million in 2023, according to an earlier filing.

    It's not like that, it is that.

    retrieval4558 ,

    As if EMS is stable lol

    (Former paramedic here)

    retrieval4558 ,

    The right is already working hard on that

    Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

    I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

    retrieval4558 ,

    Not an unreasonable thought, but my question is what is the process to disable? In your examples, there are legal steps/requirements to repossess those assets.

    In this case I can't imagine the process is longer than "press the brick button and extort money"

    retrieval4558 ,

    ¯_(ツ)_/¯ eye of the beholder I suppose

    retrieval4558 ,

    I unironically like this

    retrieval4558 ,

    Moreso gives google and meta a fat profit, and they bought congress. I personally also think that suppression of info about Palestine is a driver of the bill as well, and that rewards congress through the legal bribery that is lobbying.

    retrieval4558 ,

    Any of you super coders in here know of a way to download the app ourselves and inject significant amounts of false data into it?

    retrieval4558 ,

    That is kinda funny

    retrieval4558 ,

    I'd be more sympathetic if the lies weren't coming from the most obvious con-man in history.

    retrieval4558 ,

    I usually just harvest usable parts like the hard drive and camera and call it a day.

    Alternatively, if you're able to plug an external monitor in and get it to work for setup, you could install some sort of Linux distro on it and run it headless for lots of different purposes.

    retrieval4558 ,

    Yeah it's relatively easy to reuse most webcam cameras, you just have to get them connected to a USB cable, then most computers will immediately recognize them as cameras.

    [OC] Anyone else insist on using the generic name for all meds? (lemmy.world)

    Image: 4 panels organized in a rectangle following a sequential order like a comic strip. The first panel is of a man with a very serious face stating, "Hey man, got any diphenhydramine?" The second panel is a grainy picture of the actor Robert Downey Jr. with a slightly inquisitive face and saying, "What's that?" The third...

    retrieval4558 ,

    For allergies? Most people should start with a second generation antihistamine like Allegra or Claritin, they shouldn't cause the same sedation like Benadryl does.

    If you're using benadryl for sleep, atarax can be a bit better, but if it is just sleep, I'd stop using any of them. It can be habit forming, fuck up your sleep hygiene, and long term use of anticholinergic medication may increase your risk of dementia in the long run.

    This is incredibly generic advice and you should talk to your doctor about any concerns you have.

    Ironically I know I just used a bunch of brand names but that's what I refer to them as off the top of my head ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    retrieval4558 ,

    I'm a prescriber in the US and the name that people will commonly use varies by drug and by region. It's also influenced by whether that medication is even available generically due to patents (if that's the right legal word) on medications being decently long when they first come out.

    I agree it's a mess

    retrieval4558 ,

    Everything is politics everywhere

    retrieval4558 ,

    How do you differentiate purposeful manipulation vs it being a natural effect of Western social media? I stopped using Facebook and Twitter because it was obviously toxic and affecting my mental health. I use TikTok a fair amount and don't find it nearly as bad.

    It's also possible that there's manipulation in the other direction. In their own app they could be artificially increasing positive content while allowing the natural social media toxicity and ragebait to dominate in other areas.

    My personal opinion is that TikTok is a way that peer to peer information and news travels very quickly in a way that they can't control, and they don't like that. As with all things, they want to keep us isolated.

    retrieval4558 ,

    This may sound like a rhetorical question but I promise it's sincere.

    Why would I be more concerned about China having my data than when the US has the potential to collect that same data AND MUCH MORE through surveillance that we know they do? My own government has a much higher potential to do me harm than one on the other side of the world.

    retrieval4558 ,

    I'm not here to be pro-china, and I definitely believe that they're putting those things in douyin. I'm just not convinced they're purposefully putting negative things in TikTok purposefully to harm mental health.

    This is anecdotal and my personal experience, but I haven't noticed any pro-ccp things on my personal algorithm. What I do notice is anti-US and anti-capitalist content by Americans. Whether or not they are shills, I can't say for sure, but it feels like it would border on conspiracy theory thinking to suggest that many of them are.

    To clarify the isolation comment, I mean that TikTok is a place where community building and the spreading of ideas or news (not necessarily good or bad ideas/news) spreads rapidly, especially among young people, in a way the people who run traditional media can't control. Taking away this tool makes us more reliant on forms of media that they do control.

    retrieval4558 ,

    I agree that would be problematic.

    However I'm not willing to allow the government to ban a social media platform that a lot of people enjoy and rely on for community building (or even their livelihoods, in a lot of creators' cases) on a "what if".

    Think about the precedent this sets. What could it be used on next?

    retrieval4558 ,

    I agree with you. The difference between the other platforms mentioned and TikTok is that TikTok is where the action is right now, so it's the target. The unverified hearsay problem is certainly there, but I don't think it's inherent to TikTok more than any other platform. No matter the platform, rage and engagement are the most important things so the algorithms will always reward them. Even YouTube's algorithm has been highly criticized for funneling people down extremist pipelines.

    The TikTok algorithm is incredibly efficient at locking people, especially young people, into scrolling forever. That's bad. However that same criticism has been made against more traditional social media platforms too. Twitter especially has a similar although less effective problem.

    Besides vague gesturing at China, I don't see any problem that TikTok has that isn't already present in other social media platforms. If we want to go after all of them, I'd 100% be for it, but this legislation is too targeted and creates a dangerous precedent imo.

    100% agree on the searchability. It's totally unusable.

    retrieval4558 ,

    In case I'm being downvoted because you think I'm worried about a slippery slope for no reason, I'll link the full text of the bill here.

    The process is basically that the president determines that an app is an issue, notifies Congress (who does not need to give approval), then within a certain time period the foreign owner of the all must divest ownership or it would become illegal to distribute that app.

    There are definitions laid out in the text. I see nothing that would stop them from banning foreign news sources or potentially foreign shopping platforms except for the clause about "permits a user to create an account or profile to generate, share, and view text, images, videos, real-time communications, or similar content", which could be broadly interpreted.

    Do you really want to give the executive branch basically unchecked power to limit our access to voices from outside the country?

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text?format=txt&r=1&s=1

    retrieval4558 ,

    Here is the full text of the bill in case anyone was curious.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text?format=txt&r=1&s=1

    retrieval4558 ,

    Thank you for those resources, they are pretty compelling, especially the Twitter thread, which if true, is good evidence that China has used the data to target specific individuals. That's a problem. And the individual bit is important because I'm unpersuaded by "mass data collection" arguments because a) everyone is doing that and no one seems to care and b) basically the same data is freely purchasable.

    The harms associated with the first few links are definitely real, but I would certainly be interested in an apples to apples comparison to other platforms, especially YouTube.

    But I think it's also important to recognize that there is a lot of good that comes from TikTok as well. If I can get personal here, I've moved away from family and friends to work a demanding job, and I've found some sense of community on TikTok with people who are into the same hobbies as I am, which I've had difficulty finding IRL. It has also given voice and community to [certain groups of] marginalized people, and, (for better or for worse) is a major platform by which creators can generate revenue by which a lot of them survive.

    Obviously a lot of that COULD and SHOULD be hosted on a different platform without all these issues, but right now they are not, so we need to make sure not to throw the baby out with the bath water.

    I pointed it out in other comments, but I feel as if the current bill provides too much power to the executive to unilaterally ban foreign outlets from functioning in the US. I'm not a nutty free speech absolutist or anything, but I think anything that has the potential to shut out alternative perspectives like that takes us closer to Chinese style censorship, not farther away.

    Ironically, I wonder if a better solution is mandatory integration of positive content algorithms like it seems like douyin has. But then the question is, who picks what's positive? Is religion positive? Patriotism? Depends who you ask.

    All in all, I think social media of all kinds has been basically the worst thing to happen to the world in my lifetime, but I think that that the cat is out of the bag on it and we're just pretty fucked.

    Thank you for the honest and level conversation here, I do appreciate it.

    retrieval4558 ,

    Not unless those things are owned by foreign companies, which I doubt those are

    retrieval4558 ,

    Too lazy to look up who said it, but there's a quote I like that goes something like "conservative seeks to have an in group who the law protects but does not bind, and an outgroup who the law binds but not protects"

    retrieval4558 ,

    I was having A LOT of issues with it earlier this evening but it seems to be back to normal now

    retrieval4558 ,

    Depending on your definition of good, I submit Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Lobster.

    retrieval4558 ,

    Noob question: lately I've been using flatpaks for most things because of the packaged dependencies. I am under the impression that as you add and remove programs over time, you'll run into less issues with flatpak than with the distro package manager because the dependencies will come and go with the flatpaks and not sit in the host accumulating my mistakes. Am I wrong about this?

    retrieval4558 ,

    Thanks for answering! I'll do some reading on how package managers work.

    retrieval4558 ,

    I've got a solo line for 1gb/mo included and 10$/gb thereafter. I end up paying ~33$/mo. So far I'm surprised the price hasn't gone up in a few years.

    retrieval4558 ,

    Hmmm I'll have to look into it, thanks. It's been a few years since I did research on it, but there may have been phone compatibility issues iirc. I'll recheck in case I'm misremembering or it's changed.

    retrieval4558 ,

    Science Thor himself

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