It’s probably not wise to try and annoy a being not bound by causality, physics, or conservation of anything. Especially when said entity has previously near-eliminated our population and discarded essentially all of us to our own folly.
(Thankfully She got bored, picked the most stubborn group She could find to remember Her, spent a thousand years trying to teach them to be good, and finally said “oh fuck it, just watch Me”)
That’s why bsky’s pseudo-federation isn’t as big a deal as some ActivityPub boosters claim.
As I understand it, if lemmy.world shuts down or starts demanding cash my only resource would be the same as if Facebook decides I’m too critical of billionaires – start all over elsewhere with a new account. Sure, I could get close to the same experience with a different node, but I’d be a brand new account with no history. I might as well go someplace else entirely.
Bsky’s “portable user” idea fixes that. There are accounts my bsky account follows who switched to blacksky, and if they hadn’t said they’d changed I wouldn’t have noticed. The essential identity of their account shifted almost seamlessly, and they “federate” with everyone else, aside that their appview shows accounts that bsky’s ordinary moderation hides.
I don’t have any illusions about how altruistic the cryptobro VC’s are. But the entirely of their value proposition is that “leaving bsky” should be about as painless as porting your number from Verizon to AT&T.
The claimed reason for that is to highlight “referrer” links for the sites people go to from bsky.
My understanding is that if you click like https://www.themarysue.com/ the website operators would see a “feddit.org” or “lemmy.world” referer if you’re using a web browser and don’t have a defeating option enabled, but not if your browser is locked down or you use an app. The immediate redirects, however, do consistently show in the web site’s access logs.
It’s possible bsky could fuck around with this in the future, but doing so risks just sending users to a pseudo-fork like blacksky.
You’re right about the effect (lawsuits and the threat of the same are more common in America than Canada or the UK) but not at all about the cause.
The USA has had a decades-long choice to have our industry regulated primarily not through government bureaucracy but instead judicial liability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_through_litigation
Daredevil has been a “blind batman” for so long a satirical fanfic-turned-unofficial-spinoff got a cartoon, three movies, another movie, and a CGI revival that multiversed back to the cartoon and the original.
Matt Murdock’s no more an anti-hero that Peter Parker was when he tried to break into the fantastic four’s building in hopes they would hire him. (Which they didn’t, mostly because they didn’t actually pay themselves)
Hydrogen is terrible for energy storage, and even worse for energy transport. Especially if you’re doing electrolysis to split water that you then re-generate with atmospheric oxygen in order to produce electricity. A battery, flywheel, or just pumping water upstream gets you far better efficiency, and shipping literally any product of a hydrogen reaction is likely to be more efficient than shipping a heavy H2 tank back and forth.
Solar power in the EU seem to be increasing by 20% year-over-year. It’s hard to see a situation where shipping hydrogen to supply thermal energy to an existing factory would be cheaper than just building a local electrolysis plant and the necessary solar panels. (Unless, of course, you’re already invested or employed in selling hydrogen as a direct fossil fuel replacement.)
So, if I understand right, basically they assume its correct unless given significant evidence otherwise?
That’s how it reads to me this morning. Assuming by “given” you meant “they have at all”.
So like, if this flag is enabled and I visit a website and don’t directly provide personal information, then they have to assume I am a child under CCPA and thus can’t share my data. Right?
Based on the CA AG’s page at https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa , I don’t see how “the browser reports the user as a child” gives a substantial additional burden on website developers. Presumably, the most they’d have to do to comply is use the flag to change “do you agree for yourself” to “PARENT OR GUARDIAN: Do you agree for the user of this account…”
I’m missing the part where an adult setting their age category incorrectly for themselves would do more than get a stronger porn block and a bunch of “go get your parent” pop-ups instead of “click here if you’re over 18.”
Presumably, if Microsoft and Google and Apple don’t get the Digital Age Assurance Act blocked in court, we could see a broad adoption of it as a way to skip paying for third-party age validation for sites like Reddit, BlueSky, and Lemmy, and all of the porn sites on the internet would just ask for the flag in lieu of their current “do we have a cookie where this user clicked that they’re at least 18” code.
Did you perhaps mean hydrocarbons (organic compounds used for fertilizer and fuel) instead of hydrogen (most common element in the universe, 2/3s the atoms and 1/9th the mass of water)
Not a lawyer, answers based on https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025
- Under section 1798.501. (b) 4A, wouldn’t this make collection of almost any system information illegal?
No. Because the terms are defined in 1798.500. They can ask your system directly whatever they want; they just can’t ask Microsofg, Apple, or Google for correlating specifics.
- Since 1798.501. (b) 2A seems to require that developers that receive this age flag treat assume it is true, this would at least apply to CCPA, and California Civil Code, right?
Yes, but only insomuch as laws that protect minors impose additional constraints on those who have “actual knowledge” that a user is actually a child.
It doesn’t mean they need to trust the OS flag if they have suoerior knowledge as to someone’s actual age. If I ask a child to contact Imgur to delete my account they’d block out my porn stash but otherwise treat the request as any other “delete an adult’s account” request.
- Would 1798.501. (b) 2A also apply to COPPA? I know this is state versus federal law, but…
Statr law can expand upon federal law but not contradict. And it smells like AB1043 is more “add a more explicit signal of user age” than anything affecting data retention relating to children.
What part do you think is contradictory?
“Actual coverage is less than what’s theoretically possible” is a hell of a way of saying "these things aren’t good enough (yet) to actually replace real people ".
a) Explain why the US hasn’t gone back in so long, and why with modern technology it seems so difficult?
Going to the moon is expensive and has essentially no direct revenue. There are no resources to be had on the moon that provide worthwhile efficiency over what we already have on earth, and most of the basic science was done by the Apollo missions.
How do you verify moon rocks without having actually been on the moon? How did scientists figure out what a moon rock looks like?
Getting moon rocks, which have a unique microscopic texture due to no water erosion, was one of those “basic science” bits I mentioned before. They don’t really prove the moon landing except that “they’re from the moon” is the simplest answer for why these rocks have that unique texture.
Why aren’t the old Apollo designs being reused for a moon landing? (by either the Americans or the Chinese)
Because thre 1960s were fifty years ago.
The industrial base to build an Apollo rocket isn’t there anymore than the industrial base to build a 1965 Buick skylark or an Atati 2600. You could throw money and rebuild all those factories, but it’d dramatically balloon the cost even before you start to recon with correcting the inevitable mismatch between the original spec and what your rebuilt factory can make.
(And even if we did just rebuild Apollo, we’d wind up with a rocket that didn’t have the advantage of 50 years of advancement.)
1984 is an anti-tyranny dystopia that has more bad readings than any other work I can think of.
The essential problem isn’t new-speak, the five minute hate, constant war, one-party rule, rat-based psychotorture, or even ubiquitous surveillance. Rather, it’s the abandonment of truth. It’s not nearly so bad if Big Brother is Watching, except that Big Brother lies.
(And Orwell wasn’t even inventing the danger out of whole cloth: both the German Nazi and Russian Communist tyrannies had well trod the path of internal propaganda and historical revisionism)
((AND you don’t have to squint all that hard to argure that 1984’s Britian was most plausibly a pariah state that didn’t actually have any power beyond its aquatic border…))
Like nearly all science fiction, 1984 wasn’t so much written about its future as it was written about the past.
The DSM isn’t a scientific document, but rather a medical and legal one. It is meant to help doctors correlate patients to find potential treatments, and provides language useful for billing and legal purposes.
Schizophrenia may not be an entirely accurate term, but if its use leads to patients who need medicine getting medicine and those not responsible for their actions not being held responsible then it’s hardly useless. But it does make it a good candidate for revision in the next DSM.
Which is beside the point, though. Somebody whose historical notability is half “thing contained in $BOOK is wrong” should not be presumed to be unbiased if they write a “$BOOK is bad” article.
This is a billionaire buying the good name of trusted companies so he can have a propaganda house that isn’t obviously such.
Worth knowing:
Article’s byline is “Jim Van Os” , and the Wikipedia article for someone of the same name is a Dutch psychologist who has a ten-year history of arguing that “schizophrenia” isnt a useful label.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_van_Os
(Of course, as far as I know they may not be the same guy, and I don’t have any reason to doubt the sincerity of his argument.)
You are not the first person to say this.
And as I understand it, trans men are as a group kida sick of being volintold to put themselves in harms way. It’s great that you recognize that they are men and are treated as such in your “men should do danger” sexism, but don’t suggest someone else do what you’re not willing to do yourself.
Get few skirts and maybe some makeup, dress yourself in drag, and then make a habit of asking every restaurant or shopping mall or store what bathroom you should use.
(Sure, you’d likely get harassed and banned and maybe arrested, but there’s a minority being oppressed and standing beside them is what strong allies do.)
Who is this “user” you’re talking about? Near every choice in a social media platform design is an engineering choice between conflicting priorities.
The troll who wants to post garbage finds it easier, but the earnest poster now needs to filter out trolls on their own.
The person wanting to co-opt a community label finds it easier, but the person who wants it to continue as-used now has no recourse.
The pervert wanting to upload PG boob-shots definitely finds self-moderation easier, but your change would force rape victims with PTSD to let that smut into their already-curated set of communities.
If you wanted to add a new layer of moderation for posters beneath instance owners and community moderators that might be plausible, but “OP posted something dumb and is getting piled on” is a it’s own force your suggestion would abandon.
(And if you think just adding more random part-time moderators to a community would improve its moderation I would encourage to try Improving your next family dinner by giving orders in the kitchen. Especially one that you didn’t plan.)
If you diss “american cheese” but endorse “pepper jack” you must be either entirely non-American or just plain ignorant.
Many other countries lack America’s “standard of identity” laws that keep cheesse with too much oil or ice cream with too little dairy from being sold as such, and often label the former ultra-cheap food “american cheese” it’s not at all what you’ll find in the states.
The “American cheese” you can find here is a high-volume, mild, and smooth-melting cheese originally created as a blend of older European cheese recioies, which took off because it did exactly what it was meant to, and pair well with grilled meat patties put on cut buns.
Actual American cheese is perfect for a breakfast sandwhich where you want it to support the other flavors. Other cheeses can be good if that’s what you’re going for, but so are non-chicken eggs.
(“Pepper jack”, in contrast, is a simpler cheese meant to be eaten cold as a major flavor on its own. It’s absolutely sold in the USA too and can be great on breakfast sandwiches, although I think it works best sliced and paired with cracked and smoked meats.)
Like the woman who sued macdonalds for getting third degree burns because their coffee was too hot.
Please never mention this story without pointing out at least one of the following;
There literally isn’t an instance of a US company being sued by a customer more deserving of empathy and horror.
The NY AG doesn’t generally bring criminal suits. And “was a rapist in FL and a private island” may not be enough to give anyone standing to empanel a grand jury and indict.
If you live in NY and then take a vacation in Texas during which you open carry a AR15 and then “self defense” somebody at the Alamo who called you a Yankee, there wouldn’t be much NY could do if the local DA accepted your defense.