Sentivamo il bisogno di ridere un pochino, in questi giorni difficili… e per nostra fortuna è arrivato da noi Zeb con un nuovissimo video di 15 minuti su un’altra delle sue opinioni ridicole… ed è subito un ritorno al 2016-2018, che quasi mi si scalda il cuore. Possibile indovinare cosa gli fa girare i maroni […]
“Stop Killing Games – Una norma a tutela della stupidità” (il ritorno delle opinioni assurde di Zeb89)
Sentivamo il bisogno di ridere un pochino, in questi giorni difficili… e per nostra fortuna è arrivato da noi Zeb con un nuovissimo video di 15 minuti su un’altra delle sue opinioni ridicole… ed è subito un ritorno al 2016-2018, che quasi mi si scalda il cuore. Possibile indovinare cosa gli fa girare i maroni stavolta? Ma ovviamente l’iniziativa Stop Killing Games, che lui reputa cringe! (Per quanto, a differenza di Pirate Software, lui non sia direttamente contro… è solo che reputa la cosa una stronzata a cui è inutile pensare; insomma, poteva andare molto peggio.) 😹 Allora, per carità, in questo suo yapping senza capo né coda qualcosa di giusto lo dice pure: per esempio, il fatto che per evitare la rogna dei giochi online che chiudono basterebbe giocare solo ai prodotti degli sviluppatori per bene, e non comprare più la roba di EA o Ubisoft, aziende che non fanno un singolo gioco davvero bello da credo almeno 30 anni… Ma in questo caso non so se la sua retorica liberista del “votare col borsello” funzioni, perché non so se la quantità di persone a favore di questa bella iniziativa sarebbe una massa sufficientemente critica qualora si organizzasse semplicemente per non comprare più i giochi di merda… (Cosa che comunque nella pratica non succederebbe, perché molti gamerz sono scemi, ma lasciamo stare.) 😧
Comunque sia, è abbastanza evidente che ha capito meno di metà della questione, nonostante ripeta più e più volte che lui si è informato e tutto, e facendo più volte il verso ad ipotetici commentatori che potrebbero rinfacciargli la cosa come me adesso… la differenza è che io delle argomentazioni ce le ho, e non dico “eh Zeb ma…“. Non serve nemmeno guardare tutto il video per capire che lui non ha capito che:
La legge non vuole obbligare i produttori a mantenere i servizi di un gioco in eterno, ma solo assicurare che una volta dismesso i giocatori abbiano comunque qualche modo di continuare a giocare, cosa che nella pratica significa permettere di mettere su un proprio server, come tra l’altro era normale ai “tempi d’oro del gaming” che lui ricorda con tanta nostalgia.
Non solo questo, ma anche in primis obbligare i produttori ad essere più chiari in anticipo riguardo i piani di dismissione, per cui deve essere scritta nera su bianco la data di morte di un gioco, così che i consumatori abbiano più dati per votare col borsello, come piace a lui, e non perdere l’accesso al gioco a sorpresa.
Riguardo i giochi single-player che richiedono un collegamento Internet costante, la butta completamente in caciara, ignorando che il problema non è la connessione Internet in sé, ma il collegamento ad un server remoto proprietario… quando (non se) questo verrà dismesso, il gioco anche se single-player smetterà completamente di funzionare, ed è questo che la legge vuole evitare, non fermare “il progresso tecnologico” come dice lui.
Per altri, già qui ci sarebbe da chiudere il sipario, ma a me non bastava… quindi ho visto il video dall’inizio alla fine. E quindi ho riso ulteriormente avendo visto che, con la seconda metà del video, caccia fuori a caso un benaltrismo assurdo su quali sono davvero i problemi dei videogiochi moderni (il cheating online), e che piuttosto servirebbe una norma europea per sistemare quelli; E ok, ci sta pure, ripeto… ma Zeb, porca puttana, hai 36 anni, puoi evitare di scadere in fallacie logiche così banali? Anzi: qualunque cittadino europeo può avviare un’iniziativa di raccolta firme come quella in questione… organizzati e crealo tu il disegno di legge per richiedere che i giocatori forniscano i propri documenti per giocare online, maremma maiala! 🥴
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Microsoft now activates 'Recall', a Copilot AI feature that's making your private emails & messaging obsolete by saving screenshots of these every few seconds.
Setting aside for the moment that it is a much better idea to just stop using windows. One of Microsofts arguments for why you shouldn't continue using Windows 10 is because it will stop being updated and will soon be insecure and get inundated with malware, adware, spyware ect. But Windows 11 already comes preinstalled with all of that so what difference does it make?
So just putting as background one random nude pic do the job ?
I was hoping that they learned something from the time the protection on audio CDs was just that they were not read from the PC because the first track had invalid data (while it was ignored by a stereo) was defeat by a simple marker, which make the PC just ignore the track... I think I still have one of this CD somewhere...
Nah, the background isn’t visible at all times. Need one of those desktop strippers that would walk-in over the system tray and start dancing naked in the corner of your screen.
I wish it were that easy. I'm pretty tech literate and I've had Linux installed on and off since the late 1990's. I'm running fedora desktop on a dual boot machine that also has windows 10. The PC will run windows 11 but just like everyone else I'm not excited to upgrade.
But I still have to hop over to windows to do things. I know it's a chicken and egg thing, but Linux just needs to get over the hump if ease of use and app availability.
Having to switch from. App1 to app1 that boat do say, CAD, is hard. It's a learning curve. And add that learning curve into also switching to Linux and it's overwhelming.
I actually got my dad on fedora, and he went all in and set it up, and worked quite diligently to get everything working for how he used his computer. He did this because his PC was fine but not windows 11 compatible. End the end there were just too many things that he struggled with and he broke down and bought a new PC that came with 11. One of the big issues he had was with documents. Syncing documents that he was editing.
He was OK relearning a new Libre Office but it was syncing it back to a Google drive or something that ultimately did not work for him. (I can't remember exactly what he was doing).
He ran with Fedora for a couple months before giving up
I highly recommend using an old laptop and keeping the windows machine. This allows you to fully use the linux laptop as your not booting back and forth. Further with these type of issues a "bleeding edge" distro like fedora is not ideal. My recommendation has always been zorin for a set it and forget it distro. Its an ubuntu spin that uses the stable release and tends to be a bit late even on that (which is most peoples complaint about it) but it is good at being stable and having everything you need out of box as well as emulating a basic windows feel.
Not how it's worked with the rest of these features, for the record. I did get click-to-do, which is activated by default (but does nothing unless you trigger it manually). That's just an entry in their increasingly large wall of "stuff you don't want switches" in the Settings.
It's immensely wasteful in terms of dev time, but at the same time, hey, kudos for having all this stuff centralized in the one list, unwieldy as it's getting (at least there's a search in there).
I wish we could talk like adults about these things over here, because there's a ton of interesting nuance to how Windows 11 actually works, rather than the parody version that everybody loves to dunk on. There are some actually good features and choices I'd like to see make the jump to Linux and vice versa, even discounting things like hardware or software support. But nobody ever wants to have that conversation, it's all just the serotonin shot chase from rooting for the home team (and/or being contrarian about it).
Microsoft now activates 'Recall', a Copilot AI feature that's making your private emails & messaging obsolete by saving screenshots of these every few seconds.
The Albanese Labor Government is backing Australian families, parents and kids by announcing today YouTube will be included in its world-leading under-16 social media laws.
youtube? the place with free quality documentaries, free knowledge in the easiest to digest video form about a huge variety of topics? the spot where you can learn life skills, cooking, hobbies, maths, physics, programming, among many others, with visualised tutorials showing every part of every step with explenations?
what on earth is happening to the internet these days? absolute insanity
social media is shit and i get restricting twitter or tiktok, but youtube? it seems so bizarre to me
They can still view it I believe but can't create an account. Also the whole thing is complete bullshit and is almost entirely for censorship and tracking all activity to a real identity.
I have struggled to filter with YouTube Kids what is allowed. The setup is default allow with channel denies (opposite of a good firewall), so I have taken to yt-dlp and Jellyfin to get around it. I don't agree with the law as written, but I get the intent. Parents should be more active in their kids's lives versus the state.
While all of that might be true, YouTube is also a for-profit cesspool of trash content, hate speech, and misinformation. An entire generation of gen z manosphere Nazi bootlickers got where they are watching "gaming videos" on YouTube.
It auto plays by default and their algorithms are dogshit, so you might start watching an educational video with your kid, but end up on a flat earth video fifteen minutes later, or much much worse.
When my son was younger, we severely limited his YouTube time and closely monitored what he was watching on it. Most parents don't do that.
I dislike legislation like this too, but we're not talking about PBS or a library here. Kids truly shouldn't be on YouTube unattended.
Seems like a strange place to push right-wing propaganda.
Gamers are easy to rile up, already have exposure to a lot of counter culture language in VC, and generally young or ignorant enough that they can't see the obvious propaganda they're being fed. Add into that content creators that intermix rightwing talking points and you can slowly poison their minds into becoming Nazi shitbags.
As the other commenter mentioned, gamergate is where all this shit first came up, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't there with the people who fell for the poison. I was just aware enough of what I was seeing to pull away from that culture before it really poisoned my mind.
I think there's not much Nazi gamer shit out there because it's incredibly rare for any to slip into my recommendations.
But if I let YouTube go it would probably take me from normal people like anyaustin to hype people like xQc. And then from there all the popular people can show up, including asmonmold. And people like him are legit brain rot.
Edit: for overwhelming Nazi content in your feed, try gun YouTubers. I binged gun Jesus and nothing. Watched Brandon Herrera (spelling?) build aks and look at cursed weapon memes and somehow that means I'm a flaming Trumper.
Currently my kids can only watch YouTube on a shared account on the TV. They haven't been exposed to any of the gift stuff as far as I can tell but we do regularly weed the history and subscriptions to keep it vaguely on track. While each of the kids have their own favourite creators we also have found a number of educational and comedy channels we'll watch with them on the account.
The bigger challenge comes with homework as once in secondary school the teachers regularly link to YouTube videos as an intro to a particular homework topic. Although their accounts are registered as kids accounts under our indirect control I keep having to move their pc out of the restricted group on the router because for some reason Eero prevents some videos from playing which from my point of view are fine. I dread to think what parents who aren't comfortable debugging network failures do, probably drop restrictions all together in frustration.
YouTube is totally blocked for my son at home and on his phone and I myself avoid it as the plague as well. If he wants to learn stuff, I'm eager to buy him all the books he wants. The moderate amount of useful resources on YT is 100% available elsewhere, on less addictive platforms or media.
Youtube very consistently ranks lowest in terms of reacting to reports of hate speech and is a massive vector for it worldwide.
I mean, I have serious doubts about the effectiveness of the measure, but Youtube is a massive contributor to the decline of democracy around the world.
Tiktok, incidentally, has way better stats on addressing hate speech complaints than Youtube. As in, by far. As in, industry leading, so in the exact opposite end of Youtube's.
I never saw it that way I till I saw a report on what the preferred social media platforms for teens… and it was the number one slot at that time. Apparently teens (and others) have entire conversations in the comments, share videos with friends, and doom scroll YouTube.
And I don’t know if you’ve read YouTube comment threads (I don’t usually) but they can get pretty toxic, even on tame content. Not to mention all the FUD and propaganda being distributed there.
All this child safety is just because they don't want to do proper moderation. What about user safety? Scams and hate speech don't belong for adults either
Oh. Thanks. I'm not a native English speaker, but it seems the phrasing of "The Albanese Labor Government" is a bit unfortunate if you don't know that?
The Albanese Labor Government is backing Australian families, parents and kids by announcing today YouTube will be included in its world-leading under-16 social media laws.
A campaign targeting Russian entities leveraged social media, Microsoft Learn Challenge, Quora, and GitHub as intermediate C2 servers to deliver Cobalt Strike Beacon.
Per chi lo visita direttamente dal sito, Citiverse è un Forum; ma per chi lo usa dal Fediverso, Citiverse è un'istanza qualsiasi, con le "categorie" del Forum che diventano "gruppi Activitypub", come le comunità Lemmy.
Per gli utenti Lemmy poi la questione è ancora più facile: le categorie NodeBB sono indistinguibili dalle comunità Lemmy!
Al momento abbiamo creato una settantina di comunità, suddivise per macrocategorie.
Volete visualizzarle dal vostro account Lemmy? Eccole qua:
NB: alcune potrebbero sembrarvi vuote, perché i messaggi che "contengono" si vedono solo dopo che le avete seguite.
Vogliamo far diventare Citiverse un'alternativa ai gruppi Facebook, ma per farlo abbiamo bisogno che sia una comunità attiva: Se la discussione è scarsa, nessuno prenderà in considerazione citiverse.it! Quindi:
1) seguite le comunità e partecipate alle discussioni con il vostro account federato 2) se volete una nuova comunità, chiedetecela 3) e se volete iscrivervi direttamente al forum con un account NodeBB, in questa fase, dobbiamo inviarvi l'invito via email
Per chi lo visita direttamente dal sito, Citiverse è un Forum; ma per chi lo usa dal Fediverso, Citiverse è un'istanza qualsiasi, ma con le "categorie" del Forum che diventano "gruppi Activitypub", come le comunità Lemmy.
Al momento abbiamo creato una settantina di comunità, suddivise per macrocategorie.
Volete visualizzarle dal vostro account Mastodon? Eccole qua:
NB: alcune potrebbero sembrarvi vuote, perché i messaggi che "contengono" si vedono solo dopo che le avete seguite.
Vogliamo far diventare Citiverse un'alternativa ai gruppi Facebook, ma per farlo abbiamo bisogno che sia una comunità attiva: Se la discussione è scarsa, nessuno prenderà in considerazione citiverse.it! Quindi:
1) seguite le comunità e partecipate alle discussioni con il vostro account federato 2) se volete una nuova comunità, chiedetecela 3) e se volete iscrivervi al forum, in questa fase, dobbiamo inviarvi l'invito via email
Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
No scherzo, forse si può considerare un bug ma in realtà il fatto è che su Lemmy mi sembra si possano taggare solo le persone e non le comunità per cui se vede un tag mette in automatico /u/ credendo sia un profilo. Credo sarebbe successo lo stesso se al posto delle comunità di Citiverse avesse provato a mettere lo stesso tag per le comunità di Feddit.
Purtroppo mastodon decodifica a cazzo di cane le menzioni di Lemmy. Del resto il post originario l'avevo scritto da mastodon ed è questo: poliversity.it/@macfranc/11493…
Per chi lo visita direttamente dal sito, Citiverse è un Forum; ma per chi lo usa dal Fediverso, Citiverse è un'istanza qualsiasi, ma con le "categorie" del Forum che diventano "gruppi Activitypub", come le comunità Lemmy.
Al momento abbiamo creato una settantina di comunità, suddivise per macrocategorie.
Volete visualizzarle dal vostro account Mastodon? Eccole qua:
NB: alcune potrebbero sembrarvi vuote, perché i messaggi che "contengono" si vedono solo dopo che le avete seguite.
Vogliamo far diventare Citiverse un'alternativa ai gruppi Facebook, ma per farlo abbiamo bisogno che sia una comunità attiva: Se la discussione è scarsa, nessuno prenderà in considerazione citiverse.it! Quindi:
1) seguite le comunità e partecipate alle discussioni con il vostro account federato 2) se volete una nuova comunità, chiedetecela 3) e se volete iscrivervi al forum, in questa fase, dobbiamo inviarvi l'invito via email
Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
L'Etiopia era già da tempo un obiettivo coloniale dell'Italia, che aveva già provato ad invadere il paese nel 1896 subendo una sconfitta nella Battaglia di Adua. Mussolini era determinato a mostrare che il fascismo fosse in grado di vendicare l'umiliazione subita ad Adua e portare a compimento il sogno di un nuovo Impero Romano.
Guerre Italo-Etiopi - Enciclopedia della storia del mondo
L'Italia occupò l'Etiopia per cinque anni, dal 1935 al 1941, a seguito di un'invasione su vasta scala avviata dal dittatore fascista Benito Mussolini (1883-1945). Tuttavia, L'Etiopia era già da tempo...
A sei anni dall'ottimo Well never turn back e a tre dal buon You are not alone, ritorna Mavis Staples con "One True Vine", quattordicesima incisione della sua ultra quarantennale carriera. Da cantante gospel qual'è, è ancora la fede il comune denominatore dei suoi testi, ma è sempre la sua meravigliosa voce a renderli superlativi... Leggi e ascolta...
A sei anni dall'ottimo Well never turn back e a tre dal buon You are not alone, ritorna Mavis Staples con “One True Vine”, quattordicesima incisione della sua ultra quarantennale carriera. Da cantante gospel qual'è, è ancora la fede il comune denominatore dei suoi testi, ma è sempre la sua meravigliosa voce a renderli superlativi. A fronte dei suoi settantaquattro anni, la Mavis non mostra segni di decadimento... artesuono.blogspot.com/2014/11…
Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
Involving the MasterCard Mafia in your puritanical crusade is next to criminal. The only solution is to [CONTENT REMOVED FOR VIOLATING RESTRICTIONS AGAINST ADVOCATING VIOLENCE].
Man, I knew it was only a matter of time but I didn't think it would be this bad, this soon.
Fear & Hunger is a goddamn masterpiece. Yes, it has depictions of nonconsensual sexual acts. It's in keeping with the lore of a world that is truly fucked even beyond our reality. It's an integral part of the worldbuilding, and it is by no means glorified.
I think the biggest problem is getting any crypto which usually involves an exchange which is also dependent on the payment processors you are trying to avoid
Do you think it happen randomly that payment processors are unavoidable to get crypto money ? Because it's clearly on purpose and a way to control a market they didn't have any leverage on.
Still the take above of "I would rather support payment processors than Cryptos" still sound super dumb to me. People are so extreme on their assessment of technologies here. There is no nuance. AI is all bad, crypto is all bad that's pretty much the tone here.
Until one emerges that's even slightly stable enough to use as a secure currency (and not a stablecoin...), there can never be the kind of broad adoption introducing an entire separate exchange paradigm to the global economy would require. And that's aside from the technical requirements that aren't met - there's no crypto network that could even come close to handling the load put on ex: the ACH, meaning awful lag on every transaction.
It's just not there yet, and pretending like extreme reactions to a comment that's both condescending and insulting to the users who disagree with you are unreasonable - or a reflection of nuanced opinions on cryptocurrencies in general- is disingenuous enough to be concerning. Surely you must see the flaws in how you're behaving here.
"Man, I don't understand why unregulated currencies are unpopular! I'm going to dismiss the heaping mountain of examples of it being abused with no possible recourse as just people being unreasonable in their dislike! That'll convince the masses!"
The issues are layered but the core aspect is that everyone can get scammed and banks have protections for getting your money stolen while crypto doesn't.
But the more visible issue is just how the unregulated aspect of it being used to scam people predominantly has marred the topic for so many people to the point where people just want to stay away from it all. If anything I think it ends up being a good example for how people need regulation and we can't just have anarchy because people will take advantage of other people.
To add a metaphor, sure it's not the gun that does the killing it's the human, but regulating how the gun gets used does help with gun deaths a lot.
If people had used cryptocurrency as a currency instead of as a "it's totally not a security, we swear, even though we're only saying that to evade SEC regulations a little longer" there'd be a lot fewer people calling it a scam.
For sixteen years, crypto's only use cases seemed to be buying illegal goods and securities fraud. Finally, we have another use case presenting: perfectly legal transactions that credit card companies have gotten cold feet about.
There also has been cases where people increasingly used cryptocurrencies as their national currency was subject to instability and severe inflation. Usually the governments cracked down on it hard, like in Turkiye.
The SEC had every opportunity to make up it's fucking mind for years, but even after repeated promptings from all the big crypto exchanges, they kept putting things off and randomly throwing lawsuits for violations for things they were asked for guidance on.
Also, this is the exact kind of transaction they had in mind when they created the tech, but everyone decided it was only ever for drugs, because that's what the Wall St owned media told them to think
Also, this is the exact kind of transaction they had in mind when they created the tech, but everyone decided it was only ever for drugs, because that's what the Wall St owned media told them to think
What were the completely legal products that had Visa and Mastercard standing on the sidelines in 2009? Because without a real life example, I don't think big media had to do much to get people to ignore this use case at the time.
First, I don't understand why processors give a fuck. Do they imagine people are going to just stop using credit in protest of how other people spend their money? Tell me another fucking joke.
Second, I'm not a game developer, but I suddenly want to make a horror game that includes graphic, exploitive, gratuitous depictions of everything they complain about. And name the game Collective Shriek.
The worm that keeps getting put into payment processor's brains is that they might somehow be held criminally liable for games people purchase. It's like telling a bus driver that they might be liable because they gave a ride to someone who robbed a store.
That what I just dont get about this. If payment processors think they are liable because these games cause harm then where does it stop? Supermarkets sell cigarettes and so on...
NOW that they've started curating, that has become way more likely to actually happen. They could have claimed to be a neutral carrier before. Actively filtering means they've decided to take on that responsibility, and the consequences for missing stuff.
So that's how it works. Maybe people should also start harassing payment processors for weapon purchases, buying fossil fuels, oversized SUVs and whatnot until they stop caring.
I don't get why the gaming platforms are removing games instead of removing the objecting payment providers as a payment option for purchasing those particular games.
If visa doesn't want people to purchase game X with Visa, then remove Visa as payment option for buying game X.
"That’s why Ukie strongly supports the use of robust classification systems like PEGI across all platforms, including those hosting adult or experimental content," the statement reads. "We believe payment providers and platforms alike should have confidence in trusted age rating systems and the enforcement mechanisms behind them."
Steam doesn't have to, you fuckwits. Collectively shouting your beliefs across the world and forcing others to bend to your religion isn't worth a response. Go fuck yourselves.
Do search engines not want articles about porn or do they just don't like the word? Because substituting one letter doesn't do shit if you want to obscure what you're talking about.
You shouldn't bombard those people with emails or phone calls or order pizza without toppings/cheese. Don't harass them and make their life miserable, don't ruin something they enjoy. Don't use OSINT to find more about them and certainly don't ask "where is your god now?" when they break down crying. Don't clog their systems with trashdata. Just don't raid them.
Talk with them in a civilized manner. Look at human history and you will see that every conflict can be settled if you are just willing to use words and nothing else.
You cannot reason with religious extremists. They believe they have the one true view of the world and nothing will convince them otherwise. They believe they are fulfilling gods wishes.
Nah, make their lives hell within the confines of the law. They aren't going to listen so it's a way better use of your time to fuck with them. Make them feel uncomfortable in the world because they do not belong.
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Clickbait title. This is in the context of competitive coding, which is a very specific and constrained programming exercise with a time limit. Which is not at all comparable to real world software development.
Eh. That's like saying speed chess "is not at all comparable" to chess. There's differences but it's the same game. In this case speed coding still relies on the programmers understanding of the problem. There's just usually less edge cases that you have to handle (usually input can be read in a less safe way because it's in a specific format, and others)
It's more like comparing a review of Chapter 1 to a book report.
We know a computer is faster at things. It relies on that to perform iterations, overcoming the core shortfall of actual intelligence. Whereas the ideas a human gets are established almost instantly, especially with experience, but they perform slower.
Literally, this is the "development" in software development.
When I originally saw this report on another source, the key standout for me was how many people were beaten by the AI, and the fact the winner was 5% ahead, which really is a small margin. It was being touted as "Yay we beat the AI!" without acknowledging that there were a lot of people that lost to it.
It’s articles like these (that I absolutely never open) with those headlines that remind you that the media thinks that you are just a fucking complete moron and thinks so little of you.
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A whites-only town in Arkansas revives far-right segregationist ideals, banning immigrants, people of colour, Jews, and LGBTQ+ individuals in a disturbing return to the past.
Doesn't make any sense to have it there, then. Even though it WAS last updated long after the headline became a lie, that was still 3 days ago, making it not i any way amongst the 10 LATEST news stories.
Sydney (AFP) – Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children under 16 from video-streaming site YouTube, a top minister said Wednesday stressing the need to shield them from "predatory algorithms".
Communications Minister Anika Wells said four-in-ten Australian children had reported viewing harmful content on YouTube, one of the most visited websites in the world.
"We want kids to know who they are before platforms assume who they are," Wells said in a statement.
"There's a place for social media, but there's not a place for predatory algorithms targeting children."
Australia announced last year it was drafting laws that will ban children from social media sites such as Facebook, TikTok and Instagram until they turn 16.
The government had previously indicated YouTube would be exempt, given its widespread use in classrooms.
"Young people under the age of 16 will not be able to have accounts on YouTube," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters on Wednesday.
"They will also not be able to have accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and X among other platforms.
"We want Australian parents and families to know that we have got their back."
Albanese said the age limit may not be implemented perfectly -- much like existing restrictions on alcohol -- but it was still the right thing to do.
A spokesman for YouTube said Wednesday's announcement was a jarring U-turn from the government.
"Our position remains clear: YouTube is a video sharing platform with a library of free, high-quality content, increasingly viewed on TV screens," the company said in a statement.
"It's not social media."
On paper, the ban is one of the strictest in the world.
But the current legislation offers almost no details on how the rules will be enforced -- prompting concern among experts that it will simply be a symbolic piece of unenforceable legislation.
It is due to come into effect on December 10.
Social media giants -- which face fines of up to Aus$49.5 million (US$32 million) for failing to comply -- have described the laws as "vague", "problematic" and "rushed".
TikTok has accused the government of ignoring mental health, online safety and youth experts who had opposed the ban.
Meta -- owner of Facebook and Instagram -- has warned that the ban could place "an onerous burden on parents and teens".
The legislation has been closely monitored by other countries, with many weighing whether to implement similar bans.
"There's a place for social media, but there's not a place for predatory algorithms targeting children."
So instead of adressing the algorithms we will collect information about everyone (including children) and violate their privacy instead. Makes perfect sense...
As a parent of young kids....youtube is a complicated mess.
It is full of really great content; but YT kids sucks...so if you want access to the good stuff it is standard YT.
But the utter shit that shows up in the side bar and suggested videos is insane.
For older teens/adults; you don't have to worry about the shit tier garbage that is suggested.
I block the ads, but that is a whole other level of cringe/inappropriate content that just gets shoved into videos; completely unrelated to what is on.
You can use uBlock Origin to block the recommended section or another player like FreeTube which allows you to disable that section entirely.
FreeTube also offers Hide Videos and Playlists Containing Text feature in addition to general channel blocking. That should help tailoring content to kids where YouTube fails.
uBlock Origin is not just an “ad blocker“, it's a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature. Developed by Raymond Hill.
Nelle remote profondità del Pacifico, esistono recessi ove la vita è rarefatta al punto da permettere di sopravvivere soltanto ad animali altamente specializzati, il cui metabolismo è calibrato al fine di minimizzare il consumo di energie ed al tempo…
Substack sent a push alert encouraging users to subscribe to a Nazi newsletter that claimed Jewish people are a sickness and that we must eradicate minorities to build a “White homeland.”
I don’t think this can be ignored anymore. If you’re on Substack, please consider one of its many fine alternatives. Plus, it’s easy to move these days. Wired wrote about just a few last year
I cringe everytime someone's like "subscribe to my Substack". No, fuck off with your substack, everyone knows they're nazi supporters, you're complicit.
Substack just annoying as can be anyway, with the constant spammy pop-ups about subscribed to my newsletter and whatever the hell else. Absolutely atrocious blogging platform
I almost fully agree Idk about 'should' just out of paranoia that I can imagine a case where criticizing without sufficient contrast or a consistent-enough background of otherness, could potentially have unintended consequences or surprisingly negative overall moral impacts Or maybe just paranoid idek
Lol, I can absolutely call a website (or argument) awful or absolutely moronic without providing an alternative. Especially when we're talking about Nazi supporters (which substack objectively is and has been for years).
As a wise man once said, I don't need to be a pilot to know a helicopter doesn't belong in a tree.
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The main benefit of having a substack vs just running some blog software is that substack manages monetization/subscriptions for you. Hosting text-based content is very easy, but getting paid for it isn't.
As a German it's completely mind boggling to me that some societies tolerate an ideology that is responsible for plunging the world into its biggest humane catastrophe (so far), for the sake of free speech. Nazi ideology wants to kill free speech. If you truly want to protect free speech, you have to at least limit it to all the things that do not threaten it.
Note that the largest Nazi groups today are in the "allied" nations that "won" WW2.
I read a piece (can't find the source now, sorry) that blamed this squarely on the lack of education and remorse given to the colonial backdrop in which WW2 was fought.
Most parts of the world view WW2 as very much a European war that was imposed on unwilling global participants. The axis powers lost and Germany has since tried its best to reinvent itself while acknowledging its chequered past (check out: Vergangenheitsbewältigung), but the allied powers failed to recognise their colonial atrocities. For example, British history textbooks will loosely allude to the British empire saying that they were once a dominating global entity, but will make absolutely no mention of the numerous massacres and genocides for which they were responsible.
When wars are framed as competitions rather than tragedies, you will see the emergence of false victors instead of acknowledging lost generations. This directly results in a poor public understanding of how bad ideas can fester and hollow out any society.
Over the decades since WW2, the popular culture of the allied countries has typically portrayed Nazis as caricatured crazy monsters. They are treated as strange, other, and non-human. This seems to have thoroughly undermined people's ability to recognize Nazism as a destructive force that lurks in people, whether they're German or American or any other nationality. Any society has the potential to fall into this. The unreflective complacency of the WW2 victors after defeating Nazis once has led to a complete lack of awareness that it's an ongoing job to keep your society from falling prey to fascists.
For a while the collective memory of those who lived through the war protected us, but when that generation died off the lessons were forgotten. Some fell into fascism without realizing it because they assumed they were by nature better than Nazis, while others failed to notice the threat until dangerously late.
I deleted substack back when I randomly got porn in a push notification. You'd think they would address this - I'm no expert, but this doesn't seem good for them.
Samsung’s One UI 8 update appears to block more users from unlocking their device’s bootloader, preventing them from installing custom software and making other changes to their Galaxy device.
There's definitely no law in the US. In fact the vast majority of Android device bootloaders come locked. Pretty much just Pixels and Galaxies that allow this.
And even when it comes to Galaxies, you can't buy from a carrier in the US or you'll often get a special version that, you guessed right, has a locked bootloader. (Two phones now, never again).
I have a s24 here and the last update to One Ui 7 removed the bootloader unlocking option in dev mode. But that was mounts ago and no one talked about it back then so they did it hidden in the dark. Disgusting. See by your self and confirm it.
I wish there was some (safe) way to play Flash games on Android. Gnash wasn't ready last time I checked a few years ago (that may have changed, but can't find anything for Android)
I also saw this earlier on F-Droid, but for some reason thought it was yet another social network/messaging service, and the lack of an useful description in the F-Droid page just made me skip it.
Damn fancy pants, ain't nobody who can afford to use 700mb of potential storage for a 24mb installer and a crack with a virus. That's why 32mb USB sticks were invented.
We plebs had CD-ROMs from Bulgaria filled with software compressed to the max including both Flash and that Adobe program used to create flash content. And ripped versions of games where the audio and video was recompressed at a barely tolerable bitrate. Everything with cracks and viruses of course.
That's how I heard Oasis for the first time, "Champagne Supernova". Bundled as an MP3 with that dang music player that I can't remember the name of. You know the one that really whips the llamas ass? Yeah, that's the one.
Absolutely, and the really fancy people even had CD-RW, an opti-magnetic system. But not all disk drives could read them, just like not all computers had an USB port!
Wild times, let's not even get started on DVD-R and DVD+R - we could be here for hours.
It's a phase change alloy, when writing a high powered laser is used to melt the alloy, when it cools quickly it becomes opaque. When erasing, a lower powered laser heats up the disc and returns it to its transparent state. A reading laser isn't powerful enough to change the phases at all. So, you have the idea right... just no magnets involved.
Reminder that this is the same app that a few weeks ago was found to be advertised as secure when it was still experimental and without being audited, and for which multiple serious vulnerabilities were found before they added the disclaimer saying it was experimental:
It was very clearly advertised as experimental and insecure:
Warning
Private message and channel features have not received external security review and may contain vulnerabilities. Do not use for sensitive use cases, and do not rely on its security until it has been reviewed
As the TechCrunch article I shared says, that warning was added only after the multiple vulnerabilities listed were found and publicised, and the original article in this post didn't mention the vulnerabilities or it being experimental either.
TikTok's new hire to oversee hate speech policies for the app has long-standing ties to the Israeli army, the company confirmed to Jewish Insider on Monday.
The social media platform announced that Erica Mindel, a former US State Department contractor who worked for ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, will join TikTok’s public policy and hate speech team in the US.
Mindel will “develop and drive the company’s positions on hate speech”, aim to “influence legislative and regulatory frameworks”, and “analyse hate speech trends” with a particular focus on antisemitic content, according to the official job description shared by TikTok.
Before her career at the US State Department, Mindel was an instructor in the Armoured Corps in the Israeli army’s spokesperson’s unit, according to information she provided when she appeared on a podcast with the American Jewish Committee.
TikTok's new hire to oversee hate speech policies for the app has long-standing ties to the Israeli army, the company confirmed to Jewish Insider on Monday.
With Proton VPN downloads skyrocketing in th UK, the Online Safety Bill has lead to fears that VPNs can be banned in the country entirely. Although the ruling Labour Government has ruled out a VPN ban, Tech Secretary Peter Kyle has issued a warning to VPN users.
“Adults should get behind the aid verification system, because every time they do it, you keep a child safe.” Kyle told The Telegraph last week in a warning: "If platforms or sites signpost towards workarounds like VPNs, then that itself is a crime and will be tackled by these codes.
TypeScript does not throw an error at compile time for accessing an out-of-bounds index. Instead, it assumes that the value could be one of the types defined in the array (in this case, 1 or 2) or undefined.
TypeScript automatically infers the type of a value accessed from an array, even if that access is out of bounds. It assumes that the value could be one of the defined types or undefined, which can lead to confusion if you expect stricter enforcement of valid indices.
I just spent the last 2 hours trying to understand why I was getting a valid type from something that shouldn't have been valid.
I think that the hate that JavaScript receives is well deserved, at least coming from Rust this is an absolute nightmare.
I’m sorry but your problem here is solely with JavaScript, not TypeScript. TS is right to assign that type to the value, because that is perfectly valid JS, and that is the type you should expect.
It’s not hard to check for undefined and there are absolutely times you wouldn’t want an error to be thrown, so this is just you having a preference, and judging an entire language based on your preference.
There are actual reasons to dislike how JS works, out of bounds array access returning undefined is not one of them.
To add to my own comment, I want to remind you that JavaScript was designed to power websites, and having an entire website break because an array didn’t have anything in it yet is probably worse than the alternative.
A lot of JS’ decisions actually make sense when you understand its history. That doesn’t mean it’s a great language, but it’s undeniably good at fulfilling its original purpose, making websites interactive in myriad different browser implementations.
US Democrat Senator Ron Wyden has written to the Director of National Intelligence Tulso Gabbard asking for increased pressure on the UK over its attacks on encrypted services, as reported in the Washington Post.
I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday—new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such …
That sounds like 1) 2.5 Years are the new 10+ years and 2) My 15 year old Laptop can write Space invaders in Js, it just needs someone to touch the keyboard
My personal theory is that getting a significant productivity boost from LLM assistance and AI tools has a much steeper learning curve than most people expect.
It’s super easy to get distracted in the downtime while LLMs are generating. The social media attention economy is brutal, and I think people spend 30 mins scrolling while “waiting” for their 30-second generation.
I cannot stay in the zone when using a time-saving AI coding tool; I need to do something else while code is being generated, so context switches are forced, and each one slows me down. It’s a distraction.
I can confirm the danger of getting distracted when working with AI. I’ve learnt and continue to learn how to best leverage Cursor in my daily work. I know its impact on my productivity is very different depending on the projects I work on. I know I must use Cursor differently depending on the codebase I work with. I know I’m not as productive as I would like with some project types, because I haven’t found the best way to organize my work yet.
But I think the same was true when I worked without the help of AI.
A study into the workflows of experienced developers found that devs who use Cursor for bugfixes are around 19% slower than devs who use no AI tools at all. One possible takeaway is that AI tools can be harder work than we’re led to believe.
Burning of Boswellia resin as incense has been part of religious and cultural ceremonies for millennia and is believed to contribute to the spiritual exaltation associated with such events. Transient receptor potential vanilloid (TRPV) 3 is an ion ..
Let me catch you up. On July 15th, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent Whoop a letter. In it, the FDA declared that Whoop — maker of a niche fitness tracker favored by elite athletes — had crossed a line. Its new Blood Pressure Insights feature, the regulator said, was being marketed to customers without undergoing the proper clearance process.
In response, Whoop pulled out the W word: wellness.
In the world of health and wearable tech, “wellness” is sort of like a “get out of jail free” card. Some advanced health features, like EKGs and atrial fibrillation notifications, require regulatory clearance before consumers can use them. These features could be interpreted as diagnostic in nature or prompt a person to make a medical decision. Others, like step tracking and blood oxygen measurements, don’t require FDA oversight at all. They’re simply meant to make living a healthy life easier by helping you visualize certain measurable markers. Those features fall under the wellness umbrella. They’re “just for fun.”
Whoop is saying its latest blood pressure insights feature is wellness tech. The FDA disagrees, saying it has clear medical and diagnostic implications.
It’s interesting how almost every model released in 2025 has specifically targeting coding. That focus has clearly been paying off: these coding models are getting really good now.
I still contend that this sort of task is uniquely positioned to show off LLMs. The idea that they'll turn into agents that can do real-world tasks remains a fantasy. Despite how impressive this is, they're losing money and have no real path to profitability.
Look up Ed Zitron's newsletter and podcast for more info on why the industry is a bubble. I'm genuinely impressed with this specific example, but our economy is gonna suffer when the bubble bursts.
I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday—new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such …
I still contend that this sort of task is uniquely positioned to show off LLMs. The idea that they’ll turn into agents that can do real-world tasks remains a fantasy. Despite how impressive this is, they’re losing money and have no real path to profitability.
I'm curious. What would it take to change your mind? I'd like to check in with you in two years to see what you think then.
A demo that was open to the public (as in, not stage managed) where people could have the "agents" perform complex tasks without failing on a regular basis. Large training models are notoriously bad at anything they haven't been trained to do. They're worlds away from being able to interpret a new situation and "figure it out."
It seems like all the biggest comms prohibit posting videos. I'm mostly talking about news, world news, etc. at lemmy.world... What are the biggest comms or instances that allow posting videos? I enjoy reading but I also enjoy watching and posting videos. Thanks!
I don't think there is one, because Lemmy is mainly based on text and images, and will need tons of extra space and bandwidth for an instance to support videos.
As Common Dreams reported this week, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has said that 85% of people in Gaza are now in Phase 5 of famine, defined at "an extreme deprivation of food."
Organizer and attorney Aaron Regunberg said that instead of simply doing "reputational damage control by speaking up in these very last moments," powerful political leaders must "shut shit down."
”You want history books to not record you as an evil genocide supporter?" said Regunberg. "One speech now—after countless speeches condemning those who have been speaking out—ain't gonna cut it... You need to go to Gaza. You need to actually make an impact, NOW."
Clinton didn't mention the Israeli blockade that has kept food from reaching Palestinians, more than 120 of whom have now died of starvation, or the at least $12.5 billion in military aid the U.S. has provided to Israel since the blockade first began in October 2023—in violation of U.S. laws prohibiting the government from giving military aid to countries that block humanitarian aid.
Well, yeah...
Neoliberals only pick the ethically right side when they're powerless to do anything.
She couldn't say anything while Biden was in office, especially the first two years, because Dems had the numbers to stop it. Even when Biden went around Congress to provide arms to Israel.
Regular cope is citing how history will judge anyone as if that's a major threat for most of anyone. At best most people only care how they are judged by their social circle, not even their future equivalents
Maybe a hot take but I think the people who say history will judge anyone are the same people who don't think/realize the United States committed genocide against the Indigenous population.
The good guys always win because the good guys dictate how the story is told
A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres. "I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that in his entire career he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".
C’è una notizia divertente dal fronte smarfonico che per ora è caduta un po’ in sordina… forse perché quelli che si fermano alle ricerche superficiali non riescono a risalire alla vera fonte (perché cercando solo in inglese non si arriva all’originale), e a quanto pare nemmeno a verificare se le premesse sono corrette… almeno, questo […]
“avete visto come la gente sblocca i bootloader Xiaomi adesso”
C’è una notizia divertente dal fronte smarfonico che per ora è caduta un po’ in sordina… forse perché quelli che si fermano alle ricerche superficiali non riescono a risalire alla vera fonte (perché cercando solo in inglese non si arriva all’originale che, sottinteso, è cinese), e a quanto pare nemmeno a verificare se le premesse sono corrette… almeno, questo accade su Reddit e sulla sua controparte federata, dove puntualmente le discussioni sembrano approfondite ma i contenuti stanno a zero. Ma, io ho trovato qualcosa di più (ovviamente, e sennò che esisto a fare). 😈 Ecco, nel 2025 la situazione con i telefoni (e suppongo i tablet) Xiaomi è così terribile per quanto riguarda lo sblocco del bootloader — questione che non è il caso di approfondire ora, pena il perdere in un lampo completamente fiducia nell’intera industria dei personal computer tascabili (oltre che in #Xiaomi in particolare, ovviamente; -50 crediti sociali) — che un tizio evidentemente disperato ha diffuso un nuovo META: chiedere ad un negozio ufficiale di fare un downgrade del firmware, processo per cui ti devono temporaneamente sbloccare il bootloader, quindi scippare il tuo stesso dispositivo all’impiegato al momento giusto! 😤
Dai vari repost giustamente sono stati sollevati diversi dubbi su se le premesse fossero davvero queste, ma, cercando meglio, pare proprio di si. Grazie ai watermark nei video, sono riuscita a risalire all’utente di Internet che ha per l’appunto creato questa nuova moda, o almeno il suo canale su Bilibili, dove ha pubblicato a dire il vero svariati video a riguardo della storia… ce ne sono ben 4 tra remix del suo atto originale (che, se guardate bene dalla data in sovraimpressione, è del marzo di quest’anno, quindi nonostante la storia si stia diffondendo solo negli ultimi giorni in realtà risale a prima) e la messa in scena di altri che hanno gradito l’idea (che poi, la cosa strana è che sono tutti filmati di videosorveglianza, quindi non capisco da dove minchia escono… da qualche telegiornale, o li hanno condivisi gli impiegati del negozio esasperati?):
Il metodo di esecuzione post-vendita Xiaomi Marathon sblocca la famosa raccolta di scene BL: bilibili.com/video/BV1Wv87z7ED…
Esame di sblocco per reclutamento speciale Xiaomi Sports: bilibili.com/video/BV1Qp8gzGEU… (remix/compilation da un altro canale)
Una curiosità: per quanto mi è concesso comprendere attraverso i traduttori, la pratica ha subito preso l’appellativo informale di “小米马拉松” o “小米馬拉松”, cioè “MARATONA XIAOMI“… non ce la posso fare!!! E data questa denominazione, giustamente, è partito il meme dell'”esame fisico di ammissione al college sportivo di Xiaomi“… perché giustamente devi prendere rapidamente il dispositivo e scappare, immediatamente. Anche se non capisco in realtà come mai si debba scappare, visto che non si sta commettendo un furto (come sarebbe facile pensare a primo impatto); ci si sta semplicemente riprendendo il proprio dispositivo affidato in assistenza prima che il lavoro sia compiuto… Boh. Certamente comunque il tempismo è importante, e per completare la missione con successo devi aiutarti guardando in qualche modo cosa accade sul computer dell’impiegato… se stacchi e porti via l’affare troppo presto rischi che ancora non sia sbloccato, mentre se lo fai troppo tardi potrebbe già essere iniziato il flash del firmware, e quindi il rischio brick è dietro l’angolo. Statv’ accort. 😳 Non ricarico qui nel post i video, perché se ne metto uno poi voglio metterli tutti, e sarebbero troppi… però, questo meme piazzato alla fine di uno dei video non potevo assolutamente lasciarlo lì. Questo sblocco del #bootloader è diventato una fottuta missione alla Assassin’s Creed per davvero… ahi ahi…
Jordanian authorities are inadvertently fuelling an "internal crisis" with their decision to crack down on Palestine solidarity activists, sources have told Middle East Eye.
The United Nations Reliefs and Work Agency (Unrwa) has hit back at a smear campaign launched by Israel and the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) accusing the UN of failing to deliver aid and being responsible for the mass famine underway in Gaza…
Right, cause as we all know, it was the UN that illegally boarded a ship in international waters and pretty much kidnapped it's crew just cause their efforts to get supplies into Gaza was topping the news cycle. Wait, no, that of course was Israel's doing.
Fuckin fascist assholes. I'm referring of course to that mission that Greta joined. But can't let compassion for the indigenous people of the land they are stealing overtake the news cycle cuz that makes it hard to convince people that Israel are the victims.
I cannot comprehend reacting with anger and hatred cause somebody is trying to get food to starving children, let alone the disgusting level of bigotry it takes to intentionally starve an entire population to death.
Non ricarico qui nel post i video, perché se ne metto uno poi voglio metterli tutti, e sarebbero troppi… però, questo meme piazzato alla fine di uno dei video non potevo assolutamente lasciarlo lì. Questo sblocco del #bootloader è diventato una fottuta missione alla Assassin’s Creed per davvero… ahi ahi…
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in reply to N3Cr0 • • •So just putting as background one random nude pic do the job ?
I was hoping that they learned something from the time the protection on audio CDs was just that they were not read from the PC because the first track had invalid data (while it was ignored by a stereo) was defeat by a simple marker, which make the PC just ignore the track... I think I still have one of this CD somewhere...
N3Cr0
in reply to gian • • •It might do.
But I won't test it. I would have to start Windows 11.
Lenny
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in reply to Pro • • •Step 1: Install Linux.
Arch btw.
huquad
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in reply to Petersson • • •I wish it were that easy. I'm pretty tech literate and I've had Linux installed on and off since the late 1990's. I'm running fedora desktop on a dual boot machine that also has windows 10. The PC will run windows 11 but just like everyone else I'm not excited to upgrade.
But I still have to hop over to windows to do things. I know it's a chicken and egg thing, but Linux just needs to get over the hump if ease of use and app availability.
Having to switch from. App1 to app1 that boat do say, CAD, is hard. It's a learning curve. And add that learning curve into also switching to Linux and it's overwhelming.
I actually got my dad on fedora, and he went all in and set it up, and worked quite diligently to get everything working for how he used his computer. He did this because his PC was fine but not windows 11 compatible. End the end there were just too many things that he struggled with and he broke down and bought a new PC that came with 11. One of the big issues he had was with documents. Syncing documents that he was editing.
He was OK relearning a new Libre Office but it was syncing it back to a Google drive or something that ultimately did not work for him. (I can't remember exactly what he was doing).
He ran with Fedora for a couple months before giving up
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in reply to Petersson • • •Just installed cachy on my partners PC. They just play games, I handle the maintenance.
So far they are impressed at how quick it feels and how fast and unintrusive the system updates are.
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in reply to Pro • • •I seem to remember the feature was opt-in, right?
I'd check, but this hasn't made it to my Copilot+ PC, despite all the fuss.
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in reply to thisbenzingring • • •Unless you’re in the windows insider program nobody should have this feature yet.
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in reply to WanderingThoughts • • •Not how it's worked with the rest of these features, for the record. I did get click-to-do, which is activated by default (but does nothing unless you trigger it manually). That's just an entry in their increasingly large wall of "stuff you don't want switches" in the Settings.
It's immensely wasteful in terms of dev time, but at the same time, hey, kudos for having all this stuff centralized in the one list, unwieldy as it's getting (at least there's a search in there).
I wish we could talk like adults about these things over here, because there's a ton of interesting nuance to how Windows 11 actually works, rather than the parody version that everybody loves to dunk on. There are some actually good features and choices I'd like to see make the jump to Linux and vice versa, even discounting things like hardware or software support. But nobody ever wants to have that conversation, it's all just the serotonin shot chase from rooting for the home team (and/or being contrarian about it).
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in reply to Pro • • •I use Mint btw.
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in reply to SaharaMaleikuhm • • •Have used different distros and I dont judge anyone who wants to use Linux.
Glad you made the switch.
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in reply to Pro • • •Try this instead.
github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winu…
GitHub - ChrisTitusTech/winutil: Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes, and Updates
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in reply to Pro • • •“How to disable this opt in feature”: “don’t turn it on”
I get that Lemmy is a bastion for M$ hate but FUD articles get annoying.
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