FishFace

@FishFace@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do The Normal People Survive?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not a point you have made. You just started talking about those things. You didn’t relate them to the post in any way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do The Normal People Survive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How do people who know how to repair gadgets and laser cut foam deal with things that lie outside their areas of expertise? Car trouble, plumbing problems, heating broken? No-one is able to do all of these, because each requires a certain amount of time and financial investment to get to the point of being able to fix most problems.

  When you can’t fix it yourself you find someone who can. This may involve paying them to fix it. Fixing it may mean just buying a new one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do The Normal People Survive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck are you talking about?

  This isn’t about AI, or Palestine, or healthcare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If it were about “surveillance capitalism” then we wouldn’t be hearing about this as unauthorised breaches.

  It is enough that the people who demand these systems are ignorant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have both. Alcohol and tobacco should not be freely available to children while relying instead on “conversation”.

  UK law already allows blocking websites; the technical means is there. So I don’t know what you think the increased risk of censorship down the line actually is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Imgur was my daily time-waste app. It has way more content than Lemmy and the memes are fresher (sorry).

  I have a self-hosted VPN but its IP range is heavily throttled/blocked by many placces making it of little practical use. Also it is in a country which has also implemented fairly draconian age-check laws.

  It seems to me that this age-related stuff could always have been implemented as a layer alongside HTTP(S) which declares whether the user is 18+. The legal aspect of it could be to force sites to comply with that declaration and block mature content to users who don’t declare it. Locked-down devices for children would not be able to declare the user is >18, but adults’ devices would. (Of course it would be bypassable, but what isn’t)

  The remaining issue is catching sex ed in the 18+ net. However I don’t think that can be technologically be separated from porn, and it does seem likely that extremely easy access to porn (and content promoting suicide or violence or anorexia or…) for children is a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The bullshit annoys me nearly as much as the regulatory overreach. Imgur isn’t over capacity; my connection is being throttled due to its IP range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used AI at work the other day… I’d just pasted something into a browser and realised I need to do a load of text manipulation. Rather than copy it out to vim, process it there and then back in, I just told the AI to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Investors may well be interested in how well sequels are going to do. They may well take high player numbers as positive sentiment that is indicative that even new, unrelated titles will sell well.