FishFace

@FishFace@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not actually paying attention to what I’m writing. What part of “you need a reason to think that someone is lying” do you not understand, or not agree with? (I mean, if you did agree with it, you would describe your reasons for believing that UK MPs are lying in this case, right?)

  With the invasion of Ukraine, you are trying to cheat, because the question there is not really about motivation but about the facts. The fact of the matter is that there aren’t significant numbers of Nazis in Ukraine to “de-nazify” so whatever Russia’s true motivation, its invasion is unjustified.

  But I’m not disagreeing with you that the OSA is unjustified; I’m saying that the motivation isn’t some insane religious conspiracy to ban porn. In comparison, Russia’s motivation in Ukraine is to create a buffer zone with a puppet regime. We can see that this is the motivation, because that’s what is consistent with their actions. Zelenskyy has offered to step down as part of a fair negotiated peace, so regime change cannot be Russia’s motivation. Russia has suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, so the protection of Russian-speakers cannot be Russia’s motivation.

  So we have ample reason to believe that Russia has a motivation other than what it states. Do you see how this works?

  What reason is there to believe British MPs’ motivations are what you say they are?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those people do exist, but almost none of them exist in the UK. So what reason do we have to believe that this applies to UK politicians?

  Look at it this way: you yourself understand that “think of the children” is a popular (summary of a) position among the public. And you agree that “porn is a sin that must be banned” is an unpopular opinion.

  So what reason do you have to think that MPs believe the unpopular opinion more than the popular one? MPs are people too. Unless you can find some mechanism by which MPs specifically are chosen for this highly unusual belief, or manipulated into believing it, this makes absolutely no sense.

  Of course you can’t know someone’s true intention, but assuming that people won’t lie and anything said by them is undoubtedly true unless somehow proven false is a bit naive.

  Luckily no-one here is doing that. Do you understand the difference between “nobody ever lies” and “you need a reason to think that someone is lying”?

  The idea that we should discard the perfectly plausible explanation of “MPs want to introduce age limits because of the reason that they state, which is a common opinion that many people agree with” and come up with some other, secret reason that they’re lying about is conspiracy-theory thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  England

  Jeez.

  Anyway, I’ll not be watching a random YouTube video but if you have a written link that explains how British MPs are influenced by this international cabal or whatever, I’ll read it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take your tinfoil hat off, and say something substantive.

  The MPs who voted on this made statements about their reasoning - that is substantive, but not definitive. If you doubt their statements then it’s only convincing if you can say why their statements are unrealistic in the light of other facts.

  Given that there is a widespread desire to prevent children from accessing porn, their motivations seem wholly realistic. What makes it unrealistic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want people to believe it’s a different motive then provide some reason to believe that? Noone has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article is not about US states.

  There is reasonable evidence to suggest that children viewing porn is harmful, and even though it’s clearly not a good reason - even if you believe said evidence - for something like the online safety act, people here act like you, as if there isn’t even any evidence, and as if noone actually believes it’s harmful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you know?

  There’s no such big religious movement in the UK, so where would that even come from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is about the UK.

  And no, it wasn’t about banning porn. You can listen to politicians and ordinary people talk about it and both are generally in favour for the same reason: making it harder for children to access porn, specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I wonder what it is that causes the render times to be different and how much noise there is. Maybe the solution will be to worsen timer accuracy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last.fm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m planning to go even further and outsource the dating and intimacy to the bot was well - I’ll just sit back and relax!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More like the opposite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do The Normal People Survive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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.