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- Comment on YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts 2 days ago:
Absurd that we need YouTube for that. In an ideal world, YouTube would be a backend service with an open API which there would be dozens of different apps for, with different features, including maybe this one… but I suppose you can’t make money with an ideal world…
- Comment on US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published 3 days ago:
those who voted for it
nobody did yet, it has only been introduced; lots of bills get introduced all the time and end up not being passed
- Comment on US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published 3 days ago:
The bill H. R. 8250 actually seems somewhat reasonable, especially compared to some other state-specific bills that we’ve seen.
No.
Software code is free speech and the government should not be able to regulate what the people do in software code in such a way.
- Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath 4 days ago:
Wdym “suddenly”? Checking my user profile on hexbear it appears that my posts to lemmy.zip communities have been federating there for a long time. Your instance doesn’t seem to defederate them, don’t know if it ever did; mine certainly doesn’t and I don’t remember a time when it ever did.
- Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath 5 days ago:
Thanks for the tip, currently I usually get what I want from DDG and Google (almost never use any others), but if I ever become dissatisfied I might try it.
- 438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway.www.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath 5 days ago:
Why is this anti-feature there on first place?
I thought it was there because otherwise, single page applications (e.g. Angular) wouldn’t have a functioning back button? Am I misunderstanding this?
- Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath 5 days ago:
The least tech-savvy people don’t use Windows, but Android or iOS, where Bing isn’t the default search engine. (Slightly more tech-savvy ones may also use Chrome on Windows.)
As a tech-savvy person I still use Google a lot because DDG just doesn’t give equally good results much of the time. There are many web pages that are indexed by Google, but not DDG.
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- The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Are Built On A Scientific Premise That Experts Keep Telling Us Is Wrongwww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 3 comments
- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 2 weeks ago:
I still wonder why video is about the only thing for which a restricted format is still the “industry standard”?
We nowadays take photos in JPEG or WebP format, draw raster images in PNG or WebP format, vector graphics in SVG format, our documents are PDF or OOXML or ODF or HTML, all of which are (at least technically) open standards. Video is the only thing that still mostly runs on formats with restrictive patents.
- Comment on Esperanto Nederland rifuzas militan uzon de Esperanto 2 weeks ago:
La artikolo estis publikigita jam en marto, do mi ne pensas, ke temas pri aprila ŝerco? Ĉu ja?
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- Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food 3 weeks ago:
Ok, books might not be what you want for children who can’t read yet though. 😉
- Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food 3 weeks ago:
Are there no mobile apps available with human-curated collections of children’s videos?
YouTube is not going to be a place where you’re going to have any reliable quality control. It’s literally (by design) videos uploaded by anyone on the Internet. That’s not by itself a problem, but the idea that it’s a good way to keep very small children entertained is definitely not one I would agree with.
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- Comment on Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update 3 weeks ago:
Plenty of countries are constitutional monarchies (e.g. the Scandinavian countries, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain), that nowadays has relatively little to do with what any of their government policies are… plenty of republics do plenty of primitively stupid things too…
- Comment on US regulator won't follow Europe's lead and stick higher age ratings on games with loot boxes and daily quests, since it might confuse parents 4 weeks ago:
“Daily quests”? You mean like how in Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald you get a berry per day from some NPCs and can check once per day whether Mirage Island was visible…? (I remember a phase in my childhood where I did that every day.) Or whatever is meant by this?
- Comment on 4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster 4 weeks ago:
I hope the UK one day becomes a less anti-freedom country because I would really find it interesting to travel there, but things like this are killing my desire to do so.
John Perry Barlow got it right 30 years ago: www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
- Comment on System76 fighting for open source being excluded from Colorado age checks 5 weeks ago:
As much as I like open source software, I do not think that these kinds of bills are legitimate even for closed source software.
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- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 1 month ago:
Alright, I agree with you that modern “social media recommendation algorithms” are a bad thing that shouldn’t have been invented, if that is what you’re getting at.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 1 month ago:
I definitely agree with all of that.
But if you “learned the shortcuts to hide” what you were doing, then you were clearly accessing things you actively wanted to see, which was my entire point.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 1 month ago:
OK, if someone actively links me to it, then yes, but there’s also no solution to that because they could just send it (or a screenshot of it) directly to me and circumvent any filters there might be.
I’ve never clicked on a “hot singles in your area” ad, so no idea what that is about.
The entire Internet is of course IMHO about exploring and pursuing novel experiences; but how quickly do you imagine children can get from websites actively recommended by parents to shocking websites? Not very, I think?
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 1 month ago:
even I have been somewhat traumatized by accessing graphic content I shouldn’t have
Why did you access it if it made you feel bad? It is (and has been since I remember) very difficult to accidentally run across anything shocking on the Internet.
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- California’s AB 1043 Could Regulate Every Linux Command, and the Open Source World Is Too Quietshujisado.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- Comment on Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act 1 month ago:
I’ve previously written that they should just challenge this in court because distributing operating systems is distributing software, is distributing information, is protected as freedom of speech.
What I wonder is why we are only hearing very much about this now that the law has already passed the legislature and been signed into law? Would not the right time have been before those things happened?