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- Stop Killing Games Gets Its First American Legislative Effort Out Of Committee in Californiawww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
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- Comment on Stanford study finds school phone bans may trigger “withdrawal symptoms” in students 2 weeks ago:
Researchers believe that the students, especially younger ones, may have turned to more disruptive behavior when they no longer had access to their phones.
Yeah, no shit? Phones tend to serve as a distraction that kills boredom; disruptive behavior is frequently (maybe usually) the result of boredom.
“One conjecture is that this resembles, to some degree, withdrawal symptoms,” he said. “Students are unhappy and disruptive the moment their phones are taken away.”
They’re understandably bored and then, understandably, try to kill their boredom in other, more disruptive ways. I for one very much prefer students being on their phones (or other devices) to beating each other up, damaging property, or psychologically insulting each other out of boredom! No idea what about this is supposed to resemble withdrawal symptoms.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The main question I have is this: is it going to be replaced by something better (such as federated services)?
Or will this just mean the Internet as a whole will lose lots of users? That, I think, wouldn’t be desirable. Whatever one may think of Meta, they’ve definitely done a lot to popularize the Internet as a mainstream technology, which by itself is a good thing, though if they use Meta platforms, it ought to be only the first step.
- Comment on Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never bought VPN access, so am not sure; but don’t you need to have a bank account or even credit card to pay for VPNs anyway? How many very young people are even capable of paying for VPN access?
- Comment on Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs 2 weeks ago:
Does it really seem to you like the forces of freedom are winning? Not to me. :(
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to esperanto@sopuli.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded 5 weeks ago:
No, why would that be different? (…is what I in any case would argue if I were the lawyer for a distributor of operating systems, which I am not)
- Comment on Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded 5 weeks ago:
Free speech is the right to distribute any kind of information, including software code in either source or compiled form.
That’s what the legal analysis should be anyway. Whether it will be…
- Comment on Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded 5 weeks ago:
Certainly an improvement.
Courts should still find it unconstitutional because software is free speech. I am all for advancing open source and giving people good reasons to switch to it, but not by setting precedents that governments have any business deciding what features software is allowed or required to have.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 8 comments
- Comment on YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 36 comments
- The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Are Built On A Scientific Premise That Experts Keep Telling Us Is Wrongwww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
La artikolo estis publikigita jam en marto, do mi ne pensas, ke temas pri aprila ŝerco? Ĉu ja?
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to esperanto@sopuli.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update 2 months 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…