Aerroon

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by Aerroon 3d ago
If things go bad then the problem they cause is so huge that nobody is capable of taking responsibility for it. The following is an illustration of what I mean: Eg imagine if one of these surveillance companies gets hacked. Personal data an
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by Aerroon 3d ago
The way AI and copyright is handled paved the way for this. If you aren't considered the author because you used AI to some extent in making the work, then why would you assume the liabilities? I've been saying since the start tha
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by Aerroon 4d ago
> You don't know what safeguarding and harm minimisation means, do you? They're weasel words people use when their proposal doesn't actually work. "It's totally making things better, you just can't see it i
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by Aerroon 7d ago
RuneScape is still one of the most popular MMOs out there. Last year it peaked at over 240k people online (concurrent users). It's nowhere near as popular as Roblox, Fortnite, and Minecraft but it's still doing very well. I think
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by Aerroon 8d ago
> Score results aren’t alone sufficient proof about whether a ban on phones in school is successful or not. If the scores aren't increasing as a result of it, then why are we doing it? We're clearly not asking for legitimate
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by Aerroon 8d ago
> - Social media and doomscrolling without sufficient parental controls: Several OECD countries are already addressing this by introducing or considering restrictions on teenagers’ access to social media. Surely this time banning thin
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by Aerroon 8d ago
> Given the big gap between the east and the west I thought the reason that China and Singapore were so far ahead of everyone else was that they were urban populations vs everyone else include rural areas. I assumed that Beijing, Shangh
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by Aerroon 9d ago
> I once visited a radio station and they took their shoes off there too for some reason (no, I don't believe it was ESD related). Isn't it reasonable/normal to take shoes off at work and put on indoor does like sandals o
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by Aerroon 15d ago
> I have a huge Steam backlog Yeah, and by the time you get to many of those games they will feel clunky and outdated. It's not just the graphics that ages, but also the game mechanics, UI and UX, and the general presentation of th
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by Aerroon 15d ago
I thought that was always the point. A world without any copyright at all obviously doesn't function.
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by Aerroon 16d ago
But we only have words for them. We don't have special symbols for them, kind of* * Technically you could read "k" as a symbol for thousand, "M" for million, "B" for billion, and "T" for trillion
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by Aerroon 16d ago
> In the later times Babylonians had a kind of zero, but it was very limited, only used to point the lack of a number between two, i.e. "2∅1" but never "21∅∅" which was written "21" (so numbers were ambiguou
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by Aerroon 19d ago
But I'm not making a comparison. The parent I'm responding to is asserting that kids before Facebook did not have a lack of freedom. I am saying that school is a lack of freedom, therefore his assertion is wrong. This is quite rel
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by Aerroon 19d ago
How do the lawyers filing these bogus claims not end up in prison? How is it not fraud?
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by Aerroon 20d ago
Please don't try to derail the discussion. I'm clearly responding to: > I'm confident kids before Facebook did not somehow have a "lack of freedom". If you have an argument to make then do so.
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by Aerroon 21d ago
I believe that too. I think myopia is an adaptation that we acquire by spending too much time in dim lighting. Ie indoors. Daylight outside is an order of magnitude brighter (and will therefore give you more detail to resolve) than indoor l
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by Aerroon 21d ago
Of course they did? What do you think school is? Just because it's useful to society doesn't mean it isn't also a reduction in freedom.
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by Aerroon 21d ago
> Kids just don't understand the effects that it has on them Neither does anybody else since it's not settled science. And even then it's questionable how much you can trust the science due to the replication crisis. My p
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by Aerroon 21d ago
I haven't used that in kde, but I've used the windows snipping tool and that one isn't as useful to me. Usually I want to take the screenshot now and then edit it a minute later. Paint works great for that.
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by Aerroon 23d ago
Cropping and editing screenshots (eg add red circle) in a very lightweight application. Other image editing applications can do all of that, but they take 10 years to launch (during which they will ask for focus) and 2 GB of RAM.
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by Aerroon 23d ago
And 5x the price
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by Aerroon 23d ago
Yeah, it only took 4 years for them to fix an obvious screw up. Only 4 years. Surely every business can survive that.
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by Aerroon 23d ago
The funny thing is that when the EU introduced these new VAT rules then it screwed over small and microbusinesses as well. It took them years to implement a minimum threshold for VAT (which every reasonable country has, but somehow EU rules
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by Aerroon 26d ago
> Think of the meme going around right now from Milennials to Gen Z: "I wrote a 5 page essay on a book I never read!" <- They're saying this to AI generated essays as if there's any difference in the critical think
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
> How many ECGs can you sell vs how many other snake-oil products? A lot, probably. You could sell people on the idea that it should be a part of your yearly health screening. "And if you really care about your health you should do
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
> Search something rather innocuous like "news". Click the first thing then go back to the main page. You have to watch through the ad. > The amount of slop you will get suggested as soon as the algorithm warms up is nuts.
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by Aerroon 2mo ago
You've seen movies before. You know that they can make fake videos look realistic. We have an entire industry built around it, so why is it only a harm now?
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by Aerroon 2mo ago
You go to an online store to buy a hard drive. It's listed as "in stock" and you buy it and pay for it. A week later you get an email from the store that the specific hard drive is now available at a third party warehouse and
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by Aerroon 2mo ago
> Otherwise you will keep losing to the corporations, and you will deserve to. I get a cookie pop up on https://europa.eu This is a website that effectively has infinite funding and has to make zero money. And I still get a
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by Aerroon 2mo ago
If they fully anticipated this then surely they could've fully anticipated how annoying and useless cookie banners are? There is nothing stopping a website from using cookies regardless of the banner. If they are outside EU jurisdict

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