ian_holt

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by ian_holt 3mo ago
the article also mentions; <But the government puts much of the onus on social media platforms to ensure users understand the verification process and on users to read up to make sure they aren’t being scammed.> Unfortunately, the sai
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by ian_holt 3mo ago
we are having similar issues here in Australia with the government very quickly trying to become the overall "Lord of our Lives". Digital Id, banning kids from whatever/whenever the government dreams up another idea "to
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by ian_holt 3mo ago
<s there a plan to start fining the social media companies themselves? Or raise their liability thresholds?> they will apparently be fined around AUD$50M if they fail to do due diligence (not sure how the legislation phrases. I am not
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by ian_holt 3mo ago
<I wonder if a cease and desist to their legal department would work better?> I assume you mean the LinkedIn legal dept. The problem there is that these companies are so big that a 'complaint' or 'cease & desist&#x2
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by ian_holt 3mo ago
<The memory makers can't just sell to only AI companies forever, if they do Chinese manufacturers will move in and eventually eat them from below (as has happened many times before)> Unfortunately this has been happening almost f
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by ian_holt 3mo ago
I found I had exactly that issue ~3 months ago. A particular government department had their systems hacked and 1 of my email addresses became public along with 10s of thousands of other users. That in itself was bad enough except that this
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by ian_holt 3mo ago
<In his own words: "you become dumber under a smart wing". Sharing because I think this applies to many things in life.> Applies a lot in life, eh. The old expression re muscles "if you don't use it, you lose it&qu
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by ian_holt 3mo ago
you had me interested at the word "pancake" but I ain't gonna do maths to get it
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
<The only effective tools parents have is to disallow or remove devices from their kids. It will work at the beginning but as they grow up it will become impossible, since at some point kids get influenced mostly by their friends' c
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
And in addition to that, it is the role of the parents to be having the say in what their kids should and shouldn't be doing. As far as I am concerned most governments stick their collective noses in where they are not required. And, y
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
I quite like that idea also. And I would not have thought it would be that difficult to implement in most systems these days Having 1 or 2 backup email accounts and/or an SMS sent to a registered mobile phone number seems to me to be r
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
Unfortunately, we seem to lose more than we really gain, much of the time. Often it is 'sold' to us as 'convenient' but, I suspect, more often than not we don't gain that much
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
Call me stupid maybe, but when I was studying, whether school, college or whatever I always aimed for 100% in my results as I knew I would not get 100% and I knew if I aimed for 80-90%, then I would get that either. And I have always taught
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
I better not show my beautiful, flower-loving wife this article. We already have enough flowers (and I would like to be able to keep our home)
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
>In my experience, a decent proportion of people have always been nervous about joining in. I'd wager that for many of the onlookers it isn't driven by a creativity/participation thing, it's just a (pretty normal) fea
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
I wish I knew about this site when I was trying to teach my kids to tie their shoelaces. Man, the hours I wasted and the hair I pulled out back then! :)
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
In addition, to the fact that governments are still run by us mere mortals, is the fact that even the government is unable to 100% to guarantee that our data is "safe" in their hands...
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
I agree with that too. Whilst we here in the "Land Down Under" (Australia) seem to have a fixation on NOT wanting to go down the nuclear energy route and we seem rather keen on tearing down our last remaining coal-fired power stat
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by ian_holt 4mo ago
I have a similar issue with the couple of cats we have in our office (known also as my home). Either they want to go outside, get fed (again), or simply just decide they need attention more than I need to work. But still, sometimes it is a