Since these companies have positioned themselves and infrastructure and are de facto utilities, we need to regulate them as such. If they are going to cancel an account there needs to be a transparent and open process that is fair, not autonomous fraud protection without recourse, just a goodbye. This is them pushing their costs, fraud protection, onto others who cannot stop it. Regulate them.
Readit Newsbeached_whale commented on Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/nonfamous
beached_whale commented on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h... · Posted by u/MrAlex94
This feature can be easily disabled with policies:
https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#generativeai
https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#preferences
https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/browser/app/profil...
https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/modules/libpref/in...
Easy for who? 99% of people are not going/able to setup firefox policies.
beached_whale commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
The age check push isn’t about checking ages it’s about linking IRL identity to account.
Yes and no, it depends. But that the standards/services don't exist is more an issue as it prevents doing it correctly and safely. Most websites that will/already need to verify someones age are not capable of doing so safely.
beached_whale commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
To all the parents defending this: you are responsible for your children and what they do.
Passing laws that affect all of us because you are too lazy and ineffectual to raise your children properly is unacceptable.
This completely negates the nuance and social pressures and sounds like you just want to be edgy. The network affects are huge and others like teachers and clubs are pushing these services as a means of communication instead of using, other, safer services. There is no choice if one wants to be a part of society currently.
beached_whale commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
We really need the age verification standards to catch up. I think there was stuff in the works, but something like OAuth that doesn't require the two third parties to know about each other and the browser/client is in the middle.
Ads really aren't that bad. Targeted ads may even help you discover products you'll enjoy.
The ad in the article is pretty obviously an ad to anyone that can read the words, "New Series. Start Watching".
Ads like these that randomly display during idle is hardly what I consider invasive.
Hopefully OP's sister gets her mental health under control, but I wouldn't immediately raise pitch forks to ban an entire industry vital to the economy and business-consumer communication.
Why should one have to endure the intrusion? Why does every product need adverts as it seems to be the place society is going? They are that bad and their place is only potentially in the places that people are looking for said products.
When every product has adverts, is it a choice any longer? Even finding devices, like TV's without ads is more difficult( no on is advertising them :) ) and paying more is often not an option.
beached_whale commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Nice of them to start the conversations with a probably lie, that it will be less expensive for consumes because they can now bundle HBO/Netflix. Except this has never been true for more than enough time that for people to forget and past the time to change it, if at all. It will be less selection and cost more, like the usual.
They made the comment and CBC reported on it https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/us-netflix-warner-bros...
beached_whale commented on Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?... · Posted by u/ndesaulniers
How does this compare to _GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS in libstdc++ (on by default in Fedora since 2018)?
My understanding that this is like that but both libstdc++/libc++ have been doing more since. Additionally, Google did a blog not to long ago where they talked to actual the performance impact on their large C++ codebase and it averaged about 0.3% I think https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retrofitting-spatial...
Since then, libc++ has categorized the checks by cost and one can scale them back too.
beached_whale commented on Kimchi's Immune System Benefits nature.com/articles/s4153... · Posted by u/DaveZale
Why did they use Kimchi powder? I thought one of the key benefits was the cabbage itself and the fiber within it combined with the fermentation.
Cool nonetheless.
on another note, kimchi powder is a great way to use kimchi that has gone too sour.
YouTube should be held liable for what it is pushing. It literally can kill and seriously harm people.
I think that any of these algorithmic feeds, by any company, should be held as if the companies have vetted the content and it is theirs. And the culpability that goes with that.