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dwayne_dibley commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
frereubu · 25 days ago
That feature isn't what I think the parent comment is asking for. What you've linked to is specifically YouTube Kids, and it's groups of channels whitelisted by the YouTube team. What I think the parent comment is asking for, and I want too, is full availability of all YouTube channels, but the ability to block everything except whitelisted channels. I agree, it's too niche a product. But I often think that people whose response to complaints about kids' access to inappropriate content is "you need to parent your kids" is fine, but I need the tools to do that! A tool like this would be a godsend.
dwayne_dibley · 24 days ago
basically just a profile that can only access a single playlist or feed, with which content is added to by another account.
dwayne_dibley commented on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras   candid9.com/phone-camera/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia
14123newsletter · 25 days ago
Have yet to see AI doing anything remotely close to real life image even now.
dwayne_dibley · 25 days ago
uncertain what to think about this comment. Are you living under a rock?
dwayne_dibley commented on Bringing a decade old bicycle navigator back to life with open source software   raymii.org/s/blog/Bringin... · Posted by u/mtlynch
dwayne_dibley · a month ago
“Why are there no laws requiring device manufacturers to open source all software and hardware for consumer devices no longer sold?”

See stop killing games.

dwayne_dibley commented on Hacking a Toniebox   schafe-sind-bessere-rasen... · Posted by u/LorenDB
declan_roberts · a month ago
My kids love to go to new libraries and find old audiobooks to add to their yoto.

I'm also in the process of trying to get my extended family to record something about their life for sort of an oral family history yoto card.

dwayne_dibley · a month ago
Similarly we use the borrow box library website to download the mp3s to the cards.
dwayne_dibley commented on Hacking a Toniebox   schafe-sind-bessere-rasen... · Posted by u/LorenDB
alt227 · a month ago
We used to have a TonieBox but I found them incredibly restrictive.

Also I thought that the physical design was poor. Because the figures just sit on top of the box, you cant move it around whilst playing it or the figures just fall off and the audio stops. It was very frustrating watching my kid try to use it in the car on a long journery.

Scrapped that and invested in Yoto player, its pretty much the same thing but its so much better in every way. The cards push into a slot and so dont fall out, it has an app which enables full control of the player which Tonies didnt, and you dont have to hit it to change tracks (which we found incredibly violent). Also there are some nice extras like being able to tap the nfc cards against your phone to set the content.

I would encourage any prospective TonieBox buyer to check out Yoto before taking the plunge.

dwayne_dibley · a month ago
If you’re interested there’s a home assistant plugin for Yoto.
dwayne_dibley commented on Hacking a Toniebox   schafe-sind-bessere-rasen... · Posted by u/LorenDB
dwayne_dibley · a month ago
Just in case anyone is here for this. IMO Yoto >> toniebox

Jake (Yoto daily podcast guy) is a legend in our house.

dwayne_dibley commented on Where's Firefox going next?   connect.mozilla.org/t5/di... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
jjordan · a month ago
It would be great if they restored the `Smart Bookmarks` feature they removed a number of years ago. Smart Bookmarks were fantastic. Add your favorite sites' RSS feeds to your bookmark toolbar and you'd have all the recent headlines from all your favorite sites at one click. Fortunately I wasn't the only one that appreciated this long neglected feature so someone created Livemarks (https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/) that mostly replicated its functionality, but it's not quite the same as having native support for them.
dwayne_dibley · a month ago
I’d forgotten about this. What a banging feature that was.
dwayne_dibley commented on Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations   retractionwatch.com/2025/... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
dwayne_dibley · a month ago
'Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book.' Why not just check them all?
dwayne_dibley commented on Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations   retractionwatch.com/2025/... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
amelius · a month ago
Fabricate is a word with ambiguous meaning. It can mean both "make up", but also simply "produce".
dwayne_dibley · a month ago
I fabricated this reply out of my brain.

u/dwayne_dibley

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