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pyth0 commented on Vietnam bans unskippable ads saigoneer.com/vietnam-new... · Posted by u/hoherd

al_borland · a month ago

I pay for YouTube Premium, which would in theory pull me out of the perverse incentive structure around an ad-based model. Yet I feel like I still get pushed toward all the same “features” of ad-funded accounts. I find it incredibly frustrating and keep sending feature requests and reporting site issues as a result.

pyth0 · a month ago

Can you explain what features you're talking about? Do you mean stuff like "shorts"?

pyth0 commented on X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/voxadam

pyth0 · a month ago

It's fucking weird and creepy, and it's sexual harassment.

pyth0 commented on All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025) idiallo.com/blog/all-ai-v... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

RcouF1uZ4gsC · a month ago

Now do hand drawn cartoons vs 3d rendered cartoons.

Is Pixar Incredibles where a computer algorithm made decisions about exact colors worse than Disney Cinderella where it was hand-drawn animation?

pyth0 · a month ago

This feels like an incredibly disingenuous comparison and I suspect you know that. But just to play along, real artists had to design the character models, real filmmakers had to decide which shots to capture, real editors had to put that together to make a cohesive story. Also they almost certainly went through color grading after having completed the rendering, so the colors are certainly selected by humans to produce a nice looking composition.

pyth0 commented on AI Police Reports: Year in Review eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker

sejje · 2 months ago

You understand it wrong. That's not where police come from.

pyth0 · 2 months ago

If you want to make your comment useful, you could share some information about where you understand policing in America to have originated.

pyth0 commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

jasonfarnon · 3 months ago

The whole point of the linked article is that the drug is no better at placebo at treating depression but also carries a host of known side effects, besides unknowns when it comes to long term use. They're not saying it's inert.

pyth0 · 3 months ago

That's fair, though I never implied that there were no side effects. The part I was trying to point out in the quote was the mention of it being addictive which is not really supported, nor is that mentioned in the article.

pyth0 commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

jacobgkau · 3 months ago

A drug can have real effects while being no better than a placebo for doing something specific (what they're supposed to do).

pyth0 · 3 months ago

Okay, so what makes you believe that about prozac (or SSRIs) then?

pyth0 commented on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

jacobgkau · 3 months ago

Because 7 years old is borderline too young to even make a depression diagnosis, and that kid's going to have his brain chemistry altered and essentially be addicted to a drug that he'll have to pay for for the rest of his life.

pyth0 · 3 months ago

How can you believe it's both "no better than placebo" but also that it's "going to have his brain chemistry altered and essentially be addicted to a drug". SSRIs are not considered addictive, though people can develop a dependence if it provides them significant improvement.

pyth0 commented on Git 3.0 Defaults to "main" Branch Instead of "master phoronix.com/news/Git-2.5... · Posted by u/birdculture

foobarkey · 3 months ago

Making you fee like less of a person for using the word is also censorship but in a more clever mean gaslighting way than a full order :)

pyth0 · 3 months ago

This seems like a you problem. I have quite a few repos made before using "main" was the default in GitHub or Git. I have not changed them, and I have never spent more than 5 seconds thinking about it, let alone worrying about being considered "less of a person" because of it.

pyth0 commented on Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects cnn.com/2025/11/12/scienc... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

sethammons · 3 months ago

Thinking of smart bugs, check out the portia (aka jumping) spider. They plan multi-step, out of sight detours to ambush prey, and demonstrate impulse control. They have specialized hunting techniques for different menu items, one such is mimicking specific prey items stuck on a web to lure various types of spiders out.

Insect wise, bees have to take the cake. Symbolic communication and counting, and now time. This all tracks for something that needs to share the location of food with the colony.

Nature sure is neat.

pyth0 · 3 months ago

Interesting you mention jumping spiders, I just saw a rather interesting video talking about exactly this and includes some interviews with scientists involved in some of these experiments [1]. One interesting fact I learned is that they have a sense of numeracy, and can distinguish between one, two and three-or-more objects.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QF6kaOAuYg

pyth0 commented on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software github.com/Homebrew/brew/... · Posted by u/firexcy

kragen · 3 months ago

I see, thanks! Is cc installed by default? I remember when my ex-wife had a Mac she had to sign up for Apple's developer program to get compilers installed.

pyth0 · 3 months ago

You don't need to sign up for a developer program, or even download the full Xcode IDE. You do need to install the compiler tools with

  xcode-select --install

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