A very important milestone Ukraine will need to reach is reversing the regressive, minority-oppressing laws they brought in prior to Zelenskyy’s rise to presidency. And I’m not just talking about the Russian minority population whose treatment Putin used as an excuse to start his illegal war, but the various other minorities mistreated around the borders.

With that said I do hope they manage to get some reforms through and end this war. Ukraine would be a welcome addition to the EU.

“Yes our IP was responsible for torrenting 229TB of your 4K HDR porn, but it was actually this employee, Josh, who was behind it”

I’ve spent a solid 4 years at Discovery/WBD, working on their video playback engine for all things Android. This includes all of Android TV.

I am still an Android engineer, but all my TV systems are Apple TV. This should tell you everything.

but if it didn’t… Google really made the TV experience of Android go to waste. Underpowered hardware, badly written software, all resulting in stuff like sluggishness, UI freezes, apps crashing, not to mention the frequently messed up hardware/software layer (took us 2 years to make Sony admit they messed up like 3 years worth of Bravia TVs…).

And the best part of such a dagger?

Only the wrong kind of men will find it problematic.

The right kind of men find it hella attractive when a woman can defend herself with style.

Windows Server exists.

It really shouldn’t, but it does.

Good. Then reduce the price and remove the useless parts of it.

Interestingly, Apple made their One subscription pick&mix (you can choose to e.g. only have the iCloud expansion + Arcade in it, reducing the monthly cost), and it drove subscriber numbers up.

Microsoft could do the same. Offer the service at a fair price, allow users to choose what parts of a conjoined service stack they want, and you’ll have users.

Force them to go all-or-nothing (which was what the restructuring of Game Pass led to), and jack up the prices 3-4x, and watch them go away by the millions.

What are you on about?

For AI purposes the really useful part of a news site is the actual news - you know, the stuff that changes practically every minute - not the “structure” of the site.

These news sites aren’t being scraped for training data anymore but to provide near-realtime up to date information to the models.

Meaning e.g. Gemini can scan your news article, extract the useful information for the user, and deliver it to the user, without them ever going to your news site and providing the interaction that at the end of the day is converted to money - money your site needs to run.

Check the discussion you’re on right now.

IT IS ABOUT FUCKING LEGISLATION THAT FORCES BIG TECH TO DO SOMETHING FOR “PROTECTING CHILDREN”.

My solution is that since we’re already legally forcing big tech to do something, then why not do it the right way and force them to give tools to parents to enable them to protect their kids, instead of this fucking dystopian operating system level privacy erasure.

And your solution is still to not give a fuck about the laws that are being introduced, AND not give a fuck about parents besides telling them to “protect their kids”. You do see why your take is idiotic, right?

That’s… my entire point. That we can’t just say “deport all violent criminal immigrants”, because as you can see, one can fall into that legal category without being part of the group you assumed. Context is important.

I’ve never worked with spectrometers but physics and chemistry were some of my strongest subjects, so it made some sense to me - but the sentence was definitely written with the intent to say “look peons, I know big science words you do not, and I can string them into a sentence you’ll question the legibility of”.

Why am I not surprised that it’s an Israeli company?

They get deported. But just like any criminal case, the person has the right to a fair trial to determine if they’re guilty. Arresting police, the public, etc., don’t determine guilt. The courts of justice do.

So while it does seem a bit wasteful, the process itself ensures that EVERYONE - regardless if you like them or not - gets a fair trial.

I’d also argue that there need be nuance. Let’s say, there’s a high earner immigrant who’s been in the country for a decade without any legal issues. One night he’s out celebrating with friends, and gets more drunk than usual. Completely unrelated to that drunkenness, he gets assaulted by a British man, who comes at him with fists flying. Our immigrant defends himself, but in said inebriated state, he uses more force than what the jury and judge later determine to be appropriate - turning his act of self defence into a charge of assault and battery. Given his clean history and that he didn’t intend to cause the amount of harm that happened and that it was intended as self defence, his sentence is suspended, he sees no prison time, BUT, he is convicted of a violent crime. Technically, he’s a violent criminal immigrant. Would you still want him deported?

So, someone gets stabbed - which is awful, regardless of who committed the crime - and just because the guy was out of country, the far right descends on Belfast to bash up the city? What kinda fucked up logic is that?

Your entire take is idiotic as best.

As a society we should strive for making life easier for everyone, but especially those who are having trouble with technology due to lack of time or resources.

The solution isn’t to go online and start spouting off about “how you should’ve considered that you’ll need to learn a dozen new technologies just to raise your kid”, but to provide actually actionable, simplified enough solutions that people can utilise.

Your take is especially idiotic when you put it in perspective of ALL OUR FUCKING PRIVACY RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED because parents are already struggling to keep their kids safe. And you just shrug your shoulders and tell others to parent better? What kind of a fuckwit are you?

The fact that you think this shows that you’ve never even attempted to set up parental control…

And sure, let’s have parents who work 10-12 hours just so the family survives, do YET ANOTHER chore, which they need to constantly manage.

How about instead of that, big tech can get their shit together and provide proper parental controls? Including router manufacturers. It’s minimal effort from them, makes life easier for millions of parents.

Dude, pick a lane.

On one hand you’re claiming RISC is bad because performance. On the other hand you’re saying the difference is important due to cybersecurity.

On the first point I’ve already proven you wrong. And the second point… RISC is actually safer for a number of reasons than CISC.

So are you for, or against RISC? Because both topics you picked support RISC pretty much unilaterally.

Also might I add that right now the only truly viable open future architecture is RISC-V, which is getting to a point where we can blend together MCUs and CPUs based purely on available extra hardware on silicon. Meaning same tooling will be able to compile the same code regardless if you want to run it on a sensor array that lasts a year on a single coin cell, or a powerful processing node (okay okay arguably RISC-V isn’t completely there for truly high performance computing, but there’s already cheap SoCs with Pi3 comparable performance, and the market is just gearing up for better ones. Oh and if your goal is AI, pretty solid 16TOPS in a low power package).

The issue is that unfiltered access to the internet is dangerous to kids - and at a certain age, kids do want to discover that side without any parental interference.

Limiting what they can access is not an unhealthy approach. It’s protective, especially nowadays when certain companies (looking at you, Roblox and Meta) will shelter paedos because it’s a financially viable thing to do, repercussions and hurt children be damned.

And there HAS to be a balance between adults having unfettered access to the entirety of the internet, without having to take a selfie every time they want to have a wank or approach any remotely adult topic. It literally takes a single penstroke from the government to categorise a mundane topic “adult” and start listing people - because ID-ing yourself in a “trust us, your data is safe” (except ignore all the data breaches that have already happened!) environment will TOTALLY not lead to issues. I mean what could go wrong when you start collecting the IDs of trans kids reaching out for help because of abuse, gay/bi/lesbian/etc. kids similarly seeking help, suicidal people seeking help, and the list goes on? What problem could there be from that data leaking, right?

This bullshit WILL get reversed the moment a prominent politician’s weird porn browsing habits leak, and I do hope that happens sooner than later. But even when that happens, we need a SANE option to protect children - and that’s by giving the tools to parents, parents whom are mostly overloaded with work, and can’t afford to spend hours a day not interacting with their children but reviewing what they do on the internet.

Yes, being a better parent to your child IS part of that, but so is setting up virtual boundaries.

I mean, I’m all for forcing big tech to provide better parental control tools. Because right now they provide the bare minimum that often locks you out of control… and it’s a hassle to set up, maintain and manage.

Take e.g. Apple. To do any parental control you need an Apple account. Reasonable, to this point. But! To actually have any control, you need Apple devices. It isn’t enough to log in through a browser, because you can’t properly set rules, limits, block sites or apps, monitor communications, no, you need an iPhone or iPad or a Mac. You can’t approve access requests if your child wants to go to a non-allowlisted website for e.g. school work.

Oh and if we’re at allowlists and blocklists… no platform at the moment offers ANY kind of automated lists the parents can enable. They need to manually hunt things down and add them. So you either have your kid constantly pinging you to access resources, or you’re constantly reviewing what they’re visiting, searching for, etc., to block inappropriate content. And with how many porn websites there are out there that are specifically CLANDESTINE porn sites that at first appear generic kids games but if you go the right way, you find porn, is staggering.

Oh and one more thing. When are we punishing Google, Meta, etc., for allowing intentionally child-targeted adult themed ads and recommendations? Or did we forget how YouTube allowed incredibly disturbing content in ads and recommendations FOR KIDS (as in, literally injected into playlists meant for kids)?

Apple has the same system, just FYI.

So super important that it’s not important at all.

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