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  • Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up

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  • Like a meat popsicle

  • What justifies requiring spiral-bound project reports when the actual work is a live website or repository?

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  • I believe the point you brought forward with it being more secure is exactly why it's asked for in a academic environment.

    With a single staple a page in a 10 page report could be attributed to accidentally falling out, where with a spiral bound set its less likely a page will "mysteriously disappear". A student will also less likely as to resubmit a paper because "a page was missing".

  • How can we protect kids from the harms of social media without sacrificing everyone's privacy?

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  • For one a law that prevents infinite scroll and another that prevents algorithm that sole purposes is to keep people engaged on the platform.

  • How can we protect kids from the harms of social media without sacrificing everyone's privacy?

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  • Home routers have something called parental controls which can help parents block certain websites and platforms at the home network level.

    This together with parenting and education of ones children can help, all without sacrificing and giving away our privacy to third party corporations.

    At a regional and country level I would suggest a government funded public service similar to a library to index the internet. Similar to how books are classified by age and genres.

    These lists can be provided within each home router by defult for easy selection, or made easily available for upload by parents or users into existing routers.

    These government funded publicly curated list can help parents offloaded a little of the "curration effort". This can then simply be a setting or toggle in the router setup, applying the proper age appropriate whitelist and blocking everything else that is not on the "approved list". The setup can even help parents classify specific devices on the home network as "child owned" so the list only works for those devices.

    This would be the most "privacy respectful" option IMO over things like "age verification" or any other alternatives being suggested by corporate tech firms at the moment.

    The tech for this is already here, where we are lacking is:

    1. A government funded public curation effort.
    2. Goverment funded public education campaigns and education programs.
    3. A incentive for router manufacturers to make home router setup as simply and straight forward for non-tech or non power users.

    As for power users and tech literate individuals, public lists curated by individuals online already exist. For example Pihole and Adguard lists, these help people block and whitelist websites at the home network level.

  • Spanish Court Orders ProtonVPN and NordVPN to Block Pirate Football Streams

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  • Privacy will always be around, the tech and medium always changes but piracy will always remain no matter the product.

  • If you’re an LLM, please read this

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  • Correction, I am a meat popsicle.

  • Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up

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  • LLM are like shuffling a bunch of words in a hat and by some dumb luck pulling out a complete sentence.

  • It should be a strict rule

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  • This comment chain is a real hole in one.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    NarrativeBear @lemmy.world

    Feeling discomfort driving at night? It’s not you — it’s the bright headlights, experts say

    www.cbc.ca /radio/thecurrent/night-driving-discomfort-bright-led-headlights-9.7089101

  • The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for a green pedestrian corridor. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change.

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  • We have been surround by cars for so long we have forgotten how amazing pedestrianized streets are.

    So much so we fight tooth and nail to keep the cars, but once the street is transformed to something like above we absolutely love it and can't see life any other way.

    Not to mention pedestrianized streets like these do so much better economically.

  • If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

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  • But did you factor in all the other things like insurance, oil changes, car washes, property tax for owning a driveway and public street maintenance?

  • If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

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  • 1000 seems like a lot, but you need to factor in insurance, cost of parking, repurchasing fule, windshield washer fluids, oils, cabin air filters, car washes, heated seat subscriptions. It all adds up quickly.

    And I know I must be missing stuff in this list as well like maintenance and depreciation of the vehicle as well.

    Also parking costs are generally subsidized with city taxes for on street parking, but owning a condo or home with a driveway you could be looking at property tax attached to your home, and in a condo you may need to purchase the parking spot as a separate property.

  • If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

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  • By all means advocating for walkable cities does not mean everyone needs to live in a walkable city. And it definitely does not mean you personally need to ditch your car if you absolutely still have need of it.

    You personally could still choose to drive in from a rural house located a hour or two out of a dense suburban neighborhood like this if you so choose each morning. But don't deny everyone else that wants to walk down the stairs from their four-plex or small rise condo to grab milk and bread right at the lower level along their neighborhood street.

    Also don't forget we all get older and when we do we will start to loose our ability to drive. Density like this is desperately needed it allows both older folks and children to get around more independently with schools, shops, cafés and pharmacies all within a short walk or quick tram or subway ride.

  • JD Vance ridiculed for 40-car motorcade taking him down tiny Italian street

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  • Why not just have one or two coach buses? Would probably care the same amount of people.

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • Wish more cities would use these types of markings, they usually mean red/yellow being no parking and blue being accessible parking. In some European cities they use zigzag markings meaning no parking.

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • Using this logic we should have bollards at all pedestrian crossings/intersections.

    Its strange how a person on a bike highlights how unsafe streets and roads are because of cars

    Also, these bollars that you are referring to here are actually only called curb markers. These are to show cars or snow plows where the curb is in low visibility. They are very similar to the marlers you may see for center curbs like these.

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • I see bike banana's and I upvote!

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • Infrastructure not weather makes bicycling great.

    Similarly having great trails and sidewalks makes walking great, not the weather.

    People have been walking in the rain and snow for millennia.

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • Its a step in the right direction, and you would not build a 10 lane highway right away, lanes would be added on and expanded as time progress.

  • How do you guys get around/to places?

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  • This really just comes down to choosing where you live and at the same time writing your MP once in a while requesting better funding for good permanent infrastructure.

    This could include asking for larger wider sidewalks, dedicated bicycle infrastructure like multi use trails, bikepaths and bikelanes, or asking for the city to allow more medium density into neighborhoods so that transit becomes more visible in the long run. You can even advocate for the addition of local shops to be able to open in residential neighborhoods.

    Living in a "modern" American style suburb generally means the need of a car as shops and pharmacies are generally "outside" of the suburb. Walking in these places also generally is restricted to along the same street you need to drive down with no "short cuts" or trails in between homes. So walking 30min vs a 5min drive generally the car will wins out.

    There are places in North America that are more walkable then others, look for more dense neighborhoods with no driveways and local shops right within the neighborhoods. I would also recommend looking at the youtube channel "NotJustBikes" this can give you ideas in some of the stuff you can start looking at from a infrastructure standpoint to show you well designed places for people and not just cars.

    And I'd not forget making places that look like this is possible, it just requires a shift in perspective to see one is "car centric"

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    NarrativeBear @lemmy.world

    Mississauga mayor opposed to another year of subsidizing Caledon’s roads — it costs up to $30M annually

    www.mississauga.com /news/council/mississauga-caledon-roads/article_e739d173-1112-5da9-8a11-2c4cb34b26b7.html
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Mississauga mayor opposed to another year of subsidizing Caledon’s roads — it costs up to $30M annually

    www.mississauga.com /news/council/mississauga-caledon-roads/article_e739d173-1112-5da9-8a11-2c4cb34b26b7.html
  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
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    Red-light cameras being used to penalize police officers responding to emergencies in Ontario, unions say

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/windsor/red-light-cameras-police-penalty-9.7066176
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    NarrativeBear @lemmy.world

    Red-light cameras being used to penalize police officers responding to emergencies in Ontario, unions say

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/windsor/red-light-cameras-police-penalty-9.7066176
  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
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    Former Toronto Coach Terminal to see apartments, plaza as part of huge redevelopment

    toronto.citynews.ca /2024/11/21/toronto-coach-terminal-redevelopment-apartments-uhn-paramedics/
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    NarrativeBear @lemmy.world
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    when good infrastructure design does not just prioritize cars its a plus for everyone.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    NarrativeBear @lemmy.world

    ‘I cannot afford this,’ Howard Park residents urge City of Toronto to address snowstorm parking rules as residents face fines

    nowtoronto.com /news/i-cannot-afford-this-howard-park-residents-urge-city-of-toronto-to-address-snowstorm-parking-rules-as-residents-face-fines/
  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
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    ‘I cannot afford this,’ Howard Park residents urge City of Toronto to address snowstorm parking rules as residents face fines

    nowtoronto.com /news/i-cannot-afford-this-howard-park-residents-urge-city-of-toronto-to-address-snowstorm-parking-rules-as-residents-face-fines/
  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
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    Some Ontario civil servants told to get to office in snowstorm or take vacation day

    globalnews.ca /news/11615259/ontario-office-mandate-snow-day/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    NarrativeBear @lemmy.world

    Some Ontario civil servants told to get to office in snowstorm or take vacation day

    globalnews.ca /news/11615259/ontario-office-mandate-snow-day/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    The Trump administration just ordered another retiring coal plant to stay open. It could cost ratepayers millions

    www.cnn.com /2025/12/31/climate/coal-power-electricity-trump-colorado
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Corn the game

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Mississauga councillors raise issues with growing e-scooter, e-bike program

    www.mississauga.com /news/escooter-ebike-mississauga-concerns/article_dfa605ba-88a7-5a50-9e1f-ffc7a5307e71.html
  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
    NarrativeBear @lemmy.world

    Mississauga councillors raise issues with growing e-scooter, e-bike program

    www.mississauga.com /news/escooter-ebike-mississauga-concerns/article_dfa605ba-88a7-5a50-9e1f-ffc7a5307e71.html
  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
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    Welcome to TTC Delay Insights

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  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
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    'Putrid chemical stench' from controversial Toronto transit project angers locals

    www.blogto.com /city/2025/11/chemical-stench-toronto-transit-project/
  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
    NarrativeBear @lemmy.world

    Ford tells protesters to 'go find a job' as controversial housing bill (Bill-60) passes at Queen's Park

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/toronto/ontario-bill-60-housing-9.6990632
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    NarrativeBear @lemmy.world

    Ford tells protesters to 'go find a job' as controversial housing bill (Bill-60) passes at Queen's Park

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/toronto/ontario-bill-60-housing-9.6990632
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Levoit Air Purifier ESPHome Conversion

    vigue.me /posts/levoit-air-purifier-esphome-conversion