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  • Too soon man, too soon

  • Yeah back in the day my friend group was on Skype as well as jumping onto whatever vc server was setup for whatever Minecraft server we were on. Skype was too bloated and bogged the system down especially if trying to do a voice call while playing a game on my old single core Pentium circa 2010ish

  • Is preventing teens' access to pornography worth sacrificing the ability for every adult to have privacy online?

    This is a society level value judgement that has to be made, I'm not necessarily looking for hard answers

  • TeamSpeak is basically what Discord replaced in many gaming communities/servers/groups. Before discord, most gaming groups would have a TeamSpeak, Ventrillo or Mumble server. These were self hosted (or hosted in a VPS) and generally worked better than Skype. TeamSpeak was the most polished, Ventrillo was kinda dated looking but worked well and Mumble was the free software that was getting started and is now pretty good

  • I mean, mumble has gotten super good at audio, but I don't know about other features

  • I mean one side has literal Nazis, is building detention facilities while sending a poorly militia into cities to arrest and attempt to disappear people without any charges, the other side just wants a half-assed European social democracy (because you know the Democratic party is currently captured and unwilling to make any meaningful change that isn't incremental and trivial to reverse)

  • Oh yeah I'm sure if I struggled through I'd eventually find the value to toggle, it's just a royal pain and I don't wanna!

  • I mean people usually suck at naming roads. Water St is often where the water tower is, Railroad St runs parallel to the railroad, Fish Hatchery Road is where the fish hatchery is, and then there's the tons of roads named after specific families who lived on the land they run through. Granted it's way less dark than the countless cities that are named after the people/natural features that were killed when founding the cities. So many places are named after who and what was once there...

  • Any kind of required age verification has significant privacy and security implications. Honestly I think the best approach is the pinky promise we've generally had until now, where by default the platform will not display explicit content until the user actively consents and asserts that they are of legal age.

    Why exactly do we need to be verifying age? Any kind of legal/government documents and agreements are already covered by purjory laws, physical deliveries and purchases are already handled by photo ID checks, and porn is of course harmful to teens/preteens but they've always been finding ways to access porn even before the home computer era (and honestly this would be better handled through education by schools and parents than forceful legislation)

  • But, the publishing company can sue them for damages related to lost income based on TPB’s distribution of content.

    Wasn't the argument supposed to be that because they only link to torrents but don't host the content that the torrents link to themselves they're not a disributor just a link aggregator?

  • I've had some difficulty with the parental controls preventing my kid from joining my server on the same network. Microsoft's parental controls are so overly granular yet incredibly unclear in the specifics, there isn't feature parity between the mobile app and the web interface forcing one to download their shitty app to toggle certain settings, and it seems like even their documentation authors and support are unclear on how to set it up exactly

  • Having worked at a bank, everything is PDF files. All the billions of dollars in loans, assets, and accounts etc. it's all PDF files of agreements and terms. The entire finance industry would be heavily destabilized if the industry somehow rug pulled them on PDFs

  • Why is my PDF file booting the Linux kernel?

  • The best part is Word for example now by default just outputs a PDF file if you tell it to export an XPS file, which gets extra funny if you have a licensed version of Acrobat installed because Acrobat installs an extension to also export as a PDF except it works worse!

  • That’s why I’ve been experimenting with ways to minimize the temperature and time needed to sanitize milk without otherwise damaging it

    15 seconds at 73C

  • Galaxusy!

  • And for anyone who doesn't know, you can experience Runescape as it was in its heyday via 2009scape!

    The best part is, they offer XP multipliers (by default you can select 1x, 2.5x or 5x XP in case you have a job and responsibilities) its also a super active project with a brilliantly healthy official server to play on, and completely free to play with optional singleplayer!

  • opefully the org will have a more phoenix style burn and rise form the ashes renewed and better

    As someone who was in Scouts not long before they started imploding from the scandals and now has a kid in Scouts, I really do get the feeling that the modernization they've been tackling has been very much akin to this. Just feels like a much healthier organization which isn't actively trying to pretend its still the 1960s