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  • Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

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  • Wasn't aware that social media keeps kids alive?...

    I've seen enough stories on kids being cyber bullied into suicide that I really doubt there's enough happy inclusion on these platforms to balance that.

  • It will be great, they said...

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  • Your ISP is kind of dogshit if it's forcing 15-30m of downtime overnight every few weeks. And power outages are kind of a weird thing to focus on.

    Point being that these are not "skill issues". AWS's actual uptime over the last decade was something like 5 or 6 9s, 99.9 is just their official SLA. From where many people live (shit ISP, brown outs, floods, tornadoes, etc...), they can't even match that bare minimum. God forbid budget enters the equation (no money for 3-2-1 backup? oops everything is fried from a freak accident).

    So yeah you could definitely do OK with a real budget, a quality server setup and enough hours during the week for firefighting. But that's not really "self hosting", you're just making your homelab a $0 revenue small business. For the 95% of people who can't do that, they wouldn't get anywhere close to a cloud provider's service.

  • It will be great, they said...

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  • AWS offers an SLA of 99.9 availability, which it has usually exceeded each year. That means your server can't be down more than ~8h per year to beat it. Your residential ISP (in a nearly optimal case) has a 15-30 min service period overnight every few weeks.

    Hope your area gets less than ~3 hours of power outages per year or you're going to be breaching your SLA before you even hit software.

  • Food is literally rule

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  • That doesn't mean the work doesn't exist. If nobody went out of their way to do the undesirable and menial labor involved with mass agriculture then we'd all die. If you're not in a tiny, hunter-gatherer proto-society then you really do have to put in work to live. It's just our modern distribution of labor and reward that's fucked.

  • Anger Management 😌

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  • That has to be one of the worst guillotine designs I've ever seen, send this child back to school.

    • no mouton
    • curve is simultaneously less effective than a diagonal and harder to make
    • tiny contact point with groove on the narrow blade side, basically guaranteed to jump on the way down or slip on impact
    • no head basket or splatter shield
    • no bascule, good luck shifting that body kid
    • no stabilizing supports

    This thing is gonna paralyze the guy, send the blade flying into the crowd, and cause a slow bleed death (if any)

  • How I view my heritage

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  • The Chinese families bit is most likely a reference to widespread, problematic family dynamics stemming from shared social pressures in China. Just in living memory, a household might have gone through: a revolution, the cultural revolution, famine, rapid urbanization, one child policy, economic booms, economic bubbles, etc...

    That will leave any family pretty fucked up, though it may not be universally bad (hence, only the middle of the horse). In the future, we'll probably see similar echoes of trauma from the USA's current historical flashpoint.

  • Don't crucify me

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  • It's more likely that Steam leans into the "Steam[Device] Verified ✅/❌" labeling. If anything, that makes navigating the marketplace much easier for a mid-performance buyer. They've already done it with steam deck, it's a good angle to pressure both devs and consumers into their device.

    People buying this won't be "daily driving" their pc in any sense. I think the idea is unlock steam's library (and marketplace) the massive casual phone/tablet crowd. If I didn't already have a dedicated gaming PC I would definitely be interested.

  • Wake up, Canada: Wayne Gretzky is MAGA

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  • That's true, it's a combination of factors. A big part is the insular nature of the team and coaching as you go higher up the ladder. If you're not thanking God in your post-win interview you're a "locker room problem"; if you want a coaching job after you retire you've gotta be on good terms with the good ol' boys network.

    I do think that the brain damage does compound heavily though. I know Mormons who get out and become well adjusted people later in life; the semi-pro football players I know get more irrational and violent as the CTE sets in.

  • Wake up, Canada: Wayne Gretzky is MAGA

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  • I have a groundbreaking theory about prolonged playing of contact sports, traumatic brain injury, and far right politics... You generally don't hear these headlines about tennis/soccer players, or nearly as often about basketball/baseball players.

    As someone who enjoys American football and hockey, it's a damn shame that we still paint athletes as role models.

  • Is brain rot real? Researchers warn of emerging risks tied to short-form video

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  • Short form video (and it's sibling, the infinite headline scrollers) are the final evolution of engagement architecture. There's nothing inherently nefarious about an algorithm presenting content, but these platforms fracture the content into a bottomless feed of tiny dopamine doses, requiring some smart behavior to present all of that.

    I'd argue that a short form video platform couldn't exist without a finely tuned algorithm. With long form videos the barrier to creation limits the pool of available content. A smaller and deeper pool is more manageable for manual curation. A wider and shallower pool is exponentially harder:

    • Just navigating each video (even a <1s interaction) adds a large overhead to consuming the content. This could be 16% of your time watching 6s vines.
    • You basically have to watch most of the clip to judge it's quality. Even a 3s glance could put a hard floor of watching 5-10% of all content.
    • The amount of video topics in short form dilutes high quality creators. Is it likely that a creator who covers 3 topics in interesting, in-depth 30 minute videos could match that engaging runtime with 90+ diverse topics?

    Take out a content distilling/targeting algorithm and your platform is unusable.

  • Marine researchers find biggest source of microplastics in our ocean is vehicle tyres

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  • I'd like to see the numbers, but I imagine that the synthetic textiles chunk comes from the sheer volume of fast-fashion and trashion produced every year. I have synthetic shirts that are well over a decade old and still look and function as brand new. My cotton shirts under similar wear get ratty and frayed in that time frame (and require harsh chemicals for stains).

    If we stopped over-washing and over production, I wouldn't be surprised if the lifetime ecological footprint of synthetic garments is less than a cotton equivalent.

  • what's a cool gift? (like an infinity mirror)

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  • No clue, but the frosted looks easier to read to me

  • what's a cool gift? (like an infinity mirror)

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    TIL: Young Men Ages 18–29 are Turning Right-Wing and Women of the Same Age Turning Left-Wing

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  • The down votes on your comment are a head scratcher. No matter what you as a parent (or even young men commenting in this thread) say, that perspective is shouted down as manosphere brainwash propaganda.

    It's almost like retrograde toxic masculinity. Vulnerable young dudes trying to explain why left messaging makes them uncomfortable are being told to man up/grow up/get over it.

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    TIL: Young Men Ages 18–29 are Turning Right-Wing and Women of the Same Age Turning Left-Wing

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  • I don't disagree that the absurdly well funded and targeted indoctrination campaign is the reason for right wing success. But I think even without that influence you'd still get a generation of "apolitical" or left-skeptic men. That was always going to be the result of any attack against the patriarchy. The inability of progressives to predict that and keep them from going farther right was a massive blunder.

    Edit: This is why progressive campaigns à la Mamdani or Bernie have been incredibly popular. Inclusive policies couched alongside clear economic benefits have always been the way to capture universal support. The neo-lib Democratic establishment thought they could have their cake and eat it too by cutting out the troublesome economic half.

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    TIL: Young Men Ages 18–29 are Turning Right-Wing and Women of the Same Age Turning Left-Wing

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  • In some sense, yes and that's part of the problem. Not sure if you often talk to anyone <25 years old, but as you get older it becomes pretty obvious that they're just not mentally or emotionally mature. It's not their fault, the human physiology makes early life an extended formative period. They're generally not good with nuance or introspection, that's just how it is.

    Take a girl and a boy into Twitter in the 2010s and they're going to a wide array of diverse and complex viewpoints. The girl is immersed in #MeToo-style solidarity and relatively simple to digest slogans (pregnancy is scary and the left is pro choice, the left is pushing against toxic beauty culture, the left wants me educated and more than a housewife, etc...).

    None of can really resonate the same with the boy. In fact, hyperbolic or nuanced slogans fly right over his undeveloped frontal lobe or even backfire (all men are bastards?, black lives matter?, who got cancelled for what?, no means no![usually?], etc...). That doesn't force him into being a shitty conservative adult, but it definitely affects his politics in the same way that too-early exposure to porn affects someone's adult sexual attitudes.

    People scoff at the concept of treating men with "kid gloves", but forget that the public internet includes kids. Dismantling the patriarchy is messy and difficult stuff, doing that in front of a generation of impressionable boys is how you end up with the graphs in the article. We're just now seeing the first social media age repurcussions, but now imagine some younger voters where MAGA politics is the status quo...

  • 'Bleak picture' for Republicans as Democrats make gains in deep-red districts: report

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  • 'Bleak picture' for Republicans as Democrats make gains in deep-red districts: report

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  • 'Bleak picture' for Republicans as Democrats make gains in deep-red districts: report

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  • Damn didn't know I was an LLM? Thanks for the heads up, good discussion