Yeah, don't use /r/depression. Too negative. Which is unfortunate.

/r/KindVoice or /r/InternetParents may be better for advice or support. I don't know their state or activity since I haven't used reddit anymore. I enjoyed commenting there before though. And I'd love similar communities here. But I doubt it'd be active with current size and user type.

There's a kind voice discord community. I don't remember if it's from the subreddit directly.

The healthy gamer community may be the best fit. Discord community. The website looks like a sell, but it has tons of free videos and community. https://www.healthygamer.gg/

German language forum site https://www.psychic.de/

I have not seen any costume.

Firefox plans to support Manifest V3 because Chrome is the world's most popular browser, and it wants extensions to be cross-browser compatible, but it has no plans to turn off support for Manifest V2.

If Google decided to break V2 compatibility with V3, Mozilla should announce V4 (or V3 extended), which is V3 but with the missing stuff readded.

That'd be a good practical and great product/tech marketing move. Just like most people won't see how V3 is worse than V2, V4 will indicate it's the evolved and improved V3.

It would also simplify supporting V3 and V4 at the same time for extension authors. A great practical gain for extension authors, not having to read and understand two manifest schemes and APIs.

Putin, Trump, and Musk. They're doing the same thing. Lying without restraint, freely, at every opportunity.

"The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: If we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.

Maybe we can translate that claim to what may have happened?

"The European Commission asked X to conform to regulation protecting its citizens or face fines."

“Temu is designed to make this expansive access undetected, even by sophisticated users,” Griffin’s complaint said. “Once installed, Temu can recompile itself and change properties, including overriding the data privacy settings users believe they have in place.”

So just like the majority USAian app out there?

Which apps do that? Because I am certain it's NOT the majority, and very skeptical about any other apps doing that.

From the article-linked ruling press release - what it means in practice, what this was about:

In order to protect works covered by copyright or related rights against offences committed on the internet, a French decree introduced two personal data processing operations. The first operation consists of the collection, by rightholder organisations, of IP addresses which appear to have been used on peer-to-peer websites to commit such offences and the referral of those IP addresses to the Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet (High Authority for the dissemination of works and the protection of rights on the Internet) (Hadopi) 1. The second operation, carried out by the internet access providers at Hadopi’s request, consists, inter alia, of matching the IP address with the civil identity data of its holder. Those data processing operations enable Hadopi to initiate a procedure against the persons identified, combining educational and punitive measures, which may lead to a referral to the public prosecution service in the most serious cases.

I find the ruling press release is much more understandable (and much more informative) than the OP-linked article.

the most relevant:

To take advantage of the vulnerability, a hacker has to already possess access to a computer's kernel, the core of its operating system.

For systems with certain faulty configurations in how a computer maker implemented AMD's security feature known as Platform Secure Boot—which the researchers warn encompasses the large majority of the systems they tested—a malware infection installed via Sinkclose could be harder yet to detect or remediate, they say, surviving even a reinstallation of the operating system.

For users seeking to protect themselves, Nissim and Okupski say that for Windows machines—likely the vast majority of affected systems—they expect patches for Sinkclose to be integrated into updates shared by computer makers with Microsoft, who will roll them into future operating system updates.

They could drop all the tracking though and only serve the public redirects. A much simpler product that would retain web links.

Great extensive write-up.

Stefan Hector, a representative of the Swedish Police Authority, said that “a society cannot accept that criminals today have a space to communicate safely in order to commit serious crimes.” A week later, it was revealed that the Swedish police had been infiltrated and were leaking information to criminals.

🙃

It's just insane how it's never enough even for huge countries. It's an entirely cultural thing.

In Europe, you have many small countries in cooperation, and none of them think to deny other countries. Russia and China are huge, and have so much. But it's systematically and culturally different, with a specific type of people and apparatus in control.

You look from a small country to these behemoths, and it's just insane that they would even feel a want or need to expand like that, at the cost of so much.

Donald Trump isn’t a narcissist, because we shouldn’t be calling anyone a “narcissist”. It’s an ableist slur.

Whether or not you are supposed to call him a narcissist doesn't change whether he is a narcissist.

Not calling him a narcissist doesn't make him not a narcissist.

Erlinda Johnson, one of the state prosecutors on the case, resigned on Friday, the fourth prosecutor to quit or be forced to step down.

Four?? In and during one case?

Many legal analysts said the case should never have been brought to trial by the Santa Fe County District Attorney's Office. "The prosecution felt it had to cheat to get the result it wanted," said legal analyst Duncan Levin, a New York defense attorney. "This is the worst of our system on display."

Judge Sommer asked Hancock who had decided to put Teske’s ammunition into a separate case file number.

Hancock said it was the decision of her supervisor, prosecutors and herself.

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There is no artistry. […] It’s all a bunch of fake stupidity and I can’t understand why anyone would care at all about this, much less deign to critique it from a feminist perspective. It doesn’t seem worthy of spending the time analyzing it to that degree.

I really don't get this take.

If they're crafting prompts and iterations they are crafting. If they're crafting them according to artistic concerns on the output, there's artistry.

It's a different kind. But I don't see why it would be immediately disqualified just because it's something different.

It's much closer to creative/producing arts than it is to classic beauty pageants.

Some would switch, some would install another ad blocker extension, and some wouldn't know any better and do nothing.

Unfortunately, most people don't care all that much.

In 2011, a 75-year-old woman took all 2.9 million Armenians offline when she sliced through that cable with a spade near the Georgian village of Ksani. The woman, who was scavenging for copper at the time, was arrested but reportedly let go soon after because of her advanced age. She later told reporters: "I have no idea what the internet is."

lol, what a great story

Why would a girl feel pressured to look as good as an image that doesn’t have actual bones or organs or skin pores - not even fucking gravity.

If you can interpret it as an image of a woman then there is correlation. What they are sourced from doesn't make a difference.

Do you think photoshopped images or makeup also don't change perception and consequently influence beauty standards? Those are also not based on the inherent physical properties of the original bodies.

I only purchased this toothbrush from Amazon because that was the only way to get the water-resistant Alexa speaker that I wanted for the bathroom.

54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists.

My impression was/is that over the last years/decade Wikipedia made efforts to/switch to not linking directly but extending direct links with (dated) Web Archive links or using Web Archive links directly (dated as "sourced from this in this state; which protects against upstream edits too).

So it was falling for three years

the whole point behind it was them making an assumption about something

What makes you think the change suggesters assumed ill intent?

The submitted PRs seem to reason improvement, not accuse the original author. I see them suggesting a change, neutrally. With (minimal) objective reasoning.

/edit: I see the later ones did. But the first one didn't. And the second one arguably didn't.

Lol, they added a "Location" to the winners (winner characters)

I guess it's more about the characters than only AI-generated images.

In a CNN article titled, "The first Miss AI has been crowned — and she’s a Moroccan lifestyle influencer," fashion journalist Jacqui Palumbo writes, "Meet Kenza Layli, a Moroccan lifestyle influencer who hopes to bring 'diversity and inclusivity' to the AI creator landscape.

That's the real problem, isn't it? Not the original character contest, with a clear setting. But others promoting the characters as if they were real people.

I mean, there's emojis like bee snuggle fox available

I also hate when people in YT videos are begging

Install the web-browser extension SponsorBlock

Crowd-sourced auto-skip

notably

Windows is not impacted by this issue.

quoting the main, critical part:

1. Under public domain (.com), the browser sent the request to 0.0.0.0.
2. The dummy server is listening on 127.0.0.1 (only on the loopback interface, not on all network interfaces).
3. The server on localhost receives the request, processes it, and sends the response.
4. The browser blocks the response content from propagating to Javascript due to CORS.

This means public websites can access any open port on your host, without the ability to see the response.

dan ce

Hello. This is the EU grammar police. Please fix your typo. Thank you for your cooperation.

We’re not talking about pedo stuff here.

Do you want an explanation of why creating and sharing sexually explicit material of other people without consent is problematic and damaging, and especially for children?

The reasons for this shift in budget away from funding Free Software and the NGI initiative seems to be an allocation of more funds for AI, leaving internet infrastructure by the wayside. Meanwhile, the EC has thus far declined to comment to share its official reasoning for striking this funding from its budget.

Investing into AI seems/feels more speculative and inefficient. I think you can get a lot more value by investing the same into actual, practical projects. Training AI, and training it well, is very expensive. And the gains or results are not necessarily even predictable, let alone certainly useful or used.

access to FireChat was completely cut off without explanation.

After establishing that FireChat establishes its own, independent mesh network, I would have at least expected more details on how it was cut off? Did it simply became unavailable on the publishers distribution? The followup text seems to indicate otherwise. Did Google and Apple as app publishers actively revoke access to already installed apps? Did the Open Garden publisher have a disabling functionality in place? Did they publish an update to disable it?

Without any information, it's hard to say why FireChat disappeared. […]

FireChat is gone because FireChat was a threat to the systems it circumvented.

"Nobody knows anything, but let me claim this anyway."

Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork.

What's left for the mono project then? What's Wine's interest in it?

ESA - European Speedrunner Assembly

/me gets confused by comments and content.

Electronic Software Association

Ah…

Between confirmation bias, human pattern recognition even where there are none, under/in-development brains, higher fantasy and creativity in children, less separation and knowledge about inner and outer experience, and dreaming/dream-like hallucinations, I'm skeptical any of it to be true.

Every discovery and connection they make read like possible fallacies, misattributions, confirmation-bias.

The sheer mass of humans means random hallucinations will match adult knowledge and sometimes deceased people. 2.2k across the world, and a third of them without a deceased match doesn't seem implausible to that.

a mechanism that might explain how a person could recall living a past life

For centuries Europe knew and experienced witchcraft and other demons. The U.S. experienced aliens and abductions - but only after they became popular in the media. The human race is great at hallucinating, even on a broad societal level and with confidence.

We can explain many misattributed traditions, hysteria, and other behaviors and hallucinations. We hallucinate more of what we heard of than if we hadn't. I don't see why we would find a past-life remembering more likely than faulty human nature. Which I guess requires some knowledge and awareness about human history and perception.

There have also been numerous cases of people lying for the hell of it or publicity. I'm certain some people make use of this theory / legend too.

I'm reminded of AI hallucinating facts, which seems like an interesting analogy. :P (In a more narrow and artificial, trained system. If it can happen there, why would it not in more complex systems/the human brain.)

The article was too long for me. I only read through the first two sections.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1118520/Paralives/

Planned Release Date: 2025

ensures we can continue to do shows like the one we just did.

Doing shows, not creating games /s(?)

because the pedestrian had been jaywalking

can't have something unexpected non-standard in city traffic after all, that's not allowed!

I think it's not closed off enough, given that I regularly see accounts from other instances post comments that go against the goals and spirit set by Beehaw.

At the same time, I think we don't have enough of a new content stream. I don't think opening up is a good solution though. That would mean losing what sets Beehaw apart.

Mastodon user posts about rejected change suggestion to neutral pronouns. Many critical comments get posted on the old rejected PR. Someone else creates a PR to fix grammar mistakes, including pronouns, it gets merged.

The letter alleged that "your blatant and widespread unlicensed use of our Client's trademarks has infringed our Client's rights and confused consumers into believing, falsely, that WP Engine is authorized, endorsed, or sponsored by, or otherwise affiliated or associated with, our Client."

If the trademark is indeed on the wordpress.org foundation and not the wordpress.com company, I didn't think that's a fair argument.

When I think Wordpress I think the software, not their hosting or company. Such an argument would only work if the exclusive trademark licensing were actually exclusively used, and not in addition to the very vast Wordpress [software] ecosystem.

WPEngine using the Wordpress trademark makes me think they're using Wordpress. Not that they are affiliated with Wordpress.com (or automattic that runs it).

Their about us pages:

• https://automattic.com/about/
• https://wpengine.com/about-us/

I don't think either is a cancer to the FOSS Wordpress ecosystem. Both seem to give back.

Zero downtme

If the paper falls down it's literal downtime though!

That's not what this is about.