Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, holding each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

From https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

if this is to protect kids on your network

Sadly, I suspect this is to protect adults on the network...

Well, if it's shitty things you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews_Band_Chicago_River_incident

FYI, there is a community, !nde@lemmy.world, if anyone here is interested in this kind of thing.

Go ask a chimpanzee 😆

Okay, so forgive the glib answer, but yeah, obviously on the macro level our genetic differences with the other apes contribute massively to our difference in intelligence with them.

At the micro level - i.e. between individual humans - my understanding is that the evidence also suggests that genetic variations lead to variation in intelligence (of course, as mentioned by other commenters, the usual caveats of how exactly you define and measure intelligence apply.)

See: https://archive.is/9o5cy

Researchers found that the IQ of children adopted at birth bore little correlation with that of their adoptive parents, but strongly correlated with that of their biological parents. What’s more, this association became stronger as the children grew older.

In fact, hundreds of studies all point in the same direction. “About 50 per cent of the difference in intelligence between people is due to genetics,” he says.

Although each gene associated with intelligence has only a minuscule effect in isolation, the combined effect of the 500-odd genes identified so far is quite substantial. “We are still a long way from accounting for all the heritability,” says Plomin, “but just in the last year we have gone from being able to account for about 1 per cent of the variance to maybe 10 per cent.”

Also: https://www.une.edu.au/connect/news/2022/10/multiple-insights-in-a-decade-of-twins-data

The longitudinal Academic Development Study of Australian Twins (ADSAT) is the first project of its kind in Australia and has amassed revealing data on 2,762 twin pairs, 40 triplet sets and 1,485 non-twin siblings. Using the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), and regular parent surveys, it has given researchers a unique picture of the behaviours and demography that contribute to educational achievement – and the extent to which our genes influence them.

Genetic differences among students are the single biggest influence on differences in literacy and numeracy standing and growth, accounting for half or more of that variability across tests and across time.

Broadly: Constructing their hardware so it's impossible to repair or upgrade by anyone but them (or at all), then lobbying against any attempts to legislate the 'right to repair'.

Check out the work of Louis Rossmann for details.

Well, for starters, that depends on which way you're looking at the earth.

Just to emphasise:

from 1990 and before

New to Linux so I’m sorry if I’m being ignorant, but it does seem crazy you can get access to a machine without the password.

This is always the case, no matter what OS you use, unless you use full-disk encryption. User credentials are all just data on a disk, so if someone has physical access to your machine, and your disk isn't encrypted, then they can access (and change) those credentials or any other data.

See also: https://ostechnix.com/reset-windows-password-with-linux-live-cd/

What’s even the point of having a password

As you say, preventing remote access is one, but also a password will slow someone down a bit, and stop low-knowledge adversaries entirely, possibly. Also you will at least know someone has messed with your machine if they change the password.

Really, though, there's nothing malicious someone can do to an unencrypted computer by changing the password that they couldn't do without changing the password (copy all your files, delete all your files, install malicious software). Except I guess annoying you by making you change your password back. 😆

ive just heard of an incident where students redirected their books codes to p**n. can i make sure that doesnt happen?

This is kind of confusing, or at least leaves a lot of detail out 😆 Did the domain lapse? Did their short-URL account get hacked? In any case, your QR code will just be encoding a URL. Ultimately, any URL can be redirected by someone out there; so it's just a matter of trusting that whoever has that access won't act maliciously, and that malicious actors can't gain access.

also, im using google to generate them, is there a foss alternative as im scared of tracking.

There absolutely are, just search and you should find plenty. Again, though, the QR code is just encoding a URL. Does Google use their own short-URL service for their generated QR codes? Just scan the QR code and look at the URL it encodes. If it's only the URL you want - not some Google short-URL that then redirects to the URL you entered - then there can't be any tracking done on it by Google.

lastly, can i make the qr code redirect to a specific page of a pdf

Covered by another commenter already, but for completeness: yes, you just add #page={n) at the end of the URL, e.g. https://dagrs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2020-01/sample.pdf#page=5

Super Meat Boy?

The minotaur/labyrinth design is cool, but it feels stylistically disconnected from the background

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_wars_and_conflicts

It plans to open 900 new stores in the U.S. and 1,900 in some of its bigger international markets like Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia. The company said it plans another 7,000 stores in other international markets; more than half of those would be in China.

Not AI, but there's a crowd-sourced extension for skipping sponsored sections called 'SponsorBlock': https://sponsor.ajay.app/

"Socks before or after trousers, but never socks before pants. That's the rule. Makes a man look scary, like a chicken."

Actually, a lot of planes are missing steps, they have to drive some up to them at the airport (🥁)

I think that the FOSS Fediverse platforms are significantly resistant to enshittification.

That same article explores what enables enshittification and what precludes it:

The Netheads wanted to build diverse networks with lots of offers, lots of competition, and easy, low-cost switching between competitors (thanks to interoperability).

Fediverse platforms:

• are highly interoperable - e.g. you can use Lemmy or Kbin and still see the same posts
• mostly FOSS, so anyone can fork them whenever they want if they don't like some particular change
• most instances currently aren't operated for profit - certainly if your instance started displaying ads you could switch to another instance (or set one up) and still access all the same content as you did previously

Title is missing a word or two. Should be 'Likelihood that average global temperature to will rise ...' or something.

a plug that claws itself in place

Just FYI, you can get DP cables without the retention clips. I too find them unnecessary and annoying.

I think they've combined politics with the circus. Now even people who think they're paying attention are really just watching a show.

The Football Association's (FA) rules state teams must wear colours that distinguish them from each other.

(from: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68579553)

There are new claims being published.

Recent article: https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/27/israel-stealing-organs-from-bodies-in-gaza-alleges-human-right-group

(Euronews MBFC page: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/euronews/)

I'd assume the normal procedure in the case of bankruptcy would be to donate their collection to another appropriate museum. The article seems to me to indicate the museum is a charitable foundation, so it's not like they have investors that need to recoup their losses in the event the museum is wound up.

Portlandia - '911 Beets Emergency' (feat. Jeff Goldbum)

Hey, this community is for general questions to users of Lemmy, not questions about Lemmy, or questions to the Lemmy developers.

See the rules in the sidebar, particularly:

3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below

You can try over at !lemmy@lemmy.ml, but your best bet to find this kind of information is probably taking a look at the GitHub: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+mastodon

Ground

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/BlYeM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

"Cool! What are they for?"

Without a cloth or loofah, or whatever.

Yeah, I'm surprised it hasn't been deleted for being against the rules.

Here's a recent article from an actual news organisation: https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/27/israel-stealing-organs-from-bodies-in-gaza-alleges-human-right-group

And their MBFC page: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/euronews/

You can definitely lose weight off your feet, same thing happened to me.

What the fuck is this article about? 😆😆😆

ROCK 'N' STONE, BROTHER!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_person

Well the latest development is that Apple is now going to support the current right to repair bill in California, but people are rightfully suspicious that they're going to get some loopholes written in or otherwise neuter the bill.

An article: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/24/apple_california_right_repair/

It's open source, so you could just go find that answer in the code, right?

Also, now I think of it, couldn't you just do this with one account?

I don't mean to ruin the fun or anything 😆

The term for this would be 'instrumental', which I only mention because it might help you find what you want. If you search streaming platforms for '[some genre] instrumental' it might turn up a playlist.

Here's some favourite albums of mine, which are 'ambient' so you might find them terribly boring, but they certainly are instrumental:

• 1 2 3 - Pole
• And Their Refinement of the Decline - Stars of the Lid
• Plume - Loscil
• The Sound of Lights When Dim - Slow Dancing Society

You should probably put this warning in the body text of the post and/or a [NSFL] in the title