1dalm

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[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 10 points 21 hours ago

Misspelled "kidnapped and forced to fight".

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 49 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Oh, you see? He was the real victim.

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 10 points 1 day ago

The bubble won't burst so long as there is more money being printed and companies can just inflate their way out of debt.

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world -5 points 1 day ago

Both of those video were clearly choreographed and sped up. Ask yourself, why do they need to fake it? (Because they are all competing for VC investment that they desperately need to continue development.)

Find any one of these companies that released a video with a reporter present and you will see the real capabilities of these robots.

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I highly doubt they are robust enough to assist with rescue.

Didn't get me wrong, they are very impressive machines, but at best they are still just engineering experiments.

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 4 points 1 day ago

I was guilty of that very thing once. During my first programming class back in college, I wrote an Asteroids clone as a project. My professor kept sending it back telling me to fix it. I really racked my brain trying to figure out what he was sending back to me (he wouldn't tell me, I was supposed to find and correct the error). The game ran just fine. Finally a gave up and asked him to tell me the answer of what my code was doing wrong. He showed me that I had one line of code that was basically making a new instance of the entire game for every screen refresh. (I wrote it in Java, so Java was just correcting it for me in real time.)

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 25 points 1 day ago (13 children)

It's funny to me to see people mythologize how perfect video games were before they could be remotely updated.

Sure, game developers rely on fix-it-later updates much more than they should today, but games had bugs back then too.

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world -1 points 2 days ago

Progressive voter: "I'm sick of how old cowardly the Democrat party is."

Me: "Are you going to run for office."

Progressive voter: "Uh... No. That's too hard."

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 5 points 2 days ago

One executive order. It could literally be one sentence long.

With the exception of the spending bill, everything that's been done by this administration has been done by executive order. The real problem is that the administration ran off all the skilled and knowledgeable workers.

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 42 points 2 days ago

This is, in fact, the opposite of a stable regulatory environment.

 

I don't think he knows about second climax, Pip. He's only watched the movies.

 

Well made videos for youth discussing online and other personal safety.

 

I know this topic, as well as most online topics, is more about emotions than facts. But here we are. You probably don’t understand how Discord's new policy is intended to help protect children because you aren’t trained to think like a child predator. (That’s fine.) I’ve had to take a lot of child safety trainings over the years for professional reasons. Here’s how online child predators work.

They start by finding a kid with a secret. Just like a lion will generally choose to attack the weak gazelle, child predators go after vulnerable kids.

They find the kids with a secret and say “hey want to see some porn?”, and of course the kid is curious. They didn't start with anything bad. This is a process for them. But they will tell the kid, “be sure you don’t tell your parents about this. This is our secret." Then they slowly try to pull into deeper and deeper secrets and start to blackmail the kid. They start to demand that the kid send them nude photos. They trap the kids into deeper and deeper secrets and guilt to get more and more out of them. In the worst cases this results in meetups with the predator in person.

The easiest places for the predators to start this process is porn sites where the kids are visiting in secret to begin with. Especially those on Discord where the messaging between users is the main feature. Those are the kids that are most vulnerable.

How how is Discord's policy supposed to protect kids? The goal is to keep the vulnerable kids out of spaces where they would be targeted to begin with.

So there you go. I’m all ears for how to do this better. That's one beef I have with the EFF right now. They offer no alternative solutions to this. They just didn't want any kind of protections at all.

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