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  1. Comment on Olympic committee announces a broad ban on transgender athletes and athletes with differences in sex development in Women’s events (gifted link) in ~lgbt

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    Sorry, I should probably be more specific that it's the IOC making that comparison, not me.

    Sorry, I should probably be more specific that it's the IOC making that comparison, not me.

    3 votes

  2. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    Put simply, OP, imagine you come across a bunch of people happily discussing a story written by a person that not only wishes you were dead, but has spent millions of dollars convincing other...

    Put simply, OP, imagine you come across a bunch of people happily discussing a story written by a person that not only wishes you were dead, but has spent millions of dollars convincing other people that you should die also.

    Do you not think you would be put out by this? Would you just sit there and roll over as people discussed giving more money by proxy to the person who's spending millions of dollars with the aim being your, personal death?

    This is basically the situation people find themselves in with JK Rowling, and you should probably try walking in other people's shoes before dying on this hill.

    24 votes

  3. Comment on Olympic committee announces a broad ban on transgender athletes and athletes with differences in sex development in Women’s events (gifted link) in ~lgbt

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    I'm at the point where I'm sick of all this weird posturing and maybe instead we should just have an Olympics where every form of doping is allowed and we get to see how far the human body really...

    I'm at the point where I'm sick of all this weird posturing and maybe instead we should just have an Olympics where every form of doping is allowed and we get to see how far the human body really can be pushed.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Ageless Linux emerges to protest OS-level age verification laws in ~tech

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    Yeah rereading the article I can see that this is human made slop, but I stand by my perception that the Ageless website is mostly if not entirely AI generated. I make this judgement on all of the...

    Yeah rereading the article I can see that this is human made slop, but I stand by my perception that the Ageless website is mostly if not entirely AI generated.

    I make this judgement on all of the following:

    • weird headers
    • a lot of 'it's not x it's y', or 'not just x, but y' formulations
    • AI 'desire' to end every piece of writing on some twee little summation
    • The weird data 'visualisations' and stuff like 'Ageless Linux compliance status across all jurisdictions, all dates: NONCOMPLIANT' are things that slightly tweaked anthropic models in particular 'love' to do, but you can coax any AI model into this mode without too much trouble.
    2 votes

  5. Comment on Ageless Linux emerges to protest OS-level age verification laws in ~tech

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    I think I'd give this more credit if both the article about it and the distro's official website weren't all complete and utter AI slop. It's pretty cool idea generally, though.

    I think I'd give this more credit if both the article about it and the distro's official website weren't all complete and utter AI slop. It's pretty cool idea generally, though.

    15 votes

  6. Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech

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    idk, I think it is relevant. If you've got all your eggs in one basket maybe it's smart to not do things that look extremely fishy to the owner of your basket? I'm a selfhoster myself but I...

    idk, I think it is relevant. If you've got all your eggs in one basket maybe it's smart to not do things that look extremely fishy to the owner of your basket?

    I'm a selfhoster myself but I understand that that isn't necessarily feasible for everyone. Even if this person spread their data across various services, if they're doing weird stuff that's flagging them for fraud with one service they'd probably do it with all the others as well.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech

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    There's something that doesn't add up here and I don't really understand why people haven't cottoned onto it. Why on earth would you go buy a $500 gift card in a store to use on your own account?...

    There's something that doesn't add up here and I don't really understand why people haven't cottoned onto it. Why on earth would you go buy a $500 gift card in a store to use on your own account? They're not discounted in retail outlets typically and I fail to see how it's easier/more convenient than just using your payment information to pay your subscription costs.

    There's also the fact that it's fairly common knowledge that these days gift cards are a huge vector for fraud, I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole even to give to friends and family, let alone bafflingly use them on my own account as a proxy for my own money?

    I don't like to call someone a liar but to me it seems like something might not be above board with this story.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on I am angry at Google and wanted to share (rant) in ~tech

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    IDK, I've been self-hosting my email for coming up on a decade with very little work and good deliverability all around. The deliverability issues I had at the start were my own fault, for i.e....

    IDK, I've been self-hosting my email for coming up on a decade with very little work and good deliverability all around. The deliverability issues I had at the start were my own fault, for i.e. not setting up DKIM correctly.

  9. Comment on I am angry at Google and wanted to share (rant) in ~tech

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    I started hosting Slink on my home server and exposed it with a cloudflare tunnel / cool domain. I'm sick of cool image hosters going under or becoming shit later, so I figured just doing it...

    I started hosting Slink on my home server and exposed it with a cloudflare tunnel / cool domain. I'm sick of cool image hosters going under or becoming shit later, so I figured just doing it myself was the best for my use case.

  10. Comment on US National Institutes of Health suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns in ~science

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    The political motivation behind this is that part of the MAGA wing's anti-vax stuff was spearing Fauci for "sponsoring gain of function" research, the implication being that this research was what...

    The political motivation behind this is that part of the MAGA wing's anti-vax stuff was spearing Fauci for "sponsoring gain of function" research, the implication being that this research was what caused covid in the first place. Especially given that those people are currently being kinda shaken by the fact the Epstein stuff was in fact, not released, this is probably an easy sacrifice to the altar of the death cult that's currently in control of the US. Sad times.

    23 votes

  11. Comment on How a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children in ~life.women

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    As someone that's often made comments like that, reading this article disgusted me. There's ensuring people are capable of raising children, and then there's specifically setting out to make sure...

    As someone that's often made comments like that, reading this article disgusted me. There's ensuring people are capable of raising children, and then there's specifically setting out to make sure people you don't like can't have children. They are utterly different things. Denmark is fucked up and the way they treat Greenlanders is awful in pretty much all spheres, I've heard stories like people calling 112 for an ambulance in Greenland and being asked whether they're Danish or not.

    On the point of testing, because I feel like evil schemes like this make the concept poisoned - I had always thought of a parenting test as a way to streamline your interactions with government by getting a 'parenting license' - i.e., it would be a positive measure that would lead to you being given the benefit of the doubt in situations like someone calling CPS on you because they saw your child unaccompanied, or something like that. It would be and is inhuman to take someone's kids immediately off them because they haven't passed the parenting test.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Apple debuts iPhone 16e in ~tech

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    I don't think that's actually true honestly. You have to be looking dead on at the phone with your eyes open for Face ID to activate. I don't see how it's more difficult for someone to grab your...

    I don't think that's actually true honestly. You have to be looking dead on at the phone with your eyes open for Face ID to activate. I don't see how it's more difficult for someone to grab your hand and forcibly smush your finger into the button than it is for them to clockwork orange you and force you to look at your phone.

    8 votes

  13. Comment on It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor in ~science

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    I for one am glad that because my master branch is now named main, all racism is solved. (Yes this comment is facetious exaggeration but the importance of changes like this is vastly oversold,...

    I for one am glad that because my master branch is now named main, all racism is solved. (Yes this comment is facetious exaggeration but the importance of changes like this is vastly oversold, typically by people whose jobs only continue to exist if they churn out nonsense recommendations as fast as they can)

    8 votes

  14. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    It's genuinely so mad to me that industry groups will expend money and energy on crap like this instead of spending that money and energy on offering a product people will want to buy at a non...

    It's genuinely so mad to me that industry groups will expend money and energy on crap like this instead of spending that money and energy on offering a product people will want to buy at a non fuck-you price.

    10 votes

  15. Comment on The rise of DIY, pirated medicine: Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses in ~health

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    I have a friend who works in pharmaceutical manufacture (I won't mention the company) and some of the horror stories I have heard from her about how common fuckups, mislabeling etc are in the...

    I have a friend who works in pharmaceutical manufacture (I won't mention the company) and some of the horror stories I have heard from her about how common fuckups, mislabeling etc are in the manufacturing process are terrifying. Definitely at a point now where I trust pharmaceutical QC so little that I would feel equally as safe taking pharma branded product or something someone cooked in a bathtub. It's all humans doing dumb human stuff all the way down.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~finance

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    Cutting priced in taxes like VAT never works. The best way to "cut VAT" in a way that actually works is to let people submit their receipts with sunscreen purchases for a VAT rebate, rather than...

    Cutting priced in taxes like VAT never works. The best way to "cut VAT" in a way that actually works is to let people submit their receipts with sunscreen purchases for a VAT rebate, rather than letting greedy companies nab it for themselves.

    11 votes

  17. Comment on Feature request: font override in ~tildes

  18. Comment on Feature request: font override in ~tildes

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    Tbf, that extension blows. I recommend Cascadea, which works a lot more consistently in my experience.

    Tbf, that extension blows. I recommend Cascadea, which works a lot more consistently in my experience.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within twenty days in ~tech

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    Apple never took money from web apps? They're not on the store, there is no review process. This is just Apple saying "we're not going to do the work for this webapp feature for n different...

    Apple never took money from web apps? They're not on the store, there is no review process. This is just Apple saying "we're not going to do the work for this webapp feature for n different browser engines" and the DMA wouldn't let them just keep supporting webkit, so they took it out.

    I know it's fashionable to go "apple greedy bad!" but it just looks really bad when people wheel that out for things it doesn't really have anything to do with, it dilutes the actual, very reasonable point.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on ‘Don’t mess with us’: WebMD parent company demands return to office in bizarre video in ~life

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    There’s also c) people who bizarrely seem to hate their partner/kids and live their lives in the office to escape being at home rather than doing anything about their lot in life

    There’s also c) people who bizarrely seem to hate their partner/kids and live their lives in the office to escape being at home rather than doing anything about their lot in life

    11 votes