streblo's recent activity
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Comment on Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats in ~tech
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Comment on The small company at the center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’ in ~games
streblo Gamergate as a movement is just ugliness personified. I can link to hundreds of threads from the early days of KiA that are just mean, nasty, venomous and ugliness on steroids and it’s probably...Gamergate as a movement is just ugliness personified. I can link to hundreds of threads from the early days of KiA that are just mean, nasty, venomous and ugliness on steroids and it’s probably gotten worse since then. I’m not talking about the harassment campaign here, this is just the discussion surrounding it.
It’s entirely possible to have principled objections to what you’ve outlined but that is not what the public face of gamergate was and we have all the receipts we could want to prove it. What you’re doing is wishful thinking at best and an attempt at historical revisionism at worst.
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Comment on The small company at the center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’ in ~games
streblo Yup, GamerGate was the deathblow to the old internet culture that largely required a default position of good faith. Every shitty part of the online culture war has its roots in GamerGate, it's...Even though GamerGate was nominally limited to the gaming community, it also had a wider negative effect on online discourse as a whole.
Yup, GamerGate was the deathblow to the old internet culture that largely required a default position of good faith. Every shitty part of the online culture war has its roots in GamerGate, it's where the playbook on targeted online misinformation was written in the run up to the 2016 election.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/20/gamergate-right-online-harassment-joan-donovan-meme-wars
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Comment on Canadian pet DNA company sends back dog breed results from human sample a second time in ~life.pets
streblo Fair enough. I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree because imo the downsides are quite small compared to the upsides. To get consistent titles and style across all posts in a system where...Fair enough. I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree because imo the downsides are quite small compared to the upsides. To get consistent titles and style across all posts in a system where users can co-edit their titles or requires user approval/consultation would honestly increase the moderator workload probably by a factor of 10 or more.
any changes to that which remain attributed
Just a clarification: First of all I don't think anyone pays particular attention to who wrote what title, but secondly and more importantly with the presence of the topic log this isn't even true: attribution can clearly be seen for anyone interested.
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Comment on The costs of a phone-based childhood (gifted link) in ~tech
streblo I think this was less targeted at getting you to scroll and more of a pivot when the amount of normal user content getting posted to Facebook cratered. I haven't had a Facebook account in years,...I think this was less targeted at getting you to scroll and more of a pivot when the amount of normal user content getting posted to Facebook cratered.
I haven't had a Facebook account in years, but even ~6 years ago that well was drying up and I imagine it's worse now.
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Comment on Canadian pet DNA company sends back dog breed results from human sample a second time in ~life.pets
streblo Why are you so fixated on the submitter's ownership of a title? Ultimately I think that's what we are disagreeing on, and I fail to see any utility in it other than maybe someone's pride or ego...or being asked for approval or at least notified
Why are you so fixated on the submitter's ownership of a title? Ultimately I think that's what we are disagreeing on, and I fail to see any utility in it other than maybe someone's pride or ego being at stake.
But letting some users silently and unilaterally change a post without any input from the poster is not that.
Titles should be (and are on Tildes) considered a community asset and moderated for everyone's benefit, not the submitter's. Everyone benefits from having titles adhere to a common style guide and reasonable window of accuracy and tone. It's collaborative because 9 times out of 10 the moderators are taking your tags and title and cleaning them up to meet a standard, not drastically altering any sort of meaning.
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Comment on 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death in ~transport
streblo It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. In my opinion Barnett arranging his own death in a manner to inflict maximum harm on Boeing seems at least as likely as someone at Boeing engaging...It will be interesting to see how this unfolds.
In my opinion Barnett arranging his own death in a manner to inflict maximum harm on Boeing seems at least as likely as someone at Boeing engaging in murder conspiracy.
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Comment on Canadian pet DNA company sends back dog breed results from human sample a second time in ~life.pets
streblo I'm curious why you think titles on a small community site shouldn't be collaborative? What benefit to 'ownership' of a title could there possibly be, especially most of the time when it's not...Third-party editing would make more sense if this were a wiki format with explicitly collaborative posts, but structuring it as a blog where each post has an identified submitter implies some "ownership" which editing undermines
I'm curious why you think titles on a small community site shouldn't be collaborative? What benefit to 'ownership' of a title could there possibly be, especially most of the time when it's not even 'self-owned' content that's being shared?
Titling and tagging is a collaborative process on Tildes by design, just right now we lack any sort of system to promote moderators other than being selected by Deimos.
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Comment on The costs of a phone-based childhood (gifted link) in ~tech
streblo This is pretty much what I'm planning on doing. Locking down the phones and limiting access to social media. I'm not sure if iOS lets you administer network settings as part of the parental...This is pretty much what I'm planning on doing. Locking down the phones and limiting access to social media. I'm not sure if iOS lets you administer network settings as part of the parental controls but I'll likely route everything through a wireguard VPN as well if that's something my kids can't just change at will.
We'll see though, everyone has a plan until they
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Comment on The costs of a phone-based childhood (gifted link) in ~tech
streblo I think social media is definitely more central to the problem than phones themselves but I don't think the comparison is quite fair. While I don't think social media without phones would be...focusing on the symbol of those things instead. In a way it’s like saying, “terrorists recruit on the internet. Therefore we should get rid of the internet”.
I think social media is definitely more central to the problem than phones themselves but I don't think the comparison is quite fair. While I don't think social media without phones would be benign, it's effects would be far more muted than they currently are. The pervasiveness of social media is the issue, so lumping that into 'phones' seems at least acceptable to me.
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Comment on Canadian pet DNA company sends back dog breed results from human sample a second time in ~life.pets
streblo I like it. I really appreciate the constant title style and also the ability to tone down clickbait headlines. Knowing some of the users here, letting only users edit their own titles would result...I like it. I really appreciate the constant title style and also the ability to tone down clickbait headlines.
Knowing some of the users here, letting only users edit their own titles would result in worse headlines, not better.
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Comment on The costs of a phone-based childhood (gifted link) in ~tech
streblo This should be a gift link, although I'm not sure how long they remain available for? An interesting article that looks at how phones may have impacted current teens and young adults: My kids are...This should be a gift link, although I'm not sure how long they remain available for?
An interesting article that looks at how phones may have impacted current teens and young adults:
Something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents in the early 2010s. By now you’ve likely seen the statistics: Rates of depression and anxiety in the United States—fairly stable in the 2000s—rose by more than 50 percent in many studies from 2010 to 2019. The suicide rate rose 48 percent for adolescents ages 10 to 19. For girls ages 10 to 14, it rose 131 percent.
The problem was not limited to the U.S.: Similar patterns emerged around the same time in Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, the Nordic countries, and beyond. By a variety of measures and in a variety of countries, the members of Generation Z (born in and after 1996) are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and related disorders at levels higher than any other generation for which we have data.
The decline in mental health is just one of many signs that something went awry. Loneliness and friendlessness among American teens began to surge around 2012. Academic achievement went down, too. According to “The Nation’s Report Card,” scores in reading and math began to decline for U.S. students after 2012, reversing decades of slow but generally steady increase. PISA, the major international measure of educational trends, shows that declines in math, reading, and science happened globally, also beginning in the early 2010s.
My kids are younger so this is not a battle we've had to fight yet. Parents with older kids, what, if anything, are you/were you doing with phones? No judgement, just curious.
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The costs of a phone-based childhood (gifted link)
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Comment on Canadian father asks court to stop 27-year-old daughter's MAID death, review doctors' sign-off in ~health
streblo I missed your edit, but I don't think it ending up in the courts is necessarily a bad thing. Pretty much the entire history of this legislation has come directly as a result of court rulings,...I missed your edit, but I don't think it ending up in the courts is necessarily a bad thing. Pretty much the entire history of this legislation has come directly as a result of court rulings, including the recently added ability for people lacking a reasonably foreseeable death to qualify for MAiD.
Do I think the legislation is perfect? No, it's definitely not but I do think it's a good start. I'm struggling to see what sort of review process would satisfy this situation: the father is upset that 2/3 doctors gave the referral, would he feel any better if it was 3/5 from a review panel? I think having some legal definitions in the legislation would be nice but at the end of the day we're relying on professional opinions and there isn't going to be anything that makes things black and white.
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Comment on Canadian father asks court to stop 27-year-old daughter's MAID death, review doctors' sign-off in ~health
streblo I see, apologies for misreading as accusatory rather than hypothetical.and my reply is suggesting posting civilly was the correct choice.
I see, apologies for misreading as accusatory rather than hypothetical.
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Comment on Canadian father asks court to stop 27-year-old daughter's MAID death, review doctors' sign-off in ~health
streblo Yes, I agree. I wasn't very clear, but I think the law does a decent job of requiring that. You need a witness, two independent medical opinions plus additional safeguards if your death is not...Yes, I agree. I wasn't very clear, but I think the law does a decent job of requiring that. You need a witness, two independent medical opinions plus additional safeguards if your death is not reasonably foreseeable:
(a) one of the two practitioners who provides an assessment must have expertise in the medical condition that is causing the unbearable suffering;
(b) the person must be informed of available and appropriate means to relieve your suffering, including counselling services, mental health and disability support services, community services, and palliative care, and the person must be offered consultations with professionals who provide those services;
(c) the person and their practitioners must have discussed reasonable and available means to relieve their suffering and all agree that the person has seriously considered those means;
(d) the person's eligibility assessment must take a minimum of 90 days, unless the assessments have been completed sooner and the person is at immediate risk of losing their capacity to consent; and
(e) immediately before euthanasia is provided, the practitioner must give you an opportunity to withdraw your request and ensure that you give express consent to receive euthanasia.
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Comment on Canadian father asks court to stop 27-year-old daughter's MAID death, review doctors' sign-off in ~health
streblo Where has anybody flew into a rage? I would expect a little more of a charitable interpretation from someone arguing for the same. I'm not against the court taking on this case but I fail to see...You have no connection nor understanding of this family nor their story so flying into a rage over a father's perfectly reasonable reaction to his daughter's decision to commit suicide for obscure reasons is probably not the ideal response.
Where has anybody flew into a rage? I would expect a little more of a charitable interpretation from someone arguing for the same.
The opaque and possibly non-existent evidence in support of this patient's MAiD claim is a perfect example of this lack of oversight and data collection.
I'm not against the court taking on this case but I fail to see how the system is failing here. A temporary injunction was granted, and there will be a review if required:
The other part of his decision will deal with whether a judicial review will take place, which would examine how doctors came to sign off on M.V.'s MAID application.
To me, that's the only piece that requires review. If the daughter is competent and she wants to die, that fulfills the intolerable and enduring physical or psychological suffering condition by itself. All denying her would do is send her off a bridge somewhere else.
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Comment on Some thoughts about Starfield's world in ~games
streblo I don't mind the procedural generation if there are some handcrafted gems buried out there. Otherwise, yea, it's kind of pointless. But the biggest miss for me has been the required fast travel...I don't mind the procedural generation if there are some handcrafted gems buried out there. Otherwise, yea, it's kind of pointless.
But the biggest miss for me has been the required fast travel that just takes you out of the game loop. I have to think they thought they were going to make the travel seamless at some point, and then scrapped it. As it stands, I can't really get lost in this game, except navigating the menus. And that's really whey I play a Bethesda game.
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Comment on Some thoughts about Starfield's world in ~games
streblo This is a common narrative, but it really didn't get popular until post-Skyrim. The hype for Skyrim was unreal at the time, people were buying bottles of mead or brewing their own and lining up at...This is a common narrative, but it really didn't get popular until post-Skyrim.
The hype for Skyrim was unreal at the time, people were buying bottles of mead or brewing their own and lining up at midnight for the release. The notion that the series has been outdated for 20 years is something that didn't exist back then and has been manufactured mostly in the last 5-10 years and is missing the context of what most games were actually like in the mid 2000s.
I think you could definitely make an argument for the last 10 years, but I can't really see 20 being correct.
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Comment on Owning a dog is a complete misery at the moment in ~life.pets
streblo (edited )Link ParentDefinitely, at the end of the day, you have to do what is best for you. For us, she was fine in the crate but we felt better about leaving her when she wasn't in a crate, and there were no issues...Thank you! He's very good in his crate, doesn't bark or whine or throw a fit so possibly our issue is slightly different.
Definitely, at the end of the day, you have to do what is best for you. For us, she was fine in the crate but we felt better about leaving her when she wasn't in a crate, and there were no issues other than her sneaking in some unsolicited couch naps...
Arranging multiple paid meetups with the ones who actually manage to keep in touch, confirming a sit date, and then it all goes to piss at the end anyway. It's a similar uphill battle to find a trainer. It's utterly exhausting and demoralising!
Yea, I hear ya. Arranging care is always frustrating. It gets worse too -- if kids are in your future, just wait until you're dealing with preteen babysitters via their overprotective agents ;). Anyways good luck, hope you can find a good long term solution!
If anyone is an app or web developer feel free to correct me but depending on what permissions the app has, there is a lot of stuff available via the Android/iOS SDKs that I can't imagine are available in a browser engine. Things like performing Bluetooth and wireless scans, access to the NMEA GPS messages etc.