In-reply-to » Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing. ... ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net This ☝️ Especially:

It would be much more constructive to have skilled experts define what a safe social media environment for kids looks like, and implement that environment instead.

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In-reply-to » Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing. ... ⌘ Read more

I believe the Australian social media ban for kids is an extremely limiting way of regulating human interaction.

When people are harmed in traffic, we do not ban roads. We build better roads, and introduce speed limits. But in Australia they are now removing all access to social media for children under 16 years of age.

It would be much more constructive to have skilled experts define what a safe social media environment for kids looks like, and implement that environment instead.

Conversation: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/113570607903722218

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Armbian 24.11 Update Highlights System Improvements and Hardware Expansion
Armbian 24.11 introduces significant updates designed to improve system performance, expand hardware compatibility, and enhance usability for developers and SBC enthusiasts alike. This release focuses on streamlining workflows, refining tools, and providing new pre-configured images to simplify specific use cases. Armbian: Armbian is an open-source operating system based on Linux, specifically d … ⌘ Read more

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(Updated) Radxa Unveils Siengine SE1000-I Single Board Computer with Linux Compatibility
The SiRider S1, an industrial-grade single-board computer developed through a collaboration between Radxa, Siengine Technology, and Arm China, is now available for purchase. At its core is the Siengine SE1000-I System-on-Chip, a high-performance AIoT application processor built on 7nm technology. According to Radxa’s Wiki pages, this SE1000-I SoC has a dual-cluster CP … ⌘ Read more

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É frequente encontrar casos em que se olha para o digital como uma versão do físico, em vez de algo distinto, o que cria situações embaraçosas. É o caso da nova “Biblioled”, a Biblioteca Pública digital Portuguesa, que afinal não é uma biblioteca Portuguesa para os Portugueses, mas sim um conjunto de várias bibliotecas replicadas, representando uma biblioteca para cada um dos agrupamentos de bibliotecas físicas pertencentes à RNBP - sem que se veja qualquer valor acrescentado nesta divisão. Com isto, em vez de termos uma biblioteca nacional e para todos, temos uma “biblioteca digital fragmentada” e disponível para os cidadãos de 257 dos 308 municípios Portugueses. Sem se perceber bem porquê, criou-se assim mais uma assimetria, em que não se percebe porque uns podem requisitar livros para ver no seu telemóvel e sem sair de casa, mas os seus vizinhos do município ao lado não.

@paulasimoes https://ciberlandia.pt/@paulasimoes/113567020004567657

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OrangePi Compute Module 5 with RK3588S SoC and Flexible Multimedia Features
The OrangePi CM 5 is a compact, high-performance module designed for multimedia and high-speed networking applications. Its key features include support for up to four camera interfaces and dual 2.5GbE ports, in addition to a 1GbE port on the compatible carrier board. The OrangePi CM5 leverages the Rockchip RK3588S system-on-chip, manufactured using an 8nm LP […] ⌘ Read more

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OrangePi 5 Ultra with 16GB RAM RK3588 SoC and 2.5GbE Port for $125
The OrangePi 5 Ultra is a credit card-sized single-board computer built around the Rockchip RK3588 octa-core processor. Key features of this device include an M.2 Key slot supporting NVMe SSD storage and a 2.5GbE LAN port for fast connectivity. Similar to the Orange Pi Plus launched last year, this SBC incorporates the RK3588 SoC, which […] ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Can someone try Alpine Linux with XFCE and Compiz please? Show me how the full screen zoom works in 2024/2025 🙏

xfce’s default Alt+Scroll feels more convenient and you get to zoom in as much as you want as needed before things become indistinguishable, here you can see my original cursor overlapping to magnified one (it only showed during screenshot)

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HackerBox 0109 Explores Bluetooth Streaming Applications with Hands-On Kit
HackerBox 0109 provides an interactive platform to explore Bluetooth technology, offering tools and modules to experiment with PANs, stream audio, analyze communications, and discover Bluetooth-enabled features. The main key feature of the kit is the Bluetooth Audio Receiver module, designed to stream audio to headphones or speakers with ease. This module transforms any device with […] ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing. ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh! I’d like to see this one too. 3:)

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In-reply-to » Forcing social media to open their algorithms: hostile to corporations Forcing young people to not use social media: hostile to young people, helps prevent them from organizing You think they did this for the benefit of the young people?

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt that’s truly amazing and unsurprisingly shocking! 😱 anyone that has an X account should immediately reconsider 🤣

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In-reply-to » Forcing social media to open their algorithms: hostile to corporations Forcing young people to not use social media: hostile to young people, helps prevent them from organizing You think they did this for the benefit of the young people?

Btw about social: found very interesting thing about twitter:

The legal basis that X asserts in the filing is not terribly interesting. But what is interesting is that X has decided to involve itself at all, and it highlights that you do not own your followers or your account or anything at all on corporate social media, and it also highlights the fact that Elon Musk’s X is primarily a political project he is using to boost, or stifle, specific viewpoints and help his friends. In the filing, X’s lawyers essentially say—like many other software companies, and, increasingly, device manufacturers as well—that the company’s terms of service grant X’s users a “license” to use the platform but that, ultimately, X owns all accounts on the social network and can do anything that it wants with them.

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Olimex Showcases Open-Source PICO2-XL and PICO2-XXL Boards with RP2350B MCU
The PICO2-XL and PICO2-XXL are open-source hardware boards that build upon the Raspberry Pi PICO2, featuring the RP2350B microcontroller. These enhanced versions include up to 48x GPIOs, a microSD card slot, and several other improvements. One of the standout features of the PICO2-XL and PICO2-XXL is the exposure of all 48x GPIO pins of the […] ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Google's Chrome Worth Up To $20 Billion If Judge Orders Sale Alphabet's Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world's biggest tech companies. From a report: The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to require measur ... ⌘ Read more

Somebody please tell me I’m gawd awfully wrong here 🤣

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In-reply-to » Google's Chrome Worth Up To $20 Billion If Judge Orders Sale Alphabet's Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world's biggest tech companies. From a report: The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to require measur ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net what the hell?! Google Chrome is neither a business nor a company. I mean, I agree that Google should probably be broken up but what the fuck is this got to do with Google Chrome, which is based on an open source Chromium which is itself as a fork of KHTML/Webkit?! 🤔 da fuq!’ Do we just not understand Google/Alphabwt anymore? 🤦‍♂️

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In-reply-to » Plastics Lobbyists Make Up Biggest Group at Vital UN Treaty Talks Record numbers of plastic industry lobbyists are attending global talks that are the last chance to hammer out a treaty to cut plastic pollution around the world. From a report: The key issue at the conference will be whether caps on global plastic production will be included in the final UN treaty. Lobbyists and leading national producers are ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Good! 👍 get rid of this plastic garbage! 🗑️

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In-reply-to » all of the software sucks, but i have a solution! we'll write even more software! get more people involved, make it the Ideal Career, then we can write AL̵L̴ O̵F TH̨E ̧C̀ODE̷S. mountains of shitty garbage that kind-of does the thing. software will still suck, but T͜HE̕N oh then we can write compilers that let us run the old shitty code inside of our mountain of new shitty code. now all of the code is in a giant pile and we're using it to control space ships that definitely never crash. the more code the better! we can represent NaN easily in undefined systems! developers aren't particularly bright, so the language is simple and easy for them to understand. we know this, that's why it was made this way. the͡ moun͢tain ͠m̵us͜t ͠nȩver̢ ̴wa̡ve̴r̵. the more code the better. so instead of writing the code manually we c̴ómpilę t͞or̸t̕u͜red so̷u͜ls ͏i͞n͞to͝ ͟nice ͢b̀l̷oxe̡ls ̸of͠ ̸t̶an̡g͜l̀ed ͞n̢eu͏ra̡l͠ ̕ne̢t͏w͟orkś.̸ w̨e d͠on't́ know how i̵t ̷w͟ork̡s, ̴but ̷t̴he model̢ ̶is̛ 5̛0GiB ́s̶o ͟i͞t s͞e͘rve͟s ̴tḩe̛ purpośe. WE̕ M͠US̴T B͢U̢ILD ͝T͞HE MO͝UN̶T̨A̵IN.

Amen! 🙏 I think we already did this 🤣

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Google’s Chrome Worth Up To $20 Billion If Judge Orders Sale
Alphabet’s Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies. From a report: The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to require measur … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing. ... ⌘ Read more

Given the incredible damage social media has done to democracy and our mental health, I’d like to see it banned for anyone under 200 years old.

And this is just funny but effective 🤣

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In-reply-to » Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing. ... ⌘ Read more

Forcing social media to open their algorithms: hostile to corporations
Forcing young people to not use social media: hostile to young people, helps prevent them from organizing
You think they did this for the benefit of the young people?

Also this ☝️

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In-reply-to » Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing. ... ⌘ Read more

As drinkypoo pointed out above, it’s all about the algorithms. If social media wasn’t driven by advertising and engagement - if it was implemented as societal infrastructure for the well-being of all citizens and the financial profit of nobody - then it would be a great good in society. As it exists currently, it’s a Trojan horse whose belly is full of contagious cancer

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all of the software sucks, but i have a solution! we’ll write even more software! get more people involved, make it the Ideal Career, then we can write AL̵L̴ O̵F TH̨E ̧C̀ODE̷S. mountains of shitty garbage that kind-of does the thing. software will still suck, but T͜HE̕N oh then we can write compilers that let us run the old shitty code inside of our mountain of new shitty code. now all of the code is in a giant pile and we’re using it to control space ships that definitely never crash. the more code the better! we can represent NaN easily in undefined systems! developers aren’t particularly bright, so the language is simple and easy for them to understand. we know this, that’s why it was made this way. the͡ moun͢tain ͠m̵us͜t ͠nȩver̢ ̴wa̡ve̴r̵. the more code the better. so instead of writing the code manually we c̴ómpilę t͞or̸t̕u͜red so̷u͜ls ͏i͞n͞to͝ ͟nice ͢b̀l̷oxe̡ls ̸of͠ ̸t̶an̡g͜l̀ed ͞n̢eu͏ra̡l͠ ̕ne̢t͏w͟orkś.̸ w̨e d͠on’t́ know how i̵t ̷w͟ork̡s, ̴but ̷t̴he model̢ ̶is̛ 5̛0GiB ́s̶o ͟i͞t s͞e͘rve͟s ̴tḩe̛ purpośe. WE̕ M͠US̴T B͢U̢ILD ͝T͞HE MO͝UN̶T̨A̵IN.

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all of the software sucks, but i have a solution! we’ll write even more software! get more people involved, make it the Ideal Career, then we can write AL̵L̴ O̵F TH̨E ̧C̀ODE̷S. mountains of shitty garbage that kind-of does the thing. software will still suck, but T͜HE̕N oh then we can write compilers that let us run the old shitty code inside of our mountain of new shitty code. now all of the code is in a giant pile and we’re using it to control space ships that definitely never crash. the more code the better! we can represent NaN easily in undefined systems! developers aren’t particularly bright, so the language is simple and easy for them to understand. we know this, that’s why it was made this way. the͡ moun͢tain ͠m̵us͜t ͠nȩver̢ ̴wa̡ve̴r̵. the more code the better. so instead of writing the code manually we c̴ómpilę t͞or̸t̕u͜red so̷u͜ls ͏i͞n͞to͝ ͟nice ͢b̀l̷oxe̡ls ̸of͠ ̸t̶an̡g͜l̀ed ͞n̢eu͏ra̡l͠ ̕ne̢t͏w͟orkś.̸ w̨e d͠on’t́ know how i̵t ̷w͟ork̡s, ̴but ̷t̴he model̢ ̶is̛ 5̛0GiB ́s̶o ͟i͞t s͞e͘rve͟s ̴tḩe̛ purpośe. WE̕ M͠US̴T B͢U̢ILD ͝T͞HE MO͝UN̶T̨A̵IN.

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Plastics Lobbyists Make Up Biggest Group at Vital UN Treaty Talks
Record numbers of plastic industry lobbyists are attending global talks that are the last chance to hammer out a treaty to cut plastic pollution around the world. From a report: The key issue at the conference will be whether caps on global plastic production will be included in the final UN treaty. Lobbyists and leading national producers are … ⌘ Read more

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Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law
Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing.
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