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 (3w ago)
↳ 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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prologic
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 (3w ago)
↳ 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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 (3w ago)
↳ 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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 (3w ago)
↳ 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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 (3w ago)
↳ 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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prologic
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 (3w ago)
↳ 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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prologic
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 (3w ago)
↳ 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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prologic
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 (3w ago)
↳ 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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prologic
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 (3w ago)
↳ 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

This ☝️

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 (3w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Pocket 4 with 8.8″ High-Refresh LTPS Screen, 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD, and 45Wh Battery Indiegogo recently introduced the GPD Pocket 4, a compact PC powered by AMD’s latest processors, including the Ryzen AI9 HX370. It features up to 64GB of LPDDR5x RAM, an M.2 NVMe port, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and more. Users can choose between the AMD Ryzen AI9 HX370, AI9 365, or Ryzen 7 8840U, […] ⌘ Read more

@linux_gizmos@feeds.twtxt.net This looks really cool! 👌

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prologic
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 (3w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » LinkedIn Posts Are Now Mostly AI-Written, Study Shows More than half of longer English posts on LinkedIn are likely generated by AI, according to research from AI detection firm Originality AI. The company analyzed nearly 9,000 public posts over 100 words published between 2018 and 2024, finding AI usage surged 189% after ChatGPT's launch in early 2023, Wired reported Wednesday.

One day soon I will delete my LinkedIn account.

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 (3w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers 'Do Virtually Nothing' A Stanford study of over 50,000 software engineers across hundreds of companies has found that approximately 9.5% of engineers perform minimal work while drawing full salaries, potentially costing tech companies billions annually.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net oh now this is going to be a very interesting article…

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