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will offer users their choice […] “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.”

it could be worse

where do you even get the content from?

can confirm, this user has 0 posts and 1 comment

i’ve always found mastodon unintuitive, mostly because older versions used to not have a “local” feed, only a global feed,

and i think a charm of the fediverse is to have local instances, like for specific topics. and they added that local feed recently, which i like

better on the can than on the can’t

u know what? maybe we should start actively advertising the fediverse in local hacker clubs and such.

So they were fully grown but still had that curious puppy personality.

hey that’s me :3

that mama farm cat was a monsterous maine coon who I once saw literally beat the shit out of a full grown rotweiler

video pls

interesting!

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does anybody know whether weed smoke has the same bad health effects on your lungs as cigarettes?

i assume yes if the dose of smoke is the same, since it’s the smoke that’s acid and not the nicotine.

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The best way to implement that ban is to have a variable on the device (smartphone) that holds the approximate birthdate of the user (sth like 2002-01-01) and then the device gives forward the information about whether the user is 16+, 18+ forward to any app of maybe even website that requests that info.

The parent who buys the device gets a code to configure the device to set the birthdate, and without that code, it’s not changeable for the user. The platforms then only have to look at that variable to figure out whether the user is old enough.

This way, you shift responsibility to the user, but in a way that is technically possible. Because today, it’s almost impossible for a not ultra-tech-affine parent to actually implement age controls on their children’s devices.

This might be what makes the fediverse finally become mainstream.

especially in terms of being less addictive

and if they [children] figure that out anyways then enjoy the arms race

yeah that’s what i was talking about in my previous comment. today, there’s no simple way to just enable “parental control” on an android phone.

and i’m not paying these stupid overpriced apple phones, no way.

I wish i could get optimistic about this but i’ve seen the EU commission, and Von der Leyen specifically, mess up too many times in the past. They’re shitheads, full of stupidity and incredible lack of actual understanding of what they’re doing. But that’s just a personal opinion.

for years it has been a capitalistic idea that if a country has more people in it, it’s always better, because that means there’s more workers who can be exploited by companies.

that’s however changing right now, because capitalists are understanding that if there’s more people in the country, then you also need to feed and house them (or there’s social unrest) and that costs money. And if you can’t give people good jobs (like, due to automation there’s fewer jobs in total), then you’re essentially paying for people to sit around and do nothing, and that’s expensive and probably not in the capitalist interest. that’s why we’re seeing a change of narrative in social media rn, where there’s less talking of “we need more people, muh duh, declining birthrate” and more people saying “well, actually, a declining birthrate is a good thing” and such.