The US has freedom of speech, so having the government vet every poster is kind of a problem

That’s true, but it could be the platforms doing the vetting rather than the government.

Is it any different to requiring an ID in order to use a service, like what Discord is doing (as required for legal compliance)?

I guess I’m just annoyed at how much bad health advice is on social media.

Just like with electric cars, the US takes forever to do anything, while China just gets things done with a better approach:

Late last year, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a sweeping regulation: any content creator discussing medicine, health, law, finance, or education must prove verified professional credentials before posting or going live. In essence: no degree, no license, no post.

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In all, China’s approach is preemptive: One has to prove their credentials before they post. The FTC’s approach is reactive, allowing American creators to post health tips or investment opinions without a diploma. The FTC only steps in after the harm is documented—but for both, if the creator lies, they pay up

Does the VPN use Cisco AnyConnect? We use it at work and it works fine via NetworkManager in both KDE and GNOME, including two factor auth (pops up a web page to authenticate). I’m not sure of the exact config, since it’s automatically configured using Chef.

It’s not embarrassing to still be using any Meta product?

I mean, they’re some of the most used tech products in the world, so they clearly do have people that like using them. The only sites/apps that are used more are Google and YouTube.

I guess it’s like Nestlé. There’s some people that avoid their products and might be embarrassed to use them, but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re still the largest food company in the world, and the vast majority of customers like their products and aren’t embarrassed to consume them.

Can books be transfered via USB even on the 2013-era Paperwhite? I’ve always used the email feature in Calibre-web to send books to my Kindle (even for books I’ve paid for) - I didn’t realise it was doable over USB!

Wow, this is an unusually long, high quality article from NBC news. I didn’t realise they have a great investigative unit.

This is a reason why you should actually read the Terms of Service and don’t use the product if you don’t agree with them. Niantic’s ability to use your images like this would have been in the ToS.

AI has made this a bit easier since you can copy and paste the ToS into an LLM and ask it summarize the terms and point out the most important clauses (and clauses that aren’t typical)

It’s the default on Messenger so I’m not sure why it wasn’t made the default on Instagram.

I’ll be sure to subscribe while connected to my NordVPN account.

lol I still have a screenshot of Digg from when every article on the home page had this key in it.

They sold Google Domains to Squarespace.

The Teslas that are made in China are noticeably higher quality than the ones made in the USA. Fewer panel gaps and better fit and finish.

The only reason Teslas are decent quality is because the majority of them are made in China. Over 50% of Teslas are made in China, using over 90% local (Chinese) parts.

No one will pay much for it because it’s about to need a $15,000 battery,

That’s pretty rare though. Less than 5% of EVs need a battery replacement after 10 years (including those with defective batteries), and modern EV batteries should last at least 20 years, after which they’re still estimated to have around 65-70% capacity.

What if the drafts were created using AI too?

Code is often in a source control system of some sort, which tracks changes to the code (who changed it, when it was changed, and a description of what was changed). It’s similar to having a lot of drafts.

I don’t think that could prove that a human wrote it, though.

I think in cases like this, the author could prove they created the code/story/art/whatever by having a deep understanding of the material. That’s how Michael Jackson defended against lawsuits saying he copied someone else’s song - he described his songwriting process and could hum/beatbox every instrument in the track.

I like scaled sort. It sorts posts by popularity relative to the size of the community, so that the feed is a mixture of both popular communities and small ones. It also seems more likely to include newer posts (eg I saw this post in my scaled feed).

It wasn’t a dox attempt though. The blog just collected information that was already publicly available on other sites.

In this case, their CAPTCHA page intentionally included code to DoS a particular blog, sending a request to search for a random string every 300ms (search is very CPU-intensive). This was regardless of the archived site you were trying to view.

This is understandable, but at the same time, none of the anti-paywall lists are as good as archive.today. They actually have paid accounts at a bunch of paywalled sites, and use them when scraping.

Discord doesn’t get as many clicks compared to the larger companies, since fewer people know about it. For articles like this, news publishers always list the most well-known brands.

I don’t think 2008 really had a significant effect in Australia. I don’t remember hearing much about it.