Cynical Pangolin

Be chaotic good. Disagree gracefully. Debate in good faith. Love your neighbor. Live your life how you wish to live it as long as you do no harm to others.

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I have no idea how my X feed ended up on the evangelical "woke right" content feed. I see a lot of anti-porn, anti-premarital sex, anti-gay marriage sentiments on my feed.

Now look, I am very much against echo chambers, but this encapsulates so much of what I see.

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Odd.

I am running Kubuntu (which is just Ubuntu with the KDE desktop environment instead of Gnome) on my Thinkpad P15s Gen 2. I have zero issues with my bluetooth. As a matter of fact, it works better here than on any windows machine I've ever used.

However, there are some common issues that I see plague both bluetooth and wifi, and most commonly, it's tied to power management.

That said some wireless controllers just dont work well within a linux environment, and that's mainly because nobody with any sort of know-how has gotten fed up enough to make it work.

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@HairyPorcupine @ZOrtiz9919 68°. Year round. Never changes.

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@Disass Dis...brother....I love you and your content, but you arent right here.

That cake has me like...

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@Disass @hayasaka_aryan Had me like

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The bill in Cali while initially a failure is not dead, but stalled and can be reconsidered for a revote.

What we really need to do is attack current IP law and lobby for it to be rewritten. Digital goods are not protected by the First Sale Doctrine.

The language on the "Buy" button needs to be "Lease," "Rent," or "License." They don't want this however, because they know that this language does not convert.

We also need to look at DMCA §1201 and carve out an exception for personal use.

Look at EoL plans like SKG has been advocating for...among other things.

We are moving towards a future of pure digital distribution, and our IP laws live in the stone age.

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@TheGingerPerks @SW_of_Dragons You maxed the Conan slider?!

I love a nice rack, but I had to tame those bazongas.

Conan doesn't play with the boob slider. Band size: 32. Cup size: O.

My Conan ladies make Sydney Sweeng look flat chested, lol.

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It's almost as if the eagle has been used in Heraldry tracing all the way back to the Hittites of Anatolia. Then, you have the Byzantines, the Sumarians, the Greeks, and the Romans...

The eagles is seen as the supreme bird. I's basically akin to the lion on other healdry. Or a dragon.

All of which represent Power, Dominion, Sovereignty, and Nobility.

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And let's not even consider the use of the eagle in Heraldry tracing all the way back to the Hittites of Anatolia. You have the Byzantines, the Sumarians, the Greeks, and the Romans...

The eagles is seen as the supreme bird. I's basically akin to the lion on other healdry. Or a dragon.

All of which represent Power, Dominion, Sovereignty, and Nobility.

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@juliecbarrett Lord know, I hope you're right

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@HairyPorcupine Because engagement = money. X's algorithm encourages it .

I mute all engagement farmers. They annoy the shit out of me.

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@HairyPorcupine Same. Toy Story is one of my childhood franchises that I get to share with my toddler. She is obsessed. With that and Monster's Inc.

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@cybelethebest Abs on a woman have me barking like a dog.

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It's good that you don't want to give your kids devices, but you aren't everyone. So many parents plop a tablet in their kids' hands before the age of 3 with minimal restrictions set on the device.

Age 16 is what Dr. Jonathan Haidt recommends in his book The Anxious Generation. He did excellent research on the dangers of social media and always being online. You can find his published research on his After Babel substack. This is why you see so many social media bans coming out after this book was published with the age of 16 being the target age.

And yes, you do bring up a good point that no matter how much you protect your own child, other parents likely will not, thereby risking exposure to content they should not be consuming by peers with more lax parents.

And the wonderful thing about the tools already available to us don't rely on ToS changes or OS changes or even having basic technical know how. There are products out there designed for kids that are locked down completely. It's a matter of research. You can lock down your child's access to the internet in an afternoon.

Now, onto the biggest thing which is the privacy and anonymity. What these current bills are doing, while harmless now, is setting up the infrastructure for mass surveillance. Not saying they will do it, but it is putting that capability in the hands of those who would love nothing more than to utilize it.

I am all for age verification for porn sites. However, it needs to be done in a private and anonymous way. But that takes legwork and money. The cheapest and quickest way is the way our governments are going which is also the least secure. These 3rd party verifiers have already been breached. Several times. You risk major identity theft. My solution is Zero-Knowledge Proofs over Oblivious HTTP. It's a lot to explain how this works and why it should be the gold standard. I recommend just asking your LLM of choice about it to get the full explanation.

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@TheGingerPerks Fair. Havent played in years. I forgot the Asari are all gay/bi.

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@TheGingerPerks Never played femshep. Liara and Miranda were always too enticing for me.

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@HairyPorcupine @DaisyMae_VT Real talk, brother. Are you okay? DMs are open if you need an ear.

And to answer OP's question. Yes...yes we get baby fever. Big time.

[Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh]

The global age-gating push is bad for privacy. And it will be bad for free speech.

As the U.S. rushes full steam ahead into the identity verification campaign, it’s urgent Americans understand the risks “papers, please” policies pose to our rights.

My latest for @TheFIREorg:

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@juliecbarrett @WadeMiller eat it too**

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Honest answer?

They want their cake and to eat it to all the while sacrificing our privacy and anonymity.

They want to give their child the device that they want to give them while not having to do the mental and physical work that comes along with protecting your children online.