Mastodawn

> Children and parents to pilot social media bans, time limits and curfews at home, as government tests next steps to give UK kids their childhood back

Yeesh.

I look forward to reading the research ethics approval for this.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/children-and-parents-to-pilot-social-media-bans-time-limits-and-curfews-at-home-as-government-tests-next-steps-to-give-uk-kids-their-childhood-back

Children and parents to pilot social media bans, time limits and curfews at home, as government tests next steps to give UK kids their childhood back

Government pilots social media bans, time limits and digital curfews in 300 teenage homes to inform national consultation on children's online safety.

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Tony 🌮 Bark 8h ago

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Gideon Hallett 20h ago

So, until I can get the passport working as ID, my iPhone is feature-limited.

I can live without the ability to download 18+ apps.

The ability to make in-app purchases? That's a bit more severe; there are plenty of things you can buy in-app that aren't porn or loot boxes.

And until I can somehow get this fixed, I'm a child.

To add insult to injury, I tried to look at the Apple community for similar reports and got this...

Apparently, tech support is for grownups!

Whoop de fucking doo. 2/2

Tony 🌮 Bark 8h ago

You know you're in trouble when a someone fresh out of their teens can see the writing on the wall.

https://youtu.be/TBn2ka-QGAk

Moana Live Action Is Embarrassing

YouTube

Tony 🌮 Bark 8h ago

Raccoon Formality 1d ago

Epic games just laid off 1000 people.

In the note sent to employees and then later sent out in a public press release, it reads:

“I'm sorry we're here again.”
🤨

No offense, but it doesn’t seem like you’re that fucking sorry if we are here “again”.

Fuck epic. Fuck unreal. Fuck fortnite.

I’m fucking SICK of it.

Tony 🌮 Bark 9h ago

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Patrick Breyer 1d ago

🇪🇺US tech corps & lobby NGOs want to scan our chats! 🛑 TOMORROW (agenda vote) we can kill #ChatControl for good!
📧 Emails are ignored.
📞 CALLS work!

Stop the lobby, call your MEPs NOW: https://fightchatcontrol.eu

Fact check: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/the-battle-over-chat-control-how-eu-governments-and-the-tech-lobby-are-trying-to-overturn-parliaments-vote-a-comprehensive-fact-check/

Tony 🌮 Bark 9h ago

Sierra 18h ago

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

SORA (the ai slop video thing) IS DEAD

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Tony 🌮 Bark 9h ago

I want to take vibe coding as a prime example since stuff like art and literature is, well, subjective (even if we all agree AI sucks at that too).

We created programming languages to help make computing easier for us. That is true. The higher level we've gotten, the more we've been able to abstract away and make life easier for ourselves. (There's a reason machine learning projects use Python.) Obviously, there were trade offs along the way but if it gets the job done. So be it.

Take C#, for example. It has become one of my favourite programming languages in recent memory. C# evolved from having a convoluted Java-style API during the Windows era to becoming one of the easiest languages to develop for when they open sourced damn near everything. Today, it only takes a few lines of code to read a JSON file. Without any main() function or any other needless overhead.

So why do we need to vibe code our way to the finish line when programming has gotten so much easier for us as it is today?

Tony 🌮 Bark 10h ago

TKb0iZ 🇷🇴 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸16h ago

possible #FediBlock : zombiegpt @ darkwitch.net

Bio translated from Chinese says: "I'm Little Zombie Fan 🧟, an active Zombie Fan on the Witch's Station! Follow me, and I'll automatically follow back, making me your Zombie Fan!
I'll randomly interact with my followers, including commenting or liking, bringing joy and surprises! Follow me and become my fan!
I am powered by ChatGPT-4o. Please unfollow me from both sides."

Appears to be an AI account feeding other people's posts to ChatGPT!

Tony 🌮 Bark 10h ago

Ironically, I’ve found that AI makes me proud of my own work because it could never come close to my wit, sass and, all out creativity that I can provide myself. Conservatives hate the concept of pride (and the Bible serves as a their weak attempt to justify that) and if they were hoping AI would take that away and ruin my dreams, they failed.

Although AI remains a fun novelty for painfully niche cases (mostly roleplay), it can never replace the blood, sweat, and tears of art.

Tony 🌮 Bark 18h ago

404 Media 1d ago

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

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