It’s perpetually confusing to me that there’s a legitimate Ukrainian news site called Pravda.

I think we’re probably in agreement. What I was trying to say was that for all the (many) issues in the medical system, we have places in society where risk is studied and managed. We can do the same with AI, there just doesn’t seem to be any will on the part of the political class to actually tackle complex problems right now, and we really need that will to regulate because the free market sure as fuck isn’t going to regulate itself.

If this were a physical object that, ha ha, occasionally convinced people to commit suicide or murder, or spiral off into other delusions, it’d be off the shelves in a heartbeat

I want to gently push back on this. There are medications that can cause psychological symptoms and suicidal ideation as side effects and they’re still prescribed. They are, however, controlled, people who take them have to be informed of the side effects, and they’re managed by a trained physician. I absolutely think LLMs need to be more tightly regulated, and we need to have a much better idea of how they work and how to deploy them safely and in contexts where they are actually useful and won’t cause harm. But we do manage known risks with other products.

North America has a bunch of different types of receptacles as well, but they’re a little better regulated and configured so there’s not much chance of mixing them up. Lots of houses here have both 120V and 250V circuits, but the receptacles are normally completely different so there’s no risk of mixing them up, I think. Amperage, however, is a little more wild west from what I can tell - you have have anywhere from 15 to 60 amp circuits and, as far as I can tell, there’s no way to tell from the receptacle what you’re plugging into or the load it can take unless you check the breaker box (and have a house where the circuits make sense - older houses often have things like lights or receptacles wired into circuits that don’t really make sense for them). This is all in my very limited, very lay understanding so somebody who knows better will probably come along with better info.

ETA: The situation in Brazil sounds rough - generally from my experience in the us, if your plug fits in the receptacle, it’s probably fine. Worst case scenario (most of the time) is the overload a circuit and flip a breaker/blow a fuse, but there are lots of older houses that are definitely not up to current code.

OP, I’m assuming you mean should we buy games that are on these curator’s lists as being “too woke” just to spite them? I think folks are a little confused about what your question/argument is, here. Also the typo in the title isn’t helping.

For the most part, the comments I have removed on this thread have been removed for violating Beehaw’s only rule: Be(e) Nice.

I have zero problem with people criticizing this journalist. I do have a problem with users attacking one another or using misogynist language (it’s possible in that case there’s a cultural disconnect. I’m from the US, where “cunt” is a pretty serious gendered insult. I know it’s not considered as big of a deal in other english speaking places, but frankly I’ve been getting enough reports on this thread that I’m getting a bit sick of dealing with it in general)

So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.

You literally did, though?

Hey, I appreciate your response. I totally get the anger, and I can see lots of possible ways that this wave of age verification policies could bite folks in the ass. Thanks for being reasonable, I hope you have a great day.

I’m not speaking for the whole Technology mod team here, just off the cuff. I think a satire piece (if clearly labeled preferably) would be completely fine. Personally I’d also be good with funny articles or other types of writing about tech, god knows this sub could use some levity. I don’t think we would probably be okay with posting tech related memes, though. It’s possible that if the community was really interested we could do a weekly sticky for memes or other lower-effort content, though.

Again, I’m just spitballing here, I haven’t checked it with any of the other mods.

Look, I think Trump probably did rape minors. I think he was probably involved in trafficking. But this isn’t really evidence. It’s hearsay, at best. It’s an anonymous complaint filed via an open FBI telephone tipline in 2016. From what I’ve seen, all manner of wild stuff gets reported to those tip lines. There’s absolutely no way of knowing if there’s any truth to this other than the fact that we all have a gut feeling - and have seen lots of circumstantial evidence - that Trump was involved in this kind of stuff. It doesn’t do any good to go around acting like it’s proof of anything, though.

I think folks are struggling with the format of this post - I’m thinking it’s probably at least partially in interop issue between Mastodon and Lemmy. Folks on Lemmy are usually expecting the post itself to be a link to the article or site, with commentary in the body or in a comment.

The link is in the text block under the post - this is due to the fairly hacky interoperability between Mastodon and Lemmy. You can post to Lemmy instances via Mastodon but they almost always wind up looking very spammy because of the formatting and all of the hashtags.

Unless I’m mistaken, PiHole won’t block Youtube ads because they’re served from the same domain as the videos.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of them, and didn’t find an entry on them when looking up on mediabiasfactcheck.com. I wonder if the naming is intentional or just a coincidence around the word “Truth”.

Sorry, isn’t Pravda a literal Kremlin disinfo op? I’m not sure we should be posting anything about the Ukraine war (or, frankly, anything at all) from a Russian state-owned propaganda outlet…

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This is one of those stories that probably isn’t actually all that noteworthy - the reporter doesn’t have any actual idea how many people are living in the community, but estimates around 40 - but the details are all just waaaaay too good not to run with it. The original article starts out wild and only gets wilder as it goes. There’s even a guest appearance from Shen Yun at one point. Just check out the first three paragraphs and you can see exactly why this story got written:

Lol, you can tell which commenters have never moderated anything in this thread, IMO. If it weren’t for the high likelihood that these summaries will be wrong an appreciable percentage of the time, this would be a huge help for anyone moderating medium traffic subs. Those types of subs, especially if they have relatively hands-on moderation to keep them from being complete cesspools, often involve seeing a comments or post that is borderline, and feeling like you need to go look through the poster’s history to figure out if they’re a bot or a troll. Something like this that actually worked, especially if it linked back to a sampling of the posts/comments that it is referencing, would be a big help in that. Also something like this that summarized a user’s moderation history would be pretty useful.

i can watch out for myself

The evidence of you posting all over another Lemmy instance encouraging people to go kill cops makes me think you didn’t learn your fucking lesson.