[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah I'm not surprised or angry about it, isn't this basically what has always happened? Like at some point we had elevator operators, some company automated the elevator and now there are basically zero elevator operators.

This is just happening all the time, like when I was a kid every gas station had people working at the station. Nowdays most stations around me are completely without workers, it's all self checkout (like supermarkets, McDonalds, etc).

[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 15 points 10 months ago

I actually had it the other way around, I wanted to learn to understand and speak Spanish a lot better. My wife is half Spanish and her family speaks zero English. Anyway started to learn with Duolingo and my Spanish did improve. But after a while I got to a point where most of the mistakes I made where spelling errors. I don't care how to spell in Spanish, I'm not going to write them, I just want to understand it and be able to respond. There is no option (afaik) to just learn the meaning of the words.

[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 27 points 10 months ago

Wait YouTube had ads? 😉

[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Opera tried but eventually just gave up and now uses Blink, Microsoft tried with Edge (Spartan) but gave up and now also uses Blink.

Blink is the render engine made for Chrome

[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Do you think people that are gay are mentally ill? Do you think those people choose specifically to be attracted to people from the same sex? A lot of the same things can de said about people that are attracted to kids.

I'm not trying to say we should in any shape or form tolerate child abuse. But it's important that we recognize that there are people like this and they didn't choose to be that way. People have no problem to talk about punishment, but don't like to also accept that they are also victims in a way.

[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure that has to be true. Like you can ask an AI to give you a picture of a sailboat on the moon, while it has not ever seen a sailboat on the moon.

It could be trained on photos that are not pornografic containing kids and images that are pornografic containing adults.

[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah exactly, I don't want to see it but the same goes for a lot of weird fetishes.

As long as no one is getting hurt I don't really see the problem.

[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Same, sometimes Google sends me to Reddit, it's the only visits they get from me

[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

For me it's more the other way around, had a Twitter account for years. Didn't really use it much, a bit more in the last 2 years. Deleted my account after Elon took over.

[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Replacing TCP with something else isn't going to change anything to being tracked.

IP adresses aren't fixed (for most people), just disconnect your modem for a few hours and you'll probably get a new one.

You are being tracked by cookies, browser fingerprints, only being able to use a website after logging in, etc.

So this might solve some problems, it's not going to just give you privacy or make you untraceable.

Not so long ago a local news site was being DDOSed. The kid that did it thought he was so smart using a VPN. He bragged online how he could bring any website down (sending those messages from his VPN). Until he was dumb enough to keep his VPN open and open this news site in his browser, because he never logged out he was logged in automatically. So the website admin saw his (known) VPN IP and now knew his account. The account he used before from his actual IP.

[-] coffeejunky@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

That one night where you do get a decent sleep , you'll wake up with a headache. Yay parenthood!

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