But... what's the point of hosting a World cup if you're not willing to invite the world? Or do we now go down the road of hosting the world cup (which I don't care about) in five different countries everytime, so the hosts can only invite the people "they like"?
My contribution is OK Go - Obssesion. Printers are actual deamons and that they managed to tame a whole murder of them is so damn impressive. Generally the OK Go videos are really unique and take a lot of actual effort.
Notable mentions are A$AP Rocky - Taylor Swif and although more an animation than a music video, Kaizo Trap.*
Edit: *No, it actually IS the official music video of the song. Neat.
Agreed, but I give Google a better chance with Google, Android & Gemini to actualy make an "addicting" chatbot.
At least they're honest (internally) about their intentions. Obviously this is also the goal of the other big AI foundries; it either already is or it will be in the future.
Luckily Microsoft is famously bad at this, but Google and perhaps OpenAI will be more successful. We're still in the subsidized honeymoon phase, but this window is closing with the increasing pressure to return profit.
As a skeptic, I'm not worried about myself, but I'm scared for the people who will get addicted and then ruined by full prices or devastated when their mind drug is taken away again.
Thank you so much!
Nice wallpaper. Do you mind to share?
Exactly. Thank you for mentioning it explicitly, I shoved into the "politics" remark.
Because eduction and prosperity reduce the brith rate. You don't need that many children to care for you when you're old, if you can expect to get healthcare. You don't shouldn't get accidental children if you're educated about sex and protection. In an educated society you will have fewer children later in your life, because perhaps after school you will also go to university, delaying the moment where you feel stable and settled enough to start a family. The more educated you are, the higher the chance that having children is a deliberate, careful choice, and not just something that happens. And last but not least, politics play a huge role in what incentives you have. Especially for this point, I recommend the Kurzgesagt videos about South Korea and Germany.
Yeah, I think I know what you mean. I read 1984 before Animal Farm, and it also didn't turn out how I expected (still good though). So I was more open about what to expect for Animal Farm I think.
Has been a while, but IMO the animals work well because they abstract the history lesson away from any specific people. It shows how universal these patterns are. I didn't like Animal Farm because it was so well written or had such an intriguing story arc. I liked it because draws a picture of behavior in societies and holds up a mirror to us humans.
They can try to force me adding that for my single user instance, but I don't think they can:
- Force the developers of GoToSocial to add this feature
- And force me to add that to my instance (I don't live in the EU no US)
Do do this, they need to enforce cryptographically verifiable age verification everywhere. It would require forcing big instances to only cooperate with small instances that poof they do age verification and if you're selfhosting then the hoster needed to verify you? Not really possible.
Of course big applications and servers could choose to add age-verification freely to avoid scrutiny. Won't be cheered on in the Fedi I'm sure.
I'm more worried about the proposed OS-level verification, which will be harder to circumvent if you're not using a FOSS OS. Especially since I can imagine a global effort on this by US, EU, China.
Edit: hypotecially, if we ask how could it be added, a zero-knowledge proof that you're >18, without revealing anything else, would be the way to go.
Not commonly used in daily interactions, so would draw a lot more scrutiny. Security features are usually checked more carefully for 200 CHF and 1000 CHF bills. Swiss francs are also harder to forge than other bills.
From Wikipedia:
According to the 2008 edition of Guinness World Records, the eighth series of Swiss franc notes is the most secure in the world with up to 18 security features including a tilting digit, which can only be seen from an unusual angle, a UV digit that can only be seen under ultraviolet light and micro text. According to their respective central banks, the rate of counterfeited banknotes as of 2011 was about 1 in 100,000 for the Swiss franc, 1 in 20,000 for the euro, 1 in 10,000 for the United States dollar and 1 in 3,333 for the pound sterling.
This was about the eighth series, we're currently using the ninth, which likely has even better security features.
Also US-Dollars obviously can be used in many, many more places around the world. CHF is only really used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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