What a terrible day to be literate.

Interesting - time to go poke one of the politics lecturers and see what ramifications they had.

To the average person on the street their lack would likely mean little, though I’ll miss the interesting coin designs of the pound.

I hear this point a fair bit, could you elaborate more on these special treatments (I know about opting out of the euro, but that’s about it).

LaTeX supremacy has entered that chat

3 terminal apps that got me hooked:

mednafen (emulating a PS1 on a net potato with 2gb of ram and an atom processor at a playable framerate was just magic to me)

moc (epically minimal music player that just feels right)

nano (I wrote a series of short stories using it while listening to music on moc, honestly the most zen-like experience I’ve ever had)

Bonus: radion (an online radio player mostly written in bash I discovered in the early days of Lemmy)

[✓] Realised I understand nothing

[✓] Time for this planet to die

Definitely checks out.

Yep, because it was never about protecting the children ;)

I COMPLETELY AGREE - THIS ALL MAKES PERFECT SENSE.

Imgur blocking is a bit of a pain - half the mods in steam are missing images in their description.

The online safety act also means we get to submit ID to view anything construed as “adult”. Very “av you got a loiscencse for that” these days without a VPN.

DRM - the bane of good user experience.

GOG nailed it - no DRM, low prices, convenience.

If most book publishers released their texts with new features (e.g. linking references, or adding additional notes to proofs/solutions) they’d get their sales. Instead they just slap DRM on and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkWQvzrv6gI

How GLaDOS would hurt us now: Portal 2 turns 15 next year.

Erm…

I think there are errors on both parts here…

1.9/170 is about 1.1176%. 4 decimal places is still an unacceptable level of rounding here, but it’sa damn sight better than 0/1 decimal place. Both of you were off on this.

It is definitely right to split rape and sexual assault, they’re very different crimes - combining them is double counting which is a poor faith tactic used to inflate numbers.

1.1176% per year DEFINITELY does not translate directly to that for a lifetime. To put it into context, if you have a 1% chance of being shot each day (assuming BINS) you have a [(0.99)^365]*100% (or 2.6%) of not being shot at all that year - note binomial is not appropriate for rape odds calculations but it’s a nice example of how low odds per year DO NOT translate to low odds per lifetime.

Self report is absolute garbage - it’s the worst form of stat gathering and often leads to socially advantageous answers being given. Using self-report stats as a keystone to an argument is dangerous at best.

The “known rapist” is a tricky one, as it depends how you define rape. Sex under the influence of alcohol you later regret - tricky to place in the at home (you knew them enough to go home with) vs stranger (did you really know them). While it’s nice to give clear cut numbers, this isn’t a clear cut scenario.

/Statsrant

Seems to me you both care about this topic - sounds to me like you should both go data hunting and explore the topic together. Two opposing perspectives makes a great paper, and you generally learn more!

My two cents - being alone with someone is always risky. Trying to assign which is riskier (men or women) is foolish, it creates the dynamic of “men vs women” rather than the desired “everyone vs rapists”.

Tiny Truss Tower?

Managed this as a millennial - had absolutely nothing to do with my parents helping pay half my deposit. Nope, absolutely nothing to do with that whatsoever.

And during those billions of minutes, most of them are cursing the existence of the spyware experience that is teams.

The emotional damage on first use would make sense in that context.

4chan is an extreme example of an unmoderated site - indeed it’s what the OSA was designed to combat. If this legislative test fails, it would undermine the acts legitimacy, and provoke questions as to it’s existence.

It’s a shit law - it’s not fit for purpose. Its sole reason for existence is to controle public speech, not protect the children.

Neat summary and cleanup - editing original post to point at this.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/30326565624343-How-to-Complete-Age-Verification-on-Discord

Check down on data security ;)

So, I looked at age verification - it was made clear photos were on device only and never transmitted.

If this turns out to be false, then the legal fallout would be apocalyptic.

(Edit: or not, see the comment by ambitiousprocess below)