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Another mother, Jenny Sullivan, said she has noticed her fourth grade son capitalizing random letters and not getting corrected

If it's good enough for the President...

tal @lemmy.today 14h ago

It answers the question as asked. If you want something else, I think that it's reasonable to ask you to qualify your question.

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tal @lemmy.today 19h ago

I didn’t even get the usual evening breeze last two nights to cool my room down.

For some reason the hot air really wants to stay in my room.

Aim a fan in/out a window to increase airflow.

Aim a fan at yourself. That'll increase wind chill.

tal @lemmy.today 21h ago

Carmakers including Ford and Volkswagen have doubled down on petrol cars, especially in the US, due to...regulatory changes under President Donald Trump, who has cut incentives for EV buyers.

I'm pretty confident that if you're buying a $640,000 car, you place little relative value on a $7,500 tax credit. It being present or not is under a 1.2% price difference. That particular factor probably isn't very relevant as regards cars like these.

tal @lemmy.today 21h ago

That compressed database would have to be updated frequently

They are.

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tal @lemmy.today 21h ago

One account on X said: "Ferrari just killed their brand just like Jaguar did. This is straight to the junkyard trash."
"What is going on with European Luxury car manufacturers? First Jaguar and now Ferrari", another account posted.
But not all commentators were felt negatively about the new car, with one post saying: "Absolute masterclass in design. Ferrari just unveiled the breathtaking LUCE concept, and it is a total game changer."

Honestly, BBC, if you're going to aggregate statistics about tweets on Twitter, use it as some kind of crude poll, maybe you could get something useful that way.

But reporting on anecdotes about anonymous tweets for opinion seems of almost zero value from a news standpoint. If a tweet mentioned a fact that you could validate, say, that might have some value.

But what you're doing here is on-par with saying "someone on Twitter said that they liked chocolate ice cream, and someone else said that they didn't like chocolate ice cream". That just doesn't really seem newsworthy. I would say that it'd be surprising if you couldn't find posts of both sorts for virtually any topic.

tal @lemmy.today 1d ago

No, but it says that he's the founder of "7-Eleven Japan", not "7-Eleven".

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tal @lemmy.today 1d ago

Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands

Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government.

The federal government manages about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States...

I'd also guess that the Russian and Canadian governments are up there.

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tal @lemmy.today 1d ago

You may enjoy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AuthaGraph_projection

tal @lemmy.today 1d ago

I mean, it's not going to work, because your kids are gonna have a smartphone, and they can go to their friend's house or wherever and they aren't gonna have content filters. And then you think "okay, I'll install software on my kid's viewing device to censor stuff", but these days, it's probably not terribly difficult to get ahold of an old phone/tablet/computer, if all you want to do with it is view pornography. Everything's got a web browser in it, and that's been the case for long enough that there's lots of disused hardware just sitting around that can browse the Web. I've thrown out a PSP, phones, tablets, countless computers...I suspect that someone's parents are probably willing to hand their old gear to their kid, and they float around. If you live in an isolated cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, maybe access to Web-capable devices is a barrier, but if your kid has friends, I suspect that it's not all that hard to get ahold of one device that they have that can browse the Web.

I mean, the realistic answer here is "you're not going to stop kids from viewing pornography if they sufficiently want to view it". One kid figures out how to do X, and it doesn't take long for word to get around.

EDIT: I just hit Amazon looking for an example.

https://www.amazon.com/HOTTABLET-Tablet-Android-Protective-Bluetooth/dp/B0F3XD9M6C

That's a $39 Android tablet that can browse the Web, has 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of flash (plus an SD card slot). That's gonna be fine for browsing all the porn you want out there.

Like, it's pretty hard to keep someone from getting access to something like that. If there weren't a supply of old hardware floating around and new hardware wasn't this cheap, okay, but devices capable of browsing the Web are everywhere.

tal @lemmy.today 1d ago

I wish I still knew where this comic was.

You're probably thinking of an xkcd comic:

https://xkcd.com/2501/

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tal @lemmy.today 1d ago

I think that the major current closed-source OSes today are busily harvesting all the data they can anyway, and the vendors probably don't care much about also grabbing age, but stuff like, oh...is it illegal under this law to distribute proprietary versions of older OSes now? Like, classic MacOS, say. That's definitely not open-source. And Apple is not going to go back and do a new release of classic MacOS to add age verification to it. But...there's still some old software that you need classic MacOS to run. So...is it illegal to distribute essential software required to run classic MacOS software in California as of the middle of next year?

I mean, you might be infringing on copyright as well, but Apple may be okay with people copying classic MacOS around, as they can't really make any money off it today. But this is the State of California, not Apple, that would act here.

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tal @lemmy.today 1d ago

Under the original law, operating systems would be required to request a user’s age or birth date during device setup, then expose an “age bracket signal” to apps and app stores. The law, which defined brackets such as “under 13,” “13–15,” “16–17,” and “18+,” immediately raised questions about how such requirements would apply to decentralized, open-source software ecosystems.

I kind of wonder what software running as a service on Windows is supposed to identify itself as if it's non-interactively downloading software.

tal @lemmy.today 1d ago

The controversy became particularly heated after reports suggested platforms like SteamOS could still fall under the law due to their ties to proprietary application ecosystems.

Ehhh. I think that'd be a hard argument to make. I mean, the OS is open-source. You can download it and modify it and reinstall it or whatever. Sure, it runs Steam, which is proprietary, but so does any other GNU/Linux distro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS

The core operating system is free and open-source software, while the Steam client remains proprietary.

Like, the only way in which SteamOS differs from another Linux distro is that Valve, which makes the proprietary client, also happens to be distributing the OS.

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tal @lemmy.today 1d ago

Can’t open the windows much as our cat is an indoor cat.

If you don't have or want to get some sort of air conditioning, maybe obtain and stick a window screen on the window, then have the fan blow through that?

Not as common in the UK --- here in the US, they were necessary to deal with malaria back before that got eradicated and kinda stayed for the convenience --- but it looks like there are UK-based vendors, manufacturers, and installers, and that they're often called "fly screens" rather than "window screens".

You could even use something with larger-diameter holes, like chicken wire, if all you care about is the cat, but I figure that if you're going to go to the trouble of putting something up, might as well block insects too.

tal @lemmy.today 1d ago

Are you literally going to work through doing this to the point of getting banned on every community on the Threadiverse?