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eigencoder
·13 godzin temu·discuss
I used Apple Configurator on my mac to supervise my iphone. Once that's done, you use configurator to add a profile to the device that (1) contains an allowlist of apps that can be used and (2) an empty allowlist of websites that can be visited. #1 means you can't use any new apps, and #2 prevents the ability to browse the internet by sending links to yourself in e.g. messenger or whatsapp.
eigencoder
·13 godzin temu·discuss
One 11 year old with a rifle is probably fine, but two with rifles is just asking for trouble haha
eigencoder
·15 godzin temu·discuss
I'm not sure about this.

One of my favorite tools is my bicycle. To me, the user interface of my bicycle is totally invisible. I just pull it out of the garage, hop on, and away I go. And it's not like I enjoy my bicycle as a "puzzle" either -- I just want it to go somewhere.

But to my 6 year old, the user interface is quite literally fear-inducing. Everything about the tool is very "visible" to him. Does that make it a bad tool?
eigencoder
·wczoraj·discuss
I like the feature, but I don't like the assumption at the beginning.

> Come September, he will have to walk across town to school on his own. But if he's going to be walking around out in the world without me, then a tracking tag won't cut it. He is far too young to have unfettered access to the internet and social media platforms, but what if he gets lost? A classic Nokia, supplying just texts and calls, won't come to his aid. Maps and satnav require a web connection.

What if he gets lost? With a classic Nokia, he could still call someone and get help. Or, he might (heaven forbid) just need to ask someone for help. Or walk around until he remembers where he is. These are all good skills to learn.
eigencoder
·wczoraj·discuss
Yeah, but your kid can also walk to school without a map, it's not a big deal.
eigencoder
·wczoraj·discuss
Also, it doesn't add up. How would Camera let you video call? Don't you need Facetime?
eigencoder
·wczoraj·discuss
I've used MDM to make my iPhone dumb. It's great! I wish there was an easy way to publish my configuration so others could use it / adapt it, but it's a little involved because you have to wipe your phone the first time you set it up with configurator.
eigencoder
·4 dni temu·discuss
This doesn't surprise me at all. I don't think we should be letting kids under 16 use social media, and the issue is a collective action problem that is best solved collectively (i.e. with government regulation).

But, I understand concerns raised by many, for example the EFF, that legislation banning children will have negative implications for online privacy. How do we "protect the kids", while also maintaining online privacy, which has been a fundamental part of the internet for a long time?
eigencoder
·15 dni temu·discuss
I disagree. Using social media is totally comparable to smoking. It's addictive, it's detrimental to health, and it's especially detrimental to kids going through puberty. "Browsing the internet", these days, mostly consists of social media platforms.
eigencoder
·16 dni temu·discuss
Not yet. I did specify some specific things about the tech stack and the way I wanted pages outlined that I think helped it get on the right track. But I honestly didn't look at any of the code at all, even when there were a couple bugs that needed fixed. In the future, I'll bet they could.
eigencoder
·25 dni temu·discuss
I thought the Soma in BNW was more like a type of depressant, like an opioid.
eigencoder
·30 dni temu·discuss
Every retailer does that
eigencoder
·30 dni temu·discuss
Yeah, I think this will really be a thing. I have been using `exe.dev` lately, and I was at an AirBnB with my family where we wanted to play a game, but it needed pencil and paper for each person, but we didn't have those. I thought it would be nice to have a little web app where you could write your input and then vote on other people's responses directly from your phone. I just spun up a VM on exe.dev, asked the AI to write the app, and then made the VM public-facing. It was a little buggy, but it worked well enough and we had a fun time.
eigencoder
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I don't see how we could remove states and boundaries and warfare. Boundaries aren't bad things, they're a natural consequence of living in a natural world
eigencoder
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I get what they're saying, it's more about the punchy tone than the word choice
eigencoder
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I mean, borders still exist, and laws apply within borders. I don't believe that national (or supra-national in the EU's case) sovereignty is yet a dinosaur of the past.
eigencoder
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
As I understand it, those cost optimizations relied on someone else brute forcing new model development. If everyone was trying to do it cheaper, we wouldn't have the models we have today.
eigencoder
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Usually tsp means teaspoons, and 4tsp / 20 mL vs 3tsp / 15 mL are the same ratios of tsp to mL, aren't they?
eigencoder
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
> Important: Even after the modem is removed, if you connect your phone to the car via Bluetooth then the car will use your phone as an internet connection and send all the same telemetry data back to Toyota.

How is this the case? I thought bluetooth was just sharing my phone's audio. Why would it allow requests over the internet? Surely there's a way to tell the phone not to give its internet connection to any connected bluetooth device?
eigencoder
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I don't disagree with you, I think we need both the humanities and technology. But this group hasn't listed "the humanities", but a rather reactionary and recent limiting subset of the humanities.