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  • B.C. interested in social media ban for kids, following Manitoba

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  • This will seriously mess up open source operating systems and simple devices. I think major OS vendors can and should add parental controls to their devices, but it should not ve mandated by law.

    I can see requiring ISPs to provide free DNS filtering for parents to use, but again it needs to be put on corporations that are selling, not a blanket rule that individuals need to somehow figure out how to comply with.

  • B.C. interested in social media ban for kids, following Manitoba

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  • Neither do I, but that doesn't mean we should implement a system where that could happen. If you asked me 10 years ago to predict what's happening in the states today...

  • [Gamers Nexus] Valve Steam Controller Review | Latency Benchmarks, Battery Life, Repairability

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  • Steam Input is not exclusive to this controller, correct. However the inputs that this controller has and exposes to Steam Input are. There is no other controller in existence that supports dual touchpads and capacitive gyro. I'm not sure why youre being so argumentative. It's not for you, move on.

  • Microsoft finally agrees Windows 11 has problems, and K2 is its plan to fix them, claims report

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  • Carney announces creation of Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

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  • The issue with LNG is that the environmental math doesn't account for all the natural gas that escapes into the air before it's burned.

    I know a video of this length is a hard ask, but it's very well done and I think worth your time: https://youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw

  • [Gamers Nexus] Valve Steam Controller Review | Latency Benchmarks, Battery Life, Repairability

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  • I'm not here complaining about price, i'm complaining about value. Show me why this is worth what they are asking.

    You already have a Steam Controller built into your Steam Deck. If you haven't made custom steam input mappings to utilize the touchpads and capacitive sticks with gyro, then this is not going to appeal to you.

    If you want to see what that's all about there are videos on Steam Input for the Deck and all the cool things you can do with it. Once you have that the way you like it you wish all controllers could do it (or at least I do).

    So this is a niche product for people who utilize all the control surfaces that the Deck and the original Steam Controller offer. If you don't then it's overpriced and not worth it.

  • Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’

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  • I get where you're coming from, but we as a society haven't even TRIED to hold billionaires accountable. Do they make it difficult? Of course they do, but a huge percentage of the population still look up to the ultra rich and think they're geniuses who deserve it.

    If society ACTUALLY got fed up and demanded they be held accountable, and jail and seizing their assets wasn't enough, then you consider more severe forms of punishment. As it stands right now we're barely handing out the equivalent of an occasional speeding ticket to these people and wondering why it isn't effective.

  • Britain’s military dependence on US ‘no longer tenable’, says former Nato chief

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  • Both population don't suffer equally, and realistically nukes would not be used. They're just a deterrent and make the invading force reconsider or work harder.

  • Britain’s military dependence on US ‘no longer tenable’, says former Nato chief

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  • You're right that we never really know how things will play out. That said, I don't think anyone expected foreign nukes to defend Ukraine, especially since allies are unwilling to use conventional weapons or send troops.

  • Britain’s military dependence on US ‘no longer tenable’, says former Nato chief

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  • I don't think that really tracks with what we've seen in Ukraine. The world tiptoed around and wasted a year of potential action because Putin threatened to use nukes. It's still one of the main things stopping escalated allied involvement. I also doubt Russia would have invaded had Ukraine not given up its nukes.

  • Britain’s military dependence on US ‘no longer tenable’, says former Nato chief

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  • With the way this timeline is going, I don't think anyone getting rid of nukes is a good idea. If you do decide to for some reason, give them to Canada.

  • Nova Launcher could soon add a proactive AI assistant that sucks up all your data

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  • Wow! This one wasn't on my radar. I had been using Action Launcher as it seemed to be the only other one that could do the swipe folders, but it seems to have been abandoned. I'll give this a go.

  • An oil and gas company just left behind an estimated $476M cleanup bill in Alberta

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  • As usual the UCP is all talk and fluff. They've been talking about improving this for a long time because it keeps happening and making the news, but they know all they need to do is say they're working on it and people will forget.

    We need to tax these companies more and we need to make them pay for cleanup up front, as other have said. Anything less is doing nothing.

  • Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing.

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  • to anyone who wants to argue about how language changes and how words get retired and if we retire this word another will come along: First of all, I don't believe you in this case. In the past 10-15 years, the word has fallen off in use, and the words that replaced it weren't offensive in the same way.

    I don't understand why you think this argument, which I've heard described as the Euphemism Treadmill, doesn't apply to this word. Retard is used to describe the slowing of something, like fire, without any insult to people. It's just a word. As you point out, that word can be, and is, used as an insult which causes harm. However, any word can do that. Take "slow", which I used above as an example. If it became the new slang insult for people of below average intelligence would you ask that people stop using it? It sounds silly to think of today, but that's just because we aren't used to hearing it that way. There's nothing stopping a new word from taking the place of an old one, and retarded is not special. I guarantee you if people used it to laugh at others or said it sharply it would become just as hurtful.

    We used to call people without jobs or shelter bums, then homeless, then housless, now temporarily unhoused. Once everyone is saying temporarily unhoused what will the next word be?

    We're absolutely in agreement that slower people are people too and deserve to be treated with respect. However, the fact that intelligence is a sought after trait that you are ridiculed for not having is the root of the problem, not the word used, and I don't think this word has some special ability to get around the euphemism treadmill.

  • Mozilla accuses Microsoft of sabotaging Firefox with Windows and Copilot tactics

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  • I'll agree that their mobile experience is not great, they don't support tablet layouts for example, but it still has the best support for ad blocking. I consider that essential for the modern internet.

    My big concern is that we're repeating the Internet Explorer issue all over again, where the web is coded for it instead of standards. Now Google has the ability to strong arm the Internet by not adopting standards, pushing their preferences, etc. Web sites are being coded coded to run on better on Blink than Gecko so it gets worse all the time. If we give up on Mozilla the Internet will fall even further into the hands of big tech.

  • Mozilla accuses Microsoft of sabotaging Firefox with Windows and Copilot tactics

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  • I don't get this argument. Mozilla and Firefox is the best we have. Are they perfect, no, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good. They are still a lot better than the alternatives.

    It's obviously important to hold Mozilla accountable, but I worry that all the negativity makes people just stick with Chrome or Edge because they think it's all the same.

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    ‘I was beaten and tortured’: how a British father and son made a fortune in Dubai then became wanted men

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  • Immigrants are brown people 🙃

  • Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa

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  • Sure, but most people don't need encode. The start of this thread talks about encoding, but the person you replied to didn't specify. My guess is they're just talking about playback.

  • Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass

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  • Cryptography.

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