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  • Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms

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  • Oh my sweet summer child. One day the light of idealism will fade from your eyes just as it does for everyone who is not 15.

    I'm not contributing to pissing away freedoms and privacy, but I'm not going to inconvenience myself on ideological grounds.

  • Would you retire at 30 and live frugally?

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  • What else do people need?

    Surprised I have to point this out but...

    People need to be challenged. People want to test their mettle and push boundaries and produce value and be useful and show everyone what they can achieve.

    When you're in your 80s and all messed up and just sitting around waiting to die, a great collection of knitted gloves and scarves might not be very satisfying.

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  • Ok, so I also hate the "protect the children" argument, and there are certainly plenty of lazy parents around.

    However, if everyone 10 year old at school has a phone and a Facebook account, it's just so much more difficult for parents who are not lazy to hold the line. Its an extraordinarily difficult situation. You'd make your kid's a pariah by upholding a basic standard of care.

    By prohibiting access for kids you set the basic societal standard. Yes it will be circumvented but you enable parents to uphold appropriate restrictions.

    Is it worth it? Probably not. Its not a good thing but as a dad I can see the intention.

  • Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms

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  • Its bad, but a govt service is the best implementation.

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  • Facebook is kinda unavoidable here.

    I have young kids, and marketplace has saved me thousands of dollars. Kids need a lot of different stuff at different ages and it's nice to be able to flip the stuff you dont need anymore and get the stuff they do need second hand.

    Also messenger, what's app. My apartment building has a what's app group thats invaluable. I talk to customers on messenger.

  • Would you retire at 30 and live frugally?

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  • Hobbies won't nourish your soul for the next 40 years.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • Just cheaper.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • I said it's android.

    Its going to be a problem but it's not yet.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • tl;dr: buy a second hand pixel 8 and install GrapheneOS. It's Android, but it will get you through a few years while you wait for postmarketOS to become viable as a daily driver.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • How could that be a more successful approach when people aren't already carrying pocket computers as they are phones?

  • Trump Suffers Jobs Numbers Disaster After Firing Stats Chief

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  • What if we increase the cost of everything for no reason? I mean if everyone can buy less things, and everything costs more to manufacture, everyone will need more jobs.

  • Trump Suffers Jobs Numbers Disaster After Firing Stats Chief

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  • What does this really mean though?

    The same could be said of any democratic institution, of course the director doesn't have any way to influence the reporting they produce because it's all supposed to be transparent and reliable.

    In reality though, in the Trump admin, they can absolutely manipulate the numbers in a myriad of ways.

  • Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source!

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  • Are there any restrictions on a FOSS instance? Is there a pay wall?

  • Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source!

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  • I'm been trying to stand up a zulip instance. It's working but I haven't used it much. I want a feature complete jitsi instance to go with it and that's only partially implemented right now.

    That said, zulip does seem like the best option for me presently.

    Haven't tried revolt.

    Mattermost seems to be perpetually entangled but being disentangled from some other suite. Confusing and frustrating.

    I haven't tried rocket chat for 5 years or so. I think last time I read about it people were complaining that the FOSS plan is very limited.

  • Trump expresses reservations over Florida eliminating vaccine mandates: ‘We have to be very careful’

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  • This is so pathetic.

    Trump, as usual, parroting the last person he spoke to - in this case someone who accepts the settled science.

    Look, you have vaccines that work. They just pure and simple work. They’re not controversial at all, and I think those vaccines should be used, otherwise some people are going to catch it, and they endanger other people

    If only there were some way to know which vaccines work and are worth the risk. Some kind of panel of experts who could review the evidence, request additional research where necessary, and approve those vaccines which do work and have manageable risks.

    If you had that, then you could confidently impose mandates where necessary as a public health measure - because inevitably some idiots will prefer not to have vaccines because they don't understand how they work and want to rely on herd immunity.

    I hope they do temper their stance on vaccines and avert the worst of the catastrophe RFK wants to unleash. However, this will sadly perpetuate the prevention paradox - vaccines have worked so well that they don't seem important.

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  • I'm not suggesting that it's "wrong", merely that over time these things wouldn't be satisfying for most people. I suspect that even you would find that life unfulfilling.

    It's one of life's great questions and I don't really expect to be able to find a consensus with you.

    Loads of people, perhaps even most people, would describe the list of activites you've presented as being the ideal recipe for long term contentment and happiness.

    However, most people can simultaneously acknowledge that contentment and happiness is fleeting, intangible, and unstable. I'm sure you've thought of the "new car" example - it's great for a few weeks.

    People tend to think they want "happiness" but in practice actually pursue other desires, like being challenged, being needed, being engaged with complex situations and problems. I'm not saying this is good or correct or better, it's just how I observe humans really behave.

    If I had no responsibilities, and sufficient wealth to live off passive income, I might plan to do as you say for a year or so, but during that year hope to identify some kind of direction I could devote the rest of my life to.

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  • Sure, fine, whatever. You do you.

    I think there are very few people who could spend 40 years painting warhammer figurines and call that a rewarding satisfying life.

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  • What does that mean? You said 65% of current earnings in the OP. Most people couldn't pursue any significant hobbies or interests on that level of income.

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  • In this hypothetical circumstance described by OP, you don't have $80m on which to live frugally travelling the world pursuing your interest in photography.

    For most people, living on 65% of their current earnings would mean a serious curtailment of their current activities. A subsistence if you will.

    Besides which, most hobbies aren't really satisfying in a way that can nourish the soul, certainly not the ones you can do at home for little or no cost anyway.