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[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

Maybe an unpopular opinion here on lemmy, but I think this is a good thing.

Chevron is a good idea in theory, give experts in regulating a specific thing more leeway to manage that. Problem is if you give a bureaucratic agency an inch they become maniacal dictators. They start calling bees a kind of fish and a puddle in your backyard a lake, they randomly change up their own decisions making normal people criminals overnight or vice versa, and sometimes they even just try to make their own rules.

If you want a law then make a law, don't have an unelected bureaucrat issue an edict. If the legislative branch is a mess the solution is to fix the mess, not hand off their powers to the executive branch. Again, if used by level headed people it would have been great, but eventually after so many decisions that would sound too comical for a parody we can't have nice things anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Still good to have, but too bad they couldn't just piggy back off of Brave's soft fork or something and keep the functionality.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's probably not a total lie, a dedicated chip for specific calculations is probably the only way that we'll see major jumps in processing power for a long while. It can be really effective for highly specific stuff. But the headline itself is certainly pure clickbait on the Verge's and Flow's behalf.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I did read the article, the article that I shared, that explains exactly what I said: Scott Weiner campaigned to decriminalization knowingly spreading STDs while lying.

What did I say that was wrong?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Right wing disinformation? Lol

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-aids-felony-20170315-story.html

https://pluralpolicy.com/app/legislative-tracking/bill/details/state-ca-20172018-sb239/30682

If you knowingly lie and spread an std through sex or donating blood it goes from a felony to a misdemeanor. Aka decriminalization.

I don't know how that's right wing. I believe most people across the political spectrum probably don't STDs, and especially don't want to get them because a partner lied or they got a blood transfusion.

I also hate how so many people jump to call something disinformation just because they don't like a particular fact. You calling it disinformation is in fact disinformation itself, and if everybody calls everything they don't like disinformation then society will have no idea what is true or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You have to specifically permit it on a per site basis, it's not like a website has those permissions by default. If a banner ad or forum post could enable that permission then they'd be able to access your camera as well as a plethora of other permissions?

I don't see any difference between downloading code to run in a web browser vs downloading and running ADB. In fact, running software in a web browser is more sandboxed and with more fine tuned permissions.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The only thing that I fear more than big tech is a bunch of old people in congress trying to regulate technology who probably only know of AI from watching terminator.

Also, fun Scott Wiener fact. He was behind a big push to decriminalization knowingly spreading STDs even if you lied to your partner about having one.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As far as I know that's nothing to write home about, monocrystaline solar panels get like ~30 years dropping down to 80% and then slowly begin to fail from there. I'm far from an expert, but my understanding is this is the norm and that if we found out they weren't lasting this long then people would be getting worried about a messed up cost calculous.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

The ego of an Australian regulator that thought they could tell an American company what they could or could not distribute to non-Australians must be huge. (To clarify, twitter had blocked the video for Australians)

I know the US has a reputation for thinking it's laws apply everywhere but this is on a whole new level

"option likely to achieve the most positive outcome for the online safety of all Australians, especially children."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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