the researchers said all AI posts were approved by a human before posting, it was their choice how many lies to include

But overall, enforcement causes nearly half of users to stop searching for popular adult sites complying with laws and instead search for a noncompliant rival (48 percent) or virtual private network (VPN) services (34 percent), which are used to mask a location and circumvent age checks on preferred sites, the study found.

what a fucking surprise. now the teens only watch porn that is already skirting around laws just by virtue of existing. truly nobody could’ve ever imagined this would happen

jesus christ i’m so tired of stupid politicians

hmm, just because non-english subreddits are small doesn’t really tell us much here. Non-English speaking monolinguals are used to smaller communities (let’s ignore China and India for the sake of this thought experiment) simply because the number of the speakers of their language is smaller. So a subreddit of a smaller size wouldn’t be particularly surprising here

those folks often use the same social media platforms within their own linguistic bubbles. Not always, of course, you gave examples of websites used by specific language speakers, but i’m just pointing out how this might not be a universal fact for every language

but then i’d need to swipe to flip the page on both of them, that’s like, effort

hey there’s also some of us who buy books we will definitely read eventually and they just keep stacking up, gotta put them somewhere

for the vibes of course, not everything has to be optimised for practicality

don’t bother, there’s browser addons that just make that screen disappear

yeah i was referring more to the chemical reactions. the 2+2 example is not the best one but langauge itself is a great case study. once you get fluent enough at any langauge everything just flows, you have a thought and then you compose words to describe it, and the reverse is true, you hear something and your brain just understands. How do we do any of that? no idea

tbf, how do you know what to say and when? or what 2+2 is?

you learnt it? well so did AI

i’m not an AI nut or anything, but we can barely comprehend our own internal processes, it’d be concerning if a thing humanity created was better at it than us lol

it doesn’t actually click on stuff. it “clicks” so that the advertisers’ and your digital footprint’s statistics get messed up, but you never see the results of the clicking, nothing pops up, nothing gets downloaded

what a brave new world we live in

wow that’s so shitty holy heck. i hope none of those websites are essential, or if they are that you find a free and working VNP

why? does reddit just assume any and all traffic from your country is VPN traffic?

an overt plug for the fediverse will be removed though, reddit is actively censoring anyone saying positive things about it

humble bundle at one point sold a bundle with the works of U K Le Guin, and since i’ve been meaning to read those, i bought it

all were under amazon DRM

i’m a big fan of being able to do whatever the hell i want with the things i buy so naturally, i got mad and looked for a way to un-DRM them, and i’m happy to say there’s a calibre plugin for that. i’m currently enjoying Wizard of Earthsea on my reMarkable

it is fantastic for both lil notes and grand projects! and you can even link to those little notes and slowly evolve them into a grand projects

you can basically create a personalised Wikipedia! and Obsidian will help you with it, as it can detect when you write in plain text a word or phrase that also is another note’s title, then you just click and bam, it’s linked. And if you change a note’s title, all mentions will update too!

you can also make conspiracy boards with the canvas note type, all usual formatting works within them

it’s a great tool to keep a lot of information organised and linked together, without having to open a billion files and cross reference them (you can also open notes in split screen).

learning how to use it will only take an hour or so, and then you’ll be zooming

i’ve recently been using it to collect and organise information for a big project i’m working on, and being able to link mentions of things to bigger topics and themes as i’m doing the data collection is just wonderful, no more “(IMPORTANT LOOK HERE!!!)”

it’s only that high because 2020 is when search engines became visibly enshittified even to normies and people started specifically looking for human written things

a few days ago i saw how r/redditalternatives has only “lemmy bad!” posts and i know for a fact folks here have been spreading the word about lemmy in a positive way so don’t blame yourself, reddit has been actively censoring any good thing said about lemmy or the fediverse in general

i looked marginally deeper into this and it’s apparently all the way to shadow bans :) link

there’s probably a way to monetise everything but with the numbers of Linux people (yes we know you use arch shush) and anti-capitalists, i think we’re safe?

there’s also the problem of techbros and companies everywhere thinking that AI is omniscient and can replace every other profession. who needs a human journalist when you can train an AI on their work (because they work for you and their work is your property ofc) and then just fire them all because you have a perfect AI that you can just set to run forever without checkig its work and make infinite money :)