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by awakeasleep | 2025-04-17 17:01:14+00:00
I didn't realize how backwards and unhelpful the way we talk about this was until I became a parent.

In general, we talk about "iPad kids" and blame the tablets and phones themselves. Slightly more sophisticated people will blame the apps like YouTube or Roblox.

That stopped making sense to me once I saw the problem first hand with my peers and my own children. The actual issue is parents wanting to (basically) anesthetize their kids so the parents can do something as if they didn't have the kids.

Devices and Apps give parents the ability to zonk their kid into outer space for extended periods of time with unlimited videos or games that never end. But that isn't an inherent quality of the device. Like if you block all the apps and just let the kid use the iPad for drawing. Or if you do the YouTube kids thing where they can only watch videos you add to an allowlist.

The app makers do hold a lot of responsibility for the defaults on their apps, but the real issue is parents who are choosing to blackhole their kids for extended periods of time. (I am agreeing with you btw)
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-04-17 17:02:01+00:00
I know you are hyperbolic, but finding the band on Facebook and sending a quick message takes a minute max? Especially for your "favorite band". I always deter people from buying CDs of local bands, the band will see a tiny fraction of that price in their pockets. Just walk up to the bandleader after concert and give them $5.
by robto | 2025-04-17 17:02:43+00:00
Clojure atoms use STM, though. I've been writing Clojure for almost a decade now, it's not that STM isn't great, it's just that immutable data will carry you a very long way - you just don't need coordinated mutation except in very narrow circumstances. In those circumstances STM is great! I have no complaints. But it just doesn't come up very often.
by graycat | 2025-04-17 17:02:56+00:00
"administration"?

I avoided that. I was commenting in general terms.

"countries with truly dysfunctional judicial"

I suspect that much of how people get along in such a country is just to pay enough to the right persons. As a joke, that would often be faster and cheaper than following the US system fully honestly.

I'm reminded of the movie where, given a problem, someone could go to Vito and get a solution -- he had "all the judges and politicians in his pocket".

The role of Congress: The SCOTUS is from the Constitution, and all the rest are from Congress. If Congress sees a problem with those courts, it can fix it right away -- impeach a judge, cut off their funds, abolish their court, etc.

Just because our legal system is not the worst possible in the world does not mean that we should tolerate its faults.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-17 17:03:02+00:00
With all due respect you read too much into my question. I am looking for someone, anyone that has touched one or logged into one for realzies. If nobody has then not how are people testing their quantum-proof encryption? I believe this is a valid question. How do OpenSSH and NIST know this works? [1]

the hybrid post-quantum algorithm mlkem768x25519-sha256 g is now used by default for key agreement. This algorithm is considered to be safe against attack by quantum computers, is guaranteed to be no less strong than the popular curve25519-sha256 algorithm, has been standardised by NIST and is considerably faster than the previous default.

I would expect that something like hashcat would have to be ported to a quantum computer, then proof of concept modules created to break every type of encryption using quantum computing. There should be videos of people actively using quantum computers and producing fascinating results using real world data and especially showing they can break all encryption except for mlkem768x25519-sha256.

[1] - https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#10.0p1
by jmyeet | 2025-04-17 17:03:05+00:00
> Cancel culture is not compatible with democratic norms

One's position on "cancel culture" tends to reveal a lot about somebody's politics. Complaining about cancel culture tends to correlate highly with conservative political views. The idea is that some people can't freely express their opinions. This is the same idea that leads the likes of Elon Musk to complain about the lack of "free speech".

When right-wingers say "free speech" they mean "hate speech", more specifically "the freedom to express hate speech". And when they complain about "cancel culture", what they're really complaining about it there being consequences to their speech [1].

So if somebody goes on a racist screed and they lost their job because their employer doesn't want to be associated with such views, that gets labelled as "cancel culture".

The very same people defend cancelling the permanent resident status of somebody who simply protested war crimes committed by Israel (ie Mahmoud Khalil) with no due process, a clear First Amendment violation.

As a reminder, the First Amendment is a restriction on government activity. For some reason, the same people who were vaccine experts 2 years ago who are now constitutional experts don't seem to understand this.

[1]: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/republicans-cancel...
by Aunche | 2025-04-17 17:03:24+00:00
> There's a lot of other causes for the world being as unsupportive as it is. As a society we are losing meaningful connection to work, by having such vast mega corps sucking up all the work, managing the world from the top down. The concentration of capital has had enormously brutal impacts on the human spirit.

The evidence for this is far weaker than social media causing harm, but let's assume that you're right. All these problems caused by capitalism seemed to manifest during the the rise of social media tech giants, so they would still be the most likely culprit. I'm usually the person who defends capitalism, but even I review content recommendation systems on social media as capitalist brainwashing machines. I don't think being too conservative with limiting access to children is a bad thing.
by AlanYx | 2025-04-17 17:04:25+00:00
That option only works with Apple's XDR enabled displays (internal and external). For non-Apple external displays with HDR10, there's a separate "High Dynamic Range" toggle in the display settings in the display. On some Intel macs, if you open Display preferences while holding down the Option key, another option appears to disable simulated HDR. I'm not sure how to disable simulated HDR on the internal display of current Macbook Airs.
by loeg | 2025-04-17 17:04:38+00:00
> Though that also comes with male-pattern skeletal growth. So unless your body still has elevated/male-level T levels, you're carrying around a disproportionately heavy skeleton which negates the advantage.

The male-pattern skeletal growth isn't necessarily a disadvantage. E.g., narrower hips and stronger bones is likely an advantage in running.

> If the net effect were actually an advantage, you'd expect the womens' sports which are allowing trans women to be dominated by them, but they really just aren't.

My understanding is the opposite. In fact, if it wasn't the case, there is basically no reason to have separate mens and womens fields.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-17 17:05:05+00:00
That's really not true if you look at the European neighbors and European territories of Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

Also not true of Spain, which spent a lot of time in internal warfare (with occasional outside interventions.)

But, yes, excluding those, most of the countries in Europe were too busy fighting endless wars throughout their (or their allies’ or enemies’) colonial empires (whether to expand them, defend them, or put down or assist rebellions in them) to bother fighting other powers in Europe in that period.
by dingnuts | 2025-04-17 17:06:03+00:00
Why should I, as a reader, spend the time to read a meaningless story that no person could be arsed to write, when I could spend a lifetime reading and never get through only the best works humanity has actually created?

There is no shortage of fiction that we need language models to address.

Honestly I feel the same about all model outputs that are passed off as art.

If it's not worth the time for the creator to make, why is it worth my time as an audience member to consider it?

There is a whole world of real artists dying for audiences. I'll pay them in attention and money. Not bots. There's no connection to be had with a bot or its output
by rollcat | 2025-04-17 17:06:09+00:00
This is why I generally do not rely on SSH servers other than OpenSSH. It's (by far) the most widely deployed implementation, thoroughly battle-tested, etc. It's also hard to actually get pwned; the OpenBSD[1] guys believe in security as the default.

There's some value in avoiding a monoculture, or choosing different trade-offs (e.g. binary size, memory usage). But as exemplified by this incident, any incentives must be carefully weighted against the risks. SSH is your final line of defence.

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
by pier25 | 2025-04-17 17:06:15+00:00
I love HDR for movies/shows on OLED but other than that I agree. It really sucks you can't disable HDR in apps like Netflix etc. It does look terrible on non OLED TVs. In Chrome you can force a specific color profile in the settings. I believe sRGB shouldn't allow HDR content.

Personally I think the biggest benefit of HDR is not even those super bright annoying colors but 10-12 bit colors and the fact that we can finally have dark content. If you look at movies from 10-20 years ago everything is so damn bright.
by oblio | 2025-04-17 17:07:30+00:00
They don't need internet access at that age, don't listen to what other people say (trust your gut on this one)

My first computer was at age 13 and I had internet (broadband, directly) at 20.

Now, obviously both of those are very late for 2025+ and social pressure would be overbearing.

But I think internet usage before, say, 7, is useless. There is so much to learn in the real world before that, anyway (outdoors activities including sports, books, card and boardgames, crafting, ...).

Thankfully I live in a place where they're introducing school bans for smartphones, total ones in primary and during classes in secondary. That should reduce social pressure massively.

If all goes well computers will be introduced around 7, supervised (probably with a locked down Linux and various educational programs, maybe some simple multiplayer games, etc). A dumb phone will probably appear in a few years and a locked down smartphone as late as possible, maybe around 12?

I expect mobile device mastery to happen almost instantly, instilling desktop computer usage is the real target, maybe some programming.

Unsupervised internet usage is a tricky thing. Not sure when exactly, they need to learn about NSFW and especially NSFL. And of course about the crack-manufacturers employed by FAANG.
by tshaddox | 2025-04-17 17:07:31+00:00
That strikes me as an odd opinion. Surely the colorspaces and display technologies that predate HDR had as much dynamic range as they could reasonably squeeze out of the technology at the time. Is it the brightness specifically that bugs you? I could understand that, although brightness is not directly related to HDR (in the same way that loudness in digital audio is not directly related to bit depth).

Of course I do agree that these things should be configurable. And on my MacBook Pro, I can set the built-in display to sRGB. Is that option not available on your particular Mac and display?
by ajross | 2025-04-17 17:07:57+00:00
Only Google-integrated Android devices are profitable. You really think Graphene/Lineage/etc... devices have a chance in the market vs. Apple Computer? Splitting off the integration means those devices have to pay for it or go without. Even Amazon failed in this space.

Which is to say, the parts of Android that are "profitable" are the parts tied to the broader corporate product suite.
by LiquidSky | 2025-04-17 17:08:07+00:00
>If its a "middle" road what is it in the middle of (i.e. what "scale")?

That's pretty clear. We already have two "sides": AI is the latest useless tech boondoggle that consumes vast quantities of money and energy while not actually doing anything of value vs. AI is the dawn of a new era of human existence that will fundamentally change all aspects of our world (possibly with the additional "and lead to the AGI Singularity").
by gs17 | 2025-04-17 17:08:23+00:00
In the context of this post, it's bigger than that. Eve would be a government employee who can likely make new "human" profiles for Mal instead of using her own. Any centralized "human" identification system so we can vouch for a single entity-identity would probably be either run by the government or indirectly controlled by it (someone has to be able to input birth/death records at least, and countries like China aren't going to let e.g. Worldcoin operate within their borders unless they can control accounts).

Spam bots would use stolen/purchased credentials and get shut down. State-level bots would be free.
by vessenes | 2025-04-17 17:08:44+00:00
The article is worried. I'm not super worried right now -- I think openAI's model cards on release models show a significant amount of effort around safety, including red team processes with outside folks; they look to me to take it seriously model-by-model.

Is their pDoom as high as Anthropic's? I doubt it. But that was much of the point of the drama last year -- folks sorted themselves out into a few categories.

For systemic risk, interpretability and doom analysis, Anthropic is by far the best in the world right now, to my mind. OpenAI doesn't have to do all things.
by thayne | 2025-04-17 17:08:54+00:00
Well, another point of MarkMonitor is to get access to ccTLDs with requirements that are more difficult for you to meet yourself. Like needing to have a physical address within the country. MarkMonitor has offices in a bunch of countries just to meet that requirement, so they can sell ccTLD domains to customers.

The legality of that system seems a little questionable to me, but IANAL.
by saaaaaam | 2025-04-17 17:09:21+00:00
To be fair, there’s a big difference between journalists and headline writers!

Headline writing is the art of taking something that a journalist has thought about in detail and carefully crafted and making it into something that someone with low to zero interest in the topic might want to read.

Having done both, I got annoyed when headlines misrepresented what I’d written, and journalists got annoyed when I took their perfectly crafted but pedestrian articles and gave them punchy headlines in a desperate attempt to get people to read them...
by jmyeet | 2025-04-17 17:09:43+00:00
It's no coincidence that the anti-Tiktok rhetoric is ratcheting up at the exact same time as the Trump administration is fomenting a trade war, and possibly an actual war, with China.

Every criticism you can make of Tiktok applies to Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Reddit, Twitter or Snapchat. So why single out Tiktok?

Easy: because every other company is American-owned and operates in lockstep with American foreign policy. Social media is just an extension of mass media and both play a key role in manufacturing consent [1].

[1]: https://chomsky.info/consent01/
by unethical_ban | 2025-04-17 17:10:17+00:00
Just think about how completely chilling, and how society-breaking it is to know that the government is expanding and automating its fake personas online to attempt to monitor/jail anyone who expresses anger or discontent at the ruling junta.

You'd be 100% wrong if you think this is only meant to target extremists. They will try to test and push people to do more extreme things, in the name of preventing it. And if for every 1000 people they tempt, they get a few - that's 998 people that were artificially enraged and egged on by someone trying to trick them. How's that for social cohesion?

Fuck these people.
by Symbiote | 2025-04-17 17:10:53+00:00
I was really shocked last week when I met two women in their early 20s in a bar. Someone mentioned The Lord of the Rings. I said I'd read it.

They were shocked! They were asking about the film.

And I was probably more shocked when they said they don't read books because they don't have the patience. One said she once read a whole book and it was really good, but hasn't don't so since.
by satisfice | 2025-04-17 17:11:13+00:00
I just don’t get why it matters. So, redefine and reclaim whatever you want technical to mean! The term is constructed, SO CONSTRUCT IT THEN.

Every single human is excluded from some club they might otherwise want to be a part of. Exclusion and inclusion, in some proportion, is the human condition.

The author is a psychologist. Okay. I am a high school dropout who studies and uses psychology and sociology in my work. I am never going to be called a sociologist or a psychologist. I accept that. But I am those things, in some real and practical sense. I am a scientist and a philosopher and I am not swayed by anyone claiming those identities who tells me I’m not. They don’t have to include me in their reindeer games and I won’t waste an erg of my energy asking them to.

I am technical. I am a man. I judge whether other people are technical, or for that matter whether they are men. My judgements may or may not influence other people. So what?

I read the essay because I was trying to understand what her motivation is. What is her project? I’m still not sure. I don’t buy that exclusion and othering and lacking “full humanity” should or do matter (they are facts of our existence… now what? complaining about them mostly creates hostility because power is real and powerful people will act to defend themselves.)

Still I found it thought provoking and endearing in a weird way. It was a usefully irritating essay by someone very different from myself.
by kbolino | 2025-04-17 17:11:29+00:00
The security situation with SSH is actually kind of dismal. You're right that standard SSH server configurations are generally equivalent to self-signed certificates but the trust model often used there is known as TOFU ("trust on first use") and is regarded by people who practice computer security as fundamentally broken. It persists only because the problem is hard to solve and it is still better than nothing and SSH gets targeted for MITM a lot less than HTTPS (SSH is targeted much more by drive-by attacks looking for weak passwords).

TLS with Web PKI is a significantly more secure system when dealing with real people, and centralized PKI systems in general are far more scalable (but not hardly perfect!) compared to decentralized trust systems, with common SSH practices near the extreme end of decentralized. Honestly, the general state of SSH security can only be described as "working" due to a lack of effort from attackers more than the hygienic practices of sysadmins.

Homoglyph attacks are a real problem for HTTPS. Unfortunately, the solutions to that class of problem have not succeeded. Extended Validation certificates ended up a debacle; SRP and PAKE schemes haven't taken off (yet?); and it's still murky whether passkeys are here to stay. And a lot of those solutions still boil down to TOFU since, essentially, they require you to have visited the site at least once before. Plus, there remain fallback options that are easier to phish against. Maybe these problems would have been more solvable if DNSSEC succeeded, but that didn't happen either.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-17 17:11:53+00:00
They consider being anti-zionist to be antisemitic. This one section alone. The remainder is fine but I believe this shows they can't disconnect Israel from Jewishness

"Examples of when such critiques cross into antisemitism include when they ostracize and vilify Zionists and Zionism"

https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-and-strategies/what-anti...
by discardedrefuse | 2025-04-17 17:11:58+00:00
I appreciate the input. I'm not convinced Apple is really that much better than Google or Microsoft at collecting my data. As for Linux, I love Linux and run it on my desktop, laptop, and servers. But its not great for media. There were always issues getting DRM'd 4K content to play from streaming services. And there's a level jank, that I don't want to deal with on a TV.

I think for now I'm switching to my Xbox for media consumption. It has all the apps, works with my LG "magic remote", and Microsoft has a lot of privacy control options. I also bought a cheap oNN Google TV dongle to play with. It runs Android, so there a lots of hacking possibilities.
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-04-17 17:12:01+00:00
If we must have ads, the best quality ads I see online are dumb ads. Just an image as a link. The most effective ads I see are ones on blogs where the blogger sells ad space (side columns) and they're just images that directly link to the product. The ads are relevant to the blog and readers. 99% of other online ads I see are visual garbage and irrelevant. The "targeting" is abysmal.

Convincing all of these sites that Google, Meta, or other services, are "superior" for ads genuinely seems like incredible marketing. They've siphoned up enormous amounts of money and in return put in place a miserable user experience while making media companies wholly reliant on them.
by rolph | 2025-04-17 17:12:30+00:00
nomatter what way you lean, collapse of centralized "social order" regardless of source, leads toward adversity, the solution set could be isolationist, or could be a fallback to localized social order. former is a competetive dynamic, latter is cooperative.

i would suspect results such as rural enclaves, vs urban killing fields and tribalism, based on typical quality of social glue
by oblio | 2025-04-17 17:12:58+00:00
Agreed. Doing this from the start yields great results.

Imagine going the other way round is detox, you need to pushback hard since they will fight you on everything.

I think it's worth it even in that case. Though obviously if you never offer that option from the start, you're golden. Toys, puzzles, long form entertainment, etc.
by lolinder | 2025-04-17 17:13:05+00:00
I'm not even saying that you're wrong that such a thing exists, just that you're wrong to implicate Jonathan Haidt in that plot. And by seeing it everywhere—even where it's not—you are losing credibility when you go to point it out in places where it's real.

You clearly have not read anything that Haidt has written and you just ignore all of the comments pointing out that you're mistaken, so you just end up looking like a conspiracy theorist who refuses to even look at the actual evidence because you already know it's all a conspiracy. Looking unreasonable and irrational hurts your cause.
by simonw | 2025-04-17 17:13:18+00:00
I've been trying to find a good option for this for ages. The Deno/Pyodide one is genuinely one of the top contenders: https://til.simonwillison.net/deno/pyodide-sandbox

I'm hoping some day to find a recipe I really like for running Python code in a WASM container directly inside Python. Here's the closest I've got, using wasmtime: https://til.simonwillison.net/webassembly/python-in-a-wasm-s...
by kube-system | 2025-04-17 17:13:50+00:00
Because it's a problem with a 50 year old UX design that we still use today and aren't changing any time soon. WYSIWYG UX is easy to use, because you can simply train the users to manipulate what they see until it visually represents the output they want. This is the predominant way we've trained users for most of the history of GUI software.

But, WYSIWYG on a 2D screen is just an inherently leaky UX abstraction when dealing with 2.5D content, e.g. layers.