AMillionNames @ AMillionNames @sh.itjust.works

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The same sort of legislation that the GDPR applies penalties with for not giving users controls over their ads could be adopted and applied to create a standardized form of parental controls of sites over the Internet, but until that happens, people can benefit from keeping explicit adult porn websites and services separate from the rest of their offering and forcing the rest of their offering to implement easy to implement parental controls if necessary.

If you diss and fail to understand why there is government regulation surrounding it all because you dealing with adult only websites is too difficult for you, it's less a case of shouldn't and more of a case of mustn't for you, bud.

Fortunately for most parents, most governments disagree. They realize it's a society problem. But I really hope that they eventually catch up with this type of bullshit in the Internet industry. I know that Steam and other services have begun to get flak for it, specially in countries like Germany.

Click. On. Another. Fucking. Link/Brand. It's not that hard.

Thank f-ing god that this thread is nowhere near representative of the real world: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/15/twitch-rolls-back-artistic-nudity-sexual-content-policy-ai-nudes/

I consider the risk on those platforms much less, and if they begun hosting hardcore porn I would consider only other platforms. Netflix and HBO implement parental controls and involve fixed runtime content, whereas Twitch involves real-time streams and widely differing types of moderation where streamers may be involved in safe and non-safe content, and it lacks the ease of the parental controls of the services you've mentioned.

Why do you consider forcing all that micromanagement to parents easier than just moving porn to another domain or under another brand?

It's much easier to supervise if you don't have to limit individually by each site's implementation of child control mechanics and can make some gross assumptions about worst case exposure and how bad it can get if they accidentally click the wrong link due to momentary inattentiveness. The adult version is all the work that the admins and moderators due to keep lemmy free from gore/sexually explicit/even worse bullshit spam in NSFW, why suddenly ignore it for some categories of porn, and potentially directed at children no less?

We can end this discussion and just accept that Twitch should begin to identify itself as an adult only streaming platform, if you want. I don't know if that's fair to streamers who struggle to make family friend NSFW content, but the access to porn they can already find on services that explicitly identify themselves as adult only seems to be important enough for people.

You are asking me whether I assume universal and general are used interchangeably most of the time or whether I assume that when people say universal consensus they do so literally and without any degree of dissension, something which rarely occurs. At this point we might as well be talking about which dictionary definition of a word is the "real" definition. His wording could have been better to avoid criticism, sure.

That's a good point, but for any media. The problem is identifying something a child can watch and letting them watch it and because of a spur of the moment oversight find them watching something they shouldn't be because they are not mature enough yet, and the same but having it devolve to extremes. It's just not that difficult to set up a different domain/service name for it and making it easier for parents.

That should be up to the parents, not you, and they shouldn't have to wonder if a platform composed mainly of children has now decided to host adult content and their own specific forms of child controls. Clicking on another link for adult content is not that hard.

Literally having to argue why streamers drawing porn for money and exposure to sexuality becoming a circlejerk to personality cults is bad, incredible..

So you accuse someone of cherrypicking while admitting you cherrypicked yourself (which I should discard because your opinion of balanced is right and his of general consensus is wrong, obviously...)? Personally, I see a big difference between proper sexual education and children beginning to explore puberty with parental guidance and streamers drawing porn for money and exposure to sexuality becoming a circlejerk to personality cults.

Peas to apples, that study only involves adolescents, and it doesn't clearly illustrate or partition according to the age groups. It also seems to merely itself to the self-assessment of those polled and particular concerns about body image and inadequacy.

You might as well tell people they are not good parents if they allow their children the moral ambiguity of playing cowboys and indians and watching pirate of the Caribbeans with that sort of level of logic. Sometimes the biggest caricatures are those accusing other people of being it. Sorry for offending your sensibilities for thinking there should be enough distinction as to keep children away from prostitution. Is clicking on a different url for the same thing really that hard for you?

There's also Internet allow only firewalls specially designed for parents who want to implement some control, which isn't enough when content on platforms decide to saturate their content with that you don't want to expose your children to. Then, it just becomes an exponential game of having to keep up and adjust each platform's individual controls when they could have simply kept their adult content elsewhere and have it be easily accessible to any adult who wants to see it.

Not really, just someone who reads the news in Europe and reads the headlines about revenge porn, ai fakes in school, and hormonal headbutting, pissing of teachers, and disrespect of the education system and caretakers only there to benefit them at even younger, more immature ages with far more disdain. If you want to go pedo on children, it's on you, but it's not hard to establish a distinction for adult only stores beyond a really useless age check and just enjoying it yourself without exposing children to it. Why are you so interested in rushing children into (false notions of) sexual (in)maturity (as is often the case when rushed) when that's something that takes time for a reason?

Because of the high overlap between exploiting sex, drugs, and addictions.

If it was a game that encouraged going Columbine shooter, no, I'd rate it even worse. But because they are fictional universes, either they just involve the unequivocal bad guys or they are on an arc that has the undertone of exploring the morality of war, the shooting, stabbing, and tearing apart I can dismiss, because while there is a danger to desensitizing the reaction of the visuals of said violence, it does not desensitize the moral qualms people should have about committing those acts.

Sex is to sell sex, and should be kept in adult only stores just like it is in real life. There's no problem with those sex stores existing, there is a problem in dismissing that underage exposure to porn and hardcore porn to the point where using ai fakes in school is becoming a problem.

So basically, dress like a prohibition era stripper and call it art? I'm really not comfortable about so many gaming companies not giving a shit about nudity, and I rate it on the same level as them not giving a shit about fostering and creating gambling addictions.

Steam has been at the forefront of this degradation of divides ... Is it really so hard to establish XXX subsidiaries separately for this type of content? I have no problem with services like OnlyFans even though I don't use them.

I guess I just don't see a 25% as that much better when I'm pleased with my 4K setup and am already getting 120+ fps on most games when the card I'm using isn't even current gen.

That 25-35% has been enough to cause a significant number of 4090 fatalities from loose contacts due to microdebris in the power connections. You aren't just paying around 50% more for that 25%, you are paying for added risk, the higher power consumption, and the higher power capacity PSUs to match, and as the PC ages it's going to wear out sooner as well. All for what's really an RTX selling point that barely any game dev uses on a generation that all major coverage has criticized as being particularly expensive.

I frankly still believe that if there was any generation to skip on launch, it's this one. Intel is slowly but surely joining the GPU market, if on the low-end, AMD cards are competing with NVIDIA on where it matters, and for all the threats NVIDIA has made about dropping out because of their AI nest egg, it knows it will need to keep the reigns over the 5000 series if it doesn't want to get sidelined for good, and it will do so with all the experience that it has had about how overpricing this generation may have dropped their sales significantly.

The 4090 isn't that much better than the 4080, and the 4080 is much more energy efficient. I guess it all depends on what you consider "blowing previous gens out of the water" but that's sort of marketing non-sense.

If you have a 3090Ti you aren't going to be missing out anything on current gen games, and current gen developers aren't in a hurry to develop exclusively for hardware most of their potential consumers aren't going to be running on. So basically, it's just "blowing previous gens out of the water" on flair at the moment.

Unfortunately, 4090 is the cheap man's alternative for AI hardware, and with the China ban, it's going to continue to be overpriced for the foreseeable future, well past the blockchain mining craze.

We seem to have hit a wall with CPU & GPU development, it's not going to be easy to overcome it. My best guess is that future generations are going to have to focus on heat dissipation, because that's basically the only thing left to improve.