Boozilla @ Boozilla @lemmy.world

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Happened many years ago. The neighbor nurse married a creep and they moved away.

Check out the Peace Corps.

I didn't go to CC, but two of my friends in college did. They were mildly embarrassed about it, but I told them they were smart for taking prerequisites for a fraction of the cost.

Thanks for your long thoughtful comment. The CC stigma has never made sense to me. I was a dumbass in college, but one of the few things I'm proud of was always being supportive of my two CC buddies.

Wholesome meme: Kill All Humans.

--Bender

I really embarrassed myself under general anesthesia when I kept asking the surgeon about one of the nurses I was attracted to. I had no memory of it. He told me about it later.

The worst part was, the nurse was one of my neighbors. She wasn't in the room for the procedure, but I'm sure someone told her about it, because she was frosty afterwards.

Now whenever I go in for something like a colonoscopy, I'm very worried I'll say something stupid. I always ask after I wake up, and they always say I didn't talk. But they might be trained to white lie about that shit.

Love this out-of-the box thinking. Could even do it with a camera and a monitor on the 2nd air-gapped system if you don't want to go VR route.

Depends on the age of the skeleton and the environment doesn't it? The brain cavity isn't 100% sealed. There's openings for optic nerves, blood vessels, spinal cord, etc.

What you're saying makes sense about detection. I think my theoretical model might work around some of those, but then there are the user behaviors you're talking about that could still give it away.

I'm having trouble finding it again, but I remember seeing some articles a few weeks / months ago that Google wants to start using some kind of "3rd party authentication" service to make sure you are using an approved and unmodified browser. They want to roll this thing out to as many sites as they can. Of course they will pretend it's for your security / protection but it's really to block add-ons / extensions that they don't like.

The ones I use are out of production, but they are similar to these:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082DZ19FP

They work really well for identification, but they will snag on things, which can be very annoying.

For ones that are less likely to snag, I have also used these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000YYJLKM

I find that style hard to read, though.

You could also use colored tape or paint pens and just rely on color.

By permitting advertising.

Reaches for pitchfork.

TL;DR: be careful what you wish for.

Puts pitchfork down, embarrassed cough.

"This is fine".

We really haven't moved all that far from "pictures of spaghetti", have we.

Trade / share the knowledge.

OK, now I understand. I think we're talking about different things here. Or I missed that point in the paper. I would not want that kind of thing for Wikipedia, I agree with you there.

More people would be great, especially for niche communities.

I don't see #2 as that big of a problem. Do we want people who won't expend any effort to join? I guess everyone sees the line between accessible and "dumbed down" a little bit differently. I'm not saying #2 is great. I recognize it is an obstacle. But it's also kind of the point of Lemmy...in the sense that this is not a monolithic corporate one-size-fits-all kind of endeavor. In a way, the obstacle also serves as a teaching moment, if you will, of how this thing even works.

Item 4 seems a bit chicken-and-egg to me. But my guess is, not being able to find those communities isn't nearly as big of a problem as those communities not having any content / participants. I can see the argument that one causes the other, but I haven't found it very challenging to find those empty places. It's just not much fun to hang out there by yourself.

Not sure I follow you. An update of the visuals / presentation doesn't change the inherent nature of it. Books get republished with new dust jackets all the time.

That's kind of what I'm trying to conceptualize. The container, which is invisible and silent to the end user, "watches" all of the ads as normal. But the middle layer then sanitizes that container, almost as if it was a standalone webserver, and then presents the sanitized version to the end user.

I have definitely noticed an increase in embedded ads. I listen to a lot of podcasts and the "cool" thing with those is to detect where you are downloading from and inject local/targeted ads into the ad breaks. Fortunately the 30-second skip button still works.

Thanks, this is the sort of info I was looking for.

I wasn't aware it did this, but it gets detected all the time, unfortunately.