tehmics @ tehmics @lemmy.world

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You still haven't told me what the number line method actually is. I know how to add up the columns bud

As in, visualizing a number line in their heads? Or physically drawing one out?

I could see a visual method being very powerful if it deals in scale. Can you elaborate on that? Or, like try to understand what your kids' 'nonsense' is?

I would have done 10+6, but that's effectively the same thing as the OP.

Aside from literally counting, what other way is there to arrive at 16? You either memorize it, batch the numbers into something else you have memorized, or you count.

Am I missing some obvious 'natural' way?

Probably because they were forced to memorize times tables, but not arithmetic so they wanted to show where they are leveraging that memorization from

Okay that's fine, but when websites are effectively writing

    
if user_agent_string != [chromium]
     break;

  

It doesn't really matter how good compatibility is. I've had websites go from nothing but a "Firefox is not supported, please use Chrome" splash screen to working just fine with Firefox by simply spoofing the user agent to Chrome. Maybe some feature was broken, but I was able to do what I needed. More often than not they just aren't testing it and don't want to support other browsers.

The more insidious side of this is that websites will require and attempt to enforce Chrome as adblocking gets increasingly impossible on them, because it aligns with their interests. It's so important for the future of the web that we resist this change, but I think it's too late.

The world wide web is quickly turning into the dark alley of the internet that nobody is willing to walk down.

Yeah this is a hard one to navigate and it's the only thing I've ever found that challenges my philosophy on the freedom of information.

The archive itself isn't causing the abuse, but CSAM is a record of abuse and we restrict the distribution not because distribution or possession of it is inherently abusive, but because the creation of it was, and we don't want to support an incentive structure for the creation of more abuse.

i.e. we don't want more pedos abusing more kids with the intention of archival/distribution. So the archive itself isn't the abuse, but the incentive to archive could be.

There's also a lot of questions with CSAM in general that come up about the ethics of it in that I think we aren't ready to think about. It's a hard topic all around and nobody wants to seriously address it beyond virtue signalling about how bad it is.

I could potentially see a scenario where the archival could be beneficial to society similar to the FBI hash libraries Apple uses to scan iCloud for CSAM. If we throw genAI at this stuff to learn about it, we may be able to identify locations, abusers and victims to track them down and save people. But it would necessitate the existence of the data to train on.

I could also see potential for using CSAM itself for psychotherapy. Imagine a sci-fi future where pedos are effectively cured by using AI trained on CSAM to expose them to increasingly mature imagery, allowing their attraction to mature with it. We won't really know if something like that is possible if we delete everything. It seems awfully short sighted to me to delete data no matter how perverse, because it could have legitimate positive applications that we haven't conceived of yet. So to that end, I do hope some 3 letter agencies maintain their restricted archives of data for future applications that could benefit humanity.

All said, I absolutely agree that the potential of creating incentives for abusers to abuse is a major issue with immutable archival, and it's definitely something that we need to figure out, before such an archive actually exists. So thank you for the thought experiment.

No. The archive of it isn't doing the dangerous part. The info was already out there and the bad actor who would do something malicious would get that info from the same place the archive did. I need you to show how the archival of information that was already released leads to a dangerous situation that didn't already exist.

If they're leaked, they're leaked. The archive doesn't change that one way or the other

These reviews never do a great job talking about UI/UX and that's literally the only thing I care about until they get the steam deck OS or Microsoft actually enters the space with a Windows version.

I loved this game at the time. Not sure how well it holds up though. I'll never forget how cool Mace Windu's special attack was

this would be impossible

Perfect.

I'd be interested in seeing real examples where lives are threatened. I find it unlikely that the internet archive would be the exclusive arbiter of so-called deadly information

I can't say this did or didn't happen, but I absolutely had 'philosophical' thoughts like this as a kid.

When I was ~10 I asked my mom how we know other people aren't 'aliens or something'. She just dismissed me as being silly, and I didn't know it at the time but in retrospect I was absolutely experiencing and asking her about solipsism.

I didn't know it was 'philosophy' but I think it's integral to how we experience the world and sentience in general.

So did I, and I didn't even know I could play until years later when I sat in front of a friend's kit for a lesson with them. They basically talked me through the setup, gave me a song to play, and I just played the opening without much fuss. They told me I didn't need the lesson, I could already play and I just needed time on the kit, left the room and let me go ham.

Yeah it'd almost be like if a person got swallowed by a whale or something. Someone should write a book about it.

It's data.

It's never "owning" in the traditional sense, because data is not physical.

When people say they own something, there's an implication that it's theirs until they decide to part with it. That is true for games bought without DRM. DRM free the closest you'll ever get to 'owning' data, you possess that on your own local device and it can't be taken away.

You can lose the ability to download the game, sure. But that is an additional service, not the game itself. You have that data until you delete it. Same with GoG Galaxy. that's an extra service.

You're arguing 2 or 3 different things. Ownership as a legal right, ownership as in possession, and a weird third thing where you seem to be confusing meta services with the ownership of the thing itself.

But GoG provides it DRM free, so you can always play what you've downloaded til the end of time. It's as good as piracy in that way.

Piccolo is badass, and clearly he's black.

I'm currently getting MEETS_DEVICE_INTREGRITY with play integrity fix, which is enough for Google Pay to work. The only thing that I haven't been able to do is drive for Uber or use RCS oddly enough. RCS happened to fix itself about a month ago as well.

MMOs just don't exist anymore. It's all stuff like this. I moved on to other genres. Rust is more of an MMO than WoW at this point

Can you work around it with magisk like rooted stock android? I bought my pixel specifically for graphene but google pay is the main thing preventing me from switching