Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

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I don't think there's a way currently, but I'd definitely like one.

Ahh yes, hostile partial quoting to make my country seem unintelligent; welcome to my block list.

Part of that is teaching people how to control their impulses and stay on task.

Your workspace isn't going to have you hang your phone up on the wall somewhere when you come into work and have someone tell you "now is the time to use your phone."

College isn't going to do it either.

We also could take some cues that maybe this isn't all as serious as we make it out to be. My high school back in the 2010s gave us a ton of busy work, insisted on making it effectively mandatory if you wanted a decent grade, didn't let people go to the bathroom without asking permission and using a sign out sheet, insisted every second of every lesson was crucial, and was very strict about not pulling out your cell phone basically ever (kids still snuck texts here and there).

I see more merits for small children, but in general I'm strongly in favor of radical changes to how we approach education ... because learning should be fun but is not for so many people ... and we forget so much of what we've been "taught" anyways.

A state wide mono-culture based on an unsolved cultural issue isn't "education" it's inherently heavy handed.

It also actively harms schools that may be trying to teach students how to use cell phones productively in their lives to help them solve problems rather than pretending as though they don't exist.

I was a teen in the early 2010s. It's not a hard and fast rule, but the people I know that I grew up with (myself included) that are doing the best with their careers, did the best in college, and were least subject to peer pressure/had good impulse control had parents that did not censor their access to the Internet and instead had conversations about time management and gave them room to fuck up in high school.

I went to a community college during high school per my parents pressure and promptly fucked up one class having to drop it and having my parents pay $600 instead of tanking my GPA.

BUT, I never dropped a single class at university and graduated magna cum laude. I had the room to fail when it didn't matter as much.

I don't want to be a backseat parent, but as someone that grew up in this mess myself and saw a lot of people hit the pavement, please consider giving them more freedom as they get older so they can fail while you're still there to catch them. You don't need a firewall to stop someone from watching videos all day ... just check in and see what they've been into all day; encourage them to create stuff not just consume it.

I was also very isolated in high school, depressed and hiding it, and the folks I met playing video games on the Internet honestly were a huge factor in my continued existence. Some are still very good friends well over a decade later.

Perhaps a different perspective, perhaps not. Do what's right for your kids, but every time I hear about parents policing their teens Internet usage I get concerned because of my own lived experiences. Have a nice day.

Why do you feel the need to filter the Internet of teenagers? In a few years they'll be driving if they're not already and a few years after that voting.

Huh... So it does. Interesting.

I confused Alzheimer's with Autism for a minute and was like ... haven't I been on this ride before? Didn't the paper get retracted ages ago?

🤦‍♂️ lol

What's your source that there's not warming in the southern hemisphere?

The temperature readings would look different because winter and summer are flipped, but they absolutely should be attributing a similar effect.

I was wondering if that's where you were going in part.

I think it's a bit of the phrasing; you stated an opinion that's vague to the point of tiptoeing towards the potentially loaded question: "who's independent media?"

It's not uncommon in the conservative media sphere to see a similar (typically series) of leading ambiguous questions. They're never genuine, it's always in the style of:

You know what the best operating system is? I'll tell you what the best operating system is, it's Linux. Do you know why Linux is the best operating system? It's because it's got penguins and penguins are great! Do you know why penguins are great? I mean, can you think of a more iconic bird? That's why, that is why ... and Big Microsoft is out to destroy your hopes and dreams aren't they? Yes, yes they absolutely are, with their soulless Windows operating system that's manufactured by the flying spaghetti monster. Now obviously folks, only use Linux if you support freedom not the unholy flying spaghetti monster. The flying spaghetti monster will destroy America. It's its one true mission. Support freedom, support penguins, stop the flying spaghetti monster.

I think it's made a bunch of if antsy lol

Ahh, yes I agree on all points; thanks for the clarification!

I'm not sure what you're saying here ...

Don't fall Bill, Bob did last week and we're still looking for him

I doubt this will affect much ... that's a lot more source code than I'd expect though, dang.

Presumably a lot of it is for internal operations (custom editing software or something of that ilk).

Consider paying for the news...?

That's a really silly take ... a Paywall is just an authorization mechanism.

That's like saying the source code of lemmy leaks and you expect your account to be compromised any second.

I strongly disagree, email is a train wreck for secure communication.

Proton has done a pretty good job of making an implementation that's actually secure but PGP email has fundamental flaws like the subject line and recipient being clear text on the message, user error/key management complexity, and it's also just a high-friction means of communication vs "texting" or "IRC"-like approaches.

Maybe Valve is on to something with not counting to 3.

I think the update of EAC they're referring to was already done quite a while ago. I recall the Linux .so file going missing for a few weeks and I suspect that's when this was done.

You might be looking for CLion.