TehPers

Australians must prove they are over 18 before they can access adult content such as porn, R-rated video games and sexually explicit AI chatbots under new laws.

Oh no! Not R-rated video games! Protect the children!

Research by her agency found that one in three children aged 10-17 had seen sexual images or videos online.

It also found that more than 70% of children had been exposed to online content showing high-impact violence, self-harm and suicide material, and information on disordered eating.

Did that same research find that those children were negatively affected by the online content?

You’d also think they would catch the first sentence talking about them living their new life in Australian. One would think to name a country there, not its adjective form, nor the name used to refer to a citizen of the country.

Are you sure? Those seem like the only two options to me. Clearly the purpose of the article is to convince people to feed their children to the rich.

Seriously, I’ve seen an increase in these weirdly extremist comments recently. One would have to wonder if they are the ones serving another’s interests.

Was there ever an attempt to save it without cheating?

No trenchcoat, unfortunately.

And I’m convinced his addiction to chocolate is a chemical one at this point.

Milka is definitely far from the best chocolate in Europe or even the US. The reason I even brought it up isn’t because it’s some kind of gold standard, but just because it at least tastes like chocolate, which puts it above most other grocery store chocolate in the US.

Imported Lindt still tastes good by the way, but you’d have to import it. I have a friend who actually does import ~10Kg at a time, but he eats far more chocolate than I do.

US-based grocery store chocolate is a lost cause.

These “chocolates”, at least in the US, taste like ass. That’s not really new, sadly.

It’s hard to find good chocolate in the US. Locally made chocolate is good, but expensive. Importing chocolate in bulk can be more affordable, but it’s hard to justify buying 10Kg chocolate.

I’ve found a few local candy stores that sell imported chocolate. The most common I’ve seen is Milka. If you haven’t given that a taste yet, it’s all over Europe, and tastes just as good in the US.

Washington’s approach to taxes are interesting.

There’s the wildly controversial long-term care tax, which might be the only income tax in the state. It’s a relatively small tax (less than 1%), but the benefit is if you continuously live in-state for 10 years and pay the tax, you can get a year of long-term care. Except there are a few issues: the payout and requirements are worse than LTC insurance, the tax was optional for those who were here during the opt-out period and had LTC insurance, and everyone who made any significant amount of income (enough that the tax was more expensive than private insurance) opted out during that period. It’s essentially taxing only the people who couldn’t afford LTC insurance, though it at least might give them LTC coverage I guess.

Then, there’s a capital gains tax. If you have more than ~$250k in capital gains in a year, you pay 7% tax on the excess. The amount goes up to nearly 10% on capital gains exceeding $1m I believe.

Finally, you have a new “luxury motor tax” that began this year. For vehicles that exceed a sale price of $100k, you pay an 8% tax on the amount that exceeds it in addition to regular sales tax.

The state has been making attempts to implement new taxes over time seemingly with the goal of taxing those with the means to pay them rather than those without it, at least when it comes to the capital gains and luxury motor tax. As controversial as the LTC tax is, it’s a relatively tiny tax, and does directly benefit long term residents of the state at least.

I am always in favor of these kinds of taxes. The tax in question, as currently written, only affects people with an annual adjusted gross income exceeding $1m, which is a number I can’t even imagine making in a year. These kinds of taxes do not tax the average person, and this tax doesn’t even tax people with the top 5% of income.

I would find it incredibly hard to believe any significant part of the state would oppose such a tax. Those who claim to are, as far as I can tell, either bots, live in an echo chamber, or are against their own self interest. Or they’re incredibly wealthy, in which case I don’t care what they think.

why is she taking care of me like this?

Because you haven’t eaten in four days. Most people are not so apathetic towards others they know to let them starve to death.

As for your relationship with your ex, it’s best if you try to figure that out sooner rather than later. Relationships between people, platonic or romantic, work best with good communication. If you don’t know what she’s thinking or how she feels, and you’re in regular contact with her, then maybe just ask. Just be sure that it comes across as genuine and not creepy.

In fact, why not start by asking her why she would order food for you?

Is there a point to this? Back to the Future isn’t 2001: A Space Odyssey. It doesn’t have to predict everything.

Cars crash enough already for reasons spanning from shit driving to shit manufacturing. I don’t see the value in making them even more guaranteed to be lethal on failure, especially when innocent pedestrians and people’s roofs are downrange from these things.

“Social” isn’t part of the title. Meta is the company that acquired the site.

I also fail to see the ROI for buying a social media site for AI. There’s no advertising revenue to be made. At best you’re just charging a subscription fee.

why would something have to be closed source in order to optionally provide secure boot? Couldn’t you provide the secure-boot-enabled binaries in addition to the source for everything except the boot keys?

This is also something I don’t fully understand. Unfortunately it’s not easy to find what the requirements are to get a bootloader signed by MS. It’s possible I’m mixing up these requirements with requirements for something else that requires a NDA, but it’s really not that simple to find the requirements online.

It’s possible that the latter is actually the case and it’s not secure boot that requires it to be closed source. It’s also possible I’m entirely mistaken and they don’t need to make it closed source at all. I wish TrueNAS would give more details why it needs to be closed source - whether it’s due to a NDA or whatnot.

You can use self-signed keys.

It’s basically like saying you can trust your own certificates used by TLS on your own machine rather than going through a CA, but realistically businesses would rather use a CA.

Self sign doesn’t defeat the purpose

The whole point of signing is that the BIOS can verify that the bootloader is legitimate. For a local Arch install, it doesn’t matter because Arch doesn’t distribute signed bootloaders and the environment is wholly personal. TrueNAS sells products and services though, such as enterprise-level support. It isn’t just something used in home labs. Their customers may require things we do not, and secure boot support appears to be one of them.

Self-signing to work around the idiotic restrictions Microsoft imposes to get it signed would be one way to do that, but then the software is essentially acting as its own authority that it is legitimate. Customers would realistically rather the bootloader’s signature is valid with the built-in key provided by MS since it means that MS is confirming its validity instead - not exactly a name I would trust, but I’m personally not a TrueNAS enterprise customer either.

This transition was necessary to meet new security requirements, including support for Secure Boot

Secure boot is dumb, but explains why they’d need a repo to be closed source. To summarize it briefly, you need your bootloader to be signed to work at all with secure boot, which means you have two options: self-sign (which defeats the purpose, though some Linux distros let you do this if you want), or follow all the requirements imposed by Microsoft. As far as I’m aware, one of those requirements is that it must be closed source.

This doesn’t account for leap years, leap seconds, drift, timezones, which planet you’re on, or velocity of both the clock and its observer. That couldn’t possibly work.

Being more serious, time is far more complicated than that. It’s better to just keep clocks simple.

So to be clear, if a state decided to have a new official flag, then it would be allowed to be flown? Same with if a tribe decided on a new flag?

But it makes me think of it is as at type of recreational drug use. And that moral quandary of quantifying when drug use is transgressive and when it is not when the goal is chemically altered happiness.

I think this is a good point. For many people who take it, the goal is not to address a physical health concern (those people can address it through exercise which they still need while taking these medications), but to make themselves happy by making it easier to lose weight that they believe is excess.

Now I’m of the opinion that their self-image being so negative is more of a mental health problem (and I’m specifically not referring to people who are extremely obese, diabetic, etc here), but regardless, it’s not my place to prescribe them a treatment for their own issues. If these medications make them happy, then whatever.

The issue we have today is an issue of scarcity. Ozempic is expensive as fuck and isn’t accessible to the people who need it. For example, my sister in law is morbidly obese and has physical and genetic disorders that lead to a drug like this being lifesaving to her. She can’t really afford it even with insurance, but it’s not really a choice.

One thing to keep in mind though is side effects. These drugs aren’t all sunshine and rainbows. There are risks associated with them. For people who need them, the benefits usually outweigh the risks, but for “recreational” use, those risks should naturally be taken into consideration by whoever’s taking the drug.

why haven’t you bragged about using Arch yet?

Well Manjaro is Arch-based, but it feels like cheating to say that. Anyway, I used Manjaro, btw.

You don’t need to keep going back to reference the Fuhrer’s state of mind at different times throughout your life.

Considering he lives in the US, the Führer’s state of mind has a pretty significant impact on his life right now. I’d reference it myself now and then if I owned a copy just to prepare for what’s coming next.