Can’t view it, unfortunately, as reddit deems this content unsuitable for those not using the app.
What do you mean? I can access it on the website (even logged out) just fine. And also, it’s just the source for the image file
And I agree if someone was buying just 10 resistors, but you can make a purchase with hundreds of components, maybe even thousands, equaling 70€ for example, and still have to pay 3€ per receipt line.
I guess that’s what the 150€ limit is for, but it’s too much for southern European countries in my opinion.
I can either view it in the app (which is not, and will not be, installed, or I can let me be escorted to “home”.
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Ah, the mobile site limitation I guess 
Yeah, exactly. Completely unnecessary and stupid. I dropped Reddit back when they rug-pulled all the third party app makers by wrecking the API, and their response to the protest against that. Reddit can go eat rocks as far as I’m concerned. 
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I don’t think I have heard of that… Yeah well Reddit is a league of its own
It was some years ago. It’s not mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but I think this was around the time Reddit was working on an IPO, too. Not entirely sure about that, though.
Either way, this meant the end of the Reddit app I used at the time, it made moderating work harder, and the response from Reddit to the outcry was just tonedeaf.
I have been watching some YT videos which try to convince the viewer to dial in a JPEG look and just shoot OOC JPEG. Ostensibly, it gets rid of the “hassle” of raw development and allows “focusing” on other stuff.
So I did it exactly that this weekend: dialed in an OOC JPEG look I found satisfactory (basically Panasonic’s neutral standard + a bit more saturation), and shot about 500 photos.
When I got back to Darktable, I realized what a grave mistake I made. 70% of the photos are indeed all right, and load much faster, that’s about the only advantage. I crop and maybe rotate as needed and them I am done.
But as for the remaining 30%… even minor fixes to exposure and colors become extremely difficult unless one is into hilarious results, like people having red faces suggesting some serious cardiovascilar disorder. And the loss of sharpness is noticeable, I got so used to capture sharpening that I start missing it sorely.
Never again!
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The impressive thing to me is that they were apparently right in their assessment that not giving in to the protest wouldn’t hurt them substantially. At least to my perception reddit is still going strong because the people offended by the changes were sadly still a minority among the vast community. Sad story.
I have locked myself from accessing reddit though pihole because it kept pulling me into scrolling along - It wasn’t healthy. It is annoying to unblock it on phiole when I am googling some thing though ;-).
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Sorry about this guys. UK leading the way on internet ID verification in the guise of protecting children but actually providing authoritarian-ready privacy stripping tech.
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This is extremely sad/infuriating and Portugal has joined the fray. Gov is about to pass a law that will require age verification in almost all “social medias”. Messages will also need to be scanned locally before being sent to servers, so no CSAM or Violent “content” is sent. Social media will also be banned for 13 and under and restricted for 16 and under.
Age verification will be done by the usual methods and additionally through the governments own ID program, which is already used by banks and other institutions to request individual data.
So now the government will know every site I log into 
I do not trust the government to keep my data secure. They have proven extremely unqualified for various tasks and I doubt their teams are ready for this tech to be used en masse by every service.
By their definition this forum also falls under social media so I may soon need to start using a VPN as well. Because I doubt pixls.us will implement age verification.
They saw what EU was doing with Chat Control and decided to steamroll it into national law.
It’s not hard to remember how Russia also started their internet censorship rampage with the excuse of ‘protecting the children’. In my opinion this will go out of control as well.
Discord has been exposed as having ties to Palantir in their new age verification as well. And we all know what the goals of those behind Palantir are. I do not doubt that this national law came from exactly the same lobbies.
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Yes. It’s not good. Wikipedia is in court in the U.K. right now but it could mean that they would have to identify the editors of pages that involve controversy (Israel-Palestine, say) which obviously opens them to abuse from either of the opposing sides. And obviously you’re not just providing proof of age when you’re forced to verifying with ID but other characteristics.
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I guess I am part of the majority. I used to know, but I have now forgotten what the controversy even was. reddit serves my purposes for using it, and I’m satisfied with it.
I didn’t know gear acquisition syndrome can be infectious among martial partners. My wife got into sewing and is entertaining the idea of buying a Serger. And suddenly I find myself going through reviews of various machines and watching animations on how the clockwork works. Even though I never made a piece of garment in my life :-D.
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And what good is having power and capacity if you don’t ever use it to advance your goals?
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This was more or less predictable, but it’s still sad to see it come to place.
Whither Earth?
Just to put in context: the Clean Air Act was never meant to regulate greenhouse gases; its scope is pollutants. In Massachusetts vs EPA, the supreme court went against the science and put CO2 and methane under the act’s scope, bowing to the public sentiment at the time. This was widely heralded as a great development at the time by environmentalist groups, but it just shows that twisting the law backfires in the long run.
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Irony of Haidt writing this in “The Free Press” (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea naming vibes going on there). But more substantively his handwaving leap of logic that Grok’s bikini algo shows that ‘the thing I already believed should happen, should happen.’ Like, I dunno, man, but maybe if you find a thing disturbing, you should argue against that thing rather than instrumentalising it for something entirely different that you’ve been campaigning on for a decade and that has, let’s put it generously, failed to achieve scientific consensus.
"In January, a few weeks after the Australian law went into effect, people discovered that they could use Elon Musk’s Grok to strip any woman or girl down to a pornified string bikini. To give just one disturbing example: Someone used Grok to show Renee Good in a bikini within hours of her being shot in the head by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis. The savagery of offering frictionless, free, nonconsensual deepfake porn triggered a global wave of revulsion in early January. These widespread expressions of disgust were further evidence that humanity now had common knowledge about the dangers of social media.
By the middle of January, *everyone knew that everyone knew that governments can and should set minimum age rules for social media, and that doing so was an electoral winner."
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