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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • Oh absolutely, I also believe that growing up with dialup was great, it meant that being online cost money, giving parents incentive to monitor the time spent online by children, and gradually getting used to being online.

    I remember asking and being allowed 30 min online, every few weeks.

    It worked well as we hadn’t transitioned to an online first society.

    Then later in school there were a few shock sites being sent around, goatse was never huge at my time in school, for me the most prolific shock site around school was lemonparty.

    Even later in school, I started realizing how much gore and weird crap you could find, and a morbid curiosity took over forna few days, I remember finding a picture of a guy who got beheaded after falling on a spiked fence, you could see the head on one of the spikes, and another time when I saw the aftermath of a guy being sucked into a jet engine, that one was quite mild as the result was too abstract and you only saw a red paste, so it never bothered me.

    As it stands now, I think there is a value of mild supervision of kids and teens when online.

    I mean mild in a way that full access is allowed but only on a desktop in a shared space.

    And at 16 they can move their computer into their own room, and at 18 any admin account on their computer that the parents have should be removed.







  • Here people actually tend to dim their lights before blinding others, it is not uncommon to approach the top of a hill and see the light from an oncoming car dim before you see the lights.

    High beams during daytime is not really an issue here, I have driven since 2023 (driven a LOT), and have only seen it a few times.


  • Here in Sweden, all cars are required to always have their lights on when the car is moving/active, regardless of time of day or weather.

    I was about to reply that sometimes it is better to not use your high beams in fog, as it is can reduce your visibility.

    But then I realized that most places don’t have our laws of lights, so I wrote this commwnt instead.


  • I have said it before, and I’ll say it again.

    As an IT guy I consider an adblocker an essential part of my computer security suite.

    I will not reconsider until there are laws in place forcing website owners to take legal and financial responsibility for any damage sustained to my computer when visiting their site, and loading their ads.

    IF the laws are changed like that, I would reconsider getting rid of my adblocker, ai still wouldn’t but I would reconsider the issue.






  • That sounds like a brilliant idea, simple, elegant, cheap to implement and effective.

    Thank you for sharing this link, the gambling industry will desperately try to kill the initiative, because they know it will be a financial disaster.

    But that just means that it absolutely needs to be implemented.


    If implemented, I see two future scenarios, both less bad than what we have now:

    1. The sound is implemented in the machine, no other change is made, this causes the desired effect and makes people less prone to gamble.
    2. The sound is implemented, but the machines are modified to play it fewer times, they set less outright losses, and increase the chance of winning back your money for another go, probably with a small win sound, to drown out the loss sound, to do this the larger payouts are reduced.

    Both of these options reduce the incentive to gamble.



  • Several reasons:

    1. Reduce claims of them being a monopoly, Google can point to OSM and OM as an alternative to Google Maps, meaning they will face less risk of sanctions toward them for monopolizing the market for maps.
    2. PR, Supporting FOSS projects is great PR, brings a friendlier face to them.
    3. General interest from management, Google is a tech company, they have management with technical skils and interests, there are probably a few of them who are interested in the future of a project due to personal usage.